LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 January 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fif tv-two senior cadet non-commis-sioned" officers of Taranaki Regiment ncre passengers by the south express this morning en route to Trentham where they are to undergo a week ® refresher training course- »tatt Sergeant Major Rowe, of Stratford, was in charge of the party.

Shortly before nine o’clock this morning a. householder m Wilson St. threw some hot ashes on a heap oi rubbish, which caught alight. Bccomincr alarmed at the prospect of the flame® reaching >a hedge, .a call was .riven to the fire brigade, which was quickly on the scene and extinguished the blaze with a garden hokse.

Great -excrement is prevailing among .some of the local Maoris this week, writes the Mokau correspondent of the Taranaki Herald. It is stated that the shifting sand has uncovered the Tokomam canoe at Mohakatino river heads, so that at low tide more of it is visible than there ha.s been lor the last 40 years. This canoe has. a great value among natives, as it is one of the original canoes in which the Maoris came to New Zealand. The canoe was wrecked at, the mouth of the Mohakatino liver, and has become petrified.

The Chief Secretary and Minister of Health of Victoria (Dr. Argyle), who is at present in New Zealand, is en route to the United States, where he will consult with the authorities of the Rockefeller Foundation in relation to the pioposed subsidy for medical research work in Victoria. Dr. Argyle will first attend the Medical Congress at Dunedin next month.

The contract for the sea wall at Thorn don, Wellington, has been completed. The first contract was for a concrete wall 3429 ft in length and the contract price was £181,794; a second contract lor an extra. 450 ft (making a total of 3879 f t) was let, but the price is not given. The area that will be reclaimed is 08 acres, and the wall will provide a base nearly threequarters of a mile long for berths for ocean-going steamers, with an average depth of 30 to 40ft. At the KaiwTirra end the denth of water is 53ft. the total height of the wall at this point being 01ft, The reclamation is bnin<r done coniointlv by the Harbour Board and the" Railway Department; pnmiicallv one-fourth of the total nrpe is dry land at, present, and the reclamation is expected to bo l completed hv the end of the next year.

At about 5.30 p.m, on Thursday a motor-car driven by Reginald Burnett Gosnoll, of Hawera. bound from Opunake to Hawera, and a. motor-cycle c,-i l i ving two riders came into collision at the intersection of the Auroa and Sheet roads. The motor-cycle was driven by Percy Gatonby, farmer, of Awatuna, with a pillion rider, Edward Hill, a factory hand at To Kiri. Gatonby was thrown from his cycle and sustained ants and abrasions on the right log and abrasions to his face. Neither Hill nor Gosnell were in jured. Beyond a punctured front tyre of the cycle, neither machine was damaged. In response to telephonic, communication a JCaponga doctor arrived on the scene and attended to the only sufferer, who was later convoyed to the Hawera Hospital bv a near-by farmer. He is reported to be making favourable progress.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that the duo date of payment of the income tax is on Tuesdayj the Bth day of February, 1927. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before Ist March, 1927. The demands will be posted’ from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes on or about olst January, 1927. Demands must.be presented "with all payments .and if .a demand has uot been received the Commissioner should be communicated with. Two statutory first offenders who came to town yesterday and made endeavours to .slake the thirst contracted during hay-making operations, were convicted of drunkenness by Mr. E. Dixon, J.P., in the Haivera Police Court’this morning, each being fined os. One was invested at 12.55 p.m. in Princes Street by Constable Lemm, and the other by Constable Tocher about an hour later in. the same thoroughfare. Both inTormed the bench that they were leaving town immediately in search of work. The final curtain has been rung down on the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. The liquidators fulfilled all their obligations when they met the shareholders at Alie recent meeting. The liquidators have handed to the Dunedin City Council a number of books and papers, the company s seal, a sample of the award medal, and various documents other than . the books of account, which will remain in the possession of the chairman oi directors, Mr. J. S. Ross, C.M.G., for two years. Mr. Spence, the secretary of the company, is arranging for a trip to the Old Country with his wife and will leave Dunedin on January 27. When walking along the ocean beach at the foot of Karioi Hills at Raglan (Auckland) a party of visitors discovered the skeleton of a man, which had been exposed by the drifting hand. The party buried the skeleton. During storms human skeletons are frequently uncovered at this spot. The skeletons are rewarded as those of natives who died Sr were buried there many years ago. Greenstone meres and other Maori curios have also been found among the skeletons.

The visiting Wairarapa cricketers wore much impressed with the excellent reserves held by the Borough Council, due to the long vision of the early public men of Hawera. They were also impressed with the enterprise shown oy and liberal assistance to the sports bodies of the town—cricket, tennis, bowling and croquet —by the councils of recent years, and considered that the members of these_ clubs cnioved privileges as great as, if not greater, than any town outside the big centres. The playing area ,of the cricket ground was a great joy to them, one of the best they had seen: of the outfield they could not speak too highly. They also enjoyed seeing the gardens, while the view" of the mountain from the park was a never ending pleasure and delight.

It j« many years now since the trimly-built Robamahiann. .sailed on the New " Zealand coasts, where she was recognised a® about the fastest steamei then owned 1 by the Union Steam Ship Company. She was transferred from the New Zealand service to Tasmania, where she added further to the laurels she litad gained in New Zealand as a record-breaker. For several years now the vessel has been laid rip in Melbourne and recent advices state that she was fold by the company for break-ing-up, and that in the work of destruction the new owner made a lucky discovery. It appears that in the bottom of the hull there had been placed some 9(X) tons of lead, presumably for ballast and that it had been put there so long aoo that its presence had been forgotten." The discovery by the shipbreaker of this lead, with the other parts of which be was able to find a ready market, is -said to have enabled him'to make L'l 0.000 on his transaction . ' A sensational incident, involving the burglary of a building followed by the destruction of the premises by fire and the apprehension of a youth in a speed boat on the Tamaki River, occurred at Panmure on Thursday evening (states a Press Association message from Auckland). A confectionery shop was broken into and a subsequent fire destroyed the whole building in which the shop was located, .comprising plumbing find confectionery shops, bootmaking workshop and garage. The following morning a resident of Panmure discovered that his speed boat was missing from its moorings, but soon afterwards he picked it out some two miles down the river where it was anchored. He went in pursuit in a rowing beat and a youth in the. speed boat was captured and later arrested. A quantity of tobacco and confectionery was found under the seat of the boat. The premises destroyed by fire were valued at £BSO and were only insured for £3OO. Only confectionery to the value of xIOO was insured,"other stocks of bootmaking equipment, and plumbing and garage tools each valued at £SO were not covered.

“Play Safe” was the excellent advice tendered to motorists and pedestrians by the medium oi' film which, by arrangement with the South Taranaki Automobile Association was shown at the Opera House last evening and which will he repeated tonight. This film which has been prepared by collaboration of the United states Department of the Interior, the American Automobile Association, and the American Motor Traders had been purchased by New Zealand automobile association and is being circulated over the Dominion. “Play Safe” stressed that the motor car was a mighty servant of mankind, but the privileges if afforded were often abused by careless motorists and pedestrians. It pointed out that in the United States 15.090 lives were lost last year as a result of motor accidents, almost all of these could he attributed to carelessness on the parts of drivers and pedestrians. Instances of the results of carelessness were forcibly displayed, and should to a large extent if the fdin’s advice were followed, make for greater safety on our roads.

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