LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« A motor lorry belonging to Gower Bros, struck trouble near the Jerseydale toll-gate, Eltham road, yesterday. Passing another lorry it skidded sharply, with the result that one of the front wheels collapsed. The driver jumped clear. The vehicle suffered no further damage. The Liberals of the Stratford, electorate will be en fete on Thursday, January 18. On that day they are tendering a complimentai-y garden party to Mr. R. Masters, M.P. It will be held in King Edward Park at 2 p.m. Many prominent Liberals, including Mr. T. M. Wilford, are expectied to be present. In the evening a social will be held in the Town Hall. _At the meeting of the Patea Hospital Board on Tuesday next, Mr, Sutherland intends to bring before the board the necessity of a half-way institution between the hospital and the gaol and asylum to meet cases which should not be sent to either of these institutions, magistrates on various occasions having commented on the need for such an institution, and on more than one occasion Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., while in Wanganui, spoke in similar strain when dealing with cases brought before him. Mr. Sutherland has. in view the idea, of circularising all local bodies, boards, etc., with the object of stimulating interest in the matter. —Wanganui Herald. The other day a King Country newspaper mixed a society item with a farm note, with the following result (says an exchange): "The Red Gross concert given last night by sixteen of our young ladies was highly appreciated. They sang in a charming manner, winning the plaudits of the audience, who pronounced them the finest group of shorthorns in the country. A few of them were rich brown in colour, but the majority were spotted red and white." The editor 'immediately went on a prolonged holiday to Auckland, while the proof-reader and the foreman went on the beer. An anecdote relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Auckland was related by the Prime Minister, when laying the foundation i stone of St. John's Presbyterian Church a\ Papatoetoe, telegraphs The Post's Auckland correspondent. He j said that before St. Andrew's Church, the first Presbyterian church in Auckland, was built, the Presbyterians had great difficulty in fending place for worship, but they obtained —perhaps by political influence, which was not unknown even in those days—the use of the Supreme Court for services. It ■was not the present building, but the old one in Queen Street. It was customary in the Presbyterian Churches for the elders to have a pew to themselves. The accommodation in the Court was limited, but the elders had their pew in this case in the dock. Naturally they were the targets of many jokes and gibes. Indian resentment of the Australian policy of exclusion is growing rapidly, and a general boycott oi all things Australian, and ail bcmSs and insurance companies having anything to do with this coutry, is spoken of. Already the Bombay Municipal Corporation—an influential body—has agreed to the boycott (says a'correspondent). It is almost in the form of a threat that this information has been disclosed by Sir Dorab Tat:-:, a prominent Incaan who is visiting Australia. He is the owner of the famous Jubilee diamond, said to be worth half a million, proprietor of the renowned Tai Mahal Hotel at Bombay and the newspaper Praja Mitra, and is cha-iirman of directors of several steel, hydro-electric, and cotton spinning concerns. He says that the fear and ignominy of being turned back prevented many influential Idians from visiting Australia, and so possible avenges of reciprocal trade were kept closed. Reference was made l>y the Prime Minister at the opening of a gift recreation park at Mangere on Monday afternoon to the pleasure of cricket. It was a game, said Mr Massey, that had always appealed to him, and he hoped that provision would be made for a ! good pitch in the new park. A little later, Mr M. B. Kirkbride, president of the Mangere Tennis Club, mentioned that he had recently looked up the cricket history of the district, and found that Mangere held an outstanding record for the Dominion at the game, (reports tlie New Zealand Herald)1. This was a match, lie explained, in which a Mangere team put up a record for the lowest score in a twohinings mateh —six runs in the first and three- in the second innings. "And," ! said Mr Krkbride, amidst merriment, '' there was a Massey in the team.'' It was not the Prime Minister, howI ever, who had failed in 1871 to "collar the bowling."