LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10016, 4 March 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A painful accident befell Master A. Watkins on Thursday last. He was cutting firewood when the axe slipped and inflicted a deep wound near the ankle of the right foot. He was removed to the hospital for treatment. The produce at the Baptist Church Thanksgiving will be sold by auction at 7,30 this evening. A parcel of eight tons of ore from the Maorilaud mine (Waitekauri) is being treated at the Thames fcchool of Mines (says the Waibi Telegraph). The stone is some of the best recently taken from, the mine and should give good results. “The Post and Telegraph Department is certainly being run on business lines,’’ stated the PostmasterGeneral, the Hon. J. B. Donald, to a deputation from the Napier Borough Council. “That is my opinion as a business man. Business is showing up in the department. At one time it Was losing hundreds of thousands of pounds, but to-day it is paying interest on the money. .My aim is that it should not only continue to pay its way, but in addition have a little reserve fund. At present it has not one, but when we get over and above a reserve fund then I hope to give it back in benefits to the people, because the Post and Telegraph Department should serve the people.’’ Summertime will come to an end on Sunday, March 17, when clocks throughout the Dominion will bo put back half an hour. The advance was made on October 14. New Zealand’s trial of summertime with a full hour advance was made in tho 1027-28 session, but Mr T. K. Sidey’s Bill to continue the measure was defeated in the House of Representatives by 33 votes to 28 last July. The sequel was a movement for local option and a compromise for a universal half-hour was effected by the Government’s adoption of the recommendation of the Select Committee on the Local Summertime Bill. The alterations to the official clocks are made at 2 a.m. The Act expires on September 30 next.

Wanganui fire brigades experienced an exceptionally 'busy day recently when they were called upon to suppress outbreaks on seven occasions. * A new record in haulage for a single locomotive was constituted one day recently on the 'Lyttelton line, when an electric engine drew 77 fullyladen trucks from Christchurch to the port.

“AVas your husband well off at the time?” was a question put to a witness during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate’s Cburt (reports the Southland Times). The reply was short, scornful, and to the point: “AATiat! AAith a wile and eight children?” AA 7 hether it was to save counsel’s face or whether it was merely because the luncheon hour arrived the court suddenly adjourned at this stage. Says the AVellington "Dominion”: — “The drapery sales in Wellington are mostly conducted at the one time, and a stern price-cutting war results. “Things are so cheap that the wife can’t resist them,” a citizen complained recently to a Dominion reporter. “She comes home daily with all sorts of things she doesn’t need. I ask her why on earth she wants to lumber up the place with such stuff, and all she says is: ‘But I just had to buy them, whether we need them or not, because they are so cheap!’ There is no reasoning with a woman.” A Blenheim resident who traversed the West Coast road recently is relating an amusing incident. Near Birch Hill, where metalling is in progress, he encountered a well-known teamster, Mr T. Neal, sitting on the side of the road nursing lias legs tenderly. Inquiries revealed that owing to an unexpected movement by one of the horses. Mr Neal had slipped under the cart, which contained a yard and a■half of gravel,. and one wheel had passed over both his legs. By a miraculous chance an inequality in the road had prevented the full weight of the wheel reaching his limbs so that they were not broken, . but were badly bruised and swollen. The motorist brought Mr Neal to town for medical attention. En route he recognised a near relative and the car was pulled up and the accident explained. “That settles it,” was the relative’s only comment, “we must not use that young horse in the cart again. He might have broken the axle!” The Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., insert particulars of stock sales to he held at Opotiki and Te Puke. The firm will hold a clearing sale on account of Mr E. Atkinson No. 2 Hoad, Te Puke, on March Id! 'The Fire Brigade received a call at eleven o’clock on Saturday night to a rubbish fire at the back of the business premises of Ah Dong, the Strand. The fire was extinguished before any damage was done. The Railway Department’s employees held a picnic at Mount Maunganui yesterday. A special train from, Taneatua—which arrived at 11.15 a.m. brought about two Hundred people who proceeded~to the Mount by ferry! A very enjoyable day was spent. The train left on the return journey at 5 p.m.

Only the required number of nominations were received lor the Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee, namely; Messrs G. S. Moody, J. H. Reid A. Young, M. Doyle and R. F. Jackson, and they were duly elected. ’

Mr E. Montgomery, formerly of Te Puke, when motoring' to the Waikato Trots at Claudelands on Saturday, met with a serious accident in the vicinty of Te Rapu on the Great South Road. The cause of the accident was a blow-out of a tyre and the car turned completely over, Mr Montgomery was admitted to the Waikato Hospital suffering from several fractured ribs and severe shock. His condition is described as not serious. f ‘lt, is deplorable that there is less land settlement in New Zealand to-day than there was 20 years ago when it took two days to go from Whangamomona to Stratford,” said Mr N. E. Oleland at the Whangamomona show.

Green maize is a splendid feed for dairy stock and should be more extensively grown. A plot in the borough, which was planted at the beginning of January, is now six feet high. The winners of the school essays in connection with the recent display of New Zealand-made goods in Messrs Maxwell and Brash’s window will bo announced to-morrow.