LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The All Blacks and the sculler Hannan were passengers by the Mauugamu, which sailed from Sydney at 4 p.m. yesterday for Wellington. A showman who yesterday picked up a wallet in the show buildings containing over £7O in bank notes, immediately took his lind to the Hawera police, who were able to return the money to a greatly relieved owner. During the past ten days there has been a large number of marriages in Stratford, says the Post, about twelve having.taken place.

Opossums are said to be plentiful on the slopes of the Egmont Mountain Reserve, and are said to be increasing. The owners of property near the reserve have not made much effort so far to trail them, but they have the right to do so without license, and it is likely some trapping will be done.

The staff of the Hawera Public Trust Office yesterday made a presentation of a siiver tea service to Miss 0. E. Robertson, who has recently resigned after being a member of the staff for over six years. Tile presentation was made by the District Public Trustee, Mr. C. Freyberg. Oil Wednesday it was stated in the Star that Mr. Nelson Hughes, of Maxwelltown. had hard luck in forwarding a case of potatoes by rail to the show. By some inadvertance the entry did not arrive until after the judging taken place. The Railway Department advise that the delay was .no fault of theirs. They say that the consignment was handed in at Okeliu on the morning of the 29th and was at Hawera readv for delivery at noon the same dav.‘

Brother B. Osmand, of Sacred Heart College, giving evidence before the University Commission at Auckland, said it seemed to him that the secondary system was unduly academic. To what extent, he asked, was the system keeping in touclf with industries-' The system’was no doubt admirable tordoctors and lawyers, clerks and teachers but the children of the workers who wore taxed for the system were not getting their share of the equipment necessary for efficiency in their avocations. lie urged the establishment of a degree in education. Such a degree would raise the status of the tea '

profession and consummate a most desirable union, that of the training college and the university. The commission sits at Christchurch next Wednesday.

The position in the produce market in England was discussed by Sir Thos. Mackenzie (ex-High Commissioner) in the Address-in-Replv debate in the Legislative Council yesterday. The great difficulty, lie said, was to estimate what produce was in stock and wliat was coming forward, for upon that information effective control depended. He stressed how essential if was for the men responsible for the control Ai meat to know the ri'h moment to release produce upon the market. He attributed the slump in wool to unemployment in England and unrest on the Continent, lie urged that the Dominions should confine their export trade as far as possible to th' Mother Country. Surely, he remarked a ‘.sound and proper policy was to widen our system of deference.