LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 December 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Building permits issued by the Hawera Borough Council during November last amounted to a total value of £1229.

A cauliflower grown in Manakau from seed raised in the township weighs 361 b, and has a leaf expansion over all of 7ft 6ip, the single leaf measuring 44im by 26in. The heart is 20in in diameter.

A Waipukurau sheepfarmer who soid his lambs on the hooks received a minimum of 32s per lamb, with a maximum of 42s 6d for the best carcase. The lambs were under five months old. It is not usual for peaches from Hawkefs Bay to be transported from Hastings to Wellington and other places till about a fortnight before Christmas, hut the present season is so far advanced that already consignments have been sent from this district.

An American visitor to Oamaru this week told a North Otago Times representative that he had not seen a more charming town than this in the whole of New Zealand. Thames street, he said, has no rival as a thoroughfare in the dominion.

As a result of the. excellent • prices ruling for our staple products, the land market shows striking signs of an early recovery from the depressing effects of the recent slump. A Napier firm reports having completed sales of Hawke’s Bay pastoral country during the past three months to a total value of £400,000.

“What’s the marier with this person?” asked the S.M: at the Stratford Court yesterday morning when fining a defendant for failing to attend “drill'. “Has he a great deal of money he wants to get rid of by paying fines?” \varrant Officer Rowe said that in his opinion, it was merely that defendant was negligent. “This boy,” he said, lias piut off attending drill, honing to make it up some time.” “Boy marked the Bench, “he is a. married man, and married men are supposed to have common sense.” —Post.

During the month of November last the following stock were slaughtered at the Hawera Borough Abattoir: Two bullocks, 100 cows, 38 heifers, 389 sheep, 96 lambs, 31. calves and 77 pigs. One cow, one sheep and one pig were condemned. Total fees for the eight months elided November 30 were £5 13s ,3d in excess of those for the corresponding period of last financial year.

Two members of the Wanganui police force, who recently proceeded to Mangamahu to recover human remains found on a bank of the Wangaehu River, had an arduous', task. They had to strip and wade waist deep across a ford in the river, the undertaking being a difficult one on account of a strong current and many snags. The return journey with their burden .was even more difficult. The remains were found at a place that was regarded as almost inaccessible

Councillor Osborne, at last night’s meeting of the Hawera Borough Council, drew attention to the fact that there was a good deal of cycle riding going on over £he paths in the Park, be thought a notice forbidding the practice should be placed at the Camberwell Read entrance. He had spoken to one gentleman, who had replied, “Where is the notice to say I must not ride?” As it happened there was a notice in the Park, hut not at the Camberwell Road entrance. The Council decided to erect a notice at the entrance referred to..

An effort to induce advertising concerns to remove display s igns from country highways is to be made by the Auckland Automobile Association. At Wednesday’s meeting of the executive, a request was received from the North’ Island Motor. Union suggesting individual action in this direction by every motor association, reports the New Zealand Herald. It was pointed o-’t the effort has special reference to the disfiguration of scenic resorts The acting-secretary was instructed to communicate with the owners of stens in all cases brought to the association’s notice.