LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 August 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have been requested by Messrs Lovell and White, local agents lor Messrs Lovell and White, local agents lor Messrs Lovell and Christmas, Ltd., to correct the statement made m our issue of Friday. August 22, rega diug the percentage, of profit made. A-'.ually the percentage was one-third of i per cent, not 1 per cent., as ’ rmted, and represents the profit nade on a tin 11over exceeding 44 millions sterling.

The Wellington Municipal Milk Department is reducing the pri-.e of n iik as from Monday, (September i. 'I he new price is to be 6£d per quart, instead of B£d as at present, a very welcome reduction. The price is not necessarily to apply for the whole summer season, but may be varied when the price that the departr.n.nt will have to pay for its slimmer supply is definitely known About a dozen members of the New Plymouth Motor Cycle Club left at 10 o’clock yesterday morning on a run to Opunake, where they met about half a dozen members of the Hawera Club. After a short stay at Opunake the party visited the Cape Egmont lighthouse, returning home during the afternoon. Two of the New Plymouth machines refused to undertake the return journey under their own power, one of them being towed into town.

An elderly gentleman, resident of Opoho, claims to be one of four living within a. stone’s throw of one another whose combined ages amount to 346 years. He firmly believes (states the Otago Daily Times) that- Opoho is the healthiest suburb around Dunedin, but says; “One can have too much, of a good thing.” He is anxiously looking forward to September 1 and the starting of the tramway extension ears, when he intends to visit a few friends and “do the town,” which he has been unable to do for a long time.

A remarkable story of a stolen bicycle. and how it was recovered, was told to a Gisborne Times representative by a local resident. In 1918 he had specially built a new racing machine. While only a few days old, the bicycle was stolen, and all"efforts to recover it proved fruitless. The number stamped on the frame of the machine was known, and given to the police. There the matter stayed until a. sfew days ago, when the police discovered a bicycle lying abandoned at the back of an hotel in town. The machine was taken to the police station and there it remained until a claimant asked for the return of the cycle. Questioned as to whether it was his bicycle the man replied in the affirmative, and the police then asked fpr an explanation as to how the machine came into his possession, as it had been stolen from the owner in 1918. The claimant stated that he had bought the bicycle from another man who- is now in Australia. The real owner and the claimant effected a compromise and took -50-50 on the parts of the machine, the former taking the frame and handle bars, while the other retained the wheels, etc. It is twenty-six years since Sir George Grey died, full of years and honour. Is the old man eloquent forgotten in this land which he served and adorned? An emphatically negative answer would doubtless be given to this query. Apparently, however, he is no longer in secure possession of his Christian name, which has become Edwardised. At Kaiapoi recently the Governor-General chatted with an old man who remarked that he had seen twelve Governors in New Zealand ‘Who was the first?” asked Lord Jelheoe. “Sir Edward Grey,” was the reply. “Surely I’m not ithe thirteenth, said the Governor-General, biit he was reassured. And when at Kaiapoi a dignitary forgot his lines and called for “three cheers for Lord and Lady Liverpool” the humour of the situation was not lost on Lord Liverpool’s successor. It is not quite clear whether it was the veteran or someone else (with pen in hand) who forgot his lines” in reference to Sir George Grey. As a matter of fact. k°- rt s. 18 the fourteenth, ’ not daU™ e f fth ’ C '? ve ™ or of New Zealand, dating from Sir George Grev’s second accession to the office. The names \ G Fergusson, Normanby, Robinson, Gordon, Jervois. Onstow, Glasgow, Ranfurly, Plunket, Ishngton. Liverpool, Jellieoe. The earher Governors were Hobson. Fitz- • G rey, Gore Browne—making trators)! m & 1 (eXchldin g Adminis-