LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The. drifting Wsvitomo, whose tail shaft was broken, was picked up at 10 o’clock oil Wednesday night by the Kaitoke, and is due in Auckland on Tuesday morning.

Tho Hawera. Public School) will oommenee the annual winter holidays on Friday. August 17. when the .usual foitnight’s vacation will be given. From an inquiry to he instituted at the Wellington Public Hospital into the various charges made for treatment in all branches of the board’s ■activities it is expected that the hospital charges may be increased in the near future, and.so lead to a lowering of the burden on the taxpayers. At. the committee meeting q-f the Haw«u- Main School -last evening, the question of the annual school hall was discussed. It was decided to hold a fancy dress ball on Friday, September 28, in the Winter Show Buildings, for the purpose of raising funds for school purposes. Sub-committees will be arranged later.

There was a good meeting of farmers at Ohangai on Wednesday, when Mr. C. Dickie, chairman of directors of the Patea Freezing Company, addressed them on the subject of “bobby” calves. At the conclusion, after * various questions had been answered, it was resolved to join the pool formed to include Mo kola and adjacent area., After four days’ hearing the jury in the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday awarded £550 damages to Nicolas Alack from James Cochrane Cleland for fraudulent misrepresentation regarding ' the exchange- of defendant’s farm at Ngata for plaintiff’s farm at Pio Pio. The jury found that defendant had falsely represented carrying capacity and the butter-fat production of the farm. Judge Blair allowed defendant Lseven days to move for a new trial. —Press Association.

According to a letter received by a Hawera resident yesterday from Gisborne, there is at least one centre in the Dominion where the sports followers regard the progress of the All Blacks as a matter of minor significance. Topics of paramount importance, says the Gisborne correspondent, are the chances of the Gisborne boy, Tom Hecney. of lifting the heavyweight title and the possibilities of Miss Norma "Wilson in competition with the world’s chosen -lady athletes at the Olympic Games. 'These issues completely overshadow -the performances of the team in South Africa.

A, ko-ssi o-f over £4OOO was made by George Wilcox, an Ashburton garage proprietor, in two years’ trading, states a Press Association message. An investigation -into his affairs was. made by the official -assignee at the meeting of creditors yesterday. The biggest creditor was wDomin-ion Motors, Ltd., for whom Wilcox had acted as the Ashburton agent. He owed the company £4366. After hearing a statement the assignee- said bankrupt’s failure was undoubtedly due *to mismanagement and extravagant living. The representative of Dominion Motors, Ltd., said there- bad been gross extravagance- and bankrupt’s explanation was- unsatisfactory. On his motion- the meeting adjourned to enable the. assignee to investigate- the accounts further. A tender has been accepted in Wellington for tbe erection of a twostoreyed building to occupy a valuable block of land on the comer of Manners and Bond Streets, formerly the site of the old Clarendon Hotel. The building will be of steel-fgainedj concrete construction, and a distinct novelty will be the duplication of the seven shops below on the first storey, making 14 -shops in nil. (Means will he provided to permit the public to visit and promenade, before tbe windows of the upstairs shops. The building is to be completed by the end of the first week in December. Under the will of Thomas Kirk-up, of Auckland, who died while visiting England last year, bequests of £SOO each are made to the Anglican orphan home at Pnpatoetoe, the Salvation Army home at Auckland arid Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. There are contingent legacies providing, in the event of certain happenings, lor the payment to these- institutions of a further sum of £SOO each. Mr Kirk up, who was born in Newx-a.stie-on-Tyno in 1855, was -left an orphan at the age of, six and worked as a pit-boy sin a -coail mine. He ran away, eventually coming to New Zealand and catering into partnership in a. manufacturing concern.