LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mr R. H. Skipwith, well known in Wellington and Auckland sporting circles, has been appointed starter to the Feilding and Stratford Racing Clubs. A message from Christchurch states that Joseph Alexander Robinson, a book-keeper, 35 years of age and married, was found dead in the bath-room of the Club Hotel at Kaikoura yesterday morning. The llawke's Bay Tribune states : that the libel action' Lieutenant Grierson v. Napier Telegraph has been adjourned until November, plaintiff in the meantime to find security for costs on account of his having left New Zealand. The Wellington City Council last night adopted a report of the Housing ' Committee, recommending the erection of forty dwellings in concrete, brick, or other equally durable material on land owned by the corporation. The houses when erected are to be sold to approved I I applicants by ballot. ' An important conference, called by the Repatriation Board, will be heal at the office of the board at Wellington next Fridayi, when the housing question will be considered. This question has been given a good deal of : attention of late, and it is hoped that ! the conference will result in considerable progress being made. The Christchurch Hospital Board decided to appoint Miss ALuir lady superintendent (states a i'ress message). The proposal to re-appoint Miss Thurston, formerly lady superintendent who was granted leave of absence for war services and is filling the position of matron-in-chief of New Zealand hospitals in England, was defeated on the casting vote of the chairman. j The Canterbury Sheepowners' Union at its annual meeting yesterday carried the following resolution (reports a Christchurch Press message): That in the opinion of the sheepowners of Canterbury it is not in the best interests of the province that lucrative trade be built up in rabbit export and rabbit fur; that the national interests are best served by the extermination of the rabbit.

A largely-attended meeting of the Waikato Returned Soldiers' Association passed a motion approving of political action being taken by the association and approving th c preliminary platform submitted by the Auckland Provincial Committee (reports a Press message from Hamilton). The meeting considered that the constitution of the New Zealand Association should be amended to permit of such action.

In a licensing case heard in the Mao-- j istrate's Court at Wellington, the Junes reports, Acting-Sub-Inspector kmerson referred to the vexed question of boarder's privileges. This elicited the remark from Mr M. Myers who appeared for one of the defendants, that a man could be a bona fide lodger and entitled to all the privileges of a lodger, even if he did not usually reside on the premises. If a license permitted drunkenness and the person was a lodger, the licensee could not be convicted of an offence, for the hotel was the man's home and he was legally entitled to be there. A drunken man could, under certain circumstances, be actually taken in, and no offence would be disclosed, if to have refused him shelter would have been, an inhuman act. A fortnight ago the final adjustments between the T. L. Joll Co-op. Dairy Co. and the Joll Estate were made and the clearance duly eigned. Ine company's articles of association provided for the right of the Joll Estate to appoint a representative to the board of directors, and that position tor some time past was filled by Mr J- B- Murdoch. With the signing of the clearance of the Joll Estate trustees their special representation on the directorate disappeared, consequently the personnel of the directorate automatically decreased from nine to eight As the company's articles provided for a maximum of nine, the shareholders at their annual meeting yesterday unanimously decided to re-elect Mr Murdoch to a. seat on the board At a special meeting of shareholders held at the conclusion of their ordinary business it was resolved to make some necessary formal alterations in their articles, and also to repeal that clause which provided for the disqualification or a director if he ceased to supply milk to the company during the recognised milking season. A special general meeting of members of the Hawera Bowling Club was held on the green yesterday afternoon, there being about thirty present. The president (Mr J. Foy) stated that the object of the meeting was to consider tvvo notices of motion affecting finance. if fii St was moved. by Mr *f°y 'himself, that the subscription be increased from £2 to £2 10s. He said that the cost of labor and of running the club muehjiigher than it was, and that the fee proposed -would not be greater than that of most clubs. On the other hand, it was thought by some members that a6 people now had so many calls on them "it was inopportune to raise the sußscription and that the matter might stand over at any rate for a time. After some discussion this was put to the meeting and lost. Mr Kimbell then moved that an entrance fee of £1 b e charged all new members, this not to include bowlers joining from ether clubs or any returned soldiers, the latter only to be exempted during the coming season. The mover of the j motion pointed oat that the club pos- ' ' sessed^.a fine property, due in a large i measure to th c work' and sacrifice of j past years, and it seemed a fair thing ] that new members should contribute ! something on admission, especially as \ funds were needed for further improve- i ments. On a show of hands the motion was carried by a substantial majority. DON'T USE SOAP FOR WASHING CLOTHES. When Fairy Wonder Dry Soao is i used, no ordinary soap is required! j Fairy Wonder won't hurt clothes or ; hands, and it saves rubbing and boil- \ ing! Lighten thp work of washing day by using Fairy Wonder.—Advt,

"Does any honorable member mean to i ■ suggest that, in view of the fact that we have still £19,000,000 to raise for the completion of the war, we should go in for a huge scheme of borrowing for other purposes? That would be a rery disastrous thing for this country to do. We do not want to murder people by taxation after the war is over." Extract from a speech by Sir I Josenh Ward, Minister of Finance, in J Parliament on November 27, 1918; the same Sir Joseph Ward who, having resigned office, now proposes to borrow £25,000,000 in the next four year s for railways, roads, hydro-electric schemes, school buildings, workers' homes, and civilian land settlement. — Taranaki Herald. Mr O'Callaghan, in forwarding his annual report to the Joll Co. yesterday, regretted that his intended absence from the Dominion next year necessitated severing his connection with the company as auditor. He added that the company's secretary had always been lip to date with his work, and presented his books and accounts in first-class order. He congratulated the company on the possession of a secretary of Mr Lees' capabilities, and had no hesitation in saying that the company could not have that position more satisfactorily filled. "Oh, .look at that funny fat man, shrieked a number of school children as they opened out the quarter-deck of the New Zealand on Monday, the Dominion reports. The sight was sufficiently ludicrous to make adults shake with laughter. As it happens, it was not a man at all, but the puffed-out goggle-eyed semblance of one, made by filling a complete diver's dre^s \ ith air. The light hand was tied at the salute, whilst the dropsical left arm waggled about aimlessly in the breeze, sometimes in a manner w> human that some of the smaller children drew away | from the "pneumatic diver" as theyj scampered past the apparition. The old i naval joke did honest work throughout the afternoon. Definite information as to the project for the establishment of new wire netting works on a very large scale in Australia is contained in a cable mesgage received from Mr G. D. Delprat, ' general manager of the Broken Hill Company, now on a visit to Great Britain (reports a Melbourne message to the Sydney Morning Herald). Mr Delprat states that an English firm 1 proposes to establish works at Newcastle to supply the Australian market. A good deal or comment has been made among members of the local police; and detective forces over the escape of a person suspected of forgery almost , immediately after his arrest at Eketa- ! huna on Wednesday, says the Welling- ', ion Post. "After hours spent in mak-, ing enquiries we established the fact that the mar: had left Wellington, presumably for Napier in a hired cai\" feaid an officer to a Post reporter. "We> wired up the line, and the man was caught. However, while he was being questioned the suspect bolted and disappeared. It is only a few months since a man charged with breaking and entering broke away in somewhat the same manner at Taumiarunui while beI in" brought to Wellington, and still later a man who had too answer several ckarges of false pretences got away ■while being escorted from Auckland to Feilding."