LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Owing to the pressure pf war news and the tremendous issues at stake, we feel that an absence of news from this afternoon until next Tuesday afternoon would be unfair to the public. The Star will, therefore, contrary to previ- ' ous practice, be published on Easter Monday. Special services will be conducted at the Salvation Army to-morrow, led on by Envoy Buick. At the annual meeting of the Associated Board of the 8..A.M. and R.C.M. in London, the chairman (Mr ; Ernest Mathews) stated that local centre entries showed only a slight decrease, while the school entries showed an increase on. the best total' before the war. He referred to trthe pluck of the examiners, who have faced, without demur the submarine peril and carried on the board's work overseas iust as if we weKI living in ordinary times." By next year," he added, "We may hope for better conditions.'s ■ I So great are the resources of Lake Waikaremoana that, according to the Mayor, Mr E. Parry, the Government Engineer estimates that even if cthere were no rain in tl-at district for eisrht | years, it would not affect any projected ' scheme that might depend on the lake for its supply, says an exchange.

The Consul-General of Japan in Aus-, tralia has received fiom his Govern-:-ment new regulations concerning the entry of aliens into his country. All . aliens, excepting members and families ' of diplomatic and consular bodies and; other Government representatives, ana • masters and crews of foreign vessels! must produce passports before they will j be permitted to land. Consuls are in-; structed to^ satisfy themselves that in- ! ( tending visitors to Japan have no sinister intentions towards that country, ! and no dealings or interests with enemy countries; that they are not likely to become a charge upon the public of Japan and that they are free from any icontagious disease, and are not of un- ■ sound mind. j The following is the roll of the seventh Cl draft proceeding to camp on April 10, entraining at HawecraW. R. Bingham, F. J. Bull, C." J. Cullinan, M. Doyle, W. A. Davison, f A. Froggatt, J. A. Goodwin T. Hogan I D. H. T. Hook C. Long, A. J. Mar- I tin, J. Myles, N. McCarten, J. Nettle i C. H. Reed, A. S. Rookes. T. M Ryan I F. Ritchie, F. C. Spratt, W. Stone' J. A. Sargent, A. B. Shearer F E. Wilson, J. W. Welham, W. Ward" C T. Wyllie, C. Wilson, T. B. Williams, A. J. Wicks, D. R. Williams, L. Wil- I •liams, R. A. Wall, J. Naughton. j