LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 August 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie report of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company shows a profit of £11,130 for the year. The directors propose a dividend of 6 per cent on the paid-up share capital.

On page one of this issue appears as an advertisement the result of. the drawing of the Wellington Show Association Art Union. The winners of the principal prizes were: First prize, £3OO. Mrs A. Hill, Birmingham; second prize, £SO, Miss Y. Wilson, Auckland ; third prize, £2O, T. Barrett, Miramar. The Hawera Municipal Band will render a sacred recital in King Edward Park next Sunday, weather permitting. A. very attractive programme lias been arranged, and no doubt a large number of people will .take the opportunity of hearing the band in the park. Arising out of the death of William Campbell, a tramway motorman, through being knocked down by a motor car driven by George Denton last November, the jury, in the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday, awarded the widow £I2OO damages against Denton, the amount to include £750 already paid by the City Council. Further heavy rain has fallen in Canterbury, and a big slip occurred on the Akaroa road between Birdling’s Flat and Caton Bay. It will he some days before it is cleared. The countryside is saturated, and the spring sowing of cereals is again at a standstill. Some correspondents report fairly heavy mortality among lambs.

Professor G. S. Peren, Professor of Agriculture at Victoria University College, Wellington, will lecture on “The Need of Agricultural Education in New Zealand” at the Savoy Tea Booms, Hawera, to-night at 8. The subject should he of special interest to all farmers as well as to business men and the general public. The lecture has been arranged under the auspices of the W.E.A. Professor Per. en has during the week been lecturing for the Farmers’ Union branches in the Wanganui district. Mr. F. Gillanders will preside at this evening’s lecture.

An address dealing with the rare and feeding of the dairy cow and i other matters of interest to breeders is to be delivered at the Matapu hall on Monday evening by Mr. G. Ford, of t-lic stock division of the Department of Agriculture. Air. Ford’s visit is being arranged under the auspices of the Matapu branch of the Farmers’ Union, which extends a cordial invitation to all interested. The address is timed for 8 p.m. An ordinary meeting of the branch will be held at 7.30 p.m. A Taranaki resident who has invented a special type of pump for increasing the* pressure on water mains, has already given satisfactory demonstrations on a small scale. Captain T. J. Watts, travelling advisory superintendent of the United Fire Brigades’ Association, who has seen the invention working in a small way, expressed the opinion to a Star reporter this morn.hg that there were great possibilities in it, although he would prefer to put die appliance to more severe tests than :t had hitherto come through. It is understood that the cost of installing the pump will be a matter of no more than hundreds of pounds, as against thousands in providing fresh mains as a means of increasing water pressure and supply. “You are not, then, aiming at the production of any distinct New Zealand ‘type’?” hazarded Air. Alan P. Herbert (“A. P. H.” of Punch) to a Hawera Star reporter in the course of a conversation earlier this week. Having been assured that there was no such, conscious aim in the Dominion, Mr. Herbert explained himself. “I was thinking of Australia,” lie said. •‘ln one of their year books I read an article which seemed to lament that the truly distinctive Australian ‘type’ could not be expected for some generations yet. The writer added something to the effect that tlie present-day Australian was little better than an Englishman. No! I believe he wrote ‘little more than’; hut the confession seemed to worry him.”

Very feu- of the bright new sovereigns put into circulation ,by the American fleet during the visit of the fleet to <.v Helton have so far found their way nto the banks.. People who received the gold coins from the sailers. seem loosed to hold on to them as long as their financial 1 , position will allow them. Toe actual number of sovereigns brought there by the men of the fleet and put into circulation can only be conjectured, -but probably more than 10,000 were left liehind as souvenirs of he visit. In addition to the gold coins received as pay by the sailors while they were at Lytelton, the tradespeople who supplied .foodstuffs to the ships weie paid in sovereigns. In- some cases the amounts were very substantial.

A very narrow escape from being clont.iKW.uted is reported from the Oaoi!til (Opunake) district. A child of Mr V/aswo, while out in the paddocks, made an lattempt to get under the .road fence, and grasping the lower fence wire, lie dni.mediately yelled with pain. His little brother and sister with great presence of mind, caught his legs and pulled him off, the flesh burning off the fin gens. The lad wars black in the face and nearly done when the father avrltvjecl on rthei isiaene, vwthlo t qu|ickily motored the hoy to the doctor. It aippetans a. high tension wire had broken and fallen across the fence, and owing to the nature of the place the broken wire wais not visible. ,

. Complaints regarding the housing conditions on the coalfields on the West Coast, were made in the House of Representatives by Mr H. E. Holland (Buller). He referred in especially severe terms to the condition of the town of Blackball and at Burnett’s Face, where the houses were devoid of sanitation and ordinary precautions against epidemics. He urged the Minister for Health to give these townships some attention. He gave particulars of a number of “shacks” on 'the northern coalfields with insufficient accommodation. for which miners paid, exorbitant rents. He maintained that these men were just ns entitled to a good house as anyone else, because they had to remain on the spot to get work at all. He was glad to know the Minister for Mines was moving in the matter of getting better living conditions- for these workers. There were some good houses, hut in other cases the housing was a disgrace to this Dominion, and if the Minister had not power to enforce an improvement then he should take the power. V conre-t by Thomas’ party, to he fallowed by a dance, will he held in the Oliangni hall to-night (Friday).

Fuji silk underwear again promises to be popular for spring and summer. Tn fact, this material is, worn nil the vear round. Hew designs in nights, knickers, Princess underskirts, camiknickers and bloomers are being displayed hv the Melbourne Limited at attractive ,prices. Trousseau sets in Fuji silk and crepe de chine a specialty. Quotations on application. —Advt.

Thousands of sovereigns were left behind at Auckland by tlie American fleet and about 15,000 have already found their way into the banks. At the inquest on the body of AVilliam James Edgar, a dairyman, of Spencerville, who died under an anaesthetic at a Christchurch private hospital while an operation iyas in progress, the evidence showed that in consequence of the state of his heait particular care was used, but he collapsed with dramatic suddenness. A verdict was returned that death was due to heart failure, associated with valvular disease ancl accelerated by anaesthesia.

Football as she is played in AYestland. The Grey mouth Star says: The joke was on a Grey representative forward in the. match at Reefton on Saturday, although he did not see it at the time. The game was willing, and .in one scrum an opponent fixed his molars in one of the hands of the Grey player, bringing blood in a copious stream. The Grey forward saw red. “If you try that again,” he shouted, “I’ll bite you!” The Inaugahua chap with the unorthodox methods was not worried by the threat. “Gam!” he scoffed. “You’ve got- no teeth!” He spoke the truth.

Under the auspices of the Stratford A. and I*. Association, Messrs J. Lyons, .director of the live stock division of the. Department of Agriculture, and C. S. AL. Hopkirk, officer in charge of the 'veterinary laboratory, Wallaceville, demonstrated to a gathering of farmers at Kaponga yesterday on the important subject of diseases in stock. Much valuable information was imparted, and the demonstrators were accorded hearty .votes, of .thanks.

A start lias been made in preparing the place in the Square at Palmerston North where, the railway deviation will be made to permit of tlie work of erection of the soldiers’ war memorial being proceeded with. The shrubbery on the eastern sied of the line through the uare has been removed, while the -nil fence is also, in process of being dismant'ed. This deviation will cost the Memorial Committee £350. The idea i s to place the memorial in the Plumb centre of the Square so that.it can he seen from the four arterial streets radiating from that centre. The memorial is a replica in marble and granite of that at Folkstone, England, end has been done by the same sculptor. It will lie, one of the finest memoink in the Dominion when completed. A. glaring instance of cargo, pilfering has just come to light in connection with, a small importation by a local draper. A ease containing £SO worth of ladies’ hosiery and' underclothing, ex. steamer Dorset, was opened at Patea in the presence of the customs officers and the importer before the latter would take delivery. On examination it was found that no less than £36 worth of the goods invoiced had been abstracted, and the ■importer Isuccessflully; claimed for a refund of that amount. Had he been less prudent and not gone to the trouble of having the contents checked while the case was in bond, he would have suffered the substantial financial loss of having to pay the whole cost of a consignment of which he received but one quarter.

There is a saying that misfortunes never come singly and Mr. J. A., Cosgrove, of Manniia,, has experience of th(-it fact. • Hi's brother, Air. J. J. Cosgrove, a business man of Pal moisten North, came to Hawera. to attend the funeral of his 'sister-in-law yesterday, and last night wa« taken so .seriuosly ill that he had- to* be removed m the ambulance to the Hawera hospital. His kill ness is of .such a natu re as to cause hi'S relatives grave concern. Mr. J. J. Cbtsgrove liiais a. wife and eight children, and •maituir.alily his illness i.s a matter of great distress. Another distressing oircninustance is the fact that Mr. J. A. G. Oasigr.ove’isi fljiititle daughter, nine years of age, lna»s been, in the Hawera ’hospital for a fortnight 'suffering from diphtheria, and though now convalescing is net yet sufficiently well to be informed of her mother’s death.

A sequel to the action taken by the Public Trustee under the war regulations in regard to enemy property came before the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday. During the war the Public Trustee took possession of the New Zealand assets of the German firm of Hardt and Co. This firm had a branch in Sydney, which was managed by Eugene Schroder, and which controlled the New Zealand branch. The Public Trustee had in his hands £17,000. Hardt purported to sell _to Schroder the whole of the Australian and, New Zealand business. Schroder asked for a declaration that the money belonged to him. The defence was that •the sale was not bona fide. If it was it was a nullity because it had not been consented to by the New Zealand attorney. Voluminous' evidence was taken at Sydney last vear, To-dav counsel for Schroder said that lie had been instructed not to proceed. Judgment was given for defendant. —Press Assn.