LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A woman who was convicted at Auckland of being an incorrigible rogue had 213 previous convictions. It is reported that a leading retail business in Oamaru has been acquired by a-Wellington firm. The Wanganui Chronicle advocates a minimum penalty of £SO for failure to obey the warning: “Stop! Look out for the engine!” Owing to the Supreme Court sessions clashing with the C.J.C. meeting, the former has been postponed for one week to November 17. A holiday on November 20 (People’s Day) at tire forthcoming A. and P. Show was decided on hy the Hawera School Committee last night. At the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday an order was made in the judgment summons ease, of the Normanbv Town Board v. Frederick Jewell, for the payment of a debt of £sl 12s sd, in default 55 days’ imprisonment. “I followed a trail of cabbage leaves and eventually picked up the China-man,”-said the borough inspector in the Magistrate’s Court, in the course of prosecuting a. Chinaman for depositing vegetable refuse in a public street. —Taranaki Herald. “Every girl has the makings' of a good speaker,” said Rev. J. ,L. Robinson at the speaking competition at the Girls’ High School at Invercargill, after announcing the results, and he added: “When you get married your husbands will find that out, all right-,” a remark that was greeted by a peal of laughter from the vssembled s-.huoi. “Chaff, wheat,, oats, flour, onions, and sometimes potatoes, we get all these things from Australia,” said a Dannevirke mercantile storeman to a News representative. “I don’t know what New Zealand farming is coming to. Here, in a country with a rainfall with which you can grow almost anything, we have to depend for our supplies in theise lines on Australia, where the conditions are not nearly as suitable as here.” Speaking at the reception to the All Blacks to Camborne (Cornwall), the chairman of the council referred to the fact that “during the time of the mining depression in this district New Zealand assisted us, and. many of our young men went to your country to work in the mines. As chairman of the local "Unemployment Relief Committee I should like to express my appreciation of the manner in which the men have been cared for by the New Zealand emigration officials in London.” Oamaru is disappointed at not being able to go on immediately with its drainage and sewerage scheme. The Finance. Minister has refused to sign ie authorisation for the, loan at 6 per cent, or any rate exceeding of per cent. It is understood (states the Dunedin. Star) ■ that a large part of the loau as proposed would have been subscribed promptly in the district. Hopes are, however, ehtertained that the reduction of the interest rate by so small an amount as f per cent, will not long delay the scheme. The sudden death of Mr. Arthur Simpson, senr. at Picton on Thursday morning removes another old Sounds pioneer. The late Mr. Simpson was in his 78th year. He came to New Zealand in 1865, / and went to the Wakamarina diggings. Later on he was employed by the Government in the transport of provisions in the Wanganui district at the time of the Maori War. Mr. Simpson subsequentlv returned to Marlborough and took up a farm in the Kenepuru Sound, and was at one time chairman of the Waitaria Bay School Committee. He disposed of his property some years ago. Four of his sons fought in the Great War, and one made the supreme sacrifice on Gallipoli. He leaves an adult family of seven sons and /four daughters, some of whom reside in and all of whom are well known and respected in the Sounds district. Lord Jellicoe, at the Masonic dinner at Christchurch, referred to a wish expressed by a speaker that he would come 'back to New Zealand. “I hardly, need tell you,” his Excellency said. “that.it would be a very happy day if, and when, I returned, if I could. If I were twenty years younger I think I ,would, probably stay in New Zealand for good. But age, old age—(laughter) —has its ties, especially those associated with a family, and it ,is impossible to say exactly when I will be able to revisit these shores, because of such considerations as schools for the children. If I could pack the children safely off to school and keep them there for the holidays, I might find the call of New Zealand, God’s Own Country, much greater than I could resist. It does not need a verv loud call to bring one back here. This is in truth God’s Own Country, and the people in it are God’s Own People.” Mrs. Sophy Taylor, of Green Street Green, near Farnborough, Kent, celebrated her 100th birthday recently. Her husband. Mr. John Taylor, was 100 last April. They have been married more than 63 years and are believed to be the oldest married couple in Britain. ' They have two sons, aged respectively 60 and 62—-with one of whom they live —and a daughter aged 58. The couple have lived in the reb' r ' of five sovereigns, and remember the accession of William IV in 1830. Mr. Taylor’s recipe for long life is “Hard work, plenty of exercise, plenty of fresh air, and, above all, a contented mind,” and he enjoys his meals, his pipe, and his glass of ale. Mrs Tayloris health has not been very good, but her husband still takes his daily walk unless the weather is too bad.

There is, at Putiki, an interesting example of the fact that the native people are by no means decreasing in numbers (the Chronicle states). The Mission School, which, as far as numbers are concerned, has sufficed for the educational needs of the native settlement for many years past, is now too small for effective teaching of the scholars. Notwithstanding difficulties, the efficiency of the school lias been raised very considerably in recent years, and the native people have' a great deal of confidence in the teachers. Owing to the large attendance, it has become absolutely necessary to increase the size of the building, and steps are already being taken to collect funds to carry this into effect. We understand that approximately 60 native children are attending the school this year. OUTRED’S. The most prominent line of attractive model frocks, marocains, glace, linen and voiles are now showing. Advance styles in 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. Evprvt’n’ng in millinery goods.—Advt. Rheumo rapidly removes rheumatism: 2/4 and 4/6.—Advt,

“I am glad to see that there is still s °i»e money in Timaru,” said the Magistrate in the Court. There had been a lengthy list of civil cases setdown for hearing, but most of them had been settled or paid into Court. “And when I was secretary of the E'oad Board, the auditor used to come round regularly every six months/’ said a. speaker at the Municipal Conference at Auckland. The remainder of his remarks were lost in a roar of laughter. This is how the Cape Times puts it: “With more desire for alliteration than truthfulness, an exchange refers to the ‘poor, ■'stered, pursued and panting pedestrian.’ Per contra, the perverse and pampered peripathetic populace is a. perennial peril to the patient and persecuted people who peregrinate on petrol.” The number of dairy cows in the Dominion is at present, approximately 1,250,000, an increase of about 15,000 since 1922, and a 100 per cent, increase over 1911. The population of the Dominion uses up the butter-fat of 250,000 cows. In recent feats with scientific strength-measuring apparatus, » 10stone chimpanzee gave the, rope a twohanded pull that registered 1260 pounds, says Science Siftings. The average young man can pull in the Bame way no more than 332 pounds. Only one out of every hundred can pull as much as 500 pounds. In tug-of-war a 10-stone chimpanzee, exerting its strength, should prove more -than a match for four young men of average strength and each weighing the same as the ape. The headmaster of the Hawera School (Mr F. A. Bates) last night reported that the prevalence of measles had seriously affected the .attendance, reducing the average to 638 out of a roll number of 728. One case of diphtheria had been reported last week, and lie considered that until the “carriers” had been isolated it would lie almost impossible to prevent an occasional recurrence of the disease. Several teachers had been absent for varying periods owing to influenza, which was also affecting many children. Referring at Hamilton last week to the season’s dairy prospects, Mr. WGoodfellow said the outlook was exceedingly favourable and judging by recent reports both Australia and Siberia expected a record season. If Germany continued to buy substantial quantities of butter no difficulty was anticipated in disposing of the additional supplies. However, if production in New Zealand and Australia greatly exceeded the previous year's figures, and if Germany ceased buying there unquestionably would be a yery substantial drop in prices any time after Christmas., For that reason advanoe payments* during the flush of the season would necessarily have to be made on a conservative base. On October 20 covering the September supply the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company paid its suppliers the sum of £300,925, representing an advance for butter and cheese of Is 5d a pound, as compared with £255,332 for the same month last year, when the advance price was Is 4d for butter and Is 6d for cheese, reports the New Zealand Herald. The production, so far as the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company was concerned, at th* end. of September this year as compared with th© figures for the same period last year showed an increase of 20 per cent, for butter. The cheese figures were not yet available, hut there was undoubtedly a substantial increase in this commodity also. These figures were somewhat favourable, as' contrasted with Dominion returns.'