LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 10 June 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The chairman (Mr W. Goodland) re> ported to the monthly meeting of the Hawera County Council on Saturday that he had given evidence before the Haiiway Commission in favor of the railway.

While he was referring in Dunedin the other day to subject of quarantining stock, the Premier (Mr T. Mackenzie) mentioned that he had been informed by his expert advisers that the period or quarantine now imposed on do°-s irom Great Britain might be with safety shortened, no case of that terrible disease hydrophobia, having appeared in Ureat Britain for some years past, arid effective measures being in operation there to guard against its reintroduction.

The Mangatoki Co-operative Dairy Company has selected the following to be managers of their new cheese factories: Messrs Osborne (Ngaire factory), McCullum (assistant manager, Riverdale), anl Taylor (Dalefield, Wairarapa). There were a large number of applications for the positions from all over the colony. The directors have not "9t decided at which of their respective '' ictories they will place their new managers.

The Technical School class in bookjeeping meets on Thursday evenings, at p.m. Intending students should join "t latest next week, when several new students are enrolling. *

Mr F. Northcott's Patent Indicator Milk Releaser will be in operation in <• on junction with the Dominion Milking Machine, at Booth Macdonald and Co.'s show rooms, during Show week. ■

A cablegram from London states that Lord Onslow's personality has been sworn at £41,460.

At the Taranaki Winter Show, Messrs Wright, Stephenson's gold medal for the highest, number of points in the cheese competition was awarded to the Ngaere Dairy Company.

At the meeting of the Hawera County Council on Saturday the chairman reported that for last year there was only one unpaid rate outstanding. He hoped by next meeting that this would have been paid, and that he would be able bo congratulate the Council on having a clean sheet so far as the rates were concerned.

On Friday night a successful euchre party and dance were held in Mr DuffiJi's buildings, Tokaora, in aid of the cricket club funds. In spite of the inclement weather, there was a large party, with cards till 10 o'clock, and dancing till the small hours of Saturday morning.

' Since the late heavy weather set in it is reported that there is not one shovelful of shingle near the mouth of the Waingongoro river, though for months shingle has been very plentiful in that quarter.

The day before the Ruapehu arrived at Teneriffe a fine view was obtained of an almost total eclipse of the sun. The weather was particularly favorable for observations. The eclipse commenced about 10 a.m. and finished at noon. At 11 a.m. the daylight almost entirely disappeared, giving the effect of twilight.

The Mica Company, a Christchurch syndicate, is exploiting the lodes of mineral near Charleston (says the Greymouth Star). Three or four men have been at work for some weeks, and several boxes of the product have been shipperl away for analysis and report. When General Sir Baden-Powell was at Timaru (says the Tiinaru Post), he saw Constable W. K. Hayward on the railway station, and had a chat with him. Constable Hayward was one of the first to join the South African Constabulary during the war, and the general remembered having personally decorated him for conspicuous gallantry on the field.

A councillor, while speaking at the meeting of the Havvera County Council on Saturday, said the law relating • £? m Pulso1T military training was all right, but the administration was not good. Me gave instances, mentioning that on one occasion one of his boys had gone some distance to attend a drill the^in'Tf °f S°me "»»«*» at 7 v? v §- oi farmers on Saturday M »ow obtainable for *,££<£&>s" spoke to,'menanSl, cJ ening 't Mr Bli Sh ,00. attendant W. D. P^!drell O a nt^ aC/ eS''' said M* ing on &&X. *I^ouW ISS? >l. meefrmachine on the nlice »tS ha7e a herd irouM «* grater profit by having bis cows milked on two-fifth shamS by buying and paying depreciation on machines.

Our Opnnake correspondent writes as follows: Mr C. Malcolm, a local fowl fancier was very successful with his ■silver Wyamlottes at the Winter Show in Now Plymouth. With four entries he secured a first and two seconds. There are quite a number of good fowls m this district, and breeders are beginning- to look forward to the local show.

The meeting of farmers at the Hawera Borough Council Chambers on Saturday was the most largely attended that has been held for some time, and hopes were expressed that future gatherings would be equally wel 1 attended. As regarded meetings of the local branch of the Farmers' Union, it was pointed out that they w-ere open to the public, and anyone interested was welcome to attend.

A remit from Onehunga, to be discussed at the next conference of the Municipal Association, suggests an alteration in the law in regard to pulling down condemned buildings, by throwing this work on the Public Health Department. Under the present system the Health officer condemns the building and the local body "has to go to all the trouble and expense (often entailing heavy legal fees) of carrying out his wishes."

The Eltham Co-operative Dairy Company has received the following very interesting letter1: "United Farmers of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.— Sir, —The members of Ihis Association are greatly interested in the subject of co-operation, and we are endeavoring to secure information from all sources to enable us to proceed along the same lines. Your name has been given to us as a successful company operating In New Zealand, and if it is not giving you too much trouble we would be obliged if you would kindly give us any information which you may have at your disposal relating ,to the work you are doing and of the success of jo, undertaking. I may state for your r formation that we have now a membership of nearly fifteen thousand farmers in the province of Alberta and it is tr reach them in undertaking co-operative work along right lines that we are addressing you."

A kitchen belonging to a London firm in which, says The Times, all the heat is supplied by electricity, was opened for inspection on March 19. The kitchen, which is the first of its kind in London on a comprehensive scale, is employed solely for the purpose of cooking luncheons for the firm's employees. It has a capacity for 800 meals daily, and is at present supplying 350 to 400. The plant has been designed by the borough of St. Marylebone electric supply, who have also superintended its installation and furnished the electric energy at £d a unit. The caterer pays for all the current consumed in the kitchen, and he states that he is satisfied that even at Id a unit it would not be possible to work at a less cost by using coal or gas, that there vis a saving in the meat of about lib in 121b, and that, in addition to other advantages, the kitchen is always clean. It has now been in use for about seven months, and is stated to have been quite satisfactory in operation.

. The Auckland auctioneers and lancTil agents have practically decided to join forces, and form one united body.

The Commercial Travellers' Assooiatoin in Sydney has purchased a lik<k with frontages of 64ft. to Pitt and Castlereagh streets. It is understood that the price was £40,000. It Is intended to erect a fine buildings.

A drag will leave Manaia at 1 p.m. on Wednesday next for the "VfehmgtonTaranaki football match, and will return at a suitable time, to enable passengers to see the opening of the snow.

There was no business at the Magistrate s Court, Hawera, this morning. An information laid by the police for breach oi the borough by-law prohibiting the driving of loose cattle through the streets was called, but was adjourned until next Monday, owing to a eleriSfii." 1 the summons served »p°» At the hide sales conducted by Messrs Winchcombe, Carson, and Company ifc -iftidrSHsS^' « „- announced as an Australian record ' Ne™Ve aaL?f f lectinS'™isrants for It wast stated at a recent meeting stated, specially worthy of note. in TJI, c t! e r nMnd fo'- good dairy heifers & P«y SS% ** ■*- "I don't know whether they were. the So TV"?' but l taimeteJ Town Clerk had read a lettfc from the 3=KSS£«t-

snwJi■ ell-know" Manawatu farmer whoso^ed a crop of lucerne as late as Janu^ S'>K S ? ™ + (sa/f the Standard) reaping the fruits of his enterprise, and & his^oowf 1 WP? y °f^ reen fof hi cow S . He has already taken on fr SSIT /«"° m Cr°P Which Promise? well for the winter.

n/^ he,f eetir g °? farmers in Hawera o"..Sa^»day the chairman (Mr D J VViilis) mentioned that Mr R' A* bchool, had earned out some experiment, , n xop=dressm K , the results of Ahich he was prepared to show to any??SiiS f Mr Brmvne as W+ Tf ? ad? ress.a meeting on the subject of top-dressing, and such an address Mr Willis said, was .ure to be of great value to all wlio "heard it In all probability Mr Browne will be asked to give his lecture in about a fortnight^.

This year's Dominion Winter Show nromises to be a huge success, bS7t is absolutely incomparable to the great success of Purser and Son's Sale. Comeand sco for yourself.—Advt

wF°j , oChroiV. e Chest Complaints, o °«1 S G *rl a x PePPermint Cure, Is 6d <ss 6d.— Advt.