LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Everyone is looking forward with monc or less confidence to the opening of the Avoo'l-senhng season * (says the ‘Waikato Times”), for there is a feeling that prices are going to bo right, and that with an active and buoyant market the clouds of depression which have b2en hanging over our .pastoral industry will, for a tirnej at least, be swept away. Last year over £I7OO worth ,of toheroas were exported from the lvaipara district. This New Zealand shellfish is gaining in favour in many countries for soup, and its popularity ranks with the Aldprman’s turtle on the menus of dinners and banquets. The Afa-heno’-s departure from Auckland for Sydney tost night was. delayed for two hours through the absence of several firemen. It was reported the men were attending a dance in thc-ei't-y. The vessel finally .sailed at haifpiast eleven.

St. John’s Instate has been fortunate i,n arranging for an elocutionary recital to be given by Rev John Paterson, M.A., of Wanganui, on Thursday next Bth instant. Mr. Paterson is recognised as one of the foremost elocutionists in the Dominion, ami a fine evening’s entertainment iis promised. For further particulars see advertisement- On page one of this issue. At a meeting of the Taranaki, Education Board, held in committee yesterday, in New Plymouth the rumoured proposal to abolish the boards was discussed and afterwards it was reported that the chairman (Mr. S. G. Smith) and Canon J. L. A. Kayll had. been appointed a sub-com-mittee to report on theNsubjeet to- the next meeting of the board. A considerable amount of pillaging was carried out on board the Shaw Savill and Albion steamer tPakeha at the Princes wharf at Auckland tun ig the week-end. Thieves broke .-ato No. (i hold and broached about a dozen cases of merchandise, the articles stolen consisting of men’s and ladies’ clothing, silverware and cutlery. The theft took place after cargo operations had ceased on Saturday. The police and ship’s officers made a thorough search of the vessel and recovered most of tli - stolen goods, which had been concealed in one of the life-boats and in other hiding places on board. —Press Assn. An action for £IOOO damages for trespass and wrongful • conversion was commenced 'in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday by Edward Taylor, Wellington, against- Combined Buyers, Ltd. The claim set- out tih-at the defendant company without leave or license bad entered plaintiff's-, garage at Wai-roa and removed; goods held by plaintiff and sold them. He also- alleged that he bad preventec. from carrying on business. Tllie defence alleged tlie goods bad been removed according to rights of contract-. —-Pres® Association. Examinations for .promotion and first appointment for commissions in the Territorial, forces are to be held at file Defence Headquarters, Hawera„ commencing on Tuesday next. In preparation for tlie examination twelve candidates are undergoing a course oi instruction this week daily, parades being held from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. and students being set for individual evening work. The instructors lor the course are the Group Gom man dei (Major D. E. Bremer, M.C-.), the Area Officer (Lieut. J. N. Henry), Captains B. W. -Harvey and G. H. Weir and S.-S.M. A. E-'. Stevens and S.S.M. G. Quayle.

The rain of last night, which was .succeeded bv a very hea-w downpour between 8 and 9 o’clock this morning, proved a severe tax on the street drainage system, of Hawera, and) shortly before 9 o’clock water-tables adjacent to various intersections w/ere unable to cone with the -storm water, which inundated roadways land sidewalks. The tax on the drains was part-icularW heavy on a portion bf High Street in the vicinity of Wilson .Street, where for a distance of some 40 yards the thoroughfare showed, for some 20 minutes, as a slowly - moving -stream, bordered on. jpit-her -side- by a narrow strip of pathway along which pedestrians- picked a- careful passage, white vehicles on the roadway /splashed through the flood. Other intersections in the central area at which footpaths were partially and -in some eases wholny ■submerged included a scene at the i unction of Princes and Furlong 'Streets where early callers to an office had to wade through water several inches deep and the running board of a ear standing inear the kerb- was awash. Approximately half an mob-of rain fell between 8 and 9 o’clock, but with the -sub-seouent lessening _of its intensity, the storm waters gradually subsided.