LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 March 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hawera Boroxigk Council last night decided to close' the baths for the season on March 29.

Some very large building contracts have been let in Wanganui, among them being new manure works for the New Zealand Drug Company, Ltd. A gift has been made by Mr. Kineton Parlies to the Hawera hospital, to help give pleasure to the patients, of six gramophone records. This gift was much appreciated by all, and a motion of thanks was carried by the board at its meeting yesterday.

“We can’t play Rugby football, but we can make radiators,'” was the gist or a note found by the W airarapa Power Board when unpacking a shipment of electric radiators from London, says an exchange.

At a meeting of taxi-owners, ’bus proprietors, motor-truck owners, and garage proprietors held at Stratford the other day a protest was lodged against what the meeting considered to be the unfair heavy traffic regulations under the Motor Vehicles Act.

A section at tlie lower end of Bridge Street ivas sold on Saturday for £6t>. It has a frontage of 33 feet, and sixteen years ago was sold at £2O a foot. The Government valuation of the same section to-day is £270. There are other sections in Bridge Street West that would not realise anything like the Government valuation the Argus). Mr J. Fa>v was the purchaser on Saturday. Tihe matron of the Old People’* Home, in her monthly report to the Hospital Board yesterday, acknowledged donations of books; and paper* from Mesdames Hooker .;nd Travis, clothing from Mrs. F. Brunette, cakes from Park Bowling Club. A special vote of thanks was passed by the board at its meeting.

A Greymouth message states that there is no change in the position at the State coal mines, where the -union has gone on strike against sectional cooperative contracts; being let without it being consulted. It is understood, however, that no work was done yesterday by the co-operative parties, A remarkable fact was elicited a short time since in regard to shipbuilding by the towing of a disabled Dutch ship from Australia to Holland. It was stated that the owners would save money even- after allowing for the large expense incurred in towage for 13,000 miles, through the cheap rates offering in .Holland as compared with the cost of having the work done in Australia.

The seas running, during the weekend were exceptionally heavy, and about as high as seen for a< long time. This is the m;»re unusual mas much; a* it was a time of neap tides. It was a great sight to look up and down, the coast from Ohawe and see the line of breakers breaking on, the cliff's, almost as far as the eye could teach. A,t the height of the blow the waves reached; right up to the entrance to the road from the beach. The Manaia W.C.T-.U. held its monthly meeting in the Methodist Church on Tuesday afternoon. The business was of a routine nature, and consisted mainly of arranging for the social side of the forthcoming Alliance District Convention and packing contributions for the Willard Home, the W\C.T.TT. Orphanage at Palmerston.

A sitting .of the Court of Arbitration at Hokitika yesterday heard the claim by Elsie McF'adyen for damages arising out of the death of her husband in a sawmill fatality in a mill near Kanieri Forks on June 30 last. The! court awarded £SOO, together with funeral expenses £24 0s 6d, and costs £8 Bs. The case of Arthur Clifton, who was severely injured when he was washed down <i. tail race at Back Creek last July, was partly heard, and the sitting was adjourned till March 23 at Wellington. The only question in dispute is the amount of injury sustained and the possibility of plaintiff being able to work at his calling again.

BOOT REPAIRS. Our boot repairer is an expert at his work. We sole and heel ladies’, men’s or children’s boots or shoes with the best wearing leather; pump soles, riveted soles, sewn welted soles. You can rely upon our workmanship as being the best. Send us your boot repairs to the New Zealand Clothing Factory, Hawera. —Advt: “STEVENS” FOR ALPINE EXPEDITION. The stores of a recent party visiting the Southern Alps included a big supply of Stevens’ Health Salt. Evidentlv these climbers appreciate the health value of this sparkling tonic. An occasional glass of Stevens cleanses the system and purifies the blood; 2/(i large bottle. Sold everywhere. . —1

A resolution congratulating the Hawera Fire brigade on their success at the recent demonstrations at Christchuicli was carried unanimously by the Hawera Borough Council last night. Cr. Morrissey; in seconding the motion, said the town was most fortunate m getting a superintendent like Mr Morrison, who was both efficient in his work and able to impart his knowledge to tne members of the brigade.

During February last the following stock was slaughtered at the Hawera Borough Abattoir: Twelve bullocks, 7i cows, 55 heifers, 358 sheep, 30 lambs, 30 calves and 73 pigs. Three cows, one heifer and three pigs were condemned. Fees and rents totalled £lO2 14s 2d (£93 17s 6d and £8 16s 8d), the fees being £1 14s 9d less than in February, 1924. The total fees for the 11 months ended February 28 were £3 2s 6d in excess of those for the corresponding period of last financial year.

The intense building campaign in Auckland of the past three years is best shown bv the figures quoted in. the N.Z. Herald*. In 1923 the total of building permits reached the- huge figures of £1,180,473; in 1924 this was exceeded by over a quarter of a million, the total being £1,131,264; for the present year the total for the first nine months, was £1,165,922 and there is a quarter still to go, indicating that, despite pessimistic reports regarding finance, the. faith of moneyed men, firms and companies is still sound, and the total likely to exceed even the previous year’s figures. “I fully expect that, by the end of this year, telephonic communication will be established between the North and South Islands,” said Mr E. A. Shrimpton, chief telegraph engineer, to a New Zealand Herald reporter at the week-end. Mr Shrimpton said a special type of telephonic cable was now being made to the order of the Department, and would be delivered in New Zealand in about five months. The cable will be laid from Lyall Bay to Seddon, about 20 miles south of Blenheim. When it is put down an Aucklander will be able to call any town in the South Island, as far south as the Bluff. The service will be open to the public ' day and night, and equipment will be provided to ensure excellent audibility.