LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 May 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For tho month of -A.pi'il there were six bankruptcies recorded with the Deputy-Official Assignee at Hawera.

The opossum shooting season in the Hawera. Acclimatisation District will extend from June 1 to August 31. Tn the head, pull, drive and yard event at the Tarata dog trials yesterday, Mr \Y. Mclntyre’s (Hawera) “Chief” was p’aeed first. Regulations newlv issued lix the ago lor appointment to the Public Service as from 15 to IS years in the clerical, and not loss than 17 years in the professional division. The Commissioner is empowered to grant preference to returned soldiers in appointments, subject tn certain examination conditions.

Two jockeys were injured during the steeplechase at the South Canterbury •Jockey Olulb’s autumn 'meeting at Tima.ru yesterday through two horses falling. J. R. Rain, rider of Charlatan, sniftered a fracture of the base of the skull. A. Peart, the rider of Greenstone, was slightly injured.

Judgment in connection with the charges of negligent driving brought by the police against two. motorists, was given in the Hawera. Magistrate’s Court yesterday by Air J. S. Barton, S.M. Both defendants were convicted, one Chars. Wm. Booock being fined £3 and 14s fid costs, and the other, Wm, Henry' Clarke, being fined £3 and 19s 6d costs.The lion, secretary to the Hawera Male Choir has received advice that, although the copies of “Hiawatha” are on the way to Hawera, they will not be here in time for practice on Monday. The first, practice therefore has been postponed until the following Monday, May 11. Thirteen miles of railway constructed by the Qhai, Railway Board. which was the first body of the kind to be incorporated under the Local Railways Act, 1914. have been opened for traffic. The line runs from the main Government line at AVairio through part of Nightcaps to Ohai and Birchwood, the centre of what promises to he an extensive mining industry, large deposits of coal having been proved in the immediate vicinity.

Mr F. J. Marshall arrived by the express this morning, and will take up his temporary residence in Hawera, filling the vacancy created by the departure of Mr F. W. Greenwood, as preacher for the Church of Christ. He will speak at both services to-morrow, his evening subject being “The Bride of Christ.” - .

The Hawera Municipal Band will (weather permitting) render a programme of music in King Edward Park to-morrow afternoon at 2.45. IncMded in the programme will be a selection from Verdi’s “Ernani” ; overture, “Diamond Cross” (Greenwood); hymns, “Eternal Father” and “Lead Kindly Light”; marches,' “A Distant Greeting” and “Ravenswood,” and a characteristic piece, “Love Bells.” A collection will be taken for the instrument fund.

After concluding a very successful mission at Auroa last night, the Rev. W. T. Hooper, evangelist for the Methodist Church, begins a week of special services to-morrow night at Manaia. The public will be cordially welcome to attend the meetings.

The Moeraki sailed from Sydney' a.t 4.15 p.m. for Auckland, being .six hours late. When the .ship was due to sail at 10 o’clock yesterday morning it _ was discovered that the crew was nine men short. These were afterward® found and agreed to rejoin the ship, but then the entire stokehold crew refused to take the vessel to sea unless one of their number, who was imprisoned overnight for riotous behaviour, was brought out of gaol. The company then paid the man’s fine and he rejoined the ship, which then sailed.

A petition js being- circulated in Fji, with a view to its presentation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, asking that the administration of the colony should be transferred from the Colonial Office to the Government of New Zealand. The advantages claimed for the proposal are:—Greater economy and efficiency, increased representation, reduced taxation, encouragement of intending settlers, closer touch with seat of Government,' investment of New Zealand capital, maintenance of preferential tariffs, defence in time of need.

Word has been received in Wellington that. Mr. Jack Ross, a 17-year-oid student of the Wellington Technical College, had climbed Mt. Cook with Guides Frank Milne and Vic. Williams. After leaving the Haast Hut the party used skis over the Great Plateau to the Linda Glacier. The ascent to the summit and descent to the Haast Hut occupied 14 hours 35 minutes. Mount Cook has been climbed once previously this season, on February 10, when Messrs. F. W. Yosseler and Jack Rawnsley, both of Wellington, with Guide Milne, climbed it in 18 hours 17 minutes.

A proposal adopted at the annual meeting of the Hawera Chamber of Commerce, that interest in the chamber would be quickened by the holding of quarterly meetings at which all members could attend, was referred to by the chairman at a meeting of the council of the chamber last night. Members agreed that the next meeting should be a general one, and_ a sub-committee was set up to bring down an agenda paper-of matters requiring the chamber’s fullest consideration. Later in the meeting it was decided to hold, over for consideration at the general meeting a letter "from the Taranaki Chamber regarding New Zealand’s fiscal policy, and .also to bring before the general meeting “a notice of motion to alter the chamber’s constitution in order to give the ' Retailers’ Association representation on the council of the chamber. In the .British House of Commons, during the Budget debate, Mr. W. Guinness (Coniseryiaiti ve), in defending the silk tax, denied that, silk was anything but a luxury. It was mixed with wool and cotton merely to increase the attractiveness ancl was in no wise economical to the poorer classes. He cited as an example of the superiority of cotton the fact that ladies preferred that the feet and tcxp.s o.f stocking,s," to which they hitched their surrenders, should holt he made of silk. This sally was greeted with cheers and laughter. Mr. Guinness scouted the .suggestion that the tax would appreciably affect, industry.