LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

—, t ■■ — . The writ for the Auckland East election was issued on Friday. Polling will take place on November 2. It is estimated that when the Eltham and other factories pay out,next month there will be about £60,000 put into circulation in this district (says the Argus). The retail price of butter was again xeduced in New Plymouth on Saturday morning, the reduction representing 3d per lb. Pats are now 2s, against 2s 3d, and bulk Is lid, against 2s 2d.—• News. When presenting the prizes to a boy who had won two firsts in the recent boys' and girls' agricultural clubs rootgrowing competitions, the Msa^t^- <>i (Education remarked, it feniur'c'av's > function, that if they coalo. take the proper view of things this boy's success may actually be an achievement of greater importance than the taking of a matriculation exam. ''If Sir Francis Bell's Local Finance Bill comes into force on March 31 next the position will be that a local body will not be allowed more overdraft than is represented in the outstanding rates. If there is any more, it will have to com© out of t© pockets of the councillors. The idea is that the councils should end all square." Ty s statement was made by the Mayor of Wellington oa Thursday. A correspondent writes to the News: A. party of seven young ladies were fishing off the wharf at New Plymouth on Saturday evening, when one of them, Miss Dorothy Bates, of Hawera, hooked what proved to be a very large stingray. Some men came to the assistance, and after half an hour's "playing" they succeeded in landing their fish at the stone steps. The specimen was about four feet across, and was estimated to weigh about 90 to 1001b. The young ladies, though greatly excited, entered most heartily into the sport of playing and landing the big fish, and Miss Bates was duly presented with the tail, which measured three feet long, as a memento of her catch. "The problem of China," said Mr Massey on Thuready evening, "was one of those that would have to be decided by the Pacific Conference. It was one of the most serious and most difficult of all problems. It was useless^ to suggest, what was going to happen in regard to China; no man on earth could do it. He doubted whether any really satisfactory arrangement could be arrived at, yet he thought that something should be done. He was not at all certain that China had had untice in the past, and it should be the duty of America, and Japan to see that/full justice was don© to a country that was in such a position as Uuna found herself in. eShe was in a very bad position." "It is a weakness of human nature *? 3udge by appearances," said his Honor Mr Justice Frazer in the course .of an address in Wellington to local Justices of the Peace. He said that a story was' told of an American physiognomist, who claimed that a man s character was written so plainly on his face that a trained observer could teTl him what kind of a person jhe was. He was later put to the test by a police captain when walking along a bathing beach. The officer pointed out two men who were bathing close to the shore. The man of science drew attention to one's low brow, heavy jaw, peculiarly shaped ears, deep-set eyes placed close together, and claimed for him a criminal career. The other's delicately-shaped features and calm dignity, according to the physiognomist, proclaimed him to be a man of high principles, considerable refinement, and sound moral character. The police captain's comment was unexpected. "I reckon, professor, that you ! have got : things a little mixed," he said. t , "Your high-principled gentleman is a crook who has done several terms for burglary and safe-breaking, and your low-browed criminal is one of the most scholarly and saintly bishons of the Protestant Episcopal Church." ;. The salvage saTe of.Bergman's stock at .the Melbourne Ltd. offers many wonderful bargains in men's clothing. The suits at 69/6, trousers at 19/6. working trousers at 7/6 to 12/6; raincoats at 79/6. odd sport coats at 35/- are simply marvellous value, and buyers cannot afford to overlook them.—Advt.

At the conclusion of the ceremony )f opening the Technical College, the Minister and those who took part; were entertained at afternoon tea. Tho room had been nicely decorated nnder the supervision of the girl prefects, and the following ladies had charge of th© refreshment arrangements: Mesdames A. Gray, R. Tait, Death, T. Tait, Boauchamp, Gould, Mundy, Quin, Shepherd, R., S. Sago and Gillman. it is the (intention of tho West Coast Refrigerating Co., Ltd., to fill a longtelt want in Hawera by manufacturing ice for local sale- a new ice tanic is being installed with a capacity sufficient to cope with the demands of the wnoio district. It is also the intention of tho cotnpany to provide a small freezing room especially for fish, and sevem* cold storage rooms for meat, butter, milk, cream, and ajny other class of peiehable foodstuffs. We feel Bur© the residunta of Hawera will appreciate having an ample ice supply available during the summer months. One« a housewife instals an ice chest in which to Jiold milk and butter (which meann good hard condition free from taint of flies with their attendant danger ol dißcaso) they begin to wonder 1 ow they .managed tvithout ice in the **ast. In the Statea every, house has its ice thest, and tho consumption of ice by way .jf iced drinks and iced foods is a v-»rt of every household necessity. The business I portion of the community will, wo feel sure, be only top pleased to take advantage of cool storage for the preaorvation of perishable products.. The company proposes to mstal an up-to-date filtering plant to make sure of getting I a pure ice which can be used for any j purpose without any risk of impurities being contained in the ice. Arrangements are being pushed on ito complete the plant at an early date, no that ice will he available before the hot weather sets in.