LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 December 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Building permits issued for the month of November within the Borough of Haweia numbered 12, in reference to work of a, total value of £17,522. A kit bag and a school bag containing shoes were picked up at the show ground alter the South Taranaki primary schools sports and await owners. They are held at Messrs Bennett and Sutton’s office t-o be claimed. The Aorangi was delayed lor two hours at Auckland last night in sailing lor Vancouver owing to the absence or two deck hands. One of these had asked to lie paid off, and when the request was refused he went ashore and tailed to return. Eventually a substitute was secured, but the second deck hand, who had been wandering about the wharf, did not go on board until' 7.25 p.m. The vessel then sailed.

Time was when we were nil more or less on nodding terms with our gold coinage, but an incident the other day in a South Canterbury business 1 place showed that there is a generation of hoys who are strangers to the .sovereign (says the “Lyttelton Times”). A business man was showing a collection ho had of rare and, foreign coins. Among them were three half-sover-eigns, and he asked a senior schoolboy what they wore. The schoolboy did not know them at all, but asked if they were farthings. Easier working devices! New ideas! tliis is the cry of the world. It wants your ideas. You may gain a fortune for tli cm if you are wise enough to protect yourself. Let us advise you. Henry Hughes, Ltd., (directors: W. E. Hughes and J. T. Hunter, Registered Patent Attorneys), 157 Featherston Street, Wellington.—Advt.

Toothache banished by Barra dough’s Magic Nervine; 1/6. —Advt.

During the month of November stock slaughtered at- the Havrera abattoirs included two bullocks, 103 cows. 47 heifers, 456 sheep, 76 lambs, IS calves and 47 pigs. Fees and rents totalled £lO7 3s Sd. Fees for the eight months ended November 30 were £4. 3s in excess of those for the corresponding period of last year.

air w. G. Walk ley, secretary of the South Tairanaki Automobile Association has received advice from the .secretary of the Auckland association that its service officer will ''‘broadcast road conditions to-morrow (Thursday) even.nor at a quarter past seven.” This is "a new departure, and will be much appreciated by all who are commencing a tour.

This evening, in the Methodist Church, the choir, fifty strong, under Mr H. €. A. Fox, will sing Caleb Simper’s sacred cantata, “Nativity of Christ.” It is an attractive work, including several Christmas carols and expresses aptly the spirit of the season. A collection will lie taken for the choir fundsTragedy turned to comedy was tne result”of" an incident in Otorohanga last week. Mother had left the baby in the perambulator. On returning, she found that a large safety pin was missing, and thought the baby must have swallowed it. Father was called, and in shirt sleeves he drove the car through to Hamilton, 40 miles away, where three X-ray examinations failed to show any trace of the missing pin. It was not until the return to the King Country township that the pin was found in the foot of the pram.

At last evening’s meeting of the Hawera Borough Council it- was decided to name the' new street being formed at the south-east of the town Caplen Street. A letter from Messrs Caplen and Caplen stated that the Caplen family, through whose estate the street was being constructed had occupied the greater portion of the land for over 45 years.

Claiming that their’s was a night trade, and that the enforcement of summer time curtailed their 'best hours for business, tlve billiard saloon proprietors of Hawera have requested the Hawera Borough Council to allow them to remain open one hour longer than at present. The general committee of the council recommended that the saloon proprietors be allowed to continue business to 11 o’clock at night, and this was adopted at last evening’s meeting. The military authorities have nothing to do with tlie imprisonment of military defaulters. A reporter who inquired into the statement made in the House of Representatives by Mr. H. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, that young men had been sent to prison for lailing to perform their military duties, was informed that these youths had been sent to prison for failure to pay the fines that were indicted on them,'stated an exchange. In all instances the action in these eases was taken by the civil authorities and not by the military authorities. On Monday, Guides Brustard, Pope, anil Wililams, of Mt. Cook Hermitage, climbed Mt. Cook in the fastest time that has yet been accomplished from the Hermitage, and this notwithstanding that on tne downward journey they were compelled to make a detour which occupied two hours, owing to the collapse of a snow bridge after they iiad crossed it on the upward journey, in addition to this there had been a fwjsh fall of snow just before they set out, and a southerly wind and rain prevailed, stated a Timaru message. When they reached the top of the mountain snow was falling, but this ceased briefly, enabling them to get an excellent view. Crampons were used in climbing all but the summit rocks, which were in excellent condition for climbing. Skis were used on the homeward journey as far as the Haast hut. The guides left the Hermitage at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday and arrived back at 4.15 on Tuesday. According to a judgment given by Sir Charles' Skerretc at Wellington it is necessary, when a seaman is prosecuted lor absence from his ship, to state the country where he was signed on before he can be imprisoned ,as under the law a. magistrate has no power to' sentence to imprisonment a seaman who has signed on in New Zealand, but only if he has signed on elsewhere. Similarly, in England a seaman who has signed on there cannot be imprisoned there. The case was a motion to’ make absolute an order nisi calling upon the magistrate at Nelson to show cause why the conviction of Blicliard Mulvaney for deserting from the Waipori at New Plymouth should not be quashed without a writ of certiorari actually issuing. His Honour treated the motion also as a motion tqi quash the conviction. There was, in His Honour’s opinion, no evidence before the magistrate as to the place where the defendant was engaged. The fact, was not in issue before conviction, but became relevant after conviction to determine punishment. The conviction was quashed, with ten guineas costs. —Press Assn.