LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manaia Municipal Brass Band will render a programme to-night in the Rotunda, commencing at 7.30 p.m.

To-morrow (Sunday) afternoooi the Hawefa Methodist Choir will give a sacred concert at the Old Men’s Home, commencing at 3.50 p.m. The Haweia Highland Pipe Band will parade at the Hawera Methodist Church on Sunday morning. In the evening the Rev. W. J. Oxbrow is anounced to preach on “We would see Jesus.” Special anthems will be rendered by the choir.

A young man named D. McFall, in the employ of the Mapara Timber Company, was killed on Thursday in the busli, stated a Te Kuiti message. He was riding on a loaded truck pulled by a tractor, and when the truck was crossing a stream the bridge collapsed and the logs fell on McFall.

As to the question of protection for secondary industries, the Prime Minister, the Bight Hon. J. G. Coates at Auckland said, that the general principle should be that encouragement should be given to industries which were likely to be successful and of value to the country, so that New Zealand would have an industrial population which would assist the producers when they were encountering difficulties like those at'present being experienced in the principal overseas market. Sound secondary industries which gave employment to many people were of importance to the Dominion.

One of the most disastrous wrecks in the history of New Zealand shipping, that of the steamer Tararua, which took place off the entrance to the Mataura Biver, Southland, in a heavy fog, on 28th April, 1881, was recalled at a meeting of the Southland County Council the other day. Several letters were received complaining about the neglected state of the cemetery near the reef on which the ship struck. It was stated that the graveyard, which contains over a jiundred bodies of the drowned, was rapidly becoming a wilderness, and the Medical Officer of Health at Dunedin (Dr J H. Crawshaw) wrote asking the .council, as trustees of the cemetery, to clean off the gorse and weeds which have overrun it. ■ After discussion the council’s engineer was instructed to make an estimate of the cost of putting the graveyard in order, and to ask the Government to give a £1 for £1 subsidy. The Tararua was a U.S.S. Company steamer of 563 tons net, and was commanded by Captain Garrard when she struck the Otara reef. She had a crew of about 30, and about 103 passengers. All the women were drowned, and all the children but one. The men who were saved numbered between 15 and 20, but Captain Garrard was among those drowned.

Nominations closed at Wellington yesterday for three vacancies on the Dairy Board. They are: Ward 3, Messrs W. Goodfellow and F. Lye, M.P.; Ward 4, Messrs H. D. Forsyth and J. Hine; Ward 7, Messrs H. T. Chapman and J. R. Thacker. The election by ballot, closes on June 15. Unemployment in Dunedin is steadily increasing. On Monday 185 names (100 married and 85 single men) appeared on the Labour Department's books, but the number had increased to 245 by Friday, 130 being married men and 115 single men. The Trades Hall reported that no development in the situation were expected before Wednesday. The Government Publicity Office has made arrangements to take a film record for distribution abroad of aspects of the tour of the Dominion by the Canadian Association football team, which is to commence next week These will be secured for exhibition throughout Canada and probably other parts of the Empire, and also the United States. Each member of tlie team will be presented with an album of Dominion views.

Detailed design of the proposed new concrete Moturoa Wharf at New Plymouth were placed before the Harbour Board on Thursday by Mr G. W. B. Lawson, resident engineer, and were unanimously approved. The plans are to be submitted to the Marine Department and if they are approved, tenders will be called for the work. The wharf and sheds are expected to cost in the neighbourhood of £400,000 and will be on most up-to-date lines. Sir James Allen .stated at Wellington yesterday that the following delegates had been appointed to attend the conference at Honolulu of the Institute of Pacific Relations: Dr. P. Buck and Mr. W. H. Cocker (Auckland), Mr. W. Nadi (Wellington), and Mr. -J. E. Strachan, M.A. (Canterbury). Neither Sir James Allen nor Dr. G. H. Scholefield could go. It was quite impossible for Sir George Richardson, Administrator of Samoa, who was also invited, to go.