Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3830, 11 August 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

While engaged in wood eid ting at the plantation yesterday, Air. A. England had the misfortune to severely gash his foot with an axe. The injury necessitated the insertion of several stitches and Mr. England will he incapacitated for some time to come.

Over fifty pupils of the local State School accompanied the local Primary School reps, to Wellington this morning under the charge pf Messrs C. Procter and Chipper. They left Foxjon at 7 a.m. for Levin per Mr. Rout’s char-a-banc where they entrained and will return this evening.

In a letter to the Waikato Hospital Board Bishop Cleary expresses appreciation of the treatment he received while he was an inmate of the Waikato Hospital a motor accident in which he was injured. In addition to paying the hospital fees, Bishop Cleary made .a donation of seventeen guineas to the board.

In referring to the uses to which tow could be put; at Thursday’s meeting of the New Zealand Flaxmillers’ Association, Air. Goldfinch, who has just recently returned from a holiday in Australia, stated that in Australia dadoes as we know them in New Zealand are unknown. Plaster hoard was used exclusively and this plaster board was made principally of sisal tow. A pleasant social function took place in All Saints’ Schoolroom last evening, when a twenty.-first birthday party was tendered Aliss D. Griffin by Mrs. G. Small. The schoolroom was nicely decorated and dancing was indulged in until a lale hour. Aliss Griffin was the recipient of numerous gifts and congratulations from her many friends.

The popular Methodist Maori Mission party which is to visit Foxton on the 15th, is said to be the most interesting group that have ever travelled, together. The members are of varying ages and of both sexes and are prominent representatives of great Maori tribes. They differ greatly in appearance and speak different dialects.. The party has attracted great audiences everywhere. The vocalists and instrumentalists as well as the orators have won the highest praise from the press in all our cities.

A correspondent of the Invercargill News bewails the publicity given in the newspapers to the following “news” from the capital of Southland: (1) Petition to Parliament praying for financial assistance in connection with the hydro scheme. (2) Wading through swamps after a whiskey still. (3) “Sacking” of the engineer. (4) No one wauls Town Clerk’s appointment at £9OO a year. Council turned down three times. (5) Soup kitchens started in Invercargill. Many women and 'children practically starving. To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Hot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for the ladies dainty morning and afternoon tea, 9d. Rest room for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunkct Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.* A deputation representing the Alliance of Labour and freezing workers, asked the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. llawkeu) to do something to relieve the position arising from the reduced activity in the fellmongoring industry, coupled with the increase in the number of unIren ted skins exported. The Minister said the situation had peculiar features. Not many more skins were exported than formerly, and it appeared as if the work was going to freezing works men who had been thrown out of work and must be employed somewhere. He would make inquiries.

A satisfactory year’s working is recorded in the Shannon Co-opera-tive Dairy Company’s report, an increase being shown both in butterfat payment and production over the figures for the previous year. The average monthly payment was 16.635(1., while provision has been made for a further payment of I*2 cl per lb. of the season’s supply, bringing butter-fat payment for the year to 18.385 d. The average grade was 94.26, all butter being finest grades. A slight increase was also shown in the store business. The balance-sheet shows that sales totalled about £126,069.