LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 26 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Leonard O.'JSTeil was fined £30. for watering milk 15 per cent., at Gisborne- yesterday. . , Milton William Barlow was arrested at Greyinouth ■■yesterday, charged witk stealing a carpet valued £7, the property of T. Lamas'bnj Stratford. Accused was remanded to appear at Stratford on July 28. —Press Assn. At five o'clock t last evening His Majesty's Theatre, the oldest entertainment house in Gisborhe, was totally destroyed by fire. The building was insured'for £2500 in the Guardian Office and for^ £500 in the United Office.— Press Assn.

I A married couple at Auckland were separated last week for the thirteenth, time. 'The wife said the husband drank too much and too often. In the same city John Hayes, aged 47, made his sixtieth appeaarnce. He was charged with begging alms. The Patea District War Memorial Committee are erecting^ a memorial gateway to the Patea Domain at a cost of - £400, the work being in the hands of Messrs Jones BiW, of Hawera. This is to be a district memorial to the men of Alton, Hurlevville, Manutahi, Kakaramea, and Whenuakura who were killed in action or died on service.

A great sale of drapery goods from warehouse at George and Doughty's, Wellington, was notified in the Star last week, and still continues. The firm notified that they were offering all lines at 331-3 to 50 per cent, below wholesale prices. Special arrangements are made to deal with, orders from country customers. <

j wnoiesaie prices, s&peciai arrangements - are made to deal with, orders from V country customers. < i A very pleasant evening was spent, t in St. Andrew's schoolroom. Waver ley, I t ' last Thursday, when the managers of I . the church and the members of the! , G.W.M.W. tendered a kitchen evening} b ; to Mr. J. R. Morrison and his brideV elect (Miss Stevenson), . writes our s Waverley correspondent. The young couple were the recipients of many useful presents. Musical items " were i rendered by Misses Hunter and. Roberti son, and Mr. Patton. Everyone- present i was to carry a badge .■ (representing a * book, and a competition "was held to 'find the names, Miss E. Wall being.the f winner. During the evening the Rev. ,' Mclvor and Mrs. Matheson welcomed l Miss Stevenson to the town and church. (Miss Stevenson only arrived from Birmingham about ten days ago). A boun--5 tiful supper was supplied by the ladies. j The meeting broke ur> with the singing > of "Auld Lang Syne" and three hearty '. cheers for the young couple. BOILS AND PIMPLES. : j Boils and pimp'es are nature's effort • to throw off poisons which have formed ;in the blood. Take a, course of Cham- . berlain's Tablets to thoroughly eradicate the poisons from the "system. ' Chamberlain's Tablets purify the blood ■ and refresh the system by cleansing the ■ stomach, liver., and bowels. Take . Chamberlain's Tablets at regular inter- j vals and yon will keep yourself free' from boils and. pimples. Sold every- j where. —Advt * J Barracloueh's Magic Nervine Stops .Toothache. Is 6d.—Advt. j Carry it in your pocket. ' "NazoF' protects from colds, coughs and sore' throats. Penetrating, pleasant, safe. • and convenient. 1/6 buys 60 do-es — Advt.

The gate at the Springbok-Wair^ rapa match in Masterton was over £800. _, ■ . Music lovers will be. interested to' knows that Mr. Maughan Barnett, Auckland City Organist will give an : organ ■ recital at the' Presbyterian Church, Hawera, on Tuesday next. i Mr E. Dixon, M-P., was in communication with the Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education), who has promised to come to Hawera for the presentation of prizes won in the recent competitions held under the auspices of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs movement. It, is expected that the Minister will also officially open the new Technical High School, which is almost completed. Both functions will probably take place about the middle of August, and are expected to arouse considerable interest in the district. i Mr. R B. D. Eyre, Collector of Customs at New Plymouth, received advice yesterday morning to the effect that some wreckage had been washed ashore during the night in the vicinity •of Omata. The wreckage, which consists mostly of Oregon, is some 30ft. or 40ff. long and 16ft. wideband it is thought has formed the roof of the deckhouse of a schooner. There is, however,' nothing to indicate what ship the wreckage might have belonged to. — News. | Events at the Tahora railhead of the Stratford-Okahukura Main -Trunk railway point to the complete cessation of construction work at an early date. Little progress appears to have been made during the past few months, and many of the workers have gone further afield.. Huts and material have \ been transferred to the relief works I at Mount Humphries, on the Whanga- ! momona-Wanganui river road. The '. three carpenters left at Tahora 'com- '' mence work on the station building this week, but as the dimensions of this structure are only 24ft by 12ft if will not take long. On Saturday the Department's timekeeper, Mr Johnson,, left for Te Roti, where he will be employed on the relief works in connection with the Opunake railway.—Post. The chairman (Mr. F. Ranford), in ' moving the adoption of the report and t balance-sheet ;at the annual meeting i of the Stratford Farmers' Co-operative Association, said tjjat 'the past season had been a bad one for the dairy farmer so far as production was concerned, owing, in the first place, to the very wet spring, followed at the other end of the season by an exceptionally dry autumn. However, despite the climatic set-backs, there had been a successful year's operations. Never before in the history of the company had the pay-out been so high; 2s per lb of butter-fat had been paid out for both butter and cheese throughout the year, and it was not known what , the final payment' would bring it up to. It was anticipated, despite the uncertainty of that butter would realise at least 2s 7d per lb. The turnover had increased from £141,000 to £165,000, a total gain- of £24,000. ■ . On the 19th inst. an appeal was : made by the deputy-Mayor of Wanganui for ratepayers to. pay promptly an instalment of half their rates in order to facilitate the carrying on "of the borough's business. The appeal met 1 with a ready response by a portion of the ratepayers, for the following day rates to the extent of £969 were received, the next day £708 were paid. The following day the amount had ; dropped to £336, making a total of £2013 for the three days. From the time the demands were" sent out till Saturday last rates aggregating £11,212 have been paid, butas good as this response has been, the money received is a long way short of that required, namely, £24,000, half of the borough's total rates. There is still a week to go before the end of July, the time when the £24,000 should be received, and £13,000 have to be paid in that period. rW _^ The death occurred at Wellington i on July 15 of Mr Frederick Hiliier Sutl I ton, at the age of 63 years. Mr fcmttin o was formerly a well_j£now n resident of Masterton. Mr F. W. Sutton, of Hawera, is one of the sons. The. passing of the deceased gentleman recalls the remarkable career of his father, Mr William Richard Sutton, who clied in 1900. Mr W. R. > Sutton in the seventies laid the foundations in London of a gigantic carrying business. He devised a system of carrying goods from one end of the United Kingdom to the other expeditiously and at a much cheaper rate than either the Post Office or the railway companies couJcl do the work. Mr button establish*?? two.great receiving depots in L o nd o n —one in the city and one in the W.est End—and 600 branches in the principal centres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The railway companies at the time endeavoured to block the scheme, but they found that it provided the trader •with cheaper and easier transit for goods than they themselves could offer. Mr Sutton w o uia contract with any shopkeeper or manufacturer to carry a certain weight of good's per day or ocr week at a rate generally 25 or 30 per cent, lower than the railway companies' charges for similar conveyance. He underfoot that if the goods or packages were delivered at depots by a certain; hour every afternoon they should go w:tn the same night's goods trains from the various London termini to the principal provincial towns, or vice versa, and be delivered as soon as,, if n o t s o oner, than the railway companies Could deliver them. A small army of men sorted the. parcels, which were thrust into large "Manchester" or "Birmingham" or "Glasgow" crates. Directly a crate was full it was removedl and an empty one ]jut in its place. The i'uu I crate was fastened up and taken to , one of the great railway stations. I Some of the crates contained as many I as a hundred parcels, which, had they been consigned singly, would in the aggregate have cost perhaps 20 or 30 times as much as if sent in bulk. The crates were met at their destination by carriers' vans, taken to the local depot and distributed to the traders. Mr button's estate was over £2,000,000J the bulk of his fortune being utilised in the foundation of model houses called "The Sutton Model Dwellings" —in London and populous provincial centres, to be let at reasonable rent. The Methodist Church anniversary ! social will be held to-night in the Wesley Hall at 7.45 o'clock Vocal and instrumental music and refreshments provided. The Rev L B Neale, of Stratford, will speak on "The responsibility of our inheritance." . -_