LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left. Wellington on July 21 via San Francisco, arrived at London on August 18. \ The annual meeting of the New Zes- - Friesian Association wasyheld today in Auckland, and the third National sale to-morrow. The Opunake Dairy Company contemplates erecting two new factories in place of the present ones (says the Taranaki Herald’s Opunake correspondent). The N.S.W. Board of Trade lias fixed the living wage for the whole State at lit 4s weekly for males and £2 2s (id for females.’ The previous rates were: Males £1 2s and females £2 Is 6d. The Kowiai County Council, Canterbury, intends to write to the headmaster of every school in the county, asking that children be warned of the danger of interfering with electrical appliances and broken wires.

The Welington City Council has approved of a most important scheme for the development of a water supply to serve the Butt Valley and the city. The scheme will make for the reserving of an area of 5300 acres at Akatarawa for waterworks and hydro-electrical parpose s to be held for a-'l time for the benefit of the contributory local bodies. Mr. H. Day, a Labour member of the British House of Commons, and a well-known revue producer, pn behalf of a syndicate of insurance companies, has offered to buy Wembley, converting the model village into middle-elaiss houses at a rental of £6O to £65 yearly, and utilising the larger pavilions for public purposes.

The nudity cult seems to have obtained so great a number of adherents in certain Tiarts of Eastern Switzerland that the authorities have had to intervene to put a stop to this new craze. Recently sopio 40 young people of both sexes were fined for strolling the countryside after the fashion of Adam and Eve.

Entries for the 1925 calf-rearing and i<w>t crons competitions in connection with the' Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs (South Taranaki district) dose with the secretary on Saturday, September 19. The calf-rearing competition is open for grade heifer calves horn during August. “This is the wettest. season on record.” That is the opinion of settlers of over forty years’ residence at Sou,tlhbriuge, Canterbury. After a lew days of lino weather, rain, .again set in uteadiiy on Wednesday, and much of the land) in the Ellesmere district, from Sou thb ridge, to Springston, is very wet, some, being under water. ihe reads between ■ South!)ridge and Ohri.stoihurdi a» full of pot-holes, and are in a, very muddy condition. It is not generally known, but nurses who rendered war service are entitled to the same privileges as returned soldiers with regard to taking up Crown land. The first, case of its kind heard at Gisborne was taken by the Land Board recently (says the Herald), when a nurse who saw a great deal of war service, and who was On the hospital ship Marquette when it was torpedoed, applied for a section of land in the Hukutaia settlement at Opotiki. Only two applicants went to the ballot, and the lady was successful. It was stated bv one of the members that the lady in question would make a very capable farmer.

Canada is forging ahead at a great pace. Money' hows naturally' to countries of vast undeveloped natural wealth, but the way' money has been travelling to Canada in the last thirty years or so is very' surprising. In 1890 other countries had £90,000,000 invested in the Dominion. To-day the figure is ten times, that! The United States is now investing more money'in Canada Utah in any other foreign country. The totai of their Canadian investments i? about equal to Britain’s. Vet, in spite of Canada’s immense resources, there are onlv about 1 0,000,000 Canadians, so that the outside world has invested *IOO in every Canadian alive. The serious effect of the recent floods on the condition of the Gisborne harbour has occasioned no small amount of- consternation, and the ■ Harbour Board ie confronted with something in the nature of a problem in deciding its future policy in so far as immediate relief is concerned (says the Herald). It is now obvious to most people that the only permanent remedy is the diversion of the silt-carrying river. At the same time the board, it is understood, is opposed to anv further work in the river channel, arid it is considered in some quarters that expedition of the comprehensive scheme is not possible without this further work, as dredging of the diverison cut would be much hampered by the absence of the channel usable at all states of the tide. Shipping is being disorganised, and the harbour undertaking delayed because of the present conditions. OUTKED’S. Just opened all new season’s goods. Spring Millinery, featuring models, smart English and American ready-to-wears, exclusive and 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.

Walter Thomas Young, 31 years of age, a school teacher residing at Roslyn, Dunedin, with his mother, was found dead hanging by a strap from the rafters of an outhouse yesterday afternoon.

It is interesting to note that there are 34 towns in New Zealand out of a total of 70 observing Saturday halfholiday, while 24 have Wednesday and 12 Thursday. There is a majority of one in cue'll island for the mid-week holiday.

During the voyage, of the Tainui, which arrived at. Wellington on Monday from London, the death occurred of Harry Arthur Sutton, chief second saloon steward. His death occurred on August 4, two days after leaving Panama. Sutton was a. native of London, and leaves a wife and one. child.

A meeting of boating men at Dunedin last. night decided to hold a yachting, motor boating and rowing regatta in Otago harbour during the exhibition period. A provisional committee was appointed to investigate and report to a meeting to be held on September 7.

At the Supreme Court at Auckland Whare Haumouna Rotatana, a young Maori, was sentenced to nine months’ gaol. Judge Herdman commented that accused had committed a most brutal assault, and kicked another native while the latter was o n the ground. The result was that he was unconscious for five hours.

At a largely attended meeting of the Timaru branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants the following resolution’ was unanimoulsy passed; “This branch strongly protests against the ridiculous comparison of shunting methods between 1896 and 1925 given bv Mr Skinner at the shunters inquiry at' Palmerston North I icing admitted’ as evidence and distributed by the Press Association.” Two American sailors and two prospective brides presented themselves at the registrar’s office at Auckland intent on the celebration of a double marriage, but one of the sailors admitted that, his age was only 19, so he and his affianced stood by while the registrar performed the ceremony over the more fortunate couple. The bridegroom took the ceremony very seriously and expressed annoyance at giggling by spectators, but later as the “jackie” slipped the ring on the bride’s finger she gave a laugh more than half a sob and rushed from the room. She was eventually seen outside sobbing pathetically with her lover’s arms around her.

At the Stratford Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when a man was charged with failing to report a motor accident and driving without a license, the Magistrate (Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M.) said that the law says an accident must be reported, whether serious or not. The duty was laid upon defendant to report, and it was not left to any man to say whether the accident was serious. If it was left to a man to report what, he thought was serious, they would never get anything reported. lie was going to treat the .breach as nominal because it was the /first time such a charge had been laid in Stratford, but he hoped others would not think that they would be left off with the same penalty. —Post. Speaking on the Defence- Report in the House Mr McCombs- said it was -deplorable ithat, amongst small nations. New Zealand was doing so little to carry' out the spirit of the ’Washing-ton-Treaty. Our naval estimates were very high, and this year we had to increase them by £100,600 to cover oomiinitmenit-s. In reply, Sir Heaton Rhodes -said it was a- fact that we were not jp a position to manufacture ammunition for our big guns, -and plant to miake this- ammunition would be very costly. Australia, was just beginning to make her own ammunition, and no doubt New Zealand soon would be obtaining its supplies from this source., -as we naturally wished to- encourage: the manufacture of big ammunition in the Pacific. The agreement before the House would ensure ian adequate sii.ppiy of small anno ammunition.

A large quartz reef a few miles up the Arahiira River, near Hokitika, has been discovered by Mr J. Tooihey, The •reef showing on the surface is twelve feet in width. Sampler have been forwarded to. the School of Mine,s • for testing purposes, and experienced quartz mill's ns express the opinion that the find is a most valuable one. Authentic reports as to the discovery of the reef state that gold is plainly visible in .samples of quartz taken from the reef, wiliieh is of eironmous size. Mr. Toohey made the discovery while possum hunting an the vicinity. A quartz reef lias also been discovered by a party in the vicinity of .Lake Kameri. Samples have, been forwarded to the School of Mines. While a mother wais nursing her thiree-weeks-okl baby at Whangarei a pin dropped from her clothing into the baby’s mouth. It rested on the palate and the mother tried to recover it. She was unsuccessful and was horrified to see it dip head first down the throat. The infant was taken immediately to the Wliangairei Hospital where during four days the medical 'authorities observed by. X-rayis its progress through the'-,baby’s body. Had it 'lodged, a ticklish ope ratio on so young a, child, would have been necessary, but that operation was not required, and the pin, after travelling an estimated distance of 26ft., was recovered in the ordiniftry natural manner. So far as the local medical fraternity are concerned sucth an occurrence was unique.