LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Annual welfare week is to be celebrated in New Zealand between October 25 and 31. There are already 164 enrolments made as the nucleus of the Dunedin Exhibition choir. The taxation by the Government for the year ended March 31 last represented £l2 6s Id per head of population. The erection in Auckland of a fireproof garage’ containing 180 private locked garages, is proposed by a company now in course of flotation. Property situated in Pitt street, Sydney, between King and Market streets, in the heart of the retail shopping area, recently brought at auction just over £1750 a foot. “The day has gone by when the boy is the only one to get education in the family,” remarked the Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr), when speaking at a Wellington Girls’ College function. Advice has been received that when the Lvttelton dry dock was drained recently, hundreds of young salmon were found in the mud at the bottom. “The man with smooth speech must cet out of the pulpit. Let him po to Parliament: we have no room for him.” said the Rev. P. E. Harry in his union sermon .at the concluding service of the Baptist Conference at Christchurch Members and intending members of the Hawera. Municipal Band are reminded of the practice to be held at the band room, Albion street, this evening. Instrument's will be issued and the members will be SAvorn in. A full attendance is desired. The following advance payments have been decided upon by the directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company for the September supply : Butter, first grade, Is sd; cheese, Is ' 6d; dasein, premium 1-id; milk powder, premium Id. The count-v district betAveen Wellington and -Mart-on is looking in fine condition just now, and farmers are looking forward to a pood season. It is stated that very little Aviieat will be sown this season. While Mr, George Turner, a plumber, was doing some Avork . on a house in Hamilton East- he was struck in the eye by .a- piece of wood. The sight of the eye Avlas destroyed and an operation Avas necessary to- save the sight of the other eye. A Chatham Island fern bird, an aiuusual visitor, was seen in Wellington the other day. The bird Avas recognised bv its call, which resembles a human being AA'histling to another to attract his attention. One of the biggest deals in fa.t cattle ever recorded in Otago has taken nlace, Messrs Barton and Trengrove having purchased from Air. Peter Anderson, of Stirling, 190 head of prime bullocks at £26 per head, the total purchase price 'being £11.870. It is understood that two Christchurch butchers were prospective buyers. “I think that the maximum penalty in such cases should be increased,” said Mr. Page, in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Friday, in reference to Sunday trading, “for here is an offender avlio has been fined £4O for Sunday trading, and I am allowed to fine him £1 only on this charge. It is the maximum penalty.” An elaborate motor racing track if being made on an Auckland Harbour Board property knoAvri as the Pukaki Lagoon out on the Manukau Harbour, aAvay out Ihumatao way (state? tin Star). The lagoon- is surrounded by rising ground, and with very litH trouble the tidal floor can he reclaimed ami the sloping ground will make an admirable natural grandstand. “Once again we wish to record oui protest against the universal con demnation of the NeAV Zealand bee) industry,” states Meat and Wool, tin journal of the New Zealand meat trade. “Folkwing a long list o' public men, the Prime Minister a' Carterton last month added his qi-ot: —the beef business is finished, as th--Argentine has beaten us! Apart fron export, good beef, beasts are going t< be very valuable in NeAV Zealand r a couple of years, partly due to ad vice like the above, and partly - to the big slaughter of calves in the North Island. Good steak is going to bo a couple of shillings a pouiuf in the retail shops, and prime bullock worth twice what they are now. Thr local market will be under-stpp iec and those farmers who have to l-ree' beef cattle and have, the foresight t' keep rood ones Avill reap the benefit.” Some speech was recently v S er’ bv the Roman Catholic Archbishop Duhig. Addressing boys and gi r 1 whom he had recently confirmed R Brisbane, Dr. Duhig said: “Robbery from their employers has become shockingly common among younp people, who. on the salaries they receive, cannot live up to the demands of the circle in AA’hich they moA'e.” Archbishop Duhig added that he Imped that in each future liquor legislation provision would he mack for a severe penalty for serving intoxicating drink to any young nw-in As long; as mothers accustomed their daughters to go into an atmoenbere of strong, dyink to entertain th°'r ln T end girl friends, so lono- would th 1 ’- danger exist. Instead of’ nravers and acts of charity in preparation for +heb mn'riages theA r now had rounds of exciting engagements. BU CKRELL ’S, HAWERA. Tn addition to our usual showing of costumes, frocks, etc., we haArn opened ,20 dozen vests These are marked 2/6, 3/G, 3/9; full sizes. These are exceedingly cheap.—Advt. Readers of the Star are asked to carefully peruse the final offerings at the Melbourne’s Gigantic Sale of warehousemen’s stock. The advertisement- relating to the fresh bargains is published in to-day’s issue, and ills safe to say the announcement will make pleasant reading to every thrifty buyer in the district. Country residents can participate in the bargains provided they write early.—Advt.

The ladies of the Women’s National Reserve who are providing the sweets tor sale at the benefit concert to-morrow evening may leave them at the Rest Rooms any time during the afternoon after 2 o’clock. Mr Reg. Stephens, late Imperial and Australian Navy, will be a visitor to Hawera on Thursday next and will give an address that evening in s the Presbyterian Church Hall on “Life in the Roval Navy.” Mr Stephens served in H.M.A.S. Australia during the Great \Var, and since then has devoted his vir rt° Christian. Work under the I.M.C.A. Mr Stephens is visiting New Zealand at the invitation of the New National Committee of the i.M.C.A., and Hawera is fortunate to receive a visit. . About 70 Boy Scouts attended the church parade at St. Mary’s yesterday morning in charge of Scoutmaster Renwick and Booth. A suitable service was held, and the vicar (Rev. H. W. Monaghan) delivered an interesting and important address to the boys, basing his remarks on the story of David and Goliath. He spoke of the fine stones chosen by David and applied the symbols as spirituality, courage, obedience, unselfishness and temperance, the initial letters making the word “scout.” As a sequel to an assumption that, he could with impunity accomplish equestrian feats on the pavement near an hotel in High street, George Lewis Barry, a visitor who rode into Hawera on Saturday, and imbibed rather freely, was fined £1 and costs at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court this morning. The police evidence was to the effect that accused rode on to the pavement near the White Hart Hotel and generally behaved in a manner that the most tolerant policeman- could not countenance. The result was that Barry was arrested and spent the week-end as a guest of His Majesty. Time in which to pay the fine was refused, and unless he finds someone to pay it for him, Barry will spend the next three days in quiet meditation.