LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 August 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Commencing the current year's training the C Company, Hawera Senior Cadets, under Capt. G. H. Weir, is parading nightly this week for an intensive course which will take the place of the ordinary night parades for a period of three months. The consecutive parades of three hours each, besides proving popular with the trainees, allow a better syllabus to be arranged and carried out than the usual parades and when first adopted by the company, during the last training year, proved highly successful. Following Friday evening’s parade a social is to be held in the Savoy team rooms.

■ According to a report from Southland there is now a permanent resident in Doughboy Bay, one of the most inaccessible bays of Stewart Island. Last month Mr Adam Adamson of ambergris fame, was landed there with equipment and stores to last six months.. A cargo of building timber was to follow, hut so far the weather has not been suitable to risk visiting this exposed quarter. In the meantime, Mr Adamson has made a temporary homo in a- fine sheltered cave which he discovered well back from the beach. This cave had evidently been used in the early days by sealers and whalers, as numerous initials and indistinct names are cut into the stone walls. In bygone days the Maoris made a yearly expedition to Doughboy Bay to collect lampreys, which are numerous there in their season.

Advice that applications for employment under the canteen funds rebel scheme have been lodged by 42 Returned soldiers, 31. of whom are married and almost, all having dependants, has been received by Mr. R. McGay, of Hawera, iseoretury of the Taranaki area committee, from the New Plymouth R.S.A. The northern association also advises of its endeavours to arrange l’or employment with local bodies ot the district. Its application, for the subsidy will ibe considered by the committee as soon as particulars are received. Two further , applications have been lodged locally, making five in all from the Hawera district.

An interesting example of chickens having been counted before they were hatched is reported to have occurred recently in Christchurch, (says the “Press’’). The mortgagees of' a certain property, assuming that the amount of the mortgage would not be paid on due date, had a plan of the supposed subdivision of the property made and submitted to the City Council. by which body it was not approved. In the meantime a. syndicate had made arrangements with the owner of the land and found the amount of the mortgage, which was (duly discharged On the syndicate’s behalf a new plan of the proposed subdivision of the property was prepared and was approved by the City Council. A sum of one or two thousand pounds is said to have been lost to those who imagined that the mortgage would not be discharged.