LOCAL AND GENERAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1776, 16 January 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kopaki has collected its quota for the war memorial, and the full amount has been forwarded to the secretary. It is now expected that a start will shortly be made with the erection of the monument.

During 1922 there were 73 bankruptcies in Hawke's Bay, says the Daily Telegraph, being an increase of 46 over those recorded the previous year. In 1920 the figures were 10.

A man named Robert Ferguson Hay, alias Healy, has been arrested in Hamilton on a charge of stealing a motor-cycle at Rangiotu, near Palmerston North, as far back as April, 1918. Accused was remanded to appear at Palmerston North.

"The tone of the wool and lamb markets and the prospective good yields from the wheat crop are' producing a cheery feeling among the farmers of Canterbury," writes an Aucklander who is revisiting that district. "Throughout the province a spirit of optimism has replaced the foreboding gloom of last year. The wheat crops are distinctly promising, and although the acreage is less, the average yield will probably be much higher than last year's."

Local cricketers are combining to hold a dance in the Municipal Hall on Thursday next at 8 pan. Flannels are optional, and an enjoyable evening's amusement is guaranteed.

It is stated that on the West Coast a new religious sect has sprung into existence, calling itself the "Toilers' Church," with its headquarters at Millerton. It is proposed to make the services doubly attractive by the introduction of motion pictures.

In speaking of the ultra-modern young woman it is no longer up-to-date to use the term "flapper." They are now called "Easter eggs," because they are hand-painted on the outside, and hard-boiled on the inside!

The following cricketers will journey to Taumarunui to meet the KingCountry Association to-morrow, players to leave by 5 a.m. train:—Bennett, Dingle, Pope, Davidson, McIndoe, Latta, Lusk, Liddle, Eassey, Shearer, Stewart, Kitto.

Sir Harry Lauder, who is on his way to America, has a bet of ninepence with Sir Thomas Lipton that he will reach the United States first. It is thought that Sir Thomas Lipton arranged this in order to keep the famous comedian's mind off the trouble in the Near East.

Messrs R. Veale and J. Sparks, who have started on their return cycle trip from New Plymouth to Te Kuiti, are enthusiastic about the wonderful scenery met with on the Tongaratoa gorge. The cyclists were held up for two days at Ohura by incessant rain. They are expected to arrive in Te Kuiti to-day.

A Wellington correspondent telegraphs that a project is afoot to get about 200 American tourists over to New Zealand next summer on a personally conducted tour. Captain C. Macdonald, M.C., of the White Star Association, has the matter in hand. Mountaineers, anglers, and others will be specially catered for.

A peculiar accident occurred at Raetihi last Saturday. Mr A. J. Laird was lime washing, and added some milk to the lime. One of his two little sons .added more milk to the fime, when an explosion took place. One little fellow was so badly injured that he had to be immediately taken to the hospital.

"Sport is gone in for extensively in South Africa," stated Mr Hobbsr who recently returned to the Dominion after an absence 'of 20 years. "You know what the footballers can do, and you are reading in the cables how the cricketers are playing against the Englishmen—a team superior to the one in New Zealand at present; whilst the secondary schools athletic records eclipse the Australian and New Zealand track records."

During the course of conversation at Wanganui, Mr G. Cook, Government Wool Instructor, stated that in every part of New Zealand he had visited this season there was an abundance of feed and also some very fine grain crops. He was advising farmers wherever he went not to let the feed go to waste, but to save it where possible for hay. Even if not required during the present winter, it might be handy on some other occasion.

"You can't die cheaply," remarked a member of the Pahiatua County Council when social welfare matters were under consideration, and assistance had been asked for funeral expenses of a former resident who died in another district (reports the Pahiatua Herald). Then there followed a little dicussion on undertakers' fees. Not only was the cost of li,ving high, but also the cost of dying.- Someone said that £25 sufficed for only an ordinary burial. The request for financial aid was referred to the Hospital Board in the district where the funeral took place.

Dissatisfaction with the methods employed by the Audit Department was expressed by the chairman of the Stratford Hospital Board at a recent meeting (says the Taranaki Daily News). The audit of the board's books had just been completed for the first time in three years. Despite the fact that auditing work in Taranaki had greatly increased during recent years, the auditing staff had not been increased for twenty years. The Government was really responsible in some degree for the embezzlements and defalcations which were taking place. The Hospital Board had employed a young lady to do the preliminary work and totalling prior to the auditor's visit, thus reducing the auditing expenses by about half. It was suggested that the Audit Department should employ, say, two young men with adding machines to visit the local bodies in the Taranaki district and do the preliminary work ,before the auditor paid his annual visit. It would then be possible to have the audit completed every year and secure greater efficiency and safety.

Special arrangements are now being made for slogans advertising New Zealand-made goods to be placed on leading railway stations throughout New Zealand. The campaign is being run by the manufacturers J through the Industrial Corporation. It is understood that the scheme is meeting with the general approval of manufacturers' associations, states the Lyttelton Times. Each centre ,< will contribute its share of the costs, and it is intended to use part of the surplus from the Dominion Industrial Exhibition just concluded in Christchurch to defray Canterbury's share, "for the money we made out of the enterprise belongs entirely to the Canterbury section," said Mr W. J. Jenkin, president of the Industrial Corporation.

"Can the stumps be reinstated after a match has been declared to be won and the discovery is made, on perusal of the score-book, that the necessary runs have not been obtained?" This question came under the notice of the Wellington Cricket Association's Management Committee last evening in the form of an application from the Umpires' Association fori a ruling regarding the procedure adopted in a recent junior A grade match. When stumps had been drawn it was found that another run was necessary for victory. It was stated that one of the umpires was present when the discovery was made, ..>! but objected to reinstating the stumps. The teams thereupon decided to resume, and the necessary scoring stroke was made. The committee decided to ask the two captains to submit a statement of the facts of the case.