LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 October 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In order tea .enable the staff to take advantage of the holiday only one edition of the 1 i Hnwera Star” will be issued on Monday next, Labour Day. The commercial office will be open as usual for receipt of advertisements and general business. The joibbing department will be closed all day.

There was an increase -of 27 compared with the previous week in the number of unemployed registered in New Zealand foil* the week ended last Monday, according to a statement made by the Minister of Labour, Hon. S. Ct. Smith, yesterday. The week’s total was 6055.

The Monowai, which was recently purchased from the P. and O. Company by the Union Steamship Company to replace the lost- Tahiti, is expected to arrive at 'Wellington on November 12. The Monowai is due at Bombay tomorrow from .London, and as soon as she has landed passengers, mails and * cargo she will sail for New Zealand. She is to leave Wellington on December 2 for San Francisco, enabling the Mau-mganui to return to the New Zea-land-Sydney service. The Monowai is being brought o;ut to Now Zealand by P. and O. officers. Mr N. McOraig, late chief engineer of the Mia.unganua, is joining the vessel at Bombay. Mr .1. W. Stnnnage, who was wireless operator for Kinigsford Smith on 'his recent- traus-Atlantic flight, is wireless operator on the vessel. During the sinking of the Tahiti much of the mail suffered immersion. It is proof of the efficiency of the British postal service that certain dilapidated correspondence eventually found its way to the addressees in England. Blurred addressed envelopes that were almost pulp must have militated against the work of the postal authorities. Mr F. IV. Barker, of Niven and Co., Wellington, has in his possession convincing proof that a letter he wrote reached its destination. The recipient, of the letter returned to Mr Barker the original envelope. The writing is blurred and the envelope almost falling to pieces, yet the British postal people managed to decipher the address and the correspondence reached its destination safely. It is an interesting memento of the efficiency of the postal service in Britain.

Fatal consequences attended- the motor accident on Carrington lioad, New Plymouth, early on Wednesday evening, when, as reported yesterday, Jean Williamson, the eight year-eld daughter of Mr and: Mrs J. G. Williamson, of Norman Street, Vogeltown, was struck by a motor ear when crossing the roadway. The child was taken to ■hospital in- a critical condition and succumbed to her injuries yesterday afternoon. Jt appears that the accident. occurred when, in company with another child, Ruby Fraser, the deceased went to cross the road after one motor ear had passed and ran into the side of a car being driven up hill by Mr R. Chatter ton. The second little girl escaped injury.

An, interesting address on the affairs of the Commonwealth and the general conditions obtaining ini Australia was given! at the ’Methodist Guild at Hawera last evening by Mr H. G. Dickie, M.P. Drawing upon the experience of hi® recent visit to Australia, Mr Dickie deseribedi impressions afforded in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, among other cities and gave further details concerning South Australia, .the itranscontinental railway journey and conditions in the Western State. Om the conclusion of the address suitable appreciation of the interesting and instructive information made available was voiced by the chairman of the gathering, Rev. E. S. Emmitt, whose expression® of commendation were endorsed by the acclamation of the meeting.

No 'compromise in the dispute between the Dominion cif New Zealand Wrestling Union and the New Zealand Wrestling Association, is likely to take place during the remainder of the season. This information was contained i- (k a statement made yesterday by the president of the New Zealand Union, Mr 11. D. Bennett. Although a settlement on all points in dispute had been effected a few days ago, said Mr Bennett, several causes for a. hitch had since occurred. It was doubtful, now, | he said' whether any compromise could] be reached this' year. It is understood that the decision of the Auckland body! to carry the war to Wellington by! forming a 1 branch there while nego.j ■Rations were still in progress proved to be the final stumbling block. A copy of the following resolution passed at a special representative meeting of the, Taranaki Chamber of Commerce was received by the New Plymouth' Harbour Board yesterday: “That this chamber of commerce protests against what it regards as the unfair competition of the Railway Department with existing transport services, ky offering to carry good® at uneconomic rates, thus depriving the New Plymouth, Harbour Board and other similar bodies of revenue without any benefit to the Railway Department. ’’ —After a discussion in committee, the board decided to endorse and support the resolution passed, and a committee was appointed to deal with the position as affecting the revenue of the board.

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