LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 26 January 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"■"'"" " " " ♦'■" —.■—■■ M, The Wanganui Education Board has decided to invite applications for an • assistant at the Mamitahi school, which has gone up in grade. The tides have been on several occasions lately extraordinarily high on I this coast. Last Wednesday was the highest noted at the beach, the waves coming up beyond the bottom of the ' road on to the beach. , A resident of Oamaru is experimenting m the growing of the cotton plant m a hothouse. He has received a ! samplp from Queensland.. Mr Tmneaux, one of the wireless operators on the stranded Port Elliot held a similar offiofoh the sleamer Wiltshire, which was wrecked on the breat Barrier last year. It was mentioned at the Hawera onamber ot Commerce meeting last evening that a fairly large sum was m hand for the purpose of making a present to Mr G. H. Rhodie, but as some persons had not yet had an opportunity of subscribing it was left i with Messrs Gillanders, Taylor and Bennett to c^ect any further subscriptions, and. close the list. The Eltham Road correspondent of the Opunake Times, writing under date August 14, 1894, said: The two greatest barriers to our progress are bad (roads and bachelors. There are 70 bachelors on the road between Opunake and Kaponga, holding all told about 5500 acres of cleared land, and none have gone in for dairying.- This means a big loss to the province. Most of these bachelors are willing and even anxious to marry, but the local supply of marriageable girls is restricted, and p.s a consequence difficult to please. It is evident that if we wish to rid owr■selves of this bachelor problem by marrying them (and we wouldn't like to see them lost in any ot^er way) the or>t«K)e market must be called into requisition. 9

According to a letter received by the YYanganui Education Board from tho \Vaverley School Committee, the late teacher left on account of the lack of classroom accommodation at the school. lhe letter was received. "I have pleasure in informing the board, said Mr J. Petherick. chairman of the Social Welfare Committee of the Wellington Hospital Board at lhursday's meeting, "that the number of unemployed seeking relief from the committee now stands at two. In all my connection with the board I have never known such a satisfactory state of affairs. It is easily a record. The amount paid out in relief under the heading of unemployment only amounted to £6 for 1 tho month." Says tho Oakura correspondent of the Herald: It is rumoured that some of the Oakura bachelors will be getting married soon. Let us hone that it is true, as it is a good while now since the last ono got married. Perhaps tho Oakura girls will take advantage of Leap Year. 1 The prompt action of Wilfred Smith and L. Shippey, members of the Surf Club, saved a young married woman from a serious and perhaps fatal drowning accident at tho lake on Sunday (says the Opunake Times). This bather, who got into difficulties, was brought safely ashore by these boys, who were patrolling the lake. The accident emphasises the need for the placing of a I plain wire or wire rope across the lake This would savo swimmers in trouble. j At the "Nicht wi' Burns" the chair, man introduced the question of continuing the anniversary function and invited a short discussion. Several speak- , ers expressed strong approval of the i idea, and then a motion wasscarriod unanimously deciding to perpetuate the memory of tho poet by an annual gathering, and suggesting that a meeting bo called at an early dut« to consider the formation of a Scottish So- ! ! ciety or a Burns Club. Tho chairman ' promised that he would see the wish of the meeting carried out without /delay, * j I A first offender for drunkenness, who on arriving in Hawera by the mail train last night made himself objectionable and^Bfts arrested by Constable Mullen, was fined £1, the'amount # of his bail, by Mr. G. JHL Buckoridge, J.P., this morning. -' f j The Suggestion that pebteardfe of characteristic New Zealand life and scenery be dispatched to firms, rela- , • tives. parent firms, etc., in £he Old ! Country, reminding them not to fail to visit the New Zealand court at the Exhibition, was enthusiastically supported by the Hawera Chamber of Commorco last night. If mailing ar- ' rangements remain as scheduled "Post card Day" will bo held on Friday! April 25. |