LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 January 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In a tenement case at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday, F-. A. Harman (Mr. B._ Malone obtained judgment for £6 Ls 6d with oosts £1 16s, as rent- due against- A. Guyse. By a Gazette extraordinary issued last night Parliament has been further prorogued from February 5 till Thursday, May. 7 next. Postal revenue for the quarter ended December 31 amounted to In the previous corresponding quarter the revenue was £313,414. The revenue for the telegraph department for similar periods was £473,998 and £5-5/,650 respectively. At the request of the Mayor it has been decided by the Band Committee to give no further public performance, either in the Park or jn the streets, until the present restrictions laid down by the Health Department in connection with the outbreak of infantile paralysis have been withdrawn. At an inquest at Dunedin yesterday on Murray MacGregor, aged seven, who was killed on a bridge on January 11 by a car driven by Dr. E. H. Williams, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame' being attachable to the doctor, who was driving at a quiet pace.

Headers are reminded of the Taranaki Amateur Swimming Association’s championships, which are being held to-morrow (Saturday). Owing to the difficulty which has arisen through the epidemic, the junior portion of the tourney will be got off to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. The senior championships are being held in the evening. Barge entries have been received, and as the quality is first-class, exciting sport is promised. A meeting of the Levin-Foxton-Marton Railway League expressed disappointment at the Railway Commission’s findings as not being consistent with the admitted merits of the case presented for the construction of this link in the main trunk system. The league expressed the opinion that the commission did not have adequate time to fully consider the link alternative to the Palmerston deviation, and invited the Railway Board to closely examine the facts and figures. It was decide.d to raise a campaign fund to achieve the league’s objective which will reduce the Auckland-Wellington route by nineteen miles. —Press Assn. The sequel to the police raid on two billiard saloons on December 30 last took place in the Danevirke Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when Harry Drinkwater and John Francis Flynn pleaded guilty to using their saloons as common gaming-houses. Detective Butler said records found on Drinkwater’s premises showed him to be operating on a small scale. Flynn had been carrying on more extensively. Counsel for the accused complained that only the small men in the business were prosecuted, but this Detective Butler denied, stating that no discrimination was being made. This was their filst offence and each accused was fined £25.