LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Remarkable scores were recorded in a table tennis match at Wellington on Friday evening between teams representing the .Taita Club and the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club at the latter club’s rooms (reports the “Evening Post’’). Of the twenty games played each side won 10, and when the points were worked, out it was discovered that each side had 548 to its credit

The opinion that 98 per cent of people participate in art unions in Australia. was expressed by Air Geo. Fitzpatrick, superintendent/ of the New South Wales Community Hospital, who arrived by the Monterey from Sydue.v on Saturday. “People who invest £1 in the Queensland Golden Casket, which carries a first prize of £25,000, and os in tho New South Wales State lottery, know it is long odds they will not win, but they take the view that without a ticket they have no elianee at all,” he said.

The practice of “gate-crashing” has increased with the hard times. A dance at Levin last Wednesday night suffered trespass by quite a number of unauthorised persons, and it is suspected that in -some cases this was due to trafficking in pass-out tickets. Several of the unauthorised visitors gained entrance through back windows, wiredup fasteners of which had been undone for them by confederates on the inside. Such an exploit was daring enough, but it hardly equals in ingenuity that which is reported to have occurred at a previous function in the hall, when entrance to the building was obtained through the stokehold of the central heating system. “I have grown tobacco in my own garden which 1 much preferred to that f bought at a tobacconist's,” said Professor A. P. W. Thomas, chairman of the Auckland Grammar School Board, at a meeting of the hoard, when there was received from Mr F. W. Gamble, headmaster of the Mount Albert Grammar School, a proposed schedule for the agricultural work of the school, including the growing of tobacco, states the “New Zealand Herald.” The amusement of members at the idea of schoolboys growing tobacco prompted the chairman’s remark. That the exercise of some care m filling in cheques is necessary is exemplified by a mistake made in ae knowledging a contribution to the Christchurch Business Men’s Committee’s Reliof Fund. The amount for which the cheque was made out was £IOO. but so much space was left between the figure one and the first cipher and between it and the second rinher, that it was read as if written £1 0s Od (without the “s” and “d”) and a receipt for that amount accordingly was issued. "When the error was discovered another receipt for £99 war issued.

Signs of the mildness of the winter aire apparent in the groves of willow trees in North Canterbury just now, says a.n exchange. Many of them a.re in bud, and, though the buds are not yet ready to burst, they give a light green tinge to, the trees, uncommon at this time of the year. The buds a,s a rule first become noticeable early in August. In the north, too, an early spring is anticipated. Mr W. M. Fraser, a student of bird-life, expressed the opinion in "Whangarei that fanners may expert an early spring. He pointed out that not only had the sparrows commenced building their nests, hut already the wild grey duck has had its first brood. This shooting season, Mr Fraser said, was a. hard one for the wil’d duck. As early as the first week in June, while grubbing toi.tai gras,:/, a settler on one of the Whangarei Harbour Board’s small farms came across a wild dude’s nest full of eggs, and on one of these being broken it was found to he in an advanced l stage of incubation.

The Legion of Frontiersmen’s oldtime dance to be bold in the M-okoin Hall to-night promises to be an outstanding event. Special novelty dances will be a feature of the evening. For these novelties excellent prizes are being provided. The floor is noted for its exeel lent condition for dancing. Music will lie supplied by Guy’s orchestra, and an entertainment replete with enjoyment is expected.

HUNTINGTON’S; ’Plione 2118. Our stocktaking sale of hosiery specials has received a good response fro pi our many customers, and in order to dean up several broken numbers, the following further reductions have been made: Full Fashioned Wool Hose, 5/11 for 3/0; Silk and Wool Hose, C/6 for 3/0; Full Fashioned /Mercerised Lisle, 3/H 'for 2/11; Silk and Lisle, lined. 3/11 for 2/9; and Jnson Wool Hose, 3/0 for 2/0. —Advt.

WESTAWAY & CO.’S Great Realisation Sale drawing to a close. Final reductions during Ilie last few days. Prices for all goods now advaucieg. Fill up your requirements for the near future, during our Great Price Slaughtering. ’Phone 2423, Hawcra, P.O. Box 290.—Advt.

A house on tlie Anr-aa- Road owned by Mr W. limvmim, of New Plymouth, was destroyed iby five on: Monday niglit. The building was old and until the last few days had been occupied by the Aureai blacksmith, Mi: Misehefski, reports the Auroa correspondent of the “Ha.wera Star.”

Tlh3 Oroua Downs correspondent of the Man await u Times” reports that two men have been appreiiended in Wellington, suspected of being responsible tor the attack on Mr C. M. Sorrenisen storekeeper at Himatangi, a few weeks ago. It will be remembered that Mr Sorensen, after being awakened in the early hours of the morning by two young men who asked for benzine, was attacked by one of them who inflicted severe head injuries. After raiding, the till in the store which was empty, they decamped with cigarettes and other goods. When playing on tlje Rangitilcei golf links on Sunday mornings Mr N. H. Amon achieved fame by holing in one at “Eureka.” Members of the club who were on the links at ihe time expressed great regret that the feat was accomplished on the Sabbath.

No fewer than five Maori couples were married at the Iwitea. Pa, near Tuhara, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, one evening last week, the ministei who officiated being the Rev. Hone Waaka, of the Ratana Church. Sixty couples sat down to the wedding supper, at which a number of pakehas was also present. A dance concluded the marriage festival, a feature of which was the marriage of a father and a son at the same time.

Speaking at the Wellington Rotary Club on Tuesday, Miss van Asch van Wvck, world president of the Y.’W.C.A., mentioned that a vast beta of work had opened out for the association in those countries m which Hie life of women had completely changed in the last 25 years. She referred more particularly to China, Japan. Korea and India, where a new life and hope were opening lor women. Miss van Asch van Wyek, world president of the Y.W.GA., informed the Wellington Rotary Club on Tuesday that the association was established in fifty countries. In those utty countries there were a million members, who wore probably soiling three or four millions of people She conic not, in the short time at her disposal tell what they were all doing, but wherever they were they were autonomous bodies serving the needs of the country in which they were located.

“The Maori, had, and has, a genius for selecting just the right place for bis kia-nga,. lake the true pioneer ot the pakeha race, ho exhibited in Ins homo-making a perfect eye Jor country. He made his clearings and built his wliares in the sunniest and most sheltered .places, and he invariably discovered the most fertile parts of a district. He would not be so easily satisfied as some of the pakeha settlers who followed. True, in the olden days there was land and to spare; and he could rove widely before making a selection.” In support of the above contention, “Tohunga” in the “New Zealand Railways' Magazine” quotes the village home of the few Maoris who Jived on Mokoiia Island, in Bake Rotorua. “What more sunny, more fruitful spot, can there be in all Lakeland, set at the foot of its rich volcanic island-hill, its Pace set to the rising sun ? ’'

A party of seven men left Core on Monday to establish u gold-mining camp under ' the Unemployment Board at Winding Creek in the Waikaia district. This is the first mining damp to. bo established in Southland, and the results of the experiment wiil'l be watched with interest (says the “Southland Times”). The scheme is the outcome of a decision of the Central Unemployment Executive to abandon all goldmining subsidy schemes in Eastern Southland). Representations were made to the executive to continaie to subsidise prospectors, and an experienced miner was sent to prospect various localities. A favourable report wa i s received by the executive, and it was decided to establish a camp at Winding Creek, where it was reported that gold appeared to he obtainable in payable quantities. A certain amount of prospecting iis already being done in the Winding Creek district, and the returns obtained have been promising. It is stated that about four miles of the creek would be .suitable for mining purnoses, and although much of the ground ha.s been turned over before .some excellent returns have been obtained recently.