LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manaia Municipal Brass Band will play a. musical programme in the rotunda to-night, commencing at 7.30 o’clock.

The Auckland City Council lias decided to apply for authority to raise £20.000 for the relief of 'unemployment, together with a subsidy of that amount.

The effort of the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen's Association at Dunedin yesterday on behalf of charity resulted in the sale of 18,000 art union, tickets in. the streets by travellers. A Paddyls market is to be held to-day, and it is anticipated that the net proceeds of the efforts ' will total £IOOO.

The Mayor of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer) has been approached to call a conference of representatives of public bodies and business firms to see whether it is not possible for the city to adopt some scheme of daylight saving to be operative in Christchurch next summer. The Mayor has agreed to accede to the request and will announce the date of the coni ference later. In connection with the movement in the Patea, and Waverley district to establish a, co-opwative group herd testing association, a, public meeting is to b© held in the Foresters.’ Hall, Patea, on Monday evening to. give fui.! (onsideratipn to tire question.

A Customs officer yesterday repo' "-d having .seized some opium in the possession of a. Chinese men her of • the crew of the oil tanker Kanoila. "Inch is discharging oil nit lli. j Bur; lam wharf. A court case w!l folf-vv (••dittos a Press Association message from Wellington. To mark the arrival of the millionth sass of New Zealand apples, the growers’ representative has present©4 "the blind; ex-soldiers, at St. Dunisin.ii’.- ami the annexe at Brighton with 25 cases (states a, London cable.) The unti'sual action of a. wile in .'poking to have the maintenance order against her husband revoked was mentioned in the Magistrate's (knit at Christ church yesterday. Counsel for the wife raid site was earning a good income as a. millinieav and dress devicr.w while fii.e husband was. in d. sfiivii b n. An otvle"* was made for flu* d> . oiitinunnee of the mal.nlenanec.

' JOIN THE CROWD ! Joii.n (the crowd of satisfied shoppers ait, MeGntior, Bone and Co., Ltd.’is Great Winter Sale. This sale is a- gonmino sale, everything being reduced. Special bargains for this week: 5 Coat. Hanger® for I/-; Coloured Check Supper Cloth®, 38 x 38, fast colours, 3/6; Ladies’ Smart Felt Hats. 4/11; Ladies’ .AllWool Colouring Stockings, 2/9; 30-inch Pure Fuji Silk, 1/11; 32 Tie Pins for 1/-; Useful Shopping Bags, 1/-. Many more wonderful bargains in store foir the early shoppers. —Advt.

When, dealing with several breaches] of the licensing law yesterday at Ma- 1 nnia, Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., said that these were becoming so common thatj lie would consider seriously making the penalty the maximum of 40s in place of 20s, which he had generally indicted in the past.

CTioO' Fook, after five days’ trial on a charge of the murder of two girls at- ] jotopa in October, was acquitted, states a. special message to the Press .A ssoni a lion from Apia-, Samoa. in a statement to the police lie lvad confessed hi,s guilt, but at the trial it was alleged the confession was extorted by insufficient food and assault' by the police. He also called evidence of an alibi. Under cross-examination he gave the date of the assault as subsequent to the date in the confession allegedly made. The honorary secretary of the Dominion executive of the St. John Ambulance Association at Wellington has just received a communication from Colonel r (1 Bino-ha.m, secretary of the Historic ‘Order of St. John of Jerusalem, that H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and the Chapter-General has, with the sanction of His Majesty the King, admitted Mr W. W. Dutton, of Mel lington , as a member of the o‘rder of St. John for devoted service to the ambulance department and its subsidiary Rled Cross branch. Mr Dutton is widelv known for his spirit of gra.tuitious service to the sporting community, and the honour referred to entitles him to wear the famous eight-pointed star, instituted by King Baldwin aO yean a ,rr o during the Crusades. Sir Charles Fer'o-usson is to be asked to present the insignia of the 'Order of St. John ot Jerusalem to Mr Dutton.