LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 September 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There' are now about 1,000,000 trout ova and fry in the government hatchery at Fairy Springs.. Ro.torua. The ova thisj year has proved exceptionally strong" and fertile. It is intended to send 500,000 fry to Auckland, 100,000 to Opotiki, 100,000 to Waimarino, 126,000 to the order of the Tourist 'Department, and 20,000 to Tauranga.

Taumarunui business men do not like the idea of the diversion of the main highway from the Main Trunk route to the west coast route, for, they hold, the National Park and Taupo will become. New Zealand's playgrounds. The Chamber of Commerce has decided to invite representatives of all bodies interested to attend a conference at Taumarunui on the 15th inst.. and when the invitation was received by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce recently members decided that the local chamber should be represented by any or as many members as should be at Taumarunui at ilte time.

"This matter is getting too serious," , said the.chairman. Mr. S. A. Staples,' when, a letter came before the Waimairi County! Council from a firm of solicitors with reference to the question of remitting rates on the" property on which is situated the home conducted by the Sisters of Nazareth, stating that the property was exempt, as it came within the exemptions allowed by the Rating Act. The chairman said that there were so many such institutions now established in the county that a large amount in rates was' being lost yearly. Mr. l Cross: "We must have lost £100 on the boys' high school.' It jwas decided to make the mailer the subject of a remit to be sent for consideration by the New Zealand Counties Association. j One trial .will convince you that Nelson Moate's Teas are unequalled for flavour and quality. Ask for NelsonMoate'^ Willow Pattern and Royal blends. Proprietors of .IStehttQS. Cocoa and Nelmoa Coffee. m.w.f\ j

The mails which ]elt Wellington on August 2, per the Tahiti, via Frisco, arrived in London on September 9.

London advices state that mails for New Zealand were dispatched \ia Panama on August 31 by the Waimana, and on September 8 by the Tainui.

Owing to the keen interest bein^ shown hy the iiuwen. re..tueius in tne war trophies' exhibiuon, tiu> committee Jiavo approaciied the oinc-er m cliargo with a \ lew lv obtaining an extension or time, and he has j*roinihed to consider it providing the hail can be secured.

While describing the different methods used in turning an aeroplane, .Mr. Latham, during his lecture last evening, told the story of a novice who got into difficulties, resulting in tho machine doing what was known as a Hat •_>*"'. On his descent the airman declared that the machine revolved so quickly that he could read the number Punted on the' tail, although he was lacing the propeller all the time.

Speaking to a Southland Times reporter Mr. G. A. Green, of the New Zealand Association of Nurserymen «a:d that demand for all classes of nursery stock, except apple trees, had been the best since the war. "Already interest in afforestation is taking active shape, he added, "and in Canterbury, poison, and several other districts thero have been largo plantings of pinus in-a-gniß, spruce, gums, macrocarpa and a row other species."

lestcrdaly, 420 children from the Uliangai Normanby, Whakamara, Matapu Mangatoki and Manaia schools ana the Manaia Convent visited the war trophies' exhibition, and gave the instructors a very busy time. Tea was .i™n l. ! n th,° -**a-n hali- Altogether HoO children have, up to the present, visited the exhibition, and the officers in charge havo expressed their great appreciation of tho excellent behaviour ol tho country children.

The weekly meeting of the Haw.n in the Courthouse J_n>rar v on Wednesday evening last. The evening was devoted to f literary discussion fir S A. Luiforth presiding. Three papers were read-By Mrs Page on "Brown- ,•»«'» w-ork "Tho Ring and the Book*' • iieal%^ lev °,V Wh * We Should ttoad PS6Tty ; and By Mr H Julii* on "Bernard Shaw." ?The papers we* S n. *L sy. _he_ la!" g.e- Spring preUnt. inn, wju, the first literary evening held by the society, and. jlJtiging by the ntorgtmanifeated. ft proved itsllf to very-popurar w fHi t he members An enthusiastic meeting of West Colters W as held on Thursday evening «t the Excelsior Tea Rooms, and those Piesent unanimously decided to form a branch of the West Coast AssociaSon _W™ C?T. terJ r? slde in aro .nd liauera. It is the intention of the association to hold monthly gatherings montbf^H^ ihG »" Hon!" il 01? a p!cn.c' lt ™s motioned that recently New Plymouth West Coasters formed an ass^/tion whicli now boasts of a member..hip veil over a hundred. The me. tinlast evening was adjourned tiil Thurs" day next, when a much larger attendance will be assured and the elect on of officers undertaken. Describing the difficulties of takinc photographs from the air, Mr. Latham described last night his first experience in this work. He was sent up to take photos of an aeiodrome situated dose to the seashore. He flew over the ground sighted his object, and took the photographs. On . these being developed he discovered that he had missed his target, and had taken several, fine snaps of the sea instead" this-error being caused by the planp not being absolutely level P