LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 September 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

llis Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral, Sir Charles Fergusson, accompanied by Lady Fergusson and, suite, passed through Hawera this morning on the. mail train. The party will arrive in Wellington this evening, and to-day’s trip marks the close of visits *to both Wanganui and New Plymouth. Edward Maquire, aged seventeen, was killed yesterday at Methven (Canterbury) bv a fall of shingle in n gravel pit, his Heck being broken. A baker at Oilman: , Normaii Moldrum, was shockingly injured about the head and face yesterday by a kick from a horse. His condition is critical. The annual report of the State Forest Service states that at the end of the financial year the staff consisted of 95 officers. . These figures show a reduction of two from the staff as at March, 1921. The State mine dispute has not been settled, conferences between the union and the management proving fruitless (says a Grevmouth Press Association message). The matters have now been referred to the miners’ council, which will meet on Sunday. The mine meanwhile is idle.

wireless message received from the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.’s liner Athenic states that the vessel is due to arrive at Auckland at 2 o’clock next Tuesday afternoon, 22nd inst. At the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Mr J. S- Barton, S.M., delivered his reserved judgment in the case heard in the Waverley Court in which Daniel Jones sought to establish a charge on the balance of money due under a contract to buildi a house against G. P. Spratt and H. Boagey. The magistrate held that the plaintiff had failed to establish a basis for the charge asked for. . The result of the examination in connection with the St. John. Ambulance .Association first aid classes at Patea, conducted by Dr. Young (Hawera). on August 17, is as follows, the names being given in order of merit:—First aid certificates: Bena Derrett, Jean Sheild, Mrs Helen Geary, Mrs Gladys Pettigrew and Beryl Finlavson (tie). Voucher: G. Vincent Rocked. Medallion: Mrs Margaret Boyle (excellent), Brigid G. Laverv (good). Mrs Martha Hunger (good), Clennel Martin, Beesie J. Gibson, Henry Cooper. —Press. The Tory Channel whaling station has closed with a tally of 47 whales for the season, compared with 55 secured last year. All this year’s whales were of the hump-back variety. The year was well no to the average, but would have been ‘better but for the continuous south-west weather, which interfered with operations..

On- the Public Works Estimates there i-s a vot-e of £IBOO for a site and buildings for a new police .station at Normiajniby. This bias .been a burning question "in that twonship for some time, as the old building has been in use since 1830, and the member lor Eg mo nit has pressed the Government td provide more suitable accommodation, states our Parliamentary reporter.

A London cable message states that Miss Imrie, a New Zealander,, proprietress of the well-known Australian and Now Zealand resort, the Black Swan restaurant, in the West Australian Agency building, was fined £7O, the maximum penalty, for not stamping waitresses* insurance cards. The Daily Express protests against the excessive punishment, describing the fine as crippling. It points out that Miss lonic is working to popularise Empire products.

In the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, Mr. A. L. Monteith was giving notice of intention to ask the Minister in charge of Cook Islands whether native women were working on roads on Niue Island, and, if so, whether the practice would be stopped, when Sir Maui Pomare rose and said he would answer the question at once. No women were working on the roads on Niue Island. Mr. Monteith remarked that, since the Minister made his former statement word had been received that women were still working on the roads. There the matter dropped.

Success is being won by Mr Wallace Harrison, son of Mr J. W. Harrison (Eltham), now of Vancouver, who is specialising in poster designing. Mr W. Harrison left Sydney some months hack for Vancouver. He won last month the first prize of 50 dollars for his drawing in the “Black Cyclone” contest conducted hv the British Columbia Paramount Theatres, Ltd. In notifying Mr Harrison of his success the company wrote: “Please accept our congratulations on your good fortune in winning over 135 entries. If you have no use for the drawing we should like to retain it for a couple of weeks for exhibition.” —Argus.

During the Alouat trial, at the end of which Freedrick Peter Alouat was found guilty of the crime of manslaughter and sentenced to a long term >f pimisonment. Air Justice Reed directed the Crown Prosecutor to take action against two newspapers in the •'tv for contempt of court (says a Press Association message from Christchurch L The offence alleged was the pub ioation in those papers of certain )ac f er in the account of the trial. The Crown Prosecutor has taken appropriate action, and the case, unless the proceedings should tor any reason be* withdrawn, will probably come on for determination shortly. The usual procedure in such cases - is by a motion nr attachment for alleged contempt of .rourt, and the motion is to be heard by the judge alone. The penalty may be i line or imprisonment. Seventeen town criers with lungs of leather and throats of brass thrilled the peaceful village of Pewscy with the loudest voices it has ever heard during a competition for the town criers’ championship of Great Britain. (says a London message). A Welshman’ from Glamorganshire with a • voice like a mountain torrent wrested the championship from a man, who had held it since 1913. The procedure consisted of each crier declaiming .from a parchment, while far away round the base of a hill and down a distant valley people waited and listened. One competitor, famed as being the possessor of a seven mile voice, stumbled over such words as “revelry,” “peasantry” and “illuminations,” thereby contravening one of the principle stipulations. The costumes were of wonderful blue and gold, cocked hats, postilion . rigs with vivid scarlet and gold bands, knee breeches and yellow stockings.