LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 June 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Douglas Mill, of Auckland, arrived at WUgram. aerodrome, Christchurch, on Saturday afternoon at 4AO o’clock, having flown from llawera, via Blenheim, where he stopped to refuel. _ The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, announced at Wellington on Saturday, in connection with, tne opening of the Parliamentary session, that the Address-in-Reply debate would he initiated 'by Mr F. Waite (Cilutha), Mr A. Bell (Bay of Islands) would be the seconder.

T3ie Taranaki championship clay bill’d shoot, under the auspices of thp N.Z. Gun Club Association, will be held at the Stratford Gun Club’s grounds on Thursday next N . The New Zealand Co-opertaive Hairy Company’s pay-out for the. season from June, 1927, to May, 1928, was £3,541,012, against £3,120,274 last season (states a Press Association message from Hamilton). The results of the shop day held on Saturday by the members of the Hawera Croquet. Club were very satisfactory. The competitions resulted as below : Calce (6Jlb), Miss Cameron ; tray (correct 191), Airs Carter (nearest 195); dressing gown (2yds 29ins), Miss Marie Hampton (nearest 2yds 28.)in). The steamer Holmdale experienced heavy weather and a severe buffeting on her trip from Wellington to Dunedin last week. The voyage usually take® 34 hours, but on this occasion it occupied 94. Heavy snow, hail and rain, accompanied by a gale of hurricane force, gave the captain and crew an anxious time. After leaving Akaroa the storm increased' in ferocity, and eight and a half miles in 24 hours was all the headway the: vessel could make. She sought shelter at Akaroa again, and arrived at Dunedin hot much, the worse for wear. The Corinna encountered a similar experience, on the South Canterbury coast. The Melbourne ’s Annual Winter Sale, which comimioneod this morning, fairly bristles with bargains'. Tremendous l reductions have been made in ail departomentls. Show room bargain's -iwiilil create a furore. See win'clows.—Adivt. Is 6d buys 60 doses of “NAZOL," ready for use. The scientific, commonsense method of treating coughs and colds.. Goes to the root of the trouble and gives instant relief. 2

Before Air It. IV. Tate. S.M., in tli© Hawera Court -to-day, judgment for the plaintiff bv default was given in the undefended civil action in which, the Hawera Hospital Board claimed £23 19s from Leslie Rowson. In judgment -summons proceedings, J. Brew was ordered to pay £2 Os 6d forthwith to the Hawera Hospital Board, in default- two days’ imprisonment. P. J. Northcott was ordered to pay £29 5s 3d to Lysons, Foord and Keilar and £1 11s 6d so-l-icitor’e foe, in default 31 clays’ imprisonment. IV. H. Hughes, junior, was ordered to pay £6 7s to E. P. Fov and 15s fid -solicitor’s fee, in default- seven days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended -so long -as os weekly was -paid off the -amount-. A very enjoyable kitchen tea- evening given by Mrs O. Cleaver and Mdsis- M. Üburch was tendered to Miss IV. Moosinan, of Wanganui and late of Hawera, on the occasion of her approaching marriage. The function wias held at the residence of Mir and Mrs P. McDonald, of Tawhiti Road, and the evening was spent in games- and dancing. Musical items were contributed by Mrs S. Har-ris-on, Miss M-.itchelil, Mr Mitchell, Mr Harrison, Mrr B. McDonald and Mir JHaworth ; ails 0 a- recitation by Mr !>\ Schmidt. Miss Moosman was the recipient of many useful presents, and the gathering was brought to a close with t-lie singing of “Au'ld Lang Syne.” The first substantial consignment of condensed milk from the new IVaitoa condensery will be shipped -by the 51araiaa at Auckland, its final destination being the Straits Settlement. Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. are opening up this new market for the latest product of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. The factory at IVaitoa was built (.with an eye to supplying the demand in the Far East. The consignment consists of 2000 cases of condensed milk, each case containing 48 14oz tins.

“If the mutilation of papers is continued the committee will seriously consider closing this room as a result ol the vandalism which has recently reached serious proportions.” This, notice appears af.-the top of the stairs leading to the magazine room at the Christchurch Public Library. During the last lew months the cutting of pictures rrom the illustrated magazines in the library has become a very serious problem, many of the magazines being entirely ruined. Emphatic protest against “the everincreasing trend of centralisation and government by Order-in-Gouncil by the department in Wellington” was voiced by the- Canterbury Education Board at Christchurch yesterday. Submitting the resolution, Mr. E. H. Andrews declared that the cost of the central department bad been increasing enormously. “We should Jet the public know we want the Minister to take In's stand. He said he- went there believing in local control, recognising the value of it, and he says he lias every sympathy with tlie boards, and yet in this underhand manner (by regulations) he is trying to aboli-sh us.” Theonly defenders- of tlie department were Messrs. IV. A. Banks and M. McLeod (chief inspector), who said in effect that the- department bad to exercise control over some boards because their mistakes had been proving costly, and that- the Minister had definitely declared himself in favour of local control and centralisation. Mr. Banks was the onlv member to vote against the resolution.