LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 February 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather permitting, the Hawera Salvation Army Band will play at the Old People’s Homo to-morrow afternoon.

The master plumbers’ conference concluded in Invercargill yesterday. The following officers were elected: President, Mr. N. A. Ivyle (Auckland); vicepresident, Mr. G. W. Key (Wellington); secretary and treasurer, Mr. A. W. Petherick (Wellington); executive, Messrs. G. W. Key, F. H. Jansen, W. Judd, S. Mclvor. Next year’s conference will be held at Auckland. Supplies of the new style of motor plates will be available for distribution to motorists shortly. They are black and white in colour, and the letters N.Z., which appear on thb present green and white plates, have been eliminated. The plates will be distributed through the Post Office, where the register of motorists is kept. A great convenience to the residents of the Ohawc seaside resort has been the car service run for some time by the Egmont Tourist Motors, from the beach in the morning at 8.15 and back there at 5.30 p.m. It will be continued as inducement offers.

In rejecting Sir Robert Stout’s motion that the ceremony of conferring university • degrees—capping —should be private, the Senate of the University of New Zealand decided that this v/as a matter for the individual colleges to determine.

The tender of- J. W. Tong, Ltd., has been accepted by the Hawera School Committee for the construction of three permanent tennis courts at the school at a cost of £414. Three other tenders were received, the highest being £497.

“It is like your infernal cheek,’' said the Labour Mayor of Christchurch (The Rev. J. K. Archer) to Councillor P. Agar at a recent meeting of the Christchurch City Council. The. Mayor quoted figures to show that there were 20,234 shareholders in the Municipal EHectricity Department. Councillor Agar contended that they were consumers, and that led to the reference to “cheelc.” Subsequently, Councillor E. H. Andrews spoke of “our wonderfully dignified Mayor and infernal cheek.” Under the auspices of the International Bible Students’ Association a lecture will be given on “Palestine for the Jews: Why?” next Sunday, night in the Grand Theatre, Hawera, by Mr J. E. A. Gates, of Wellington. All thoughtful people note the fact that the Jews, after centuries of persecution and oppression, are again coming into their own land. This, in conjunction with the world unrest, is held to point to the fulfilment of prophecy, relative to the second coming of Christ. The lecturer will endeavour to prove from Scripture that the time for the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth is here, and that the Jews, as God’s instruments, will bring in the long-foretold blessing. There will be no collection.

A Tan-ol shine is- the best of all — brighter and lasts longer. For floor coverings, furniture and leather goods. —2

A Suva message states that the Planters’ Association has requested the Fiji Government to call tenders for a steamer from Fiji to Wellington, Lyttelton and Dunedin for the carriage of fruit monthly.

With the approval of the Education Board and under the close supervision of teachers,, excursions of country schoolchildren from standards four, five and six are being run to the Dunedin Exhibition. The Education Board is now supporting a request for a Government subsidy of £2OOO.

On a charge of fraudulently omitting to account for certain money, the property of the Australian Mutual Privident Society, Edward Clement Ray, lately collector' for the society, was charged at Pahiatua yesterday and remanded for a w r eek. The police said other charges were pending. The first race for possession of the Sanders Cup for this year was sailed on Otago harbour yesterday, the Auckland boat winning. The order of finishing was: Avalon CAuekland), Betty (Canterbury), Murihiku (Southland), lona (Otago), Peggy (Wellington), and Ivonini (Hawke’s Bay). lona is the present holder of the cup.

A ballot paper is the property of the voter until it is deposited in the ballotbox. On those grounds Messrs. P. L. Davies and H. F. Herbert, J’s.P., dismissed, in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch yesterday, a charge of fraudulently destroying a bollot paper at the last election. The Bench held that the ballot paper was the property of the voter until the time that it was deposited in the .ballot-box. However, in ease the authorities deemed the ease to be of such importance they had thought it should be tested by a stipendiary magistrate, the charge would be dismissed without prejudice to any further action.

Frederick William Hughes, a blacksmith, a married man whose age was in the fifties, and whose wife is living at Dunedin, committed suicide in a determined manner at Alexandra yesterday morning. He was employed by the Public Works Department at Chatto Creek, but went to Alexandra yesterday for medical advice and set out for Dunedin by the express. When crossing a bridge he jumped off the train but was unhurt. While proceeding back to Alexandra by motor he jumped, falling 50 feet. Although terribly injured he was so determined to end his life that he cut his throat with a pocket knife before help arrived, and died in a few minutes.

“Hold resolutely to the name New Zealand,” was. the advice tendered byMr. Ri. G. Ellis, Conservative member of the House of Commons, in discussing the status of the Dominion in the course of a chat to a Timaru Herald representative. “If you permit yourself to be called ‘Australasia’ you will lose your splendid identity and be confused with Australia. This is most important in view of the attitude of British investors to Australian loans. New Zealand’s credit stands highest in London, and while you retain your good name and confine your loanraising for the purpose of revenueproducing, developmental works you will always receive favourable treatment in London.”

Two Stratford young men who joined the Arawa as volunteer .seamen have returned to Stratford. In regard to the Press Association message from Christchurch regarding alleged hooliganism on the voyage out, both were emphatic that nothing of the sort occurred. All that happened was that when nearing New Zealand the volunteers, finding themselves more or less in a state of impecuniosity, held a meeting to consider what should be done in regard to obtaining rail tickets to their homes on arrival in Wellington. Delegates were appointed when the vessel reached Wellington, and these waited upon the Minister for Marine. The outcome was thaUjffiev were, later told to go to the agents of the Shaw, Savill Company, who supplied them with railway tickets to their homes and accommodation for the night in Wellington. In addition they were given small sums as pocket money. There was absolutely no demonstration and no argument about it. —Stratford Post.

The latest activity of the publicity section of the High Commissioner’s office (writes the Wellington Post’s London correspondent on January 7) is the screening each day of a New Zealand film at a cinema theatre attached to the big luncheon-room of the MacFisheries Co., Ltd., the lower portion of Lever House, an imposing building (formerly de Keyser’s Hotel) near Blacbfriars Bridge. As a matter of fact the Mac-Fisheries is one of the branches of the activities of Lever Bios. The cinema theatre is run in conjunction with the luncheon-rooms, and admission is free. The hours for showing are between 12 n<jon and 3 o’clock. The theatre, built primarily for the private uses of Lord Leverhulme, is fitted up on a most lavish scale, and for that reason is extremely popular with those who take luncheon there. Being close to Fleet Street, it is attended by a considerable number of journalists The films are changed weeklv." and arrangements have been made for one.of the New Zealand films to be shown at each change of programme.