LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 22 July 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reminder is given of the musical and gymnastic display to take place at the District High School this evening. The annual meeting of the Kaponga Horticultural and General Produce Society takes places this evening in the Athenaeum Hall. Mr W. Gadsby, of Manutahi, left for Sydney this morning, taking with him four Clydesdales, which he will put jn the Sydney market. There was a small but appreciative audience in the Ope»a House on Wednesday evening when the Hellers gave their second entertainment in Hawera. Mr Heller kept everyone thoroughly interested in his sleight of hand work. Mr A. Black contributed a couple of songs. Madame Heller was again mystifying. "We understand that Messi-s Thos. Borthwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., have decided to enlarge their freezing works at Waitara and instal new machinery, etc., so as to double the capacity for sheep and lambs, and add CO per cent, to the beef capacity for the coming season, and have instructed Mr Messenger to prepare plans for the work. *

Throughout yesterday the police, assisted by a number of settlers, dragged the Wainongoro river for the body of the late George Bollond, settler, of AVaihi, who was drowned while crossing Bryant's ford on Tuesday night, but at the time of writing the body had not been recovered. All the deep pools were thoroughly grappled, but no trace of the body or of the horse and cart could be found. The river was in high flood at the time of the accident, but it subsided two feet yesterday. The search was continued to-day. The trouble is that all the search has to be done from the river-bank, as a boat, in the present swollen state of the river, could not live.

The Inspector-General of Hospitals, Dr. Valentine, had something to say regarding the training of nurses, when speaking upon the question of hospital economy at the meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (states the lierald). "There is no question," he said, "that our system of training nurses has absolutely failed, because we don't teach them anything about economy. For this reason the average nurse is a very bad housekeeper indeed. Many of them have not the slightest idea of economy. I went into the dining-room of a hospital the other day and found a 41b loaf weighing half a pound short. At' another hospital I found that the quantity of milk delivered one day was a gallon and a half short of what there should have been, and what was charged." "It is because they don't have to pay for it," said a member of the Board, interrupting Dr. Valentine. "It is because our system is wrong," replied the doctor. The Inspector-General said that nurses should specialise in various things, such as hospital economics and sanitation, as much as possible, and that the qualifications they possessed in these directions should be taken into consideration when promotions were made.

Gillies and Nalder advertise a rloaring sale on account of Mr S. Dick on the farm, Kaupokonui, on Wednesday, July 28, ab 11 o'clock. The wholo herd of 188 cows will 1)0 submitted and sold to the hiy;l!Ov{ bidder.

The best place for jewellery, Sargent's, High street. See oi.r charming assortments of silverware.- — Advt.

Owing to bad state of the ground the Hawera golf championship has again been postponed till some time in August.

A worker named Tom Lee, employed at the New Plymouth timber yards, Eltbam, sustained a broken leg below the thigh through some timber falling across his legs.

The girl Bill, who received severe injuries as the result of a burning accident near Mangatoki, is still an inmate of the Hawera Hospital, and is now reported to be doing fairly well.

A meeting of the wives of members of the Hawera Technical School Committee was held at the new school on "Wednesday afternoon. It was decided to set apart a room on the occasion « f the opening ceremony on Tuesday next, and provide refreshments for the invited quests and the concert performers. The Minister of Education, members of the Education Board, the Mayor of Hawera, Chairmen of the Hawera County Council, Egmont A. and P. Association and Chamber of Commerce, also local clergymen, are the guests invited. The opening ceremony will be a public affair, and a students' evening will be arranged a few days later.

Our Tokaora correspondent write: — "A School Commit toe meeting was held on Saturday evening to arrange for Arbor Day. It was decided a working bee should be organised to cart gravel, etc., round the school; Mr J. Finlay to "judge and award prizes to children for outside work. Owing to the untimely death by drowning of a brother of one of our esteemed settlers a search party was organised to find the body in Waingongoro river. Mr Finlay, with him Mr Bretherton, teacher, examined the various plots and made the awards. The former in a short -speech referred to the use and utility of Arbor Day and then distributed the prizes. Mr Bretherton called for three cheers for the judge, and three were called for the teacher, which were heartily given. The roll was called and children dismissed for the day."

Young, Hobbs and Co. hold a sale at Stratford on August 14 of land under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. See particulars in advertisement to-day.

Newton King holds his Stratford horse fair on August 7.

Newton King holds a sale for Mr G. F. Perger at Pembroke road on July 30. His Douglas stock sale will be held on July 26.