LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 November 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Four fishermen— Pine Howe, Harry Stevens, Thomas Austen, and Harry Stevens, junior, who set out from Petone on Sunday morning to fish outside the Wellington Heads, returned safely to their homes yesterday little the worse for their adventurous excursion. They found the seas too heavy and put into Ward Island, seeking refuge in a cave.

As an indication of the rapid growth of the dairying industry in Auckland, 150,000 boxes of butter were bandied in the cool stores during the month of October this year, winch represents an increase of 30’000 boxes on the October figures for last year. The figures for October this year -also show an increase of 2000 crates of cheese. Sixty thousand boxes of butter were loaded into one steamer last week from Auckland.

At the annual meeting of the Queen Alexandra’s Own Band, attached to the Second Mounted Rifles Regiment, at Wanganui last evening. Captain G. Buckley was enthusiastically re-elected conductor, an office which lie lias held since tlie formation of the band in 1912. The Queen Alexandra Band is the present champion of New Zealand, and during recent years has established a- very fine record, and is now holder of the four principal shields for competition in New Zealand.

The Government is issuing invitations to representative men to join a party on a trip to Samoa and Niue Island on the new steamer Maui Pomarc, about the end of March next.. The Maui Pomarc will later enter the Samoa-Nine Island-New Zealand fruit trade on behalf of the Government. The trip will occupy 23 days, the Maui Pomarc leaving Auckland and returning to Lyttelton. A very successful “shop day” was conducted by the Eltham branch of the lied Cross Society on Saturday' last, under supervision .of Mesdames W. W. Avery', It, B. Pool'd, D. D. Syme, and Miss Fake. The competitions were won as follows: Cake, Messrs J. W. MacDonald and F. Coward tied with 61b 15oz and divided the prize. Miss Mary Burke won the basket competition. The competition for 51b of tea has not been completed.

Tim members of the W.D.F.U. have been invited to an .“At Home” which i.s being tendered to Mrs. Amery by the women of Wanganui. This will be the only opportunity Mrs. Amery will have, during her visit to New Zealand of meeting the country women. It is being held in the Sargent Art Gallery, Wanganui, on Friday from 2 to 5.30 p.m. About ten members from this district are taking this opportunity and will go south by car. A meeting of representatives of five branches of the Educational Institute in the Wanganui education district, covering the area from Palmerston North to Wanganui and Taihape, and held at Marton, resolved: That this meeting vigorously' protests against the proposal in the Education Amendment Bill granting boards the power to fine teachers,, believing such a method an unnecessary and unwarranted reflection upon the service, and, further, that in the interests of justice, no such system should be put into operation without properly constituted safeguards for the teachers.

When the balance-sheet Mas published on the completion of Wanganui’s war memorial tower on Durie Hill, the name of W. J. Poison-'was shown as the donor of the land on which the tower is built. After -three years, the matter was given a new aspect yesterday, when Poison and another claimed £413 from Hope Gibbons, a. former Mayor of Wanganui, for the ('and, which, it was stated, was not a gift, hut was .sold Gibbons allegedly having given an undertaking to accept personal responsibility for the amount. Gibbons was a member of the memorial committee. Judge Ostler reserved bis decision.

Some dairy farmers were questioned at the Wanganui Show in regard to their opinions of the daylight saving, and from all accounts it did not appear to worry them very much. One farmer from Waverley stated that if the clock had been advanced two hours farmers might have something to complain about. That morning liefore he arrived at the show he had milked his cows, arranged for the cream to go to the factory, and was in Wanganui in time to bring an exhibit for his M-ife.

Since the opening of the whaling industry in the Antarctic by a. Norwegian company, the swift and lucrative development of its operations have led to many speculations as to the possibility of a New Zealand company entering the field. In discussing the matter u'itli an “Otago Daily Times” reporter, Captain G. S. Hooker, of ilie Marine Department, who has accompanied the Norwegian whalers on previous occasions and will sail again this- year as the New Zealand Government representative. said that the difficulty would be to find suitable men. ‘‘l think that finance would be forthcoming,’' he said, “but the right .sort of men would be very hard to get, and it is doubtful if the venture could be made to pay at the rate of wages that would have to be offered. The Norwegians have the great advantage of cheap labour.” At the monthly meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board on Monday, the medical superintendent (Dr. j. Cairney) reported that 80. patients Were in the hospital at the end of September and 93 were admitted during October. Ninety-four had been discharged or died during October, leaving 79 in hospital at the and of the month. The daily average of occupied beds for October was 81.7, compared with 64.6 for the seven preceding months and 51 for the same period: last year. The daily average to each of the nursing staff was 2.6. Twentyseven X-ray cases had been dealt, with during the month. Sixteen new cases for physic therapeutic treatment had been received during the month, and 13 had remained from the previous month —a total of 29. Patients discharged numbered 19, leaving 10 still receiving treatment. The number of treatments during the months was 313 —a daily average of 12.5. Twelve outpatients had been attended during' the month, the number of treatments being 69. Five patients had been in the hospital for eight weeks or more.

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