LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The number of motor cars, lorries, etc., imported into New Zealand during September of this year was 1758, at a total cost of £302,396. The Hawera Borough Council last night decided to build a telephone box for the taxi proprietors, and to make an annual charge of £lB, which included the rent of a telephone for its use.

For the nine months ending September 30 of this year 14,085 motor vehicles were imported at a total cost of £2,587,743. Of the number imported ouly 822 came from the United Kingdom, at a valuation of £348,766.

“There is no country in the world where the law is so rigorous in relation to the offence of obscene language as in New Zealand,” said Mr Maunsell, S.M., in an address to the Marlborough Justices.—Marlborough Express.

The prospects for wool-growers remain bright. A settler in this district has sold a portion of his clip at 17fd for ewe wool and 19d for hoggets. These prices are for delivery at the Eltham railway station (says the Argus).

The vexed question of spot lights on motors came before the Hawera Borough Council last night, when the By--laws Committee recommended that the advisability of dealing with the m itter by by-law be referred to the local Automobile Association for an expression of opinion. The recommendation was adopted. During the month of October 6 bullocks, 109 cows, 41 heifers, 454 sheep, 41 lambs, 22 calves and 101 pigs were slaughtered at the Hawera Borough Abattoir. One pig and one sheep were condemned. Fees and rents totalled £ll6 10s lid, the fees being 7s 6d less than in October, 1923. Local body loans, totalling over £1,000,000 are notified in a recent Gazette. Dunedin benefits to the extent of £715,000 for electric works, street construction, tramway extension, drainage and sewerage, workers’ dwellings, and liquidating of maturing loan; Palmerston North is borrowing £186,400 (in the total mentioned above) for the conversion of a loan

That land previously infested by rabbits can. be put to good use is exemplified bv practical results (writes the Lawrence correspondent of the Otago Daily Times). A certain area o,f land in the Lawrence district could only maintain about 2000 sheep when infested with rabbits, but to-day the same block of country, from which rabbits have been exterminated, is carrying 12,000 sheep. This is an object lesson, as not only has the carrying capacity of the land been more than trebled, but the farmer will receive a big sum for the extra wool clip. The chairman of the Baths Committee (Gr. Goodwin) reported at last night’s meeting of the Hawera Borough Council that his committee had met at the baths and had decided to recommend that the charge for school children during special hours be 3d per head (irrespective of season tickets), the schools to collect and pay on the average attendance. The recommendation was adopted, but it was understood that it should only apply to primary schools. , What is the biggest meal eve,r taken by one person? In the Transactions of the Royal Society, mention is made of a ten-year-old hoy who ate 3731 b of food in six days; while another, suffering from acute hunger, consumed 3841 b of food in the same period, and then started to gnaw on his flesh! A doctor receords seeing a Norfolk farm labourer eat a whole leg of mutton at one sitting. A woman patient in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ate three quartern loaves, 31bs of meat, and several pounds of potatoes every day for three weeks. The case is recorded of a child aged three who drank two pails of water daily and seemed none the worse. Glassblowers have been known to drink forty pints of water a day. A French physician had a patient who habitually drank fifty pints of red wine a day. The appeal made by Misses Power and Joyce on behalf of their stall met with a ready response, and they with their willing helpers were kept busy all day Saturday. They desire to return their most grateful thanks to their hosts of friends for donations of money and eatables. They also wish to thank the general public for purchasing at their shop. Mrs Wrightson and Miss Cullinan had a most successful day, their flowers and sweets realising £2O. The handsome box of chocolates raffled, and which were donated by Mr W. Corcoran, was won by Miss M. Campbell, who tied with H. J. Spencer, Miss. Campbell winning the toss, correct measure being 7yds 4in. The Christmas cake was won by Mr Melville, weight 8llb; dinner was won by A. Long, Manaia, correct length of string 2vds 9in; box of tea, winner Miss K. Cullinan, length 3yds 3in; ham, won by Mrs O’Connor, correct length syds 12in, Mrs O’Connor guessing syds 9£in; plum cake, Mrs Grant, 21bs 12oz; sheep, correct weight 2290 b, tied for by John Harvey *and C. Harrison, with‘229lb and 230'ib respectively. The total takings were £72. Good and hard luck stories connected with horse-racing always prove interesting to those who like to back their fancies. The following story is said to be true (says.the Otago Daily Times). A punter who desired to put £lO on No. 21 in the Linwood Handicap found to his horror after he had left the machine that he had been given 10 tickets on Monoxide. He rushed back to the totalisator window and implored the jgirl ticket-seller to change them to No. 21. The girl said she could not change them, and as the punter continued to plead with her she said, “Leave them here; I’ll try and sell them for you.” It was a disconsolate punter who watched the race, but his pulse began to quicken when he heard Monoxide’s name being called as the field raced to the winning post, and his excitement was at fever heat when the outsider’s number was hoisted. He made one dash for the totalisator window, and anxiously asked the girl if she had sold his tickets. The girl, who did not know at this time what horse had won, was very sympathetic, and said she had been able to place three only. “Give me the other seven,” cried the punter, who, it is said, was nearly heartbroken when he ascertained that three of the despised numbers should have got into other hands. It is impossible to please some people. OTJTKED’S.

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