LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

—- Summertime ended officially at two o’clock yesterday morning, when clocks were put back half an hour, resuming standard time. “The last- two months have been the best in. my business, since 1929,” .said a Hawera.’ businessman this morning. Up added that his financial year had still a month to run but oven if he “closed! down to-morrow” he would still be np on last ycarts returns . The Mangatoki Co-operative Dairy Company has decided to rebuild its Kaponga branch factory which was destroyed by firo last week. The work is to be put in hand immediately.

“Was he shearing them?” asked toe presiding justice in the Te Kuiti Court., when' a Maori was charged with failure to register his dogs. The country inspector had informed the court that “Hiki” had 13 dogs, not including “a herd of. pups,” and all were unregistered. The owner said he had been to gaol for his dogs before, and was prepared to go again. Complaints from a settlers that he had lost £7OO worth oi sheep led to the raid by the inspectm. He said the man was regarded as a menace to the farmer. A liiru of £3 was inflicted. “I see Anzac Day as a huge interrogation mark,” said Canon S. Parr, preaching. ai> the Ohristchurch Anglican Cathedral. “The old saying wa.s, ‘What did vou do in the Great- War, Daddy?’ But- now the question is, ‘What have you done since the Great War?’ It is the dead who ask. And in all these fifteen years what have we done? We have built a. memorial; we put wreaths on the bridge; we turn out on Anzac Day, and we buy a popp.i and that’s all. or nearly all.” Race traffic to and from Hawera on Wednesday and Thursday next (May 2 and 3) will be provided with a special service by the South Taranaki Automobile Association. Hawera and visiting service officers will patrol the main roads before and after, the races each lay and, in addition, the Egmont Racing Club has arranged for a mechanic to" be in constant attendance at the racecourse parking areas to undertake running repairs. Owing to the large number of outside horses visiting Hawera for the Klo-mont Racing Club’s winter meeting ■on Wednesday and Thursday next (May 2 and 3) it has been necessary to provide additional accommodation at the Egmont A. and P. showgrounds. The looseboxes there have been commissioned for use during the meeting and to facilitate the work of the attendants at night a temporary lighting system has been installed. No matter how good tilings were, there have always been 3000 or 4000 men connected with the building trade unemployed,” declared Mr R. Moore, senior, at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Builders and Contractors Association. He said that at any time during the last 40 years—except, perhaps,”in the boom years just after the war —there were always up to 300 men out of work in Christchurch. Even in boom times there was no difficulty m getting men. Everybody to-day registered as unemployed, they could not do that then. “To-day.” he added, day were unemployed ; then, they were just out of work.” Dairy Farmers! Now you can get a teat and udder salve which is guaranteed not to taint the milk—“ Uddasal.” A trial of a lib. tin at 1/6 will convince you of its wonderful healing properties in the treatment of sore and cracked teats, cow pox, etc. Sold at all stores —1 Woods G-veat Peppermint Cure for Influenza Colds. —Advt.

Many improvements have, been effe;t-i ed at the Hawera racecourse in preparation for the Egmont Racing Club s winter meeting, which takes place, oil Wednesda-- ancl Thursday next (May 2 and H. To obviate the djanger cl horses kicking each other when weigh-ing-in., four stalls have been erected for the first, second, third and fourth placed horses. When it was decided to renew the brush in the hurdles a. huge quanitity of material was required, and a worldlier bee was engaged for several days in the Tangalioe Valley near Ararata cutting manuka.. Attention also lias been paid to the improvement of course facilities for tlio comfort Or patrons, which should further enisme the success and added popularity of the meeting.

'The belief of the casual reader in the omniscience of a printing establishment is 'Sometimes very touching (observes the ‘‘Otago Daily Times”).. Last week, in correspondence, a leading Dunedin printer was requested to “please quote for six copies of the enclosed —must bo exact facsimiles.” The enclosure was a ticket in a famous international sweep. The reply was sent that work of that kind was not undertaken. For general information it may be stated that, apart from the prohibitive cost of such ft job, a heavy fine and imprisonment would be an immediate result for the printer who thus adventured. How a shilling in revenue was lost to the Post and Telegraph Department through the new telegraph rates is ment.ioned by an Invercargill business main. He said that he went in to the post office and presented a six-word .telegram, four wo ids of which consisted of the address and signature, for dispatch to Havelock North. He was informed that the cost would be one .shilling and threepence. He remarked that he did not feel disposed to bay more than a shilling for such a short telegram, and withdrew the message.