LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Whangarei coroner has been advised that blank Tucker, wiiose uomt: is at Opuawnanga, was kil.ed at Croft's bush, Mokau, near the coast, yesterday tiirougli a log rolling off a truck.

A mau named Walter James Parker was caught on Saturday night in the act of nobbing the till in the Beaumont Hoce;, and lie was seized by the licensee and conveyed to the Lawrence Police Station. He was brought before the court on Monday and sentenced to three months’ gaol (states a Dunedin Press Association message.) Mr H. E. Colebatch, responding on behalf of the Dominions at the Colonial Institute luncheon to overseas journalists at London,’ commended the institute as the greatest protagonist of Empire- (says a Press Association cable;. Air Coebatc-h ironically added: “I have rather come to the impression ' that England is suffering front overplus money. It must be so when she can afford to sustain 1,500,000 people without requiring a day’s work in return.” A London cable message stated that Lady Marion Cameron, wife of Captain Keith Cameron and daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon, was handling a revolver in a hotel room at Palermo when the weapon exploded. The bullet entered the thorax, penetrated the top left lung, and lodged close to the heart. When King George heard lie sent his own physician to assist. The wound is not- serious.

A comparison of notes on purely technical matters has occupied the greater part of the last two days at the den.tal conference at Auckland. A, demonstration was given by Messrs Gordon Bender and E. F. llawson of the technique adopted in the AYdTlington Hospital in administering nitrous oxide gas. Dr. and Mrs. A. Parterson (Christchurch) dealt with porcelain dental work in all its branches. Air (J. Y. Davies ('Dunedin) dealt with a> number of points of interest to practitioners. Dr. Buck lectured on the proEuropean diet of the Maoris. The conference concludes to-day.

Speaking at the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Partv on Wednesday last, Mr Malco’m MacDonald, who has been touring New Zea--1 >ncl with the Oxford debating team, caused great amusement by Ins references to Rotorua. “In the short time at my disposal,” said Air. AlaeDonald. “I have been trying to see as much of your country as possible; I have just come from Rotorua. Rotorua, gave me a very homelv feeling. It reminded me of a British general e’ection. It’s all mud-slinging and letting off steam.” (Loud laughter). The Melbourne Limited have just received- a fine lot of white and grey blankets from leading New Zealand mills, and these will be offered at reduced prices while the, Great Annual Reduction Sale is running. Other new lines opened are men’s winter weight natural wool and cotton singlets, 5/11 and 7/11; pants at 6/6 and 8/6. —Advt.

Swept bv snow, bail and rain, Canterbury experienced a great southerly storm yesterday, and reports from the country districts indicate that in some places the position is serious. The city itself \va deluged by a torrential downpour. The wind and rain were extraordinary fierce in the late afternoon and early evening. Snow fell at Darfield, Methven and Oxford. ,In the twelve hour up to 9 o’c'ock yesterday morning 2$ inches of rain had fallen in the country. *

The annual- conference of the Labour Party has adopted the following statement of principles: (1) The objective of the party is the socialisation of the means of production and distribution and exchange; (2) steps towards the attainment of this objective are contained in the planks of the party; (3) the method which the party adopts is the conquest of political power, local and national, by constitutional means, the extension of the organisation of workers in industry, together with the co-operation of all who render social service to the end that society he controlled in the interest*? of all of the people. In this issue appears an advertisement of a meeting to be held in the A. and P. .Association meeting-room, .Nelson Street, Hawera, on Monday next, at 11 a.m. The meeting will he addressed by Mr. G. D. MacFarlane, of the London board of the New Zealand Co-op. Marketing Association. As Mr. MacFarlane has just returned after spending three years in the United Kingdom, where he has been in close touch with the selling end of the dairy business, he should he able, to speak with authority upon marketing matters) which are of particular ..interest just now when the proposal of the Dairy Produce Control 'Board -is under consideration. All dairy producers are invited to he present. A certain amount of ability in the use of calcium carbide in bottles has led a Palmerston North lad of fourteen yearn into trouble. One of the Welling,ton Acclimatisation Society rangers came across him when lie was securing a fish from the waters. The ranger was somewhat impressed with the ability displayed, and inquired the manner in_ which the lad learnt the trick, and as a result of this the man who taught him is now under suspicion. At a society meeting the use of explosives was very strongly, condemned. One member stated that the exclusion not only killed the fish secured, but- also killed all the young fish and the food in t-'-.e vicinity. The next to. he heard of the matter will be in the Court.