LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 29 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In a return tournament between the Hawera Fire Brigade and the P. and T. Social Club, on Wednesday evening, the post office provided a larger number of winners of sets in table tennis, but the team’s total of games was loss than the brigade’s. The latter again prevailed by a small margin in billiards and by a larger margin in bagatelle. Sup't. A. Morrison welcomed the visitors and Mr R. Bergman, on behalf of the social club, thanked the fire brigade members for their courtesy in making -their facilities available to other institutions.

At the Haw earn Football Club’s evening last night eulogistic reference unmade by Mr J. Rowe, a member oi the jTaranaki Rugby Union, to the work of the Red Cross First Aid Detachment. Mr Rowe said that these men whom the crowd sometimes facetiouslv called “Zambuks” were a greai asset to the game and did their good work gratuitiously and without hope of reward, except the knowledge that they were helpful. They had not, he said, missed a single match last season and had 'been carrying on their operations for a number of year-*. In the course of his visit yesterday to points of interest in the Hawera district, Mr Thomas Baxter, representative of the National Farmers’ Union in England and Wales, called at the Normanby' dairy factory, -where he was met by -the manager. (Mr A. J. Hopcroft) and welcomed on behalf of the directors of the company by' Mr 11. I. Crocker. Following an inspection of the‘plant and manufacturing process, a visit was made to Mr J. E. Meuli’s farm at Okaiawa, .where Mr Baxter evinced particular interest in pasture management. Mr Baxter was accompanied by a party' from Hawera, consisting of Messrs P. O. Yeale and A. K. Fyson, Scientist and secretary respectively of the Taranaki Federation of Co-operaitive Dairy Companies, and by Mr E. K. Cameron, secretary of the South Taranaki Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, and Mr H. R. Denize, of the Department of Agriculture. At Okaiawa the party was joined by Mr D. Wards, president of the Okaiawa branch of the Farmers’ Union, and (Mr E. J. Betts, president of -the 'South Taranaki Executive. Mr Baxter returned to Haw'era in time for luncheon and left later by car for Wanganui.