LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails whieh left Auckland on September 30, via Vancouver, arrived in London on October 31. Owing to sickness among children at the present time the TJ.A.O.D. have decided to postpone indefinitely the annual plain and fancy dress ball. ; Kino Chadwick, a native woman and a third offender for drunkenness, was fined £2, in default three days’ imprisonment, before Mr. J. G. Osborne, J.P., this .morning. , \ An advertisement appears in this issue asking parents, of pupils promised for the establishment of the Manaia District High School and others interested to see the headmaster and to meet the school committee. A Dunedin resident who went to London to undergo insulin treatment in Guy’s Hospital says the charge was 20 guineas a week for the first week and 11 guineas a week for the rest of the term of three weeks. The doctor in charge explained (says an exchange) that once a person started on insulin he must keep it going for his life. Insulin did not cure; it simply held up the disease. The Dunedin patient took large quantities of 30 units in the morning and 18 in the evening. In the morning the doctor put it in one leg, and in the afternoon in the other, and next day in the upper arms in turn. The doctor had never had a failure to date, the Dunedin man says, and he saw some wonderful results, but the treatment did not seem to agree with him, and he had to stop the treatment. At the same time he gave insulin credit for improving him. The saying that “bad weeds have long roots.” the truth of whidh multiplied the sorrows of the amateur soil culturist, received practical demonstration the other day from the product of an Onehunga garden (relates the Auckland Star). The owner, in energetic mood, attacked a luxuriant dock plant, whose broad leaves were, an offence to his aesthetic sense, and not content with decapitating it he determined to get it. up “by the root.” It Was a long job, involving determination and perspiration, but ‘at length he had a trophy which certified to the depth and fertility of his soil, in the possession of ; a horiCultural curio in the shape of a dock root, which had gone down without forking for 52 inches It was as tough as leather, had a terminal like a whip lash, and “cracked” like one. The -owner declares that he will grow nothing but root crops in future, and has visions of carrots and parsnips emulating the example of the dock. “I cannot think that the Church has ever done much to avert war/’ declared his Grace Archbishop C. Julius in his Synodical address to the Synod ol the Christchurch Diocese, when dealing with the church’s duty to avert war (reports the Sun.) ‘T do not think that we fail in reverence for the past, he said. Ido think that in our concern for the safety of the Church, we are afraid to venture forward. It is no business of ours to defend the Church. Christ Himself will be her defence so long as she is faithful to her witness for Him. Like enough she will suffer. Who knows? She may yet have to walk in rags and become more like her Master. This much we do know—the world is crying out for the witness of the Church, and the Church hangs back. Further, other influences are making for righteousness, and we are afraid to recognise them. It is a mistake to suppose that naval and military men are advocates of war. They are often its chief opponents. In my humble judgment, the chief occasion of }var is the profiteer. Greed of wealth is likely to master the world unless the Church can bear more faithful witness to Christ.' Meantime the League of Nations is doing what it can for the peace of the world. I wish it had more of ou r sympathy and prayer. Are we afraid to be thought unpatriotic, if we contend more earnestly for the great principle: that in Christ there is no race nor empire, no class or colour, but that we are brethren one of another ? Among lesser influences making for peace I am glad to recognise those of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, because they, like the Church and Salvation Armies, have stolen the Devil’s weapons and turned them against him.” MEN’S BOOT SALE. H. 8., Hawera, are making a special offer in men’s boots and shoes, and this week gives men an opportunity to get their boots, at reduced prices. Strong farm bluchers. 12/6; men’s Sunday boots, 22/6, 26/6; men’s walking shoes, 33/6; men’s strong Cookham boots, 39/6; men’s tennis or bowling shoes. Men, call and secure boots now at the New; Zealand Clothing Factory* Hawera. —Advt, ’ Hawera. shoppers! Our great “Household Economy Event” commences on Monday,, November 3, and continues for. 21 days only, during which period we are sacrificing our Manchester stocks at wonderful bargain prices. In addition to these money-saving offers we are giving free gift of one pair of strong pillow cases with every complete pound’s worth of goods purchased for cash in our Manchester department. Come along early and benefit. —McGruer, Bone and Co., Ltd., Drapers, Hawera. —Advt. “Model frocks direct from London.” Harrops Ltd. have .just received per parcel post an assortment of London model frocks, which illustrate present English modes. These have all been purchased at a discount off Home prices and cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Inspection invited. —Harrops Ltd. —A.dvt.. Kipling says, “Be fit, be fit’-’ — eliminate from your blood stream that deadly uric acid —the cause of Rheumatism, and destroyer of physical activity and well being by taking Bheumo —the famous remedy. Large bottles, 4/6, everywhere. —-208