Local and General

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 20 February 1935, Page 4

Local and General

The Hawera Borough Council notifies that proceedings will be taken in respect of all rates not paid by Maich

The series of flag 500 evenings being held weesiy in the Soldiers’ Club, Hawera, was continued last evening with a considerable attendance. Number three table, consisting of Mesdames Macbeth and Bloor, Messrs Warner and Campbell, was successful in winning the major prizes, whilst Mrs Macbeth and Mr. Warner were also winners of the ladies’ and men’s special prizes Consolation prizes were won by Mrs. Bailey, Messrs Rouse, F. and C. Lovell. “You must get away from the inferiority complex in this country youi surf life-savers may not be so big nor so brown as those on the Austialian beaches, but you have got the same efficiency here,” stated Mr' J. C. Fishenden, a vice-president of .the Royal Life-Saving Society, during an interview in Dunedin the other day. Mv Fishenden had been asked to make com. parisons between the standard of surf work in Australia and that seen so far in the Dominion.

To sec maize 12ft high and paddocks of pumpkins so prolific that they had spread to the roadside and were hanging from the road fences, not to mention “grass that was as green as you ever see it,” was the experience of a Palmerston North resident who recently returned from a visit to Wliakatane. Gisborne, too, he commented, had not fared as badly as Hawke’s Bay in the drought, bnt in the Waikato area the position was very bad, though there was a slight greenness showing through the brown pastures as the result of recent falls of ram. In Morrinsvillo the farmers appeared to be in a desperate position.

“I’m afraid It’s going to be an expensive telephone call it’s going to total £1 and 10* costs,” declared Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North on Monday, when imposing a fine on a citizen who was charged with using a garden hose contrary to the City Council by-law. The remark by the Bench was prompted by the fact that a letter had been forwarded to The Court by the person charged, explaining that she had merely left the hose unattended to answer the ’phone, when an inspector had arrived at the house and found a breach committed. Thi use of political catch-phrases, such as ! ‘the socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange,” was condemned by Mrs Margaret Macpherson at Christchurch during her lecture on Russia one day this week. She referred to them as mere jargon, of no real value. Reformers who regarded' Russia as a sort of heaven were also ,condemned, as were those who tried to bring about change for the better by political assassinations. ‘‘lf you shoot Mr Coates,” said Mrs McPherson, ‘‘you still have Mr Forbes.” Squadron-Leader L. M. Isitt, officer commanding the Hobsonville air base, paid a visit to Coromandel on Friday to inspect the proposed aerodrome site of 136 acres adjacent to the foreshore. He was satisfied the site would make a C class ground for service aircraft, according to a report submitted to the Coromandel County' Council, and would be more than equal to the grounds at Wellington and Rotorua. He recommended that a full plan be made by an engineer showing the position as regards hills and the sea. The council decided to have a topographical survey made by an engineer as soon as possible. Among the gifts to the Old Colonists’ Museum at Auckland reported to the Auckland City Council at its meeting last week were documents relating to the sale of Rangitoto Island and military effects belonging to the late Captain W. J. Newby\ The documents concerning Rangitoto were presented by the relatives of the late James and Allan O’Neill, and consisted of articles of agreement made on October 18, 1844, between Tibou and Wiroa, native chiefs, and James and Allan O’Neill for the sale of Rangitoto Island. Some time ago the relatives of the late Captain Newby, who took part in the Garibaldi campaign and died in Auckland last September in his one hundred and second year, presented the veteran’s sword and other effects to the Old Colonists’ Museum. They have now given his ribbon of the Garibaldi campaign, his ribbon of the Thames Naval Volunteers, and his badges of the Elmpire Veterans and the Old Colonists’ Association.

The Rev. T. I*. Wcatherhog, (leandesignate of Hamilton, who arrived at Auckland on Tuesday last, has spent three years in Rio de Janeiro, where he was chaplain to the British com munity and also to the Missions to Seamen. “Brazil is definitely not a white man’s country,” said Mv Weatherhog in an interview. “The climate is too hot, and there is r> marked feeling against foreigners, efforts being made to supplant them hy Brazilians at every opportunity. Life in the British community, numbering some 3600, is pleasant. There is a wonderful club, catering for every athletic and social activity. In recent years there has been a slack time as far as British shipping is concerned, and the work of the Missions to heanien has not been arduous. One oi the features of life in Rio de Janeiro, stated Mr Weatherhog, was the wonderful mail service to Europe hy the Gn*f Zeppelin. It took just \thrce days for mail to arrive from England. The passenger fare was very reasonable, being £IOO, which was only that of good accommodation on a de luxe liner, taking two weeks for the journev.