LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 June 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Among the remits passed by the Public Service conference at. Wellington were several dealing with superannuation, increased pensions to widows, legislation to enable a Government, contribution to the .superannuation fund to be .paid automatically, removal of the fimii.tiaition of the maximum payment to £4OO per annum, and that a minimum wage of £209 15s be granted to all officers except partly disabled men.

Differences ibetween Mr. Jones, the Mayor of Eastbourne, and the majority of (lib's council regarding the transport services culminated yesterday at Wellington (in the resignation of Mr Jones, who has taken the step because, in his opinion, the new time-tables and restijicbions. will impose hardship upon lesidentts and iiTetnievabie loss on the borough•

The causes of fire are interesting. During the past twelve months there were 48 actual fires in Wanganui. The fo'Jowing is a list of causes of outbreaks :—Plumbers’ blow lamps, 1; boiling tar, 1; boiling fat on stove, 1; careless use of matches, 8; careless use of candles, 2; cigarette smoking, 4; crackers in window® igniting, 1; fusing of electric wires, 5: hot ashes, 1 ; overflow of petrol into hot exhaust, 2; overheated exhaust pipe, 1; sparks, from, copper fires, 5; spark® from furnaces , 2: sparks from cigarette coming into contact with floor stain,_ 1; spirit lamp catching fire, 1; _ switch left on. connecting with electric iron, 1; water coming in contact with dime, 1; unknown. 8.

New fish hatcheries for rearing trout ova have been established on the banks of the Waibukahuka lliver, a few miles from Tokaanu (Auckland), which is one of the most popular fishing grounds of the Dominion. 'Several of the buildings used by the Royal party in Kowhai camp are occupied by men engaged in the work. The hatcheries were inspected by the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. R. F. Bollard) on Saturday. The Minister expressed himself as well pleased at the number of trout in the river available for stripping; and at the methods and work of the staff. It was stated that when the hatcheries •ire in full working order a good many lakes and rivers of the Dominion will benefit.

When ,supporting the o’,aim.s ■ of. Xsrunguru settlers for provision of a better means of road access to Whnncraroi than exists at present, Mr E. T. Armstrong quoted '.some statistics relative to Dig district. He said this season’s supply of cream to the Hiknramri clairv factorv, via Die murid about roml to ]\f utnpoviri a*na Mama, was 151 . 6661 b. or about 60,0001 b or butter-fa.t. Tfe> wealth accruing to ‘•et tiers was -£4014 b”t ro less than £333 6s. or nean-U- 10 per cent, of that amount was mid for cartage, which avoraced 1 2-~d '.l< Ano+her thing from which the ' rl-striri. suffered was t>o, ainc'int of native land in the ridjn<r which was not valued high, as otv>o|'wise ff. could he sold. The mutilation of public library periodicals and other papers in New Zealand is a frequent complaint, and as a rule the culprits are not found out. In Wellington the other day, however, a woman was detected mutilating .a. periodical, and action was taken to prevent a recurrence of the offence. The chairman of the library committee (Councillor J. Burns) said that there had not been many such offences for some time, as a system had been instituted whereby people who nilfered or mutilated books were more easily detected than was the case previously. He did not mean that Scotland Yard methods had been adopted in the library, but it was necessary to have supervision of isome kind. The woman concerned had made res tit. ution. Many people thought they could enter the library and mutilate books as they liked, and it was necessary to correct the idea. Offenders could rest assured that in 9!) cases out of 100 thev would not “get- away with it.” AN UNWELCOME GLOBE TROTTER. His name is influenza. He has caused much sickness in the Old World, and now seeks a passage to our shores, where lie would like to spend the winter. Don’t let him land. Pulmonas sucked slowly in the mouth release protective vapoiirs which check influenza., colds, coughs, sore throats, etc. Pulmonas, 1/C and 2/G. —Advt. 6