LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 9 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London, house dated the 6th instant:—“Butter: Since our last wire prices are 2s lower (now 1685).’/

“Cattle tick is about as bad this season as any other, but it is quite evident it is spreading,’’ said a wellknown settler of the Helena Bay district to an “Advocate’’ reporter this morning. He cited instances where the tick had appeared ithis month in paddocks that had been free from the pest in former years.

A miraculous escape from serious injury was experienced by Bernard Henney about 11 o’clock this morning. He was driving Cole’s motor truck, with a load of soft drinks, on the Portland Road, when the vehicle went over a bank. The truck dropped about ten feet, and after turning completely over fell into a front garden. Mr. Henney was thrown out and was fortunate in only sustaining an injury to the left shoulder and slight' abrasions about, the body. A little boy who was travelling in the lorry at the time escaped without injury. The garden was strewn with bottles of soft drinks thrown out by the lorry in overturning.

It is customary for a works committee of the Auckland Farmers’ Freest ing Company to meet monthly at the Northern works at Moerewa. On Thursday, however, the meeting took place in the office of the North Auckland Farmers’ Co-op. in Whangarei. This was done to afford local shareholders and ‘ interested settlers an opportunity of meeting the chairman of directors, Mr. J. E. Makgill, the general manager, Mr. T. Simson, and other directors, and of tendering any suggestions for the welfare of the company. The chairman and Mr. Maurice Harding took advantage of the occasion to urge upon the shareholders the duty of remaining loyal to the company in which they were financially interested, and upon the success of which their own prosperity was in a measure dependent.

The thirty-ninth week of the Auckland Poultry-keepers Association's egglaying contests "at Mt. Albert closed with practically no alteration in the position of the teams entered by owners resident in Whangarei district. Mr W. 17. Timewell’s trio of Black Orpingtons has laid a total of 661 eggs, which continues as the best result attained by any breed in the contest. The lead has been increased during the week from seven to eight eggs. There are 49 teams competing in the section, and Mr N. Dickey’s trio, now laying well, has risen to 35th place, while Mr J. M. Steadman's has dropped back one place to 39th. There are 44 teams of White Leghorns competing, and Mr N. Dickey’s pen leads with a total of 623, having increased the lead in that section from 20 to 22 during the, week. One of his birds has laid 230 eggs,, which is the best individual yield in the light breeds section. Mrs Dickey’s trio has dropped from ninth to eleventh place, and Mr A. W. Bradley’s remains twenty-first. In the section for fawn and white Indian Runner ducks, Mr B. P. Hawken, of Maunu, owns a team in third place, with Mr Timewell’a team fourth, and it seems unlikely that there, will be any change for some time to

come. The eighth appropriation . meeting by the Whrnigarei Co-operative Terminating Building Society will be held in the Madeira Hall,on Friday, 22ad inst., at 7.30 p.m., when £BOO will be disposed of by ballot. For the interest of shareholders it is imperative that all shares bo made financial not. later than Tuesday 19th inst. Any payments made after this date will positively be too late for the appropriation. 807 Dobson’s, Kamo Road, is the place for all your seasonable requirements. Famous for low prices. 735

We arc advised that C. O. Roscoe, c.-movon Street, has just opened up a very fine assortment of Dried Fruits and goods, including Figs, 6d packet; Afccealels. 1/ packet; Raisins, fid packet; Walnuts, 1/2 lb; Mixed Nuts, 1/ lb; Crackers, from 2/ box; Prunes, fid lb; Chocolates, from fid box; Stockings, from fid; and Hams, etc. Customers, buy your supplies now from C. O. Roseot, Grocer, Cameron St. 123

The trustees of the Jubilee Institute J for the Blind have received a generous gift ef £IOOO from Mrs H. A. Massey and Miss M. I. Massey as a contribution towards the cost of now buildings urgently required by the institute. Mrs Massey, in a letter to the trustees states that it is in memory of her late husband, Horatio ,A. Massey, who died at Invercargill in December, 1923. He had himself intended making a gift to the institute.

Preliminary arrangements are in hand for the holding of a public picnic on a large scale at Urquhart’s Bay on Anniversary Day. The proposal emanated from the Waterside Workers’ Union, the members of which have worked to so good advantage that promises of assistance have been freely forthcoming. The use of a fleet of eight launches gratis and gifts of, benzine, sweets, prizes for sports, and other necessaries have been promised, and it appears likely that the picnic will be carried out on a scale quite unusual in Whangarei.

Mr P. E. Shinniek, of the Hastings railway staff, who lives close to Mr Mercer,: the rear of whose premises was struck by lightning on New Year’s morning, also had an unpleasant experience, although not so dramatic as that of Mr Mercer. When the thunder bolt burst, one of his windows was broken, articles dislodged from shelves and smashed, and light articles moved from their position. The storm left still another record of its visit to Hastings on a fine pine tree, estimated to be 80 feet high, on the farm of Mr Joseph Wellwood, Eaureka. The tree, which is standing by itself, was struck by the lightning at the top and the trunk was stripped of its bark in patches down to the roots, where the trunk presented an appearance as if it had been hacked with an axe. A ewe and her lamb were 1 found lying dead just at that spot.