LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

A London cable states that the issue of the Gallipoli star has finally been approved. The Supreme Court has. on the motion of Messrs ODea and Bayley, granted probate of the will of William Leonard Holdstock, late of Hawera*, who died recently in France, to tlie executrix named in the will. There are six females, mostly married, employed in Southland dairy factories. They receive the same scale of wages as those paid to males _ commencing with £2 os per week, which includes a war bonus of 10 per cent. They are all members of the Dairy Factory Assistants' Union. Tho Friendly Societies played off another round of. the euchre tournament ■ last night, when the Huias beat the ' Foresters. Fire Brigade won from the Oddfellows, and the Hibernians scored a win from the Railway.

During Friday night 14 degrees of frost were registered in Wellington, and t since 1868 no such record has been -y taken (reports the Post). Th© read- tl ing was over a degree lower than has s been experienced for some time. The _ previous occasion On which Wellington a had 13 degree, of frost was on August t 1, 1868. It may be mentioned that in i 1868 there wore lower temperatures given, but a critical examination of the conditions has inclined the Dominion < Meteorlogist to disregard the reading. J Mr Bates believes that Friday night 1 was the coldest that has ever been 1 experienced in Wellington. j ] "I am applying for exemption be-1 cause I-do not believe in military ser-' vice," announced George Ernest tQuar- ] | termain, an "International Socialist," when he appeared before the Second. < j Canterbury Military Service Board last 1 week ji(says the Christchurch Press). ' "Well, the country does," replied the < chairman, Mr H. W. Bishop, "and you are only an individual against the country. You have no sufficient grounds of appeal." Appellant retorted that he thought his status as a I Socialist would exempt him, but his contention was coldly looked upon, and ' bis appeal was dismissed. * j ' There was a singular incident during ' an inquest at the London Hospital. • An inquiry was, being held on a young woman who was killed while playing in a Hackney cap factory, where she was employed. She had tried to put some sticky stuff on the face of a youth named Alfred Cohen, who waved a screwdriver about to ward her off. : The steel portion flew off the handle and penetrated the girl's foreheal. The screwdriver was handed to the coroner, and after examining it he commenced , to shake it. The steel portion again flew off, and struck a doctor in 'the Court, but fortunately without any ill-effect. j Speaking "at Hamilton, at a Red Cross conference on Thursday, Mr Geo. McLeod (local treasurer) said undoubtedly there were many people in. the community, especially farmers, who did not realise their responsibilities in regard to giving (reports the Auckland Star). These men must be made to understand that they were not "doing their bit." Very often the "widow's mite" meant a bigger sacrifice than the £5 or £10 of the more opulent man. They must realise that many of the townspeople were much worse off owing to the war, while 80 per cent of the farmers were much better off. The last man on the farm, too, was exempt-: ed from active service, and therefore farmers should give largely to patriotic purposes. Those with the money must give liberally, not in fives, but in hundreds of pounds. , ' A good story is told of a dog, which illustrates the faithfulness of this animal, and incidentally the slowness of the New Zealand trains (says the Patea Press). The owner of the animal a few j • days ago happened .to be journeying by , train from Patea to Waverley, and no- ' ■ ticed the dog on the platform as the train steamed out of the station. I When he reached Waverley and was walking from the station to the town ! he was amazed to find the dog by his ! ". side. Enquiries from passengers on the train elicited the fact that the dog , had followed the train to Whenuakura, i w-here it had -overtaken it. It then . jumped up into an open truck, and rode in this to Waverley, getting off ; when it saw its master leave the train. | The story has the merit of being abso- j lutely true. 1 The Advocate's Halcombe correspondent says: In common with other parts of New Zealand, we have been experiencing much cold during the last week, ' and no one, not even that mythical person, the oldest inhabitant, ever re- * members such bitter weather. We j have had heavier falls of snow than j those w-e had on Sunday and Monday ; nights, but they have not been accompanied with such marrow-freezing' winds. The snowfalls were not very j heavy, and there was no snow-balling to ' speak of. Stock suffered severely, es- | pecially where there is no shelter and little or no fodder. We have had sev- ! eral "good" winters, and grass has j been more or less plentiful, the result' being that many small holders of stock have neglected to make provision for the inevitable "rainy day." This winter they are up against it properly, and they will be lucky if they get • through without loss; in fact, they will , be luckier than they deserve. Organising ability was worth paying , for, said Professor Hunter in an ad- j ; dress in Wellington on Thursday on ' "Economic Reorganisation," but this' 1 factor did not excuse the enormous ecoi nomic waste of the present system , Unemployment and poverty were phases \ of the problem. The common idea was . that if a man was out of work the 1 fault was his own. The statistics showed very clearly that this was not the case. Unemployment was governed by I definite f actors j- such as over-produc-tion, and it had its seasonal and peri- ' odical variations. Its cost to the comI munity was a very serious matter, and I since unemployment meant loss of "proI duction and a social charge for the ■ maintenance of idle hands, an indus- ' trial system that produced unemployment clearly was not efficient from a social standpoint, since unemployment and the resultant poverty were serious social evils. After quoting statistics regarding the prevalence of poverty and pauperism and the unequal distribution of wealth, the lecturer said that the social reformer could not promise freedom from labor. The nation must work to live. But the work and the products of the work could be more equally distributed than they were at the present time. Boots! Boots! Now is the time to fit yourself out in Boots or Shoes, before the rise in prices appear. Come to the H.B. Hawera real sale. Women's boots, 25/-; women's lace or strap shoes, 19/6; boys' boots, 17/6; women's glace slippers, 12/6; men's farm shooters; men's Sunday boots, 28/6; women's black velvet shoes, 7/6; women's satin slippers, 5/6. All shades. Come and bring the family to the real sale at Hawera. —Advt. ■ Here is a war-time offer. Empty Radium polish tins of all sizes—boot, floor and metal varieties —are worth 6d per doz. Collect all you can and take them to your grocer. He will pay you cash.' We need them -badly."Axlvt Sir J. Madden. K.C.M.G., etc., laeu-tenant-Governcr and Chief Justice of Victoria, when delivering judgment in a case in which an inferior substitute had j been pushed as "just as good" as the genuine Sander Eucalypti Extract, said.: "Whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, it is not permissible to imitate any of its features." and he prohibited further substitution. When using a medicine it is "good finality" that you want, and Sander's Extract is always beneficial. A trial will at once convince you that there is no "just as good," because Sander's Extract is the only eucalpytus preparation prepared _ exclusively from the leaves; it is so. eially refined by Sander's procc-sses. and contains no harmFul by-products. If vow use Sander';1) Extract you will have good anr! lasting 'ifrects —Advt. Only th-. best is f_oo<_ enough For your family. Use "Hudson's Balloon RrancV the absolutely pure Bnlriu*' j Pov.-dAr. —Advt. 'Kh.umo is sold by all chemists and ■tor**--., at 2/6 and 4/6.—Advt.

Yesterday the Hawera Acclimatisa-- l .ion. Society's officials ran off 1500 reading trout from Mr C. Goodson's lam and liberated the. fish in the district itreams. They were in splendid conlition. Mr Goodson's dam is a good isset to the society, who appreciate "he kindness of the owner in allowing t to use the dam for holding the fry. ; . A certain British soldier's letter, ac- "* -wording to Punch, runs thus:—"l am ' sorry I cannot tell you where 1 am 1 because I am not allowed to say. Bat ( [ venture to state that I am not where ' I was, but where I was before I left 1 here to go where I had just come "I from." j 1 A very triumphant message came at { the week-end to the Wellington Red ] Cross copper trail workers from Auck- ( land, announcing that the latter had advanced their line to Taumarunui, a distance of 29 miles in the week (says ' the Pest). AVellington had, in- the same \ time, advanced four miles, and now has reached Otaki —a total of 46 miles, compared with Auckland, which has : accomplished 175 miles. At the same time, within a fortnight, Auckland has contributed £27,000 for the Red Jersey, so that the advance for the Red ] Cross is the more surprising and creditable. Speaking at a conference at Auckland with, the Minister of Education, Mrs Baume pointed out that the definition "married . assistant" laid down by the Act created an anomaly and resulted in widows being harshly treated. She instanced the fact that married women with husbands supporting them and children actually earning their own liv- . ing received this extra allowance, while in the case of widows who 'had with difficulty raised families the allowance automatically ceased when their children reached the age of 14 years—a j time when greater demands were ; made on their salaries for the upkeep and further education of their offspring. Mr Hanan said that it would be necessary to alter the schedule to the Act to overcome the disability complained of, and he promised to note the matter for consideration when amendments to the Education Act were under review. Under the Education Act"an additional salaa-y of £20 per anmfm is* paid in the case of every married assistant, except where a husband or wife of such assistant is (a) a head or sole teacher, in which case no such addition is made, or (b) an assistant, in which case such addition is made only to the salary of the husband. The expression "married assistant" includes an assistant' who is a widow or widower having' one or more children under the age of 14 ! yesurs. I A number of local shipping men and others interested in marine insurance (says the Christchurch Press) attended a demonstration recently of an invention for the refloating of sunken vessels. The process adopted by the inventor, Mr H. McGloin, of Spreydon, is that of compressed air, and the essential point in which his apparatus differs from methods previously in use is in the provision of safety valves, which permit of the escape of the requisite amount of air as the sunken vessel reaches the top. Methods previousj ly in use have been successful in raisJ ing vessels, but as soon as the vessel i got to the top the force of the escap- | ing compressed air burst the vessel apart. Mr McGloin's scheme provides . for huge envelopes of canvas lined with I gutta percha, or other similar material, I being available on board ships. Each j envelope is fitted with a tube through which air can be pumped when the 1 vessel has sunk, and also with safety, valves to allow of the gradual escape of the air as the vessel rises to the top. I For Saturday's demonstration a roughly constructed vessel, made from kero- I , sene tins having a total length of about ! i 3ft by a width of Ift, was used. For • j the first test about 501b of lead were . put in the hold, together with the air j envelope, and the. vessel was sunk in i ari iron tank. In the second test the ; lead was. nailed .to the keel, and this i time the vessel came up on an even i keel. The experts who saw the tests were of opinion that the method adopti ed byMr McGloin possesses the germ i of an idea which may be possible of api plication to vessels sunk in harbors or i in comparatively shallow waters. I