LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 March 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The official opening of the Haweva Golf Club, postponed from last Saturday, will take place to-morrow Saturday afternoon, play commencing at 1.30 p.m. Word has been received by the manager of the South Taranaki Winter Siiow that Messrs. W. Marples and Son, Ltd., Hibernia Works., Sheffield, England, will ye making a display of tools at the British Industries Fair in Hawera. These will be the Shamrock Brand and it was obtained through the medium of Messrs. Bennett and Sutton.

The award of the Arbitration Court in the t tramway employees dispute gives certain increases to the men employed in the Chrictchurch system. The Tramway Board paid a number of permanent-way men more than the award rates because they were doing their work well and the 'board wished to encourage them to continue. This new award makes these voluntarily given in '-reuses obligatory. An increase of a penny lias been given the majority of the conductors and motormen in the service.

Mr Douglas Mill, in a Moth aero, plane, arrived at the Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch, at noon to-day from Blenheim, the last stage of the .long flight from Auckland being covered in two hours. Three ’planes from the aerodrome went out. to meet‘ the Moth and they escorted it back to the flying field. The Moth made a perfect landing, and Mr Mill and Mrs Mill received congratulatory handshakes and submitted to having their photographs taken many times. The trip from Auckland required fourteen gallons of motor spirit and two gallons of oil. Mr Mill says the cost of the trip for two people and luggage would not exceed £5. The abbreviated charges which appear on the list at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Wednesdays, when breaches of the city by-laws are dealt with, are models of brevity. Sometimes, too, they are amusing, •as (says 1 the <“Star”) witness “Turning to the right,” and “Permitting vehicles to loiter.” A pearl of price appeared lately, namely, “Lighting fire.” To give the charge in full, it was: “For that \ou did burn combustible material in an open space near a building so as to endanger such building.” It sounds very terrible, but all that had happened was that an otherwise law-abid-ing citizen had made a rubbish fire in his garden, and had gone to bed under the impression that it had died down. The rubbish burned up again, and the Newmarket Fire Brigade turned out. The phrasing of the charge is amusing. It, would he interesting to see noncombustible material on fire. in a,u address at Christchurch, when aummarising his impressions on University worn gained abroad, Dr. Hight said : “We can learn a great deal from University organisation abroad, and the time has come when we should be not merely beginning to scan the lessons, but very busy in applying them. Can one find any*, legitimate excuse for our haphazard method of entrance, our absurdly clumsy and obscurantist examination system, the over ambitious scope of some of our programme of studies, the complicated and clogging machinery that prevents the colleges even after half a century from developing a full individuality and turning undistracted and whole-heartedly to satisfy the special needs of their own districts, the narrow and restricted official vision that confuses a University with an elementary school, and would fetter it at every move, and the economy, public and private, that starves our libraries, overweights the staffs, places, on training college students an intolerable double burden, .and withholds from the student body in general those amenities which form for the youth of other nations, not sq. deserving, perhaps, some of the most powerful elements in their University training?”