LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■Mr* J• W. Boynton in the Magistrate s Court, Auckland, defined a drunken motorist as a man who walks into a powder magazine with a lighted match. The Eltham- school baltis opened for the swimming season yesterday afternoon. There was a good attendance and the Reason promises to be a good one. “I believe that if the Auckland University College were to discover a 1 really first-class liquor, it would gain more repute among the public than if it were to discover the theory of atomic structure,” said Professor F. P. Worley, when speaking at the Auckland Institute’s final meeting of the year. What wool means to Australia is shown by the fact that if the present prices are maintained the season’s clip is expected to yield the colossal gross return of £70,000,000. Members of the Hawera W.E.A. Class are requested to meet at the old Technical School, Princes Street, this evening at 8 o’clock to discuss arrangements for next year’s class. It is desired to complete arrangements before the end of the year. Intending members are specially invited to be present. It is possible that Wellington will ©witch over to the fully automatic telephone .system in July or August of next year. The new telephone exchange kuildtng is practically completed and the long task of installing the intricate mechanism for the system is far advanced. Speaking at the “Safety First” campaign a,t the Normanby State School Wednesday, Mr S. C. Tonks referred incidentally to the beautiful grounds of the school. He said that South Taranaki schools were noted for their good environments, but- he thought that nowhere in New Zealand could the beautiful memorial gates and tlie native shrubbery of the Normanby School be excelled. The'headmaster‘(Mr G. W. Mitchell) said that the princioal credit for their grounds, was ' due to Mr E. Maxwell, of Ra-hotu, who had helped them with native plants, and also in the laying out of the grounds. An Elketahunai resident who is dairying in a. small way, has (says the Express) been making about 50 pounds of butter weekly from two cow© and a heifer. The strain on his dairying accommodation and the size of his chum led him to adopt the system of sending his cream to a dairy factory, for, he said, they seemed to be making butter every day. This output was after the family had been supplied with milk and cream. Progress is the sum of the Hon. J. G. Coates’s politics, according to a statement made by him at Waimauku (says the Auckland Herald.) “Some call me a Conservative,” he said, “but I don’t mind if the Conservative is more progressive than the Liberal: If the Liberal is more progressive than ;he Conservative, then I am a Liberal. Names don’t matter at bit. As Minister for Railways, I am concerned with serving you, and not with politics. They belong to a. different order.” One of the first houses I lived in up country had a beaten earth floor and slab walls, and all the cooking was done outside (stated a Napier old identity to a Hawke’s Bay Herald reporter). It was a plain, even a hard life, but it was healthy, but no one minded, because everyone was hard up. A man who died one of the wealthiest men in New Zealand was once seen walking into Wellington from Hutt with a boot on one foot and a slipper on the other: A friend said, “Hello, have you hurt your foot?” “Oh, no,” was t)ic reply. “I have worn out my other hoot and I don’t want to be seen in Wellington with it on.” Many and varied are the happenings on a farm during the course of a year, but few experiences equal that of a well-known settler of Horsham Downs (states a Hamilton correspondent). He had his cows in the yard ready to start evening milking operations when one beast lifted another on its horns and landed it on its back in a concrete water, trough. Assistance was available, and appliances of every description were brought into action to relieve the cow from her position, but there was not a move anywhere. In the end it was decided to break up the trough, and this was done. "When the animal was on her feet again it was seen that she was not much the worse for her treatment. Archbishop Redwood was given a cordial welcome when he returned to Wellington after his trip_ to Europe and America. In the course of his reply, he recounted an amusing incident at Amsterdam. Reference was made there to the fact that there was present the oldest consecrated bishop in the world, and he rose and cheered with the rest, as the speech had been made in Dutch, of which he knew nothing. Before the audience of 25,000 people he had waved the identical biretta he held, in his own honour.—(Laughter). OUTRED’S. Large assortment of cotton crepe de chine frocks, 22/6. suitable for beach wear; coloured linen frocks, 32/6; jazz voile frocks, 32/6; smart style cotton georgette frocks, 39/6; Shantung dust coats, splendid quality, 90/-; good value linen dust coast, 49/6; silk jumpers, all colours, from 15/6; assorted neckwear from 1/3; silk hosiery, all colours, good value, 3/3 pair; rush hats, coloured edge, 1/6 each. The House of Good Value—Outred’s, High St., Hawera.—Advt.

, The motto selected by the Eltliam School Committee for tue new scnooi in course of erection is: “Learn by Doing—Knowledge is Power.” The New Zealand Free Lance Christmas Annual (just out) is a bright and attractive isouvenir of New Zealand, life and Christmas jollity. Fully onehalf of its 80 pages are devoted to happy cartoons and tit-bits of scenery in which both islands of New Zealand are well treated. One conspicuous feature is the centre double-page photographic shield of all the Prime Minisrters and Acting Prime Ministers who have ruled New Zealand. This striking historical collection has never before been published The reading matter consists of smart original short stories by the best New Zealand authors. This fine “Annual” is certainly very cheap at a florin, and forms a charming Christmas present for friends both near and far.

Mr. Robert Fenwick, a well-known Auckland business man, died at Takapuna on Friday, at th e age of 76 years. Mr. Fenwick was born in Sunderland, England, in September, 1849. His father, with his family, removed to Melbourne in 1852, during the goldfields days, and came to Duic edin with his family in a vessel named the Challenger in 1856. Mr. R. Fenwick, junr., entered the firm of A. Briscoe and Co., in 1867, and in 1891 was sent to Auckland by the Bank of New Zealand to take charge of the ironmongery business of" T. and S. Morrin, Ltd., which, joined by some others he purchased, arid later conducted under the name of Fenwick and Co Ltd. He is survived by his wife, a daughter (Mrs. Symonds, at present in Liverpool), and two sons, Messrs Claude and Percy Fenwick. His brother is Sir George Fenwick, now on his way to New Zealand from England.

The gas cooking demonstrations at the Winter Show Buildings are increasing in popularity as the series proceeds, the attendance last evening being so large that the management has arranged to provide more seating accommodation for the succeeding demonstrations. The programme for this evening and to-morrow afternoon is published by advertisement in this issue. Particular attention is directed to the fact that to-morrow afternoon Miss Berg will, by using separate cookers, demonstrate mistakes commonly made, especially by beginners, and the correct methods. On one cooker the article will be cooked the wrong way, on the other cooker the same article will be cooked the right way, and the lesson made so plain that the veriest tyro should be able to eliminate mistakes in future, while the more experienced will without doubt learn something also The funeral of the late Mr. McTavish took place yesterday afternoon (reports our Eltham correspondent). There was a large attendance. The Rev. Mr. Goldthorpe conducted a short service at the church prior to the service at the graveside. The members of the Loyal Orange Lodge and the Druids Lodge were present in large numbers, lhe pall-bearers from the church to tlie carriage were members of the ”T an ®? institution, of which th e late Mr. McTavish was a prominent member, he being Master-elect for the enS l ll^ g I y^ar and was to have been installed into office on Monday next. The members of the Church of England vestry acted as bearers at the cemetery, and the Rev. Mr. Goldthorpe conducted a short service, after which the Rev." Mr. Orange read the Orange funeral service, and then Bro. J Kenny on behalf of the Druids, read of a Druid. The late Mr: McTavish was a highlv-respected citizen and a very earnest church worker. His sudden death came as a great shock to the community, and sincere sympathy is felt for the wife and relatives.

A piece of linen sent to our research department recently from London though 6000 years old, was found to he as perfect structurally as the linens we are making to-day.” This was the statement made by W. H. Webb, the chairman of the Irish Linen Society at Oxford, and he explained it on'the grounds that germs of decay would have nothing to do with lfnen. Simiiqqt lie ® a ' ld > windings found in lßbl on the mummy of Raineses II , who oppressed the Israelites in the time of Moses, were still perfect. The supply of. flax from Russia, lie pointed out, had collapsed, but the Empire 1< Jax-Growmg Association had secured samples of the world’s best seeds, and after four years of breeding experiments the best plants continued true to type They would secure shortly a greatly increased length of fibre, and by improved machinerv in harvesting the heavy charges on linen mannfacture. would probably be capable of reduction.