LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 2562, 20 December 1924, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ulimaroa left' Sydney at 11 O'clock last night for Auckland. ! A. J. L, Saciller; captain of the'Nelson College cricket eleven, is a son of the Anglican Bishop of Nelson. The Nelson College cricket team leaves by the mid-day train for Taranaki to fulfil an engagement with New Plymouth Boys’ High School on Monday. The aggregate ngeg of the eight members at yesterday’s meeting ot the New Zealand Association of His ’Majesty’s Veterans was C 53, and the average 81 years. At the -Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, a clerk named Thomas Dolan was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for failure to account for £lB 10/., to ‘Mamaku Forests Ltd, Five Chinese were charged In the Auckland Police Coprt yesterday that they unlawfully attempted to enter New Zealand without paying poll tax. and were remanded until Tuesday They were stowaways from Suva on the steamer Kaiwarra.

"This book is long-sustained shriek of usual Bolshevik pitch,” said Mr Poynton, S.M., in sentencing two Auckland Communists on charges ot selling propaganda yesterday. "It might have been written by a homicidal maniac, so many are its incitcmcnls to violence and threats of massacre,”

| At a meeting, in Dunedin, of shareholders of the New Zealand Hardware Company, a resolution was confirmed to go into voluntary liquidation. This company, with branches at Invercargill and Tlmaru. is one of the oldest hardware enterprises in the Dominion.

In connection with the T.M.C.A. boys' camp to bo held in the Pohangina Valley, tho general secretary in the association reported that thorn is room for a larger number of boys than have already been enrolled, ana the board of directors has decided to open the camp to boys between the ages of 12 and 18, whether (hoy are members of the association of not. Wellington is definitely to have its regular motor ’bus services, but here tho 'buses will work for the Corporation, not against it. It was decided at a special meeting of the City Council, on tho recommendation of tho transport board, to secure two motor 'bus chassis, to be used as passengers conveyances. Tho bodies, are to be made locally, on plans to bo supplied by tho Council’s draughtsman. One of these 'buses .will be tried out on the Newtown-Mclrose run, and the other on a service yet to be decided. ; “Has tho life of tho blue-gum trees been thoroughly gone into by tho engineers?” queried Mr MacManaway, at a meeting of the Wanganul-Rangi-tikei Electric Power Board when the purchase of a number of blue-gum polos was under consideration. Tho consulting engineer, (Mr Templin), replied in the affirmative, and pointed out that the life of tho gum-trees should ho up to 12 V years. His experience of. tho undertaking that ho was connected with was that polos used four years ago, and treated with preservative, wore just as good now' as when they wore put in. A man who has had 40 to 50 years’ experience with blue-gum poles had also assured him that they -were quite satisfactory. "It is most extraordinary the manner in which the Rotary Clubs in England and America arc increasing, and the great work they are doing.” said Mr A. J. Hutchinson, the enthusiastic secretary of tho Auckland Rotary Club, who returned from an extensive tour by the Marania on Tuesday last. He attended the conference known as Rotary Internationale at Toronto, where Hon. George Eowlds spoke, and then went to Eastbourne, England, to another conference. Mr Hutchinson said that tho outstanding characteristic of tho English Rotary Clubs was the enthusiasm of tiro members, who at present are aiming at co-operation between employees and employers in business, Rotarian Pascnll, the well-known sweet manufacturer, being the leading light in tliis movement. Butchers’ shops in Palmerston will be open on Wednesday (Christmas Eve), till 5 p.m., will close on Saturday, December 27, at 11 a.m.; open on Wednesday (New Year's Eve) till 5 p.m.; closing' on Saturday, January 3rd, at 12 noon. Leno tho favourite material for fancy dresses, window coverings, milk jug covers, Christmas stockings, etc., is now obtainable from The C. M. Ross Co. Ltd. Showing in white, black red, amber, helio, pink and sky. 3Gins. wide, 1/- yard- Christmas Carnival Price.