LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 September 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Building permits for work of a total value of £3765 were issued in Hawera during the month of August last. A ’bus with 15 passengers went off a tarred road into a depression near the Mangere crossing, Auckland. Injuries to the passengers were confined to cuts and bruises. Twenty-seven candidates have already been announced for thirteen Canterbury seats at the general election. It is expected that several others will also enter the field before polling day. The body found on Tekamaru beach, Wellington, has been identified as that of Vera Margaret Staff, aged .14, one of the victims of the Foxton boating tragedy last month.

As a result af a collision between two cars in Onehunga, Mi’s Sarah Florspool, a resident of Carlton- Gore, road, Auckland, is in hospital with a deep scalp wound and a wound on the leftknee necessitating an operation. One car was driven bv Dr. Harke and the other by W. J. Baffin. The doctor’s car was' badly smashed. The dispute at the State mines over timbering remains unsettled (says a Grevmouth message). The union, failing to reach an agreement with the management, has handed the matter over to the West Coast Miners’ Council, which is now communicating with the Mines Department in Wellington.. The Hawera Borough Council last evening adopted the recommendation of the General Committee to subscribe its quota of £2B to the Egmont National Park Board for expenditure on the southern side of the mountain. The donation was made subject to other southern local bodies finding thenshare.

Mr Will J. French, who is speaking with Mr C. H. Poole at the Grand Theatre to-morrow night, is a noted trade unionst leader of California, and can speak with authority on the attitude of Labour in the United States to prohibition. It is interesting to know that Mr French was reared and educated in Auckland, where members of his father’s family still reside.

Arising out of a fatality at Onehunga on August 13, .Tames Bridge was yesterday committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for trial on a charge of recklessly and negligently driving a motor-van so as to cause the death of Mrs. May McKenzie. Mrs. McKenzie was crushed by the motor-van against a tramway shelter-shod. —Press Assn. OUTRED’S SALE.

Closing down underclothing department. Corsets 2/6, 3/11, 5/11, 6/11; Brassieres, 1/11, 2/3, 2/11, 3/11; Wincevette Nightdresses, 5/11; Spencers, 2/6; W. Cream All-Wool Vests, 3/11, 4/11, 6/6; W. Cream Ribbed Vests, 2/9, 2/11, 3/6, 3/11; Cream Woollen Bloomers, 4/11, 5/11; Fleecy Lined Bloomers, navy and grey, 2/11; White Cotton Bloomers, 1/11; Tussore, Fuji and Jap Silk Bloomers, 5/6, 6/11; Cream and Natural Woven Combinations, 3/11, 4/11. Great reductions.Watch windows for further bargains.— Advt.

The escaped leopard was seen again yesterday in the Mount Albert district, over a mile from the zoo. A search party beat the scrub over a wide area and fired some gorse without any trace of the animal. The search continues by a party of twenty, with guns and cameras (says an Auckland message). The latest proposal is to employ the hounds of the Pakuranga Hunt Club in tlie search.

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Josephine Wilson, a widow, was held at Christchurch yesterday. There were no assets and the debts owing to unsecured creditors were £lB6 Is 6d. The meeting was adjourned sine die. A recommendation was made to the Official Assignee that the facts be placed before tlie Crown Prosecutor.—Press Association.

At a sitting of the Juvenile Court at Hawera this morning, before Mr C. O. Ekdahl, J.P., a lad of 15 years of age was charged with the theft of a lady’s gold wristlet watch, and a pocket wallet of a total value of £lO 7s 6d, being the property of Walker and Hall, of AVellington. On the application of Sergeant Henry the defendant was remanded to appear in AVellington on Thursday.

A, two-year-old boy, the son of Mrs. Leonard, of I, Margaret Street, Ponsonby. Auckland, had a miraculous escape from death la.sfc Wednesday. The child wars playing on a balcony and fell 24ft on to concrete below.. He picked himself up and walked into the house, none the worse except for ,a. few bruises iand ia severe shaking. His parents have been anxiously waiting to see whether any effects of the fall should become noticeable, but the little boy seems quite all right. During August the following stock was slaughtered at the Hawera Borough Abattoir: Twenty bullocks, 90 cows, 60 heifers, 379 sheep, 12 calves, and 58 pigs. Three cows and five pigs were condemned. Fees and rents totalled £lO2 17s lid (£94 2e 3d and £8 16s 8d), the fees being £4 17s 3d less than in August, 1924. The total fees for the five months ending August 31 last were £lB 5s less than those for the corresponding period of last financial year.

AA 7 ith a view to overcoming the existing trouble with regard to the abnormally high rents for sections on subdivision 37, the Hawera Borough Council last evening agreed that the lessees of sections whereon houses have been built and rents paid up to date should be granted a reduction of rentals to the upset. It w&s further agreed to treat nil other cases on, their merits, the council being willing to consider applications for reductions, when houses had been built andi rents paid, but the council did not lend itself to any general resolution.

A very inexpensive and simple device has been patented by two local residents (Messrs J. R. Atkins and Ts. Smith) for coupling railway rolling stock and minimising the danger of accidents, which have been, all too frequent of late among shuntere, says the Wanganui Herald. The device is simply an automatic lift, on the same principle as the iron lift of an ordinary spring dray, and is operated from the side of the engine, carriage, or truck, thus .avoiding the danger of working between the vehicles. The patent is to be brought under the notice of the railway authorities. The Hawera Scottish Society held its usual inglenook social last evening, when there were between 200 and 300 people present. Chieftain W. G. Simpson presided. Mr Peter Eadie, who is engaged in the reorganisation of the Scottish paper, the Scottish New Zealander, spoke a few words in connection with the movement, and also contributed to the programme. Others who rendered items were : Songs, Miss Jenkins, Mrs Sunderland, Messrs Buchan, Simpson, Cunningham, L. A. Taylor and Wool left; duet, Mrs Sunderland and Mr L. A. Taylor; elocutionary, Mrs Twaddle. After supper several Scotch dances were indulged in, and a very pleasant evening was brought to a close by the singing of “Anld Lang Syne.” A novel competition in the production of freak eggs seems to he in progress among the feathered occupants of poultry yards at Kaponga. As was reported in Monday’s Star,, a White Leghorn pullet belonging to Mr N. C. Davies, of that town, recently produced an egg of extraordinary dimensions, weighing Giozs—approximately three times the average weight of 2 to 2ioza. The other extreme appears to have been aimed at yesterday, when a Buffi Orpington, owned by Mr C. Tonkin. of the same locality, laid an egg which touched the scale at 147-J grains, or. a little, more than a quarter of an ounce. It is of the usual brown colour, and in size is only slightly larger than a thrush’s egg. The midget specimen has been handed to the secretary of the Kaponga flower show, being held on Friday, for exhibition with the giant egg mentioned, and should provide ail interesting contrast.

In the House of Representatives yesterday Air. H. Atinore (Nelson) gave notice of his intention to move the following motion: “That in view of the fact that the country's needs cannot be met by a Government representative of only one of the present parties, the members of this House should, before the prorogation, give effect to the wishes of the people of New Zealand, by establishing a strong and stable national Government, composed of the most able men in the House, who, with courage, foresight and constructive ability, will formulate for the approval of the electors an enlightened and progressive national policy, enabling them to cope successfully with the everincreasing perplexities of modern government, and particularly those new and perplexing problems which emerged from the war and face us to-day, and Which, if not. dealt with in this time of crisis on wise, safe and constitutional lines, will result in an intensification of those alarming and ruinous conditions which threaten the destruction of the trade and industry of Great Britain and Australia, and which arc developing in our own Dominion, as evidenced by the serious hold-up of our export trade."