LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i ; -w—— Mr. A. H. Halcombe' has been ree Tected unopposed to the Taranaki Hospital Board1 as the representative of the Clifton County. Owing to the required number of bookings not having been made, the proposed trip to Sydney, organised by the Chamber of Commerce, has been abandoned for the present.—News. "I must abide by the ruling of th« law]' wag the dignified remark of the plaintiff in a sharemilking case a w««k or two ago, when a statement of his, wl.ich appeared reasonable enough, had apparently no value in a court of law. "All vaccinated?" queried a member of the Acclimatisation Society when the information was being given of the fish and birds liberated. "Neither vaccinated nor earmarked," rejoined the chairman, "but well and truly laid." In the course of his remarks at the annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, Mr. B. C. Bennett said that rainbow trout had been put into all the lakes as far south as Waverley, and these were giving good snort. A successful eucV-re party and dance was held under the auspices 6¥ the Huia, Lodge at the Foresters' Hall last evening. The prize-winners amongst the ladies were Mesdames O'Dowd and Fitzsimmons and Misses Nolan and Peters. The gentlemen's prizes were won by Messrs Burgess, . Sharrock, Hearn and Hazeltr.:- For the dancing music was provided by Foster Bros., and an extra was played by Miss G. Frank. Messrs Warner and Hearn carried out the duties of card M.C.'s, and ■Messrs Warner and Castles acted in a similar capacity for the danoe.