LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 June 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Supplementary estimates tabled in the Uanadian. Tiou.se of Commons, provide 145,000 dollars for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin. The Hawera Municipal Band will hold its band Sunday at the Methodist Church at the jnormng service <sn Sunday. This was to have been held last Sunday, but owing, to bad weather was postponed. Stella Murray, the New Zealand contralto, singing at a concert at the Aeolian Mall before a crowded audience, including Dame Melba, bad a moefc appreciative, reception (says a London cable). Sir James Parr (Minister for Education) yesterday conferred with the Otago Education Board and promised to recommend Cabinet to set up a junior high .school at South Dunedin to relieve the congestion of several schools, in that district. As a result of a collision between a tramcar and a motor-cycle and sidechair at Wanganui yesterday afternoon, John Mitchell, a married man, sustained a fractured skull, arm and leg. Tie was taken to hospital in a serious condition. A motor-cyclist named Leslie Hammond, aged 21, collided with a pedestrian, Mrs. J. Bold, at Onehunga, last night. Mrs.. Bold sustained a broken leg and cuts on the head. Hammond sustained injuries of a more or less serious nature to the head. Both were sent to hospital. At the meeting of motorists at Stratford on Wednesday, Mr L. O. Hooker, of Hawera, said lie had been advised that as soon as the weather was suitable the Government- Publicity Department proposed having moving and still pictures taken of the Tangarakau Gorge. These would be exhibited in various parts of the world as well as throughout the Dorauuuu. At the Supreme Court at Gisborne yesterday Harold Duncan McLaren, charged with attempted rape, or alternatively indecent assault or common assault, was found guilty of indecent assault, the jury adding a strong recommendation to leniency on account of the circumstances leading to the assault. The assused was sentenced to twelve months' probation and was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. —Press Assn.

The question of a fusion of the Reform and Liberal Parties was discussed at a conference of committees representative of the two parties at Parliament House at Wellington yesterday afternoon, but no. result has yet been reached. The conference was commenced at 2.30 p.m., and .sat for about three hours, when it was announced that an adjournment ti'l to-day had been made. No information was available beyond a statement that the proceedings had been marked by the utmost goodwill on both sides. The official switching-on ceremony in connection. with, power from the Maiiigahao. scheme was carried out yesterday .at Woodvillo amid tremendous e nth nisi asm, A. new era in the history of the district was ushered in at 0 o’clock, when! the Mayor .switched on the lights, Hooding the town with brilliant coloured lights. The Mayor was presented with an inscribed switch ias a memento.

“There is little doubt that the long continuance of this Act has done much to turn into other channels money which would, hut for its existence, have been available for investment on mortgage. Habit becomes second nature. and a broken habit is not easy to - renew.” commented Sir George Elliot on the moratorium in the course of his address at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Rank of New Zealand at Wellington to-day. Mata.pu and O'takelvo branches, of the Fiarmertsi’ Union have both fixed on to-night for t.lieir annual, socials, and at each place the .arrangements have been made uis> complete as possible to ensure the co.mifo.rt and pleasure of visitors and members. 1 Floor, music and supper will all be of the. best. At O.ta.keho also there w.fll be the presentation of prizes won in competitions, f t is expected! that there will be a very large, attendance at both centres.

BUCKRELL’S Removal Sale is still in full swiug, and affords an opportunity to purchase reliable Coats, Costumes, Hosiery, Jumpers and Ladies’ Wear generally seldom offered to the public. Watch our windows all this month, when ever article will be marked in plain figures the 1 lowest cash price.—Advf. When your throat is affected by damp weather, take “Nazol” on sugar. Removes liuskiness and prevents serious trouble. 60 doses 1/6. — Advt.

Mr. A. F. Douglas, director of the University of Aiinona. Observatory, at a meeting of the Pacific division, of the American. Association lor the Advancement qf Science, held at Portland, Oregon, stated thalb photographs he made of Mars indicate that there was considerable atmosphere, on. the planet, the markings of which were green, signifying vegetation. The actual temperature liad been measured and found to be between ranges conducive to life. This was the most important anti latest of discoveries.

Professor Calmette, lecturing before the Academy of Medicine at Paris, detailed the results of experiments with a new method for the vaccination of new-born babies against tuberculosis. The vaccine .is known as ealm'etteguerin, and the baccilus is supplied by the Pasteur Institute. Out of 137 children belonging to contaminated families treated during the first half of 1922- with the anti-tuberculosis vaccine none had died of-any illness which was the outcome ■of tuberculosis, whereas the mortality among non-vaccmated children living under cimilar conditions in Paris was 32 per cent. The vaccine is administered in a spoonful of milk every forty-eight hours from the third to the tenth day after birth. The principal remits passed by the recent Municipal Association’s conference were laid before the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. R. F. Bollard) yesterday at Wellington. The deputation laid stress on remits asking the Government to: (a) Increase its contributions to fire hoards; (b) allow the expenses of local body loans to he paid out of loan; (c) to enable absent voters to vote at local elections as they do at •Parliamentary elections; (d) to empower the Main Highways Board to subsidise large boroughs and cities; (e) allow boroughs representation on the Main Highways Board; (f) increase to £2O the amount which a local body member may sell to a local body; (g) legislate to provide that all a local body’s department banking accounts be treated as one account. It was also urged that soldier settlers’ land which had reverted to the Crown ought not to he exempt from rates. The Minister promised careful consideration of all the remits.