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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 9

A reminder is given of the concert to be given to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon in Te Ngutu Park by the Hawera ~\TnTi i o ij~in 1 Band. It will commence at 2.15 p.m. A good programme has been provided. / A new line of action for combating -4. he noxious weeds menace was suggested. to-day by Cr A. MeWilliam, of the Eltham County Council. He said that the Government's Biological Department should be asked to keep the matter in view so that some. natural enemy of the ragwort might- be found. “I have been told that the ordinary black caterpillar will strip the plants of foliage,'' said Cr MeWilliam, “but the trouble is that the .caterpillar gets so morbid in this cold climate of Taranaki that he needs a whisky to keep him going.'' * A number of transfers and promotions of school inspectors are announced. Mr. F. J. A. Stuckey, senior inspector at Wanganui, is transferred to Dunedin. Mr Lambourne (Auckland) goes to Wanganui, and is promoted senior inspector. Mr McKenzie (\\©l- - is transferred to Taranaki as serno rinspector. Mr Da gleish becomes senior inspector. Mr Dalgleish be com ne Messrs Boden (Grey Lyiln) Matson (■Westport), Hunter (Balc'utha), Lau (Norman, Auckland), McMurtie (Matamata Junior High School) Motland (TCaiapoi). Overton (Terrace End, i aJ--merston North), and Pick arc! son (Victoria. Avenue. Wanganui). It has not vet been decided to what districts the new officers will he appointed.—Press Assn. “There are very few criminal offences to nunish,” says Dr. S. f • Lambert, of the Rockefeller foundation, in a report on the Cook Island . , “most of the derelictions being nonpayment of taxes; and, excep graves offences, tbe prisoners re i .their home each night after their day s fc&sk for the Government is done, ihe ftvowed elan of New + Cook Islands is to teach the natives to govern themselves so far and as soon as possible. The natives are contented with the administration given them by New Zealand.”