KING COUNTRY NEWS
The Auckland Acclimatisation ?«xuc ' has advised the Tnumarunui R . ofl . Gun Club that in view of the suitability of the locality, and in response to h ,: club’s request for an allocation of Dartridges, the society has decided to .forward 60 of its 100 brace of Indian Chukot partridge for liberation in the Taringamotu Valiev. The club president, Mr. • Brown, reported that about 7.000 y° un ; ; fish had been set free from the heldrponrl, and it was resolved to thanks to Mr. R. F. Harris for his ca:> of this department. At its last meeting the Kuitieke Count* Council resolved to support a move maa* by the Piako County Council against tn f proposed abolition of heavy motor tram fees, as put forward by the GovemmwThe Commissioner of Crown Lauds wrou asking for details of special rates on unoccupied Crown lands in the count., which the Land Board proposed to ,Je ira. from a special Government appropriate for that purpose. The Wanganui h l ' Trust is to be asked to take steps to pr - vent the further erosion of the chit rtw by the Wanganui River, fronting ®’*“' shine Town, Taumarunui. * * • Flying for a trophy donates by • Simons, birds from the Manunui Fig Club's cotes registered the folio** • times from Whangarei:—J. v\ hlttaKe Mint Leaf. 1,271.2yds a minute* L Langwell's Rockburn, 1,267. 4yd.«. -• ‘ I Patte.rson’s Sunny Trace, 1,26.. lya*. D. Wilson’s Star God, 1,265.4ytt5, i. Andrews’s Veneer, 1,258 Byds, 5. Keen interest is centred in the ingptPent commencement of a branch rail line eight miles in length to * €r '*v new Ohura coal fields to the Govern!**-"-line. Messrs. G. M. Spencer, Plainer e. T. Williams, of Hastings, and Mr. " Morgan, of Auckland, have been district in connection with the deci of the directors of the company to _ ceed immediately with the work, ano ' nounce that the branch line wm _ about £B,OOO, and should provide ce - ment for considerable numbers ol y With regard to the coal itself, ' claimed that owing to the wntnl ' UhM tion of the mines this can be landea the main centres at an average w . a ton less freight than f-ora other v*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 2
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358KING COUNTRY NEWS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 2
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