LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Beautiful weather prevailed yesterday afternoon for the concert given by the Citizens' Band in the King Edward Park. There was a large attendance of the public, and the collection amounted to £4 Is Bd. The band is giving monthly concerts in the Park, yesterday's concert being the third of this season. Mr. H. Leslie Piper sang to large congregations yesterday at the Normanby Town Hall and at the Hawera Methodist Church. His farewell concert will be given to-night in St. Mary's Hall, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Piper will be supported by Miss Homer, Mrs. Cafe, Mr. Cate (violinist), Mr. Jackson, Miss Spurdle, and Miss Joan Tonks. At the monthly meeting of the Eltham County Council on Saturday. Cr. Campbell reported in rather declamatory terms on his visit to Hawera in connection with his appointment by the council to stand for election to' the board of directors for the Hawera Technical High School. He said that the election was a farce and that he was only useful as a voting machine. At long last a start is to be made with the construction of the road which will connect Blenheim and Westport in a straight line (says the Marlborough Express) and open up direct trade between the fertile agricultural districts of Marlborough and the wealthy mining districts of the West Coast. About 20 men are now in camp ready to commence the work. Experts say (reports the Dunedha Star) that the dairy produce season ii Otago and Southland has never startec so well as it has this year. Butter is coming in plentifully, more plentifullj than ever from the south. The fir si shipments from Otago and Southland are to be lifted by the Orari and the Paparoa, which vessels will load 9(XX boxes of new season's butter and 35( crates of cheese. A terrible ordeal was experienced by a young lad named Jack Burke, wliOj while driving a dray along Barrytown Road, at ttreyrnouth, had his leg caught in a wheel and broken (states an exchange). Unable to move, he - had to lie in the blistering heat of the sun for three hours until help came. His father arrived later, and, having no appliances, prepared to convey th« lad to Greymouth in a trap. The pain of such a journey was spared the lad. however, by the timely arrival of a party of motorists, which included an ambulance man, who improvised , splints from a wooden box, newspaper, and canvas hose, and took him to the hospital in the car. The patient was little the worse for his long wait in the heat. Fish stories are always looked upon with a certain amount of suspicion, but here is for which authenticity is guaranteed" both by the fisherman concerned and by observers. The incident occurred on the Hutt River on the second day of the season. An enthusiastic sportsman alarmed others on the bank by crying out loudly, "What's this? What have I got?" A fisherman close by heard an unusual rushing noise the vicinity of the voice and running to the rescue found his neighbour excitedly folding his rod out at arm's length. He had a "more pork on his hook, and the bird was flying round clumsily in the air. The captor had never seen one before, and was quite alarmed. It appears that the bird flew out from the bank as he made a cast and snapped up the "bully" before it reached the water. The observer of the incident remarks that one required to be present to appreciate the humour of the situation. The sportsman, he said, "sort of got the wind up." There are more ways of losing your hat than by leaving it on a peg in the porch of a church. An old gentleman walking in Quay Street,' Auckland, became cognisant of this fact in a rather forcible manner, according to the Star. He was crossing the:busy thoroughfare m an unconcerned way, when the sudden "Honk!" of an approaching motor car startled him out of his serenity, and he made a big jump for safety. The jump cost him his hat. Caught by a playful gust of wind from the sea, it rose from his head in a graceful, gyrating swerve, and sailed up into the air. Then, obeying the law of gravity, it fell on to the step of the car as.it passed. Frantically waving his stick at the rear of the disappearing car, the old chap had the disconcerting experience of seing his ffhard knocker" go merrily off on a joy ride. The driver was, of course, quite oblivious of the presence of the headgear on the step of his car, and the vehicle was soon out of sight round a distant corner. The old gentleman had some very terse remarks to make about cars and their drivers before he reluctantly resumed the even tenor of his way, hatless and a little breathless. A lantern lecture on Japan will b© delivered in the Presbyterian Church hall, Hawera, this evening by the Eev. James Ings. The proceeds are on behalf of the Bible Class movement. The lecture has been given in various parts of the. world, and Hawera people should not mips the opportunity of hearing it, and of seeing the excellent coloured slides depicting Japan and its wonderful people. Ladies, put your lieacfs together to see how Quickly you can get all New Zealand using "No-Rubbing"" Laundry l-feln, the famous dirt ejector. J. F. Daley.—Advt.

There was a curious "lot" in an auction sale at Sotheby's, in London, re1-" cently. It was a wig which was stated* • to have been worn by John Wesley. Mr. Walter spencer bought it for 10s. During the hearing of a case at the Magistrate's Court, Auckland, in which the applicant sought possession of a house he had purchased, Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., warned the owner """-hat if an order was granted he mus? "not let the -place within six months, or he would be subject to a heavy penalty. A rifleman's joke: "Having filled the less important positions, the presidential and vice-presidential, let us now go on to the really important man — the range officer."—Mr. J. M. Bertram, at the Wellington Rifle Association's meeting. j A resident of Adelaide, who has just returned from a two months' holiday at Lake Victoria and Noola, said that «t Lake Victoria in the past two months the residents poisoned 12,000 foxes. Foxes had multiplied to an alarming extent/. "When I was in America," said. Lord Levorhulme, at Port Sunlight, "I heard authentic reports that the widow of Caruso is drawing 400,000 dollars (normally about £80,000) a year from gramaphone records. That is what the voice of a dead husband has made available for the widow thanks to science." At the close of the evening service at St. Mary's a short recital was given by Mr. Hutton, the church organist. There was a large congregation. The recital served to bring out the beauty of the soft stops and the power of the instrument. The selections included works by the great masters of the old and modern schools, the former making j an effective contrast with the latter in ' styles "of composition. A critic of bridge play in an exchange says that nothing annoys him so much as the^player who, when in I doubt as to whether he is going to play , the correct card or is going to trump his partner's trick, stares at the ceiling as though he would draw inspiration therefrom. He adds that every ! good player will sympathise with the ] partner of such a player who says in | his exasperation, "For heaven's sake, partner, make your mistakes qnickly." ' Sir James Allen, in a letter to the Mayor (Mr. E. Dixon), states that on September 20, 1920, he paid to King George's Fund for Sailors a sum of £11,815 0s sd, being the balance held in the High Commissioner's office of donations received from New Zealand for the British Navy Relief Fund. Included in the balance was a sum oi £59 10s collected by the Mayor's Fund. Sir James Allen's letter included a detailed statement showing how the balance referred to had been allotted. "There is no more cruel animal in Nature than the public schoolboy, '.' said Mr. Justice Herdman at the annual dinner of the Auckland branch or the Otago K%h Selioc^Old Boys' Society. Of the many forms of cruelty practised by the "young barbarians, none was more wounding than the nicknames always found for the boy with ■ some "-peculiarity of habit, manner, oi body. Thus the new boy with red hail immediately became "Carrots," th« lame boy was rechristened "Hoppy, and the boy who did not wash was given an appellation which very soor forced him to take a much greater interest in personal hygiene. Since women adopted the custom oj going with the neck and upper pari of the chest bare there are fewer throai and chest troubles among them, whih the high collar and, in winter, th* muffler and closely buttoned overcoal of men make theni more susceptible tc such diseases. From a hygienic stand--point, says Popular Science Siftings, exposure of the chest and back, especially the back, is beneficial, as the skin toughened by exposure, is a better protection to the underlying tissues, anc the lungs are their less liable to disease. Women, therefore, in decollettt dresses do not notice draughts and ordinary temperature changes. But this does not mean that they are not affected by them. Until the skin of t_ • back has become, toughened throng! frequent exposure they are more susceptible to respiratory diseases. If thf skin of the back has become toughened the cold will not penetrate readily, and i there is as little danger of disease as there Is when the chest, knees, head, face, or hands are exposed. The short skirt, the bare chest, and knees are advocated as hygienic measures, and they survive. '