LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 August 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In a paragraph regarding the great record put up by the jersey cow Yivandiere the Auckland Star states that she is not only “a great cow in the bucket,” but has won 16 firsts and 4 championships in the show ring.

A Gisborne telegram states that a middle-aged man was remanded on a charge of splitting and uttering ten shilling Bank of New Zealand notes. Word has been received that the Wanganui Male Choir, numbering 4,5 singers, are to give a full programme for the Hawera Choir in about three weeks’ time. It will he a repetition of their Wanganui programme to be given on the previous two days. That it be compulsory for all clubs or sports bodies holding motor-cycle races under the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Auto-Cycle Union to provide qualified first aid and first aid equipment was a resolution unanimously passed at the annual meeting of the Union at New Plymouth yesterday.

Special services at Kaponga in connection with the mission at present in progress in the Methodist Church are announced for Sunday (morning and evening), and on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Mr. H. Leslie Piper (Guildhall. London), Australia’s world-famed sacred song soloist, will sing several solos at each service. No one should miss the present opportunity of hearing the gospel in song as presented by this noted singer. The Rev. E. T. Cox, M.A.. of Wanganui, will preach at all services.

On Monday next, at the Town Hall, Eltham, a benefit concert and dance will be held on behalf of a youth of 19 years of age who has been invalided for the past six months. The mother of the lad is a widow, who has to work ' hard for a living, and the case is represented to ns as a most deserving one. In such circumstances we feel sure that the committee who have in hand the arrangements for Monday’s function will be generously supported by the- public. Particulars will be found on page one. An unusual accident occurred in Te Aroha recently (states an exchange). While cranking his car, a young' man, J. Clarkin, had the misfortune to have his chin lacerated as the result of the handle flying back and hitting him. He drove' the car over to the other side of the street, which is slightly upgrade, and resting assured that he had the back wheels in a water table, he went to a chemist’s shop to receive treatment. However, the car began to move unaided, and running across the road to the other side, tore out a veranda post and backed right through the plate-glass window of a tobacconist’s shop. A somewhat uneasy position has developed at Arapuni as a result of the concentration there of a number of un_ employed workers, principally unskilled men, all anticipating immediate absorption in the hydro-electric development scheme. Several have walked to the dam site from Hamilton and Te Awamutu, and in certain cases actually from Auckland, and numbers are practically without a shilling in their pockets. In addition, they have not the slightest chance of securing accommodation. as this at present simply does not exist. The contractor for the erection of houses at Arapuni, Mr. Robert Sanders; stated on his return from the site that men contemplate going to Arapuni on the chance of obtaining employment, and those already en route, would do well to abandon their intention until labour is actually wanted. He has secured a number of carpenters, and would require more, but beyond these men there would he no immediate demand as far as he was concerned.

“I dislike hearing New Zealand belittled in matters in which it excels,” said Mr. J. B. Merritt to an Otago Daily Times reporter. “I hear of New Zealand’s exhibit at Wembley being decried. It certainly stands in an isolated position, and has not the advantage of proximity with other pavilions. Still, it is a practical display. The goods are not shown as artistically as they might be, though they show what New Zealand can produce. Let any critic tell ns where there is a better display of frozen meat, butter, cheese, and wool. New Zealand excels all the other countries in these things. Again, where is there a better booklet than ‘New Zealand in 1924’ ? It is the most compact, best-written, and illustrated booklet in the whole of the British Empire Exhibition. The New Zealand representatives in charge of the Dominion’s section arrived late, and even two months after the opening it was incomplete. Little weaknesses are gradually being rectified. The Dominion lost a chance in not having a working exhibit of milking machines, as there is not one in the whole of the Exhibition.”

A certain ehurc-li finds itself committed to quite considerable expense over a mere ornament —the weathercock on the spire (says a writer in the Church News). The unfortunate bird has been blown almost horizontal and hangs in a most desolate-looking condition. Absurdly enough, to do anything with it a scaffolding must be erected, and if the bird is to be replaced. the perch must be strengthened. The vestry are to meet in plenary session, one hears, to decide whether to replace the wind-indicator or to put in its stead a small plain cross. Gf course, this choice is their concern, but without local reference, cue may draw a useful moral for builders of new churches—and for one’s philosophy of life. The cross, paradoxically, is cheapest in the end! And glories of Venetian St. Mark’s shows how everything is designed to lead the eye ever upward, glory piled on glory, till at the topmost point of vision, silhouetted against the blue Italian sky all this magnificence culminates in —a simple cross. To find herself marooned with her child in a buggy from which the horse had frantically extricated itself, in the swirling waters of the Mann River, N T ew South Wales, was recently the startling experience of Mrs Fletcher, of Skeleton Creek. Mrs. Fletcher’s position was desperate indeed when Miss Ethel Morley came on the scene, and with the resourcefulness of the Australian bush girl, saved the situation. Back to the farm the girl raced, .yoked up the nearest horse and dray, and drove it full-tilt into the flood. Fastening the stranded buggy to the back of the dray, she towed it ashore, and thus rescued the occupants, who were dreadfully scared, but otherwise little the worse for their close call. SAMPLE UNDERWEAR. Our offer was accepted for 300 men’s and boys’ sample underwear at half the usual prices. This is the best of English makers, and the prices range from 3/11, 4/6, 6/6; Jason, Viking, Wolf brands. Now is the time to purchase your summer or winter singlets or pants at samplep rices at the New Zealand Clothing Factory, Hawera. —Advt. Banish coughs and colds and save money by using “Nazol.” Eighteenpence buys 60 doses —enough to cure the whole bad-cold family.—Advt.