LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 May 1925, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the. Supreme Court at New Plymouth, discharge in bankruptcy was granted to Henry Zimmerman and .lames Blackstock, of Hawera, for both of whom Mr F. E. Wilson appeared. The slip on the railway at Kakahi, near Taumarunui, was cleared during the night, earlier than was at first anticipated. Tt is considered a fine performance on the.part of the maintenance staff. “The Bankruptcy Act was intended for the protection of traders,” commented Mr Justice Alpers in the - Supreme Court at New Plymouth, “but in Taranaki it seems to be used principally by natives and labourers.”— Taranaki Herald.

An instance of the integrity of those engaged in the cult of the Jersey cattle breed was given at the pedigree sale held at Kaponga yesterday, when a ivell-known breeder of Kaponga refunded a sum amounting to over two-thirds of the purchase price paid four years previously for a heifer which had failed to fulfi] the expectations of the \ buyer. The. Wanaka, which arrived a£' Bluff from Dunedin, lay idle during yesterday owing to the watersiders refusing to work the ship, except under special conditions, owing, to the finding in Dunedin of a diphtheria carrier amongst the members of the crew This morning six infantile paralysis cases left the Public Hospital for Rotorua for treatment, following the Health Department’s decision that cases that could not receive special treatment in the smaller centres should be sent to the Rotorua Hospital.

In order to arrive at the cost of remetalling and tar-sealing the roads to the north and south mountain houses, the Egmont National Park Board is approaching the Public Works Department and asking that the district engineer be instructed to give an estimate of the expenditure required. The Forestry Department is also being approached for advice regarding the reafforestation of the board’s open lands on the Patua Ranges.

Racegoers who came to Wanganui by road on Thursday and Saturday had a little surprise in store for them, for, at several points in the. district, their way was blocked, and. they were requested by inspectors to display their drivers ’ licenses (says the Chronicle). Inspectors were on the job at Turakina bridge and on the Great North Road, and those who neglected to transfer their certificates from their work clothes to their “Sunday best” had to supply their names to the officials, and no doubt will be served with blue papers in the near future.

At the annual meeting of She Stratford A. and P. Association, Mr J. W. Boon was elected president. Other officials elected were: Vice-presidents, Messrs D. M. Clarke, E. H. Linnell, C. A. Marchant and J. C. Robins. Committee: Messrs R. A. Sangster, J. M. Shotter, C. Moore, A. J. Davey, A. David, J. W. Crowe, C. Mcl. Young, D. O’Sullivan, R. V. Kay, H. Bishop, W. A. Hewitt, 11. A. Hunt, J. Parrish, H. C. Johnson, H. Leech, W. Pettigrew, H. Johnson, G. T." Gibbons, J. C. McDowell. Auditor: Mr J. 11. Thompson. Hon. treasurer: Mr A. R. Masters.

The New Plymouth Jersey' Cattle Club’s annual sa’e of female stock will be held at the showgrounds on Saturday next, commencing at noon. The offering this year is an excellent one of both cows and heifers, included in the former being such well known matrons a.s ‘‘Countessa” at present under C.O.R. test and will complete with 750 lbs fat or better. She is also the dam of “Crofton Countess,” whose record at 2 years of age was 677 lbs. fat. A great effort. — “Belle Mahone,” dam of Mr. F. W. Cornwall’s “Oakland’s Belle Mahone,” is another cow worthy of much, attention. Altogether twelve well known herds will be represented at the sale, all of which have valuable consignments, so buyers of good stock may attend knowing that they will have an excellent lot of cattle to make their selections from.

An historic episode in the life of the Anglican Church in the South Pacific was enacted at Suva recently, \yhen the Synod of the diocese of Polynesia was duly constituted and the foundation laid for a well-directed spiritual campaign over a wide expanse of island-dotted ocean embraced by the diocese. Formerly the diocese was under the control of the Bishop of London, and was administered by the Bishop of Polynesia, but at the last General Syno'd of the church of the province of New Zealand the Pacific area was made an integral part of the province, and by an act of real selfabnegation Bishop Kemptliorne has now transferred the administration of his territory to the' Synod, with headquarters at Suva. PYJAMAS. It is a well-known fact if one wishes to rest content at night when in bed and sleep well they must have comfortable sleeping garments, and H.B. pay special attention to the cut of their pyjamas. We can supply them in all-wool and medium weights, 12/6, 16/6, 25/-. We also stock the real Roslyn woven pyjamas. Call at the New Zealand Clothing Factory, Ha- ( wera, for your pyjamas.—-Advt.

By 401 votes to S 7 on a total roll of 1100, the ratepayers of the Man a vatu county yesterday sanctioned a £60,000 loan proposal for expenditure on main highways Avork.

A Melbourne cable message states that fire destroyed Robertson’s grain mills at Werribee. The damage is estimated at £16,000.

The Wanganui Chronicle’s correspondent informs the paper that lie learns on very good authority that the General Elections Avill be held in the first Aveelc in September. About 4.30 on Monday afternoon Captain Tinney, pilot of Patea, sighted a black object, which appeared to be a lifeboat about 25 feet long, floating about a mile off shore. The object Avas drifting toAvards Schnapper Point, about three miles north-Avest of the Patea heads. Search parties AA'ere out until dark on Monday, and again on Tuesday, but the object Avas not sighted again.

Ach’ice has been' received by the Hokitika £>olice that the body of Sydney George Barratt, a bushman, single, aged about 25, Avas found floating in Lake Paringa, near Mahitiki, South Westland, yesterday. Deceased Avas last seen on Saturday night, Avhen he went out shooting on a barebacked horse. A gun Avas found in the lake. His nearest relative lives at Yelverton, Blenheim. Deceased Avas engaged in a bush-falling contract at Condons.

A coach Avith eleA’Cn passengers Avas returning from a funeral. Coming doAvn a steep grade the brakes failed. The horses bolted and the coach, capsized, states a Brisbane message. Five of the inside passengers AA’ere seriously injured. These >vere extricated by removing ,th<f roof. Others received slight injuries. For some time past his Majesty’s Government has had under consideration the question of inaugurating an inter-imperial heavy parcel post scheme betAA’een the Mother Country and the outlying portions of the Empire. The scheme has as its object the fostering of inter-imperial trade. The Postmaster-General uoav announces that the New Zealand Government has agreed to the introduction of a scheme as from June']. next. Under the scheme parcels Aveighing up to 221 b in Aveight will he accepted in Great. Britain for despatch to Ncav Zealand. The increased AA’eight limit Avil] be Aveleomed by business men generally, as chambers of commerce have for some time been pressing for an increase in the dimensions of parcels from Great Britain.

Prompt action has followed the exposure of the I.WAV. propaganda Avhich had been carried on on board the Manuka by I.W.W. propagandists, says a Wellington message. Noel Lyons, avlio has been seeking to make good his case for Avhat has been described as the “ham and eggs revolution,’’ is to leave the country at the earliest opportunity, an order being made under the Undesirable Immigrants Restriction Act. This order Avas personally served upon Lyons by Detective Cameron. The authorities state that if Lyons does not obey the order he Aviff he deported. Judgment for the plaintiff, with costs against the defendant, was given in each of the folJoAA'ing undefended civil cases brought before Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at the HaAvera Magistrate’s Court to-day: W. G. Walkley, receiA’er for debenture holders of J, Blake and Sons, v. W. M. Archibald, £lOl 12s 6d; Ettie Morris v. Frank Nelson, £8 0s 3d; B. R. Long v. G. Smith, £2 15s; H. B. Burdekin, receiver for debenture holders of General Transport Co., v. Smalley and Co., £2 16s 6d; same v. G. N. NeAvman, £4 14s 3d; B. R. Long v. R. J. Love, £5; Farmers’ Co-operative Society, Led., v. R. Lett, £8 4s 6d; David Strachan and Co. v. E. Hook, £1 2s 6d; W. Gilbert v. G. N. NeAvman, £4 10s 3d; A. Linkhorn A r . D. O’Keefe, £6 9s; J. P. Kerrisk v. Henare Waitai, £5 ss; same v. Pokau, £5 ss; H. R. ICemp v. T. Taunton, £ll 8s 2d; Piko Rangi v. Wi Tamati, £9 7s 6cl; Fred Bailey v. Jack Tapp. £6 10s. Orders were made as folloAvs in judgment summons cases H. R. Kemp v. W. Beaufort, £2§ 3s 4d. in default 31 days’ imprisonment; O’Dea, Haselden and Baylev v. Te Wehi Omaknra, £l6 5s 6d, in default 18 days’ imprisonment.