LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A well deserved tribute to the ladies of Okaiawa. for their valued support and help over many years given to thefootball club, with .special mention of the work of preparation for the smoke concert last night, was paid l to them by several speakers and received with hearty applause. It was mentioned by Mr. T. B. Lees, man aging trustee of the New Zealand Sheep'owncrs ’ Acknowledgement of Debt to British Seamen' Fund, when speaking at Flock House, Bulls, on Saturday, on the odeasion of the visit, of Sir James Allen and Hons. A. F. Hawke and B. iSe'ott,' that, the total savings (by Flock ‘House trainees, since going out into employment, totalled £13,000. This represents the savings of 400 boys and girls, the former, who great, outnumbered the girls, having been responsible ‘for £II,OOO. The chairman at last night’s smoke concert at Okaiawa. Mr J. O’Sullivan, commented very favourably on the fairness and impartiality of reports and comemnts of the lootball matches made bv the Press of South Taranaki and said he knew no district where the game received better support than South Taranaki.

About 37,000 miles a day are covered by Lufthansa’s passenger airplanes under the summer schedule now in effect in Germany Especial attention has been paid to shortening the time required for ’the various routes. Nearly every European capital, 'with th'e cxcptinn of Warsaw, is now reached by regular •scheduled flight's. A passenger leaving London in the morning readies Berlin about 5 o 'clock the ‘same afternoon, leaves .Berlin at 11 pan. the same day and is in Moscow aib'ou't 3 o’lelock on the following afternoon. Two flights by day, with !a stay overnight in Geneva 'being one f rom Berlin to Madrid. About ninety routes are flown under the summer schedule. It was discovered last week that a great deal of damage had been done to several huts, at Taylor’s Mistake, near Summer. Doors were forced, windows smashed, and in several eases the contents of the huts were strewn in all directions. But more serious still was the interference with the water tanks. The majority of the hut-owners depend for their supply on the water collected in their storage tanks, and to these tanks the marauders also directed their energies. It is thought that schoolboys were responsible for the damage.

A tender has been let by the Wellington Bugby Union for the erection of a new stand at Athletic Park, announced the chairman of the union, Mr. J. Prendeville, at the annual smoke concert of the Wellington Referees ’ .Association on 'Saturday night. The stand is to cost £25,000 and a condition of the contract is that,the work is to ‘be completed by .May 1 of next year. The Wellington Union has £7OOO of its 'own funds available for the work and satisfactory financial arrangements have been made for the payment of the balance. The new stand will have dressing rooms for six team's 'as well as accommodation for referees, while provision will be made to seat 4600 people.

“Luclcv to be alive” was the opinion of those' on board the steamer Port Napier on arrival at Auckland. On August 24 the vessel arrived at Pago Pago is a desperate plight. For over twelve hours the ship’s company had been engaged in a losing fight against a fire that had broken out in No. 4 hold. Buckled deck plates, blistered paint, charred hatches, and the genera! .scene’ ’tween decks gave an impression of the inferno that had raged. It was impossible then to ascertain the full extent of the loss, hut the opinion was expressed that this was not as serious as was at first supposed, though the damage from water, and to a lesser degree from smoke, would be considerable All the cargo in a condition to be re-shipped was placed aboard the Port Napier before she left Pago Pago for Suva, a portion of it being carried on deck as a precaution against further trouble.

The sword owned by Major vonTempsky, who was killed at the fight of Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, Taranaki, 60 years ago, was according to Mr. A. R. Langley, of Raglan, lying among a collection of military junk in the Government stores, Wellington for many years, states an exchange, Mr. Langley says he purchased the sword, with other military accoutrements, from the Government 31 years ago, and held it for sale in his shop in Raglan about nine months ago. He sold the weapon to a casual purchaser for two pounds. Mr. Langley says he does not know who the purchaser was, and has no knowledge of where the sword is at present. Major von Tempsky was in charge of a company of Forest Rangers, which was attached to the First Waikato Regiment in 1863, and while in the Waikato lie took part in several skirmishes with the Maoris.