LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19431, 14 December 1926, Page 13

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At Grey mouth Charles Uddstrom, a cabinetmaker, was fined the minimvim (£10) on a charge of using a planing machine for which a certificate had not been issued, contrary to section 33 of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908. He was also fined £5 for not complying with the inspector’s notice concerning the machine, contrary to section 14, with costs (£5 19s). The dwelling of W. H. Murray at Moonlight (West Coast) was destroyed hv fire on Friday night. Nothing was saved. The house and effects were insured with the Atlas Company for £450. The cause of the tire is a mystery. Murray, who was the solo occupant, had loft for Aliaura for provisions, and was absent at the time of the fire.

Charged with drunkenness while in charge of a motor car on Saturday, Joseph Rumble, a farmer at Huaora, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North. The police statement was that while turning the corner at Broad and lluahiue streets on Saturday evening defendant crashed into another car. At the time of the smash he was travelling at between thirty-fivo and forty miles an hour on the wrong side. Defendant, in his explanation, denied having been drunk, and also the speed alleged by the police. A fine of £lO was inflicted. Defendant’s license was cancelled, and a new one will not bo issued until sis months after April 1 next. A well-attended meeting of farmers passed a resolution at Gisborne favoring the setting up of a wool board to reduce the cost of marketing, to control sales, and to employ valuers of wool in New Zealand. Resolutions favoring the adoption of a different system of election for the Moat Board and for the prohibition of overseas companies owning freezing works in New Zealand were ” carried unanimously. The .Minister of Lands (the Hon. A. D. M'Lood), who was present, said that without expressing any personal opinion as to the merits of the proposal for a wool hoard, he considered the opinion of the majority of the farmers should rule. Regarding meat, he was sure that co-operative marketing was coming, hut this must grow gradually, and any attempt to rush things would end in 'disaster. It should he remembered that the Government could proceed only ns the public would allow. A successful demonstration showing tho effect of Hart and Carter’s “Earwig Destroyer ” was hold at Mr Hart’s nursery, Dundas street, on Saturday afternoon. A large number of visitors witnessed the quick despatch of hundreds of lively earwigs. Messrs Hart and Carter have been thinking out and experimenting with the patent for a long time, and the public were given an opportunity of seeing the effect of tno insecticide produced. Mr Hart took a small tin of tho destroyer and mixed it with twenty-five parts of water. A handful of earwigs was placed on the path, and the mix. to applied with an ordinary watering can. In twenty seconds 90 per cent, were stiff, and in less than one minute every one was dead. The demonstrator then had a number of earwigs emptied on to tho dug border and applied the destroyer, with the same result. The remedy is deadly to earwigs and harmless to plants. The Hutt River rose again yesterday, and tho approaches to the Mann Park bridge wore considerably damaged, ard the land also suffered. At Routley’s corner a number of outhouses were flooded, but beyond that no damage I was done there. The flood is described las the worst in the Hutt Valley for [years. The river protective works stood up well against the swirling waters. The, road at Taita Gorge was ! declared clear in the afternoon, and vehicular traffic was resumed.—Press 1 Association.