LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 April 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

\The shooting season opens on Monday. Reports from various localities in the Taranaki acclimatisation district indicate that quail are numerous, while there is a fair number of cock pheasants and a sprinkling of ducks. Hares are said to be very plentiful.

All sportsmen in pursuit of game will have noticed the information re licenses published in the Star by the Acclimatisation Society. They draw special attention to the fact that native game, except pigeon, pukako, and Paradise duck, are covered by license. The season will open on Monday, and prospects are of the best.

Our report of Mr. A. C. Pacey's remarks at the meeting of Protestants on Thursday night was misleading in one particular. In our report we said : "If the old committee had done the right and proper thing with regard to paying a graceful tribute to Mr. Strack there would have been no trouble. What Mr: Pacey said was: "If the committee had not taken exception to Mr. Strack's action in paying a tribate to a celebrity passing through the town there would have been no trouble."

A Newcastle message reports that the Devon has sailed for Wellington. i En route for Wellington on the mail train this morning were a party of band boys, about tbirty in number. The I band intends to demonstrate during the *arly week at the young peoples' demon-, stration at present performing at Wellington, The boys were from the Eltham Salvation Army Boys' Home, in charge of Adjutant Dunn. I A minor change has been made in the present stamp issue. Formerly both the 8d and 2-id stamps were printed in blue, of only a slightly different shade, which caused some confusion, and the 7|U, an unusual denomination, was printed in brown. The Department has now withdrawn the 7-^d stamp, and the new 8d stamp is printed in the colour of the old 7wd one, instead of blue. The green 4|d stamp has also been withdrawn, and the Victory. |d has been overprinted as a 2d stamp, and is now in general use.

An extraordinary general meeting of j shareholders of the New Zealand Iron Ore Smelting and Manufacturing Company was held at New Plymouth yesterday for the purpose of confirming the resolution passed at a meeting on April 13 to increase the canital from £60,0*00 to £150,000 by the issue of 90,000 prei ference shares of £1 each. Mr.. W. J. i Perm, chairman of directors, presided over an attendance of twenty shareholders. The chairman moved that the resolution be confirmed, and this being seconded by Mr. W. Anibury, was carried unanimously after several questions had been asked and ansu-ered.

The need for a telephone at the Ohawe beach was mentioned by Mr. Sutton at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last evening. He thoufot it more important that they should have telephone connection with the beach than that additional telephone

boxes should be provided for street use in Hawera. In case of any accident at

the beach the telephone would be of great value, and it would take some

time to get a message to town in any other way. He understood that the Department was prepared to establish the telephone if a guarantee could be obtained', but wanted the ■ matter left in abeyance till the spring. "When we get an improved road to the beach," he said, "we will have more people living there.'' One member innocently inquired of the chairman if the road was not good at present, and another member wanted to know if there were any mudlarks at Ohawe. Mr. Sutton said he understood that their worthy president was going to build there, in which case the road proposition would__ be solved. He thought the new' Ratepayers' Association would help to put things in order. The value of green oats for finishing fat lambs is not generally recognised, but this was the" final touch in the diet of 311 fat lambs sold by Mr W. T. Lowe (Hinds) at Tinwald sale (says the Ashburton Guardian). The line made

27s 9d, easily a record price for the last two months for, a long line. The lambs were by Border Leicester rams

out of big halfbred ewes, and were dropped in August last. After they were weaned they were put on rape, and for the last few weeks were finished off on green oats. The weights would average 421b. The gross gate takings at New Plymouth on tn* occasion of the South African football match were £1010, which was the highest "gate" outside the centres. The expenses at New Plymouth were above those of most of the other smaller centres, amounting to £657, leaving a net amount of £358. Replying to questions at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union regarding the finances of the tour in Tarajiaki, tiie president, Mr. J. McLeod (Taranaki), admitted that the expenses in that district were to some extent exceptional. The local union had had to do the visitors' washing for two or three days r running up a laundry bill of over £50. The union had bej?n prepared, he pointed out, to pay the whole_of the entertainment expenses if the tour had not been a success. Unfortunately, they did not know what the attitude of the New Zealand Union Was m _S£U"d to wine bills, At this stage th^ press was asked to refrain from publishing certain details in re-! gard to the expenses incurred. Mr. H. H. S, White (Otago) protested that there was nothing to hide, and that nothing should be withheld from publication. The football playing public should know the full facts. The union was not afraid of criticism. After some further words the business was proceeded with, the chairman remarking that he did not think it would be neces_ sary to ask for any further references to be withheld.—N.Z. Times. From a Dunedin wool expert, who knows the inside of the trade as well as any New Zealander can know it, a Dunedin Star reporter obtained a cheering statement last week. He says that the present stock of commandeered wool in London is going into consumption at a rate which will cause it to disappear probably within the next twelve months. I When it has quite gone the blocking of the annual clip will no longer exist, i The normal clip in New Zealand averi ages about 550,000 bales. The quantity j offered in the Dominion this season may Ibe approximately stated as 420,000 | bales, including the small supplement- [ ary auctions next month; therefore the quantity of new wool available for re- | sale iv London will not be very great, ! amounting on those figures to only 130,000 bales, which, even jf added to the amount in store, will not really swell to any appreciable extent the reserved wool at Home, since 130,000 bales is but a small quantity in comparison with the big figures of London. The prospects for crossbred wool look fairly hopeful. Fine wools and merinos are already on a high basis and it cannot be expected that they will go very much higher. The City of London proper, bounded by municipal and Parliamentary lines, is not a dwelling-place, but a vast market. In 1896 it had 31,000 inhabitants -. to-day it has but 13,706. During business hours it is the humming hive of a million human bees, but night finds it deserted save for a garrison of caretakers.

Ladies' and children's knitted warm wool clothing at The Busy Draper's keen prices: Ladies' smart styles all pure wool knitted frocks, latest colours, only 46s 6d; ladies' two-tone knitted jumpers, smart range of colours, 32s 6d, 45s 6d; girls' fine knit two-tone wool dresses, pleated skirts, newest shades, from 24s 6d ; children's . three-garment knitted jersey suits, jersey, bloomers and cap to match, 27s 9d; ladies' warm tweed coats, stunning values at 59s 6d, 655, 85s; covert coats, smart stitching, 57s 6d.—At Gillett's.—Advt. Take Dr Cassell's Instant Relief for constipation, biliousness, torn:d I'ver. sick headache, dizziness, specks before the eyes, flatulence and windy spasms. acidity, heartburn. impurQ blood, anrl that dull, heavy feeling which is a sure indication of liver trouble*..- Apli for Di- Cassell's Tn^+aht Rpliof nncl tr-W, no sub't'tute. Dr Cassell's Tnstint Rel:ef is the companion nreDarnt/irn to l)v C.ispell's Tablet*. Prices Now Zealand I' 9 and 4/-. Al] chemists and stores. — Advt.

When next you bake some scones. rolls or cakes, use Sharland's Baking Powder—and watch them rise!.—Advt.

The Hawera Football Club are hold- ! ing a euchre party and dance in the Foresters' Hall on Wednesday next, j Excellent prizes are given, and these j are now on view at Jury and Co.'s, in 1 High street. " | ! The following motion was passed at the first regular meeting of the new Main School Committee, which was held last evening: "That the commitj tee announces its resolve to allow no sectarian issues to deflect its purpose to serve the whole community to the ; best of its ability." Attention is drawn to the advertise:j ment appearing in this issue regarding i the coming into operation of sections 1 1 2-11 of the Public Trust Office Amendi! ment Act, 1921-22. The principal pro--11 visions are for the abolition of the name _ "Local Deputy Public Trustee" and the .creation of the name "District Public t Trustee" in its place.

The similarity in appearance of ecme banknotes of high and low denomination is not infrequently a source of confusion to business people and the general public alike (says a Wellington paper). Recently an eldei'ly lady who keeps a shop in Newtown purchased a small joint of meat, tendering in. payment what she thought was a tenshilling note. Tlie shopman placed the note in the ten-shilling compartment of the till, and handed the customer her change. On the following morning the lady was much concerned to find she had lost a £10 note., and she immediately went to the butcher to enquire whether she had given it to the shopman by mistake. Much to her gratification, it was returned to her.

A provision in the recently gazetted j education regulations, which has not yet attracted as much criticism as it seems likely to do when it becomes more widely known, makes a drastic restriction of the conditions under which a teacher's A certificate may be secured (states the Otago Daily Times). Up till the present one of the requirements for the certificate was that the holder should have obtained either first or second-class honours in the degree examinations of the University of New ■ Zealand, and the "honours'' could be taken in any subject. Under the new regulation, after 1923 the subject of education is the only one in which honours will be recognised for the A certificate. Obviously the practical effect of this is that no teacher desiring to secure the highest grade of certificate in his .profession will specialise for honours in any subject other than education. Where the teacher specialists of the future m such subjects as English, mathematics, history, French, and so on are to come from it is not easy to see. I A light that stays lit after you turn it out is one of electricity's most recent developments. The advantages of such a light will be readily apparent to anyone who, in the sudden darkness, has stumbled over a chair en route to bed, or kicked over the waste basket on the way out of a dark office. The lamp stays on for one minute after the chain is pulled. That brief illumination, however, gives ample opportunity to leave the cellar, to get into bed. to lock the garage, or to close the office; in fact, to do any number of things that the darkness makes hazardous. All this is made possible by, an ingenious though simple and rugged thermostatic switch mechanism. The thermostat employed does not itself act as a slowly moving contact to break the circuit, but performs the function of a spring latch, which, when cool, permits the leaf contacts to snap apart. Heating of the thermostatic latch is accomplished by a small resistance unit which is thrown into circuit by pulling the socket chain, as if to turn out the light. The positiveness of the switch action is such that it can plainly be heard across an ordinary room at the time the light actually is extinguished, 60 seconds later.