LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kumeu post office was entered by burglars on Friday night, the safe being blown open with explosives. A oashbox containing money, stamps, and cheques was taken. The Reform Party delegates of the Waikato electorate met at Morrinsville the other afternoon to select a candidate. Mr. Stewart Reid, M.P., was selected, the defeated- nominee being Mr. S. N. Ziman, a former Rhodes scholar and Indian- civil servant- who is now farming at Cambridge.

Better late than never! One roeral>er of the Taranaki Rugby UnionManagement Committee on Thursday niglit excused himself for arriving at 10.15 n.m., when tlie meeting had started at S o’clock, hut another member calmly strolled in when the clock showed 11.45 o’clock. Surely that must he the. limit for late arrival, remarks the “Stratford Post.” The meeting, it may lie mentioned, continued for .half an hour after the latest comer arrived.

Somewhat of a shock to customary conceptions of the popularity of the word holiday among school- children was administered at Hawera Main School yesterday. The advent of an unexpected day free of school labour is usually’ Railed! -with delight, (but though aii overwhelming majority voted in favour of tine holiday at yesterday’s gathering, when the Governor-General asked for a show of haai-ds on the question, the hands of tw r o children wore raised against the pranoeal.

Wanted on a charge of steauin-g a pair of trousers valued at 30s at Wanganui during January, Ernest Wi'lLiani! Sampson, 23 years of age, was arrested by ’oiiis-table Minikin in Hawera on Thursday. He appeared- before Mr L. A. Bone, J.P., in the Police Court yesterday, and was remanded to reappear on Monday-.

The Manaia. branch of the W.O.T.U. has resumed its montnly meeting, it having been decided to hold them during the winter at the home of the president, Mrs Rohinson. It was arranged to canvass during the remainder of the month for the gift-box sent annually to tlie W.O.T.U. orphanage, the Frances Willard Home.

Perhaps because it was hoisted' in a hurry, or perhaps because' the bolster lmew r not the significance of tlie white stripes- of the Union Jack, one oif the flags which fluttered in High Street yesterday conveyed a message very different from, that intended on the occasion of the visit of the Governor-General to Hawera. Most schoolboys and every Boy Scout knows that, except when used as a call for assistance, the British Flag should foe flown with- the broad edge of tlie white diagonal stripes showing uppermost on the side nearest the hoist, but in this ease the order was reversed and tlie flag thus sent forth the mute appeal of the recognised distress signal. A large crowd of .residents of the Whakamara district assembled last, evening ins the Wihakiamara Hall, the occasion being a kitchen tea given .by Mr and Mrs J. Dobson to Miss Shoving ton, who i.s’to be married 1 Shortly. A splendid evening was spent by all present, and the guest of the evening was the recipient of many useful and oostl-y presents. Dancing was indulged in until -a late hour to-excellent music supplied by the Mascot orchestra, the members of which donated tlieir services free of charge.

A suggestion was made at the Taranaki Rugby Union meeting that the seating accommodation, at Victoria Park should be hired for a. match to he played at- Hawera, but the cost of hiring and transport was urged asan objection. It was further urged by Mr. R. Masters, that as something was being spent oil hiring accommodation each year it would be. wiser to spend a. sum of money in providing something permanent. It was finally decided to leave the- matter in the hands of the southern members-. “I want to stress a point in hymnsinging,” said the adjudicator, Mr. E. Douglas Taylor, at the Eltham Competitions' on Thursday evening, says tlie “Argus.” The hymns, he maintains, are the congregation’s portion of the service and the anthems are the choir’s portion. There should be no in. troduetion of stunt-singing into hymns. To treat a hymn in that way would have -the effect, he w-as sure, of silencing the congregation, .the members of whom .Would surely stop singing. There -were great possibilities in the choir he referred to particularly, but there was the danger of exaggeration, and in that re'spect .they- failed rather -badly in their hymn.