LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 9 January 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An excellent programme oi music, including dance items, was rendered. J the Hawera Municipal Band m ivm fe Edward Park last evening, ihe oojeci of the entertainment was to raise lurther funds for the provision or seats at the park, and a collection resulted in the oauit’s funds tor the purpose being considerably augmented. A few days; ago a silvered half-penny was passed at tue ticket-box of one 01 t.tie rim urn picture theatres in payment lor a shilling ticket-. Apparently the person responsible for the imposition desired to start the new year with, a clear .conscience, as the manager of tho theatre received by post 11 jd in stamps us "conscience money.” The annual gathering of the Ogle family took place a few days ago at the residence of Mr. Henry Ogle at Stuart Load, Elfliam, when 44 memhem met ancl spent a very enjoyaole aitornoon. The gathering this year was interested in the new home recently erected by Mr. rienry Ogle and was in the nature of a house warming.

in their campaign to secure public recognition of tne most practical kind ior .New Zealand-made goods, the manufacturers of Auckland will open in the city next month, a permanent exhibition of their products. A hall of industries, supported by the Auckland .Manufacturers’ Association, will be opened on the first floor of the new Queen's Arcade building in Queen Street. Highly attractive displays have been planned, and the manufacare confident that the enterprise "'ill lie attended by great success. '1 he jubilee of their arrival in New Zealand will be celebrated on Saturday by a number of Aucklanders. The occasion will he the 50th anniversary of tlie arrival of the full-rigged ship Ben Nevis with 270 passengers, after a voyage of 103 days from London. Many of the passengers still reside in Auckland and efforts are being made to hold a reunion. Owing to the fact that many are away on holiday at present it cannot take place on Saturday, but probably it will be held in March. Everybody speaks about the Ninety Milo Beach, the spot where the motorcar speed record will be attacked by “W-ibard” Smith, but as a matter of geographical measurement that fine stretch of sand is only about 4Q miles l°hgj and that was quite foug enough before the introduction of the motor. In the old days it was the highway of that Jong narrow sandy point that terminates New Zealand in the north, and the usual practice of travellers was to clo the journey at night, as it was cooler. The first man to drive a motor along it was the late Bishop Cleary.

About G o’clock last evening a boy named Peter Dredge, aged about six, I who resides with ins parents in Little Itegent Street, was standing up in a car being driven round the corner oi Begent and Little Begent Streets by an elder brother, when lie overbalanced and fell to the roadway. The boy sustained slight- concussion and bruises, in addition to being cut about the hands by iragments of a jug lie was carrying. He was attended to by a doctor, who found that his injuries were not serious, and he was taken to his home.

Contained in a November issue of one of London’s most reputable daily news - papers is- a remarkable paragraph relating to the English cricket team, at -present on -tour in New Zealand. The item reads: “The M.C.C. side now on -tour did not -haive much difficulty in beating the New Zealanders, but the opposition will -bo much stronger when the team meets Victoria in Australia. ’ ’ Except that the paragraph appeared in type more than -a month before the Englishmen set foot on Dominion soil -and that the first Test against New Zealand is only jus-t about to be played, the information was more or -less correct, as the touring side was -beaten by Victoria by seven wickets.

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The generous support accorded by housewives lli rough-out the Dominion has enabled ns to increase the size of our I/- cartons of No Rubbing Laundry Help (The Manufacturers). —Advt.