LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 21, 14 March 1938, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bowling, tennis, and cricket reports arc held over until Thursday. The Kaikoura ram and ewe fair takes place to-day, when about 10,090 sheep will be submitted to auction. The N.Z. Labour Party advise residents to be careful of bogus collectors, and to be sure to obtain an official receipt. A dance will be held in the I’uketa Hall (Kahautara) on Friday night, in aid of the funds for the Beautifying Soociety’s Blue Queen. Air Rnymnnd Gibson, formerly of Kaikoura. now residing at Dargaville, arrived in Kaikoura on Thursday, and leaves for the north to-day. Tin* Flaxbourne Show will be held at Ward on April 9. Entries close on Saturday next at 9 p.m. Entries may be made by ringing telephone <>. Ward. A cake and produce stall will be held at West End on Saturday next in aid of the Beautifying Society’s Blue Queen. Mr and Mrs Dan Foley left for the south on Thursday, 31r Foley having engagements on the West Coast and South Canterbury. A dance will bo held in FernJeigh Woolshed on Friday night, March 18, in aid of the Green Queen fund for the Kaikoura Beautifving Socoiety. Nominations in connection with St. Patrick’s Sports have been extended until Wednesday next, at 7 p.m. The sports will be held on Alarch 2<i. If vou require a radio set, battery or electric model. Freight Services can supplv your needs, ami also give you the best of service. Free service for testing valves, etc. A dance will be held in the Drill Tbdl on Saturday under the joint supervision uf the Road Race and St. Patrick's sports committees. A good supper is to be provided. The. Pope has consented to the marriage of King Zog of Albania and Countess Apponyi, which hais been arranged to take place at Tirana on April 27. Albanians feel that the Papal consent strengthens King Zog’s position in Albania. Mr Les Sabistono is at present spending a holiday in Kaikoura. Playing for Kaikoura against Culverden yesterday he compiled 115 of the 259 scored ami was then run out. Culverden pul up a score of 218. Details of the play will appeal - in our next issue. After crossing the Yellow River north of Shansi, the Japanese were hurled back bj r irresistible, Chinese counter attacks. The Japanese are now shelling the Chinese positions across the. river. A message from Shanghai says that the Japanese compute the Chinese casualties to date to be 800,000. It is estimated that 500,000 are now operating on the various fronts. Work for 375 unemployed is provided under a schedule of undertakings for the next 12 months adopted by the Waimakariri River Trust. The list of projects was presented to the trust by the engineer, Mr H. W. Harris, who said that the Hon. IL T. Armstrong, Minister for Employment, had asked to be notified as soon as possible of work for 12 months ahead which the trust could provide under the No. 13 scheme. The following cablegram from Hankow has been received by the Chinese Consul: ”A military spokesman stated that the Chinese will defend Shansi to the last man, and ar« determined not to retire across the Yellow River. They have destroyed all bridges and railway carriages on the. southern sector of the Tung Pu railway, and all vessels and junks belonging to persons near FengUn have been removed elsewhere.” 31 r Sam Goldwyn, the cinema producer, predicted the doom of Hollywood unless it ceases manufacturing second-rate movies in wholesale lots. “It is a serious situation.” he said, “when almost anyone able to write his own name can earn 1000 dollars a wook as a scenario writer and nearly anybody, if he has sufficient confidence in himself, can become a producer.” Richard Whitney and Company, one of the most important brokerage firms in the United States, has been suspended from the Stock Exchange on the grounds of insolvency, after Mr Whitney’s admission that he was unable to meet his obligations. Mr Whit ney was five times president of the exchange, and a former broker for Mr I J. P. Aforgan. He has been a member of the exchange since 1912. His bankruptcy caused excitement in market circles, ami coutri-buted to an early decline in stocks of from one to three points. Mad niusir .shrieks from dusk to dawn. Like rasping groans where -Logs ii,re sawn. While gasping patients craving sleep In anguish how their heads and weep. Mad music on the midnight air Derides the meanings of despair, Where sufferers strive to ease assure With soothing Woods - Great Peppermint

A euchre tournament will bo hold in the Suburban Hall to-morrow (Tuesday) night, in aid of the Blue Queen. A Yankee tournament was played on the Txaikoura Club’s courts on Saturday for a trophy donated by Mr G. C. C. Wallace. The winners were Mr G. May and Mrs E. H. Morris. The opening dance held at Puketa (Kahautnra) Y.M.C.A. Hall on Friday night was a most successful function, not wit thstanding the inclement weather. The Aniseed Orchestra supplied the music which was greatly appreciated. An excellent supper was provided, and dancing was kept going merrillv until the early hours of Saturday. The death of Mr Frederick Joseph Nathan, managing director of the firm of Joseph Nathan, Ltd., took place on Wednesday at the age of 67 years. He was Mayor of Palmerston North from 1923-28, during which period many of the city’s modern amenities were completed. He was the prime mover in the establishment of Massey College, and played a large part in numerous cultural and social organisations. He was for several years president of the New Zealand Horticultural Societ.v and a former member of the Town Planning Board. He. was also keenly interested in racing. He was a vice-president of the Manawatu Pacing Club, and owned several horses. He was a son of the late Mr J. E. Nathan, and was born at ‘Wellington in 1871, Judgment for plaintiff for £235 8/6 special damages and £350 general damages was awarded by a jury in the Supreme Court, Napier, in a claim by Norman Walker from Matthew Ferrick, for £1235 8/6. Walker claimed £lOOO general damages and £235 8/6 special damages for damage done to a motorcar and injuries received in a motor accident at Hastings last ’May. The liability was not disputed by the defendant, the only question being what damages should be awarded. The national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party has endorsed the selection of Mr P. MacGregor Stewart as the Labour Party ? s candidate for the Kaipara seat at the next General Election. Mr Stewart is a farmer and a well-known figure owing to his public activities on behalf of the farming community. Of Scottish descent, Mr : Stewart was born in Peterborough, England, and joined the Imperial Army He was four and a half years with the Machine-gun corps during the war before he was 21 years of age, nearly three years of this period being spent in the trenches in France.

”1 suggested to the Prime Ministcr (Alr Chamberlain) that we should put a similar embargo on Now Zealand butter and lamb,” said Mr H. Hoyle, secretary to the Rossendale Valley Boot, Shoe, and Slipper Association, when interviewed by the Manchester Guardian about cabled protests to New Zealand on the footwear tariff. “We intend to approach the Department of OverSeas Trade when the question of tariff adjustment arises, ” he said. “The livelihood of .8000 operatives depends partly on the New Zealand market. They will be urged to boycott New Zealand produce.”

The Department of the Interior announee.l that the coastguard vessel Taney has left Honolulu to possess and colonise Canton and Enderbury Islands in the Phoenix Group. The Taney is carrying American citizens, who will take up residence on tire islands. Plans and building material are also carried to establish homes there. The Taney is taking a party of Hawaiian.? to Ender.burv Island, says the New York Times Washington correspondent. The colonists on the islands will collect meteorological data rind will ma.ke radio contact daily with Hawaii. Lighthouses will he constructed at Enderbury, Canton. Howland, -Tarvis, and Baker Islands.