LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 June 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At yesterday's meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board Messrs Crichton and xricKay, of Wellington, were appointed associate architects with Messrs Duffil and Gibson in connection with the new hospital, at the request of the Hawera firm. Mails which left Auckland on April 3. per Makara, via Vancouver, arrived at London on May 13; also mails which left Wellington on April 25 per Tahiti, via San Francisco, arrived at London on Mr.y 27. Messrs Boon Bros., of New Plymouth, are the successful tenderers for alteration of premises for the Hawera branch or the Commercial Bank. The contractors have commenced .work, and it is anticipated that the premises will be ready for occupation in about five weeks' time. Ti ie/ e "as a considerable demand for local bodies' debentures at present said a member of the Patea Harbour Board at the rrionthly meeting, when the question of dealing with the board's debentures for £8600 was under discus won. The chairman said the fact that they were only subject to 2s 6d per cent, tax was a recommendation It was considered there was every prospect of selling them at par. "The Taranaki Utility ■High-grade Jersey Breeders' Association" j s * the title of an association recently formed at Ngaere with the object of increasing the butter-fat yield of the Jersey cattle breed. The association has already a membership of nearly thirty, consisting ; of fanners of Ngaere, Eltham, Stra£ tord Hawera, Toko and New Plymouth Mr J. Thomas, of Ngaere, is president and Mr. A. Hedgeman secretary of the association. A general meeting will probably be held this month. i The position of the Waitangi, which went ashore at Patea, has changed for the worse. It is unfortunate that just a» it was hoped she would be got off, and waS standing well up to the seas, ! some of the gear' oil boafd broke away ! under the strain and she fell back broadside on again. It will now" be1 necessary to wait for the highest tides j at the next moon. It is interesting to ! note in this connection that the highest I spring tides occur as a rule about three ' tides after the new or full moon. On the coast round Patea the wind has, j Captain Finney, of Patea, told a Star : representative, a powerful influence on I the tides. With a northerly wind there is always a better hope of high tides and smooth water. He said he had known a sudden southerly cut down the tide by as much as eighteen inches He hopes that if the wind and weather are favourable the refloating of the i vessel will be secured after the next moon in a few days. Look at these Bargains: Ladies' kid gloves, spotted, usualy 8/6, sale 2/11----ladies' fabric gloves, 1/-,- knitted gloves, 1/-; fleecy lined gloves, 1/3: tan . silk stockings, 2/11, gney 3/6; 40-inch coloured silk nets, usually 6/6; sale 3/11; 36-inch silk radium . net, all shades, good quality, usually 8/ir sale! 6/6; handbags, usually 4/11, 6/11, 8/11,1 sale 1/11 2/11, 3/11; -fancy patent! belts, usually 4/11, sale 2/11; children's three-quarter size wool hose, double tops, black or grey, 2/11, tan 3/9: white Thibet fur necklets, usually 75/-' 85/- sale 45/-, 52/*-; opossum furs! usually 55/-, sale 39/6. At Gillett's Sale now on. —Advt.

JTII " —^'i' ... Hawer^ 1?* -°! last ni Bht>s m»tch, the near •" *hmat»™ Rifle Club v. Wa- i '^r; aiqMvand Te? e 6raPh> was: Ha- j s£Z 11 I£ lnga?,ui 472' scores will be published later. We are informed that Cann has ac- ! cepted under certain conditions the challenge issued in these columns by for a return match, and the respective managers of the two boxers are now engaged negotiating for a match °jT July o. . ! Messrs. Harkness, Riera, and Petrie, members of the council of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society, visited the Mawera Acclimatisation Society's hatch- , cry last week. They were deeply inteiested, and expressed keen appreciation of the workings and methods of - the council and management of the . local society. Acclimatisation matters , or mutual interest were free'y discussed, and they returned well pleased with ■ their day's outing. 1 , A great treat is in store for th© Kai ponga players of euchre, cribbage, and F hve hundred. A game'is to be played f at the Oddfellows' Hall, Kapon^a on f Thursday night. Having .arranged for twenty players to go to Kaponga from 1 Hawera, the convenor (Mr. A. Mels ville) would like to have a' few more _ names handed »n before Thursday to 3 make up the required number. 3 ' The wonderful develooment in motor- - lnK., dunng th© past twenty years is vividly brought to mind by a paras graph m an obituary notice of the late i -Lord Carnarvon. The writer says: "He 7 was a pioneer of motoring and was . hned many times. At Kingsclere Petty Sessions m August, 1900, h e was chargi ed witn having driven his motor-car at - greater speed than 12 miles an hour." ! ihis speed is now, and has been for _ some years, the safety speed limit, and vi some cases lower than the speed s limit for large cities. Most of the dee v-elopments have taken place" within the last eight or nine years. v m Splendid sport is being obtained at j lokaanu, where the trout are plentiful . aild "J excellent condition. Mr J '- McOulloch, of Whakatane, during a :1 week's fishing at Tokaanu, caught 62 cr trout, all on the fly, the average weight r being 81b 9oz. The largest fish was ISJIb and the smallest 51b. An idea as to l how plentiful the trout are at Tokaanu ■- can be gleaned from the fact that Mr i. J. S. "ft. Neilson, of East Cajje, who , has just completed a month's visit to lokaanu; averaged 10 fish a day on the a ny. c The broadcasting of a church service 0 was attempted at Dunedin on a recent [j Sunday (sates the Dunedin Star). For n some reason or other the service was . not heard in Auckland, though the ' address, as well as hymns and choir c items, was heard at Hamilton. Speaking on this subject at a recent meeting | of. the Wireless Club, Mr E. Brasted j said that at Bedford, near New York j where he had previously lived, there ; was an average of 1500 "listeners-in" . to a service held in the larger city. } ' • T? e .co] d weather with which the ■ wirtter is being ushered in has brought 7 xv'thi. lt tJle usual colds and throat | aftections (says the Auckland Her--1 ?i h x } n"?, uld aPPear; however, that throat troubles are a little mere prevalent than is usually the case, and 1 while this is generally restricted to I nuslmiess and a certain amount of dis- [ comfort, there is a tendency in other , instances of th« complaint to develop i into a mild form of influenza, with (occasional minor bronchial affection. , I his has occasioned a demand for th© - more simple of the remedies available i for these complaints, but chemists - state thai there is nothing that can b be vegarded as an epidemic j Children are often thoughtless in i the triCKs they play on their elders. I One of the most cruel practices, which • is becoming of all too frequent occurrence is to tie a, piece of string across I * footpath lyetween a fence ,paling i and a convenient post about a foot i above the ground, and wait in con- . * oealment for it to. trip someone up. 3 Only recently a lady was descending " ( % + V, nr- St? e? rade of Hay S^eet ; (off the Oriental Bay Parade, Welling- • ton), when by such a device she was , thrown to the ground, with the result , that she grazed and scratched her arm ( bruised her side, and only by luck { escaped knocking her head on tho : ffll ;«,s°i seve'e as th« wrench the . fall gave her, that one of the heels of her shoe was torn off. and the uppers ; j were cut and scratched badly