LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 3 June 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"33iose in favour of smoking at the Council table say a^e," said the chairman <air. Campbell Johnstone) at tha annual meeting of the Raglan County Council, it being an annual custom of this local body vo pat this point.to the vote Ev(. •ryoiio said "aye" with much alacrsty, ;hh! the motion was carried unammrmsfv.

A itioKir lon v. loaded with furniture, whiel: v\:i« f!i i:s way from Waverley to Merfiin-.rc; -.aiisi/.ed on the Manutahi Hill y<s:i-;>i.tv afternoon. It seemed thai i'-.u- iliii.!. slipped when nearing the >n nt the hill, and the lorry ran bar); into Hio water-table and overturn-■!. .\n t.iii.' was hurt, and as far as <"n;i(i bo seen neither the motor lorry ihu- ~h<: furniture suffered much

damnr.

A >(.-:-iruis accident happened at the construeLkui of the new dairy factory at Miiihirst yesterday morning, when William McQuay, of Orlando street, .Stratfosil, had his arm caught in the concrete mixer and severely crushed (says tIM) Stratford Post). After receiving £r.st aid, he was taken to toe Stratford Hospital, where the injured member ysyjs attended to by Dr Steven. The patient is progressing as well as ■can ,be -expected.

A farmer ,at the Union banquet at Jfeilding qxl Thursday night was responding jfco ,& toast when all of a suddejj he stopped as if groping for a word. "Butter-fat," eaHed out a Wairarapa delegate. MenSSon of the word worked like magic on the dairyman who immedi. iitely picked up ifae thread of his speech and carried on.

"It is one of the aftermaths of our eirHisaition that people can enjoy themselves in fojjjming the sport of raeieg to such as alarming extent," said His Honour fhs €hief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), when counsel had touched on the subject in the Supreme Court at Wellington on Friday. "The growth of the sport in recent years has been marvellous, ajid there is not a day passes but one fi».<J» the papers full of such reports. . . In the olden days many towns had their one meeting a year and that sufficed, but now .'' His Honor smiled.

Wanganui and its progress were accorded flattering commendation at a Napier City Council meeting, Crs J. C. Bryant aud C. Roy Spackman both instancing the great development brought about in Wanganui suburban areas by. the extension of the tram service. The* Mayor (Mr J. B. Andrew) also referred to suburban expansion -in Wanganui, saying that twenty years ago he was offered three acres for £100 per acre, while fifteen years later a quarter acre sction of the same block sold for £450. —Telegraph.

Miss Vera Macmillan, the pluekv New Zealand horsewoman whose fall at the sod wall was the most serious at the Sydney Royal Show, has every chance of recovery (states an exchange). The advice of medical men is that she is extremely fortunate. The spinal cord is intact, and the object now will be to give the fracture a chance, to knit. It is certain that with no complications she will recover, though her chances of riding horses again are slender. She continues cheerful, and is grateful for the kindness Sydney has shown her.

Joxton possesses a musical prodigy --a young girl who will not be thir*teen until next month—who, at the last Trinity College examinations was awarded a certificate of special merit tor piano playing, and next year w ill sit for-her A.T.C.L. examination. At eight years of age she passed the lunior examination, nine years the intermediate, ten years the senior, eleven years higher, local examination with honours. At the last-mentioned exam mation the examiner strongly advised those having control of her work to keep her from going for her letters for at least two years.

Why should I pay 5s a week for her to drink?" was the retort of a man in the Magistrate's Court, Auckland when Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., suggested that the sum mentioned should be paid as maintenance. "She was never like a mother to me—l've never been with her since I was four years old," he added, with a touch of bitterness. •Never mind, she is your mother, you know," replied the magistrate, "and it s better that you should pay it than that it be passed on to the public Five shillings a W€e k won't hurt you, even though you earn only £4 10s" pay 30s rent, and have a wife and child to supm v'» You'n Ust have *° deny your-