LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

During Thursday night .the grocery store of Mr G. W. Peebles, Eltham, was entered and a small sum from the till and a certain amount of sundries and tobacco were stolen. OBy boring a hole in the sash of the lavatory window the thief was able to unhook the catch, open the window and gain access to the building. The erection of platelayers’ cottages at the north end of the Normanbv railway yards was mentioned by the service officer (Mr J. McKee) m bis monthly report to the South 'larar.aki Automobile Association at Haweia last night. He said that this nearly obliterated the view of rail traffic from the south. After a brief discussion a resolution was carried protesting against the action of the department. Pocket-knives were produced and locally-grown grapefruit and sweet oranges were cheerfully Sctnipled hy members of the Tariff Commission at Auckland on Wednesday, when e\idenee was tendered on behalf of citrus fruit growers. Pleasure was expressed by one of the witnesses when the chairman, Dr. G. Craig, said he knew the value of grapefruit, as he sampled them every morning. Asked by Mr J. . B. Gow, a member of the commission, the difference between grapefruit and poorman oranges, Mr G. A. Green, one of the spokesmen, replied: “Just the same as the difference between a purebred Berkshire pig and a Captain Cook. They are both pigs, but there is a great difference.” A complaint was received at a meeting of the Auckland Grammar School Board on Wednesday from the secretary of the Auckland Related Printing Trades Union, that two members of the staff of the Auckland Grammar School were doing printing work in competition with members of the trade. Members of the board consider,cd it was not within their province to j interfere with the activities of a | school staff outside school hours as long as these activities did not con- ; fliet with their normal work in any I way. It was considered that while no ! objection could be raised to printing ! for school purposes or as a hobby, j there was ground for complaint when a charge was made. It was decided to ■ ask the headmaster to discuss the matj ter with the members of the staff conI cerned.

Extensive 'building alterations are in progress in Union Street, Haweia, which -shortly will be occupied by the Para, Rubber Company. Formerly uisecl as an amotion mart, the spacious interior is being refitted for the adequate display and storage of tyres and rubber goods of every description, with, a special entrance for cans to a thoroughly up-to-date tyre servicing depot and a lounge in the main showroom for the use of clients whilst waiting for repairs to be completed. All the fittings are in beautiful! heart rimu, and the contractor (Mr. E. A. Pacey) is followin" the modern trend in building construction. A novel idea, in both colour and design of front tiling is introduced, for instead of the orthodox horizontal position usually occupied by tiles, the tiling in this case has been clone vertically, with a bonder level with the footpath. Black is the colour employed. the highly glazed surface giving a neat apd very pleasing appearance.

Mr A. H. Kimbell (Under-Secretary of the Mines Department), who visited Central Otago last week, told an “Otago Times'’’ reporter at Dunedin that In consequence of the additional large number of applications which have been made for prospecting licenses in the Clutha Vall#.v he had visited tin localitv in order to make himself generally familiar with the position. Whilst in Cromwell a number of the applicants with rights on the Cromwell Flat interviewed lmn, when he seriously stressed the absolute necessity of' reducing the prices asked by them for options. He pointed out tc them that in the interests of the. minim" industry the Mines Department was taking steps to ensure that the public would have a fair run for their monev. Many of them, when the position was explained by lmn, agreed with the view that excessive prices should not be asked for options by the npplicants for mining on the Cromwell 1 lat. C„ the way back to Dunedin Mr. Kimbell inspected the shaft-sinking operations at Wetherstones, and was impressed with the work which 1 bein'? carried out there. He also visited two or three, other mines. The follow, ng will represent the Hawera Bowling Club in a friendly --line of 500 against the Park Bowling Club on Monday n ight: Messrs G. A. Burgess, H. Townsley, T. E Clarke. F. Kendall. H. S Muslim J. .Champion. J. O. Robb. D. McCorm.ok. A. E. Spratt. R. Keys, B. Haughton. G. Watts. H. Baker. M. J. Squire, \\. Budge, T. Corkill. N. Murray. W. H. Canning. M. Campbell, J. J'oy, hLovell F. Lovell. S. B. Vc.tr-h TWO TIME-SAVERS.

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