LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A typographical mistake was made in the competition results published yesterday. The humorous recitation, (ladies) resulted: Miss Lucy Carroll (Hawera) 1, Mrs. C. Robb (Hawera) 2. A reduction in the wholesale price of loaf sugar amounting to £4 per ton on both bulk and certain packings has been announced by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. The revised price will operate in respect of future orders and on shipments on the water from Sydney.

A manslaughter charge has been laid against Alfred Thomas Allen, farm labourer, Tikorangi, as a sequel to the accident on tfie Tikorangi Road, near Waitara, on August 10, When Miss Margery Purdie met her death owing to injuries received through the collision of two motor cycles.'

The architectural branch of the New Zealand Railways is calling tenders for the erection of nineteen factory-cut cottages, ten of which will for'New Plymouth, while the remainder will be for Hawera. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of thei local stationmaster.

Mr J. Gibbs, chairman of the Patea County Council, stated at a meeting of the District Highways Council at Wanganui yesterday that the Patea County Council had received legal advice. from Mr W. J. Treadwell that they could charge a separate license fee for through traffic, and that they had decided to enforce it. It was therefore no use discussing whether they should accept the group system ‘of license fees.

Superintendent Morrison has asked us to appeal to the public to keep to the footpaths when a fire alarm is given. Yesterday afternoon when the brigade was on its way along High Street to the scene of a fire people flocked on to the road and made it necessary for the brigade motor to slow down. As everyone knows, time is a. most important factor in dealing with outbreaks of fire, and people, should’ not in any way hinder the brigade. Moreover, people should not place themselves in danger. If people will bear these matters in mind, and comply with its wishes, the Brigade will greatly appreciate it.

References to differences of opinion among Judges was made in the Auckland Supreme .Court during the hearing of a claim against a doctor before Mr. Justice Stringer (reports the Herald). Mr. Ihekson, counsel for defendant, said there were 244 appeals from Supreme Court judgments to the Court of Appeal, of which 106 were successful and 138 were dismissed. There was no successful appeal in that list against a decision by his Honor. Continuing his argument counsel- said that from the New Zealand Court of Appeal to the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council were 38 appeals, 16 of which were successful and 22 were not successful.

The lambing season, especially in the Taranaki district, is fraught with the menace of the damage done each year amongst flocks by wild pigs. Latterly the Government, through the 'State Forest Department, has been paying a reward of Is per head for wild pigs killed in the areas most seriously affected. The Taranaki regions, in this connection, is governed from the Palmerston North office of the department, and a local official gave a Standard reporter some details of the measures taken to combat the pest. "'Last year over 5000 wild pigs were killed—chiefly in Taranaki”—he stated, ‘but they sfeefti to be about as numerous as ever this year, though one would think that the number killed would have made a substantial difference.” This year, he stated, the department was extending the region over which the reward would be payable. The system adopted was to appoint certain residents as. rangers to collect snouts, the department’s inspectors visiting the rangers at intervals. Ihe collection of snouts, he explained, was adhered to, because if tails were allowed as proof of “kills,” they could be faked bv a certain method of’ cutting a strip of hide.

A legal opinion has been expressed that there is no need to extend the date proposed for the expiry of the moratorium. It is stated that although as the law stands at present all the mortgages affected by the moratorium expire on December 31 next, there is nothing to repeal or modify the provisions of the Property Law'Act, 1908, which requires a mortgagee who has been receiving interest on an overdue mortgage to give three months’ notice to the mortgagor before he can call up or compel payment of the moneys owing under the mortgage, and that notice cannot be given during the cur-' reney of the moratorium. The point has been referred by the Government to the Law Drafting Office for consideration. It is also contended that, without ,any amendment or alteration to existing law, a mortgagee could not obtain payment of the amount of a mortgage subject to the moratorium prior to March 31, -1925, at the earliest; if the present protection of the moratorium were extended therefore to March 31, as suggested in Parliament, the earliest effective date would be June 30. This question is also being considered by the Law Drafting Office.

In Tibet, although so remote troin the influences of Western civilisation, ivoman lacks none of her more civilised sister’s love of making herself beautiful, and is prepared to go through considerable inconvenience and even pain to attain this objective. The seeker after beauty when retiring for the night rubs her face and hands and neck with melted butter, the idea being to remove any wind-chapped skin and to soften the 'cuticle ready for the morning. The butter is allowed to remain on the skin all night. A Tibetan woman .never washes at night owing to this practice. The following morning, after washing, the face is dusted with very finely-powdered ashes in older to whiten the complexion. After allowing the ashes to remain for a few minutes the face is scraped with a tiny twisted silken thread. All superfluous hair is thus removed, and the Tibetans say that it does not grow again for some considerable time. The next item on the programme is a wash. If soap is available it is used, but if not a towel steeped in boiling water forms a substitute In the meantime, the red wrappers are being steeped in warm water for use as rouge, and the lips are carefully tinted witih the dye thus obtained. Mustard oil is w r ell -rubbed into the hair, whicli is then plaited fairly loosely in two long plaits, one either side of the head. The headdress is then fastened to the hair.

The Melbourne Limited are busy making up new samples of smart fancy stripe cambric, tobralco, tricoline and striped Fuji silk shirts for men and youths. These goods are exclusive, the fabrics having been specially selected by the firm’s London buyer. Cloths are direct from manufacturers. —Advt. “Nazol” acts like a charm in tackling coughs and colds. Penetrating and syrups. Most economical; 1/6. —Advt. For children’s hacking cough. Woods’ Serat Peppermint Cure.--Advt.