LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 30 November 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Several important points of la.v are involved in the reserved judgment given by Mr E. W. Burton, S.M., in the WWangarei "anti-shouting" case. The judgment appears in extenso on •pages 1 and 4 of to-day's "Advocate" issue. ,«—A resolution introduced by Mrs Baume was unanimously adopted by the Auckland Education Board yesterday, the text being as follows: —"That this Board urgently recommend to the Department of Justice the apopintment of women police for protective work among girls and women." It was also decided to send copies of the resolution to each education board and to all Crown ministers and members of Parliament. Some fine stock loft Whangarei by the Kaiueri yesterday evening for the Auckland Show. Mr 11. Hutchinson, Iluanui, sent a fine Shorthorn bull, and he has also purchased another bull in Palmerston which will be entered. Mr Roland Hill shipped two Jersey bulls and one heifer; Mr C. Stevens one bull and five other Jerseys; Mr ]\ r James one Clydesdale horse ("Reform") and a pony and Mr Sloane three hacks.

Proof of the careful instruction which the Boy Scouts of Whangarei receive and of the intelligent interest they take in their work was forthcoming last night at the concert .given in the municipal theatre. The first display was the more practical of the two which were made. Two Scouts find ("in supposition) a drowning man, and in the rush to the rescue ono of the Scouts falls and breaks his leg. The unwounded Scout gets the man out of the water and then signals for help, whereupon other Scouts answer the summons and help in the restoration of the man who is surfeited with water, and in setting the Scout's broken leg. Then they make a stretefier out of their shirts and bear their injured comrade nway to the nearest ambulance.

The flotsam and jetsam from the wreck of the Tongariro near Portland Island has come ashore in quantities on the East Coast as far round as Opotiki (says the Gisborne "Herald"). During his recent visit to the coast, Mr W. E. Goffc collected a large number of interesting relics and articles that have been strewn along the beaches, His object in doing so was to exhibit the articles at some function, indicating where they were found, so as to show the trend of the ocean currents. Mr Goffc reports a phenomenal death-rate amongst penguins, and this is considered to be attributable to some poisonous matter which has escaped from the Tongariro wreck, and which is scattered about the beach in large quantities. Dead penguins were to be seen on the beaches between Tologa Bay and Hicks Bay, and further on as reported by the natives.