LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 December 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'The activities of the ladies ’ committee were the subject of considerable eulogy at the annual meeting of the Hawera Municipal Band last evening, and a vote of thanks for their generous assistance in securing funds for the contest at Wanganui was carried by acclamation

It was stated at the annual meeting of the Hawera Alunieipal Band last evening that although the contest funds showed a fair balance, it was still short of the amount required to finance the band at the forthcoming contest in Wanganui. Further donations were urgently needed.

I’ll© concert to have been held tomorrow m the Auroa Hall has been postponed until January. The meeting called to consider the re-formation of a branch of the Farmers’ Union in Manaia on Friday lapsed because of the small attendance. Mr. E. J. Betts, provincial president, Mr. F. Aroa, a member of the executive, with Mr. L. A. Taylor and Air. E. K. Cameron, provincial secretary, were present. At the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on Alonday, Air. Justice Smith gave his reserved decision in the, appeal of Edward Eberhard, of Kaponga, against a decision of Air. R. \Y. Tate, S.M., awarding Nelson Tuck, of Opunake, £2OO damages as tiie result of a collision on the Eltham Road at Kaponga. The appeal was dismissed, with costs to the respondent. At the hearing Air. It. H. Quilliam appeared for the appellant and Mr. P. O’Dea for the respondent. The pay-out on the first wool sale in Wanganui for the- season tools place on Friday (says the “Herald”). l'ue sale .was -worth £220,000 to YY’aligamii, this estimate being based on a. total of 9500 bales at an average of between £23 and £24 a bale. A few lots at the sale were passed in, but the majority were sold privately later and at satisfactory prices. According to a. judgment- given by Mr. Justice- Blair at Hamilton yesterday, insurance companies are liable for claims after accepting a small transfer fee, even if the premium is unpaid. On this ground judgment was given for Arthur William Overall, a Mamaku farmer, against t-lie Victoria Insurance Company for the full amount of the claim, £4BO. Overall received a property from a mortgagee, Mrs. Helen Warren, and paid 2s 6-d transfer fee on the insurance policy, believing the premium to have been paid. Summing up, tne judge said the company by accepting the transfer fee had lulled Overall into a- belief that his premises were insured. This remained the position till two days after the fire in the premises, when the agents informed Overall the premium was unpaid. The annual meeting of the Auroa Sports: Cub wiJi be held on Saturday next at the Auroa Hall at 8 p.m. The Railway Department advertises in. this- issue particulars of train arrangements in connection with the running of_Daylight. Limited -express trains' -between Wellington aia-d Auckland from 14th December till 9th February.