LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Among the many beautiful wreaths placed upon the Manaia monument on Anzac Day was on© from Queen Alexandra’s Own Mounted Rifles, a. ■detachment of which paraded under Lieut.-Colonel T. Sutherland. The wreath was deposited by Lieutenant A. Hastie, m memory of members of the regiment who fell in the Great War. The new cathedral at Nelson is rising slowly but surely from the confusion of workshops, machinery, and marble debris that mark the site of building operations on Church Hill (says the Nelson “Mail”). Reference to “Physical Culturist’s” comment, of appreciation which appeared in the “Hawera Star” concerning the admirable qualities as athlete® and as men of the champion wheelmen, Duncan Gray and Jack Starglen, whose performances thrilled a crowd of 2000 at Hawera. on February 3. is made in the “Sydney Referee” of last week. “ ‘Physical Guitarist’ pays a very nice compliment to the Australian cyclists,’ ’says the Sydney sporting paper in introducing the commentary, the text of which is published, in that journal. A public meeting is called by advertisement in this issue for Wednesday evening next, for the purpose of appointing trustees for the Hawera Hospital Radio Fund. There is money in hand, and those who promoted the fund will continue their efforts with the help of those who are willing to come in and assist. The first requirement as things now stand is to appoint trustees so that moneys in hand and contributed further may be properly controlled. It is hoped that the public will display a live interest in the proposal, and that the attendance at the meeting will as a result be a large one.

“The disestablishment of the Church would mean the break-up of the Empire, as it would be followed by the abolition of the Monarchy, which has been clearly proved at the last Imperial Conference to be the one link which bound the Empire together,” declared the Bishop of Wellington (Dr. 3prott) at the recent C.E.M.S. conference, at Wellington, when it was proposed to change the title of the society to the “Church of New Zealand Mien’s Society,” He added that he could conceive of no one in New Zealand advocating an independent state; they did not want to demand to be called the Church of New Zealand; it was sufficient to be so. He thought it unwise to alter the title of the society, but saw no reason why it should not be called, as had been suggested, the “New Zealand Church of England Men’s Society.” The motion to alter the title in any way was defeated. The Railway Department advertise i i this issue particulars of issue of .'heap excursion tickets from May 3 to 1(5, 1928.

A social evening and sale of work, in aid of Presbyterian Mission funds, will be held in the Mokoia Hall next Tuesday evening. Particulars are advertised in this issue. McGruer, Bone ft Co. Ltd. have just opened their new season’s Butterick Patterns. These include newest styles in costumes, coats, jumper suits, afternoon and evening frocks; new patterns for school blazers, boys’ suits and pyjamas, boys’ shirts and trousers. Large assortment of new transfers. Butterick’s Quarterly and Delineator are now reduced to 9d each. —Advt. Pure silk Fuji in a wealth of colouring akin to a lovely garden. The forty different shades include scarlet, amber, cyclamen, apple green, jade, saxe, kingfisher, tangerine, gold, grey, henna, lemon, flesh, apricot, sky, mauve, shell, salmon, fawn, etc. Prices: Natural 1/11 colours 2/4$ yard.—Harrops Ltd. —Advt. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for influenza colds. —Advt.

Constable Townsend, of Eltham, who lias been a patient in a private hospital for the past three weeks, has sufficiently recovered, to enable him to be removed to his home yesterday. It will be a few weeks before he is able to resume his duties. Another escape was made from the Borstal institution at Invercargill on Tuesday afternoon when Thomas Forge Flanigan, 18 years of age, who was serving a sentence of three years, broke free. He is stated to have been working with a gang at Otatara, and when granted a few moments respite he made use of the opportunity to gain his freedom. A search of the bush, which abounds in that part, was immediately instituted, but so far without success.

Percy Edward Merchant, 40 years of age, a blacksmith, working at Rahotu, was found lying dead on a bed in a bach, which he had visited on Wednesday evening. With Messrs. C. Forrester, Espiner and Sullivan he had been spending the evening at the bach. Espiner and .Sullivan went out. during the evening and on returning at 'about 11.30 p.m. found Forrester anq deceased lying on the bed apparently asleep, but investigation showed that Merchant was dead. An inquest is to be held. The appointment of a Maori assitft-ant-Bishop to work among those of hiS own race in the diocese of such bishops as were willing to accept ‘him in that capacity, is recommended by the select committee set up by the General Synod at Wellington to bring down a rcpart in regard to the Maori bishopric. The committee urged that the canon enacted in 1925 to create a diocese of Aotoaroa be rescinded and points out a bishop as then suggested ■would have no diocese or synod of his ’own.

The arrangements made by the committee of the Hawera Poultry Club to-r the young bird shew on Wednesday ivext in the Winter Show Buildings should resri.lt in a .successful exhibition. Entries are coning in freely, and they will be 'received up till this evening. The followng are the donors of the cash prizes at the 'show :—Mr J. B. W ikon, •5s for the best bantam and 5s dor the nest bird other than bantam in the children’s classes; Mr H. Stenting, 2s 6d each to the birds .scoring .seconds, a.nd 10s for most- points in the show; Mr W. Anderson, 7s 6d for the .heist male bird in the show and os for the best female.

Sunday school anniversary will be the feature of the service at the Baptist Church to-morrow (Sunday), and in connection with these the children s choir will sing special anniversary hymns and choruses before ancl during each service. There will be four services—ll a.m., preacher, Rev. E'. S. Emmitt; 2.45 p.m. and 7 p.m., when Rev R. L. Fursdon will preach, and 6.50 p.m. a song service. The cln'l dren have been trained for some tun© by their leader and their .singing should be very enjoyable and attractive. Because the use of traction engines on public highways is not specially covered bv statute, and holding that their use in the absence of statutory immunitv is subject to common law liability, which is independent of negligence for fires' caused by sparks from traction engines, Mr. Justice Adams in the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday dismissed an appeal against a magistrate’s' decision allowing damages for fire in a. hedge presumably as the* re suit of sparks from a traction engine. Appellants were Frew and McCrostie, haulage contractors, and the respondent John Donald Stewart, farmer, Norwood.

Archbishop Julius, who preached at the Anglican Cathedral at Christchurch on Sunday, took as his text “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” The Archbishop stressed the necessity for man to put his spirit of combat into the right direction. He deprecated the war spirit of human nature which he thought, could be better used combating the land which was the wealth of the country. Scientists instead of evolving frightful machinery of war, should evolve methods of combating diseases of the land, to help the farmer. The meek man was not necessarily a- man without the spirit of combat, but one who put that spirit into the right channels for the advance of civilisation the world over, always observing the general trend of his spiritual up-bring-ing.

Referring to the hydro works at Arapuni, the “Waikato Times” states. was to have been available; when it will actually come in uncertain, but we should certainly be told how long the engineers expect that the erosion of the river bank will continue, and what steps it is proposed to take to deal with it. Everyone in the Dominion is interested, for everyone pays taxes, but those who live in the Waikato have the added interest in when the river is to be once more normal, and whether any other convulsions may be expected on account of the unwonted liberties that have been taken with it.

Some species of exotic conifers now being planted in New Zealand will reproduce themselves with remarkable ease if they are given the chance, states the Christchurch “Press.” During a recent visit to South Canterbury, Mr. F. Hutchinson lecturer in Forestry at Canterbury College, noticed near Burke’s Pass township, a small plantation of larch and pines which has seeded up an area of perhaps two acres on the leeward side with a. dense mass of young seedlings, principally larch, while scattered individual larch seedlings may be found as much as seven or eight chains away from the present stand. The pines have not succeeded in reproducing themselves to the same extent as the larch, but a few seedlings of Corsican pine are present among the larch. Some individual larches are now twelve feet high, others being only an inch or two above the ground, showing that the seeding in has been in progress for several years.

For the annual dance that follows the Kakaramea Sports on Wednesday next a most attractive gathering is promised. A committee is working hard’ to see that every arrangement made will lie of the 'best, Boulton’s orchestra of Stratford has been engaged, and the floor will be in firstrate order. Supper will lie provided by the committee, and nothing will be omitted that will serve to make' the dance one of the> events of the year. Our readers should make a point of visiting the Melbourne to-day if they wish to secure some of the extraordinary offerings which were advertised in yesterday’s issue. The' bulk of the goods were recently purchased in London and Paris by the firm’s general manager, Mr Scan lan, assisted iby Mrs Scanlan. Astounding bargains are offered.—Advt.

FURS AT BUCKRELL’S,

Beautiful assortment of Fox Necklets —everybody’s prices. Australian Reds,- Silver, Pointed, Ban Marten, Blue, Kib, Turkish, Mongolian and South American Foxes from' 35/- to £l2 12s.- Coats, Marmot, Sealine, Kolinski, etc., from £lO up. —Buckrell’s, Hawera.