NEWS BREVITIES
Cycle Rider Breaks an Elbow.—Mr. H. E. Adams, stationmaster at Frankton Junction, fell from his bicycle and broke an elbow yesterday. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Taxi-Driver Hurt. —On its way from Hillend to Balclutha. near Dunedin, with two passengers, a taxi driven by Angus McDiarmid, of Balclutha. capsized over a bank. The passengers were unhurt, but Mr. McDiarmid had an arm broken. —Press Association. Charge for Impounding Water.— Suggesting that £lO was an excessivecharge for the licence to impound tidal waters at Otahuhu. a company wrote to the Harbour Board asking that the fee be reduced by half. The board decided that the charge was reasonable. Civic Square Leases. —Boring.- ar now being made to determine the foundations necessary on the portion of Civic Square leased by Civic Properties. Ltd. The remaining leases, under the new conditions will be offered again shortly. Buy New Zealand-made Machinery. —"The Harbour Board, in its opera - tions. tries to carry out the idea laid down here.” said the acting-chairman of the Harbour Board, Mr. M. H. M ynyard. yesterday, when the resolution of the New Zealand Federated Ironmasters* Association. urging • or ‘| bodies to purchase supniies ant! machinery from New Zealand herS ever possible, was under consideration..
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 9
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