LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 June 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In this issue of the Star a challenge is issued by Ceorge Curran to meet C. Cann for any wage*, he may wish and under any association. The annual dance of the Otakeho Farmers' Union will be held in the Otakeho Hall on Wednesday, June 13. The custom of sending deceasec Chinamen home for interment in the soil of the land of their fathers wa? mentioned in a Chinese case in th« Magistrate's Court recently (states th< Poverty Bay Herald). A gasp -of as tonishment went up from those in th( Court room when a Celestial witness stated that the cost of sending a corps* to China was £120. Last year 10,700 rainbow fry \ver« placed by the South Taranaki Acclimatisation Society in. Mr. Goodson's lake and on the King's Birthday and the following Wednesday they were taker out and distributed in the Ivapuni from the mouth to above the Soutl Road bridge. The society'is much in dehted to Mr. Goodson, who has s< generously placed his private lake a' its disposal for a number of years. Hac it not been for this, great difficulty would have been encountered in main taining the stock of fish in South Tara naki streams. During the singing of an anthem a the Presbyterian Church last eveninj the fuse for the lighting went wrong and the chureli was plunged in dark ness. The choir continued the anthem and the organist, who had an eleetrii torch in Ms pocket, Fas able to call i into service, and the anthem was com pleted, with organ accompaniment, a if nothing had happened. The ga lighting was utilised and the service was continued. The Huia Lodge held their secon< euchre party and dance on Friday last which was well attended. The prize were won as follows: Ladies. Mrs. Cad man 1, Miss McPherson 2, Miss Divehil 3, Miss G. Hall silent; gentlemen Mr Green 1, Mr. Flynn 2, Mr. Zadoni 3 Mr. Zadoni silent. Music was suppliei by Messrs Foster Bros, in their usua good style. Mr. H. L. Warner earriei out the duties of M.C. The committe wishes to thank Mrs. Foster and Mrs Jackson for the capable way in whic] they carried out the supper arrange s ments. w

Recently the residents of a certain locality of Utiku were greatly concerned for two or three days at the actions or an individual who was wandering through the paddocks and moving his arms in a peculiar way (says the Christchurch Press). The strain of keeping a wary eye on what appeared to be a peculiar individual became too <n-eat by the third day, on the afternoon of which the male occupant of one of the houses arrived home to find his wife sitting on the back doorstep armed with the wood-xaxe and keeping a scared eye on tho strange-acting person • so he rang up for the police. The latter arrived per motor-car, aifd it was only when the individual who had been the cause of all the excitement yv«s nointed. out that it was discovered that he was no one more harmful than the waWdiviner engaged by the Taihape Dairy Company to locate water on the proposed site of the new dairy factory.