LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 October 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An opinion that the formation of the South Taranaki .Electric Power Board wins the best thing for the ratepayers ill the southern area ever done was voiced by Cr. Stevenson at the ordinary meeting of the Wannate West County Council yesterday. This was brought out by the action of some ratepayer writing in ignorance of the real position concerning the. board.

A lady of sixty who liad been twenty yeans in New Zealand was surprised to find that she could not receive an old age pension of 17s 6d a week with under twenty-five years’ residence (says an exchange). She decided to go to England in the hope of receiving more liberal treatment, but on arrival there learned that the minimum age in England is 70 years, the maximum pension os a week, and a continuous residence of 12 years is a necessary qualification. General Eyrie, High Commissioner for Australia, urged 50 departing dreadnoughters to get the ship’s barber to clip their hair before landing in Australia: Ho said: “'I do not like to see boys with long hair. Anyhow, Australia is no place for it, and, also, it might prejudice your chance. You cannot drive sheep and brush your hair at the same time.”

A six-roomed house occupied by J. Butts and owned by Mrs. J. Jones was totally destroyed by fire at Oamaru last night. The family of 12 were absent at the time, and lost the whole of their personal belongings. The brigade was promptly on the scene, but lack of water pressure handicapped their efforts. The insurance on the furniture was £2OO, but the cover on the dwelling is not available. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.

A decision to refuse to permit the broadcasting of accounts of the races at the trotting meeting that is to open at Alexandra Park on Saturday has been , made by the committee of the Auckland Trotting Club. No reason has been advanced by the club for its decision. Mr. Trevor Stringer, station director of IYA, stated he was unable to make any comment on the matter.

While proceeding on a motor cycle to a. dance at Kaitoke, three miles from Wanganui, on the Main South Road, Maurice Armstrong, aged 19, employed as a boilermaker at the Eastown railway workshops, collided with a straying horse half a mile from the city bridge. He received severe spinal injuries, and was taken to the hospital. The accident occurred about 8 o’’clock last night. Armstrong’s condition is reported as critical.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Manawatu Dairy • Companies’ Association at Palmers ton North, considerable cussion centred round regulation 3/ in the Dairy Act, which, forbids factories to utilise the waste from cheese presses. Several companies wrote .stating that they saw no reason for the regulation, ,jf the fat were collected in" the sarnie sanitary manner as they collected it. One small company asserted that the fat collected bad meant £SO per annum to> it, and from these communications the association gathered the opinion that the regulation was .superfluous, but that some measure was necessary to regulate the methods of collection. It was decided to communicate with other associations and with. Mr. W. Singleton on the ■matter. It was also, decided to protest against the action of the p.ig exporters in attempting to have the weight oif pigs reduced from 1501 b 1 1401 b, similar associations and the Pig Breedens’ Association to be notified of the protest.

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] The Hawera Municipal Band will play | a programme of selections to-morrow evening in High Street. The Native Trustee was at iManaia to-day paying out rents. He will visit Okaiawa next and then go on to Hawera. The Normanby factory will pay out Is 5d for September, bringing up the two previous months to the same figure —ls 3d had been paid out for Jidy and August —The company also pay an extra half-penny over the previous season. ,

The celebration of Armistice Day on Friday, November 11, will follow the lines adopted in previous years. Shortly before 11 a.in. the King will deposit a wreath at the Cenotaph and, fo lowing the two minutes’ silence, a short service will he held an official wireless message from Rugby). At the Waimate West County meeting yesterday a show of hands was taken on a motion before the council and the chairman remarked that tins was the first, time such a thing had happened in his experience of the council’s work.

A story of two “swaggers” who relieved the tedium of a weary trudge across country by appropriating a motor car to carry them on their way was unfolded at the Police Court at Blenheim yesterday before Mr T. E. iM/annsell, S.M.. when two young men, Thomas Shaw and Edgar Stanley Hall, p’ended guilty to having on October 11, at Blenheim, converted to their owij use a motor-car valued at £2OO, the property of Clouston ana Co. The constable said that lie found the car abandoned on McArthur’s property on the Ngaiomure River, and ultimately came up with the accused, then on foot, at Kekerangu, ten miles further south. Both accused were sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour. The suggested plans of the completed Anglican Cathedral a.t Hamilton have been discussed by the building committee of the Cathedral Chapter and have met with general approval. They depict a dignified cruciform building, with lardy Chapel at the east end, two transepts, a. smaller chapel on the south of the choir, a spacious ambulatory and a fine west end. Detailed plans of the south chapel and a twostoreyed vestry will be presented to the next Chapter meeting, and, subject to their adoption by the Standing Committee that part of the work should he commenced before the. close of the year. The New Zealand Baptist Church Union conference was continued at Wellington, yesterday, when the following officers were elected: Members of the missionary committee, Dr. C. North, the Revs. O. W.#Duncumb, S. Jenkin, E. Goring, J. W. Kemp, S. Bary, J. Ings and W. S. Rollings; missionary preacher for next conference, the Rev. J. Ings, with the Rev. E- W. Goring as deputy. The Rev. S. Jenkin was appointed editor of the Missionary Messenger, and the Rev. W. W. La seed es was 'appointed treasurer of the missionary committee. The report of the Baptist Women’s Prayer Union showed a membership of 1388 senior and 58 junior members, an increase in the total of 145 compared with the previous year. Miss Qgilvie, of Auckland, was designated for missionary w,ork in India. Earthquake risk is a growing branch of insurance in Auckland. It is riot the result of a sudden wave of anxiety as to this danger, but rather because the risk presents itself to people’s aninds since the city started definitely to build upwards. Another factor lias been the insistence of certain trustees who have lent money for the construction of large buildings that earthquake cover should be secured. Of course, this class ,of insurance is by no means new, and is widely secured in America, where cover can even be obtained against loss through tornadoes. The ordinary policy does not provide against earthquake risks, which are of two kinds, those due to shook and tho'se resulting from (fires following ’quakes. Policies embracing either or both are now being taken out for mainy of the tall brick or concrete structures in the city at rates usually Jess than those charged for ordinary risks, which, in the case of numbers of the new commercial buildings, are fairly low.