LOCAL & GENERAL. NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 19 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL. NEWS

The construction of the new buildings for the boarding establishment of the. New Plymouth Roys' High School is to be r>ut in hand at once.

Mr G. Wilkinson, who contested the Bay of Islands seat in 1911 and 1914, states that he will not be a candidate at the coming by-election, sa.vs a Press Association telegram from Auckland.

During April the Fltham Co-opera-tive Dairy Factory manufactured 3341 801b cheeses. The company paid suppliers Is Id per lb for butter-fat, amounting to £"5048. Tho amount of butter made totalled 43981b, and £190 was paid to suppliers for butter-fat at Is per lb.

The Foxton Herald says: We are informed that a buyer rf j v a t stock called upon a district fanner recently and offered £25 per head for a line of beasts. The offer was not considered high enough, as a further rise was anticipated by the owner in the course of a week or two.

The Chief President of the Province of East Fr.us.sia, according to a private report from Berlin, in a speech in Berlin said that 80,000 houses had been entirely destroyed in East Prussia. The state of agriculture there was absolutely desperate. Of over 100,000 horses, scarcely 6000 were left. At least 300,000 refugees had left the province unable to return, as there was no possibility of making a living.

Trousers for 31en.~200 pairs of good Saddle Tweed Trousers now opened, just- the 'lines H.B. is noted for, 9s lid, 13s 6d ; 17s-6S; "hard wearers. We have 200 pairs Tweed Trousers, which we are clearing at 7s 6d pair. N.Z. 'Olotliing Factory, Hawera. — Advt.

At the \i& meetSng <i ~ifrt> ""Ncwr* maiiby Town Sfoard (writes «ur correa--1 punuent) the clerk-stated all rates but 10s ,id had 'feeen* collected, and also alt back rates. \ The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association ha* decided to lift the susSensiqn imposed on officials and 1 the isqualification incurred "by competitors I at the Trentham meeting on June 13,

iiy m&dyertence tbe? report of t^e social at^^^Jiiiry's,schoolroom - on Monday :eyonin^ omitted meiition the fact rW*t- tJie Key: Mr Stent, >of Opmiake; sgoks in welcome of tide mew vicar of flawetav H|i spbke; on behalf of the clergy of Waitotara archdeaconry, of whoiai there wore also present Rev. Mr Page, of Manaia, and llev. Mr Barjaett, of Patea. and congratulated both vicar and parish on the appointment, wishing Kev. Mr Cowen the fullest success.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruapehu will be the next vessel to load cargo for Home ports at Waitara. The iluapehu will leave Wellington to-day for Lyttelton and Dunedin to discharge and load at those ports, and will subsequently load at Waitara and Wellington, leaving Wellington on May 29 for Loncion, via ports.

A resident in England, writing to friends in Eketahuna, says: "We have been having New Zealand butter for some little time now. As a rule it is very good, but we pay Is 5d per lb for it. The English make is Is 7d per'lb, but not, so good." .. In referring to the war the writer stated that in all shop windows was the notice, "Business as usual."

Mr R. L. M. Kitto, manager at Napier for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, has received notice of his promotion to the position of, manager of the': Christchurch branch, rendered vacant by the death of Mr D. A. Baxter. Mr J&itto was for some time the company's manager at Hawera, and his friends here will be very pleased indeed to hear of his promotion.

At the Supreme Court at New Plymouth on Tuesday, before his Honor Mr Justice Edwards, in chambers, Mr Samuel Strang, of Eltham, was admitted a solicitor, on the motion of Mr J. E. Wilson; also Mr A. Coleman, of Stratford, on the motion of Mr R- Speuce; and Mr Armstrong of New Plymouth, on the motion of Mr Billing.

A movement for the establishment pf a locally-owned ferry service has bsen taken xip by a number of Gisborne gentlemen. The capital proposed l Or n.nrJtV c<)mPany is from £30,01)0 to £40,000, and the object of the venture is to run a suitable steamer between Gisborne and Naoier in a continuous ferry service. The project is said to be meeting with hearty support. J *

Mr Hme M.P., giving evidence before the Education Commission at New llymouth, referred to a conference of members of Parliament, in which if had e l n a Sreed that Waimate West and Eltham Counties should be added to the Taranaki district. He said this u O jld L ihave been embodied in the Act had there been the same unanimity m the other districts. We do not know what conference this was Mr •i j1 n xSOn-' we understand, was not invited to it, and was not present; nor was Mr Pearce.