LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Saturday’s Poppy Day effort in Palmerston North will bring in a sum of over £2OO for the assistance of disabled and unemployed soldiers. The Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister for Lands, arrived at Westport yesterday from Eeefton, and went on to Karame.a. He. returns to-day and. meets deputations this evening. Charles Neilson, 60 years of age, single, was found dead on Saturday hanging from a beam in his house (says a Christchurch Press Association message). A motor ear,. driven by Frederick Clifford, of Wellington, ran off the road and plunged into the Hutt river. Clifford escaped unhurt (says a Welling-, ton message). Patrick Lane was knocked down by a motor-car at a street intersection at Wellington, and sustained severe injuries to his head. He -was admitted to the Wellington Hospital.

South Taranaki contributed £SB 18s to the Rose Fund, £ls odd collected in Stratford and a donation of £1 Is from the Mokoia and District Settlers’ Association being amounts additional to those previously acknowledged. A largo number of residents of the town listened to the programme of selections given by the Hawera Municipal Band in High Street on Saturday evening, the items given being much enjoyed. The dance assembly held by the .Hawera Municipal Band on Saturday evening was very satisfactory to the committee. About forty couples were present and an enjoyable time was spent. Excellent music was provided by the D© Luxe Orchestra. Arrangements have been made to observe Anzac Day (Sunday next) in Hawera by a big combined afternoon church service in the Opera House. If necessary, an overflow service will be held in the Soldiers’ Club. Returned soldiers, territorials and cadets will parade, and after the service the ceremony of placing wreaths at the Memorial Arch will conclude with the sounding of the Last Post.

Yesterday moirning a fire gutted Moore’s grocery shop in the centre of the business 'block of Blenheim, the back portion of the bui.ding being practically burnt out. ’ The front of the shop was untouched bv fire, but the stock was damaged by smoke. The brigade made a good save, and prevented the spread of the fire to adjoining shops. The' contents were insured in the Prudential Office for £SOO, and the building, which, is owned toy J. H. Costellow, is believed to be insured, in the State Office for* £SOO. Tire origin of the outbreak is unknown, but is attributed to rats (says a Press Association message). A service bus carrying 15 cases of benzine was destroyed by fire on the Inglewood-Purangi Road on Thursday. While the -bus was pi'oceeding through a putting the driver heard a. roar liehind him and had time only to pull the ’bus to the side of the road and .jump clear before the vehicle was enveloped in flames. The fir© lasted for an hour and* during that time traffic through the cutting was held up. Only the engine and a few piece.s of iron were left when the flames died clown. The ’bus was the property of Mr. L. Prestige. Six special trains from various districts between Ghristhurch and Invercargill brought hundreds of one-day excursionists to the exhibition at Dunedin on Saturday. Great interest was moused by the winning of th© first arize of £5 for th? 2.750,000 th visitor, vs was Droved by the huge attendance of 40,185. The prize was won. about seven o’clock bv Mr D. Herbert-, a rail-

employee of Mosgiel, a married man with three children, whose wife is totallv blind. As the grand attendance rt now 2,762,987, the second prize of £5 for the 2,800,000 th visitor wiill proSalblv be claimed on Tuesday might. The three millionth visitor will receive £25.

A large congregation was present at the Hawera Methodist Church lasi night to hear the Rev. R. Raine, of Dunedin, andi special music rendered by the choir under Mr 11. C. A. Fox. The solo “The Wondrous Cross,’’ with violin obligato, was much appreciated. By special request, the choir will ren dcr the. sacredi cantata “From Olivet to Calvary’’ again next Sunday evening-

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The attention not only of ex-pupils of the Normanby school, but of all the people of the district, is drawn to an announcement appearing on the front pace of this issue, relative to the school jubilee celebrations. “A German general to’d me, before the war except for the indignity v lie would rather be a prisoner in Nvw Zealand than a general in Germany, remarked, a member of the Honorary Justices’ Association at tlie annual meetinc at Wellington. The observation arose, out of the contention of one Justice that the inmates of the local prisons were being ‘spoon-fed.’ . A peculiar position has arisen in connection with a member of the Greytown Borough Council. On April 1 his .voperty became merged in the. I<eat>berston County as the outcome of-a petition to secede from the borough. He. has no property in the borough, is not a ratepayer, and has not the residential qualification to' entitled him to sit on the Council. The property merged m the county, however, carries with it c rtain' borough liabilities, on which lie has to pay rates. The question now'bein cr . asked is whether this entitles him to”sit on the council. The .situation is a novel one.

To catch hold of a falling man in mid-air must require extraordinary strength and agility, but to .do it while standing with only one foot on a high ladder is an almost unbelievable feat. Yet that is what a labourer named Thomas Leaver did at Feniscowles, near Blackburn recently. ’Three plasterers were working on a scatfold round a house when the scatfolding gave way. One broke a leg and another sprained an akle; the third was caught as he fell bv a man reaching out from a ladder. \\ hen the man on the ladder looked at the man he had saved he found it was his own son.

A man walking along Lorne Street, Auckland, had a' narrow escape from a rather singular accident. The whole of one of those iron-framed windows, which are a feature of modern buildings, came adrift and went hurtling through the air towards the pavement. In coming down it evidently canted outwards, states an exchange, and struck the hood of a motor ear which was standing alongside the kerb.. It then fell on the footpath, the gjass being solintered to atoms. It landed just a few seconds after a man had passed the spot.