LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Star will not be published on Boxill S Da .V, New ai] l W , hieh left Wellington on * 0% ember 11 per Maunganui, via, San Francisco, arrived at London on Deeemsaid^+h« V + iiere an anonymous letter”— town clerk at the meeting- of the Palmerston North Borough Council, when Cr. Eliott interjected- “J move we don’t receive if.” Thereon S“Iw 0 ?' had some to street lighting, was not read. Because the watersiders and 'railway hands refused to unload phosphate in bags without extra pay, discharging operations at Lyttelton on the Kakapo on Saturday afternoon were suspended but work went on again on Monday morning. The extra money was paid •V®st ei ‘da,y to, the labourers under proIn addressing the scholars at King’s School, Auckland, at tlieir annual prize-giving ceremony, Bishop Averill said. (states the Star)- that while attending a similar ceremony at Hamilton the day previous he had been shown certain work done by the boys of that school towards building a chapel. Over 14,000 bricks had been made by the pupils, an achievement, he thought, wonderful and absolutely unique. At a local body meeting in Opunake recently when orders on milk cheques were received, a daii-y factory member said this form of business on milk che ques was becoming so numerous that dairy companies would be forced to make a charge on this mode of lousiness. The Maori is the most enlightened individual in giving an order on his milk cheque. He gives it readily to a streetful business men—and his banker before them. —Times One of the reasons for the visit of Mr E. A. Shrimpton (Chief Telegraph Engineer) to the South was to look to the Stewart Island cable, in which a fault had developed. As the Government does not now possess a cablerepairing vessel, and it costs £IBO a day to hire the Pacific Cable Board’s steamer Iris, and she is so slow that it would take her at least ten days to travel from Auckland to Bluff and back, thus involving an expense for the repairing job of about £2OOO, Mr Shrimpton tackled the job in an oyster cutter. This boat was hired for £l2 a day, and though very bad weather caused delays and runs for shelter, the cable was fished up in thirteen fathoms a mile from the Bluff, and repairs effected. in proper manner, the whole operations being completed in ten days at a total cost of £2OO. “What was the accident at Opua?” queried a member to the engineer at a meeting of the Opunake Power Board. The reply was that a high tension wire fell and cut through the telephone wire and interfered with the earth conductor. “What effect would that have *’ was another question put to the engineer, who replied “If any person had Hold of the telephone during the momentary fraction of time in the contact of wires—he (or she) would foe* killed stone dead. “After that the lav person is inclined to think that both systems at crossing should be braided. It sneaks well for both systems, considering the large amount of reticulation and the tremendous voltage whiz-i zing through the air that no serious accident has occurred. A couple of cows have _ been buried. Nevertheless, electric wires are a good thing—to keep well away from—Opunake Times.