LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 March 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual conference of the Legion of Frontiersmen will be held in Hatvera in June. At last night’s annual meeting of the Hawera Savage Club a telegram of greeting and of best wishes for a successful year was received from Savage Claude Moss, first secretary of the club. At the meeting of farmers held last night at Mokoia a motion was unanimous) y carried urging the continuance of the Wednesday holiday in Hawera as being in the best interests of town and country. Tuesday next will mark the inauguration of shipping at the port of Opunake. Whether the service will be permanent depends entirely on local people, and the “Opunake Times” suggests that it is up to local traders and farmers to patronise the boats and thus make the port revenue producing. It is no use ciying over spilt milk. In connection with the farmers’ tour to Southland next May, Mr. E. Iv. Cameron, secretary to the Farmers’ Union Provincial Executive in this district, with Mr. J. Pringle, business manager for the railways, paid a visit last night to Mokoia and met a number of farmers in the hall. Mr. Pringle gave details of the railway arrangements. The project generally was favoured and will probably be well supported by farmers in that district. At the biennial conference at Nelson of the Grand Lodge 1.0.0. F., New Zealand, the annual report showed that the sick fund stands at £186,941. while the funeral fund has a credit of £80,831. The rebekah, sick and funeral fund has increased by £7989 since tbe last Grand Session two years ago. The membership lias increased to 13,557 and the female to 3000, while the- number of lodges under the jurisdiction of New Zealand is 205. The Grand Trustees report- shon’s a total amount invested of £270,000. At the annual meeting of the football club at Okaiawa last evening the chairman said it was unfortunate that junior games were not properly controlled and it was up to the union to make better provision for juniors in the future. “We have to look to the junior players of to-day for the senior players of to-morrow,” he concluded. The matron of the Hawera Public Hospital wishes to- acknowledge, with thanks the receipt of gifts as follow: Flowers, Mrs Pope, Hawera Methodist Church, Mr A. G. Earcom; papers, books and magazines, Mrs Walters (Eltham), Mrs Sporn, Airs Nicholson, Aliss Lamb, and Air W. G. Simpson; cake, Hawera Scottish Society. A very unusual sight rewarded those 1 who were fortunate enough to see the mountain when the clouds lilted about 8 o’clock on Tuesday morning, no less than six waterfalls being distinctly visible (writes our To Kiri correspondent) . The largest was, of course, on tbe Stony River source, this being at least twice the height of the next largest. This one is often seen after very heavy rain, but I have never seen any of the others .before, three to the left and two to the right of Stony River. It would be interesting to know what- river! sources- they are on, and just how thick the rain was- up the mountain to cause them', there being practically no snow to help.

At yesterday's conference of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, at Wellington, the following officers were elected : Dominion president, Mrs T. E. Taylor; Dominion vice-president, Mrs Hiett; Dominion correspondence secretary, Mrs Henderson; Dominion recording secretary, Mrs Evans: Dominion treasurer. Miss Lovell Smith. The following resolution was passed; “This convention re-affirms its belief that the present system of compulsory militarj training is the main cause of the ex is ten co of tire military spirit manifested in the community, especially in the minds of the young. Therefore, all are asked to use their influence and work unceasingly for the abolition of same, and for the institution of a system of compulsory physical training in its place.”

Remember when you order vinegar to stipulate Sliarland’s—the best vinegar that money can buy. In bottle or bulk. —2

A girl who climbed Morint Egmont on Sundav in a somewhat sketchy cos- } tume, which left the legs bare from the ankles to well above the knees, must have felt the cold during the lunch hour at the summit, says the “Taranaki Herald.” The conditions that day illustrated the need. for climbers to carry plenty of clothing, even for a summer ascent. On the lower slopes and when out of the wind climbers became hot, and light clothing was sufficient. On the higher slopes a wetting mist was driven by a- keen northerly wind, and it was time to don an extra sweater or jacket. Still higher, in the sunshine, the climbers could again perspire and the extra clothing ( could be taken off until arrival at the crater, where the wind swept- over the frozen snow with a biting chillness. More or less sheltered nooks could be found among the rocks, and there, between noon and 1 o’clock on Sunday, three parties of climbers, numbering 13 in all, had their lunch.

Attention was drawn at the annual meeting of the Lincoln Slieepbreeders’ Association at Masterton yesterday by the president, Mr Duncan McGregor, to a report by Mr J. A. Roberts, chief biologist to the British Research Association, who -said manufacturers would like to see a return to Lincoln breeding as in no other way could luminous bright wool be produced in quantity. Mr McGregor said it behoved Lincoln breeders to increase their flocks so as to cope more easily with the greater demand for Lincoln wool. It- was decided to inform the- Royal Society that- the association took every care that stud Lincolns exported were up to standard. The election of officers- resulted : President, Mr D McGregor (Masterton); vicepresident, Mr R. Bremer (Waverley) ; lion, treasurer. Mr David Donald (Masterton) ; council, Messrs W. O. McKelar (Hampden) and A. H. Storey (Te Awavmtu), Sir J. G. Wilson (Bulls), Messrs. W. H. Gaisford (Dannevirke), G. V. Smith (Gisborne), A. D. AleMaster (Featherston), W. H. Wybu-me (Wlienuakura). A. E. Anderson (Wai-ra-rapa), H. R. Poole (Pongaroa). L. R. Wilton (Masterton). and D. Donald (Masterton). At a conference of representatives oi tlie Fanners-’ Union and of the manufacturers, at Auckland, Mr Rloss, president of the Auckland Farmers’ Union, said it seemed what- was wanted was an independent tribunal to decide the tariff question. Farmers were of the opinion that- the cause of the trouble was- protection. He moved a resolution asking the Government that- before any alterations in the tariff were dealt with by Parliament they should be investigated and reported on by a tribunal sitting and taking evidence in public. This was carried unanimously. Air Filin, representing the- mamifactu.rers, moved that- as the future of the Dominion depended on the efficiency of farming, the Government he asked to inspect 50 farms in each province to enable the efficiency of the industry to he ascertained, a similar survey to be made every five years. The mover said he intended no implication that the farms in the Dominion were inefficient, but that there was scope for further efficiency. After -discussion he said he would, withdraw the motion for the time being.