LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 21 January 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Arrested :v. Henderson, Alan Alexander Out hbertson, an orehardist, aged 61, appeared in the. Auckland Police Court on Saturday charged with indecent assault on a girl of seven years and nine months. On the application of the Chief Detective, accused was remanded until January 23, bail of £IOO being allowed. 1 The Auckland Infirmary lias had 1 many types of line pioneer .settlors housed within its walls, but never has it had it taller man than one who has recently taken up his abode there(states the “Star.”) He is oft, Sin. in height, and had to have a special hod prepared for him so that he could stretch his limbs and he able to sleep comfortably. The Government provincial school at l.odini, Fiji, to which Mr. J,- D. Morgan, late of Motnhora, school, lias been appointed, is a hoarding institution at which sons of chiefs and high-c-lass natives are educated. A farm is attached and agriculture is an important subject of the curriculum. The new appointee is son of Mr. E. Morgan, of Onehungn. He served in the Great War, and on. returning to New Zealand in 1919 took up primary school teaching. He spent a year with the Victorian Education. Department, under the system of exchange of teachers in 1928. He • subsequently was first assistant at To Awainutu High School, and latterly was head teacher at Motuhora.

The railway-men's annual picnic is I to be held at Opunake on Sunday next and a special train, will leave Hawera at 9.15 a-m. Nine building perm its were issued by the Hawera Borough Council last month for new premises and alterations valued at ±16179, reported the inspector, Mr L. Hunt, ito> last evening’s meeting of the council. Of this amount £3009 is the estimated cost of shops and flats, while two dwellings are estimated to cost £2940. Extensions and alterations to existing premises cover the balance of the permits. “Traffic signs are still receiving rough treatment at the hand's of a few hooligans, ‘sctodi’ signs in Victoria .Street being torn clean out and thrown away. When one considers that this Kind of thing may lead to loss of life of school children, this vandalism does not appear to be the action of sane persons,” reported the traffic inspector Mr L. Hunt) to the meeting of the Hawera Borough Council last evening. When ploughing a paddocu on the south side of what was Hone Heke's pa at Oliaeawai (North Auckland) now the cemetery of the Ngatiarangi tribe, a resident discovered two fairly large cannon halls, a. bullet as large as a pallet's egg, and two musket balls. At the time of the battle the British forces were stationed upon the hill known as Fort Walker, due north from the pa. As the relics were found on the southern side of Heke’s stronghold. two chains from the earthworks, it is presumed that they must have been shot over the pa. The State Forest Service rangers at tl;e Waipoua forest (telegraphs the Dargarviiie correspondent of the Auckland Star) have made a track leading to the big kauri tree, “Tane-Mahuta, ” and a concrete fireplace lias been constructed on the roadside for the use of visitors. Around the famous, tree a breast-high fence has been made of fern trunks to prevent people climbing round the base and doing damage. In spite of tliis protection, however, on© of the forest guards reports that recently a party of 30 climbed over and tried to swarm) up the base of the tree. When the guard remonstrated they simply said: “Why worry? We aren’t going to pinch your old tree!’’ Tane-Mahuta which is the largest kauri known, measures 49 feet in girth at the middle of the trunk, which is 30 feet high to the first branches, so that it is actually greater in girth than in height. That there is already a peroetpible swing back from the talkies to the real stage was the opinion expressed in an interview by Major It. Goddard, of Brighton, England, who was a passenger by the Malcura from America to Sydney. .Both his wife and) daughter, lie stated, were interested in a repertory season 'at Brighton last year, and he therefore made a point of feeling the .pulse of the English-speaking world towards the legitimate stage wherever he went. In .London he found that after the first hectic rush to the “talkies,” they were losing thenpull, and tlie legitimate stag© seemed toi he coining into its own again. In New York, too, during his stay there, lie had found that at the 16 perionnanecs he had managed to be present at, the business was good where the play was worth it. Th© “talkies” had set out to crush the stage, but they ooulci not do so-; and, given good' plays, the stage would hold its own the _ world over. It was too powerful a factor in the jives of the people, and must come back the world over, however attractive the cleverness of mechanical production might prove for a time. The terrible conditions prevailing in the Mai lee district of Victoria at the time lie wrote are described by an exSouthland resident now in Australia in a letter to relatives in Invercargill. Writing from Ballarat he said that lie was in the drought and poverty-strick-en Mai lee districts. Cattle were dying everywhere, and there was no feed, no water, and no crops. Most important of all, there was no money, and even the settlers were on the verge of starvation.’ “I had) no idea this route was as it is.’’ said the writer, “otherwise I would Hot have come through. All along the road you see nothing but sheep and drovers. The sheep are mostly skeletons. One drover offered me 500 for nothing. I noticed that ■one lot of drought-striken sheep went at £l. per 1000, and horses are realising from Is to 2s 6d each. This countrv is in an awful state. Thousands I of people are tramping the country, inI eluding men with their wives and families, begging for food as they go along. Tt is disgraceful even to think •of a country being in such a state as this,” said the writer, in conclusion.

Replying to comments by the Department of Health on Ins preparation tor the treatment tuberculosis, tbe Rev. Edmund Ward, of Auckland, says: “With reference to the statement that the herb used by me is not Known to possess any qualities other than sedative, I wish to say that if the department asserts in face of the evidence that the herb Pomaderris elliptica, if properly administered, does not possess remarkable medical qualities, the department is merely being absurd.” Mr. Ward says, moreover, that the quality of beiii® sedative is markedly absent. Commenting on the statement that liis preparation is being analysed by the department, he says his arangement with the Minister was to disclose his formula to Dr M’Lean, of the Pukeora Sanatorium. His condition for doing this was that the department should garantee his out-of-pocket expenses. It would seem that the department was unwilling to fulfil the condition and was trying to obtain the formula without reference to himself. An analysis would therefore be quite useless.

BUCKRELL’S STOCKTAKING ATTRACTIONS. On Tuesday, January 21, we offer tihe i whole of our summer stock, at giveaway prices. Four silk Jumper suits, 19/6; Fuji house frocks, 7/11; cheek tennis frocks, 9/11; silk coats,. 42/-. See windows on Tuesday morning.— Biiekrell ’s, Union St., Hawera. —Advt. Only in Corticelli Silk Hosiery do you find such exquisite beauty combined with such long and perfect, lit. New shades in thuo superior hose are now opened—French tan, nude, tawney, nickel, shadow, natural, honey beige, light blue fox, kasha beige, spring tan andi pearl blush. Price 10/11 pair. Only procurable from Hoxrops Ltd., Hawera and Stratford.—Ad^t. McGEUER, BONE & CO., LTD. WEEKLY DIAMOND SPECIALS Two specials every week. Watch our side doorway windows for these special Bargains. No. 1: .lGin. “ Ilorrockses” Kiddie Cloth; usual price 1/3; Diamond Price Old yard. No. 2: 38in. Fancy Voiles; Diamond Price 1/3 yard.—Advt. WESTAWAY & CO.’S GREAT SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE NOW ON. 12 dozen smart ready-towear hats, clearance prices 2/11 to 8/11; 4 only fioral voilcf rocks, W. and O.S. sizes, clearance price 9/11; 3 only floral rayon, frocks, sleeveless, S.W. and W. sizes, clearance price 9/11; 12 dozen pure silk liose, plain and with elox, usually 8/11, clearance price 6/6. —Advt.