LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

*. A useful trophy has been given to the Boy Scouts in Hawera by Air F. -Sage, in the form, of a fine flag. _ The presentation was made last night at -the special meeting by Wolf Pack Cub G. Sage. The, committee of the Manaia Choral Society has fixed next Thursday as the first practice night for the season, members meeting in the public school. It had been intended to meet, this week, -but so many wished to attend the male choir concert in Hawera that it was postponed. Singers coming to live in the Manaia district will be welcome and they are asked to communicate with the secretary, Mr. Forrester, or any of the committee.

Private George Thomas MeQuay, the Stratford soldier whose memory was a blank for 13 years, left Sydney with his mother last evening by the Manama, which is due at Auckland on Tuesday, states a cable message. Mr MeQuay was recently identified in a Sydney hospital and his mother, who resides at Stratford, crossed the Tasman to see her son- whom she had long thought dead. It- is reported that his memory is now returning. Custody of the children of the marriage was granted to the wife and the husband was ordered to pay costs as on an undefended action. Mr P. O’Dea. appeared for the petitioner. At the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday before Air Justice Reed, Charlotte Rachel Oakes, of Hawera, was granted a decree nisi against her husband Bertram John Oakes, formerly of Hawera but now of Wellington. Evidence was given that the respondent. who married petitioner in December 1913, had been guilty since 1926 of misconduct with a single woman with who he had been Jiving in various places.

A Wellington message states that it is understood that the Canterbury movement in -regard -to cheap petrol may come to Wellington. Air Stott, secretary of the Automobile Club, approached on the -subject, said -the proposal had not yet been submitted to members and he could not commit the clubs in any way, but, if a majority of the members favoured the proposal, no doubt it The ladies’ rest room situated next to the Borough Council Chambers in High -Street, has, under the jurisdiction of the Women’s National Reserve, been entirely renovated throughout. Extensive improvements have been made, and included in the equipment is the handsome new furniture. A new permanent attendant has been appointee who will make a special endeavour to assist mothers and their children. As is the usual custom, the Hawera branch of the Women’s National Reserve is giving an afternoon tea on Thursday, 'May 24, .at the Soldiers’ Club in Princes Street. The executive of the s£serve is anxious to make this occasion the. best vet, and a special invitation is extended to the mothers, wives and sisters of all ex-service men. The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that returns of income must be furnished not later than June 1. Forms of return may bo obtained at any postal money-order office; they will not be sent to taxpayers from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes unless written application is made for them. The annual meeting of the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Dental Association was held last evening, Air. W. R. Johns, of Waitara, presiding over a large attendance, members from New Plymouth, -Waitara, Inglewood, Manaia, and Hawera being present. The following officers were elected: President, Air. W. R. Johns; vice-presi-dent, Mr. Lea land (New Plymouth); secretary, Mr. Hamilton (New Plymouth) ; committee, Alessrs. A. M. McDiarmid, B. 11. Chancy and W. J. Bright. Mr. Bright and’appointed delegate to the New Zealand Dental Conference. .Aratters of interest to the dental profession were discussed. The lion and the lamb frollicked together at the National Industrial Conference, at. Wellington yesterday. Following the presentation of the separate reports on the Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Act to the Prime Afin-i-ster, both sides represented at the conference exchanged stories, partook, of liquid refreshment and wound up with singing "Auld Lang Syne,” -the employers’ delegates locking tlicir hands with those of the delegates on the other side of the table.