LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A proposal is on foot to form a swimming club for Eltham. A public meeting is being called for to-night The hills of pasture lands around Onmaru wear a more verdant appearance to-day than they have done for many months past. During the six months ended June 30, an approximate sum of £51,980 was lost in wages in New Zealand as a result of industrial disturbances. The railway strike was responsible for £51,. 036 of this amount. A fishmonger of Palmerston Nerth (reports an exchange) was greatly surprised, and a customer wi th him, when upon cutting tip a large fish, he found reposing in the stomach a silver finger ring. The annual value of the pensions in operation in New Zealand as in August last, was as follows Old-age 'tensions, £806.045: widows’ £21,060: Maori war. £27,587: war,-£1.166.464• miners, £37,611; epidemic. £25,080. Only six Germans, of whom five were females, arrived in New Zealand during the first eight months of this year The nrincinal foreigners who entered the Dominion dnri gnthe period named were from Jugo-Slavin. These comprised 176 males and 41 females. Through an oversight, the bank returns for the September quarter, which were to have been published in yesterday’s issue, were omitted. They appear to-day on another page. A special inspection train working in the Wanganui maintenance district will arrive in Hawera to-night. The personnel consists of a number of engineers and maintenance men, who will inspect the track, bridges, etc., and hope to proceed northward by to-mor-row. where they will continue their inspection to New Plymouth and also on the branch lines. The inspection, which is a general one, usually takes place about once a year. A return tabled in the House of Representatives showed that the amount of intoxicating liquor ' sent from licensed districts into the King Country during the period from March 31. 1010, to March 31, 1924. totalled 261,080 gallons. The total of beer was 217,710 gallons, whisky 32,721, brandy 880, gin 758, rum 006, wine 7504, and miscellaneous 500. Referring at Tuesday’s meeting of the Egmont County Council to the opinion recently expressed in certain quarters that the story concerning the presence of numbers of goats within the precincts of the Egmont National Park had been dreamt bv its originator, the chairman (Cr \V. C. Green) said he would like it understood that the_ pests were certainly* no myth, their presence and the destruction they caused being only too evident in the reserve. Crs G. Gibson and J. Young supported the chairman’s statement) the former intimating that though perhaps the animals might not lie so noticeable in the southern portion of the reserve, there was no lack of proof of their presence in the northern area. A new, use has been found for ebony, which at the present time is being employed largely in jewellery, and can be regarded as the modern substitute for jet. This handsome wood has, indeed, one advantage over th<e stone, for it can be carved and shaped in any way that is desired. Long drop ebony earrings are exceedingly becoming to the right type of face, but the fashion is essentially a matronly one. Ebony beads appear in many of the latest necklaces, and are frequently threaded with crystals, which minimise the so'mhreness of the effect. Tenders are invited for lease of tea kiosk at Park. Mr Good, manager of the. TLB., Hawera. has just returned from a visit to Dunedin, where lie lias been selecting new goods, which are now opened. The H.B. have a new range of boots and shoes for men. Avonien and children. suits for men or boys, bags, trunks, sport outfits, underAvear, fancy sox, rugs luvisca pyjamas and shirts. Roe the TLB. windoAvs for new goods.* BUCKRELL’S, HAWERA. In. addition to our usual showing of costumes, froeks, etc., we haA'e opened 20 dozen A T est3 These are marked 2/6. 3/6, 3/9; ftill sizes. These are exceedingly cheap.—Ad'vt.