LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 July 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Another advance of Id per lb in the price of butter took effect in the New ilymouth shops to-day, making the P nc ® j>er lb for bulk butter and is lOd for pats.

On Saturday afternoon the Stratford 1 nmaiy School’s basket ball team completely outclassed the iiatvera team detearing them by 26 points to 6. ’Zoe rirotts captained the winning team. i,f ln r> re^ onse to from Mr ly. Masters, member for Stratford, the Government has authorised a grant tor the ejection of a new school residence at Norfolk Road, Inglewood. The Tairanaki Education Board will proceed with the work at an early date. The amount collected in the Eltham district lor the funds of the British and Foreign Bible Society was £4l 4s 3d. ’ ’

Despite the lateness of the season, the Patea Freezing Works are still carrying on. Killing operations, so far as sheep are concerned, were concluded some time ago, but cattle are still being slaughtered. It is probable that killing will cease altogether for this season at the end of the present month. Tim Public Works Department is pushing on with the Opunake branch railway. During May there were'l93 men employed. On tiie Sfratfard-Main 1 runic construction works there* were 144 men employed, all at the east end, work at the west, end being still suspended, while all the men aavailable are removing the slips, etc., on the line near Whangamomoiia. On Thursday evening next a free public lecture under the auspices of the local W.E.A. class will be held in the Borough Council Chambers. The tutor of the W.E.A., Mr W. A. Sheat, will lecture upon “ Money.” This was the subject of a reeent lecture at the local class, and is being repeated by special request as a public lecture on account of its wide general interest. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Conference at Wellington this morning a resolution of sympathy with the tamilies of the late Hoji. C. Louisson and Mr J. H. Finney was passed.- The former was for many years president of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, and Mr Finney was secretary of the Nelson Jockey Club and also of the Trotting Club, and for a while a member of the conference executive. A meeting of delegates from Tahora, Whangamomona, Stratford, New Plymouth, Hawera and Inglewood branches of the New Zealand Labour Party met in Stratford or. Saturday to discuss the formation of a Taranaki Provincial Council. The following were present: J. Lilley (Stratford), J. Howell (Hawera), Blackleg (New Plymouth), Kleuner (Inglewood), L. Sutton (Whangamomona) and W. Walsh (Tahora). Mr Lilley was voted to the chair. A series of resolutions was carried, which will be referred back to the various branches for ratification. This Council will confine its energies exclusively to propaganda in the interests of the New Zealand Labour Party. Matters in connection with the Patea Freezing Works should be brought to a head in the near future, as the time allotted for the securing of shareholders for the formation of a new company will expire in a few weeks. The people of the district (says the Wanganui Chronicle) apparently reaiise the value of the works, and it is believed that the canvass is meeting with a good deal of success. In the event of the required amount not being available, however, it is rumoured that the works will carry on as usual next season.