LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is amusing to read in an extract from the Otago Daily Times of sixty years ago of the holding of a full and highly respectable meeting at the Provincial Hotel for the purpose of forming a cavalry corps. The outcome of the meeting, says the paper, was, the formation of the Otago Light Horse.

Wool-growers mil find in to-day advertisement columns particulars of Wanganui wool sales dates for the 1924-25 season. The first sale will be held on Tuesday, 25th inst., catalogues closing on the 18th inst. The second sale takes place on January 9, 1925, and further sales will be arranged later.

Mr J. D. Sole, ex-president of the Taranaki Bowling Centre, paid a visiton Wednesday to the newly-formed Kaponga green, and expressed* himself as agreeably surprised over the results achieved in the comparatively short lime since the grass was sown. In recommending future action, Mr Sole gave the club officals the benefit of his lengthy experience, his advice being greatly appreciated. In his opinion the green should be playable next month. * A number of our country subscribers have complained that their papers after being thrown off by the car drivers are removed by unauthorised persons, the consequence being that the subscriber loses the paper. This is a particularly mean form of theft, and the Star proprietary will reward any person furnishing information that will lead to detection of the fenders. In some cases the practice is so persistent as to indicate that certain person are making a business of deliberately robbing their neighbours. The secretary of the Hawera Retailers’ Association has received an intimation thla.t the Customs and Post Office Departments have now arranged to have the Patea Post Office made a clearing office for overseas, parcels paying customs duty. The new arrangement will take effect as from November 1. The Retailers’ Association has been urging on the departments concerned the necessity for a more convenient arrangement in this connection for some time past, and business people should note that their parcels will now be cleared at Patea. Mr.. 1 McGahey, the customs officer located at Patea, visits Hawera. on certain occasions and-will be in town on Monday next at Messrs. Levin and Co.’s, when he will be prepared to assist business people who have any parcels landing. When the Queen of Italy visited the village of Piedmont, she met a pretty barefooted girl, to whom she promised to send a pair of silk stockings. The Queen sent the stockings, and put .two bank-notes in one stocking and filled the other with sweets. As a result the Queen has received this note from the girl: “Your Majesty, —Your kindness has given me much pleasure- My father has taken the money, my brother ‘ the sweets, and my mother the stockings.” Included with the entries from Taranaki which will appear in the ring at the Royal Show next week are two particularly fine specimens of the Friesian breed, the mature cow Payne Segis Galatea (King Fayne Segis 2nd —Princess Galatea) and the two-year-old: heifer Brookdale Galatea Pietje de Kol (Bookdale Galatea Laddie—Woodland’s Cliffeide de Kol), which will represent Mr T. Perry’s well-known Mangatoki herd. Evidence of the former’s outstanding type is given in the three championships she has already secured—twice at Hawera and once at New Plymouth—on the only occasions on which she has been shown. She has also some excellent butter-fat figures to her credit, having given under semi-official test 24,7291 bof milk, with a yield of 776.91 b of butterfat. During the following six months she made 6261 b of fat, but had to be withdrawn from test through not proving in calf. In one day during that period she gave 1321 b of milk, with a 3.6 test, claimed as an Australasian record. The two-year-old is one of her granddaughters. At New Plymouth this year Brookdale Galatea Pietje de Kol secured first award in the yearling class, and with Brookdale Galatea Domino was first in the yearling pairs. The judge, Mr W. I. Lovelock, remarked that this heifer andi a hull shown by Mr H. W. Hoskin, of Mangatoki, were the best representatives of the breed on the ground. An exeahnge says: It is now proposed to raise the steamer Wakatu by means of jacks on to a small slipway, where the holes in the hull are to be repaired temporarily by cement. The vessel will then he launched, but as it is doubtful if the temporary repairs will keep the ship afloat, the hold is to be filled with empty barrels to give her extra buoyancy should she take more water than her pumps can cope with. All sorts of salvage works have been done in the past, but this is the first time that barrels will have been used in New Zealand, although during the late war this method was used several times at Home with success.

A creditable piece of delivery work has lately been completed by the Auckland. post officials. A letter posted in Manchester, England, provided food for rats during the voyage to Auckland. and only about half the envelope and its contests arrived. The only part of the original address that could be discerned was “Lee," “n,” “Rd,” “d,” and “ealand.” From these somewhat cryptic symbols the postal authorities succeeded in delivering the tattered, fragments to its correct address, namely, Mrs G. Lee, 21 Boston road, within a fortnight of its arrival in Auckland. As Mr. Greenwood will be conducting services in New Plvmouth on Sunday, Mr. T). Munro will pteach at the Church of Christ. Wilson Street. His subiect will be: “Does Christ Satisfy?”

On Thursday next a general meeting of members of the Retailers’ Association will be held at the Borough Chambers, at which important business will be brought forward, including the consideration of observance of holidays for A. and P. show.’ All retailers are specially invited to.be present. It was decided by the Hawera Chamber of Commerce last night to draw the attention of the PostmasterGeneral to the promise made by his department some time ago that the automatic telephone system would be installed at • Hawera. within three months. The rainfall recorded at the Hawera Post Office during the month of October just ended totalled 6.3 inches. There -were 22. days on which rain fell and the maximum fall was on the 30th, when 1.65 inches fell. The Hawera Fire Brigade wish: to thank Mr J. M. Collins for a donation of £3 3s towards the brigade’s social fund. Mr Collins states he is especially indebted to the brigade for their smart work in extinguishing the fire which occurred recently in his foundl- - At last nirrht’s annual meeting of the Hawera. Chamber of Commerce, the following resolution was passed : “That this annual meeting regrets that it is again necessary to urge upon the Minister of Ballways the necessity of, carrying out the promise made in connection with the remedying of the inconvenience and annoyance caused by the blockages at tlie Tawhiti railway crossing.’’ The inconvenience caused to business men and the public generally by the irregulavity in the size and colour of bank notes was mentioned at the annual meeting of the Hawera Chamber of Commei’ce last night. Mr E. G. Fletcher, in reply, said that the note issue was at present in the transition stage, but as soon as possible old notes would lie all collected by the banks and only the new issue in circulation. During counsel’s address at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court a man who had given evidence earlier in tJie case sprang to. his feet and shouted excitedly: “You’re a liar! I say you are a liar, an absolute liar. I will not sit here and listen to what you say about that woman.” Mr W. McKean, S.M., said “Take him out of the Court,” and two friends tried to do so. As the man wanted to say some more, Mr McKean said : “You leave t the* Court, or you will be arrested if you stay hetre.” The man then went out, and a little later came in, went into the witness box, and apologised to the Court for wliat he had said.—Star. A tale of a credulous immigrant and a jocular farmer near Eltham, is being told (the Post reports). Some newlysown grass seed, required rolling, so the farmer engaged the recent arrival. The wind began to blow, and the immigrant, with his mouth- full of dust and dirt went to the farmer for sympathy. The employer set / his face and with feigned seriousness said : “I don’t mind you eating the dirt, but if you get any seeds in your mouth spit them out, as they are expensive nowadays.” “Well,” was the reply, “fancy coming all the way out to 'New Zealand to find a man who can beat a Scotsman.” The farmer is still. laughing over the newcomer’s literal acceptance of. what had been said. • - ,