LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Journalists received a pat on the ii- Rotary Club luncheon in Wellington. While speaking on the subject of intelligence tests, Professor E. Marsden, Assistant-Director of Eclu_ cation, made the statement that of all people who had been tested under thesystem, journalists or the children of .journalists came out of the ordeal the best.

As an illustration of the good roads which are one of the delights of Honolulu, a Manawatu resident, who has just returned from a visit there; stated that one can drive in a car from 9.30 a.m. till 6 p.m., through hundreds of miles of country, and on the whole of the way there is only one little spot which i s not concreted with a magnificent surface.

“They are making racing tracks of our concrete roads,’’ declared Mr. Perry Taylor at the Devonport Borough Council meeting, in an indictment of the speeding of motor' ’buseo on the highway. “Forty miles an hour is nothing to them, and sooner or later there will be disaster.” It was decided to frame a speed by-law for motor vehicles, and erect warning notices at busy corners. The sudden appearance of the head of a sea lion breaking the surface of the water in the wake of a crayfish pot, which a party of Maoris were hauling into their boat at Mat-aura Bay, so scared the Maoris that they let their crate of crayfish go. A fisherman who accompanied the party states that one of the natives became panic-stricken by the sudden appearance of what seemed to them to he a strange and formidable monster. The following account was made out by a Maori way back of Taupo, antf sent to his employer: “I start on Monday, Juno 20, dig post all day; Tuesday, 21, same time all day; Wednesday, 22, she rain same day; Thursday, 23, dig post full time; Friday, 24, same time full, day; Saturday, 25, plant post full day; "Sunday, 26. see wahine all day; Monday, 27, plant'post full day; Tuesday, 28, dig more holes; Wednesday, 29, just the same full day; Thursday. 30, fix up wire full day; nine days’ work at 17s, I owe you 3s; I ask you for to go football. ss. You send me happy day X 135.. Come back to me six pounds twelve bob.” X refers to bottle of whisky.

A young girl who, while employed as a maid in a Hamilton residence, fell a victim to her mistress’ finery left before her eyes during the absence in hospital' of the lady of the home, appeared in the Police Court charged with causing wilful damage and with committing theft (the Times states). The police stated that accused, while practically in charge of the house, helped herself indiscriminately to her employer’s belongings, wearing silk stockings right out. besides damaging ether items of clothing. The total amount of damage done was rough] v £4, while she had stolen other goods, valued at approximately £5. On the charge of causing wilful, damage, accused was convicted and discharged, while on the charge of theft she was admitted to probation for two veais, a special condition being that she pav the owner of the articles £5 14s 6d in weekly instalments of ss. Commissioner and Mrs Hoggaid, territorial commanders for the Salvation Army in New Zealand, are to be in Hawera on Friday, and will conduct a meeting at the Salvation Army Hall in Victoria street, at which the Mayor will preside. The Commissioner wi 11 give a lecture detailing some of his experiences during eight years in Korea. He has a most interesting story to tell and the lecture is well worth hearing. Members and intending members of the Hawera Cricket Club are notified that the opening of the cricket season will take place next Saturday. A good muster is hoped for to ensure a .successful daw

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The Tuknpa Snorts Club, of New Plymouth, have engaged Mr L. Hooker to conduct a campaign for raising funds for the improvements to their grounds next year. Before Mr J. G. Osborne, J.P., Daniel O’Connell was this morning remanded until to-morrow on a charge of unlawfully converting a bicycle to iiis own use. The bicycle in question was the property of Archibald Teifer, of Tariki. and the accused was apprehended in Hawora by Constable Pidgeon. A. sharemilker at Tikorangi was ar-. rested at Waitara yesterday by Detec-tive-Sergeant Cooney, in company with Sergeant Martin, on a serious charge (states the, News). The accused, who is 39 years of age, is. a. married man with 15 children. He will appear before the court to-day, but. will in all probability be remanded for a week. A few months ago the Methodist Sunday School at Normanby was destroyed bv fire, and since then it has been difficult to find accommodation for the classes. Methodists have decided to hold a bazaar and sale of work at Normanbv Town Hall on Friday afternoon and evening. For evening an interesting entertainment, in which a number of Hawera people will take part, is to lie given. Proceeds will go towards the Sunday SchooL rebuilding fund.

Mr H. E. Hyde, the New Zealander ■whose plan of military sanctions lias aroused the interest of the League of Nations, was until a few months ago the owner of the Langridge Station 'states a Blenheim correspondent). He is a son of the late Dr. Hyde, of Timburn Station, Tarras, Otago Central, and formerly superintendent of the Clyde Hospital. During the war Mr Hyde was in the Royal Naval Air Service. A series of publications revealed him as an international thinker, and his close attention to the question of whether it is possible to find a means for the elimination of war and the settlement in a rational manner of international disputes, is shown in his books “The Two Roads,” “International Government for Militarism,” and “The International Solution.” While at Bangridge Mr Hyde was engaged on a series of other manuscripts on the same subject, which are expected to. be published shortly. He disposed < f the Langridge property in May last to Mis J. W. SLirtliffe, and sailed for England on June 12, it being mder.srood that he was about to take up an attractive journalistic appointment in London. Mr Hyde married a daughter of Mr Frank Bui leu, of Kaikoura.