LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 November 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is proposed to put up for sale by tender at an early date the Returned Soldiers’ Club at- Wanganui, states the Herald.

Two first offending inebriates were dealt with at Hawera this morning by Mr C. O. Ekdahl, J.;P. One was convicted and fined os, and the other was convicted and discharged, la connection with the South Taranaki Winter Show it is a fact worth special mention that the' number of people admitted through the turnstiles •at the/ July show equalled just about <four times the population of the Ilawera borough. The fact that Ohinemuri may gain Restoration is evidently having a strange effect on at least one of the goldfields centres. The Morrinsville Bowling Club had asked one of these clubs to pay a visit to Morrinsville at a date in the near future. The reply received stated that everyone was so excited at the prospect oT restoration that they had no time to think about travelling to other places. The question of providing a war memorial for Wellington, and the form ;t should take, was again, considered by the City Council, the other night, when a discussion, on the matter was taken in committee. At the conclusion of its deliberations the council supplied to the Press the following, which was moved hv Councillor H. J>. Bennett, and carried unanimously: “That this council adheres to the opinion it previously gave expression to —namely, that the contributors to the war memorial fund should be given an opportunity of expressing a view as to the form the war memorial should take, and that it suggests to the War Memorial Committee that it take the necessarv steps to obtain such a view bv calling a, meeting.”

Hawhiti Terrace, Kelburn, was. on Sunday afternoon the scene of an unusual occurrence when a u-seater motorcar, owned by Air G. P. IT, Davidson, of 39 Hawhiti Terrace, fell a distance ,of 25ft from the road; on .to the lawn of Air T. T. Hugo, a neighbour. Fortunately there was no one, in the car at the time. Air Davidson had stopped the car on the far side of the road less than a quarter of an hour before. The hand-brake unfortunately w r as unequal to the task of holding it against the strong southerly wind. Air Davidson surmises that the car was, blown across the road to the. edge of the embankment, down which, it fell, rolling over ii\ the process. The ear was considerably damaged. By notice published in the Gazette it is provided that any person liable for training, who claims exemption from training on the grounds of medical unfitness, will require to produce at his own expense a certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner (to be a member of the N.Z.AI.C. where possible). Such claimant shall be- entitled to a refund of the. cost of the certificate up to a maximum of 10s 6d, providing it states that the claimant is medically unfit and specifies the nature and probable duration of the disability causing such unfitness, and providing further that total or partial exemption is granted as a result,of the application. The Gazette also contains a revised scale of fees and allowances payable ■to medical, and veterinary officers for professional services in connection with the Territorials, and when undergoing training. It was explained in the Magistrate’s Court, in Wanganui that the lapse of a young man was due to his falling in love with a girl and that he wished to provide himself with sufficient money to treat hen well. In. admitting him to probation, Afr Barton, S.M., referred to the far too frequent eases of this description. J.t was surprising, he said, llie number of young men who, after falling in. love, where the circumstances call for the very essenee of honesty and chivalry in order to give the home a clean start, resorted to committing some crime in order to provide the necessary funds to marry. Sometimes even. the very finery the girl Wore and the property of the home, unknown to, her, weie the -proceeds of crime'. ‘Lit. is better,” said the magistrate, “to furnish the home with benzine boxes and to make a, clean start rather than besmirch and bring disgrace upon, young wives in this manner. ” In” a day or t.Wo the Melbourne Ltd. will be advertising another 1 budget of mighty bargains in connection with the Gigantic Reduction Sale now running. Watch for special advertisement. — ! Advt.

A feeling is abroad in the Waikato that, owing to the stabilisation of the Government, resultant upon the recent elections business in the sale and purchase of laud will brighten up considerably.

During a high south-west wind a voimg pine plantation, covering an area of three hundred acres on the Moutere Hills, was totally destroyed by lire (says a Nelson message).

A notable collection of New Zealand books has been presented to the Auckland University College by the Hon. Geo. Fowlds. Their , value is stated to be over £IOOO. Mr. Fowlds, in intimating his gift to the college council, said ultimately his whole collection would go to the college.—P.A. The Secretary to the Treasury acknowledges the receipt of conscience money as follows: Ten shillings forwarded to the Secretary to the Treasury, Wellington, and two amounts of £2O each, forwarded to the Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington.

Claims for compensation totalling £1.2,527 have been made against the New Plymouth Borough Council by five holders "of land contiguous to the hydro works at Mangorei. The claimants allege that by the extension of the hydro works they "have been deprived of water from the river. The claims are to be heard before the Compensation Court at New Plymouth next February (says the Taranaki Daily News). A shocking fatality occurred on the south railway line early last evening, when a man was run down by a train in Caversham tunnel and killed instannIv (says a Dunedin message). The body appeared to have been carried along by two following trains. It was mutilated beyond all recognition. Later it was found that James Rutledge had been missing .from his home in Caversham since 4 p.m., and the police have since reported that Rutledge was the victim of the fatality.

That the commercial firms of Germane are prepared to abase theiri country's national dignity in the dust in their endeavour to extend their business operation is demonstrated by a trade publication, “The German Printer,’’ received by the Hawke’s Bay Tribune. The cover, which is printed in colour, depicts the Union Jack flying mast- high above .the German flag. To fly one country’s flag above another is regarded! in international etiquette as a. serious insult to that country whose flag is placed lower, but the German merchants apparently consider that an insult, self-administered may be good for the pocket. “You have to face some- form of increase in motor taxation,” said Lieut.Colonel Symonds when lecturing at the Palmerston North Citizens’ Luncheon Club, “but do not let- it. go on motor spirit.” The speaker stated (reports the Standard) that the latter tax had been: tried, in England, but it was not successful, and in the end the authorities were, convinced that the horsepower tax was: the; best one of all. The motor spirit tax; looked all right at first glance, but when one got down to. bedrock it would be found that it was not so wonderful. “Anyhow,” added the speaker, “the price of motor spirit is quite high enough.” “The prosperity of the United States,” said Mr. Will J. French, who returned to New Zealand on Wednesday last, “is shown by the use of nearly 20,000,000 motor cars, by the Labour banks started by wage earners, and by the general feeling that there will be a continuance of the present good times. It is no uncommon sight to see lines of cars in front of places of employment waiting to be used by their owners. Tire splendid new paved roads so common in the United States have helped business and enabled tourists to enjoy to the utmost the beauties of the scenery. Incidentally — exactly as in New Zealand —the different States find the motor bus a formidable- and evidently permanent rival to tire, railways and tramways.” At the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday Herbert Boagey, of Patea, builder, -was charged, under the penal provisions of the Bankruptcy Act, with obtaining credit from the Wanganui Sash and Door Co., Ltd., to the extent, of upwards of £2O without informing the vendor that he was an undischarged bankrupt, similarly with obtaining credit from Perham, Larsen and Co., Ltd. He was further charged that within three years before the commencement oi*his bankruptcy ho failed to keep such books of account as are usual and proper in the business carried on by him, and as sufficiently to set forth his business transactions and disclose his financial position. The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. AY. Izard) prosecuted and Mr. P. O’Dca appeared for the accused. Accused was adjudged bankrupt on a creditor’s petition in .Tunc of this year. From the evidence it appeared that he had previously been bankrupt in 1.013. At the meeting of his creditors following this first bankruptcy a resolution was passed that the bankrupt’s discharge be facilitated. The bankrupt stated that he had left the obtaining of the discharge to his former solicitor. Tt was only recently he discovered that this had not been secured. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial to the February sessions of the (Supreme Court at Wanganui. Commenting on the law which forbids publication of totalisator dividends in newspapers, the Christchurch Star says: “Those who can do their betting at the racecourse are able to see at a glance what dividend! has been declared, but. the great army of bettors who stay away from "the racecourse, or bet on distant race meetings, have no means of finding out promptly and! accurately what dividend any horse has paid unless they get information from the bookmakers, who, ir turn, have a system of telegraphing the figures from the most obscure race meetings in l New Zealand. These outside< bettors 1 , precluded from telegraphing money to the: totalisator, are therefore thrown right into the arms of the bookmakers, who have taken care to consolidate, their position with the public by scrupulous accuracy in the figures they supply. The law, iu effect, drives all non-racecourse betting into bookmaking channels, and makes the bookmaker the, only reliable and easily accessible source from which to obtain betting information. And the absurdity of the law and its administration is realised, when, it is stated that although a newspaper correspondent may not include in his telegraphed report the amount of a. dividend, this information is telegraphed daily to bookmakers, and is cabled regularly to Australia. and. published in newspapers which reach Now Zealand by the next mail. ’ ’ OUTRED’S. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to call and inspect our new models for spring and summer. Well tailored costumes and coat frocks for present wear, smartly cut and moderately priced; fashionable knitted silk jumper suits; summer frocks of exclusive designs; smart coats for summer; marabout capes and stoles; millinery models, smaTt and exclusive. —Outred’s, the store where the Smart Hats are. — Advt.

It is reported by the Grey Star that a number ot firemen wbo leit Home liners during the strike nave secured employment) at one of the West Coast coal mines. The activity in the bacon industry at present is reflected in the tact that a local company expects to handle over 20U0 carcases during the next seven days.—-Maii.aw.atu Standard. Probably many motorists are not aware of the fact that if they drop a bottle oil the roadway it is their duty to go back and pick up the pieces. A reminder was given to this effect at the Hamilton Court (states the local Times), when a youthful motor-cyclist admitted that, after accidentally dropping a bottle from his machine in Victoria street, leaving broken glass strewn over the carriageway, he had neglected to go back And gather up the remnants. As the prosecution was the first of its kind in Hamilton, he was let off with the payment of costs, 7 s. To be imprisoned nearly all morning in a sump full of waste water, which was over her head in depth, was the experience of a married woman resident of East Ashburton on Monday. She had reason to. walk across the wooden top of the well in her passage through the garden, where the structure, which was almost rotten, gave way and she fell through. During the course of her struggle to keep above water she sank to the bottom twice. AVhen returning home to lunch her husband was attracted by a sound emanating from the sump, and he was just in time to save his wife, who was rescued in an exhausted condition.

Good progress is being made by the Public Works Department with the construction of the section of the East Coast Main Trunk railway from Tauranga to the AVairoa River (says the New Zealand Herald). The platelaying is now well advanced toward the river on the Tauranga side, and is being rapidly pushed ahead. Just beyond the AVairoa River, Sir AY. G. Armstrong, AVhitworth, and Company’s contract commences. The railway crosses the AVairoa River practically at its mouth, and a bridge 840tf. long is necessary. The bridge consists of 13 spans of 60 feet, and two spans of 30 feet-. In the sixteen piers there are altogether 185 piles, each of which consists of 40 feet of concrete, spliced on to 25 feet of soft wood. The girders are of the ordinary standard 60 feet steel-plated type, "each weighing 23 tons.