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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 November 1925, Page 4

In Taranaki it is popularly stated that a week’s dry weather is a drought. Athough the season up till a week or two ago was so wet that one might suppose there was enough rain to keep farmers going the whole season, it is well known that the effect does not last long. The farmers therefore have been wanting rain, and they were gratified by a steady fall to-day. There is little doubt but that it is very welcome.

While serving a term of imprisonment for theft, John Quayle did_ not spend his period of enforced retirement repenting of Fids wrong-doing, but was busily engaged planning out the future. He is a carpenter by trade, and while in custody wa s engaged in' carpentering work. He secreted tools in a convenient place, and when discharged walked off with the stolen goods. Yesterday lie was sentenced to three months’ hard labour (says a Press Association mesage from Wellington). Quayle was remanded to Dunedin to answer further charges.

At the ordinary meeting of the provincial executive of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union yesterday, a circular from the Dominion executive was read warning the public of the dangers that existed from the. spread of Bolshevism. Commenting on the position, the president (Mr R. Dunn) made reference specially to* the British coal industry, and said that many things had to be considered before the men were blamed too much". He. added that in many cases the owners did not provide modern appliances and also that factors in the decrease of output were the difficulty in. -working inferior seams and that there had been a lessening in demand because of the European competition and the use of hydro-electric power and oil as a fuel for steameirs. He said* however, he was pleased; to see that thei authorities were alive to the position generally. In reporting to the Mount Albert Borough Council (Auckland), the sanitary inspector said, that in one case he had been unable to persuade a woman to comply with, the Act. She had taken up her abode in a small shed, in which she sold confectionery, fruit and cakes. She admitted that she had been sleeping on d wicker chair among the eatables, but said that she was now sleeping in a new bathroom “down below.” This room was found to have been dug out under the ground floor. The jack stud was approximately four) feet high, and the room wa s directly under the socalled shop. A portion of the ground had. recently been dug out, and on the, ground floor four case hoards had beenlaid, and the four legs of an old bed rested upon them. The conditions could scarcely be credited. The north side of the room consisted of old benzine tins, the east side of earth, and the south side of old case boards. The inspector said he had finally called in the assistance of Dr. Hughes, the Medical Officer of Health, who had forwarded a closing order, which was enforced only in exceptional circumstances. The council decided to enforce the order.