LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 June 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—<• The officers of the Eltham Methodist Church have decided to run a summer (tower to take place some time m December of this year. Stock slaughtered during the mouth of May, 1924, at the Eltham abattoir wei e:—Cotvs 112, bullocks or heifers 18, calves 1, sheep 156, lambs 28, pigs 34; condemned, 2 cows. The local agents of s.s. Rarawa are advised that this vessel negotiated the Onehunga bar this morning, and will return from New Plymouth at the usual time this evening. A well-known South Wairarnpa dairy farmer recently sent twenty cull cows to the freezing works. " They were the lowest testing cows of his herd, and, having ascertained this, he at once sent them to the works in stead of passing them on to anybody else.

Major Alaeauley, the newly-appointed Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army for the Taranaxi Province and a portion of the Main Trunk Line, was given a welcome social last evening in the Salvation Army Hall at Eltham b.v the members of the local .corps. A short programme of music and song was rendered. Speeches of welcome were made by the representatives of the various departments of the work. The Major, in reply, gave an interesting talk on the progress of the work, after which supper was handed round. During the year 1923, 38 overseas vessels and 12 intercolonial steamers called at New Plymouth, which makes a total of 5(4 steamers, as against 31 for the preceding year. These steamers brought cargo direct from English, foreign and intercolonial ports amounting to 52,294 tons, as against 35,599 for the previous year. The' coastwise tonnage for the same neriod was 66,692 for 1923, as against 6(1,964 for 1922. The direct oversea exports amounted to 18,307 tons and coastwise 19,280 tons. The total imuorts and exports for the year 1923 reached the grand total of 156,573 tons, which constitutes a record year by mor e than 20,000 tons.

We are informed that Mr P. Petty, the well-known storekeeper at Mat tl pu, met with a serious accident on Tuesday last. It appears that Mr Petty was walking across a paddock delivering some goods when a blast at the Public "Works operations took place about 200 yards away. A stone hurled through the air by the explosion struck Mr Petty on the head, inflicting' such serious iniurv that he had to be brought to the Hawera Hospital for attention. On inquiries being made to-day, Mr Petty’s condition was stated to be slightly improved. An unenviable experience befel a Blenheim lady while cycling along a road in the district (relates the Marlborough Express). She was pedalling along on her right side, when a motor cyclist burst round a corner and ran against her. The bicycle was badly smashed, and she was thrown violently to the ground, sustaining shock and many bruises. The motor cyclist stopped, and, rafter satisfying himself that she had not been killed, endeavoured to straighten out her machine. He took great care, however, to. conceal his identity, and every time that- she directed her torchlight on him he turned aside or covered up his face. Finally, finding that the bicycle was in a hopeless condition, he went off, leaves the lady tO I shift for herself as best she could. As the hour was about ICkoO p.m., and as she- was some five mdes from her home, her ordeal was no light one. Limping painfully over her long route, and dragging her wrecked machine, she reached home somewhere about 1 o’clock in the morning m a thoroughly exhausted state, truly the age of chivalry has gone!