LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Hawera County Council was held, at 11.30 this morning to confirm the .striking of the rates.

The first series of a, monthly musical service will be given in the Hawera Methodist Church to-morrow evening. The order of service will consist of anthems by the choir, solos by Miss King, Mis. Sunderland', Mr. Douglas and others. Well known hymns will be sung by the congregation, and the; Rev. W. J. Oxbrou 1 will deliver a short address on “Men who profess to be worse than they are.” A smoke concert will be held on Mon• day evening in the Foresters’ Hall, under the auspices of the Wednesday Rugby authorities. The championship shield and the Elgar Cup will be presented to t'he winners of the two, competitions. A good programme has been arranged. Provision has (been made for a large attendance of Wednesday supporters. Air. Franklin Peterson, of the staff of The London Times, who is in New Zealand on a special mission, paid a visit to Air. Alassev’s tomb at Point Halswell and placed a wreath on the casket (reports a Wellington paper). He was accompanied by Air. Frank Thomson, the Prime Alinister’s secretary. Air. Peterson, as a member of the editorial staff of The Times, saw a good deal of Air. Massey at the last Imperial Conference, and the two were friends. The inscription on the wreath was: “In sincere affection and admiration.”

“Is R going to open at all?” was the reply given to a Timaru Herald reporter a few days ago by a Timaru fat lamb buyer, when asked to hazard a, guess*. at the opening price of lamb next season. Too much money has been lost during the last year or two by fat-lamb buyers, and the overseas markets were too uncertain, lie added, to warrant them in taking any more risks. •Warning a youthful offender, at the Children’s Court at AVanganui, of the pitfalls ahead of the evildoer, Air. J. 8. Barton, S.AL, said it- would do the boy good, no doubt, to accompany him on an occasional visit to the gaol. There lie would .see one man, over 50 years of age, who had spent more than 34 years of his life in gaol. That man had not, when young, had any idea that his life should lie so ordered; hut he had fallen into evil habits, and so had spent most of his life in prison. A remarkable feat of memorising was displayed by a little girl named Sheila Turner at the breaking-up ceremony at St Peter's School, Gonville. says the Wanganui Chronicle. The girl who had the leading part in a playette performed bv the school pupils, took ill during t'he morning, and was tillable to attend the. concert. Sheila Turner learnt the part in the day, and carried it off at the concert Inst evening without a. mistake. She was accorded the hearty plaudits of the audience. Air. A. Kirkpatrick, the well-known Hawke’s Bav representative and All B'iaclc footballer, and captain of the provincial team that won the Ranfurly Shield first from Wellington, played his last representative game against Auckland last Saturday. After the game Mr. Kirkpatrick was presented with one of the bails used in the frame, autographed by all members oi the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union, as a token of their appreciation of his great record in continuously representing the province since 1918. , On a recent afternoon the Hawera Girl Guides, after exercises, and accompanied by officers, took a stroll down Alatangarara Road. On thear return they turned into Naumai Faik. They were much interested in the planting and naming of native trees, and before they left they promised that many of them would return and bring with them native plants or shrubs for the further beautifying of the park. Such a decision is worthy of commendation and encouragement. The successful treatment of leprosy bv certain doctors in, the Hawaiian Islands during the last wto years is arousing a good deal of interest. While it is a* fact that it will require a period of several years to demonstrate that persons treated with the acids obtained from Chaulmoogra oil are absolutely cured of leprosy, the indications of the curative action after nearly two years of use have been so promising as to make a thorough study of the trees which furnish the oil, and some closely-rofated products, extremely advisable,” so says an official report on the matter from America. The suggestion has been made in Taranaki that tapu operates against the frequenting of Stratford 1 by Maoris. Opinion varies as to the reason. The suggestion is sometimes made that, a massacre there is responsible for the shunning of the town by the. Maori race. Others have attributed the fact that few Alaoris are encountered in Stratford to an unfounded assumption that Titokownru was buried there, whereas the redoubtable. old one-oved chief’s hones he beneath the sod in the vicinity of Okaiawn. The fact that the Okaiawa team contained four Alaoris m it- 5 ranks was observed by those who know of the suggested disinclination of Maoris to visit Stratford for tapu reasons, and the defeat of the team may have been momentarily viewed from this angle. Ran.gi Rum’s foot, however, registered the only six points scored by his side, so he at least was under no malignant influence. It is improbable that the infrequency of Maoris in Stratford andi Eltliam has ought .significant about it, save that there are no large native settlements in the immediate neighbourhoods.

Some of tie new Star whale chasers have already started from Norway on their long voyage to Stewart Island to take part in the coming whale season, states the Half Moon Bay correspondent of the Southland News. As they are much slower than the mother ships, it is necessary to depart well in advance. It is a long voyage for such small steamers, but they axe naturally wonderful sea-boats, and would weather storms that might worry their more cumber some sister ships.

What .should prove ?n interesting address, is to be given by Rev. Curran, the Aotearoa missioner, at the Salvation Hall to-morrow evening, when the subject to be dealt with, “Did Christ Die for Everybody : or were some made to go to heaven and others to go to hell?”

Because of the depredations of wild pigs among lambs, backbloeks runholders in the Wanganui district, now that the lambing season is imminent, are waging energetic war upon the marauders. Sustained efiorts to wipe •>ut pigs in the back country have met with little success, says the Wanganui Chronicle,. and on outlying stations the piratical hogs are as much a part ol the live stock as are the sheep themselves. Rewards have been offered, and on many places permanent engagements have been given to pig-hunters. Is per snout being the ruling rate Oi remuneration. The work of the pighunter is arduous and wearying, but lias the advantage of being healthy, and if good dogs can be procured as many as 50 or 60 pigs can he slam in a day.

In connection with broadcasting, the Country Press Association is considering a scheme whereby’ it will be possible for at least eight leading provincial daily newspapers in New South Wales to have direct touch with London twice daily by means of wireless. The association has obtained official permission to establish its own wireless station for broadcasting news, instead of as at present using the telegraphs. Receiving machines will he installed in the various newspaper offices and will be able to tune in, not only with Sydney, but with British and American stations. Besides the eight dailies mentioned it is also proposed to have ordinary wireless machines installed in about 80 others provincial newspaper offices. Details of the scheme will bo elaborated at the. conference of countrypress representatives, who are meeting at an early date. The status —■amateur or pixifessional —of the Australian cricketers at Home has light thrown upon it by the following information from The Referee in regard to the reported cabled offer of money for runs in the final test. The Sydney sporting paper, under the heading “Gilding the Ashes” says: “Every boundary hit by- an Australian in the fifth test match puts four runs on the score sheet, and 2s in the pocket of the batsman. Over the fence means six for the score, and a pound for the hitter. A century made in 150 minutes is -worth £lO in hard cash to the batsman, and probably the retention of the ashes for Australia. Each catch made means £1 to the man who makes it. The bowler with the best test- series average (three tests at least) will get £25. These monetary rewards have been put up by Wolfe’s Schnapps Company, and the team | has been notified by cable.”

Interesting remarks regarding corvestness of speech were made at the Gisborne competitions festival on Saturday night bv the elocution judge, Mr Tarquhar Young (states the Poverty- Bay Herald). The judge told the competitors and the audience that correstness of speech was a refinement without affectation, which could not be counterfeited by the common mind. The voice was. a pulse which responded to the feelings and emotions of the speaker and the quality of the voice showed the mind and environment ot the speaker. During Saturday’s and part of Friday’s sessions he had heard some exceedingly- bad vowel sounds, and the short “e” sound was shamefull v neglected. If some of the competitors would, take the tiouble to learn the Maori vowels, they- uould be able to detect the short vowels in the English language. _ The short ‘ u was invariably substituted for the short “e,” with the result that words such as “sacred” were -pronounced “sacrud.” The correct use of the vowels could be secured by remembering that the short “a” was as in ; “at, )( “e” as in “egg,” “i” as in ‘m, o as in “on,” and “u” as in ‘ up. Competitors shouHdl isolate the .vowel sounds, and nracti.se them until the ear was taught. The final consonants were also badly murdered, and it should be remembered that the organs o articulation were tlie tongue, the teeth and the lips. ’