LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 August 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

What’s on? To-night, to-morrow night, next week—sometime or other there will be a meeting or social function which you arc anxious not to miss. Then don’t miss it. Get the habit of glancing each evening at The Star’s announcement list of meetings and amusements, where advertised fixtures are indexed. It appears, on this page, for the first time, to-day. The two New Plymouth fishermen for whose safety some anxiety was felt, as they had .not been seen since Tuesday, were found on Thursday, sheltering at Whitecliffs. A fatality occurred at Moss-burn on Saturday, when. Herbert. Beer, aged 44, was killed! in. an accident with a tractor, states an Invercargill message. Another man named Heelv was seriously injured -at the same time. No details are available as to how the mishap occurred are available. While riding a motor-cycle in Queen Street, Onelnyiga, on Sunday, Hubert Leonard Skinner, aged! 24 years, collided with a motor-car. He was thrown to the ground and latter admitted to the hospital suffering from a fractured skull. His condition is reported as serious. Skimmer; ,is a. labourer employed- by the Auckland City Council. Through some submarine disturbance a quantity of ling fish, were washed, up on the shore at Breaker Bay, at Wellington, on Thursday, says the New Zealand Times. The origin of the disturbance, which is unknown, appears to be local, as the fisli, when discovered, were found to be quite fresh, as if they had been killed only a short time before being found. •While waiting for a bus with his wife and nephew in Lake Hoad, Devonport, on Saturday night John Bambu de Mole suddenly collapsed and died. He had been visiting relatives during the i afternoon and; with his wife, was returning to their home in Ponsonby. Mr de Mole was secretary to the Auckland Glass Co., Ltd. Advice has been received in Auckland to’the effect that there lias been a very mild outbreak of typhoid' amongst the Maoris at Whangaroa. On inquiry at the Auckland district health, office/ a reporter was: informed that the cases, which numbered five, had been, carefully attended to and that all necessary precautions had been taken. Health inspectors were travelling throughout the district and it was not thought the disease would spread. Application was mad© in tlie Supreme Court at Auckland, to Mr Justice Herdman in bankruptcy jurisdiction to wind up Surfdale Estates Ltd., which wanted an adjournment until after Christmas, because the present was a bad. season for land agents. Counsel stated that lie could show that a company bad been formed to take over the assets of the old concern, which had been insolvent for years. It was so far back that it could not meet its obligations, nor account for money received. The com- . pany still employed a number of .salesmen at high salaries. His Honour: Yon need say no more. I will order that the company bei wound up. . Reporting to the Christchurch Hospital Board on cancer. Dr Fenwick said the Government Statistician had .supplied him with the following figures “Consideration of these,-’ said Dr Fen - wick, “will explain my anxiety that those who feel out of .health, .should! not

postpone examination, and should never regard as trivial symptoms which may be the earliest warnings of & dangerous disease.” In 1925 the number of women who died between the ages of 40 and 60 years from a;ll causes was 1032. Of this number 267 died from some form of cancer. That is, one out of four deaths was due to this malignant disease. During 1925 114 women died from cancer of the breast, and 96 from ciUider in tba womb. Patrick Enright, a, railway ganger, was seriously injured in a train smash on Saturday at Dipton ,states a Press Association message from Invercargill. He left a trolley on the line while he went into a, shed to get tools.Re was accompanied 1 by another man who drew attention to the fact that a train was coming. Enright went out and* attempted 1 to pull the trolley off the line, but was struck by the train. He was carried along on the catcher and his head struck a. small post at the side of the rails used in connection -with the signals. The train was quickly pulled up and the man taken to Lumsden, where he- received medical attention. It was found that his skull was fractured and he was removed 1 to the Southland Hospital. His condition is serious. Some particulars or the progress made by the prisoners at the Paparua Prison at the school that has been established there <are given in the annual report on the institution. An exchange quotes the report as follows: “The aim of the school has been to work up to the standard of proficiency certificate-in the primary schools, and during the year ten readied this •standard. The previous attainments of those entering the class for the year were much before those of former years —'the majority not being beyond Standard 111. Though some were poorly equipped educationally to meet the needs of every-day life, progress: was fairly rapid in arithmetic, geography and English. Two in the class who made the most progress were a. Maori and a 'Chinese. The Maori advanced from Standard 111. to Standard VI.. and the Chinese from Standard I. to Standard, IV. A pleasing feature of the work was that the interest was

well maintained, and the men looked forward to the school work as a. pleasant change in their prison life.” An advertisement published in our sports edition of Saturday evening, calling attention to a, smoke concert in connection with the Wednesday Rugby Union, read Wednesday. The function will take place this evening.

A virulent disease in dogs is said to, be giving trouble from the Bluff to Christchurch. Some 500 cases have been treated in the Dunedin district alone. The complaint has been diagnosed as a nervous form of distemper. As a result of a statement to the effect, that New Zealand flax fibre is not suitable for making beaver board, or other substitutes for wood as lining for walls and ceilings, it being alleged that, the colouring matter in the flax is an objection to its use, three samples of beautiful white ceiling board in which New Zealand tow is used have been sent to the president of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce. This article is manufactured in Palmerston North, and is stated to be equal to anything on the market, says the Manawatu Times.

An amusing piece of cross examination was heard in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Thursday afternoon during the hearing of a ease in which a constable said that he “did not know the defendant from Adam.” Counsel for the defendant: “Of course, you know Adam has been dead a longtime?” (Laughter.) Witness: “I don’t know anything about Adam.” Counsel: “Well, of course, it’s a matter of historical controversy how long he has been dead.” The constable lateamended his statement to mean that he “did not know the man from a bar of soap.”—Evening Post. The Hawera Municipal Band, under conductor H. O. A. Fox, visited the public hospital yesterday afternoon ami for a period of one and a. half hours rendered a highly appreciated, programme of .selections. A collection to ■aid the hospital funds taken up irom among the visitors met with ready .response. an appreciated sum being realised. Prior to. tlieir departure the bandsmen were entertained at afternoon tea; by the Matron and nursing staff, •suitable thanks being expressed by Mr. Fox.

Despite, the wet weather experienced on Saturday, the shop day conducted in Union Street- by a committee m aid of tlie Aa.rarata Hall funds- was most, successful. and resulted in a profit oi £ls 10s. A very large supply of saleable goods came to hand and all were disposed of, and more could have been sold had it been available. The committee in charge was as follows: Mesdames, Cbrkiil, • Lind, Larcom, Riley and Reid, Messers. Larc-om. Oorkill and Robinson. . The results of the two guessing competition', decided on Saturday were: Cake, Mass Mooreland, Alton; dinner. Miss Humphries, Hawera.

Behind the middle door on tlie Wilson Street frontage of the Wanganui Fire Brigade station is the new Dennis motor, an acquisition which raises the efficiency of the Mant to a level unsurposal in the Dominion, says the Chronicle. The station now holds four motor vehicles, the big Dennis, fitted with powerful turbine pumps; the new Dennis ; tlie Hudson (employed for distance calls and small fires); and tlie old Ford, used as a, general purpose runabout, and occasionally sent to a minor outbreak or grass file. Tlie amount of gear stowed round these engines is amazing; their united accessories would form a formidable armoury. Interesting features on the new machine are a 40-gallon emergency water tank, with hose ■ and pump for directing a small jet at small conflagrations, and a complete smoke outfit, which includes a. smoke helmet to be donned if ever a fireman needs to enter a smoke shrouded building, cellar, or ship’s hold. Built into the helmet is a telephone, the wire passing along the 50ft. air line, so that the fireman isolated in a pall of dense vapour can still direct operations almost from the heart of the lire.