LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Subscribers to “The Hawera iStar” who live on the 'Tawhiti Road beyond the bacon factory are suffering from the depredations of sneak .thieves who lift papers thrown off by the contractor for delivery. The proprietors of “The Star” issue a caution that criminal proceedings will be taken against any person detected. The following resolution was carried unanimously at a mass meeting of employees held in the- yard at the Hi! Istcie (.Duiieuin; railway workshops yesterday a.t tne miicMieon hour: ‘ "ITiat tips, meeting protests against any rorni of the premium bonus- system being lntrouuced in the railway workshops.” Advice has been received that the Manaia Municipal Band’s silver instruments will arrive from England by the Kemuera on December 31.

Otrtices of solicitors, members of the Hawera branch of the Taranaki District Law Society, will be closed for the Christmas vacation from neon on Saturday to Monday, January 14. to the conditions arising from the droughts the wholesale price of butter has been increased by a halfpenny to Is 10d a, pound, states a Sydney Tress message. Details of the census of stocks of flour, wheat and oats in the Dominion as at November 3U, 1928, were published in the Gazette last night. Flour siocks total 11,357 tons; wheat, 0,7i22,-1 734 bushels, and oats 1,50-8,1)00 bushels. The Auroa. Highland Pipe Band lias accepted an invitation from the Manaia Business Men’s Committee to r play a .series of selections on Christmas Eve in the Octagon at Manaia. The Hawera railway station presented a busy appearance this morning. The mail train had to be augmented by the addition of another carriage, there being over 80 passengers from Hawera alone en route for different . parts of the Dominion for the Christmas vacation.

A meeting of the Country Party was held at Oiiaeawai yesterday afternoon to consider the position in regard to the Bay of Islands seat. Tne meeting, winch was attended by party members, was mainly in camera. A committee was appointed to deal with the situation arising out Qf a petition for another election which, it was understood, was to be lodged. Th 0 annual garden fete and bazaar held in conjunction with the breakingup ceremony of the Hawera Main School was a great financial success, the nett profit being between £34 and £35. This was a very creditable result as the function was solely the work of the teachers and scholars. The funds would be devoted to special requirements at the school.

Mushrooms are- said not to grow on land which has been treated with artificial manure.

An extraordinary gazette, notice pub-' lished* last night announced that the General Assembly had been prorogued till March 2:8, 19-21). That the time -had come when the department should test all patent medicines for Stock before allowing them to be placed on the market was ,!an opinion expressed at Palmerston North yesterday at a meeting of the Dairy -Farmers’ Union, which decided to send a deputation to the Minister when Parliament was next, in session to bring the matter to his notice. It Was considered that if the medicines proved 25 per cent, efficient the farmers would know where they stood. —Press Absn. -When the 'Southern Cross flew the Tasman iSea it carried four miniature Union Jacks which were allocated one each to Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin for funds to be raised -by the sale of tickets, h’alf of the total proceeds to go to the Sydney Hospital and the remainder to be equally divided -among the four hospitals in the cities of New Zealand. Wellington so far has collected- 570 19s 6d by the sale of tickets. At the request qf the- Hawera Druids, Father Christmas paid a visit to the children’s ward at the hospital last evening -and delighted the patients by presenting each with a gift which had been addressed by name to the particular recipient. Thanks of the Druid brethren for land ness received at the hospital were also conveyed to the matron by Father Christmas who presented Miss Ntusey with a handsomely fashioned scent spray and expressed suitable wishes for success in her new sphere o.f service at Auckland, Miss Nutsey in reply intimating that aiiy service she had been able to render to members of the Druids’ -lodge, as well as to other members of the community who had received treatment at the hospital, had been a source of great pleasure to her.

The first of the series of trial races for the 14 feet Jellicoe boats, arranged t-o take place at Auckland last evening by the Auckland Yacht and Motor Boat, * Association for the purpose of selecting the Auckland representatives in the Sanders Cup contest, did not take place. The reason is not definitely known, hut it is suggested the proposal of the New Zealand Yacht Squadron that the age limit in future contests should he 21 has something to do with it. Also it is stated there is resentment among some of those concerned at the decision that each member of the crew over 21 should pay £5 toward his expenses. The race was to start off the Princess Wharf and spectators waited for three-quarters or an hour but no boats appeared. Mr. C-. G. Maclndoe, owner of both the Val and the Ilona, later stated that his boats were ready to start if the third boat engaged, the Avalon, had put in an appearance.

The organisation, of a winter show on the lines- of the, annual exhibition held at H-awera is- under consideration at Masterton by the Wairaxapa Industrial Committee, to whom an address concerning the project was given at the invitation of the- committee on Tuesday by Mr L. O. Hooker, of Hawera, the organiser of the South Taranaki Show. The freehold -o-f a site for an -exhibition iin a central portion of the town has been offered by a Masterton resident, and a -proposal is afoot to: form a limited liability company to conduct an annual show. A committee consisting of Messrs J. H. Hand-yside, D. M. Edwards, E. H-oddex and C. M. Bowden was appointed -by Tuesday’s meeting to make enquiries as to the. cost of a concrete building with. 20,000 square feet of floor space. Two of the committee, Messrs Edwards and Hodder, are former residents of Hawera. Mr Hooker has -been asked to attend a public meeting to- be held at Masterton in January, when the proposal will be given further consideration.