LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The price of 251 bs bags of flour was advanced yesterday by a penny from os 4d to 5s 5d (says the News).. The price of lairger quantities has not been altered.

A cable has been received announces tlie safe delivery at Wernbley Exhibition of the four big cheeses from the Ngaere factory. The Government inspector in London, Mr Wright, states the quality and condition are quite satisfactory. Through an oversight the names of the Taranaki Association footballers who played in the match against the Chinese Universities team on Wednesday was omitted from our report of the match. The team was as follows riart (goal), Betteridge, Beare (fullbacks), IN'icholl, Pooch, Brown (halfbacks), Ramsey, Galloway, Freaklev Campbell. Pollard (forwards). , T^ r - r ; Grounds, chairman of the Aew Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board, writing from London under elate ith July last, states: “We .spent to-day at the Exhibition. The butter exinbit is very good. Our ‘Golden Cow idea, was followed and worked out by someone who knows wha.£ a good cow should lie like. The best possible has been done with regard to cheese, but it is a little difficult to make a good display of cheese, however arranged.” OUTKED’S. Last few days of Outrerl ’s Sale Goat frocks from 35/6. splendid valuevelour coats from 49/6, latest styles’ Burberry coats, half price; marvellous reductions in all millinery; woollen jumpers from 7/11. —Advt/

Tlie Women’s National Reserve has arranged a plain and fancy dress dance to be held at the Foresters’ Hall this evening, from 7 to 9 o’clock, after which the adults will take the floor. The function has been arranged to help the funds of the Boy Scouts, and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance.

A big rally in support of the farmers’ candidate in the Kaponga Queen Carnival is being opened this afternoon with a concert by pupils of the Convent school. A concert, social and dance in the schoolroom will continue the effort this evening. The organisers are arranging for an attractive programme by visiting and local performers, including the humorous sketch rendered in costume by Miss Sheahan and Master Jury, of Stratford, while a number of Swiss national dances will provide an interesting feature of the dance numbers.

The Greymouth Star is indignant over a cable heading which appeared in the Labour paper, the Grey River Argus, over the report of a mishap to the British air force in India. “Our morning contemporary,” says the Star, “makes little attempt to disguise its anti-British proclivities, anything opposing the Empire being fairly sure of its blessing. The limit of such unpatriotic attitude was surely reached when it hailed the news of a mishap to a British aerial force with ‘Good Enough for Them.’ The crews of two machines were killed.”

The “City’’ Football Club’s euchre and dance was a great success, both financially and socially. There were thirty-four tables engaged at euchre. The prize-winners were: Ladies —Mrs. O’Keefe 1, Mrs. Macbeth 2, Mrs. Taylor 3, Mrs. Beeeham 4'; silent prize, Mrs. Foster. Gentlemen—Mr. D. Auckram 1, Mr. L. Matter 2, Mr. P. Nolan 3, Mr. R: Flowers 4; silent prize, Mr. Loader. For the dance there about seventy couples. The supper-room was in "the capable hands of Mesdames Foster, Cummaine, Cobiirn and Jackson. Music was supplied by. Messrs. Coburn and /Foster. Extras were played by Mrs. Quinlan, Mrs. Beeeham and Mr. Foster. The duties of M.C.’s were carried out efficiently by Messrs. Jury, Townsend and Hammond. The committee wishes to thank all thos who gave so generously, thank all those who gave so generously. Welshmen in New Zealand will be interested to learn that Major the Rev. B. Ceitho-Davies, C.F., has arrived at Ballarat, in Victoria, bearing fraternal greetings from the Gorsedd of Bairds of Britain and the Royal National Eistedd-fod of Wales to compatriots in Australia- and this Dominion (states a Wellington telegram). The reverend gentleman, who was the first minister from Wales to be appointed chaplin ind had a distinguished record in the war, only recently severed his connection with the forces. He is a prominent member of the Gorsedd of Bards and was literary secretary of the Welsh National Eistedd-fod and its conductor in 1913. He will return home via New Zealand and America. Speed limits will no doubt be very fully discussed at the forthcoming New Zealand Automobile Union Conference. The following remits dealing with speed and traffic problems are to go forward from the Wellington Club: “That the law be amended to provide uniform speed limits throughout the Dominion, taking away power of local bodies to impose restrictions at variance with those- allowed through the country as a whole, and that such restrictions be on the following basis : Business streets, 15 miles per hour; resdential streets, 20 miles per hour; open country, 30 miles per hour; across intersections, around corners, and past schools, 10 miles per hour.” “That in view of its tendency to- reduce accidents by keeping pedestrians on city footpaths, face on to the stream of road traffic, the Government be asked to make the ‘keep to the left' rule for pedestrians universal throughout the Dominion.” “That an amendment of the law be secured providing that where a motorist is charged with an offence consisting solely of exceeding a speed limit it shall be incumbent on the prosecution to show that he was stopped and notified of his offence immediately following its commission. Further, that notice of intention to prosecute for any breach of motor by-law shall be given within three days of the commission of the offence.”