LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 September 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local Operatic Society has been granted exemption from amusement tax for its season of “The Arcadians.”

The opening day of the third term at the Uawera. High -School Avill be to-morrow (Tuesday), aaul the headmaster (Mr. A. Gray) will bp gLad to interview parents o ; f prospective pupils. Mrs. Marienne Smith, of Auckland, having been apprised of the need for a chapel in connection with Wesley College at Paera.ta, has generously offered to donate a .sum sufficient to ooA-er the cost of erecting a suitable chapel at the college. The work is estimated to cost, between £6OOO and £BOOO.

Mr. Justice Reed has given at Wellington his judgment in the case Laery and Beveridge, wine merchants, v. the C. and D. Line, in regard to the loss of whisky f rom a cask in transit. This was an appeal from the magistrate’s finding for £43 15s 5d for a- quartercask not delivered. He dismissed the appeal with costs.

Mr. A. C. Blake, headmaster of Lyall Bay school, Wellington, since the opening, retires from active service at the end of the present year. Steps are being taken to locate all ex-scholars and to form an Old Scholars’ Association to take an active part in the farewell, and afterwards to foster the traditions of the school and to keep alive its history. The committee have asked an old chairman (Mr. A. Sando) to form the association and to get into touch with the hundreds who have studied under Mr. Blake. Information as to the actual arithmetical calculations and problems used in business is being sought by the Syllabus Revision Committee set up by the Education Department. To this end Mr. C. W. Garrard, senior inspector of schools at Auckland, is circularising managers of business and industrial firms in the belief that they can assist by giving valuable information in determining the amount and kind of arithmetic that should be taught in schools. Business men are therefore' requested to enter on a form the arithmetical calculations and problems used in their business. The incorporation of such problems in the school syllabus, it is explained, can then be considered by the department, so that nupils may be instructed in the actual work they will he required to do after • leaving school should they enter business. “The Samoan administration is doing splendid town-planning in the native villages, and the results are excellent,” said Mr. Hope Gibbons (of Wanganui), who returned by the Tofua from a short holiday trip in the Islands (reports the “New Zealand Herald”). “They have not only attended to drainage and water supplies, but are rearranging the villages. When a house is pulled down and another built- it is done according to a proper plan. The main streets of the villages are usually curved. The natives are discouraged from building now houses in European style, with iron roofs, as in some of the other groups, hut are advised to keep to the old form of thatched house with sides that can be thrown open on hot days. These are perfectly suited to the climate, and can scarcely be improved upon. The new ones I saw had floors raised a from the ground, with clean gravel beneath.”

The meeting to be held on Wednesday evening re forming a Taranaki egg: laving competition will be at 7.30, not 2.3 f) p.m. as announced in Saturday s issue. A SENSIBLE HABIT. Good health end Chamberlain’s Tablets go hand in hand. This preparation keeps the stomach healthy and clean, the liver active, the bowels regular. When these conditions prevail, good health comes as a matter of course. A most sensible habit to cultivate is that of taking Chamberlain’s Tablets at regular intervals. It will do much towards promoting health, happiness and success in life. “There’s cv Smile in every Tablet.’’ Sr I'* 1 '* everywhere.— Ad vt.

A first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, , ayliq Avas arrested _in Princes Street by Constable Fleming, was to-day convicted 1 and ordered to pay cab hire amounting to 2si 6d by Messrs. R. W. J. McNeill and J. S. Murray, J’s.P. The Wairarapa Rugby team Avhicli played the Taranaki fifteen at NeAv Plymouth on Saturday, passed through KaAvera by the south express this morning on the return to‘ Wairarapa. The team is to remain at Palmerston North to-night and continue the journey home tv-tnorroAv. »

- The members of the Samoan Commission, the Chief Justice (Sir C. P. Skerrett) and Judge* C. E. MacCofmick, left for Samoa by the* Tofua during the AA-eek-end, accompanied by Mr. J. D. Gray, Under-Secretary for External Affairs, and Mr. V. R. Meredith, Avho will represent the Crown.

Mr. Justice Frazer has deli\ - ered the finding of the Arbitration. Court in regard to the waterside case in which men loading No. 5 hatch of the Norfolk at Auckland in May claimed in-respect of financial loss on the second day. AA-hen, no frozen cargo being available, they AA-ere transferred to general c*i£o. The verdict is for the men. Mr. Justice Frazer said this Avould not haA-e lieen the case if the engagement had bean specifically made for frozen and general cargo. The sudden activity of Mount Tongariro on Sunday morning of last Aveek, when large columns of smoke arose from Avhat Avas thought to be a. neAv \ent, has subsided (states the National Park correspondent of the “NeAv Zealand Herald”). It is belie A-ed the smoke came from an old crater. Clouds hid Mount Ngauruhoe and the Ketatalii bIoAV-hole on Monday, making it impossible to ascertain if Sunday’s activity had been sustained. Ascents of Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro AA r ere made last Aveek by an Auckland pai-ty of four members who were camping at the Waihohonu cottage. The ascent of Ngauruhoe av.os made on snoAv soft enough to give a. foothold, and it was not necessary to cut steps. The crater was found to be more than usually active and dense A-olumes of smoke Avere pouring from the vent. This state of activity continued during the week, although no rumblings Avere heard by the climbers. The Tama Lakes were also A-isited. Big Tama was frozen solidly, presenting a. beautiful .sight against Ngauruhoe and the surrounding snow-covered hills. Members of tlio party were able to cross from one side of the lake to the other on skis

That employers generally will not vieAV favourably Dominion aAvards setting forth piece-work conditions was loreshadoAA-ed by Mr. T. O. Bishop, speaking for the employers in the Northern Utago and Southland biscuit and confectionery AA-orkers’ dispute at Wellington. “The employers desire me to say,” said Mr. Bishop, -“that it is quite impracticable to set up a log which AA-ould have general application to all factories even in one district. The equipment of the factory, the arrangement of the plant, the methods employed vary so much that it is im-peratiA-e that each factory should be iTee to make its own arrangements regarding piece-work.” He asked that no restrictions be placed on piece-AA'ork, except those deemed necessary by the Court for the protection of AA-orkers and suggested that the folloAving clause should be inserted : “.Piece-AA’ork shall be permitted at rates to be agreed upon betAA-een the employers and their AA-orkers, provided that the rates shall not be less than Avill enable a AA-orker of average, industry and ability to earn not less than 10 per cent, above the minimum wage rates herein prescribed for time-workers.”