LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 24 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

This afternoon the primary schools called a halt for the mid-winter vacation. The next term viil beg." on Tuesday, July 5. Two old men were charged at tho. Whano-avei Courthouse this mornmg, before Mr C H. Chmell, J.P.. with drunkenness. One of them was a -tatutory second offender. Ho was fined 10* and tho first offender ss. The following players will represent Old Boys. Club in the hockey match against Mangapai to-morrow afternoon.— Organ; Campbell and Sloane; Fell, Trask and Begbie; Munro, Radford. Massey, Shepherd and McGregor. The following vessels should be within range of the undermentioned wireless stations to-night.—Awanm Maheno. Riverina, Canadian Winner, Moeraki. Wanaka and Ulimaroa; Auckland—Kia Ora, Woodarra, Katoa, Waiotapu, Makura and Koromiko; Awarua—Paloona, ship France and Westralia; Wellington—Waihora, Maori, Mararoa, Mapour'.ka, Eastern Crown, Kaikoura, Surrey. Kaiapoi, A u . awa , H.M.S. Chatham. Kanna a*ul WhakaHne; Chatham**— Mahin.. Somerset end Por.i Vtoor. The Hobson County Council is suggesting that local bodies in the North should take combined action in relation to traffic regulation. In a letter to the Whangarei County Council it suggest, that the Whangarei, Otamatea and Hobson County Councils- and the Whangarei and Dargaville Borough Councils should hold a conference, with a view to fixing uniform license fees for vehicles, speed limits, qualifications and age of motor drivers, and so on. The Whangarei County Council will consider the proposal at its next meeting. A tribute to the intitative and independence of Whangarei school children was paid by Mr E. A. Power, the headmaster, in the course of his remarks at the Parochial Hall last night. In examining standard 6 Mr Fower gave them the following sentence to correct: —"The soldier jumped into the river and drunk his full.'" After going through a number of papers he came to one that bore this comment: —"Wrong. A soldier can't drink his fi11. , " Such an exposition of reasoning power, Mr Power added, was characteristic of the Whangarei children. The half-yearly sale being conducted at Mr R. G. Hosking s drapery and outfitting establishment in Cameron Street has attracted a marked patronage clearly denoting that purchasers are alive to the opportunities afforded of securing- seasonable requirements at bargain prices. The sale of rain coats, at the specially reduced prices has been remarkable, and Mr Hosking has stated that ths demand for has also been extraordinary. In every department the staff has been kept very busy and the public has shown eagerness to take advantage of the sale which is taking place in accordance with Mr Hosking's practice of holding regular summer and winter sales at bedrocV prices.* The committee of the Whangarei Arts and Literary Society met in the Society's room, James Street, yesterday afternoon; present—Mr O. P. Owen (vice-president), Mesdames Wilkinson, Briggs and Younghusband, and Mr G. Woolley. It was resolved that the first open meeting should be held on Monday, June 27, at 7.30 p.m. in the Society's room. Business for the evening to consist of further election of officers and committee, drawing up the constitution and general rules, and this work to be interspersed with a few musical items. It was desired that all intending members will forward their names and addresses, and the subscription of 10s, to the honorary secretary, Mi's Younghusband. The Dunedin City Council is making an appeal to the ratepayers to pay their rates promptly, owing to the present financial stringency. The amount of rates involved is £144,000. It is estimated that if the amount of interest, £5,500, was saved and utilised for the benefit of the ratepayers instead of going to swell the profits of the bank, it would employ over twenty men. all the year round, or in the alternative, would enable the L-ate s to be reduced by 2d. in the '£. [f the ratepayers avail themselves of ;he grace allowed by the law, in pay- j ng , their rates in December next, t means that the Council will have to t contribute over £5,000 a year to the noney-lender. I

; •'There is nothing , can propress in i ihii world vml&ss it get's into the i nfiVv.-.pappi"?, ,, ivmnrired Dr Thacker, | M.\', :it i iiif-f-tini/. , fti vvhii'h the ( Chl-'i t( •hlVl'Cii i<H;ii ;i: -Of i.'Uioil of tJK' j Dominion Boy Scouts' Association . was formed. "It's no matter wheth- : er it is getting mud slunp; at it, , ' ho i added, "or whether it. is being l.iud- | : od to the skies, if you don't get into the paper people don't know what going oi'." Lord Bryce has expressed a like view, but in rather different language. A curious explanation i s given of ! the reason for the recall and destruction of a new fourteen ccntavos postage stamp recently issued by the Chilean Post Office. The main features of the design, printed in black and rose, consisted of a portrait of Don Manuel de Salas. No sooner had the stamp been issued, however, says an exchange, than someone obI served that the engraver had port- ! rayed de Sala s drunk. Supplies were j hastily called in from outlying post i offices by telegram, but not before 1114 copies of the libellous stamp had been sold at Quillota. The remainder of the stock was destroyed by thfi : Chilean Government. In expressing his thanks for the welcome accorded him at the Parochial Hall last night, Mr Power, the new headmaster of the Whangarei ?chool, mentioned that he had been introduced earlier in the evening to a reverend gentleman, who on learning that he came from Te Kuiti, had asked whether that was not the place whei'e there was so much sly grog. Mr Power said that in sixteen years he had never seen any sly grog sold in Te Kuiti, but on one ; occasion he had known of a party j finding a "plant" containing 40 |bottle s of whisky. That discovery was ' made under Presbyterian church. Amid hearty laughter Mr Power i-emarked that he thought he had evened up matters with his clerical friend. ' Don't neglect your piano. Ring iup Dobson. Tuning and Repair Specinlist. 'phone 192.