LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 9

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Sympathy with the relatives- of the late Mr Norman Crocker, of Okinawa, was extended by the generaL committee of the Egmont A. and P. Association at a meeting to-day*: A net profit of £IOO 15s 4d on the 193'> show was reported to the general committee -of the Egmont A. and P. Association, which rmet- at- Haiiei. to-da.v Last years profit was £l9l, the ‘decrease being attributed to lowered space charges and a falling ofl in catering receipts. There is a large and varied collection of weapons at the Grey mouth Police Station as the result of ft drive for the re-registration of firearms. Included in this motley assemblage is the starting gun of the Greymonth United Cvciling Club, which has had to be forfeited owing to its coming within tlie regulations debarring.arms belpw a certain length of barrel. Nothing has ever been fired from the gun except blanks since it lias been in the possession of the club, and on being lntorrned of the position the officials made representations both to the local Arms Office and to Wellington to be allowed to add the required three niches to the barrel, hut without success. The gun has now become the property of the Government. This tends to make the whole thing farcical (states a Southern paper) for the gun was bought from the Government 'by the club in the first place and the authorities knew for j what purpose it was to be used.