NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 January 1932, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Into Unexplored Counry. According to advice received, the party of Victoria College students under Professor Boyd Wilson, who are making a trip into unexplored country in the vicinity of the Matakitaki River, Nelson, set out on Saturday. The area to be explored lies to the south of Mount Arthur^nd is a large tableland broken with rugged mountain 'peaks and deep crevasses. Many of the hills in this district were shattered by the earthquake of June, 1929, and have only been seeh thrbugh field-glasses from neighbouring mountains. Wooden Leg as Bank. At Boise, Idaho, in their large and . well appointed asylum for the insane, there has been these five years a patient with a wooden leg. It was by the merest accident of medical i treatment that her leg was discovered to be full of money — £650 in all. The patient, who had been . able to declare that she had nothing in the world but what she stood up in, was proinptly prosecuted by the asyluni and condemned to pay a dollar a day as back board for the last five years. Cow for Teh Shillings. Ten shillings was all that a farmer received for a cow sold recently 'to a Taranaki buyer. However, it is stated that the vendor was prepared to accept the sum of 12s 6d, so that the animal was not such a hargain as might appear from first impressions of the sale price. Bitumen Road Broken Up. The heavy load of machinery transported from Putaruru to Arapuni on December 18 and 19 broke up parts of the bitumen surface. The load consisted of about 30 tons on a fourwheel trailer drbwn hy two motor lorries loaded to about five tons on eqr rear axle. The damage oecurred i about noon on the 18th, when the weather was hot and the bitumen in the road soft. Repairs were carried out at once hy the council at the request of the Public Works Offiee at Arapuni, which will refund the cost.