DISTRICT NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3613, 28 August 1912, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

TO LAG O NOTES’. (From Our Own Correspondent.) TO LAG O BAY. Aug. 27. A large whale (about 70 feet in length) was.stranded on the Karaka beach, a few miles from Tolago, on Saturday- The carcase was secured by some Maoris, and it is probable that efforts will be made to render the blubber down. The monster is supposed to have drifted down from the northern whaling fields. A tremendous sea was running here on Sunday and Monday, and is considered to bo the heaviest seen here for many years. At times the waves broke right over the little island at the entrance to the bay.

Some delay is being caused in the erection of the dairy factory owing to the timber not having yet arrived. A vessel left Greymouth at the end of the week with the timber aboard, and it should arrive here during the week. All- Lincoln, contractor for the dairy manager’s house, lias got his work well under way.

Owing to the increase in the number of telephone subscribers the Postal' Department 'lias decided to take over all tho private lines and a burea-u will be opened, the hours being from S a.in. till 8 p.m. This gives a gain of two hours on tho present system. A meeting is to be held here shortly to consider the advisability of forming either a town or a local road board. It- is about time that something was done in this direction-, as our roads and footpaths (if such they can be called) are in a wretched state, the footpaths particularly so. As fains county expenditure goes Tolago certainly cannot be called a favored spotIt is to be hoped, once the meeting is called, that the settlers will not let tilings lag, but will keep the ball rolling until some such body is brougnt into existence. A feAV weeks back Mr P. C. Elliott, of the Tolago Hotel, called for competitive designs for a butter label for the new dairy company, offering a prize for the' winning design. The matter was enthusiastically taken up, and scores of designs have been sent in. These are to bo adjudicated upon this weeks 1 ' The acquiring of. a large portion or the Tauwhareparae block by Mr LoisoL means increased business for lolago, ns ho is having a largo area of bush felled (about 1000 acres) and all the stores and outfits are 'being supplied from here. hvrgo iiimibci oa men have passed through here on their way to the bush,