LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 April 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Relief work tor this week was allocated to 143 II awe r a registered unemo\ed—l3 A class men, 88 B class and 42 C class men.

The south-bound Taranaki express train this morning carried a full complement of passengers on its departure from Hawera, JlverV second-class seat was occupied and the first-class carriages were equally well patronised. The champion Rona-Jelliooe class centreboard yacht, Betty, winner of the Sanders Cup three times for Canterbury ami once for Wellington, has been, sold by Mr W. H. Wag-staff, a. vice-president of the Evans Bay Yacht and Motorboat Club, to Mr A. Hall, of Dunedin. Mir Wag-staff has owned Betty since 1930, and she has always been ai very successful competitor m races in Wellington. She will go south this week. “The almost continuous loud rumblings in the hills and earth tremors experienced in the Oollingwood (Nelson) district are really alarming until you become used to them,” said a Wanganui gold prospector who has just returned from there on a brief visit to his family. These tremors have not been so frequent since the last severe earthquake, hut previously they could be felt day and night at short intervals, while the noise like loud thunder from the high hills was at times almost terrifying.

A general meeting of members of the Egmont Hockey Club is convened for to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at 8 o’clock in the Cariton tearooms-, {Hawera.

HUNTINGTON’S; ’Phone 2118. This season has again definitely decided on skirts and blouses, the varietyin the new arrivals being very convincing. The Fuji shirt styles at 7/11 and the small check and stripe spun silks at 14/11 are enjoying a good following, whilst the pure silk crepe de chine in ivory shade, has come into its own again. Skirts chiefly feature the pleat- j ed panel and the six gore shapes in mixture tweeds and plain colours of navy, brown and black. —Ad*-*

Requesting that the adverb “slowly” should be used and not the adjective “slow,” the town clerk of Dunedin conveyed to the Otago Motor Club the City .' Council's permission to erec-t warning, signs on Anzac Highway (states the “Otago Daily Times’’). While not unwilling to comply with the council’s request ,one or two members remarked on the City Council’s own signs outside the hospital in King Street, which read “Drive slow,” while m Cumberland Street the sign read “Drive Slowly.” Which was correctP Nobody seemed prepared to commit himself on a~ question of the correct usage of the King’s Ebglish, and it wa/s decided to refer the matter to the City Council, pointing out its use of the adjective and asking it to intimate to the club which word it considered the correct one.

Messrs G. Bayliss, Saywell and Sid daway of Oeo, made an expedition into the rough hilly country behiuc. Hurleyville on Saturday, for a day’/, pig-hunting. The bag secured was five big pigs, two boars and three sows. au- Bayliss said that lie had been om in many parts of the back countrs after pigs. ,but this was Ills first in that area, and' it was the roughest lie hat experienced. The country was full o. sheer ridges and in some parts the dogshad to he assisted in making tin ascent. It was impossible, to bring out the • pig/5, but tusks were taken ,ant one pair was particularly fine, large and well-formed. Several passengers on the_ southbound Taranaki express train this morning spent the time at their disposal during the stop at Hawera in inspecting the gardens on the western side of the station platform, where the blooms of many late-flowering border plants—marigolds, phlox, petunias and portulacas—formed a riot of colour in the intermittent bursts of sunshine. The trim lawns and rockeries were much admired, and one traveller re marked to his companion that tew towns in New Zealand could compare with Hawera for the attractiveness of Its station surroundings. The gardens and rockeries on the eastern side oi the platform are also bright with flowers, which cannot fail to give passengers passing through a lasting mi pression of the town. Nominations for the annual 10-a side Rugby tournament to be held a. the Manaia Domain on April 14 elosi on Wednesday next (April .11). 1 !lC trophies include a 10-guinea challenge cup and 10 miniatures for the "'in rung team, a Gilbert’s football to the runners-up, and a complimentary dinner to both teams will be held at the Waimate Hotel in the evening. the tournament is under the joint auspice/ of the Manaia Hibernian and District Sports Club and the Waimate Irootbal Club and the nominations already re coived ensure a successful day s sport