LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hawera Miniature Rifle Club are holding a public social, dance and presentation of medals and- trophies won this season, in the Savoy Tea Rooms on Thursday next, December 4. Apparently competition iu going to be very keen this year among the buyers of fat sheep. A Wanganui farmer informed a; Herald reporter that one buyer told him he would be paying up to lid for lambs and 37s for fat wethers. ! It is remarkable that although Mr M. E. Perkins, who was recently found rn a pool of blood at the back of his s “°P counter at Morrinsville, is now out of hospital and convalescing at home, he is unable to remember or even to throw any light upon how he met with the injuries he received several weeks ago. (There was an animated scene at the seven o’clock south train this rnornmg, when a group of nine racehorses were being shipped to Feilding for the annual meeting of that Club. ■ Some of them, evidently old stagers, climbed the rather awkward gangway readily, and settled down at once. A.-few, however, took considerable persuasion before they were induced to enter the box. An interesting fact in connection with Rangitoto Island was referred to at a meeting of the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce (says the New Zealand .Herald). The reference was to the deed whereby 'the island passed from the Maori owner, ' Ngatai, on January 17, 1854, to the Queen of England, her heirs and successors, for ever, for the sum of £ls. A receipt for the amount was duly given. Within wireless, range: —Auckland: Tofua,' Koromiko, Port Hunter, Kairanga, Quebec,- City, TJlimaroa, Waitomo, Kumara, Katoa, Makura, Arawa, Kaituna, Rona, Trewyn, Hauraki, Las Vegas. Chatham Islands : Australind. Wellington: Maori, Mararoa, Ngaio, Arahura, '.Waihora, Waikawa, Tainti, Remuera, Waihemo Rakanoa Mahcno, lutanekai, Port Campbell, Shreveport. Mararna, Canadian Challenger, Tnrakma, Atholl, Moeraki, Wanaka, Sir James Clark Ross. Kaimanawa Knock-; feirna, Artemisia, Port Chalmers, Kaitangata. Owing to the hot Weather of the past week the men engaged on the sewerage construction work at Waipukurau have had frequent recourse for a refresher in the shape of water, a kerosent tin full being kept handy (says the Napier Telegraph). Going into one place to replenish the tin* they were astounded to meet with a refusal, the reason .being given that tne water was metered and cost money! Considering that the price of water in the central Hawke’s Bay centre is Is 3d per 1000 gallons, the person was not giving much away! : Insurance companies are often looked upon as “fair game” bv those who are able to get something to which they are entitled-.from them, but it occasionally happens that the promptings of conscience result in the return of money so obtained. Such a case has just happened in the Temuka district, where a person who at one time helc ! an _ insurance cover with the South British Company returned the sum of £8; to which he said he was not entitled. . When a young man stepped forward in the court the other day to answer a charge of using obscene language he took up a position alongside his solicitor (says the Nelson Evening Mail). Senior-sergeant Barrett asked the magistrate whether defendant should not go into the dock. In answer to the magistrate the police said defendant had been brought up on summons. In that case,' replied Mr. Maunsell, defendant was not •compelled- to go into the dock; hut if he appeared on warrant he would have to do so. Leap Year, 1920, established a then record for marriages in the dominion, the total number registered for that particular 12 months being 12,175. Again leap year is with uis, and, though there are still isix weeks to go, there is every , indication that 1924 will see another record entered up. Tfhe Auckland figures show that to date over 1700 couples have been joined in matrimonv, and bv December 31 the total should reach 2000. In our issue of Wednesday last we gave some particulars of the Willi Eels’ gift to the Dunedin museum of a collection worth several thousands of pounds. xt was stated that a new wing would be required to house the collection. and that £7OOO was already in hand towards the cost of erection. We are now in the position to state that this large sum was also the gift of the donor of the collection, who is the i managing director of the well-known “H. 8.” clothing business, which has brandies all over New Zealand, including Hawera. Is a photographic, film an urgent medicine? The question has been debated before, hut it has arisen again ! and is occupying the minds of the , photographic dealers at present (says the Lyttelton Times). This year Christmas Day falls on a Thursday, and as a result the shops will be closed on J Thursday, Friday, and probably all day • Saturday and Sunday, hut, according to i views of some of the photographic establishments, tb*e chemists who will observe Sunday hours for dispensing > medicines will sell films on these days, [ thus getting some of the trade that, . under ordinary conditions, would go to , t}l . e ordinary traders. Whether this r will happen or not does not appear to be clear at present, and those making [ the complaints are endeavouring to , find some means of preventing such an occurrence.

FOOTWEAR WEEK. This week is Footwear Week at H. 8.. Hawera.. where they have all the newest in ladies’ shoes. See the new sab dal strap shoes, 24/6. and the new cross strap shoes in green, patent and glace, children’s and girls’ shoes; also not forgetting the boys and men. We have the newest lasts in men’s shoes. Call at the H. 8.. Hawera, and buy your footwear,—Advt. Children like Wade’s Worm Figssure and certain—Advi.

The Post and Telegraph Department has the. “windup’' over the 11,000-vdLtage-Groua. Power Board (declares the Manawatu Times). As a result telephone wires, crossing the line of route iii the country are being carried underground iii covered eables, at the Power Board’s expense. It is understood that any electric power line corning into contact with telephone wires would carry the current to the exchange, with disastrous results. There is still, ay brisk, and even brisker demand for dwellings in and about Dunedin, there being buyer's now not only lor the four and five-roomed residences that were mostly asked for a few months ago, but also (states the Star) for the costlier type up to eight and nine rooms. Recent sales for such properties run up to £3OOO. Not a hundred miles from Wan-* ganui a married railway clerk hais solved the housing problem (states the Wanganui Chronicle). At present he fcnd his wife are living in a oneroomed hut, 12ft. x 6ft., adjacent to the railway line in a, railway yard. The other morning, while the wife was busy washing up the breakfast dishes, her nerves were very much shaken by a large crane which has been working on a bridge in the vicinity’of the yards. _ It was in the act of turning, when it came in contact withthe hut, raising it about three feet from its foundations. The only damage sustained, was a broken and wrenched off window. Needless to say, there was a great commotion inside the hut. v

“It is against the practice'’of the Court to allow a barrister to take off his garments and go into the wit-ness-box,’’ stated His Honour, Mr. Justice Herdman in the Auckland Supreme Court.: The remark (states the Star) was prompted jby a suggestion that a, barrister interested in •a case would disrobe and give evidence in a divorce case. After the point had been discussed, the Judge permitted this course to be adopted.