LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 May 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Greymoufch wharves are stacked witli timber, 3.250,000 superficial feet being ready for shipping. "Within a radius of five miles of Matamata there are no fewer than 15,000 cows. They prove a veritable gold mine to the district, 5 ' observed a Matamata farmer to a representative of the Waikat© Times, A point of interest to husbands whose wives run up big bills was emphasised by Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at a recent sitting of the Christchurc3i Magistrate's Court. He said that the law clearly laid it down that where a husband made a wife a, regular and adequate allowance she must not use his credit to obtain goods, and if she did tradesmen could not recover from the husband. "There will be plenty of wheat next year/ so a Rangitikei delegate assured the executive of the Wellington Provincial Farmers' Union at its recent meeting. He added that a laTge number of Rangitikei growers'were putting in wheat this year, and.as a similar condition of affairs .would be existing in .other parts of' the Dominion the wheat yield next year should be ample. A member of a firm of land agents in Whakatane recently received a letter from Maflborough, stating that feed for stock was dreadfully scarce there. TJiie writer of the letter had seen lambs sold for 6d each, and on one other occasion heard a sheepman offer a farmer 300 cull ewes if he liked to drive them away. The alterations and additions at the local post and telegraph- office are rapidly nearing completion. However, during the alteration of the public office, it has been found 'necessary to close the front door temporarily. Entrance for the public, for. postal, telegraphy and money order bus:ness will be by the'side door for some days. When this portion is completed the people will at once realise the benefit of the extra room for the public and for the staff, and the work at the office will be very much expedited. At the meeting of the Timsfru Harbour Board tFe statement was made that the sum of £115,000 had been raised in the Empire to assist the dependents of those of the Royal Navy who had lost their lives in the battle of Jutland/ Of that amount New Zea* land had contributed £89,000,- and by way of comparison it was pointed out that Canada had sent forward £49. The opinion was expressed that New Zealand had overdone subscription in many cases. The Foxton Herald states that a kindly act-was perfomed by several ladies of Himitanei and Oroua Downs recently. It was decided to purchase an invalid chair for an old settler itn that Ideality who has been bedridden for several months. A ready and generous veponse was made to the appeal, and the gft unostentatiously made. The old gentleman's appreciation of the gift and the kindness which prompted it was beyond words. These are the little acts which spell Christian charjty. This i,g vouched for by the Customs officials in Wellington: "But are you a British-born subject ?" demanded" the passport officer, "My mother was British—," began the'man. "Ye?, yes." "She married a Frenchman." "Yes " "In Italy." "Yes, but where were you born?" "I was born on a Spanish ship whilst she was lying at anchor.in the' Cape of Good Hone, but my parents! died at Brazil when I was only four I years old, and, I was adopted "by a Chinaman, who took me to Russia—" Stop!" exclaimed the official, "you're a blooming League of Nations." A startling occurrence at Newtown, Wellington, has led to the question whether cadets should be permitted to take their rifles home with them or; should have access to ammunition. At the suburb mentioned a cadet, experi- I menting with his rifle, put a cartridge into it and accidentally discharged it. The bullet went through the walls of the house and into another, penetrating altogether nine partitions or doors. It lodged at last in the kitchen of a neighbouring house, at a point where only a moment before a lady with a baby in her arms had been standing. I A party consisting of Mr T. B. Williams, Mayor of Wa'nganui, Mr Webb Jones, editor of the Wanganui Herald, Mr Inkster. and Mr Staveley, borough engineer, had a miraculous escape the other night. They were motoring to Kanoi to join the Minister for Public j VSorks and representatives of local; bodies in an inspection of the site of the proposed hydro-electric dam. When ! about five miles from Karioi the car axle broke while the car was going up a hill. The car tipned on one side and' hung m the balance for a few seconds and then righted itself with the forepart hanging over a declivity. The accident occurred at eight o'clock in the evening, and the ben-ghted travellers) sought accommodation from the nearest ' settler. . j

During March last there were 65 men employed at the we«t end of the Strat-ford-Main Trunk railway and 60 at. the east cad. During the month of April, 59 men were placed in employment by the Ghuznee street bureau (Wellington) of the Labour Department. In all some 300 applications for work were made by men in the period mentioned. As vi some cases more than one application was made by the same man, the probabilities are that the number of anniicants was about 200

. The total from Taranaki durln\£ otaUed £4.564,055. of which £2,1 worth went thi-ough New Ply £403,615 through Waitara. For the if' ¥'^ B '-.^and for the year ended 863 ' 1919 '»the fota^ Vas £3,025 ~

An interesting return relative to trafb? tL w N°- l h^ been Prepared by the TVanganm County Couacil A \IL % £° nth the hours of eyefi " "fo}} Pf 1 sh™s motor c^cies, .4d4-7 motor cars 479 horso vehicles, 7627 sheep and 87Oeatt4 paSed a given point, Ob the scale of charges m vogue at Eltham this traffic would year' 11 toll^a*e Avenue of £4338 » anyr one Td ha eyH°ere3"7! Or-CarS MUed J"