LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On a scale which is believed to be larger than that attempted in any other part of the world, a beginning was made yesterday (states a Christchurch I’ress Association message) with the extraction of wheat oil at the Wheat Research Institute’s laboratory in Montreal Street. The oil is being prepared for the veterinary division of the Department of Agriculture, to be used in connection with anti-sterility wink .hi farm animals.

The fact that an electric shock will affect the respiratory organs and not • the heart was emphasised by Dr. Spencer Darnell at an inquest lield at Auckland into the death of a boy who received a fatal shock while holding an electric light extension in his hand, •‘in cases of this kind an attempt should be made immediately to restore the \ ictim's breathing, and artificial respiration should be applied at once, ' Dr Daniell stated. At the monthly meeting of the Manaia Public Library Committee, held cm Tuesday night, there were present Mess si* T. A. Bridge (chair), \V. Vincent, B. Badland, V. Winter, and H. George. The librarian’s report, which was adopted, stated that subscriptions for August were £ll 11s 3d and sales 3s 3d. It was decided to apply to the Waimate West Council for the annual subsidy. Charles Baker, of Woodhill, W hangarei, recently discovered a grub which was effectively killing gorse. Further specimens were found in the Mairtown suburb, and these were submitted to Mr Given, science master at Whangarei High School, who forwarded specimens and some of the dead gorse to the Cawthron Institute. The grub is borer-like in action, commencing at the roots and working through the stems. The Cawthron Institute lias acknowledged receipt of the specimens and says it is carrying out experiments, the outcome of which I may have Dominion importance. The existence of what is virtually an underground river flowing from tile Hull Valiev into the north-eastern part of ihe Wellington harbour, has been revealed during the construction of the oil berth at i’oint Howard. In the course of his monthly report on works in progress, presented to the Harbour Board, the general manager and chief engineer (Mr J. M archhanks) mentioned that during pile-driving operalions at Point Howard a large artesian flow of water developed where a test pih* had been withdrawn. “Apparently there is a- very large discharge of a subterranean stream from the Hutt Valley info the harbour, the depth of which is about 08 feet below water level. There is. a depression nearly 68 feet deep about 200 feet off the front of the oil bertn. which appears to be due to the up-flow of fresh water.” The fail tiro of the Dairy Farmers.' Futon, which operated seven years, led' to a lawsuit among the. guarantors of an overdraft of £IOOO in the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday, says a Press Association message. Three i guarantors. C. Parker, F. W. Thomas and R. A. Foreman, sued four others j tor a share of the guarantee. The case turned on the contention of defendants 1 that their signatures to the guarantee had been obtained on the understanding that it would not be effective unless a. total of. 20 signatures were obtained. Mr. Justice Ostler held this was not proved, but that it was greed some additional signatures' should be obtained, whereas only one was added. He therefore refuged to make an order against two of the defendants, H. It. J. Soutbee and B. N. Barlow, who disputed the claim, but made an order against A. E. Fear and J. Livingstone, who had admitted liability at. the beginning of the hearing. An important point in third party motor insurance is under investigation. says the “Christchurch Times.”] Motorists nominate a company to undertake their insurance, but at least two eases have arisen where fatalities have been caused by ears which cannot he traced, therefore liability can not. be placed on any particular company. The eireuinstaneos) of the dearen of Mr. Nicholls ,a. teacher, who was knocked down on Papon mi Road, Christchurch, and who died from his injuries, have been very fully considered by the Minister of Transport, who lias supervision of the subject of insurance against third party risk. The motor-ear which struck Mr. Nicholls was not identified, and has not been traced, consequently his family cannot advance a claim for compensation. Legislation does not cover the point which, the Hon. W. A. Veiteh lias been discussing with the underwriters. The upshot of the discussion may well bo that .provision will be made against similar occurrences in the future, and the Minister hopes that a way may be. found of dealing with the two cases that have already hen .brought to his notice.

In connection with a. recent decision of a- magistrate that, a cash docket was a receipt and must be stamped, the undermentioned -paragraph wild be of interest : Recently a correspondent wrote to the “Mercantile Gazette” as follows: “Sir, —After 'making a purchase of £ll worth of goods from a store, a receipt was given to -me without a stamp. On asking that the -receipt be stamped, I was informed that this was not necessary, us a cash sale required no stamp. 1 noticed that the word cash sale had been placed in the sale note with a rubber stamp. I shall be -glad if you will give us, through your columns, your opinion as to whether this is in order.” The editor’s reply was ais follows: “Our correspondent did not get a receipt, -but merely a memorandum of what lie had purchased, which coilla hired no acknowledgement by the owner or anyone on his behalf of payment. As a matter of fact there was nothing owing, and no receipt was necessary, and our correspondent correctly described the document as a sale note. If a. -purchaser obtains personal possession of the goods' at the time be buys and pays cash for them he is not compelled to obtain a receipt to protect himself; lie obtains the goods, the shopkeeper the money, and the transaction ends-.'’ On this point it is- recalled that in 1923 the Commissioner of Stamps sni'd a Wellington firm for having failed to stamp a cash docket, of which the customer was given a carbon copy. The magistrate gave judgment against the Department.

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The first of the season hothousegrown tomatoes sold wholesale in Christchurch on Friday at 4s 9d per pound. A conference' of persons interested, particularly representatives of bodies engaged, in bringing hoys to New Zealand, is to lie. called shortly by the New Zealand Land Settlement and Development League to consider the present position of juvenile immigration with reference to- the land.

There were 11 bankruptcies in the Auckland district during August, compared with 14 in the corresponding period of 1928, and 12 in August, 1927. The bankruptcies for the first eight' months of the year total 91, compared with 95 and 147 for the same periods of 1928 and 1927. The bankruptcy “barometer” thus shows a steady and satisfaetorv fall, says the “Star.”

The Defence Department announces that the next educational test lor Dominion candidates for apprenticeships in the Rioval Air Force in. England will be held, at the end of the present month. Candidates must lx*' between the ages of 16 and 17 on January I, 1930, and must have had at least two years’ education in a secondary school to have a reasonable prospect of passing. The subjects are mathematics, science, English composition and a general paper.

Those who pass the educational test will, if medically fit and otherwise suitable, be nominated for acceptance, and if accepted will require to find their own .passages to England, where they w.ll require to report early in January next. The cost of the educational and •medical examinations are also payable the candidates. Full particulars are. obtainable from Defence headquarlc'.i s at Wellington, and prospective candidates who wish to sit for the examination at the end of September must apply to the above-mentioned .tfice before September 15. states a Press Association message from Wellington. During the time lie was in America Mr L. J. Wild, Director of the Feilding High School, never once saw milk in a jug in a public .restaurant or shop, .so be fold members of the Agricultural Science dub at Christchurch. It was always in scaled bottles, and there was little chance of contamination. Prohibition, added Mr Wild, had cultivated the milk habit, and it was not uncommon to see labourers taking a bottle of milk with their lunch. In the Western States tea seemed to lie drunk very little, but the public were fond of an excellent kind of coffee. Ail illustration of the Samoans’ love of speech-making was given by Sir George Richardson at the annual reunion of the Samoan ex-Servicemen’s Association at Auckland: “About four days after I arrived in Samoa as Administrator a large number of natives gathered to welcome me,” Sir George said. “The spokesman was a notable chief, and for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour lie spoke with barely a pause. I turned to an official and asked what the chief was talking about. ‘Nothing much yet,’ was the reply. ‘He has only said ladies and gentlemen.’ ” Telephone and Morse .services are now restored between Murchison and Lyell, thus completing the alternative West Coast route through the Upper Buller Gorge recently severed by earthquake disturbances, states a 'Wellington Press Association message. When this route was demolished an emergency wireless service was made available at Westport and Greymouth, whereby in the event of interruption to the Arthur’s Pass route communication by radio would, immediately be effected with the Wellington and Awarua stations. The telephone facilities now available between Murchison and Lyell will 1 be of special value in connection with telephone communications from West Coast stations to Murchison and Nelson and their surrounding districts.

Tile Mayor of Westport (Mr Darkness), reporting to the. Borough Connoil last evening on the deputation to Wellington concerning earthquake damage, stated when the deputation met the Prime Minister the amount given was £2600. but. the discovery of further breakages in the isewens, etc., had raised the estimate to £3OOO. Residents of Westport were required to pay increased rates this year, and the deputation hoped the Prime Minister would see his way to. grant the amount asked for. ‘ The Westport Trotting Club’s loss through the. earthquake is set down at £373. It is honed that relief will lie afforded either out of trotting meetings held and to be held in different parts of the Dominion or from some other so i i ree.—Pi es s As so ei a t ion.

The race meeting held by the Auckland Trotting Club last Saturday in aid of the Earthquake Belief .Fund was sucli ,a complete success that it is hoped the profit will be not less than £SOOO. One very satisfactory feature was the excellent public patronage, which enabled £1286 15s to be taken at the gates. The following is a (statement of the taxation payable to the Government, which, the Prime Minister has announced, will be refunded by means of special legislation: Totalisator tax, £BBB Is 3d; dividend tax, £1598 14s; stakes tax, £9l os; amusement tax, £B4 17s 9d —total, £2632 18s.

Sitting on the kerb, with her infant crying in a perambulator beside her, jMrs. Nellie Isobel Clapshaw attracted the interest of passers-by in Brighton-ie-Sands on August 20 (says a Sydney correspondent). They spoke to her and tried to lift her to her feet, and were horrified when a doctor who happened to be passing informed them that she was dead. The infant, lifting itself in the perambulator and holding out its hands to its mother, was crying piteously. Mrs. Clapshaw, who had two other children, was aged 35 years. She lived in Mo ato Avenue, Brighton-le-Sands. She had suffered from an affection of the heart, and left home to visit a doctor. She was within a few hundred yards of his surgery when apparently she suffered a sudden attack, and, drawing the perambulator to the edge of the footpath, she sat down on the kerb with her feet in the gutter and died.

Thg induction of the new vicar of Opuna.ke (the Rev. A. ,T. Farnell) will take place at- St. Barnabas Church on Friday evening.

HUNTINGTON'S; ’Phone 2118. We arc now showing a new variety of colourings and designs in men’s ties, a good assortment to choose from, 3/11 <to 5/f>; men’s shirts in light grounds, neat stripes, from d/ll to 17/6; men’s fancy sock si in silk and wool, wool, silk and cotton, from 1/11 fo 5/6; men’s coloured bordered handkerchiefs, fast washing, I/-, 1/3 each; men’s tweed caps in now coloured shapes, 5/6 and 6/6 each. —Advt. HUNTINGTON’S; ’Phone 2118. Out new season’s ladies’ underwear is attracting considerable attention. Lovely bloomers, vests, underskirts, nights, Trinity sets and cami-bockers, in Interlock, Locknit and art silk weave, prettily trimmed with coloured and cream laces, are beautiful, whilst tire many dainty shades' are exquisite.—Advt.

Out of 800 eases of scarlet fever notified to the Taranaki health officer since 192 S to the end of last month, only two deaths resulted.

The following aire the statistics with regard to the import and export or goods through the Port of Patoa for the month of July, 1929 Imports, 32/ tons; exports, 917 tons, valued at approximately £84,860. The annual meeting of the Patou Girl Guides’ Association, which was to have been betid on Tuesday, lapsed on account of tile noor attendance. The meeting was postponed until September 17.

For the third successive season opossum >skins taken over the .Hawera district show a decided increase, said Sergeant J. Henry in conversation with a ‘‘Hawera Star” reporter this morning. The trapping season of three months ended on August 31, but persons in possession of pelts are allowed until September 30 to make application for the official stamping. Already, however, 1952 skins have been stamped at the Hawera, station this season, .this being 229 i'n excess of the full number stamped fast year, when the total was 1723, and 495 more than the full number in 1927, when the total was 1 1457. Two of the most successful of this season’s trappers have had over 500 skins stamped. The majority of the skins brought to the Hawera station were secured in tlic Araraita district, others coming from Eltham, Tirimoana and Waverley. Some ■of the better pelts have sold at 17s each.

The allegation that opossum-trapping was the main factor in the rapidly da-rn-easing native bird life in the domain lias been refuted by the secretary of the Rotokare Domain Board (Mr. H. N. Murray). Some interesting figures connected with the operations of a trapper in the domain during the months of June, July and August bear out this statement. During the three months, only one native bird was trapped, and on inspection the traooer found that it was only slightly injured, and ho immediately released it. Six blackbirds were taken, six .stoats, one sheep and 400 rats. The sheep, ivhichi was caught by the leg, was not seriously injured. That 400 rats could lx? taken in three months is rather a surprising fact, and the damage that tho.se ]>ests could do to native bird life in comparison witli the use of opossum traps can be imagined. There were evidence of opossums having been sihot at with pearifle.y, reported the trapper at the> reserve to the board, as .several of the skins bore marks made by pea-rifle bullets.