LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 May 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lhving to the Rarawa being unable to cross the bar this morning she will now leave New Plymouth on Friday, 20th Inst. A meeting of farmers and townspeople is advertised for Monday evening next at Hawera, when Mr W. J. Poison Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, will speak on “Present Day Problems,” os affecting both town and' country. Those interested in athletic and horse events will find plenty to interest them at Mokoia sports to-mor-row. An attractive programme, designed to oater for all tastes has been drawn up and it is expected that the fixture will be one of the best held in the district.

The Westport Coal Company’s Millerton mine was ict'e yesterday, a stop work meeting beirts held to consider certain grievances of the miners. It is understood that work will be resumed to-day, but that efforts will 'be made to have the cause of the trouble removed.

. Public bequests under the will of the late Mr John Gibson, of New Plymouth, are as follows: —Whiteley Church Trust, New Plymouth, £500; Methodist Foreign Missions, Auckland, £500; Methodist Orphanage, Mt Albert, Auckland, £100; New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Trade, Wellington, £IOO.

The Auckland Electric Power Board has arranged for a loan in Australia of £150,000, being the balance of a loan of £650,000 for the extension of its reticulation, on the most .satisfactory terms. It is for 21 years at 5 per cent. The price will be 94 net in Auckland, bringing tbe interest up to 5-l per cent. The best London offer received was £5 12s 6d per cent. The Minister of Pensions (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) at Wellington yesterday told a South Africian War Veterans’ deputation that giving war pensions as a matter of right was not sound in principle. He promised to place before Cabinet the requests for an increase.

At the annual meeting of the Kapuni Hall Society a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr L. C. Harrison for his valuable work as chairman during the past three years. Acknowledging the compliment, Mr Harrison said) he would be pleased; still to help, but did not wish to continue to act as chairman.

A curious and unexpected accident happened to Mrs. T. SShearin, of Auroa Road yesterday. It appears she was burning some rubbish in a stove and put in the fire an old coat. There was an explosion and a detonator cap, apparently left in the pocket, embedded itself in a leg. The injured lady was removed to Kaponga where' she received medical attention by Dr. Ho-ckin.

When the matter of establishing a branch of the Maori Arts and) Crafts School for Wanganui was mooted last Easter, a suggestion was considered by those already as being altogether visionary. One of the first moves of those wno have sponsored the new Wanganui Maori Ethnological Society is to do their utmost to demonstrate that in andi about Wanganui are experts who are quite able to demonstrate Maori arts and crafts and are quite capable of conducting a permanent . exhibition. Accordingly, details_ are being discussed in connection with the demonstration, to cover a week, when day by day a number of experts l will be engaged in carving, mat making, etc. The location has not been fixed! as yet, but there is no doubt that the demonstration will arouse much interest locally.