LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 July 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tbo Prime Minister, in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, in answer to a question bv Mr C. H. Chapman .said legislation would l>e introduced extending the duration of the Rent Restriction Act for another year. The bonus payable by the Department of Agriculture for the beaks of kcas has been reduced from 5s to 2s fid each as from July 17, 1929, states a Gazette notice.

In re- 1 -- to Mr AY. J. Poison, Sir Joseph Ward, in the House of Representatives' on Wednesday, said he bad arranged to inorea.se the maximum amount of 'loan under the intermediate rural credits scheme from) £IOOO to £2OOO and to simplify the. loan procedure.

In order to give residents in the earthquake area an opportunity to take a holiday, the Railway Department, has decided ’ to issue holiday excursion tickets from officered .stations on the Westport-Nelson sections of the railways to any station on the main lines of'both Islands. The tickets are on issue until July 27 and are available for return until August 24. Four stokers on the steamer Canadian Conqueror refused duty at sea an hour after the vessel left Auckland for Wellington yesterday afternoon in continuation of the voyage from Montreal, says an Auckland Press Association message. The vessel returned to port and the four men were arrested on a charge of disobeying the lawful commands of the master while on the high seas. It is understood the men contend there is a shortage of one in the crew, but as against this it is stated the stokehold is fully manned.

The s.'S. Pakipaki,, 7166 tons, which has been loading in America for New Zealand ports, has been on fire at New York. The fire lias been extinguished in No. 1 hold, and No. 2 hold is flooded. Considerable damage has been done to the cargo loaded at New York (says a Wellington Press Association message). The Pakipaki was to | have left Now York on .1 uSjr 1.5 for Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, Timaru and Dunedin. A rather interesting case was recently decided at a sitting of the Auckland Supreme Court. A man had been charged before two justices of the pea'e with drunkenness and assault, to which ho pleaded guilty. He was convicted and fined and a prohibition order was issued against him. It was the latter lie appealed against. His Honour, Mr. Justice Kennedy, said the justices acted without jurisdiction in issuing the order. They had, he said no more right, in the circumstances, to issue a prohibition order than they had to order punishment in excess of the statutory minimum. It is not an unusual thing to hear of justices issuing prohibition orders in similar cases, but unless the offender consents no such power exists. The traditional view that the picrk-amd-shovel man who. toils with, his coat off and .sleeves rolled u.p is the hardest worker in the community was challenged by tlie Rev. D. Gardner Miller in an address before the Canterbury Advertising Climb last week. He. maintained that the. man burdened with the heaviest labour was lie who had to sit down and plan, business schemes in his office. H]e had to sweat his. brains, meeting present difficulties, planning for the future andi thinking olf those who were, to .dame, after him. His burden vuls with him night and day, and he could never lay it aside. The courage of some business men was. astounding.

The rainfall in various parts of the Waimate district varies from three to over four inches for the period commencing on Monday last (says a Press Association message from Waimate). AM the creeks are in flood and the county council has issued a warning against using the Main North Road at Pareora bridge owing to flood damage, also in regard to Brassil’s bridge across the Upper Pareora, and the Station Peak Road between Waihao Downs and Kurow. Rain is still falling, though it is easing somewhat.

In renlv to a letter from the Rev. O. Carr, M.P. (Timaru). the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Public Works, wrote stating that it was unlikely that labour (particularly unskilled) would be required from outside districts for repairing the damage caused by the earthquakes. If was not considered advisable to authorise the emnloymont of outside men until the residents of the district affe'ted had been absorbed.

The Eh field Council has forbidden the sale of ice cream in the .public park.

Air A. AV. Alar tin, tlie well-known Rupture Specialist. from Dunedin, is now on his twenty-fourth annual visit to the centres of New Zealand. He will be at the Central Hotel, Hawera. on Friday , and Saturday, the 19th and 20th of July, and may be consulted free between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.* SPECIAL REDUCTIONS AT BUCKRELL’S. All distinctively ladies’ winter wear is considerably reduced all this month. Maids’ velour coats, fur collar and cuffs, 29/6; cashmere coat and skirts, 12/6; costume fronts, 2/6; rainproofs from 12/6; jumpers and cardigans from 7/11- —Buckrellb, Hawera. —Advt.

Donations received at Eltham to-' wards the earthquake relief fund totalled £3O 6s 4d up till yesterday. Replying to Mir C. H. Fie’d, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, in the House of Retpresentatives on Wednesday, said there were no exact statistics of the number of sheep dying annually in New Zealand, but it could not be expected! that two millions died annually from disease, apart- from troubles directly or indirecth’ of die-tic origin. New Zealand was by comparison in a very good position regards serious diseases affecting -sheep. The Postmaster-General, the Hon. J. R Donald, replying to Mr J. A. Nash in the House of Representatives on Wsdnesda.v said that in addition to the four principal broadcasting stations there were 12 private broadcasting stations operating in New Zealand. Licenses for private broadcasting stations were issued without payment of fees* provided the technical requirements’ were satisfied and there was evidence that the applicant oou'-d satisfactorily maintain the proposed service. It was necessary to ensure that transmission was of 'good duality, -also that there was a minimum of interference with existing stations in localities remote front places where the “Y” statons were operating. The installation of private stations tended to encourage rro-sr. etive listeners to purchase -cheap, lioti-sdiective apparatus. It was «n----cum bent on the P. and T. Department, therefore in the interests of these people, to satisfy itself that some de-o-ree- of uerniiainency was guaranteed by applicants for private -broadcasting stations.