LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

June was the driest June in Christchurch vsince 1902, the total rainfall (0.9033) being G 4 per cent, below the June average. At the annual conference at Palmerston North of the Dairy Farmers’ Union a remit was carried that the conference reaffirm the principle of one man one vote in connection with the election of the Control Board members. A Sydney message reports that the secretary to the Sawmill ers’ Association states that nearly 100 mills have been closed in New South Wales as the-result’of the new Workers’ Compensation Act, rendering 13,000 hands id le. The first shot- in the campaign for Sunday games- was fired: at the Thorndon Bowling Club at Wellington. A motion to -allow Sunday play was de-. featod- on a secret ballot- bv 35 votes to 19. The Dairy Farmers’ Union conference at Palmerston North urged that a Gov-ernment-stamp, indicating the contents, be atatched to all manures supplied to farmers; also that a weight guarantee be given, and further, that the Government assist farmers financially to secure fertilisers at reasonable prices, and take immediate action to lower the price. A resolution, similar to the last clause, was also carried at the Jersey breeders’ annual meeting. The proposal that power should be supplied t-o the Waverley-Waitotara district by the Wanganui-Rangitikei Power Board has advanced to the extent that a. petition for submission to the Government- is now being circulated in the locality concerned, says the Wanganui Chronicle. The negotiations with the South Taranaki Board, which had the idea of purchasing power in bulk from the local board, have not reached finality. The northern hoard is meanwhile marking time. The-Hawera Acclimatisation- Society has aad-ed to its splendid 1 exhibit at the Winter Show two fine photographs depicting Messrs W. I). Watson, W. Cooper and B. Buick, prominent Wairarapa sportsmen, with their collection of deer heads. One picture shows them on their return from Te- Awaite station with their quota of four heads each.

At- the Empire Week Social' to visitors last evening, a tribute was paid by Mr Singleton, and Mr Dynes Fulton to the land of the district-. Mr Singleton -said he had- seen practically all the land in the Dominion, and held firmly the opinion that- in this district it was the finest he had seen -anywhere. Mr Fulton recalled his early experience in. Taranaki 25 years ago, when he was settled in the north for some time, and added he knew no better “dry grazing land” in an part of the Dominion.

The Ohincmuri Licensing Committee met at -Waihi yesterday, when -the following licenses were granted: Bob Roy Hotel (Waihi), Commercial and Criterion Hotels (Taeroa). The meeting then adjourned till Monday, when further licenses may be granted, dependent on the applicants having their premises completed according to the plans and requirements. After seventeen years of closure the Rob Roy Hotel (Waihi) opened its doors at two o’clock yesterday afternon for the sale of alcoholic beverages. The miners off shift, who had congregated in the street in anticipation of the event, made a wild rush to the public bar. A fire at Okailmu (North Auckland) yesterday totally destroyed a nineroomod homestead and its contents, the property of Mr W. Thompson. Mrs Thompson was alone in the house at -the time, her husband being out working on the farm. She called her husband and some neighbours also rushed over, but the fire had too strong a hold and only a few articles of furniture wore saved. There was aa insurance of £205 on the furniture and £SOO on the building, but. Mr Thompson is a very heavy loser. The suspected cause of the fire is a defective chimney (states a Dargaville message).