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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43072, 23 March 1907, Page 4

A) young man named Frederick Butcher,' at Hastings, when gathering cones from-'a pine ‘tree, slipped, and 'ailing on top of a fence,; sustained' two broken wrists, a broken' leg, a broken jaw, and nose. • He was conveyed, to the hospital in a serious con* ditioßi* ■ , ,

Unpleasant scenes at St. Patrick & Day picnic at Motutapu on Saturday, when women ; and ohildrep were - included in mad rtish .for the ferry boats.

Stated' that the'Waihi Band returned from the Exhibition contest, very disappointed. The 'School Committee’s Association a it Christchurch. are. agitating for the ! adoption of single-adj utftablU desks in j the sohols in thie interests of health j and Comfort. . J At the Te Awamutu Magistrals j Court John Moore was fined £lO, and j costs £2 6s 6d, on a charge of selling ’■ bottle® of whisky to Maoris. i We congratulate our enterprising | contemporary, the “Waihi Telegraph,” j on the introduction of a linotype i setting machine. It' brings the plant up-to-date and capable of turning out additional work. Very little more has 1 been heard of the proposed wharf at Kopu for the Tbtara Timber Company. It is said that the company is about to reconstruct after hating "spent over £200,000.

Dumg 'the past five years the number of Cycle Works in; New.. Zealand has increased! from 71 to 97, employing 452 hands, whose wages last year amounted' to £30,831. The value_ of the manufactures (including repairs) rose from £65,074 in 1900, to £75,991 in 1905— an increase of seventeen per cent.