LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At last night’s meeting of the South Taranaki Automobile Association, it was Mated that the association had spent over £2OO, and erected 250 notices, throughout the district- for the direction of motorists.

Public subscriptions to the unemployment fund organised by the Christchurch Citizens’ Committee having now readied £2019, the subsidy of £2OOO granted by the City Council has been fully earned, making a total of £4019 thus available for the relief of unemployment in the city.

An unusual accident occurred to a Gisborne resident, a young man, on Saturday. At the- time he was yawning, hut this operation caused a. sellout dislocation of the jaw. Ordinary treatment proved unavailing. The jaw swelled rapidly, and even medical attention was insuffieeint to re-sot- the dislocation. Finally, the patient had to be conveyed to the hospital, and an a'nnesthetie ad ministered. A movement of protest' against the high cost of living in general has been decided upon: by the Spreydon branch of the Mothers’ Union, which will cal', ft combined meeting of other jsceieities interested. This ,course was decided upon at a meeting of the branch iat Christchurch on Wednesdav. when recent rises in the prices of commodities, particularly of bread, were discussed, and a committee was set up to |go into the arrangements for *. combined meeting. STIFF NECK.

This is a common form of muscular rheumatism for which Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is especially valuable. Try it, you will be surprised at the quick relief which it affords. . Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is without a superior for muscular and rheumatic pains. Sold everywhere. —Advt.

In connection with- the special nieet;u,r (> f the Opunake Harbour .Board on Monday to consider the new phase created! by the Crown Law Offices objection to the application tor trie ten per cent, additional loan on the ground of illegality, it is necessary to make it clear that the drown decision applies to all harbour boards and not to Opnnakc in particular. Donald Thomas, a ganger married, residing- at Arahiwi, was killed b\ the train leaving Rotorua yesterday afternoon. He was returning from 1 utaruru on a jigger. His companion, William A. Cl. Taylor, escaped uninjured. The Chamber of Manufacturers at Sydney is arranging an exhibition. of manufactured products during the visit of the Duke of York, which, it is stated, will eclipse any similar exhibitions in the Southern Hemisphere.

\ forward move in education,in the Cook Islands has been made during the last few years and a system of tiamino- native teachers has been inaugurated (says the Wellington Evening Post.) It has been decided that special attention shall be given to agriculture. The authorities recognise that there is ample room for development of the fruit industry on the rich volcanic 'Soil and in the moist warm climate of the 'islands. The natives readily respond to assistance and training in. improving the growth of the natural products of the group. At the, request of the Cook Islands Department. Dr. E. Marsdeu and Mr J. A ,H. Valentine, senior inspector of schoojs, were instructed to leave by the Ataungmmi to inquire into the progress of the, general education system, and especially of the agricultural branch, with the view of finalising the existing anangements.

“Sheep do not take T-B.” This statement was made by air. Howard M.K.C.V.S., recently, when addressing a meeting of the Farmers Cin on in, Tiimaru, says the local He i aid. Mr Howard added that he haul exia.niilied hundreds of thousands of sheep, and, had never found one with tuberculosis. Members expressed .surprise at this infonnmtion, and a hearty laugh was raised; when one member showed a. look of great, regret on his face when he recounted how he had thrown a nay the caroa.se of a sheep which he had killed for eating,- because he thought from the look of It. that the sheep had tuberculosis.

Postal revenue for the quarter ended June 30 totalled £386,378, compared with £360,968 a year .ago. Telegraph revenue, amounted to £476,649, against £467,073 in the corresponding period last year (these figures include £275,647 from the telephone exchange, compared with £270,982 in the Jane quarter ot 1926). Savings Bank deposits m the same period amounted to £7,967,387, and 1 withdrawals to £7,643,943, the excess of deposits being thus £323,894. In the corresponding quarter of 1926 deposits totalling £8.290,799 showed an excess of £533,921 over withdrawals. In the quarter just ended. 24,601 accounts were opened and 18,991 closed. A year ago the figures were respectively 24,455 and 18,014.