LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 27 February 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has received the following cablegram from its London office, dated February 22, regarding Smithfield prices: — "Owing to dock and cold store strike supplies are restricted and quotations are nominal. New Zealand lamb is sell'ng at' id and New Zealand mutton at id higher than prices last week." ' "What saving is effected by picking up the cast iron pipes along Kamo Road and using them elsewhere?" w:is asked by Cr. A. T. Brainsby at Monday's meeting of the Whangarei Borough Council. He explained that he asked the question for the information of the public. The engineer, Mr J. Darlington Whitmore, replied that he could net say off-hand what the actual saving was, but it wns a very great one. Pipes of that kind cost about. £10 o. ton, and a saving of at least 50 per cent, wns made by taking up the pipes and using them again. Whether anything further had boon .V.ne by the Whangarei Borough Council towards acquiring land adjoining Hie Town Hall and owned by the* Presbyterian Church Property Trustees, wns asked at Monday night's meeting ' v Cr. A. T. Brainsby. The questioner referred to the museum exhibits held bv the Council, but for the effective ■ m t* 1 av of whi°h there wasMnsufficient "ooni, and to the need for n new site for the Library, for which he had worked for two years. Cr. Brainsby nlso mentioned the fact that the buildin': of the Public Trust block adjoining the library had interferred with the lighting considerably. He Wpod that the acquisition of a site for the library and museum would be effected during the Mayor's term of office. The Mayor. Mr D. A. McLean, indicated thnt the sale or leasing of the property was a matter to be referred to the Church , Property Trustees through the congregation and the Presbytery. Ultimately it was deicided, on the motion of Cr. Brainsby, seconded bv Cr. W. Simmon, to take steps to obtain a definite renlv regarding The likelihood of securing the property desired. Surprising vmues in Dobson's ITalfPrice Window. Do not fail to see it.

Nominations of candidates for the vacant seat 011 the Whangarei Borough Council are to be made before noon on Wednesday, March 12. At the Whangarei Courthouse this morning, before Mr T. Hardy, J.P., a iirst offending inebriate's bail of £1 was estreated as a line. The Kerr Scholarship of £22 a year, for one or two years at the discretion of the Whangarei High School Board of Governors, has been awarded to Richard L. Hawke, of Parua Bay. The annual meeting of the Waiata Society, which was adjourned last year until after the production of the opera "San Toy," will be held at 7.30-p.m. to-morrow in the Whangarei Presbyterian Hall. The report of the year's 1 activities will be presented and officers will be elected. There should be a large attendance at the Whangarei bandroom to-morrow | night to arrange a suitable function to obtain funds to assist the late bund conductor, who through sickness has been long out of employment and is now under doctor's orders to proceed to a sanatorium for further medical treatment. Yesterday a woman who had been induced to take out a prohibition ord(r against herself at the Whangarei Courthouse returned to her 'home md drank part of the contents of a bottle of disinfectant. She was taken to the Whangarei Hospital, where remedial measures were taken, and her condition to-day was repoi-ted to be favourable to recovery. Evening class students are to be enrolled tit the Whangarei Technical School from 7 to 9 p.m. to-morrow. The school has attained a large measure of. success in the past, and liberal provision has been made for classes this year, the subjects including shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, engineering, plumbing, woodwork, dressmaking and cookery. The classes are free for boys and girls under 17 years. Whangarei and Kaikohe Territorials ' will be represented at the annual i Northern Command rifle meeting at j Penrose on FridajP and Saturday. The [Ivaikohe contingent of five territorials and one cadet includes the Lewis gun team which won the same time ago on the Otaika range, while the Wlia--1 ngarei representatives are four mount>ed riflemen, three 15th North Auckland regiment infantrymen, and two cadets from the 56th Company. Yesterday F. A. F. Bone, a bankrupt solicitor of Kavvakawa, who was rej cently brought back from Brisbane under police escort, was examined at Whangarei by Mr E. P. Ramsay, De'puty Official Assignee. No creditors ' were present. Bankrupt, whose liabilities approximated £1000, including ] trust moneys, and assets about £100, i disputed some of the accounts in connection with. trust funds. He was taken to Kawakawa yesterday to stand his trial. A recommendation by way of a remit from the Maungatapere branch to the Wkangarei Sub-Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, to the effect that Agricultural and Pastoral Societies be asked to discontinue giving points for horns on any cattle shown, and urging that all cattle, especially bulls, be dehorned, was referred to branches. This was done, after an amendment by Mr A. C. McCardle, of Titoki, supported by Mr W. G. Thomson, of Mangapai, that the resolution be restricted to reference to general purpose stock and should not apply compulsorily to stud stock, had been defeated. During a discussion at the meeting of the Whangarei Sub-Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday, Mr J. Peat urged the advisability of suggesting to the proper quarters the setting up of noxious weeds boards, vested with similar powers to those conferred upon Eabbit Boards, as a means of dealing with the generally recognised menace of the spread of weeds throughout the Dominion. The executive of the Union decided to defer further consideration until the next meeting, when the question will be discussed in tlie form of a remit to the Dominion Executive. At yesterday's meeting of the Whangarei Sub-Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr ,T. Peat, Of Ivauri. stated that ho had been struck by the large areas of waste gum lands in the district which were apparently suitable for afforeatntion. H<> instanced the fact that pelf-sown pines had grown very well in different localities, and he urged that the Union could well get in touch with the Forestry Department with a view to the utilisation of tho gum lands for tree-planting. Mr G. Hodgson, of Whnkapara, expressed the opinion that the Government forestry schemes had not been altogether a success, and he. based his conviction upon experience in the Puhipuhi district, where the forests had become bed for noxious weeds and rabbits. Mr W. G. Thomson said that in the Mangapai district certain eucalvpts had grown remarkably well on gum lands, and lie instanced the fact that recently a post from a sapling grown on, gum land had been taken up after being in the ground for 20 years, and it was found that of the original sapling of <5 inches in diameter, there remained four inches of sound heart. The Executive decided to prepare a suitable remit upon the subject for the next j meeting, with a view to having it for- j warded to the Provincial Conference, i