LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• Insurance companies in Hawke’s Bay (from Wairoa. to Woodville.) met losses totalling £52,311 in the twelve months ended June 30, against £74,434 in 1924-25, and £24,850 in 1923-24. Wairoa accounted for £11,735 of the total in 1925-26, and £34,613 in the previous twelve pionths.

While fencing at Pa tea yesterday, Walter Tocker placed an axe in a post while he hammered in a staple. The axe fell against his head, cutting him sufficiently severely to warrant hospital attention at Hnwern. Several stitches have put matters to rights, and the injured man is due for discharge foci av.

The annual photography exhibition opened lait Wellington, yesterday. The judging resulted as foMowisi: Dunedin Society 1127 points Dominion champion, Wellington Camera Club 1119, Auckland 1018, Invercargill (former champion) 101,1.

The Dominion conference' of the Real Estate Institution of New Zealand was opened at Hamilton yesterday, when there was a large attendance of members from the different affiliated associations throughout the Dominion. Mr P. B. Foote, of Timaru, is president of the institute. The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor of Hamilton (Mr. ,J. It. Fow). The conference is expected to extend oyer three days.

J. - Hampton, a. middle-aged married man, has been .missing in the country oif the Kiiwitea. County since Tuesday morning, states a Felding message. He wiais employed as a farm manager by Mr. A. Brown. He took a horse to a neighbouring farm and.started to walk home , over the paddocks. Me had, a good track along a ridge for only about two miles,,, but not having turned up at dark a search was made. The police and parties were out all night and yesterday without success. Rlampton had just, recovered from influenza and had complained of pains in the head. It is feared he ibocanie delirious and wandered into the gullies He has ia, son and two daughters.

At an inquest tait Gisborne on the body of Henry Robson 'Wood, la.te inianagetr of Dalgety’o Gisborne branch, a verdict was returned to Mr. E. O. Lewy (coroner) that, death, resulted from drowning. The coroner found that the.re was no evidence as to hoav deceased name to his death, the only theory available being that deceased while in the act of chopping willow branches with a tomahawk, accidentally caught the., end of the tomahawk in a branch ami; the tomahawk being deflected, inflicted a wound which partially stunned deceased, who fell into the waiter and was drowned. REALLY GOOD FOR COUGHS. “I liad a box of your Pulmonas. 1 tried them myself and gave some to others, who also said they were real good.” Most everyone finds Pulmonas of instant benefit to suffering throats and ehests. Pulmonas sucked in the mouth send- soothing and healing vapours through the whole of the air passages. At chemists, 1/6 and 2/6. — Advt.

At .present an inmate of Grey Hospital, having undergone a second operation for internal stomach trouble, a nurse named Mary Doyle is petitioning Parliament for compensation for injuries received during the course of her service in the Hokitika Hospital. Petitioner states that in November, 1925, while restraining a violent woman pateint, she received injuries to a foot and to the stomach,, in connection with both of which operations were subsequently performed. She is now in actual poverty (having spent horsavings on treatment, etc.), and! her claim to the Government is for £2OO compensation, representing the loss she lias sustained', and for wages,. medical and contingent expenses, which total £B9.

The resting place for this year of the Julian Gup. Taranaki’s premier Association football trophy, will be decided to all intents and purposes at Auroa on Saturday, -when the local eleven will try conclusions with New Plymouth. Visitors from a distance will be entertained! to high tea in the hall at 0 p.m. and a social evening is to begin at seven o’clock. Before the big match, Hawera and Auroa juniors will play a curtain-raiser, the Auroa team being that which is to travel to Wanganui the following Saturday. The Eltham Golf Club ball last night was marred to a certain extent by the amount of influenza about the district. Yet visitors were present from Hawera, Stratford, Paten, Waverley and' New Plymouth, and, with the ballroom looking, its best, after decoration by Miss Connell, Mrs Morton and Mr L,‘ Quin, and with music" and floor of the best, dancers rose to the occasion in fine style. Messrs Morton and L. and J. Quin were M.’s.C. At yesterday’s meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, the attendance officer reported that during show week, he had interviewed a parent, a showman who took liis family round with him, as to how the children fared for schooling. The children had not attended any school since they had been in Taranaki, and apparently did not attend when they were away from the cities on tour with the parents. Whether they attended when in the city the officer did not know, but ffhey got no schooling when travelling the provinces. The attendance officer's report was adopted, a resolution being passed that some amendment should he made iu the Education Act to provide for the education of showmen’s children.