LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Star is pleased to assist football and hockey clubs by publishing the personnel of teams; but those secretaries who leave sending in their selections till the last moment do not facilitate the work of our staff. In future, no team which is received at the Star office later than 10 a.m. will be printed in that evening’s-paper. It is reported that Aramoho will have another industry established at an early date in the form of a- brewery controlled by a well-known firm. Samples, of artesian water analysed gave every satisfaction. The annual meeting of householders at Oaonui elected the following new school committee: Messrs J. Young (chairman), P. Fleming, W. Waswo, F. Brewer and G. Dobbin. At Opunake, the meeting lapsed for want of a quorum.

Between midnight on Monday and early on Tuesday morning a- burglar or burglars removed goods to the value of £2OO from Mr. It. A. Hughes’ clothing and mercery store in Dominion Road- Auckland, says,a Press Association telegram. Entry was effected through the front door after a large padlock had been sawn off.

Pearl Beihler pleaded guilty at the court at Te Awamutu yesterday to charges of forgery and false pretences in connection with a cheque uttered to a Te Awamutu tradesman on April 17. Her companion. "William Johnson, pleaded not guilty to similar charges. Both were committed to the Supreme Court. —Press Assn.

As a result of a conference between the watersiders and the employers yesterday, it i-s likely that work will he resumed on the Lyttelton waterfront to-day. Certain proposals, not communicated to the press, were agreed to, and will be submitted to the members of the union in the morning. It is anticipated that the men will accept these proposals and that work will be resumed, while a further conference to discuss the matters in dispute will be held in Wellington .next week

Never before in English 'law has a court been called upon to decide the question which came before Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., at Christchurch yesterday, stated' a- Press Association message. It was whether a woman was responsible for the maintenance of a child conceived as the result of rape. The magistrate did not give a decision on the point, but stated that under the circumstances the woman _ should not be made to support the child, It seemed to him that the l State should pay for its upkeep.

Tho attention of members is drawn to the annual general meeting of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, to he held in the Borough Chambers at 8 o’clock this evening. Alt the Te Awamutn Police Court yesterday Henry Griffin, a traveller for a nuadhinery firm, was’ fined £6O or three months’ imprisonment for being intoxi cated while in charge of a car, as the outcome of a collision on the Kihikihi Road.—-Press Assn.

A plot of 40 acres at Wairoa is being made the centre of all blackberry experimental work in New _ Zealand. Here will be tested the various fixtures forwarded to the Department of Agriculture in coi meet io n with the bonus of £IO,OOO which has - been offered for the solution that will oeal effectively and cheaply with blackberry.

A gasholder, with a capacity of 10,000 cubic feet, while on a truck at the Auckland railway station preparatory to being: sent to Whangarai, caught fire. As ia- porter .passed by, a jet of flame was issuing from a valve on the holder. The ixwter cut off the gas suipply. Then all sited clear, fearing an explosion, but the city fi-re brigade's first contact .saw the blaze extinguished. There was no damage of any land.

Figures made available in reference to the • past wool tsel-ld ng season at Napier tell a very different story from those of the previous season. In the 1926-26 season the 90,724 bales .sold in Napier realised £1;534,942, whereas in .1924-25 88,095 bales brought £2,790,577. The decrease in the past season, therefore, amounts to £1,255,635. The average price per bale declined from £l9 3s I d at November sale to- £ls 13s 8d in March, compared with £36 2s Sd in November, 1924, and £23 13s 3d in March, 1926..

The economical methods employed by Sweden in dealing with and preserving its timber resources were briefly referred to bv a member of the National Dairy Association in Wanganui. He stated that nothing was wasted in Sweden when cutting up timber, and even sawdust was utilised. Small strips of timber were also saved, and he had seen as many as six joints in the tops of Swedish butter boxes, which were being extensively used in New Zealand, Pie contrasted these methods of preserving the timber resources with those adopted in New Zealand, where it was by no means an-unusual sight to see heaps of broken timber and sawdust being burned. The waste that occurred in this and other directions was scandalous. Sweden was making a real live effort to maintain its timber supplies, and it was compulsory to plant another tree when one was felled.

George Welch, aged 26, and Reginald Clarence Watson, aged 19, were captured by defectives in Nelson Street at eight o’lcilioeik on TulascDay night, are now in custody on a. charge _of breaking and entering the counting house of the Fletcher Construction Company with the intent to commit a crime, states a Press Association message from Auckland. The nightiwa.tchman saw two men, one working on the door and the other .apparently keeping a look-out. He telephoned the detective office, and four detectives responded. 'One arrested Welch and another captured Watson after a chase. Four holes had been bored in the door near the Yale lock, and one of) the men. had in his pocket a length, of fuse a.nd a hacksaw, while gelignite and a chisel were found oil the embankment nearby.

An inquiry into the aeroplane disaster at Papanui on March 17 was to have been commenced this week, as it was believed that Lieutenant Turner, who survived the crash with severe in_ jury, would be discharged from hospital and would he strong enough to give evidence, a Christchurch message stated. Yesterday it was learned l from the police that Lieutenant Turner’s condition was still weak, and he is in a highly nervous state. The inquiry lias therefore been postponed, and will probably be held in about ten days time, when it is hoped Lieutenant Turner will lie quite fit.

Kingfishers were reported at a meeting of the Manawafu Acclimatisation Society last week to have made great attacks upon the young fish held in its fishpond, with the result that when the pond, was cleared last week only 1000 were found out of the 10,000 liberated in it. The kingfisher being a protected bird, the society could not shoottlibm. The secretary, Air. R; V. Llovd, said lie considered this bird was more devastating to fish than the shag. It went for young fisli and disposed of at least 15 each day. Shag would take eels in preference to trout, and thus did some good, whereas the kingfisher was absolutely useless. Members expressed the opinion that the protection should be lifted.

There was a surging crowd or many thousands outside 'the fcXmedin Exhibition gates at three o’clock yesterday afternoon, when the three millionth visitor passed inwards and was conducted to the office, where the president (Mr. J. Sutherland Boss) presented her with a. cheque for £25. The winer was Mrs. E. G. Mitchell, of 182 Macandrew Road, Dunedin. This is the first of the three prizes for the millionth, second millionth, and third millionth visitors respectively which has been Avon by a resident of the exhibition city. All three have been Avon by Avomen, the first going to Invercargill and the second to Timaru. Mr. Arthur Barnett, one of the exhibition directors, has offered a prize of £2O for the three million one hun.dred thousandth visitor.

So far nothing has been done in connection Avitli the salvaging of the timber from the steamer Karu, winch Avas Avrecked near Cape Maria. The purchaser at auction, Mr. Wright, of Onehunga., visited the Avreck at Easter, and it Avas then found that the deck portion of the cargo had been Avashed up into a neighbouring bay, Avhile, although the hatches had disappeared, the timber in the hold Avas intact. Mr Wright interested other people in the venture, and since then negotiations haA'e been in progress to charter a steamer and barges to visit the scene. The latest advice is that./the position of the Karu is unchanged, and it is not expected that the hull Avil'l disintegrate until the timber has been removed from it. A 60-coav leasehold dairy farm is advertised on our leader page by \Y. M. and A. McGarry, Elbham. “Fools become angels—at railway crossings,” is one of the slogans to he used by the Victorian Raihvay Commissioners in a “safety first” campaign they are about to embark upon. It is proposed to spend £50,000, partly on publicity and partly on the removal of obstructions to sight at railway crossings

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Encouraging support is promised the proposal to form a literary and debating societv in Hawera. All interested are invited to attend the meeting to be held in the Magistrate’s Court library at 8 o’clock to-night.

The first of the series of two camps of the First Taranaki Regiment at Smart Road, near New Plymouth broke up yesterday, and the second commenced to-day. Those trainees who were at the first camp report an interesting week’s instruction. Colonel L. H. Jardine, D. 5.0., M.C., was in charge of the camp, and .among those officers present were Captains G. H. Weir and F. G. Coleman and Staff Sergeant-Major C. S. Mahoney, of Hawera. On the day prior to the closing of-camp. Major-General R. Young, general officer commanding New Zealand Forces, paid a visit of inspection. To make the work more interesting competitions in the different branches of instruction and sport were held, and as a result the headquarters (New Plymouth) squadron won the Cook Memorial Cup.

The story of a woman who had not bathed for two years was told in Christchurch last week by Mrs. H. F. Herbert in the course of an address at the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children. The woman suffered from asthma, and Mrs. Herbert suggested that she might go to the public hospital for treatment. “No,” said the woman, ‘‘they would bath me if I went there, and baths are bad for my complaint. They bathed me when I went there two years ago.” One of the modern young semi-edu-cated chiefs in Tonga was recently taught a lesson which he will not soon forget (writes the New Zealand Herald’s correspondent at Samoa). Some 20 Tongans owned a cutter, the Fuga Fai Mata, and, owing to trouble, sought an injunction against their chief on the grounds that he had not paid his contribution. They got their injunction, but the same day were threatened by their , overlord with personal violence. He was called before the court, but he declined to appear. Much to liis surprise he was arrested on warrant and haled before the court, on a charge of contempt. The judge impressed upon him the fact that the court must not be flouted arid as an illustration committed him to prison until next morning, while his case was being considered. After a depressing night he appeared before the bench, and was fined £5, being told he would be held until the fine was paid. He had to spend two more hours in confinement before a friend brought along the money. Albert William Homes was charged at itihe Magistrate’s Coat at Blenheim 1 yesterday that, being a person excluded fromi a racecourse by regulations, he trespassed on the Waiterlen course clur ing the February meeting of) the Marlborough Racing Club. The police gave as the grounds for his exclusion, his conviction for an offence he committed as a youth of 17 years. They also alleged that the defendant, ..a taxi-' driver, was carrying two reputed bookmakers to and from the course through out the three days’ racing and supplying them with information regarding the results and dividends. Counsel warmly criticised/ the police methods of delving into l defendant’s past and parading before the public a trivial offence committed in his. youth. Mr. T. El. 1 Maunseli, S-.M., in convicting and discharging the defendant, held that the police had failed to l prove their most substantial allegation, viz., that lie was assisting bookmakers. The .magistrate also expressed regret that such an old conviction could be resurrected, and sugested that it was a pity .some time limit- could not be observed.—PressAssn.