LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 August 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Arbitration Court will sit in New Plymouth on August 26 and 27. Two compensation eases will be included in the business to come before the court.

The Wanganui inspector of weights and measures has been busy recently testing the weights of sacks of coal, etc., and as a result, the Herald understands that there will be one or two prosecutions at an early date.

It was mentioned at the meeting of the Okoia, Dairy Company yesterday that it was not always the supplier with the most conveniences who supplied the best cream. In some cases these conveniences were not used to advantage, with the result that there was a danger of the grade being lowered

Mr F. Rogers, a foreman employed by the Stratford County Council in the Huiroa Riding, met with an unfortunate accident during the week-end (says the Post). He was cutting scrub with a. slasher when it struck a rata stump and rebounded, the handle striking Mr Rogers and fracturing two of his ribs. The sufferer came into Stratford, and was given medical attention.

Lambing is now in progress throughout the Eltham district. On one farm alone 400 lambs are reported. Ewes are in good condition, and a* successful season is anticipated, says the Eltham Argus. It is interesting to note that lambing on a property on the Frankley Road, in the .New Plymouth district, commenced a month ago. In spite of the wet, ewes and lambs have done well, whilst the percentage is a good one.

The chairman- reported at the Patea Hospital Board yesterday that the matron had been patching old window blinds at the hospital until they had reached a stage that they could not stand another stitch, and new ones were required. This information evidently reached the ears of Mr. Gibbs, the genial chairman of the Patea County Council, for after lunch he announced that he intended to procure the best sewing machine in the countiy, and to hand it to- the board when the new, home for the nurses was complete.

A knowledge of human nature, and its application in court proceedings, is useful to a Magistrate, even should he possess a lot of legal acumen (remarks the Auckland Star). When eases come before the Court arising out of a collision between motor cars, the evidence can usually be summed up as “Your fault!” “No, yours!” Then it is that the Magistrate has to decide on the, weight of evidence. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in giving decision in a ease, said: “Plaintiff, a youth, driving his mother. Defendant had a young lady in his car. Most probably the youth with his mother was driving very carefully.”

In the course of an interview in Wellington Miss Teresa McEnroe said she saw' the national hero Mussolini on several of his rides. Mussolini was still the Man of Destiny) and undoubtedly he did a great work for Italy, Miss McEnroe considers. Before he seized the reins, the country was impoverished, discontented, her. finances anyhow, and Bolshevism was gaining a great hold. Nothing but a dictator —a strong, able man—could have saved the country, and Mussolini was the man for that particular hour.

The Hawera Central Boys’ Club held a social and dance in the! Oddfellows’ Hall on Monday evening last. Mr B. McDonald, of McDonald’s Orchestra, was appointed pianist for the evening, while Mr Weir officiated as M.C. The supper extras were kindly given by Mrs Weir, while Mrs Spragg, Mrs Lendfum and Miss Lendrum took charge of the supper-room. The hall was excellently decorated by members of the club. There was a good gathering? of boys and girls present, who thoroughly enjoyed thqmselves. The dance was continued until midnight, and proved very popular. One of the many dogs that roam the Timaru streets barking at and chasing moving objects, had the tables turned on him the other day (relates the Post). He rushed out at a cyclist, •whose coat lie grasped firmly in his teeth. As he backed down to pull at; the rider the point of his tail became entangled up with the small cog on the back wheel. He forthwith let go the coat, and the cyclist having dismounted by thisi time, the dog set up a loud yelping in his endeavour to release his tail from the cog. As the cycle was fitted with a back-pedalling brake the chain could not be turned back, so the tail had to go right round before its owner could leave the scene in haste.

An interesting experience that took place at Wembley recently is mentioned by the London correspondent of the New Zealand Herald. The narrator says: “In the New Zealand pavilion I asked the official in charge if he knew Dr. , an uncle of my wife, who is well known in Wellington. The official replied that he had had tea with him that afternoon. At that moment a young man in the office said, ‘There he is.’ It w r as so. My wife had not seen him since his wedding, -which she attended as a small girl, nearly 40 years ago.”

The scene was a first-class smoker on an early morning train out of Hamilton, and the conversation (relates the Auckland Star) turned for a time from football to farming and what the farmers were making or not making, when a sarcastic individual stopped smoking a wee while and chipped in with the remark that the eockies were doing all right in the Waikato; anyway, they were making good money, what with extricating motor cars from the mud roads and killing rabbits for their skins. “What do they want to worry about butter dropping in price,” he said. “.Just keep the roads as bad as they are at Motuahoho and keep the rabbit boards from interfering.” Then he told,of two young men on the slopes of Maungakawa who are making £lO per week each killing and skinning rabbits, and of another party on Maungatautari who made £ls in one night killing the bunnies and then classifying the skins and sending them to Wellington. Particulars of train arrangements and of issue of excursion tickets to New Plymouth in connection with football matches on 16tli inst. are advertised in this issue. OTJTj&ED’S. Last few days of Outred’s Sale. Coat frock’s from 35/6. splendid value; velour coats from 49/6, latest styles; Burberry coats, half price; marvellous reductions in all millinery; woollen jumpers from 7/11. —Advt. The Melbourne Limited is again to tlie front with values in ladies’ hosiery. In addition to pure wool cashmere hose at 2/6, 3/6 and 4/6 for pure Llama, all the newest in marled wool, silk and wool, and. Celanese are being offered at 3/11 to 7/6 pair. All above have been bought direct from Leicester manufacturers. —Advt. Rheumo relieves Rheumatism by removing the cause; 4/6. —Advt.

Along the line between Wanganui and iiuwera. young iambs are io tie seen skipping about the hems in all directions, and, judging by present appearances, tl#e percentage will be good. A farmer at Kai iwi intends to dock his early lambs next week. Mortality in ewes in causing some concern to farmers *n the district. The ewes appear to take suddenly ill and mope about for a day and then expire. Feed is not over plentiful, owing to the frosts, but a tew days’ fine weather should start the spring growth.— Wangaui Herald.

A meeting of Dunedin merchants and manufacturers using sugar was held, when it was unanimously agreed that it would pay New Zealand better to continue the present small duty on imported sugar rather than have" the Colonial Sugar Company’s works at Auckland closed. The opinion was expz-essed that Java sugar is not suitable for many manufacturing processes, and that the storage and interest involved in keeping big stocks of sugar would more than counterbalance the duty. In short, it was held, sugar or sugar goods would be no cheaper to the public if the duty were removed and the company’s works closed down.

A. remarkable instance of infant precocity, in this case with entirely'commendable motives, was noted in Karori (Wellington) on Monday. A boy of 13 months of age crawled into the room where his mother was, and made a. great noise, unfortunately untranslatable. The mother took no notice of the child, and he crawled away again. But when he came again and tried to attract her attention, she vent into* the. other room, and found that a quantity of clothing hanging on a chair in front of the fire had caught alight, and the chair itself had caught fire. So Tar advanced was the blaze that vshe had some difficulty in suppressing it, and got burnt in putting it out.

Some time ago. an announcement was made of the intention of a number of Wellington business men to Willis Street, on a. property adjoining the Britannia Hotel, a sixstoreyed theatre, cabaret and office building, which would probably have been one of the finest buildings of its kind in Australasia, but for the time S 111 ",™ scheme has been abandoned, lhe difficulty, it is. understood, lies in tne fact that negotiations between the promoters and certain of the lessees of the standing premises have failed to bnng abqxit a settlement satisfactory to both sides, the promoters not being willing to compensate the tenants concerned to tho oxtoirt- suggGstGcl

Last Thursday evening some thirty swimming enthusiasts met in the Vv averley Town Board's office to ' discuss the possibilities of baths for the children of Waverley. At the outset it was proposed that bath space be enclosed at Mr. Johnston’s lake winch is about a mile from the townsbip - + i ThlS — l]d be done for a modest outlay, giving facilities which are so urgently required and allowing the y : S a " d girls the privileges Shich v n children enjoy. However discussion drifted from this proposal to nmmcpal baths bnt m ater seemed the handicap to this proposed venture. Eventually a com! nnttee was set up to inquire thoroughly into the different propositions mentioned and to report fully to a latter meetmo- y a

Div Andrew Balfour, speaking at the Koyal Institution on “ Historical Aspects of Malaria,” said that until very recently it would not have been possible to adduce evidence showing any direct benefit to man from malaria bu't a surprising development took place a few years ago, when Professor WagnerJauregg, of Vienna, began to treat eases of general paralysis of the insane by . introducing into the blood of patients the organism causing malaria, thereby producing in these patients attacks of malarial fever. The remarkable results obtained in certain instances, and the fact- that, in most cases, distinct benefit resulted, led to extensive trials of the new treatment on the Continent, and later to its employment in Great Ifritain. The method, promising though it be, is still infancy. It is possible that it may be applicable to other diseases of the central nervous syqtem. If malaria proves itself able to cope witli locomotor ataxia,, disseminated sclerosis, and paralysis agitans, then indeed' it will be hailed as a benefactor, and be considered as having in some small degree made amends for its past atrocities.

A joke in which the victim turned out to be other than the person intended was played upon a man prominent in Labour circles during the week. He was preparing to make a trip to Wellington, and called on friends at a rendezvous, where brother Labourites gather, and while there happened to leave the room for a few minutes. His bag, which was on the floor, contained an unopened tin of 50 cigarettes, and before he returned to the room this had been neatly pillaged, the cigarettes extracted, the tin filled with sawdust. and the lid neatly gummed down again. Quite in ignorance the victim left later, but in a couple of days afterwards returned and related how he had purchased a tin of cigarettes which contained nothing but sawdust, and he wound up by stating that the tobacconist had made good the loss by giving him another tin! It was only when his friends showered cigarettes upon him that he realised what had happened.

The maximum period during which motor-cars may be left unattended in Queen Street or Karangahape Road, Auckland, is to be reduced from 20 minutes, as now permitted by the city by-laws, tJo 15 minutes. This decision was reached by the Auckland City Council on Thursday evening. The chief traffic inspector had reported that vehicular traffic conditions were becoming so acute in Queen Street and certain parts of Karangahape Road that it was necessary for the council to consider reducing the period granted motorists for leaving their vehicles unattended in these thoroughfares. He mentioned that to proceed successfully against motorists, evidence must be obtained that the car was left “unattended” for more than 20 minutes, and it was not an uncommon practice for some motorists at the expiration of the time limit to jump in find out of the car, and then leave it- for a further 20 minutes, thus abusing the purpose of the by-law. The 'Finance and Legal Committee recommended that the time be reduced to 10 minutes. Mr. J. A. Warnoc-k objected to. this reduction, pointing out that 20 minutes was little enough for the transaction of business. He moved that no action be taken. The Mayor, Sir James Gunson. said the whole trouble arose from the fact that motorists were 'too ‘inconsiderate (reports the Now Zealand Herald). Were thev ready to abide by the bv-laws the task of the traffic staff would be easier. There was a chance that if the motorists were not careful the council would be compelled to withdraw many of their privileges. After further discussion, it was decided to reduce the time allowed to 15 minutes.