LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Wellington city solicitor has been instructed to draft an amendment to the city by-laws against leaving vehicles on the public street unattended so that it will not apply to motor vehicles. In connection with the Shcus and Offices- Amendment. Bill, now * before the House, Mr McCombs has (says a Press Association message) given notice, of an amendment which if carried, will have the effect of closing hotels at 6 p.m. , The services of the Hawera Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by Mr A. D. Perkin and the Rev. E. 0. Blamires. The evening subject will be "Fixity and Flexibility." At the present time an artesian well is being put down on the Moumahaki State Farm. A dentil of 250 feet has been reached, but so far no water has been stiyick. A coneot record has been kept of the various formations through which the bore passes, and at the 2o(> feet level the strata is of a sandy papa nature (says the Pa tea Press;. * Arbor Day is to be celebrated by the se.iools in the Wanganui Education Board district on Monday, July 26. The headmaster stated at the' meeting of the Hawera District High School Committee on Friday evening that not very much planting was carried out at the school now because all the hedges were planted. Special lessons, however, were given on tree-planting. The Normanby Methodist Church anniversary will be held to-morrow. The Rev. E. 0.. Blamires will preach in the morning, a musical service conducted by Mr W. Hutchens will be held at 2.30 in the afternoon, at which Private Yearbury of the Sixth Reinforcements, 'will speak, and in the evening the Rev. W. S. Neal, of Manaia, will conduct the service. The annual conversazione will be held on Friday evening in the Town Hall, when a musical and elocutionary progremme will be provided by the Hawera Methodist choir. Anamolies in the municipal roll in' Pa tea are being discussed. Incidentally a correspondent of th c County Press asks: —Is it a fact that a property some distance fiom the local Post Office is being rated at the rate of £88 per acre per year for general rate and another property, a valuable building site not many yards away is rated at but four shillings per acre only?" The editor replies that it is an absolute fact though one might well be pardoned tor doubting it, the difference between eighty-eight pounds and four shilling .<ig so great. It is time the committee got to work and made a thor-1 ougn and complete investigation of the whole rating system. The following appointments are to be proposed to committees by the \\ angamu Education Board, subject to the approval of the teachers concern-I ed: Sole teachers—Spur road Mr Lange; Ruatiti, Mr A. B. Barns: Po- '\ om'V-, Ml' J v Harris; Tangiwai, Miss C. Phillips; Mangoihe, Miss Ivy Arthur ; Mata.° Mr A. E. Aston ■' Ti:- vraukawa, Miss M. V. Keane; Carnarvon, Mr Thomas Egan; Taonui (acting), Mrs G. Kendall; Glen Oroua (acting), Mr H. R. Harre; Waituna West, Mr HE. Crandle; Awahou, Mr Rat-chit; Mount View, Mr Harnby; Eraser road, Mr Larcomb; Maim'amiiigi, Mr Woodlev; Ararata Mr Sweet; Dcnlair, Mr Piatt Assfstonw—Hawera, 4th, Miss J. E Slat-1 tery; Wanganui East, 4th, Miss Car-! ter; Gth, Miss Trott; 7th, Miss O Stomp; Turakina, Miss E. MarshallBrunswick, Mrs G rover; Bulls, Ist Miss Henderson; Ohakune, Mr Teesdale; Feilding, 3rd, Mr Stratchan (-♦l:ss l>oss to revert to 4th); Bulls, -\i:ss Ci. King; Campbell street, 3rd' Mr Kihblewhite; 9th, Miss Kerslak»: int.]i, Miss McAuliffe. PupH-uucJiers —Manaia Miss D. White; Gonville, i Miss h. \\ . Bowater. On page 3 Mr Spence, of the Ecn-! noinic, is giving f or +hj s v . pp v a <if I useful winter garments. Roar] it over' carefully and net quickly.—Advt. j Got a little idea that you use at home to save time or trouble? Patent if ]f > it helps you it will help the world!"and I the world will pay you for. using it. ! Valuable information on patenting is i contained in the free booklet "\dvW, j to Jn-entor-s," published by Henry I Hugh-s, Ltd., 157 Fcather.ston street. Wellington Write for a copy. 78 I Sample hoots and shoes for ladies. \ ■iOO pair of boots and shoes, lis -6d | pah-, worth 2os: men's hoots, 17s 6d. This is a golden opportunity to secure good hoots before the rise in price. Call and soo our farm and dairy boots.— N.Z. Clothing Factory, ITawerr ■- Advt. '

A special series of sermons will be commenced by tiie Rev. sH. O. Blamires in the Hawera Methodist Church on Sunday week, August 1. The subjects announced are: ''The Great. Hope"; ••Old Testament Propheev and Apocalypse"; "Various Comings-; "'ih.e Signs of Advent"; "The Crisis of Today," and "Ihe linal Cusummation." The services at which the series will be delivered will all be held in the evening. The Emden salvage expedition is expected to leave Sydney tor Oocos island in about five weess' time. Fifty men will form the party, all but one having had previous experience in salvage work. The exception is Mr Eric Feiton, who will write- the memoirs of the trip, and engage in zoological, biological and botanical research, there .being ample scope for work of this kind in tne g'rouT>. A motion picture operator will also accompany the j,~x-ty. Captain x>. M. Unanew is to the navigator, and Diver May will be chief submarine expert. The promotion of sport under proper conditions- has a significant national value, says the report of the New Zealand Sports Frotection League. "It has for some .time been acknowledged that the maintenance of the physical fitness of the people is a matter of vital interest to the State! The present great war has shown that those best equipped to take their places in the fighting line are the young men who have been prominent 'in outdoor sport, and in this direction New Zealand can already look with pride upon the deeds of our own men, a. very large proportion of whom were prominent amongst the -various sports bodies throughout the Dominion." A meeting of the Hawera District High School Committee was held -on Friday evening, when there were present Messrs R. Tait (in the chair), F 0. Wallace, W. Kenson, T. H. Walker, G. H. Burton, E. A. Paeev, and R. .S. Page (secretary). It was decided to again write to the BoaTd with reference to having an improvement carried out to the lavatories. Mr Walker reported that the Tawhiti school grounds had been put in order, and were now in a much better condition. The Chairman, secretary and Mr Walker were appointed a sub-committee to confer wfh the local members of the Board with reference to a site for the Tawhiti School. Messrs Wallace and Henson i (High School) and Walker (Tawhiti) were appointed a visiting committee for the ensuing month. During the year ended March 31. "'Olo, the total number of arrivals in New Zealand from the United Kingdom was 7322, of which number 2986 were assisted to the Dominion by the Government, made up of persons nominated from New Zealand and persons applying themselves for assisted passages in London. The declared capital .brought dut to the Dominion by the latter amounted to £16,313 10s.' The total of 2986 was made up as follows: Men, 640; women, 1295; children, 1051: and their .destinations were: — Auckland 888, Canterbury 455, kelson 91. Otago 224, Southland 124, Taranaki 122. Wellington 744, Westland 52. Six hundred and four were domestics, 292 were farmers or farm laborers, 189 were the children of farmers arid farm laborers, and 1901 were people who came out to relatives. Messrs Harr.v Plimmer and Win+er Hall have submitted a statement of the accounts concerning their recent theatrical tour of New Zealand in aid of the Belgian fund, to the Prime Minister. The sum of C 4268 17s 2d has been handed over to Mr Massey, and the following individual donations were made to local funds : Christchurch £152, Ashburton £13, Thnaru £110, Oamaru £250, Dunedin £86 and £69, Invereargill £o<'l, Napier£36, Masterton £275. The total amount by which the relief funds will benefit by the tour is £3511 15s 3d. The Prime Minister has decided, that a voluntary effort of the kind made by Messrs Plimmer and Hall did not demand a sciutiny, and the offer of those gentlemen to have the accounts audited was not accepted. At a meeting of the Mayor of Wellington's Patriotic Committee, a motion conveying to Messrs Piimmcr and Hall the- thanks of the committee and of the community of New. Zealand was carried with acclamation. The Heads beach Csays the Pa to a Press) presents a very busy scene at the present time, between twenty and thirty men being employed in getting mngs in order for the harbor improvement works, which are to be started practically 'immediately. A large and commodious workshop has been erected with an engine and lathe duly fitted up. At the end of the road, just as one approaches the beach flat, are the foundations for a tower 80 feet high, which is to be erected. On the opposite side of the river is to be a similar tower, and between the two will be fixed a cable, which will be used in transporting material across the river as it is required: A wharf is in course of construction some chains up the river from the guide pier, and a track has been bid from the wharf head to I the breakwater so that material can be landed and conveyed on a tramline to the breakwater and the various sheds without any trouble. One of the iirst works to be carried out will be the raising of the present western wall in concrete. When this has been completed the extension of the walls will be proceeded with. At the present time the river is in high flood. There has been a remarkable scouring out of the river with the flood, the effect, as one authority put it, being equal to about 6 months' dredging on the part of the Board. The whole of a vast bank of sand near the guide pier has been ashed away and a deep channel left in its place. The navigable portion of the river is now almost exactly straight from the guide pier to the railway bridge. See Miss Lynne Edwards dance the Russian Valse Caprice at Mrs Edwards 'entertainment in aid of the Sick and Wounded Fund on Monday, July 26.—Advt. \OT TREATING IT PROPERLY. If you cannot get rid of a cold it is because you are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a cold should hang on for weeks or until some serious throat or lung trouble is developed and it will not if you take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Taken in double doses every hour after the first symptoms appeared Chamberlain's Cough Remedy would have counteracted the effects of the cold and restored your system to a healthy condition. Even after, the cold has become settled in the system Chamberlain's Cough 'Remedy will give prompt relief and counteract any tendency of its resulting in pneumonia. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.—Advt. YOU SHOULD REMEMBER That at the Supreme Court of Victoria at Melbourne it was proved: 1. That Sander's Eucalypti Extract contains all medicinal constituents of the eucalypti in a highly refined and I pure form :!. Tnat Sander's Extract is much iv,ore powerfully hoaimg and antiseptic than ordinary eucalyptus preparations. 3. That Sander's Extract does not depress the heart hke the so-caiiod • Extracts" and crude oils. 4. That Sanders Extract contains no harmful ingredients. 5. That Sander's Extract is highly commended by maur authorities '"for the la«t 40 years as a safe, reliable and effective remedy. I If you insist on " Sander's Extract you obtain the approved article — ' Advt.

The heavy rains earlier in the week caused the loca.ities of Disraeli and ( Vogel streets to become inundated with • wafer. Tho borough engineer (Mr Siur.rock) has had the channels deep- . ened, and a coupie of new outlets put j in. These are temporary measures, 'pending the construction of the permanent work. The sen ices in the Manaia Methodist Church on Sunday next will be conducted by 'the Rev. Mr Neal in the morning and Mr Wills in the evneing. A- special invitation is extended to strangers.'' Some finw golf was put up at Waverley last week in a game played by Messrs S. Turner and Riddell (last year's champion at Waverley). The former went round in 79, the best yet done on that course. In, the two rounds there were three twos and four threes. The Bishop has asked all the Anglican Churches in the diocese to hold intercessary services on Wednesday, August 4, the anniversary of the declaration of war. There will be services on that day.at St. Mary's, Hawera. At a meeting of the Hawera Patriotic Committee held this morning the following resolution was passed: "That this committee request the ministers of Hawera to held a united intercessory and memorial service at the Opera House on Wednesday, .August 4, being the anniversary of the declaration of war." This is in accord with a movement inaugurated by the King for. the holding of similar services in the Old Country. A meeting of those interested in St. Mary's Spring Flower Show was held in the schoolroom on Friday evening, when it was decided to hold this year's fixture on September 8 and 9, subject to any alteration. Several committees were appointed to organise the show, , and it was resolved to have a produce stall, a sweets stall, a Christmas tree, and bran tub for the children. It is hoped to engage an orchestra, and concerts will be arranged for each evening. Messrs Kimbell and Causey were appointed a committee to canvas's for prizes. The proceeds are to be given—one-third in reduction of the Church Building Fund, one-third to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, and onethird to the missionary work. Mr G. Liddington was appointed secretary and treasurer. The Australasian Lawn Tennis Association has decided to take steps to perpetuate the memory of Anthony Wuciing, the great player, who was killed in Flanders. A committee has been appointed to take into consideration tne best means of carrying this intention out. Suggestions have been made to gve a memorial trophy, to be competed for at Wimbledon (London), where Wilding secured so many of his triumphs. Tbis should meet with much approval (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph), especially as he played so much of his tennis in England and on the Continent. But so far as Australians are concerned, their chief interest in Wilding was as a Davis Cup player, representing Australasia, and" it is'expected that some such tronhy could also be played for in Australasia at the Australasian championships, which are held every year, and in a different. State each year. The trophy would then travel in turn to the different States of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, his native country.