LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 11 July 1930, Page 9

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Private advice was received in Hawera to-clay of the death in Wellington of Air. X. Aladden, for many years manager of New Zealand Breweries Jbtd.

On their return from, work yesterday, mill employees boarding at tlie Manutahi Hotel found that their clothing in their rooms had been rifled and sums of money stolen. In one instance £7 10s was taken, .but the other losses are considerably smaller. Tlie police have the matter in hand. The severe pressure on the aeocmnioiaticn at the Auckland Hospital was indented bv some difficulty which occurred in finding a bed the other evening ui a. man who had received an accidental injury and. was taken to the hospital by the St. John Ambulance Association. No bed was then vacant, and it was. necessary to move tv ccnvailescont patient on to a lounge in order to make .loom for the new and more serious -case.

Not on account- of its prayer, but be*cause of the unusual nature of its presentation, does piiomineuba attach to. petition presented to the House of life prasentatives bv Heil.en C. Lowry, o. Hawke’s Bay, for the retention as a scenic reservation . and sanctuary bjalls Clearing, a. patch of_nat-ive bnsfi situated near 3d miles from Napier. Through tlie use of a paste jinislh, the papers containing the signatures were converted 1 into a single scroll measuring 41ft. Rolled up, it is an impressive document. In addition, it han> pens to be the forty-first petition presented to Parliament this session. The signatories total 1222. Alessrs. Hector MaeQuarrie and Alattliews, who made the, Sydney to Gape York pioneer motor, journey, were guests at the weekly luncheon ol the Hawera Rotary Club to-day. Air. MaeQuarrie entertained the company jy a . recital of some of the humorous and exciting incidents of the trip ana announced that he and his companion intended to complete ,a world tour m the car which had served them so web in the adventurous Australian journey. Rotarian Rev. J. R, Young expressed thanks on behalf of the club and tin other visitors present for the entertaining half hour provided by Air. MaeQuarrie.

In speaking of the charitable relief work of the Women’s National Reset to a representative of the “Star ’today, Mrs Pacey, president of the Jda* wera branch, said that- the Reserve was well aware that indiscriminate charity often defeated its own objects and the Reserve therefore was eareiul to ascertain the full faicts of a ease bee re ottering relief. Recently, she said, a local shopkeeper had been prevailed upon, out of the goodness of his heart, to supply a box of provisions to a family wlic declared they were destitute. The Reserve members were, aware of the facts if this case and knew the family was obtaining help froij#, some otliei quarters. Mrs Pacey agreed with a suggestion that local people approached for charitable aid would! assist best by referring the case to the Reserve and handing to that body any donation which they might feel inclined to give, instead of giving direct to, the applicant.