LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3443, 15 March 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual general meeting of the Pio Pio Football Club will be held in the Pio Pio Town Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 p.m. A .full attendance of members and intending members is requested.

Three Te Kuiti anglers had some excellent fishing during the weekend at Atiamuri, in the upper Waikato River. They arrived on Saturday afternoon, and fished until the evening and throughout the next day, gaining in all a bag of 57 trout.

Italy has an Unemployed Insurance Act, but it is a very modest one. The benefits are small and given under conditions less liberal than in Britain. Thus at the end of September the number of Italian unemployed was officially estimated at 748,000, inclusive of 163,000 agricultural labourers. The number enjoying benefits, however, was only 234,000.' Instead of paying unemployment benefit a national endeavour is being made to give good employment. As many as 2038 great public works were inaugurated in October, including important land reclamation and rural hygiene works.

One member of the South African cricket team who will have a lasting impression of L. Nash, the Australian fast bowler, is E. L. Dalton. When the tourists were in Tasmania a rising ball from Nash struck Dalton on the jaw, and it was discovered subsequently by X-ray examination that the jawbone had been fractured. Dalton's jaw was wired to such an extent in the process of having the breaks mended that the player was able to open his mouth but little in taking food. With the jaw prevented from functioning, there was a danger of the player choking in the event of any solid food collecting in the throat, and as a precaution Dalton carried a special pair of wire-cutters until such time as the jaw had mended.

One instance in which the new import duties are operating in favour of English manufacturers, by diversion of trade, is furnished by the item of electric stoves handled by the Poverty Bay Power Board. Previously, after careful investigation of what the consumers wanted, the board was able to place regular orders for a certain make of electric cooker, while at the same time keeping in touch with suppliers of other types which might be favoured by individual purchasers. The "bread-and-butter" line was manufactured in Canada, and in the course of the past few years a considerable number of this make has been installed in Poverty Bay. As a result of the new duties imposed, however, the installed cost of this cooker has advanced by several pounds, and the board has been forced to look elsewhere, for a substitute line at the price-level formerly occupied by the Canadian cooker. This has been found in an English manufacturer's line, which can be installed at approximately the same cost as the Canadian cooker prior to the imposition of the duties.

At the Borough Council meeting last night, the Borough Engineer, Mr. B. J. Drake, announced that he had been successful in gaining the diploma of the Royal Sanitary Institute.

Mrs. Stillwell presided over a very good attendance of members at the Hangatiki Women's Institute meeting held on March 10th. Mrs. Saunders gave a very interesting lecture with demonstrations on home nursing, a hearty vote of thanks being accorded for same. An amusing competition, "Eyeing the Pig," was won by Mrs. Cook. The hostesses for the afternoon were Mesdames Horn, Beable, and B. Board.

"Swagmen and sundowners are not the only men met with on the roads in Australia," writes a correspondent to the Christchurch Star. "Another type is the ordinary hobo or tramp, a product, probably, of hard times, who dodges work for all he knows and shifts from place to place when he can by riding on trains. 'Jumping the rattler' has become a popular pastime with them." In one country district a statio'nmaster detected several non-paying passengers in the top tier of an empty sheep truck. He thought, "I'll shift these hoboes," but what he said wash* "Terminus, gentlemen! Will you kindly alight?"- They willed not to do so. The S.M. announced his intention of going for his gun, and strode into the office. Entered the engine-driver with a detonator, which he secretly placed on the rail in front of a wheel of the truck. As the §.M. came back to the truck with his hand in his jacket the driver gave the engine a jerk and the detonator exploded. The hoboes tumbled out of the truck and vanished, vowing that the S.M. had tried to shoot them up. The train went on without remark or any non-paying passengers.