LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 September 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

For a wharf to be offered fon sale, second-h and, is a. .but that situation has arisen tin Wanganui (says the Chronicle), where the Harbour Board is now negotiating,, with the Power Board' for the purchase 01/Jts jetty opposite the power house. The meetings conducted by Mr A. F. Witty in the Gospel Hall, Princes Street, will be continued next week. The subject for Sunday night, “Christ is coming,” should prove interesting, especially so on account of what has appeared in the newspapers of .Taranaki recently. -

The Right Rev. Monsignor Power will speak to-morrow evening, on some methods of controversy, with special reference to Professor G. C. Coulton, of Cambridge University. • > Mr C. Irvine, who will D.Y. be speaking on his work in India as a missionary in‘the Gospel Hall, Princes Street, Thursday, September 23, at 7.30 p.m., went to lndia in 1897, and has laboured there continuously. The address to be given by him should be both instructive and interesting. , Thq south-hound mail train this morning drew nine carriages apd three vans, and an additional engine was necessary from Hawera. The size of the train was principally due to the inclusion of three special carriages and one van conveying the Gilbert and Sullivan Comedy Opera Company and thoir properties southward.

Under a new scheme which is being instituted by the, Defence Department, members of Territorial Forces through, out New Zealand will be given an opportunity of qualifying at the Wigram aerodrome at Sockburn, as pilots and aeroplane mechanics. The ; period of the selected men. will be spread over a period of three years, and those who qualify will attend the annual refresher courses. ~ V,

On. Tuesday evening the premises of W. W. Pratt, furrier, of Wellesley Street West, Auckland, were entered bv burglars and- furs to -the-value of £l5O -stole.n A door was forced with a ' jemmy in professional style.. - On Wednesday night the premises of the Hume Pipe Company, at Penrose, were broken into. A gelignite detonator, fuse and caps! were .stolen. On the same night two offices in a building at t]io corner of O’Connell and Shortland Streets. Auckland, were visited by burglars, who found nothing they wanted. The’variations in the vegetable market- are sometimes almost startling) states the Wellington Post’s Dunedin correspondent. A month ago in Dunedin cauliflowers were sought after at 18s per dozen. Now choice sorts are selling at about os per dozen, and medium quality at 3s. First-class cabbages. are to-day. worth more than cauliflowers, and, strange to say, really good lettuce is worth more than either the cauliflower or the cabbage. As high as os 6d per dozen was realised for lettuce on Wednesday morning, but the pride of place must be given to asparagus, a small bunch of which realised .the very satisfactory price of 3s 7d

Seeing two theatrical advertising boards outside a motor garage in Oxford street, Christchurch, on Saturday towards midnight, two young men who had been attending a .gathering at the Pioneer Sports Club’s rooms thought to move them elsewhere for a joke. The act looked suspicions to a constable, who arrested the jokers, and they were charged before Mr H. Y. Widdow^on, 1 S.M., in the Magistrate's Court with attempted theft of the two hoards, the property of J. C. Williamson Valudevilte Company. The young men’s names were later suppressed..' Both pleaded not guilty. The magistrate said' that the young men , had been foolish to have anything to do with the. placards, hut there was no evidence of any attempt to steal, and the charge would he. dismissed. —Press Association. ■" * ■ . . - Last Sunday was the thirty-second anniversary of the founding of Taihape. Thirty-two years ago four * weary, travel-stained .pioneers found their way into the virgin forest where a flourishing town now stands. They were the advance party of a hand of colonists from Christchurch, known as a Special Settlement Association, and they were in search of a suitable spot on the banks of the Hautapu, where some twenty tents could be pitched on the arrival of those following behind. The original name of the settlement (says the Wellington Evening Post) was Collinsville, after Mr. \V. W. Collins, the then member for Christchurch, who gave the association considerable 'help,; but at his wish it was changed to Otaihape, the Maori name of a wellknown stream in ' the district. _ The “O” was later discarded, and Taihape is now the township’s name.

Anniversary services will be held in the Hawera Methodist Church to-mor-row. The preacher for the day will be the Rev. W. J. Oxbrow. The subject of the address in the evening will be “Hymns that have helped.’’ Incidents in connection with some favourite hymns will he described, and the hymns will be sung by the; choir and the congregation A solo will he given by Mr. Piper, and a brass quartette will also he contributed. The anniversary wilL he continued on Friday evening, when a concert will be given bv the choir.

PROTECTION AGAINST IN FLTJENZA.

To strengthen throat and chest is. a much needed help against influenza. In the 'South Islands, while influenza was at its worst, school teachers-gave to their pupils Pulmonas. Those pas-, tilles, dissolved slowly in the mouth purify the air you breathe,. Their antiseptic vapours heal and defeat coughs, colds, sore throats, ’flu, etc. Pulmonas, 1/6 and 2/6.—Advt,

The Hamilton ;'bus proprietors have decided to raise the fares on one route owing "to the extra, charges impose d by the recent insurance regulations. • The Hawera School Flute Bafid will parade at the school to-morrow afternoon alt two o'clock ahc] inarch to the , hospital/ where- a programme of music will be played. The public, will be. admitted to the grounds. . '

The Government lias decided to take over the Bachelor property ivfc Palmerston North: on-December 1 as an Agricultural College site. If possible an arrangement wi'l be made until the owild’s to carry on the property, till the Government need® it. The next, move will be the ejection of the . College Council and this might not be long delayed'.; When the Europeans first came to New. Zealand, said: the Hot. J. H. Fletcher at his address to the Hawera Ho tar v. Club yesterday, there was a belt of forest, sometimes 40 miles 1 wide, from Wellington to -Manukau. It extended to the-water’s edge almost the whole wav from Wanganui to the north. (About Ha>vera the widest patch of open country occurred, there being an area, of scrub* and fern- for shine mile® from the cliffs. 1 A young woman passing the north transept of the Anglican Cathedral! fit Christchurch, came within a foot, or death a. few minutes. befonei 1 o clock yesterday afternoon. The heavy stone cross was hurled off the gable by the gale and, narrowly missing her head, crashed to the ground a few inches from her feet, where it broke into several pieces. The voung woman jumped away and escaped any hurt fromi the smaller pieces of stone that came down* in the wake of the cross.

The earliest; /Story of a lift along the road to New Zealand 1 dates from the times of palfreys, St. Georges and dragoris. Three canoes, sailing under tlie of chiefs ver&od l in tho_ records left ;by Kupe, got d<mn into southern latitudes as far as the Ivermiadeos. The Aotea and Tokomanu got through to the finishing post all rught, but nothing lias been preserved tradition indicating the arrival of the third craft.-' It is surmised, isaid the Rev. J- H. Fletcher in his address to the Hawera Rotary Chib yesterday, it was wrecked at the Kermadeos, ' and the orew got a lift on to the Dominion ili-the other catnoes.

The value of good grounds to sports is very evident, and in many centres clubs* have the-great advantage of having farmers’ able and willing to let them have their ground absolutely free At Auroa. last night reference was’ made' by the president of the Soccer Club to the generosity of Mr. Peter Camei’on, who had kindly given them the use of a. ground for practice and matches. This the club appreciated very much, and as a slight token of this the members . presented lnm with a handsome cake stand with silver rims for Mrs. Cameron. The gift was acknowledged by Mr. Cameron. The little ceremony was a. most ; popular When Toi set sail from* Tahiti in quest of- his grandson Whatonga, he brought one son with, him and) lett another at home. Ten generations after the sailor lad had trimmed his sails and set course for the . south his brother’s descendants followed mi his wake, - and Ao-tea-Roa set -up another branch of the old. family, the relationship with which was recognised. Bins was one instance of the strength or the ■Maori genealogy given by the Rev. J. H Fletcher to an interested gathering of the Hawera Rotary Club yesterday. The Canterbury Diocesan* Sypod was addressed 1 by the Rev. F. C. bconiS? has ‘been ai missionary in Itidaa for the last 16 years. Mr Long spoke, on Gandhi’s‘movement for home rule m India, ■ his efforts to establish cottonspinning in every household ini order to oust the Brisith articles, and) his idea- of bringing in the outcastsrior the formation of a united India. > Even: it the Christian mission were not obtaining many convert®, it was permeating India with the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The .speaker gave instance® of the gradual change of heart in India, and strongly * appealed _ for more missionaries.—Lyttelton Times. . Centuries, ago the tripping round the Paoific of the ancient Maori voyagers makes exploration to-day seem tame. A Livingstone-Stanley meeting in the heart of Africa dwindles in the light of the casual meeting between two navigators in different directions bound at the Kermadeos. .This encounter had its repercussion on life in the .butterfat province to-day.. On© of those doughty .sailors met a fellow-voyager with all the “info” about the new land to the south, and Had it on apparently the best of authority that the territory in the neighbourhood l of Paten was unsettled. This, however, proved unreliable, the original iword supplied by Kupe having been’ rendered unreliable by the subsequent arrival of Melanesian people and possibly other Maoris in these .parts before the land 1 was definitely occupied'by three canoes of the great migration. This incident was reJated by the Rev. J. H. Fletcher, who gave a great address to the Hawera Rotary Club yesterday. “We are thoroughly satisfied that we are on the biggest alluvial field ever worked in New" Zealand.” This reaissuring statement for many who have speculated in the venture to* mine the Kawarau Company was made by Ray Powell for the Consolidates • Kiawarau Company. “But it. is going to take time land patience to. work the Kawarau, ’ ’ Mr. Powell added; The policy of the Consolidated Company was to hasten slowly, gathering iall the possible data before any decision is reached as to the actual plant to be used. The Coring operations are to be continued during the summer months, Mr. Powell stated, and ah the same time a certain number of men would be kept together developing an. exceptionally promising lead which* • had been .discovered running in from the bank of the claim,on (Jibbston Flat. That the Kawar.au was an extremely rich ground had been definitely demonstrated. “The fact that during the ten days of prospecting we founds gold when we .reached virgin, ground, and Avhenever we found gold it was richer the further we .went down,” stated Mr. POwell. “should inspire considerable, confidence in the river.”

An announcement appearing in the news columns of Wednesday last, has been misunderstood in some, quarters. The fact that Messrs Mortlock and; Co. have purchased a portion, of _ the V.aimate Plains Da.irv Co. 'bui’lding has been taken, to mean 1 that--the dairy company has ceased operations. The announcement has to _be very much distorted to convey the. impression that the whole of the dairy company’s premises has been disposed of. To make the. matter quite, clear, we have to repeat that a portion onlv of the company’s? property was acquired, and the companv i s carrying on as usual! in that portion of the building which has been used in .the past.

More of those precious Ruby Ring, full-fashioned silk stockings. Another arrival at the Melbourne, Ltd. A galaxy of the season’s elected brilliant shimmering shades. A queen’s ransom in silk of unbelievable beauty—l2/6 pair—means a great saving through long service and most charming hosiery, appearance. See window display.— Advt. ..' j

At a mcciing of the general connmtteo of ithe Hawera Trotting Club last evening, the sum of £5 5s was voted to the prize fund of the Egmont A. and P. Association, and £3 3s to tho prize fund of the Royal Agricultural Society; for trotting horse events. Reference was made in our personal columns on Thursday to the discharge from Hawera Hospital of Mr. H. Sped- , ding. We have since learned that'the gentleman concerned was Mr H. Stebbing, who had been operated on for the’ removal of a piece of shrapnel in the upper part of his right arm. Tills fragment had entered Mr Stebbing’s arm over eight years ’ ago, and it was only recently located some distance" from the place where it. originally struck him. ,

Yesterday morning two buses of the Peninsula. Motor Service, Ltd., Dunedin, ran into each other id rounding a corner on the Portobello Road, which at that point is "not comfortably wide. The windscreens were broken, and one passenger, Leslie Galbraith, was severely injured; about the eyes and was bruised, about the arms, necessitating his removal to hospital. Two other passengers wer© so injured by the flying glass as to need medical attention, but they were able to go to their; homes later. Other passengers received sundry cuts that were not at all serious. After a long debate lasting over two ■sittings, the Diocesan Synod at Christchurch last- night decided to postpone for a year the proposal to apply to Parliament for legislation making it lawful for the General Synod to alter or amend provisions declared by the constitution to be fundamental. The effect of the legislation, if carried, will be to* give autonomy to the Church in New Zealand. The* proposal to; break the 'bond with the United Church of England and Ireland, which is> no longer in existence, was strongly advocated by Bishou West-Wat-son.