LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 December 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The pheasants in the Hawera Acclimatisation Society's grounds at.Waihi are thriving;very well. Four hens have, hatched out's9 eggs, and only one egg was infertile. Up to date 110 eggs have been received from three hens. . A member of the Egmont A. and P. Association, while speaking at the meeting on Saturday in support of a water jump, said he was sure they would get a certain well-known rider from the Auckland district. "He boasts," remarked the speaker, "that he has been in every water jump in the North Island." (Laughter). At a meeting of the Executive of the Farmers' Co.-operative Organisation Society of New Zealand, held in Hawera on Saturday, reports of the canvassers showed that the Society was meeting with good support throughout the district, and it was decided to hold the statutory meeting of the Society on Saturday, January 24, 1914. All access to the Ohura from the Stratford end is now stopped (says the Post). A very large slip came down on Friday last on the Paparata saddle in the Tangarakau gorge, and it will take eight men-a week to open up communication of any sort and fifteen men will be kept busy till Christmas to get the road opened for coach traffic. At the meeting of the Egmont A. and P. Association on Saturday, several members referred to the necessity for having the large open stand covered in. It was, they said, useless at present, especially in Avet weather. The President considered that this work would have to be undertaken, and the secretary was instructed to make a note of it. The rough weather experienced during the latter part of November \eousiderably interfered with trout-fishing. However., previous to the gales some good catches were obtained. The anglers who have been successful this season include Messrs Clements, CaldwelJ, Eastbury, and J. Moore. The latter up to the present time, has caught between 40 and 50 trout, averaging 4|lbs., fro«i the Waingongora river., This river is becoming a capital trout river, mainly through the Society paying special attention to it by systematically restocking it with yearlings. A notice appears elsewhere calling a meeting of the Alton Athletic Club for next Saturday, the 13th inst, for the purposing of receiving the club'.s report and balance-sheet, fixing date of next meeting, election of officers, and general. As this is the ninth annual meeting, and the last sports were so successful, both from a sports point of view and financially to the club, the committee would like to see- a large attendance of members, and intending members; and with the surplus of £30 on hand, it ought to see another step forward as to improving the grounds, etc. Mr Okey having asked the Minister in Charge of Military Pensions wTiether he will during the recess consider the justice of awarding the pension to the widows of those who were entitled to the pensions provided they can bring conclusive evidence that * they were married prior to the commencement or during the time of the war, the Hon. Mr Fisher replied that the question of extending the military pensions to the widows of veterans of tliei Maori war will receive due consideration during the recess-. "The Ruakura training farm is conducted on admirable Jines, and there is probably no other place in the world where the work is done with so much regard to practical value."" Such was the criticism made by Mr O'Neil Sevier, of New York, on returning to Auckland from a visit to the farm last week. Mr Sevier has seen all the principal experimental farms in the United States'^ and Canada, and is in New Zealand as4 one of the commissioners sent by the President to invite the Australian States and New Zealand to be represented in the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. Mr Sevier was particularly interested in the amazing production of alfafa (or lucerne) at the farm. Similar crops could be obtained in America only off irrigated land, where the water was under direct control. Mr Sevier commented on the fact that by the use of fertilisers 100 bushels of oats were grown to the acre on the Ruakura farm. The yield per acre in the United States was only 80 bushels. He was strongly of opinion that every farmer's son should go to Ruakura or 'a. similar, farm for a period to learn scientific farming.

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The Egmont A. and P. Association on Saiturdaj resolved to grant the use «i the grounds to the Education Board for the teachers' physical training camp m February. The Hawera Acclimatisation Society,--At the request of the Government, is forwarding a consignment of perch to the aquarium at the Auckland Industrial Exhibition. This should be a good advertisement for the Society. For some time past the Defence authorities have been endeavoring to secure a site for a local rifle range. A survey is being made of a strip of land at Whareroa, with a view to purchase by the Government. 'Sergeant-Major Mahoney, of the local Defence staff, acccepted* a challenge that he would not walk from Hawera to Manaia under two hours. He won the stake of £5, and did the distance from post office to post office (nine miles and a half) in one hour fortyseven minutes. A committee accompanied him in traps to see that everything was above board. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn seems to have spoken very 'plainly- in an address to school teachers at Stratford on Saturday. She charged Taranaki children with being ill-developed, and said that the schools were dirty. The only pro-perly-cleaned school she had seen was that at Fitzroy, where a patent broom was in use. She advocated nose-blow-ing drill on the ljnes of a glorified handkerchief parade, arid the use ot* a towel-corner instead of a brush on children's teeth. The address was very attentively listened to, and appreciated (says the Daily News correspondent).

The annual supper of the Hawera Gymnastic Club will be held to-mor-row (Tuesday). The annual general meeting of the >Alton Athletic Club will be held on Saturday. Anyone requiring suits made to measure on the chart principle before Xmas are advised to hand in their orders to The Melbourne Clothing Company not later than the 14th instant. P\-ieus, 65s to 755. Grand selection of suitings to choose from.—-Advt :>~l .- • The residents of Majfiiaia and the Plains will note that mi^ this issue is ci rculated an inset calling special attention to an auction sale'^of boots -andi shoes to be conducted at the Oddfellows' Hall, Manaia," to-morrow (Tuesday) at 11 a.m. by Messrs Bellingham and Sons, on account of Mr L. Hill, who is giving tip business in Manaia.— Advt.