LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Feilding Collie Club’s annual trials, the head, pull and drive competition resulted: Colin Thom’s Gloaming (49£ points) 1, F. King’s entry (47 J) 2, E. England’s Black (46) 3.

The Southland Winter Show at Invercargill was opened yesterday by Sir Joseph Ward in splendid weather and before a record attendance. The entries numbered 3245, against 1749 last year, including the children’s sections". The open- championship for cheese was won by Brown’s Dairy Company, with Kdendale second, Momona third, and Omimi fourth. William Gordon Holmes, aged nine years, was knocked down and killed by a motor-lorry in Fanshawc Street, Auckland, yesterday afternoon. The accident apparently occurred as the lorry ivas passing two stationary vehicles, round which some boys, ineluding the deceased, were playing. — Press Assn.

In a report to the Meat Board upon the -lambs exhibited at Smithfield and bred by W. A. Thomson, Kairanga, the English- judge states that the display of such a fine consignment of lambs again created a feeling that New Zealand stands ‘supreme in producing the best- .lambs imported to the Home Country, -stated a Palmerston North mesasge.

The election at AVellington of eight members to the Academic Board of New Zealand by professors resulted as follows: Professors W. Anderson (Auckland), J. Rankin Brawn (Victoria). J. Hight (Canterbury), T. A. Hunter (Victoria), J. K. H. Inglis (Otago), R. Jack (Otago). H. W. Sega-r (Auckland), and A. Wall (Canterbury).

In connection with, the typographical industrial dispute before the Conciliation Council, finality was not reached at Wellington yesterday, considerable difficulty .being experienced in respect to rates and nouns. The council will meet again to-day, when it is expected that representatives of the companies will be in a position to submit proposals which may tend to assist materially in overcoming the difficulty. _ Burglaries in Auckland continue, states an Auckland message. A house in Epsom was broken into on Monday night when three of the family were in^another room playing music. The burglar broke the two safety chains that had been placed on the window because of previous attempts, and dashed away with a purse containing £lO in banknotes which had been left lying on the 'bed. The washhouse at the house of Mr. Bradley, a contractor, at Mount JRoskill, was broken into on Sunday night, land three pounds of gelignite, used in drainage work, was stolen. With liabilities of £1284 and assets of £25, Robert Isaac hove, a bankrupt farmer of Makuri, unfolded a story of hardship to the Deputy Official A>ssignee iat Pahiatua yesterday. Bankrupt in February, 1920, bought a sheep farm of 450 acres at Makun, on winch the mortgage amounted to over £3500. The farm he stocked with sheep and cattle. Three hundred lambs cost him 19s per head, 250 ewes 35s 6d per head, 10 heifers in calf £8 each, and 2 milking cows £6. He was on .the property five months when the slump came. He got very poor prices for hiis stock and •wool. The wethers he bought for 35s each brought him only £l. The other stock was shown in comparison. He did not take enough from the property to pay the interest on the mortgages. No creditors attended the meeting.—Press Assn.

The Prime Minister the Right Hon. J. G. Coates inspected at Auckland, the plans of a proposal by a company to erect in the city a new hotel, embracing the latest English and Continental ideas, at an estimated cost of £204,300. Mr Coates said that such an hotel was badly needed in Aiickland, because most of fclie tourists landed there, Another hotel was needed in Dunedin to serve the Cold Lakes district. An improvement was needed at Rotorua and Queenstown, Then the Dominion would not be badly served. If private enterprise provided for tourists, the Government would cooperate through the Tourist and Railway Departments. It is estimated that the new hotel can be run at 27s 6d a day for the best room, including everything.