LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie personnel of Sir Joseph Ward’s Cabinet will not he officially announced until members of it have been sworn in at Government house on Tuesday moi ning.

SOS calls were received at Wellington at 12.50 a.m. yesterday from the s.s. Parera, which was hard and last upon Walked Rock, in the vicinity ol Jackson’s Beacon, Cook Strait. The vessel wais stated to be making no water. There was no immediate clanger and a tug was not required. At 4.43 a.m. the vessel requested assistance, and tlie agents arranged for the tng Terawhiti to he despatched. At 5.28 a.m. to master reported that the vessel was afloat and proceeding to Lyttelton, so the tug was not despatched. At 11.15 a.m., however, the Parera reported that if the weather did not moderate she would put into Well ington. The euchre party and dance' which is to he held in the Manaia Town Hall on Friday niglit. December 14. in aid of the school funds, promises to lie a great success and is being eagerly looked forward to l\v residents of the ' clisti'i i. First-chrss prizes will lie given for the ladies’ and men’s competitions. I

The Eltham Progress Committee has completed arrangements for the annual Father Christmas ' free gift effort for the children of the district. Gifts have been purchased to the extent of approximately £SO. A scheme for decorating the town and shops has also been arranged. In tlie report of Saturday’s meeting of tlxe Hawera County Council it was stated that the Christmas holidays granted to the outside staff would be from December 22 to January 5, both days inclusive. This was not. correct, and the dates granted are as under : From December 22 till January2, both days inclusive. Painful injuries to liis right hand were sustained by a young man, 19 years of age, named T. It. List, on the northern slopes of Mount Egmont on Saturday afternoon, when he dropped a loaded rifle, which exploded as he was getting down a bluff (reports the “News”). Mr. List is a son of Mi’, and Mrs. T. C. List, of New Plymouth. In company with one of the rangers, Mr. Spence Heath, he was out hunting goats when the mishap occurred. Mr. Heath, who had had training in fii’st aid work, applied a tourniquet, and the two retraced their steps over ranges and rivers and up the steep side of • the Waiwakaiho gorge to the main northern track over two miles away. They were fortunate in meeting a car coming up the track driven by Mr. T. Powles, of Wellington, who conveyed. the injured lad to the hospital, where he received surgical treatment and is doing as well as

One of tli© heaviest shocks of earthquake experienced in Hawera for years was felt here at 3.52 p.nx. yesterday. The tremors could be felt plainly by those standing on the ground. Windows rattled, aixd outside telephone wii’es were violently agitated for fully a minute. A pedesti-ian who was leaning against a fence felt that structure shaking for a considerable time after the other manifestations of the earthquake had passed away. While the shake was at. its worst a heavy car at a standstill on the roadside, loaded with six passengers, shook violently on its springs for many seconds. No reports of damage clone to pi’operty have been received. The earthquake’ was also felt in Eltham. No serious damage was done, although some shops suffered slightly through goods falling from the shelves and from’ window brackets.