LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 August 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The name of Mrs. J. McCarty should be included in Mr, Don. Robertson's list of £1 donations for the Ararat a Appeal Fund. A very successful shop day was held on Saturday on behalf of St. Mary’s Girls’* Club and as a .result about £ls was taken. An enthu.sia.stie committee of ladies organised and directed the sale arid to them i.s due much credit lor the success secured.

•Mr JX R. Kent, a barrister of Waipahu rau and a borough councillor, opened his campaign a® an Incle.pendont Li bera l-Labour candidate for the Waipa.wa seat at Waipukurau last night states a Press Association message, lie i.s the only opponent a.s yet announced against Sir G. Hunter, the sitting member.

Yesterday’s annual meeting of ths No'-maribv Dairy Cojnpany wars the first, to be held when proxy voting was not in operation, and thi3 'attendance wiais easily a record, only a few suppliers being absent.

A plebiscite relative to the adoption of a. local isystem of day li glib-saving for the emplovees was taken in the Oamatu wool ien mills yesterday, resulting a majority of 117 to 47 in favour of the scheme.' Daylight-saving will be brought into operation at tne mills on October 1. continuing till the end of March, the hours of work being from 7 a .m. to 4 p.m. “Ladies can tell at ono? as soon as a. man stands up whether lie is worth voting for.’’ said a gallant .supplier at V.nnnnbv yesterday when asking candidates for’ directorship to give their views on the business of the company. ! T e, e were a. number of lady .shareholders present at the meeting. Speaking at- the annual meeting of Hie Normanby Dairy Company, Mr D. J Hughes advocated an annual ball to )>,'in<r together the young people and the womenfolk. It was recommended t,i, the directors to keep the matter in mind. The rood work of Mr H. Le Fleming. b’ 1 tier-maker at the Narmnnbv lacaoiy, who has resigned after many years work, was recognised at the annual meeting yesterday, when the supp.iers made a- recommendation to the tors that they should make a surf able ’".cisentation to him and Mrs Le Fleming.

On being questioned at Masterton regarding the experiments recent, ly carried out in Taranaki by Mr. A eale with reference to the bearing on dairy production of bigh and low butter-fat tests Mr. C. M. Hume, of the New Zealand Herd Testing Federation, said lie thought these experiments would have to he carried, a. good deal further before any very definite conclusions were reached. “I will say this,” said Mr. Hume, “that if I had a. number of high-testing rows I would not get rid of them.”

Air W. Al,. Webster. ILSc.. M.R.0.Y.5., who will be stationed in Taranaki for some yeans by the Department of Agriculture’ for tuie purpose of investigating certain diseases among dairy stock, attended a meeting of the committee of the Agricultural Society at New Plymouth on Friday afternoon. He was introduced to the members, and later explained briefly the nature of the work he hoped to accomplish with the co-operation of the farmers. «,

“There is evidence that New Zealand has safely turned the corner of the street of depress ion, and is now entering the streets of progress and prosperity,” said Air. A. G. Troup at the annual meeting of the Wellington Investment, Trustee end Agency Co. “The adverse trading returns lor the year 1926-27 have been completely reversed, th exports for 1927-28 (as at June 80) having exceeded the imports by £12,000,005. This improved condition lias inspired producers and traders with hope and courage to press forward. Prices of New Zealand products are good, which also must have a marked effect, on all industries.- The coining season can therefore bo anticipated with hope.

TiVJ arrangements arc well in hand Jor the Farmers’ Union ball 'to be held at JCltham to-morrow evening at 8 •o’opck. All branches of the union t-h-i..‘.ui'iiout the district are organising lor this’function and an energetic committee will be at work all day Wednesday to transform thp hall l into a. (place of beauty. The floor will be nn .lirstclaas order, the music delightful, the supper sumptuous and the decorations effective, all of which wall bring about a joyous evening. It is hoped that the town people will rally to this- function in order to spend a happy .social evening with their “country cousins.’’ It lwi been arranged for a ’hits to leave the Ant'd Garage, Regent Street, at 7.80 p.m.

The experience of being on nine separate occasions posted as being killed was the Jot in China of Mr J. R- Ward, who is at present visiting Auckland after an .absence of 25 years. He is an old boy of Ponsonby School and Auckland' University College, .and since leaving Auckland in 1903 has become aprominent figure'in the wood oil industry in China. As manager of the Fu Chung, Hankow, Wood Oil Corporation, a powerful branch of a Peking syndicate, Mir Ward found himself in tine midst of trouble. He was the only “foreigner” who remained in ihe district during the height of the disturbances, and who. was not directly protooted. He remained) at the refinery, five miles from Hamlcow, and on the hanks of the Yellow River. Some distance on one side of him wa.s the installation of the Asiatic Oil Company, and on the other was the installation of thie Standard Oil Company. Protecting these were two gunboats, and in case of trouble Mr Ward wa.s provided with a riot gun to give warning of danger.

One result of the recent heavy rains is the formation of a lake on the Wuiau River near Coromandel, about a quarter of a mile below the Waiau Palls (reports the Thames correspondent of the Auckland “Star”). A huge landslip .canto down into the bed of the Waiau stream and .completely blocked the old course of the river and resulted in 'the formation of a lake. 'The waters have been backed up for nearly (300 yards and, confined by the cliffs on the Coromandel side, they have spread out. over the adjoining paddocks. It is difficult to say what the outcome of this blocking of the stream bed will be. but there must; be an enormous weight of water above the slip, and it is a question whether the material of which (the slip is composed wlil settle into a solid mass, thus creating a. lake permanently, or whether the accumulated weight of the pent-up water 'will force its way through the slip and icau'se something similar to the bursting of a dam.

No effort is being spared to _ make the social and dance to be held in the Town Hall. Manaia, on Wednesday evening a great success. There.is to be a very amusing short dramatic entertainment; Indian songs in costume, humorous recitation, good music for the dance, and an excellent supper.