PRESENT SYSTEM CONDEMNED.

Shannon News, 1 June 1926, Page 2

PRESENT SYSTEM CONDEMNED.

A peculiar accident occurred at Tinwald railway station, Canterbury, the other day, when a cow that had tvarnlered on the line was caught and killed by an incoming train. A waggon was derailed and the body of the .cow was jammed so securely between -the carriages and th'e edge of the platform that the train was delayed for some twenty minutes before it could be extricated.

Preliminary figures in connection with the Maori census show that there has been an increase in the native population of over two thousand. The present figures include half-castes, while those for 1921 excluded halfcastes living as Europeans. The total native population is now 54,967, whereof 508 are in the South Island. The figures for 1921 were, rcspectivelv, 52,751 and 482.

Smoke was seen issuing on Wednesday from the iron mast of the “City of Auckland,’ ’ which has been on the Otaki beach for the past fifty years. On investigation it was found that boys had made a hole in the mast, filled a portion with rubbish, and applied a match. This is to be regretted, and it is hoped that no further holes will b'e made. It only remains for a few more inches of the mast to be tampered with when it will collapse, and besides removing the landmark, may fall on some one.—Otaki Mail,