LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 September 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At a. meeting of the directors of the Eltham Dairy Company on Tuesday, it was decided to place half of the company's, output with the N.Z. Co-op. Marketing Association and the other half with Messrs Lonsdale.—Argus.

The postmaster, Hawera, advises that as from Monday next, September 19^ mails for Inaha and all places on the route to Opunake, including Auroa, will close at 12.30 instead of noon as hitherto. This extra time will no doubt be appreciated By all who have business transactions with these places.

Efforts are being made in institute university extension lectures in New Plymouth, a request on these lines .having been made to the council oi the Victoria. College (Wellington) by the New Plymouth High School Board of Governors. The proposal was endorsed by the Taranaki Education Board at yesterday's meeting.

It will have been seen by notice in the Star that a girls' hostel has been opened in the premises, Nolantown, formerly used as St. Mary's Boarding School. There is excellent accommodation and t nice grounds, with tennis court. The locality is admirably suited for its purpose. The hostel will open to-morrow (Friday), and all information may be secured from Mr G. A. Burgess, South road.

In discussing the award filed by the Arbitration Court' in respect to shearers and shed hands, Mr. W. Cecil Prime, who represented the' Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay sheejgO. where at the hearing, said it had'been a great disappointment to,the farmers of the Hanke's 'Bay district, because, as he had pointed out to the Court, it would be absolutely impossible for a great many to pay even these reduced rates. Their present income would not allow them to do it. The position was that a great many sheep farmers are indebted tp mercantile firms, and the latter are very chary about advancing any more at the present time, except in case of absolute necessity. When it comes to shearing, said Mr. Prime, if a farmer names a nominal sum the mercantile firms might be induced to see him through, but. when they see the high rates fixed by the Court the firms will declare them to be too high, and request the farmer to make other arrangements. A great many farmers will have to carry out their expressed intention to do their own shearing, which will result in less work for shearers and more unemployment. .

A notice of interest to members ot the Hawera Citizens' Band' appears on | .our front page.;:.,. i f v-■"-.- "*r "7 .% ";;." St. Mary's Church School will reopen on Tuesday, September 20. In order to meet parents and hew pupils, the lady .principal:will be at the school on Monday, -September 19, from two to "four o'clock. . DRY. COARSE, BRITTLE HATR. H your hair is dry, coarse and brittle, or is falling out, "or you are. troubled with dandruff, go to your chemist or hairdresser/; get. a 3/6 'bottle of Donnelly's Hair Restorer /No. 1 for dry hair), apply daily as IKreC-ed, and you will be surprised how soft and flossy lit will make your hair. Stops the hair [falling and cures all dandruff. Don- | nelly's Hair Restorer (No. 2 for oily i hair) makes oily, greaay hair fluffy and easy to,dress.—Advt. w_: Be on,guard against Influenza. Take "NAZOL." the ready-for-nse and money-saving remedy. 60 doses la 6d. — Advt'.

A proposal is afoot to secure 300 acres of Mr. W. H. Field's fond at Waikanae, near the sea coast, for the purposes-, of national golf links. Mr. Field has offered tho land at a low figure. The summer vacation ior schools in i Taranaki will be from Friday, Decern-j her 16, to Wednesday, February 1. The date lor resumption had previously been fixed as January 31, but at yesterday's meeting the Education Board decided to extend the holiday by ono day, in view of tho inconvenience which would be caused in the administration if teachers had to take up duties on the last day of the month. On Sunday night last wilful damage was done by a party of irresponsibleoperating in Morrissey and Disraeli .streets and South road. It was found that three sets of guards round trees in the first mentioned street had been removed and the warning to motorists on the South road near the main school had.been broken oft* at the .base; also two gates in front of residences had been taken off their hinges. Investigations aro being made by the police and the Borough Council. At tho war trophies' exhibition the other evening a practical joker managed to successfully amuse some of the visitors. A well-known member of the local R.S.A. had hung his overcoat up inside the nail., and on returning later found that visitors had been regarding it as one of the collection of trophies. A ticket attached to it,read: "Hun ovfrcoat picked up on the So^mme." The same evening it was "found that a bundle of mm gas tying in a corner had been labelled "Pungas from Ploegstreet Wood." Ono of the visitors was heard to remark: Well, they are something like the New Zealand pungas after all."

I In the Trinity College practical musical examinations the successful candidates in pianoforte playing at 1 Kaponga were as follows": Higher cer- • tificate, higher local—Mary Guy 71 . (Mrs McCarty). Senior (honours) — Grace Benton 82 (Mrs McCarty). Inj termediato —Annie Noonnn 74 (Mrs I McCarty), Arline Waugh 63 (Miss Bennie). Junior (honours) —Olive Syme 80, : Myrtle IJyans 77, Rhoda Henry 65, Evelyn Kehely 69 (Miss Berime), Caroline Knapton 70 (Mrs McCarty). Prei paratory (honours)—-Mabel Severne 83. j Phyllis Henry 82. Doris Hislop 81, May Fawcett- 80 (Miss Bonnie). Preparatory—Gladys Aroa 71 (Mrs McCarty). i Tho following paragraph from a let- ' ter addressed'-to Mr. C. E. Major, formerly Mayor of Hawera and AI.P. for I'atea, by the late Hon. R. McNab, and subsequently sent to the town clerk, was read on the site of the old redoubt by the Mayor (Mr. E. Dixon) yesterday: "By section 21 of the Reserves and Other Lands Sale Disposal 'and Enabling' and Public Bodies Em- ! powering Act, 1901, the site of the ref doubt was vested in %he corporation of the borough of Hawera for an estate in fee simple in trust without power of sale or lease for the purpose of preserving the fortifications at present standing thereon as an historic monument ; and, subject to such purposes, to be available as a recreation ground for the general public upon such terms as the Borough Council of HaI wera by regulation from time to time j provides, provided that no charge shall ,be made for admission thereto.?' This paragraph referred to the three acres on which the Turuturu-Mokai redoubt I was situated, and later the Borough j Council obtained possession of the 14 . acres on which the old Maori pa stood