LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 February 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr L. A. Johnson, of Whangarei, has been chosen to represent the Beform Party in the Manukau electorate at the forthcoming electrons, states an Auckland Press Association message. A boy aged 14 years named Wilson has been missing from Raetitj since Friday morning. Search parties are out in the bush in all directions.

Thomas Little Shaw, aged about- 25, who- arrived at Wanganui from Auckland on Friday, committed suicide at the Criterion Hotel oil Saterday night by cutting his throat. —Press Assn. It does not appear to be safe at present to • leave anything outside at night, not even a garden. It is understood that a Stratford resident on rising one morning during the week found that the potatoes in his garden had been dug and carted away while he slept, reports the Post. Mr R. A. Philpotts; who lias been employed as teller at the Eltha.m branch of .the Bank of New South Wales, has been transferred to Kohukohu. North Auckland. Mr H. E. Nalder, of Lawrence, succeeds Mr Philpotts at Eltham. Titu Kuru, a native woman, who was arrested by Constable Tocker on Saturday afternoon, appeared before Mr J. G. Osborne, J.P., this morning, charged with drunkenness and having used obscene language in a public place. On the charge of drunkenness defendant was fined ss, but on the charge of obscene language a fine of £lO was inflicted. Taueroa, a native, was fined 10s for drunkenness.

The growing menace caused by the spread of noxious weeds and the inefficiency of the present system for combating the trouble, were again discussed by the Eltham County Council when that body- met on Saturday. Cr Campbell said lie now looked over his fence at. a beautiful flower garden—a countryside plastered with yellow ragwort, while Cr Carter said that where he used to cut Californian thistle with a knife lie was now using a. mowing machine. It was pointed out that the Department 's officer, whose duty it was to enforce the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, had too big a district' to cover, and the opinion was strongly expressed that the work should be handed over to the various countv councils to attend to.