LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 August 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hannah Hardnieiss, a married woman, who was admitted to the Dunedin iiospital on Saturday suffering from burns received by her clothes catching fire, died on Sunday morning. A young woman named Fee slipped off a moving train at Christchurch and a wheel passed over her - right arm, which had to be amputated.

Fire destroyed the Standard Manufacturing Company’s grocery factory at Leichardt. The damage is estimated at thousands of pounds, says a Sydney inessage.

Residents of Matapu district are reminded of the social and dance to be held on Friday next, under the auspices of the Fanners’ Union. An excellent musical programme is being arranged. Southwick, a well-known and wealthy estate agent, was found dead in the garage lie owned at South Yarra, says a Melbourne cable. His head was battered. A man has been arrested, but no further details are available. The Industrial Workers of the World held a meeting in the Sydney Domain and openly sold literature, despite a letter from the Chief Secretary stating that such sales were not allowed. The meeting was largely attended, plain clothes police and police shorthand writers being present. John James Jackson, a porter emolojetl at the Albion Hotel, Lyttelton, died suddenly on Saturday. He had not been looking well during the morning, and the licensee advised him to go to bed. He collapsed a few minutes later. At an inquest a verdict of death from heart failure was returned

The Farmers’ Co-op. wish to give buyers a reminder, of the sale, of dairy heifers at Waverlev to-morrow on account of Mr W. H. Watkins. This is an annual sale and offers a good opportunity to buyers to get their requirements filled. Cars leave the auctioneers’ Ilnwera office for the sale. QUTRED’S. Just opened all new season’s goods. Spring Millinery, featuring models, smart English and American ready-to-wenrs, exclusive ancl original creations. Great variety of smart dressy tunics in serge, gabardine, knitted silk and printed crepe de chines. Latest costumes, showing smart sporting tweeds, gabardines and serges. We invite your inspection.—Outred’s, High St., where the smart goods are.—Advt.

A London cable message states that Mr. Justice Homer, in a Chancery Division test case, decided that women teachers must not be dismissed because they married. In this case the corporation of Poole dismissed an assistant mistress on the ground that the primary duty of a married woman was to look after h6r domestic affairs. Mr Justice- Homer held that the corporation’s motive was irrelevant to the exercise of its statutory duties. The corporation was ordered to pay costs.

The crowd at the football match at Inglewood was exceedingly well controlled, tlie local guardian of the law doing great work. He was inexorable with anyone attempting to get inside the enclosure, and on one occasion, spotting a man getting away from the bank, where hundreds were sitting, he called out: “Hey! You in the blue coat. Sit ye down —lay down. Go to sleep.” The crowd smiled broadly.

The football match at Inglewood on Saturday was fiercely contested, too strenuously' at times, but there were several amusing inoidents that lightened the struggle. On one occasion a Stratford man was collared, and he and the blue opponent lay on the ground side by side while play went on, heedless of the fact that tlie two were lying there recovering from what looked to be a head-on collision. They slowly recovered, and then the contest went on as hard as ever.

The foundation stone of the Auckland war memorial museum, to cost £220,000, was laid on Saturday by tlie Prime Minister (Hon. J. G. Coates). Sir James Gunson, chairman of the citizens’ committee, said the £32,000 from the sale of the old museum buildings would be devoted solely to furnishing ' and equipping the new museum The sum of £27,000 was still required’to complete the necessary sum of £220,000. “There is no more stimulating o r beneficial drink than a glass of warm milk, in which lias been stirred two dessert spoonfuls of honey,” said Mr. D. S. Robinson, the apiary instructor, in an address delivered at the Blenheim Farm School (reports the Express). Again, from honey was made mead, the principal drink of our forefathers, he added. Vinegar, too, was easily made from pure honey and water, while the uses of beeswax were many and varied. In one form the- production of the honey bee was used by almost everyone daily, for it was the basis of all boot polishes. The District Engineer of Public Works (Mr T. M. Ball) has informed a Stratford Evening Post reporter that arrangements had been made for any of the tunnelling plant used on the Otira and Mangahao tunnels which might be required for work on the Stratford Main Trunk railway, 'to be transferred there. The tramway which was under construction between Tahora and the Tangarakau river was being pushed ahead, and good progress was being made. It was anticipated' that it would be ready by the time the dismantling of the* Otira and Mangahao apparatus was completed, and there would then be no difficulty in transferring the latter from Tahora to the scene of operations. Of course, the work of re-erecting the would be heavy, and naturally some time would elapse before the actual tunnelling could he commenced.

A local body conference held at Hamilton recently passed a resolution affirming that the present system of hospital levies was inequitable and urging that there isheuld be substituted for it a system under which twothirdis of the levy would be computed cal the capital value of the rateable property 'affected and one-third on the population of tlie contributory district. This resolution was laid before the Minister of Health (Sir Maui Pomare) by a deputation. The Minister said that the present schedule had been adopted after very careful consideration, and oh the advice of the Commissioner of Taxes. The department had also had the benefit of the report of a, conn mission. li e believed that the system was one of the best and farieist of its kind l in the world. He would, however, Lay tlie representations of the deputation before the full executive of the Hospitals Conference at- its next meeting.