LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 12 September 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Weather permitting, the Haw era Municipal Band will give a programme in High Street to-morrow evening at 6.45 o’clock.

At the meeting yesterday of the Waimate West Demonstration Area Committee at Manaia, the chairman (Mr. J. AL Smith) referred to a scheme of dealing with liquid manure, a new patent, and wished to have a demonstration at the farm. It was agreed that this be arranged at an early date.

A prospector who lias been working for some time on Maudie Creek, in the upper Bulier district, between Lake ltotoiti and the Howard, recently exhibited an attractive display of gold nuggets, the largest of which weighs loz"l6\vt. His party has met with fair success washing in the streams and though the members do not expect to make a fortune they are well satisfied that there is .still plenty of gold to be picked up by experienced men.

There is a 15-year-old schoolboy in Christchurch who will be a great man some day. When the holidays started, ho. invested in a tin of white paint and a. brush. He then visited various iac-t-ories and workshops in Christchurch, offering to paint- the back mudguard of bicycles of employees at 3d each. White rear mudguards are now being insisted on by the municipality. His scheme enjoyed remarkable success. In three days lie cleared £5. - And there are unemployed walking the streets and cudgelling their brains to devise some scheme of making money!

There is still no change in the sound picture situation, says “The Dominion.” No Wellington agents of American corporations are selling any film whatsoever to exhibitors, though some have tried to buy —and failed. Sir Victor Wilson, representing not only the -Motion Picture-Distributors’ Association, but the Hays organisation, one which controls 95 per cent, of the film output of the world, lias seen the act-ing-Prime -Minister (Hon. E. A. Hansom) and laid all his cards upon the table in the matter of the proposed taxation. He now awaits an answer. On the nature of that answer depends what will follow.

“I think it would be in the man’s own interests if he took out another prohibition order, ’ ’ stated Sergeant Henry when John Hunt, a Maori, appeared in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court before Mr E. Dixon, J.P., this morning on a charge of being found drunk in High Street yesterday afternoon. The sergeant explained that Hunt was quite all right so long as he was sober, but was ant to become very violent when drunk. He previously had had a prohibition order against him. but it had expired last month. The Bench convicted and discharged the man conditionally that he immediately took out- another order.

A daring attempt to burn a bridge on the Tauranga-Te Puke main highway at Papamoa was made about 8 o’clock on Wednesday evening. Fortunately there was not much traffic on the road. Although the fire was discovered in the early stages some difficulty was experienced in quenening the flames. A man who lived near the bridge says he saw a motor car stop in the vicinity of the bridge. Later the car moved off and the bridge became enveloped in flames. Kindling wood and kerosene were used to start the fire. During the quenching of the fire dozens of cars were held up and willing helpers saved the bridge from total destruction, although the piles were considerably charred.