LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 November 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Advice has been received by Mr W. G. WaMdey, secretary of the Hawera Aero Club, that Mr Oslcar Garden will spend a night at Hawera, en route to Auckland by aeroplane. The. date of his departure on his tour of the North Island has not yet been announced. In connection with the Unemployment Board’s offer of subsidies to local bodies for works to be parried 1 out during the next two months it has been arranged that members of the board will consult with representatives of local bodies in the .principal centres during the week-end and discuss with then the provisions of the Afet and the best methods of relieving acute unemployment for the Christmas season.

The Wanganui head centre of the Royal .Life-Saving .Society last night decided to hold 1 the Nelson .Shield competition on Friday, March 6. A section of the executive favoured! Sunday as the day for ghe contest but these members were outvoted, the majority believing public opinion would not favour the holding of the contest on. the Sabbath.

A Hawera team consisting of Sister A. C. Ingles, Mesdames S. R. Veitch, M. R,. Jones and H. Reid and the Misses D. Clement, M. Jackson and D. Hooper left by to-day’s express train for Wellington to compete in the Collins Cup competition in Red Cross work, to be held to-morrow. Travelling by the same train was the New Plymouth team which is also to take part in tlie competition. At a meeting of the Wellington. Hospital Board yesterday afternoon |Mr A. J. McCurdy, chairman of the fees committee, mentioned a number of recent cases in which 'hospital accounts had not been paid. In the past seven years the sum of £300,000 had been written off hospital accounts in Wellington. From April to October of last year the sum written off Was £22,085, and for the corresponding period of this year the writing-off amounted to £27,858.

A report has been rejeeived by the Ruahino Copper Mining Company from the Elbof geographical .survey group on the Ma'harahara copper deposits. The Government contributed 1 £SOO towards the cost of the survey. The report is considered encouraging and on the return to the Dominion early next year of Mr Modriniak, who was the leader of the survey 'party, his advice is to bo sought on tihe subject of exploiting the deposits.

A serious loss was sustained this week by Mr E. J. Betts', of Okaiawa, when his pedigree 3-year Friesian bull had to be destroyed as the outcome of an accident in which the bull broke its off hind leg. Mr E. R. Marshall attended the animal, but found that no other course was possible. The bull was placed first at the Hawera Show two years ago and showed great promise, so that the death is a distinct loss to the pedigree stock of the district.

The Mayor of Auckland (Mr 'G. Baildon) expresses surprise a't the smallness of the Unemployment 'Board’s Christmas relief grant. He said it meant that all the Ideal (bodies in l New Zealand were invited to subscribe £12,500 to earn £25,000.' This was far too small. There was ai possibility that much more money might be voted in the aggregate than was allotted, and it might 'come to a question of rationing. Very little time was allowed local bodies to prepare plans and specifications and to give authority for the iulork. However, lie would do his Ibosfcl to t'ake advantage of the offer. 1 In a statement outlining- the Wellington Education Board’s' attitude towards advertising in schools, the secretary, Mr G. L. said: “As the schools exist, not for this purpose, but. for the education of 'children, of the district, the board (ha's found it necessary to instruct' teachers that, unless with t'ho previous written, sanction of the board, all such efforts to secure the valuable and inexpensive advertising medium which a school provides are to be courteously but quite definitely declined, with no exceptions ini (he field' of business, and very few, indeed, in the field of philanthropy. 'The board has found it absolutely .necessary in the interests of the pupils to impose an absolute veto.”