LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 May 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The farmers’ train to the Waikato Show, went through Hawera this morning; leaving • for south at 10.40 a.m. There were about seventy aboard when the train left. Several officers of the Agricultural Department will travel with them and will talk to the passengers on subjects of interest to farmers.

Liu response to an invitation from the Gisborne Harbour Board, Mir F. W. Furkert, Engineer-in-Chief, is visiting Gisborne to pass his opinion on the new harbour works. The proposal originated from a discussion at the board’s last meeting as to the value and cost of stone at the Whareongaonga quarry, now being used for the new works. Mr Furkert was welcomed at the board meeting yesterday, and later retired from the "meeting to make further investigations. As the matter is urgent, Mr Furkert undertook to make his report on the Whaneongaonga quarry before leaving Gisborne.

The Compensation Court, his Honour Mr Justice Reed (President), and Mr C R. Smith and Mfl E. R. Reynolds (assessors'!, sat at Dunedin yesterday to resume the hearing of the claim by Isabella McMillan against the Dunedin Fire Board for £3500 as compensation for her property in Castle Street, which is being taken as a site for the new fire brigade station. Judgment was given for complainant for £2BOO and costs £3l 10s and each assessor’s fee of £2l. Respondent’s assessor dissented from the award.

The auxiliary schooner Isabella de Frame (Captain Kennedy), whilst going up Hokianga harbour, struck a submerged log off Karaka Point, which knocked a hole in the forward part of her hull. The pumps were manned, but finding the vessel making water, the caotain beached the vessel and plugged the hole up with a isack of flour. The cargo is considerably damaoied and. is now being unloaded at Ra.wene wharf, after which the vessel will be beached •at Kohukohu for repairs. It is fortunate the accident happened where it did, as if the schooner had struck outside the bar there would have been great risk of total loss. Meat imported into Great Britain during the first three months of the present year included 282 tons of beef and veal, 12,580 tons of mutton and lamb, and 191 tons of pork exported from New eZaland under the aegis of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. Compared Avith last year’s figures for the corresponding period, beef and mutton show a slight decline, and pork a very substantial increase. Of the totals imported ipto Great Britain, New Zealand's percentage was as follows: Beef, .403; mutton, 34.8; pork, 1.87.

Mr. Percival Taylor, of Wanganui, who was one of those injured in the tragedy which occurred on Mount Egmont on May 11, is now reported to be progressing well, but it will still be several weeks before he will have regained normal health. The lad Dennis Allan, who also suffered injuries, has returned to school. In the meantime the inquest on the two victims of the accident, Messrs. Fenton Latham and Noel Baines, is being held up until (Mir. Taylor’s condition improves sufficiently for him to give, evidence.