LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 December 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The “Star” will not be published on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Primary schools throughout the Taranaki and Wanganui Education districts complete to-day the 1930 year and “break-up” for the Christmas and] New Year holidays. The schools re-open on Monday, February 2, The lambing season estimates were announced by the Minister of Agriculture yesterday. The estimated number of lambs for the South XsJiand is 6,967.041 and l for the Dominion, 14,714,315. These figures were only surpassed by last year, which was a record.

Charged with the theft at Hawera in August of 1928 of £4O, tiie property ot Newton Knig Ltd., Harold) William John James appeared before Mr. J. M. Townsend, J.P., in the Hawera, Court to—clay. On. t&LO application, of Detective Meiklejchn, accused was remanded until to-morrow. Bail was allowed in personal recognisance of £IOO with surety for a similar amount. The Hawera Municipal Band will commence playing Christmas Carols this evening and will continue on Monday and Tuesday. On Christmas Eve a selected programme will be given in High Street and donations received will be in aid of the Wellington contest fund.

The reconstructed caMe-telephone system in the Marlborough Sounds was formally opened on Wednesday at Portage. Mi*. E. F. Healy, member for Wairau, represented the PostmasterGeneral. The improvement puts the settlers in clear communication with all parts of the Dominion and is expected to render the Sounds regions much more attractive as a tourist holiday resort. It also gives the same facilities for communication with Sydney and London as the big centres. A design by Mr. Henry White, a Sydney architect, has been chosen by the Dilworth Trust Board for the new school which it is proposed to have built at Wiri. The jury of award made the following decisions': First iprize. £SOO Henry El. White, Sydney; second prize, £3oo* Tole and Massey, Auckland; third prize, £2OO, W. Martin Hutchinson and It. A. Lippinoott, Auckland. Three prizes of £IOO were also awarded to Auckland architects'. The permanent school will take the place of the present wooden structure.