LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

To-night at 7.30 o'clock the reredos placed in St. Mary's Church as a memorial to the late Archdeacon Cassell will be formally dedicated. The ce'reiiiony will be performed by the Yen. Archdeacon Reeve, of Wanganui,

The first of the season's pick of strawberries reached the Auckland market last week, and sold at 2s 6d a pound.

A resident of Auckland states that the fame of New Zealand-built yachts has spread all over the world, and that local builders have frequently to fulfil orders from Australia and South Africa.

A farewell social will be tendered to Privates J. C. Clegg and E. Ptirdon in the Auroa Hall to-morrow (Thursday) night at 8 o'clock. All soldiers on leave are cordially invited to attend.

During September the estates of Tjo persons were certified for death duties, the_ largest being that of Archibald. McCallum (Otago), £47,492. Taranaki estates certified were: Colonel W. G. Malone £25,134, John Hook £15,304, George Jay £2805, Zaccheus William Wells £2378.

The director reported to the meeting 'of the Hawera Technical School Committee last night that an examination for plumbers was held at Hawera at the end of September, when nine candidates presented themselves. The olu lead used at the class had been disposed of at 3d*per pound, and realised £8 19s 3d.

Mr H. Okey, M.P., has received a telegram from the Bon. W. Eraser, Minister of Public Works, stating that he has notified Clifton, Whangamemona, Tarahaki, Stratford, Eltham, Waimate West and Egmont County Councils to meet him at New Plymouth at 10 a.m. on the 14th inst., and Hawera County Council to meet him either at New' Plymouth on the i4th or at Wanganui on the 16th, at 10 a.m.

Entries for competitions and all divisions of live stock at the Manawatu Show clqss on Saturday, 14th instant, after which late fees will be charged up to the 23rd instant. Intending exhibitors who have not had a prize schedule should immediately write to the secretory, Mr W. T. Penny, Box 85, Palmerston North. The women workers of the Palmerston North district are to do the catering at the show, in the interest of tlie Fund for Sick and Wounded Soldiers.

The Christchurch .correspondent* :of the Dunedin Star telegraphs: "The big Armor Packing Company, of Chicago, aie starting operations in the meat trade in New Zealand, with Christchurch as their centre, under the title of Armour and Co., Ltd. (Australasia). Mr N. W. Kingdom, general' manager of Armour and Co. (Australasia), in an interview, denied that the Armour Company is a meat trust. 'We are here to do business in the same way as other firms,' he said. 'W Te have got nothing to hide. AYe are coming right out into the open, and putting all our cards on the table.' " .

The necessity for some' connecting link between the North and South Islands was recently demonstrated by the dislocation of telegraphic communication (says the Lyttelton Times). Of the many schemes proposed to avoid a repetition of the trouble the one suggested by Dr Thacker, M.P., that a low-powered wireless plant should be installed at Godley Head was thought the most feasible. The matter was recently brought under the notice of the Harbor Improvement Committee of the Lyttelton Harbor Board, and at its meeting recently the board unanimously decided that the Government should be urged to erect a plant at the entrance to the Lyttelton harbor.

A meeting of the Hawera Technical School Committee was held last evening, when there, were present: Messrs E. Dixon (in the chair), C. A. Strack, C. dimming, 11. Tait, R. F. Page, and R. Sage. An apology for unavoidable absence was received from Mr J. B. Murdoch,- chairman of the committee. The director (Mr H. W. Jackson) reported that classes during the month were held in English, arithmetic, shorthand and typewriting, book-keeping, drawing, painting, dressmaking, cookery, plumbing, wood work and first aid. The enrolments totalled 330, with an average attendance of 296. Punctuality and behaviour had been satisfactory, and good progress was being made by the students.

Jn a recent interview Dr J. A. Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory, referred to the freezing works that are being built at Darwin by Vestey Bros., which will be ready about March next year. He said they would be one of the largest in the world. The buildings covered fully an acre of ground, and by the time the works were finished they would cost half a million. Everything was right up to date. A great effort had been made to get the works ready this year, but various circumstances had prevented this being done. If the works could have been got going by May it would have meant that between 30,000 and 40,000 cattle would have been treated this year. Next year the cattle-raisers would have an outlet in the Territory itself, and this would make all the difference in the world: The advent of the freezing works meant that stationowners could now improve their properties with the certainty of returns, and consequently they were keeping their female cattle.

A resident of North Canterbury has received a letter from a member of the New Zealand Wireless Troop at present operating in Mesopotamia, in which he says: I wonder if the various patriotic and gift associations are aware that there is a New Zealand Wireless Troop in Mesopotamia. Though small in numbers compared | with the other Expeditionary Forces, we are just in the place where comforts fire most needed, because nothing can be procured here. Desert Arabs have nothing of use to the white man. Troops in France and Egypt can buy things that help to make a soldier's life pleasanter, but not we in this Land of Nothing:. It is setting time1 the New Zealand associations realised that there are some New Zealanders in this forgotten country. Have not the discomforts of Mesopotamia reeked in all Daners? Australian troops in these parts have not been so completely forgotten, and we have shared their comforts when they were over-supplied. That was when we. were at the base, but now that we are scattered up country it is catch-n.s-catch-cnn. Recently from some Indian association we received some hard boilpd lollies (school picnic variety), but whio^ were, greatly appreciated, a tin of milk *aoh.~n fpw cake's of soap and some odds and ends were also thankfully received.

The quality of our silver and plate warp demand the ronsiderat-'on of the public when purchasing.—E. Morris, leading jeweller, Hawera. —Advt.

Special attention is directed to the Ecqnomic's first display of fashions for spring and summer. Great cave has bean taken in the selection of the different styles and materials, and we are confident that a pleasant hour or two can be spent in its inspection.—Advt.