LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 5 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« The Chinese population of Hawera ! borough numbers 12. Patea has four, I and Eltham three Celestials. A meeting of the members of the v Opunake Railway League! will be held on Saturday to make arrangements for meeting the Hon. R. McKenzie. According to the census returns there are 600 dwellings in the borough of Hawera, 571 of which are occupied, 25 empty and four building. Eltham borough is next with 370 houses, including 349 inhabited dwellings, 18 unoccupied, and three in course of erection. There are I only three empty houses in the borough of Patea, 200 occupied and two building, making a total of 205 dwellings. Young, Hobbs and Co. will hold their Te Wera stock sale on Saturday, particulars of which are advertised. On a special occasion—a nice dinner— you eat a little too much, topped off with too much smoking. The head aches. Steams' Headache Cure relieves. (21)

The annual meeting of members of the Otakeho branch of the New Zeaand Farmers' Union will be held on Monday evening next in the Otakeho blall. The annualjneeting of the Committee • at Otakeho nail will be held on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. To date about thirty shooting licenses Have been issued in the Hawera Ac3lxmatisation Society's district. Good sport is reported, quail, pheasants and pigeons being plentiful. The birds are all m excellent condition, and there is every reason to believe that the season will be an unprecedented success. The Farmers' Union conferences commence this month, says the Dominion, me annual conference of the Otaco P/ovJ.nce is to be opened to-day. The Wellington Provincial Conference is set down for May 30 at WoodvilW and j *be, Taranaki Provincial Conference is. ' to be held at Inglewood this month, lhe date of the New Zealand Conference has not yet been fixed, but it wilL be some time in July. The sitting will be held in Wellington. /further developemnts in connection, with the secret case, as the action Rose and others v. Thomas Kennedy Macdonald, has become known, have been delayed on account of the sittings of the Court of Appeal. Endeavors have been made to have the matter brought - on, but as two (and probably three) Judges will be required, no fixture, could be made. It is understood" that the case will be dealt with at the end or next week, probably on the Saturday, says the Dominion. "If there is one thing more than another that this census will emphasise, ■ A » ,™c- the decline in the birthrate. This is a remark made by a. census official to a Wairarapa Daily limes reporter. He had studied his. returns intelligently, and he declared, that, it the figures were analysed properly and the size of the family compared m every case with the position Cor estimated earnings) of the head of the family, the result would startleNew Zealand. A conference of the Taranaki branch of the Dairying and Farming Union of Employers was held at Stratford on Wednesday (reports the Post), delegates from all over the province being in attendance, and almost every dairyfactory being represented. The conference endorsed the action of the executive, in declining to meet the employees' union until it is re-registered. The > conference went generally into" labor matters. ■ . On opening a barrel of apples'from Vancouver, British Columbia, recently an Islington (London) fruiterer discovered the following among the contents:— ' "i am looking tor a good-looking young man. If the man that gets this box of apples is half-way good looking send me. a letter.—Yours as ever, Ellen M. Stafford. R.S.D. No. 4, "Vancouver. PS. —He must be at least 30 years old, and must be able to support an automobile See?" . < The Rev. J. J. North, whose state- " ment —made in Christchurch—thatwhen he was in Palmerston North he' w_as informed that, a municipal officer there inspected the films used in the^ Municipal Theatre, and had to reject large numbers sent out from the Old Country, has been adversely criticised,' explains that when he was in Palmerston North on the occasion in question, one of the municipal officers— the V secretary of the hall, he thought -\ went out of his way to point out to him (Mr North) that a kinematograph censorship was in operation, ."and/- adds. Mr North, "I was shown some of the Bi mS had been re 3e°ted. The fact " that the Federal Government in Australia has given its attention to the matter shows that there is some justification for the plea that the need tor some system of censorship. " .. A meeting of the general committee, of the Egniont A. and P. Association was held on Thursday afternoon, Mr J b-rant occupying the chair-in the unavoidable absence of the President (Mr T A Winks.) There were also present: Messrs Campbell, Exley, Tonks, O^Callaghan, Bremer, Hunter, Duckworth Budge, and secretary (Mr Treweek;) A' letter was read from Mr C. J. Rowe, * Hawera, offering to graze a horse in the society's sheep yards for a tei*m of years, and promising to repair any damage that might be occasioned. It ( was decided tliat the offer could not be I entertained, members considering that horses would do too much damage/ The matter of arranging for the lease of the yards for sheep-grazing was left with the secretary and ground committee. After transacting some routine business the meeting adjourned. The annual meeting of the association is to be held to-morrow. The Department of Labor reports a: strong demand throughout the country for labor in all building trades. With the approch of winter, and the consequent slackening off of farm work, thereis an increasing number of applicants at the Labor Bureaux. Ploughmen, however, are in strong demand in the Smith Island. The freezing works are shortening hands, and there is already* a movement among slaughtermen towards the Departmental agencies for employment. The applicants, as a. whole, comprise three single men to one married man. The married men are in all cases given preference of employment. The season promises to be a very busy for bushmen, and the Department expects to have no difficulty in placing men used to fhat class of work. Men are being regularly sent to co-operative works in theGisborne and Nelson districts, where the numbers are still a good deal short of requirements. It is stated that the men for these works first prove their skill with pick and shovel; The Department does not anticipate that relief" work for the unemployed will be required during the coming winter. The following new books have been received at the Public Library :—" The^ Glad Heart," by Maria Albanesi; TJ c oney S Pider," by Le Queux; 'The Steering Wheel," by R. A. Wason; "Account Rendered," E. F Benson; "The Coil of Came," Oxenham; "The Varmint," Owen Johnson-: "Dixie Hart," Will Harben; "Flamstead Quarries," Mary Waller; "Defender of the Faith," Marjorie Bowen. Rev. W. H. Howes, .8.A., of Manaia, will conduct the service in Kaponga Presbyterian Church next Sabbath at 7, which is the commencement of a seven days' mission in that church". A cordial welcome to all. * A social in aid of the Auroa Association Football Club will be held at Auroa on Tuesday, May 16. Mr J. C. Gillett, the busy draper, advertises fashionable winter wear for ladies. A number of notices appear in today's'issue warning persons traspessing with dog or gun on certain properties that they will be prosecuted. "Veterinary science classes have been formed at Alton with 22 students, Patea 25, and Kaponga with over 20. Although good support was promised, the attendance for the first lessons at Waverley, Hawera and Eltham was disappointing. * The veterinary science instruction offered throughout this district may be summed up as "first aid to animals." The common ailments of cattle, sheep, and horses are diagnosed, best Treatment suggested, also reason for same.' The best place for Jewellery, Sargent's, High street. See our charming assortment of Silverware.—Advt,