LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to the last annual report °t the Dominion Bowling Association there are 1.4,077 bowjers in New Zealand—9l7B in the North Island and ;>399 in the South Island. Taranaki is credited with 987 (Hawera 172). Infectious diseases notified in Taranaki during the week ended on Monday were: Taranaki: Diphtheria, 7 (10); puerperal fever, 1 (0). Stratford: Pneumonia, 1 (1). Hawera: Diphtheria, 4 (3); tuberculosis 1 (0)

At the Eltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, Mr. Alfred Ware and Mr Arthur Ernest Smalley, on the application of their solicitor (Mr. J * ; Sheat) were granted land agents licenses, .subject to the usual conditions being complied with. It is hoped that a large number of students and others will gather tomght to hear the lecture on “Guarantees, by Mr F. C. Spratt. to be given in the Borough Council Chambers at 8 p.m. Business men, are specially given an invitation to be present.

During the progress of the game between Wellington and Wairarapa in the ladies hockey tournament at Nelson on Mo,lid ay Miss Sutherland (Wairarapa) received a nasty cut under one ot he,- eyes and had to leave the field. Ihe accident was evidently too much for two of the visiting players who gracefully fell to tlie ground in a, dead taint. However, thev scon revived and the contest proceeded.

\ OUTRED ’S

Tlie most prominent line of attractive model frocks, maroeains, glace, linen and voiles are now showing. Advance styles m spring costumes and wrap coats, personally selected and at popular prices. A complete line of seasonable millinery just opened. Our trimmed hats are celebrated for style, quality, beauty and low cost. Ornaments, novelty bags, buttons and trimmings, representing the newest Parisian conceits in myriad designs.—Outred’s High Street, the House of Quality! Everything in millinery goods.—Advt.

A Newcastle cable message reports that the Tredennick has sailed for Port Chalmers. An instance of most commendable generosity was revealed in a letter received by the Wellington Hospital Board. The writer had last month undergone an operation for blood transfusion, and he, as donor, had been sent a cheque‘by the board for £o. This sum, less the writer’s incidental expenses, was returned by him as a donation to the board's funds, with a- request that it be expended in providing comforts for the patients.

The wholesale soft goods trade, though with some exceptions, complains of quietness amounting to real dullness (states the Dunedin correspondent of Wellington Post). The slackness of orders experienced by the New Zealand woollen mills has now been followed by ) rate-cutting competition among them, consequent on some mills breaking away from the schedule of prices only recently agreed upon in pursuance of custom

Young ladies who wish to secure a young man whom they can “look up to” should pay a visit to Waihi, which boasts of a resident, a. youth of eighteen, whose height is no less than 6ft loin, and who is still growing (says a<n exchange). He is generally believed to be the tallest man in the Dominion. Possibly the genial climate and the liberal rainfall of .Waihi —they have had about six feet of rain during the eight months of the present year—are responsible for this fine, stalwart young man’s abnormal growth. Three veterans of tlie theatrical world met by chance in Whangarei the other day—-Mr. Wilt Danvers, who has been connected with the stage for the past thirty-five years; Mr. Will Perry, who has been in the picture business in the Whangarei district and elsewhere for some years; and Mr. Will Diamond, the scenic artist who has been in Whangarei for some few months and has provided very fine scenery for a number of local entertainments. The “Three Musketeers,” as they ,at once designated themselves, had an interesting chat, reviving many old memories of successes failures, of the stage! Mi. Will Diamond is well known in JLaranaki, as, besides scene painting he was the proprietor of pictures at otratford for several years.