LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 December 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Magisterial recount for the Lyttelton seat began yesterday and will probably be completed this afternoon.

An election petition was lodged at Hokitika yesterday afternoon against the result of the Westland election.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Wairoa yesterday afternoon, A. C. Bennett, a company manager, of Napier, was fined a total of £l2 7s for driving to the danger of the public on a bend in the Wairoa-Napier Road and refusing to give his name and address to a constable in plain clothes (says a Press .Association message).

No less than two hundred road signs, indicating dangerous stretches of road, the names of roads anti rivers, will be erected in its district by the South Taranaki Automobile Association. These signs will be erected on the roads in the area extending from Whenuakura to Whangamomona and the districts surrounding Stratford.

Motorists travelling on the main road between Eltham and Kaponga were rudely disturbed yesterday afternoon when they were stopped at the foot of Burke’s Hill and required to produce their drivers’ licenses. Those who had not given much attention tp the new regulation began a feverish search of nockets, and fervently hoped that they had not forgotten to bring the precious document with them. It is understood that more will be heard of the matter in the Eltham Court.

Through a motor-cycle he was riding colliding with,a heavy truck at the intersections of Cumberland and High streets, Dunedin, yesterday afternoon, Clarance Ward, a young man, residing at Roslvn, was thrown on his head. He was picked up unconscious, his head and face being seriously injured. He was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital as a dangerously ill patient. The motorcycle was badly damaged in front. The truck, which was practically at a standstill. had only, a lamn broken. The T„ L. .Toll Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd. lias shipped a consignment of 3350 crates of cheese by the s.s. Rotorua, which is due to leave. Wellington for London on the sth inst. This consignment, amounting to 2GS tons, is the largest, with the exception of one shipped during the war period, that this company has ever sent forward, and, with the exception of the instance named., is probably the largest exported in, one cargo by any company in the province.

Speaking at the dinner of the Canterbury Industrial Association at Christchurch last night, the Prime Minister (th© Hon. J. G. Coates) said the signing of the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee should bring to all the greatest happiness. They found the nations of Europe, those who had been so lately at war with each other, guaranteeing each other’s peace. It would tend to bring solidity to the world, and it was particularly pleasing to notice that the leading hand in bringing this about was that of an Englishman. Sir Austen Chamberlain. He trusted that the pact would bring peace to Europe and that armaments could he reduced, thus paving the way to world peace. A good opinion of musical tuition in Canterbury is Held, by Mr Wesley Roberts, of London, examiner for the Associated! Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. A'fter conducting examinations in Christchurch for the: past ten days Mr Roberts told a gathering that the standard of passes in Christchurch was much higher than in the majority of places. It- was much ahead of Canada and! Australia, especially in the: L.A.B. division. Four or five candidates examined in Christchurch showed distinct promise. A hill calculated to create a separate Maori diocese was introduced in the Anglican Synod at Wellington by Archdeacon Williams and 1 read a first time. The synod discussed in committee the merits of the measure. Moving _ the second reading, Archdeaeon Williams said alterations had been suggested, and he had agreed t-o the select committee revising the hill to have these effected. The synod agreed that a bishop should be appointed for the purely Mfiori districts, the other bishops to consent to his operation® in other districts in which there were Maoris. The hill was read a second time and referred to a select committee for revision. The controllers of the Flock House scheme, which is designed to train the sons of deceased British seamen in farm work, have decided to extend the activities to the training of girls, preferably the sisters of hoys already in the Dominion, and for this purpose they have acquired the property of Mr Walter Strang, in Palmerston North,’ a house of 20 rooms, which stands amid 30 acres of well sheltered land. The property is ideal for training the girls in ' farming, poultrykeeping, bee-keeping, nnd the domestic arts. About 20*girls. whose ages will range from 16 to 18, will be accommodated at one time. The Y.W.C.A. has readily responded to an appeal for assistance, and an agreement has been come to whereby the association will take over control of the ■ house, the trustees of the fund standing at its hack in an advisory financial capacity.

At! escape from dentil by a miracle of chance was the experience of B. Stevens, a farmer of Pohangma, early yesterday morning. Stevens had started the engine in a shed to prepare for shearing when his raincoat became entangled in the flywheel, and he remembers nothing but a jerk and a sensation of choking. Shearers jumped to. his assistance, and found him twisted tightly on the engine and unconscious. liTis unknown how many times he was turned on the wheel, which was making 480 revolutions to the minute, but his boot evidently broke the sparking plug in its rapid passing, so that the engine was stopped, otherwise nothing could have saved him. He sustained a dislocated shoulder and a badly bruised arm and chest.

Damages totalling £609 16s were awarded by a special jury at the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday in a claim brought by R. S. SmithRichardson against the New Plymouth Borough Council arising out of an accident at the electricity supply cubstation in Liardet Street, on February 23. The jury held that there had 'been an act of negligence in not cutting off the electric current, or in not warning the plaintiff of the danger, or in not taking proper precautions to safeguard workmen while working on a cubicle where the accident occurred. The jury acquitted the Council on allegations of negligence’ in regard to the plant itself. The claim was for £ISOO.

At a deputation to the Prime Minister at Christchurch yesterday morning it was mentioned that the Christchurch Tramway Board is in difficulties, and that probably a levy will have to be made. At" present the Government has signed a contract with the Christchurch City Council for its supply of electrical power from Lake Coleridge, and it proposes to sign a similar contract for power from the same source with the Christchurch Tramway Board. The Christchurch City Council wishes to supply the Tramway Board with electric power, maintaining that the bigger the city load the better the rates for the ratepayers, and therefore the benefit- to everyone. The subject was discussed with Mr. Coates by a. deputation from the City Council and Tramway Board, but no definite decision was arrived at The facts were placed before Mr. Coates and he will discuss them with his officers