LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

As an economy measure the Clifton County Council decided at yesterday's meeting to reduce the wages of its employees 2s per day all round as from June 1. —News.

Foot-warmers are to be installed on the mail trains in Taranaki. The Stratford! correspondent of the News writes that Mr JR. Masters, M.P., has received a letter from the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, acting-Minister of Railwaysj stating that it is proposed to bring foot-warmers into use on the New Ply-mouth-Wellington trains early next week. /

Severe injuries were sustained by a boy named Rowe, son of Mr W. Rowe, of .Bell Block, yesterday, while cycling to school, as the result of coming into collision with a motor car driven by Mr C. Olliver, an employee of Newton King, Ltd. (says the News). The scene of the accident was the corner of the Parati road, near the Bell Block railway station, where the road is narrow, while high trees shut out the view of the by-road, on which Rowe was travelling. The accident resulted in the boy sustaining a wound on the front of the right knee, a fracture of the femur, and injuries to the scalp. He was conveyed to the hospital, and last night his condition was reported to be satisfactory. Something approaching a record for longevity has been established by Mr William White, an inmate of". the Wellington Home for the Aged and Needy who on June 18 will1 celebrate his 106 th birthday, he having been born on the day of the battle of Waterloo, This interesting fact was brought to light at Tuesday's sitting of the Host pitals Commission, when an official of the home mentioned t.hst one <jf the inmates (Mr. White) had been in the institution for' ten years. Mr White who js still in possession of all his faculties is troubled with rheumatism 111 ii v cg ' ""* otherwise is.fit and well. About two years ago he' expressed a keen desire to go to the West Coast and earn his own living in the' coal mines—he considered he was capable of the work—but, the home authorities persuaded the old gentleman not to make the trip. Mr. White is one of seven sons of an English stonemason, who during his life was employed on the work of putting in the foundations of the present House or Parliament in London.—Dominion.. Much interest has been created in the mission services to be opened to-morrow by the Rev Harold. T. Peat/- at the Hawera Methodist Church,- at 11 a .m and 7 p.m. Special solos will be rendered at each, service. Sankey's hymns : will be used at the week-day services, j ironi Monday to Thursday at 7 30 p m A meeting for men only will be held in the Grand Theatre at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dr. W. M. Thomson in the chair. The Presbyterian Men's Bible Uass and various' local lodges and unions will attend. Mr. Harold Ackroyd and a male quartette will sing, and the Salvation Army Band has kindly promised to-assist in the service Mr. .Teat has a strong personality and though young, has seen much of life. '