LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 9

LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs T. Adams, of Hawera, and Mrs D. Quickenden, of Patea, left for Auckland last Tuesday to spend a few weeks holiday. The death of Mr Henry Karnbach, a well-known settler of Kokatahi, aged 91 years ,is reported in a Press Association message from Hokitika. A wedding of considerable interest to Hawera and district residents was celebrated at Wanganui on Thursday, when Caroline, the only of Mr and Mrs Fired Fantham, was married to Kenneth, .son of Mr and Mrs Woodley Prowse, of Gonville. Miss Fantham was (born. in Hawera, her father being a soil of the late Mr and Mrs A. A. Fantham and her mother a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs W. Cowern. There is no scarcity of work in South Taranaki for boys willing to go on to farms, constant inquiries for labour being received from farmers by the Hawera unemployment office. “Tho present position is that there are more jobs than boys available or willing to take them,” said a member of the committee this morning. All throe judges at tlio Hawera competitions festival, Madame Edith Baird (dancing), Miss Elizabeth Blake (elocution), and Mr. Wentworth Slater (music), left this morning for Auckland, Wellington and Wanganui respectively. Miss Blake leaves Wellington for ’ Auckland by Sunday night’s Limited to judge at the Auckland festival next week. During tlieir stay in Hawera the judges were hospitablv entertained as opportunity offered between festival sessions, the functions in tlieir honour including luncheons by members of the Hawera Women’s Club on Thursday and the Hawera Rotary Club on Friday, followed by a supper party arranged last evening at the dose of the festival by Mr. and Mrs. F. IV. Horner as host and hostess. Members of the committee also were entertained, and a social hour terminated with an exchange of good wishes on all sides. Visits were paid by the judges to points of interest m the town, and delight was expressed at tho attractiveness of both King Edward and Naumai Parks.

Assistance was rendered to 42 families in Hawera, Normanby and Mata-pu this morning by the weekly distribution of rations to the registered unemployed in their stand-down periods. The following commodities were made up into parcels and issued in sizes according to the number of children in each family: 21.1 b tea, 1721 b sugar, 236 lb flour, 921 b oatmeal, 441 b butter, 56 loaves bread (coupons), and, in addition, 4201 b of table potatoes.

So large is the supply of oranges m Australia that they are now .being sold in Sydney at 40 a‘shilling. Mandarins are so plentiful that they cannot be •riven away. An Auckland resident who returned from a holiday visit this week said that he had had such a surfeit of the fruit while in Australia that he could look at the prices quoted in Auckland shop windows for oranges almost with perfect equanimity. Fifty-four alarms of fire were received by the fire brigades under the control of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board in the period from July 19 to August 16. Of this nuriiber 12 were malicious false calls, and nine were the result of chimneys catching fire. A naked candle light igniting curtains caused one outbreak, while the rays from the sun striking a camera lens was presumed l to be the cause of another. Fumes from a bowl of benzine becoming ignited bv a radiator element were responsible for one of the calls received.

The opinion that it was better not to have main roads “plastered” with hoardings in the One Tree Hill district. Auckland, was expressed by the Mayor. Mr T. J. Goldstine, at a meeting of the Borough Council on Wednesday evening, when an application to erect hoardings about 70. ft in length on a vacant site in the Manukau: Road was being considered. . It was stated residential sites were affected by the disnlav of hoardings. The clerk estimated the revenue to the council from the erection of the hoardings would ho jboufc £6 a year. It was decided not to grant permission. In a report to the Wellington Harbour Board recently, the chairman (Mr. C. M. Turrell) said that the shinning and cargo statistics for the month of July showed a decrease of 1605 net tons in the tonnage of vessels arriving. and a decrease of 14,899 tons in Die ouantity of cargo handled. The principal drop was in coal imports, which wore 10.652 tons less. Imports from British and foreign ports were down 1588 tons, but the coastal imports Had increased bv 554 tons. Exports to British and foreign ports showed an increase of 3177 tons, orincipallv in wool and butter, as cheese and frozen meat were over ’2OOO tons less