LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 April 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., will give an address at the Winter Show Build-ings’to-morrow night, dealing with the Labour Party’s land policy and thequestion of uairy control. Up to a late hour last night there was no sign ot the. missing train pens, Desmond Scanlon and Roy Diedric'h, who were lost on the Tararua range last Friday week. Heavy rain has been falling on the ranges for some days past. The meeting of the householders at Patea was presided over by Mr E C. Wood. The following committee was elected: Messrs D. Findlay, C. H. Carey, C. H. Fairweather, T. .1. Scott, E .Moore, J. Dunlop, E. C. Wood. The committee elected Mr Wood as chairman, and Mr Finlay as secretary. The cost of a single front-page advertisement in the London ‘’Daily Mail” is £I4OO. A front-page occupied by a prospectus or financial announcement costs up to £1750. The cheapest single inch in an inside page costs £O. Yet the demand for advertising space is unfailing. The £I4OO front page of the “Daily Mail’’ is booked up for the whole of 1927, with the exception of five days. DON’T WATT. To check a cold, commence taking Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy immediately you notice the first symptoms. Do not wait until the next day and give it a chance to settle in your system. If you take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy freely as soon as the cold appears, you will check it in a day. Sold by Chamberlains Ltd., 520 Riley St., Sydney.—Advt.

In the report of the Hawera Anzae Day service, the Rev. H. J. Fletcher was reported as saying that he had six nephews, four brothers and one sister at the landing on Gallipoli. This should have read six nephews (four brothers, sons of one sister).

Fish of an unknown variety in the district were captured in large numbers in Whangarei Harbour recently (says the “Auckland Star”). -I number were captured by trolling, and, as their flesh turned a. yellow-pink hue when cooked, the conclusion was reached that they belonged to the salmon tribe. Their contour seemed also to corroborate this theory, and it would be of interest to ascertain whether quinnat salmon from southern watei’S are migrating to northern regions. Burglars continue their activities in Auckland. The shop of 11. Jai'fe, tailor, Queen Street, was entered during the week-end, and clothes valued, at £125 were stolen. Entry was gained through walking along the roof of the premises at the back of the shop, and breaking a window of the work-room. The Minister, Hon, Nosworthy, announced at Marion last night, that the Postal ’Department had just concluded the best year since its inception. The total receivpts were £3,220,636, payments were £2,346,270 and the surplus was £874,396. During xhe past two years, the revenue had increased by £320,000 and the expenditure had decreased by £70,000. There was an unusual incident at a football match on Saturday when Fielding played - a friendly game against the Hui Alai team from Horowhenuo.. When the teams filed on to the field two Feildng players, who are members of the Slaugn ter man’s Union, informed the president that they would not play unless two other players who had worked as voluntary butchers during the recent trouble were ordered off. The president at once ordered off the two unionists who had made the threat and the game proceeded without them. A meeting of business men and farmers, held at Pahiatua yesterday, the Mayor presiding, was addressed by Air J. B. Mac Ewan (Wellington) and Air D. Caselberg (Alasterton). It resolved that all the compulsory clauses of the Control Act should be repealed as soon as possible, and that all dairy factories should have the right to dispose of their products to the best advantage of all concerned. An amendment expressing appreciation to the speaker for his explanation of the position. but reserving a decision till those concerned had heard Air W. Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Board, was lost !>y 48 votes to 35.

A well-known resident of New Plymouth was walking during the Easter holidays, through the upper parts of Pukekura Park towards “Brook’lands” in company with a visiting friend. Both were "charmed with the beauty of the locality, to which was added the bell-like song of the tui, and presently the bird was spied in the branches of the trees above/ the visitors. At the same moment, however, a rustle in the undergrowth close by attracted attention, and two men were seen crouching, apparently stalking, the tui, and before the visitors realised the true purpose of what was happening both men produced shangais from their pockets and fired at the bird. The astonished visitors at once gave chase to these vandals, but the latter eluded their pursuers, and made their escape “Taranaki Herald.”

The day of rich, fertile flats, which required iittle or no manure, is practically gone for ever as far a.s New Zealand is concerned (says the Auckland “Sun”). To obtain profitable results from the land to-day, the farmer must be prepared to put back into it what be takes out. In other words, he must be prepared to work his ground, and apply the requisite quantity of fertilisers." It is useless for farmers to adopt half-measures. No saving method which starves the land ever paid. If a fanner is .so situated, financially or otherwise, that lie cannot afford to pay flic necessary attention to his •land, and work it with a view to obtaining the highest scale of profitable production, then he would be better engaged in some other line of industry. Admittedly, many farmers may be financially distressed, but there is always one way to success, and that by intensive farming. Half-measure, are useless.

A remarkable Syrian lady, Airs. Zambucka, died on April 15 at the Auckland hospital, in her ninety-eighth year. At the age of 96, says an exchange Mrs Zambucka was in the liahit of walking four miles each day, and she enjoyed excellent health up to a few weeks ago, when she had the misfortune to fracture her leg, which necessitated her admission to the hospital. Airs Zambucka had lived in New Zealand about 17 years. Alost of her life was spent in the village of Alachghara, in Syria, threee day’s journey on foot from Jerusalem, but she has lived in other parts of the same region. The great event of her life, from which everything else dated, was the massacre of 3000 Christians by Alohammedans at Damascus in July, 1860,' She was in the city at the time, a married woman with several children. The Alohammedans burned the Christian quarter. and made thousands homeless, but she and her husband and children escaped unhurt. On account of religious and political strife the family had to move to Beirut and other places. Airs Zambucka used to state that her father lived to the age of 112 years, and then was killed by a wall falling on him.