LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.. grower at Richmond (Nelson) is picking green peas and sending them to the Wellington market, where they are realising As per peek. The return is equivalent to about £IOO per acre. At last evening’s meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Union the chairman (Mr J. McLeod; reported that suitably inscribed wallets were being presented by the union to Messrs West, Broun, and Hart as mementos of their inclusion in the Ail Blacks of 1924. A motorist who arrived in Wanganui late last night reported that the Waitotara Hotel was destroyed by fire last evening. Owing to .the absence of fire-fighting apparatus little could be done to save the building. Further particulars were not obtainable. After the funeral service in New Jersey the other day, the undertaker announced: “We will now pass round the bier.” One man licked his' lips convulsively, got up from his seat, an d said: “Ihat’s fine.” His wife pulled him back into hi,s seat and hissed: “‘Shut up, Henry. it ain’t the kind you mean.” A letter expressing appreciation of the offer to play New Plymouth Technical High School in a curtain raiser to a representative Rugby game was received from, the Hawera Technical High School Football Club at last evening’s meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Union. The letter requested that the match be played .under fourth grade conditions as regards age. We hear that a Scotchman, who Inis taken a room near the Empire Exhibition, has given hi s landlady clearly to understand that he will pay no extras for coal, as he hopes tocollect enough in free Samples from daily visits to the real coal mine. ■, Owing to the stormy weather the first trip ol the Rarawa- this week was abandoned, and again yesterday the Rarawa. was unable to cross the bar, the latest arrangement bping that .she will leave Onehunga tins afternoon, hoping to cross the bar this evening and arriving at New Plymouth to” morrow morning. Telegraphic communication between New Plymouth and Wellington was interrupted shortly atfer ten o’clock last night, the only line working being that to Auckland, and this link was interrupted about an hour later. The press cable news and most of the New Zealand news comes through Wellington, and much of this was held up. Connection had not been restored at an early hour this morning, the telegraph office reporting that the line could not be repaired till daylight. The necessity of bringing the police force of New Plymouth up to the strength required for the proper protection of the town was urged at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce last night when it was decided (reports the News) to'brhm the matter under the notice of the Minister lor Justice Judgment for plaintiff .with costs against the defendant, was o-iven at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court vesterday in each of the ‘following nudetended. civil cases: L. A. Taylor v G TVU J °Ar S ’ i £s } 2S; T ‘ W ‘ v! Billy Morehu, £SO; B. R. Long v 0 J. Bagby.. £3; same v. J. E, Woodhead, £o 15s ; same v. W. F. Pitama £o, same v. A. Taylor, £3 15s ; same v. L. G. Moodham, £l2; W. N. Drake v. It. Lett. £ls os; J. Hambling v J Tanner, £6 2,5. Speaking at the Rotary Club dinner at Palmertson North on the subject of “the civil duties of a citizen,” Mr h. Nathan, Mayor, said the duty of the citizen was to take a keen ‘and actn-e interest in the town in which he resided, and also the country in v Inch he lived The citizen should not he one of the drones who let the other man do all the work, the type ot man who paid his annual subscription, yet who. when asked to do something replied that he was too busy, and that somebody else could do 'it ‘ever so much hotter than ho.” OUTRED’S. Sale in full swing with Outrcd’s usual bargains: Velour coats from 49/(5; costumes, navy blue, 39/(5; coat frocks, special value, 49/(5; Burberry coats, £4 10s and £0 10s; children’s tweed coats, 10/(5 (large sizes); children’s rubber coats, 15/6; fur necklets from 19/(5; millinery greatly reduced.' Watch windows for further reductions 1 —Outred’s, High St.—Advt. Rugs and blankets are already dearer at the mills, according to latest advices received by the Melbourne Limited. This, of course, was inevitable in view of what had to be paid for new season’s raw wool. It is anticipated that wool will remain at its present high level for some considerable time. This is written to point out the obvious moral: buy now before prices are advanced. — Ad vt. Ideas sell lor nig money if properly protected ami marketed. Keep your invention secret until you have Von suited us. We will gladly discuss its protection and commercial development.—llenrv Hughes, Ltd. (Directors: W. E. Hughes and J. T. Hunter), Regd. Patent Attorneys, 157 Featherston St., Wellington. ' —5 '