LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 29 May 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

One of the greatest means of/ putting down crime, said the Chief Justice Sir Robert Stout, at Wanganui on luesday, was not in severely punishing, but the knowledge that if a person were guilty the jury would be sure to bring in a verdict of guilty. ; A gardener with, liabilities amounting to only £25, which was due as interest on a mortgage on his house, filed a declaration m bankruptcy at Hamilton recently. . . "

A Wairarapa settler whose car was looking rather muddy after a long drive left it standing in the street for 20 minutes. When he came back (states the Age) he found on the seat the business card of an enterprising upholsterer and varnisher.

Says the Dunedin* Star: A "good luck ' variant of the chain letter nuisance has reached this office. The recipient is warned not to break the chain lest bad luck follows and is promised great good fortune if within ?fJ lours he or she sends copies to nine different persons. The same old fudge, in fact. The destination of our missive was the waste-paper basket.

A novelty in traction created a considerable amount of interest in Picton on Wednesday last, particularly among the younger generation (states the ( Marlborough "Express), when a goodsized bullock harnessed to a trap and driven by a well-known Maori, Wiremu Keepa (better known as "Caps"), traversed the main streets of the town in perfect complacency, undisturbed by the motor traffic, and reached its Waikawa home without mishap. A day's outing .spoiled by a corn! Progandra will rid you of the annoyance—it banishes hard and soft corns in six dressings. Get Progandra—corn removed or moh^y refunded. 1/6 everywhere, or post free from Barraclough's Pty-^'Box -1247, 'Wellington:—Adxt.

At the Pihama unveiling ceremony] last week the "Last Post" was sounded) by Veteran James Higgins," of Opu- , nake, not by a returned soldier, as stated in error in the report. "In Australia grapes are selling at 2d per lb." Mr. W. Burton informed • the Marlborough Express on his return from a trip; "In Wellington these Australian grapes are bringing 2s 6d per lb." It was stated by a well known dairy farmer at the Greytown Magistrate's Court that if a dairy herd averaged £15 per cow this season it would do well. "You will hear nothing about the £25 and £27 cow this season," he said. Our Eltham correspondent writes: The Liberal meeting held on Friday night last at Eltham was not open to the press. , I understand the meeting was not largely attended, there being a ball, Borough Council meeting, and another social gathering on the same evening. On a recent evening while Mr M. Lettbof was visiting some friends on the Cheal road his van containing goods caught fire, and the owner heavily. Mr Lettoof says that he will lose over £800 as the. result of the destruction of his van. The fire had a strong hold when discovered, and the owner was able to save only a few of the contents. A protest against the glaring headlights carried by some motor-cars was made to a Manawatu Standard representative. He stated that while travelling to Wanganui on the evening of the recent race meeting there he passed 87 motor-cars, and only ten cars dimmed their lights on his approach. It was most difficult, he said, for a motorist to keep a straight course when a road was being flooded with light, with the rays in his eyes and the background in" darkness. If speedy travel was desired (says the Manawatu Times) one may have had it on the now discontinued night express to Wellington at 29 miles an hour; ,but for leisure the express to Aramoho will serve at 19 miles. The Napier mail can travel 22 miles an hour, which is to be wondered* at, considering that there are two fairly long stj-ps for refreshments within 57 minute*- in the tedious 18 miles between . Palmerston and Woodville. It is time the long-promised revisions and speedings were made. We also remind the Minister that our first train to Woodville misses Woodville's first train to Masterton by a handful of minutes. ' Naturally, travellers would like to know why. Having failed in other directions the townsfolk appeal to the live wire of the Chamber of Commerce to revive the railway sleepers. A the meeting of the Egmont A. and P. Association on Saturday advice was received from the Valuer-General to the effect that under section two of the J Valuation of Land Amendment Act, 1921-2, a revaluation of the Associa^ tion's property had been made. The ;. figures quoted were as follow: Old capi- , tal value, £9301; new capital value, £4650; old unimproved value., £6570. new unimproved value, £3285; value of *~ improvements, £1365. The secretary said that the reduction in* valuation meant a reduction of £80 in rates. Mr. O. J. Hawken mentioned that the hew Act was a most valuable one in that it enabled a body to hold land in a town for purposes of sport and amusement. Their association got a direct benefit from it at once. In the past sports- associations had been more or l£_?s forced but of ©very borough into the eomrfcry by high rates, Some interesting impre^-bns regarding his vi-it to Britain were given by the Rev. B. L. Walker formerly of St. James's Presbyterian Church, who returned to Auckland by the Ruah-ne* after an absence of fifteen months. XTn-j employment was still very common in I the large cities. Great processions o. I unemployed paraded the streets of bothj Edinburgh:,-and Glasgow, and it wasj pitiable to see able-bodied men lining up for the weekly doles' under the 'Insurance .Against Unemployment" scheme. Much had been expected of the J Genoa Conference, and until the trade of Europe was restored to a better balance little hope could beheld out of easing the situation. The stabilising of the exchange was anothfir factor required to set things rjghti -Referring to the re- ( .cent religious revival in Scotland, Mr Walker said that, while piuch that had appeared in print was greatly exaggerated, there was not the slightest doubt the revival had acted for good on the religious life of-the community. This was specially noticeable in Edinburgh. He instanced tlie fact that the parish ministers of Scotland, who in the old days bad fought shy of religious revivals,, had -been the leaders at most of the great meetings. One large gathering held in the Alham'bra Theatre in Leith, a building accommodating 2000, had been crowded to the doors, the overflow holding a service in the parish church opposite. "Scotland," said Mr Walker, "is -still the land of churchgoing." > " .