LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

hue combined Sunday Schools of .111maiii conducted, a seaside excursion to xvew L'jymoutn yesterday, and tuere » ere approximately «U 0 children and aauitts on tne special train which, left ititeam station at 8 o’clock and returned at Y.du. JLixe weather was exceedingly good, and an, enjoyable day was spent.

The publicity officer of the Railway Department (Mr G. Stewart) has written to Mr Hooker for a supply of folders dealing with Mt. Egmont and Dawson Falls, for use on the trains and at stations. A supply has also been sent to the Union S.S. Co., to be used on the steamers of that comi pany. These have all been forwarded. ' .-iii roads will lead to hh© Hawera iUunieiipai jtJatfis to-mg lit, the occasion ' being tne carnival ot to© Hawera Ainateur swimming. Uluo. Several of the provincial ciiampions will* be competing and in addition toe water polo matou between teams representing Ingiewocu and Hawera promises to be a real thriller. Intending patrons will do well to be seated before 8 p.m. Oonsidenabiy more rain has fallen in Souto Taranani this summer tdan was cue case in 1928. In January of last year tlie rainfall for the month was nil, wane for .the month just ended the total rainfall was 1.41 inches, witn a maximum fall of .46 inches on the twenty-third. Un enquiry being made at the Stratford hospital tins morning it was ascertained tnat both the Misses Uodun-, sici, who wer© injured in tiie level 1 crossing smash at Midhurst on Tuesday, were still in a critical condition, there being no improvement in either case.

j'tie Haiwera Pipe Band will pi ay a seieutecl programme in Naumai Park on o.maay afternoon. next, commencing at 2 p.m. 'Phe public are cordially invited do ibe present. No; collection will be taken up. Pipe-Major Haddow, ot Patea, is to render a solo. In a personal note to Mr L. 0. Hooker, Mr L. B. Beale, the British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, who has recently returned from a trip tothe Old World, speaks approvingly of the “national shop window,” which is to be a feature of the ’ South Taranaki Winter Show at Hawera this year. Mr Beale went Home last year with the Hon. L. S. Amery’s party, ] and on the way back had a trip to the East. He has been away just oyer a year.

Last evening, a three-seater ear, travelling south from Hawera, struck an electric light post and was capsized near Waitotara. The details are meagre, but it appears that the car driven by a Bulls resident, was returning from the 'Hawera races and when near Waitotara the driver lost control with tlio result that the car skidded and struck the 'pole and was turned completely over. The driver escaped injury, but the other occupant suffered severe cuts about the head and body. The car also was severely damaged.