LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 5 June 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Hawera branch of the Taranaki lowers Mutual Fire Insurance Association lias removed its office to the l^t Buildi"gs> No. 4, Regent Notice has been given by the Tahora bottlers Association of their intention to apply for permission to erect arab bit proof gate across Ohura Road. At a meeting of the Opunake Seaside bociety on Friday night, the tender of Mr. T. J. Quinn of £91 was accepted for a year's lease of the pavilion I his works out at 35s a week for the 52 weeks. Mr. Quinn, who is a returned soldier, has had considerable catering experience.—Times. M h*?£ Tl°" daiJ ,m? rfc was organised by the Ihaia Road ladies, in aid of the lhaia road school gramaphone fund' the sum of £9 5s was realised The various competitions resulted: Marbles in bottle (120) prize fruit dish, Mr D King; Wns in bottle (678 n prize, t«rl key, Mrs Kirkwood; drake, won by Miss Perry. J A keen Maori sportsman, who has been some time at. Opunake, had a successful outing yesterday among the pheasants, and returned to Hawera this niormng with a good bag. As he passed along the street carrying his game he was the centre of interest, and apparently there is plenty of sport awaiting sportsmen in the district. Mr. Clutha Mackenzie reports that the total revenue received to date for the benefit of the blind from the royalties on New Zealand sales of St ■«unsta.n.fi cigarettes, according to the contract, from the manufacturers and s merchants i s as follow: £68 10s to the W.Z commercial travellers' blinded soldiers and sailors' fund; £68 10s to St. Dunstan's Hostel for Blinded S 9 k diers and Sailors, London; and £MZ 12s lid to the Sir Arthur Pearson Memonal Fund for the benefit of the | civilian blind in the Dominion. J\? ll° Pl ttuth ut Welli»Ston ratepayers will rise to the occasion and carrY a loan proposal to pave the main city gathering of road-builders on Saturday evening. "Everyone knows perfectly wed that macadam road s do not stand up to modern traffic. I hope that the ratepayers will realise that it will not ! co,^. *liem a Penny more, and that in addition to the great improvement in the roads themselves we will do away m,- V™' 7 vlcious ""isance, the dust Sir Samuel Fay (one of the experts chosen for the N.Z. Railway Commission) has had a wide experience of the administration and management of railways. As far back as 1892 he was the general manager of the Midland and bouth-VY estern Junction railway. His | expert knowledge has been utilised on ; commissions on many occasions at Home. He was Director-General of Movements and Railways, War Office and member of the Army Council in 1918-19. Sir Vincent Raven (the other expert) was appointed chief mechanical engineer of the North-Eastern Railway Company in 1910. During the war lie was chief superintendent of the Royal Arsenal Factories, Woolwich, in 1915-17, and Controller of Armament Production at the Admiralty in 1917. He returned to the North-Eastern Company -in 1919 as chief mechanical engineer.