LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 September 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr A. F. Witty, from Ceylon, spoke to attentive audiences in the. Gospel Hall, Princes Street, on Sunday, Wednesday and Frid'ay evenings on the all important theme of -man’s ruin and God’s remedy. The meetings will be continued next week (see advert.). The subject dor Sunday night is an exceptional one, and rarely taken by preachers. Mr Witty, uses a large. coloured diagram to illustrate tho subject.

A farmer’s wife from the King Country who is at present visiting Auckland says that the young Maoris have proved t-lie farmer’s best friends this winter, says the Auckland Star. It has been only too true that since the autumn farm hand's have left their work on the land to go and get high wages on steady jobs, with regular hours, in and near the cities. When labour got scarce, and it was quite impossible, to fill the vacancies on the farms, the young Maoris stepped into the breach, .and filled the bill -splendidly. Especially- are they- fond of getting behind a plough drawn by- two good horses. The Maori loves horseflesh and it was wonderful how skilful they became after a. very -short experience.

Tho Mercantile Gazette records the registration of the following new company-: Ihaia Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd" Registered as a private company, April 28, 1926. Office: Corner Havelock Street, and Domet Street, Opqnake. Capital: £3OOO, into 3000 shares of £.l each. Subscribers: Opunake.—M. Hickey-, F. Carter, .T. Hickey-, junr., A. Harvey, R. Affleck, junr., D. W. Hickey, D. D. O’Sullivan, and M. Fennell, 100 shares each; J. Feaver, 80; D. Mourie, 50. Objects: The manufacture and sale of butter, cheese, and preserved milk, ham, bacon, pork, etc. The question of the deterioration of some- of the Romney wool produced in the Poverty Bay district, says the Herald of Gisborne, has given farmers some cause for concern during the last year. lMr. Akroyd, of Bradford, first brought the matter into prominence. At a meeting a feiv days ago Mr. «T. C Field announced that he and other meii had been working on the problem, and they had arrived at certain conclusions. These had been forwarded to Mr. Akroyd, and Mr. Field was confident that eventually the sheepfarmers of the district would be saved at least 2d a pound on their wool. An announcement made in a Southern journal says that an anonymous .gilt of £IOOO made to the Otago University- wilt enable it now to raise the status of the -lectureship in the physics department by offering the post at a salary of £SOO, raising to £550, instead of at £IOO less. The lecturer to be .appointed will be assistant to Dr. Jack, and the post is to be known as the Beverly-MacKenzie lectureship.

For the first- time for over 40 years, the -swivel bearings of the chime of bells at the Christchurch Catherdal are being renewed, says the' Press. The old bearings, though still good, are of the type that necessitates continual greasing, and- they are liable at any time to run stiff.' The new bearings are of the modern oil-ring type, and when filled with lubricant need verylittle attention. They- will be- tested shortly, and while this is in progress the bells will be muffled so that tho tongues will not- strike.

The distinction of being the- first iactor v to obtain the “finest” grade for butter under the new grading standards adopted by the Dairy Control Board is claimed by the Clevedon factory of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, I>td, a parcel of Anchor butter destined for London having earned the honour. This butter, says an exchange, was graded about 9.15 a.m. on September 1, the date on which the- new system came into operation. Previously tiie highest quality butter was first grade, with a nnnirmium of 90 points. First grade has now been superseded bv “finest,” with a minimum of 93 points. 1