LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 3 September 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

'■l’ve been in a .steady job for 10 rears now.” said Mr H. T. Armstrong, Ai.r.. addressing a gathering of Christ church freezing works employees in the week-end, “but if the people were foolish enough to discharge me, I would bo entitled to relief work, and would be given preference over you men, who have earned —some of you —less than £6O for a whole year.” A man who had been soiling articles to tho crew of a liner at Auckland on Tuesday lingered too long on the vessel. The gangway had been lowered and the liner was about to sail for Los Angeles when the man appeared at the lower gangway opening in the ship’s side. He was lowered on a rope close to the wharf, but owing to the space between the vessel and tlie wharf he had to be pulled down by his legs.

Sacks containing about 20 cauliflowers were sold for 2s r.t the Auckland City Markets on Tuesday. Unusually' large quantities came forward and -prices suffered as a result. Smaller sacks realised only Is and very few brought more than 3s. Normally the season does not reach its peak until the second week of next month, but this year there is a glut already. Fire totally destroyed a motor ear and garage owned by Mr. G. Gyde, in Egmont Village on Wednesday evening. ” The car is stated to have been placed in the shed about 4.30 in the afternoon, but at about 10 p.m. the shed, with * the • car inside, was found to be ablaze, and nothing could be saved:

After .searching in the Matau stream yesterday, -Constable Oolbourne, of Whano-amomoana, recovered the body of Olive Smith, the six-year-okl son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smith, who was discovered missing from his home at Matau on Tuesday morning. Jhe body was removed to Stratford to-day where an inquest was held. “If the Valuation Department still keeps to fictitious values of land it is doing the country the worst disservice possible,” said counsel for a farmer whose objection to the Government s estimate of the unimproved value of -his property was heard before the Christchurch Assessment Court. Counsel said that the country would not rehabilitate itself so long as fictitious values were maintained.

“The Tooley Street merchants are not isu-eh rascals as many people would make cut,” said Mr C. M. Alexander, chairman, at the meeting of the le Awamutu Co-operative Daffy Company Ltd., when referring to the failure of the Auckland representative of a London firm. “Where their honour is concerned they won’t let you down.” ’The firmest friends on a farmlet in Bentley Avenue, Avondale, are a sheep and a gander, reports the “Auckland Star.” They have been -pals for over 18 months. * During the day' they' are together about the yard or in the paddock; at night they sleep together. Where one goes, the other follows. When they' play' the sheep sometimes good-naturedly butts its companion off its feet, but they never fight. The gander is the sheep’s senior by' two and a half years. “They are such great pais that l would not have the heart to kill either of them,” .said their owner, Mrs Brooks.

There was an unusual guest at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, this week in the shape of an English nightingale. It had been purchased in Auckland by a Wellington bird-lover and, perched in a small cage, was an object of inteiest to all who passed through the hotel lobbv during the day. Several people attempted unsuccessfully to persuade the bird to sing, although the majority fit first thought it was a caged sparrow, owing to the sombre colouring of its feathers. The bird was taken to Wellington bv its new owner

A circular letter from the Nelson City Council, asking support for a resolution urging that a protest should be sent to the Government against the detrimental reports sent out of the Dominion recently about the earthquake, the riots and other events, was received by the Opunakc Harbour Board at its meeting yesterday. After a brief discussion it was agreed, on the motion of Air W. A. Sheat, that the matter did not come within the scope of local body' work and therefore that the letter be received.

Music teachers as a body are not say'ing much about hard times, but .so,mo of them must be having a lean experience. Talking on that subject with a Dunedin pressman, one of their number remarked that if Sir Thomas SideyAs Bill of years ago had passed, for empowering the New Zealand University to conduct examinations and issue degrees such as are now obtained, by qualifying before English examiners, the result would have been a great uplift to the profession and a saving of cost. In support of his statement, he mentioned that as matters now stand the A.T.C.L. degree costs 12 guineas, the L.T.C.L. another four guineas, and the fellowship a further four guineas—a total of 20 guineas to the candidate who wishes to go right through—and all lost to New Zealand.

“When 1 return to England I shall have great, pleasure in telling our people there and also our teachers what wonderful teachers you have out here,” .said Miss Evelyn Edgar, adjudicator in dancing at the Wellington Competitions, when announcing the result of the poetic dance for girls between the ages of 12 and Id years. Miss Edgar said that' the parents had every reason to be proud of their children who had performed so well, but the greatest credit was due to the teachers who had combined patience and correct methods in training their pupils.In order to : preserve a monopoly and. to prevent the same types of fruit being cultivated in other countries, growers of the hard type of cherry in Australia, were not allowed, for some time, to export the trees, said Mr O. E\ Pope, a. Christchurch cherry-grower, when addressing a meeting on Saturday night. These hard Australian cherries appeared on the Now Zealand market just' when the New Zealand-grown soft cherries wore coming in and thus the local man suffered. There were 1000 acres of these hard cherries planted in Australia and as many of the trees were only half-grown at the present time, the supply would increase if action were not taken to. prevent them coming into New Zealand.

HUNTINGTON'S; ’Phone 2118. Spring, judging by our display of new fashion goods, is already with us, and presents a most varied and colourful collection. New Gloves, Neckwear. Hosiery, lovely designs in Printed Scarves, new Buckles, Belts and Buttons, smart short Coatees, gored Skirts, and Wool Pace Jumpers, correct styles •in Coats and Frocks are creating a good impression, being decidedly intriguing and alluring. We invite inspection.—• Advt.