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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 135, 6 July 1909, Page 3

Auckland correspondents re port tha very large quantities of t. n'ocr an lying in tile creeks awaiting freshes, an for gonre time millers have been unabl to get any good-sized rafts. It is s'tatei that in one creek flowing into th Northern Wairoa river there arc 4,000. OOOft of kauri lying idle. It is alsi reported that the Kauri Timber Com pany lias, in various creeks in the North ?rn Wairoa district, 800,000 ft more tiro l)cr that at any one time during th past eight years. A representative o Ihc Kauri Timber Company, seen by ; Herald representative, endorsed tlresi statements, but Xaid no serious short ige was feared, and, though at presen ionic inconvenience was heing caused he timber was coming down in sufli iont quantities to enable them to fuUi heir orders. The rain on Monday las aused a fresh in the Oamaru and Mo igonui creeks, where a large 'number n oen are busy rafting logs down to tida rater. The* .bulk of this timber come rom the Kauri Timber Company's bus t Forty Acre, ai\d will be cut at T [o,puru mill. Mr. Walter Kenuaway (late seeretar, o the Xew Zealand High CommU inner), who has just been knightel ms in 1891 created a Companion of St jicbael and St. Ueorge. He is an Oili er d'Acadeniie (from the French Go ernnieut). He arrived in Cauterbur n 1853. "For ten years," said ill [ennimvay recently, "I was 1 a workin; ettler. I have pllouglred behind nr ight bullocks, and put in my fourtce; lours a day at harvesting. I have rid en all over the Canterbury Plains o; orseback, doing my seventy miles in : lay. I have explored all round th nountains, and been to the top of som f the nearer ones on the Cantcrbur; Idc. I was one of the first to take ■ ray up through Hurk's Pass into th ilackenzic Country." !m those carl, ays' Mr. Kennawav used to see a goo< eal of the late Samuel llntler, the diingnished author of ''l'.rewhon." "Tn Vjy of All Flesh," and other stimulat ng'iuul .orilliajrt works. Butler had beep run called ''Mesopotamia," nt th cad of the Rangitata, in the "sixties -this was before he had taken to writ a"-—and lie used always to put up fo lie night at Mr. Kennaway's station o L is journeys to and from town. "I ea ee him coming down the mountains'id n the evening, lending his horse, j apital fellow he was to talk. I re lemJier wc uped to have long arguments n religion."

ARE YOU NEEDING STORAGE? We have it available —in excellent trick-lmilt buildings. Here we can store goods, baggage, furniture, "i i large or small quantities, at lowest current rates. For travellers we have fine sample rooms—convenient in size, welllit, centrally situated. Notify us, and we'll collect vov.r baggage or goods, anil store it or place it in a suitable sampie »oom.—The N.Z. Express Co. (Ltd.) Every four weeks ninetv-si'x dozfn pairs of women's and children's cashmere stockings are imported into Tava4iaki by the Melbourne Clothing Compjkv and gold at Is pair.-. These stoekii*~seamlc3S', and all;pure wool—are not to IoM color. Girl's IxiVe Brfold\lraeeß. .When