LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The telephone line from Tahora to the Ohura was opened yesterday. The timber in the old Courtenay Street infant school, New . Plymouth, now being dismantled, is said to be as good to-day as it wa-S; over 40 years ago, when the school was erected. The wholesale and retail prices of butter are being reduced 2d in Auckland to-day, making the retail rates: •Superfine factory la 9d, medium Is Bd, and lower grade Is 7d.—-Press Association. In the course of ?. letter to "Mr. P. Se.ig, of Christchurch, Lord Burnham, president of the Empire Press Union, writes: "I have aiv.avs had a great admiration for the newspaper press of New Zeaiand, than whicii t-^ere is none better m the Empire." ISotiee is given ia this issue of the poll to be taken in the Egmont County on Wednesday next for the election of t.vo representatives to the Taranaki Hospital Board. A notice concerning the election cf councillors for the Egmont and Waimate West Counties is also advertised. The rainfall in Patea for the month of April last was 1.59 inches, the average for the past five years being 2.90 inches. The fall in April for the four previous years was as follows: 1922, ; 1.70 inches; 1921, 2.03 inches; 1920, i 6.42 inches; 1919, 1.59 inches. In 1920 ; the six inches of rain recorded fell on seven days only. i At last mght 7s meeting of the Borough Council, Cr. Burdekin asked the Town Clerk (Mr. H. S. Elliott) if he could tell him the best course to adopt in order to ensure the massing of amending legislation which "would provide frr the election of mayors by the councillors. He wanted to see something on the lines in vogue in the Old Country adopted in New Zealand. The clerk said that Cr. Burdekin's question had been asked just at the right time. The best procedure would be to embody the suggestion in a remit and forward it to the Municipal Conference, which happened to be sitting this year. Cr. Burdekin thanked the clerk, and it was decided to bring the matter up again, when other remits could be prepared. At a meeting at Patea a coursing club was formed, to be known as the Patea Plumpton Coursing Club, and the following officers were elected: Secretaries, Messrs. T. Keane and F. McKenna; patron, Mr. J. R. Corrigan, M.P.; president, Mr. A. T. Christensen; vice-presidents, Dr. Simmons, Messrs. J. McCarthy, J. Holtham, C Strouts, J. Patterson, J. Sheild C R. Honeyfield, and F. Besley. Mr. Jas. Bourke was unanimously elected a life member of the club in* recognition of his generosity in giving the club free access to his grounds at Whenuakura. It was decided to apply for affiliation with the National Coursing Association of New Zealand, the matter of club rules being held over for the present. Strong committees were formed, and members generally displayed a spirit of enthusiasm, which, if it continues to ""evil. Ties~>e*>ks a successful career for the newly-formed organisation.