LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 October 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Opunake Town Board at its next meeting will discuss a roading proposal which, if adopted, will necessitate a loan of £SOOO to £6OOO. Mr O. J. Hawken, M.P., has been forced to cancel his address at Opunake to-morrow evening. Bp will, however, appear on the plattorm at Opunake at a later date.

Since last March the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has received 13 225 pairs of hawks’ feet, for which it has paid over £3OO. It- was reported (says the Herald) there Avere plenty of ha\vks in the district. A collection of curios which, it is hoped, will form a. nucleus of a museum for Stratford Avas presented to the Borough Council at its last- meeting bv Messrs T. and J. LaAvson.

The Opunake Harbour Board has recently been, seriously considering matters connected Avrth its development scheme. A titer a lengthy sitting in committee it reported that it had been decided to push on with the present Avork and every advantage is to be taken of loav tides to haul stone.

Francis EdAvard Buckley, a married man Avith tAVO children, a resident of Papatoetoe and employed as a ledgerkeeper by a firm in Auckland, was found dead in his garden Avith a shot in his head from a pea rifle nearby. He got up last night to shoot a cat, and the fatality is assumed to be an accident.

The search for the bodies of three victims of the Lake Coleridge tunnel disaster is being continued by the men’s comrades. It Avas reported yesterday afternoon that a neAv drive had been started, but none of the bodies had yet been recovered.

Influenza -is very prevalent in all the Maori pas throughout the Waikato, according to a report submitted to the meeting last Aveek of the Waikato Hospital Board (reports the Waikato Times.”)

Good progress, says the Stratford Post, is being made with the erection of the Avar memorial g.itos rjt the entrance to Victoria Park, and the huge central piers are beginning to take shape. Even in the present incomplete. ,stage of the Avork it is easy to see that the memorial will be of imposing design, and a fitting memorial to those Avho paid the supreme sacrifice in the great Avar. A man about 45 years of age s'ipped Avliile trying- to board a Noav Brighton express tram at Christchurch yesterday, and the trailer passed over him. Both legs Avere mangled and his left arm Avas fractured. He AA-as taken to hospital and died an hour after admission. His identity has not yet been established. The annual conference of the Federation of Neiv Zealand Justices’ Associ_ ation- was opened at Christchurch yesterday afternoon. The Mayor, Mr. J. K. Archer, tendered . a civic AA’elcome to the delegates. Mr. R. D. Hanlan presided, and there Avere about tAventy delegates present. The annual report advocated the setting up of children’s courts in various centres, and made feeling reference to the death of Messrs W. F. Massey, C. E. MattheAys, and R. C. Bishop. Mr. H. H. Smith was elected president.

Increased railway freights) on metal for local bodies presses hard on those which send long distances for their supplies. Ait the Patea County Council meeting yesterday it was mentioned that metal from Belmont, Avhich previously could be delivered to. Patea for slightly over 13s per cubic yard, from Paeknkariki for about 12s (kl, and fipm Kakarikii for about l los 6d uoav cost as follows: Belmont 25s (kl; Paekakariki about 235; and Kakariki 17s 6d. it is a serious matter to the Council be cane the present costs make use of the metal almost prohibitive. A special committee was set up to go thorlv into the question.