LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 5 August 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

•tv A y: Dunedin Press Association "telegram states that a boy named George Haldane Johnston, aged 13, was drowned in the municipal swimming baths this morning.

A meeting of assembled native-own-ers yesterday (states Press Assofcia-j yesterday (states the Press Association) voted against the proposed expenditure on the Wanganui River protective works. The Maoris held that the Government should bear the cost' themselves.

The “Post” has, a fish story all on its own. This morning a Pelton wheel in the mechanical department caffifr t'6 a full stop, and investigations showed that a fish had blocked the water supply. When the connections had been severed, it was found that an eel, which must in the fish have measured over two feet in length, filled the pipe. The head was gone completely, and the skin only remained of at least half the eel. Instances of fish finding their way from the intake at the head of the water-supply and turning up in all sorts of peculiar parts of the ser-' vice are not rare, but the incident was’ something out of the ordinary in the' daily round of a newspaper office, and as such it is put oh record.