LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 November 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hawera Municipal Band will give a, sacred recital in Eltham on Sunday in aid of the Eltham War Memorial. Another motorist, John Taylor, was fined £‘3o yesterday or a month’s imprisonment-, and lii s license was suspended for six months, for being intoxicated while driving (says a Wellington Press Association message). In the Supreme .Court at Christchurch, Ernest A. Guillermo, aged 17, on five charges of burglary, was sentenced to four years’ -reformative treat-ment.-—Press Assn, message. Mrs Martha Jan e O’Shaughnessy was committed for trial on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument on. a female and having supplied an instrument to another female (says a Press Association message from Auckland). The Mayor of Eltham (Mr I. J. Bridger) and some members of tlie Borough Council are visiting New Plymouth to-day, inquiring into the methods of traffic rubbish removal and other matters in connection with the borough. Gordon Stewart, a married man, employed in the Wellington City Council’s paving plant at Lyall Bay, had sin arm torn off *in the cogs while oiling the machine, and was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon. He died yesterday morning.

A fire occurred at a. large boardinghouse of twenty-five to thirty rooms, called “The Avenue,” off Karangahape Road (Auckland) last, night. The fire had a strong hold before the brigade arrived, and the building was totally destroyed. * There were a, number of boarders, who lost everything. The fire apparently originated near the kitchen. —Press Assn.

The superintendent of the radio station at Chatham Islands has advised the Secretary of the General Post Office that some anxiety was- being felt for the safety of the steamer Awarua, which was supposed to leave the. Chathams for Wellington on Friday. Continuous westerly find south-wetserly gales have been experienced, and the vessel may be sheltering round the islands, but no information was available on this point. In consequence of the recommendation of the University Commission that the matriculation examination is not a sufficient test for admittance to the legal profession, amended regulations have been issued by judges, and the university hag convened a conference of the Law Society, Professors and teachers on the subject. The effect of the new regulations is that the entrance scholarship., examination will take the place of the matriculation, and that students must pass a general knowledge examination. The Railway Department advertises ir. this issue particulars of the issue of week-end excursion tickets to New Plymouth from Saturday, 21st irist. Firemen arc requested to attend iu undress uniform and white gloves at the fire station at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow to attend the funeral of the late Mr. R. D. Welsh. The Melbourne’s Gigantic Reduction Sale is booming along stronger than ever, the public evidently waking up to the fact that the savings to be effected are bordering on the sensational. The various bargains in men’s and boys’ shirts, working trousers, socks, etc., are being fairly rushed.: — Advt.

The manager of the South Taranaki Winter Show reports that he has already received applications for space for the 1926 show. The indications are that the booking for space for next year will be very heavy.

The Taranaki Education Board has received advice that the additions to the Manaia school, as set out by the board’s architect, have been approved by the Department and will be proceeded with shortly. The school has shown a decided increase in numbers during • the past year or two.

Yesterday at the show grounds,, in one of the paddocks where lucerne was growing, a demonstration was given of the Imnerial Harvester Co.’s hay loader, for which the Farmers’ Co-op. are agents. The loader is a simple but very efficient addition to the farm implements, and showed its effectiveness yesterday. A dray and horse only were used, and good work was done in loading np the dray with the lucerne. With the proper frame the work would be much increased in efficiency. There was a fair number of farmers present, and all were pleased with the work done.

A motoring accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon on a narrow embankment on a road between Tauranga and Rotorua (says a Press Association message from Tauranga). Sam Anderson, a well-known horseman from Hawera, accompanied »y two friends, motored from Hamilton yesterday to visit relatives at Tauranga, and left m the afternoon for Rotorua. The car struck a rut on a narrow embankment and swerved off, making a double somersault down the bank. Miss Gibert, of Hamilton, one of the occupants, sustained cuts and bruises, and was admitted to hospital. Anderson and the other passenger escaped injury. When the Aoraugi sailed on Wednes. day night, says a message from' Victoria (8.C.), she carried nineteen hundred lace flies, packed in special boxes and placed in the refrigerator chambers of the motor ship for New Zealand. They are dormant warriors for a battle to be waged in the parks and pleasure-grounds of the southern Dominion to protect the oaks and other trees from the depredations of the predatory green fly. The shipment was collected by entomologists under the loose bark' of pine trees in British Columbia. They are expected. to prey on the green flies and hold in check their devastation of deciduous trees.

.Seventy-five thousand, visitors in two days wns the tale told when the Dunedin Exhibition gates closed last night. Yesterday dawued with continued summer weather, and the attendance was exce’lent, despite the counter-attraction of People’s Day at the Agricultural Show ait Tahuna Park. Semi-official visits were paid to tile exhibition by the Governor-General and the Prime Minister. The latter, after a close inspectl on of the British and New Zealand Government courts, dec’ared that the displays were impressive beyond description'in the completeness of their presentation of Empire history and the manifold Activities that have been developed among the peoples making up that Empire.. The Minister for Defence (Sir R. H. Heaton Rhodes) was present at an inspection of the Nelson College Cadets in connection with the competition for the Riddiford Cup, which they at present hold. The Minister said he was resigning the portfolio of defence, and hearing of the inspection, he intimated a desire to he associated with it. The Minister said he had on several occasions te'egraphed congratulations on the past performances of the Nelson College boys. Addressing the boys,' he said: “You have a great school, and have turned out great men.” At the conclusion of the inspection Colonel Burgess said the examining board expected a high standard and they had not been disappointed. The summer show concluded at Dunedin yesterday in fine weather. The attendance showed a decrease compared with last year. The Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) and Lady Fergussion were present, also, the Premier (the Hon J. G. Coates) and Mrs Coates. The competitions resulted: —High jump championship: G. Roberts’ Puzzle 1, E. J. Oaherfcy’s Old Jock 2. Leaping championship: W. H. North (Tahakop) 1, A. Speight (Dunedin) 2, Miss I. Rutherford (Fendalton) 3. Two 20 guinea cups were presented by the New Zealand Friesian Breeders’ Association. The winner of the female section was the Bloomfield Farm Co., Upper Hutt, with Willowvale Galatea Segis. The male division wa s awarded to the J. C. L. Hobson Farm, Panmure, Auckland, with Spring Bank Zozo Mercenai. The Waitaki challenge shield for the bull whose three nearest dams made the highest semi-official test was presented to North and Sons. Wrongful dismissal was alleged by Robert Leisk, a seaman from the Matakana, in proceeding against H. P. Thurston, master of the vessel, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of discharging him without having obtained proper authorisation in accordance with the Merchant and Shipping Act. Leisk stated in evidence that.he signed on the MAtftkana in London for three years with other seamen. He recently went on strike and served a sentence of one month’s imprisonment, which terminated last Friday. He had been informed that he was discharged from the ship on September 8. The case was dismissed, costs bejng allowed to defendant. Another ease arising out of the strike was heard before Mr Hunt, when two seamen, Wal’aee Bowden and John Whitehead (Mr Fraer) each claimed £lO wages from the master of the Matnkana for work done from Septembpr 8 to October 8. Mr Fraer submitted that plaintiffs were entitled to. payment, even though they had refused to take the ship to sea. Judgment was entered for defendant with costs. A fire on Wednesday night in the operating box in the Pukehuia (North Auckland) Settlers’ Hall destroyed films to the value of £SOO. A picture performance was proceeding at the time when the film caught fire, igniting the other films in the room. While the operator, nAmed Currie, was extinguishing the reel in use, a young man, H. Snowden, courageously rushed into the operating box and carried out the blazing film, being severely burned in the act. The picture performance was being given under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., who have been particularly unfortunate recently. Only a little over a month ago they had a quantity of film destroyed in their own hall, which was totally destroyed by fire. Beyond the ’oss of the film and the damage done to the operating box and projecting machine, no other serious damage was done to the present ball. The young man Snowden was also the hero of another courageous act in; the afternoon, when he rescued a young girl from drowning in the Waikato River nearby the scene of the fire.