LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The will of the late Mr Owen Hawes, of Waverley, provides for bequests of £IOOO each to the Barnardo Homes, the Wanganui Public the Patea Public Hospital and the Wanganui Orphanage. Oe Pinedo, the Italian aviator who llew to Australia, arrived at Sydney yesterday from Melbourne, after experiencing delay owing to engine trouble. A large crowd witnessed the landing. In the Magistrate’s Court at Taumarunui yesterday afternoon, before Mr Platts, S.M., Henry Georg© Morgan, on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor in a proclaimed area, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

At the monthly meeting of the Otakeho school committee a resolution was. carried favouring Bible reading in schools. It was resolved also to go on with the concreting of the parade ground and paths. All going well, the Stratford War Memorial, which will take the form of handsome memoria gates at the entrance to Victoria Park, should be ready by Armistice Day (November 12) says the Post.

In view of the poor .response to the appeal for the Massey memorial fund, the Hawera County clerk (Mr. J. W. Harding) has written to' the Prime Minister (Hon. J. G. Coates) asking that the subscription list be held open until the spring in order to give the farmers a better opportunity to> contribute.

The "Whangarei Harbour Board engineer has been advised that the scow Herald, when riding at anchor in Matapouri Bay, encountered the fury of an easterly gale and was driven ashore. She is now piled up between two rocks at the north end of the bay. Heavy seas are breaking over her, and it is believed the vessel will become a total wreck. The crew is safe. The following New Zealand championships were decided at the Nelson poultry show: Old English game, Alf Robinson (Nelson) ; American leghorns, \V. "Wilson (Wellington); canaries, Yorkshire, N. F. Jennens (Nelson); bantams, modern game, S. H. "Wearing (Richmond). Stock agents of the various firms, interviewed. by a Star reporter this morning with regard to the lambing season, stated that a few lambs have already been seen in the paddocks in this district. However, this is said to he no criterion for an early season. _ It was stated, however, that lambing would be general in the district within a few weeks.

A London cable message states that the sale of the late Sir E. Hulton’s racing stock has concluded. Seventyfive horses totalled £303,000, double the estimated value. Thirteen yearlings sold for 46,000 guineas. The top price was 9200 guineas, which was paid by Mr Morriss, winner of the Derby, for a filly. A number of horses were bought for the foreign market. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Ohawe troop of the Legion of Frontiersmen was held last night, Lieut. Vickridge presiding. A report of the conference and dinner at New Plymouth was received. It was decided that at the next meeting Flight-Lieut. Latham should give an address on the Royal Air Force. The Hawera borough engineer, Mr. J. Sturrock, states that during the uext few days the work of flushing the water mains will be proceeded with. This will mean that occasional rushes of discoloured water will come from the household taps. This is quite unavoidable during the progress of work of this kind, and those in charge of domestic arrangements will need to be on their guard. But they have the assurance that the trouble will be shortlived and conditions will he better thereafter. At the Dominion conference of the Dairy Farmers’ Union ait Pukekoihe yesterday a resolution was passed commending the Agricultural Department lor the stringent measures it was taking for the prevention of contagious abortion among dairy cows. After a lengthy discussion dealing with, many aspects of herd testing, a resolution was carried strongly supporting the policy of the’ New Zealand Herd Testing Association in asking for a shilling subsidy per cow for all group herd testing associations, and urging the Minister for Agriculture to give earnest and immediate attention to the requests of that body. A shocking accident occurred at Curl’s bridge, on the Bulls-Marton road, yesterday afternoon. A car driven by Claude Harrison Bosworth, single, a broker’s agent, of Marton, with a passenger, James Small, single, a barman, of Marton, believed to be a native of Invercargill, failed to negotiate a turn on the main road to the bridge, and crashed into the parapet. The car overturned and fell into the creek six feet below. Bosworth had a miraculous escape. Small was pinned beneath the car and drowned, escape being impossible. At a largely-attended meeting of creditors of Messrs Kaye and Carter, wool merchants; Christchurch, a recommendation of the liquidators that 14s in the £ be paid to unsecured creditors in full settlement of their claims was approved. The staff and employees of the company are to be ©aid their salaries and wages in full to the date of the liquidation. The idators’ report stated that according to a balance-sheet drawn up on May 19 last- the deficiency was estimated at £55,000. The liquidators’ .recommendations were agreed to unanimously. and motions were agreed to expressing appreciation of the action of (he Bank of New Zealand. —Press Assn.

Letters reecived in Canterbury recently 'from America have been addressed in an unconventional manner, the destination and not the name of the addressee having the premier place, that is the top line on the envelope, the name of the addressee being written in the bottom left-hand corner as follows:—Springburn, via Ashburton. Air T. Jones. Letter sorter s are at present taught to read from the bottom up, for it is tli-e destination and not the name of the addressee that is needed by them. It has been suggested that the American idea might make the work of the New Zealand post ofThe Afanaia Municipal Brass Band will play a programme in the. band rotunda on Saturday night, commencing at 7.30 p.m. Members of the AV.E.A. and others interested are reminded of the lecture on “Perception and Illusions” to he given in the old technical school this evening at 8 o’clock. The lecture will be illustrated by an interesting series of lantern slides. Dr. Thomson will preside The Melbourne’s Mid-Winter "Reduction Sale offers immense savings on every line in. stock. Read these examples: “Fordite” suit, cases, 20in. 10/6, 22in. 13/C, 24in. 15/6, 26in, 17/6; ladies’ winter coats, half price; world famous “Yedonis” cream interlock singlets, 6/11; black Italian aprons with bright cretonne trimming, 2/11 eaeh; all wonderful bargains.—Advt.

Dates for wool sale s to be held in the different centres during the coming wool season have been fixed. There is a possibility of the dates being "varied when the brokers and buyers meet at a conference to be held in Wellington on November 14 next. Sales at Wellington and Wanganui have been fixed as follows: November 16, Wellington; November 24, Wanganui; December H, Wellington; January 12, Wanganui; January 22, Wellington ; February 16, Wanganui; February 27, Wellington; March 22, Wanganui; March 27, Wellington. A further round of sales will lie arranged if sufficient wool is available. The annual conference of the Railway Officers’ Institute concluded its sittings at Wellington yesterday, the president (Mr. J. R. Robertson) presiding. Over one hundred remits were dealt with by the conference, and of those that received approval eleven were referred to the Minister of Railways, the conference forming into a deputation for that purpose. The members of the Railway Board, Messrs Jones, Sterling, and Mouatt, also met the members of the conference and discussed twenty of the remits passed. The remainder of the resolutions were referred to the executive committee with instructions to bring them before the management at the earliest opportunity. The election of office-bearers for the ensuing year resulted: President, V. R. J. Stanley (Rangataua); vice-presidents, W. A. Finlayson (Wellington), R. S. Skinner (Dunedin); general treasurer, L. Barclay (Wellington) ; Wellington executive committee, A. S. Henderson, E. W. Barnes, G. Nelson, M. Vance, R. G. Croudis, A. E. Coleman, and F. C. Hunt. The presentation of a silver tray, suitably ’inscribed, was made to the retiring president, Mr. J. R. Robertson, who did not seek re-election.