LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wnihi-Taurauga section of the East Coast railway will be completed in March, 1927. There will _ then be direct railway connection ' between Auckland and Tancatua, Bay of Plenty.

Members of the executive of the Whangarei A. and P. Society are reminded of the meeting which is to be held in the society’s premises, Walton Street at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning to consider the balance sheet and to receive the report for the year. It is hoped that there will be a full attendance of the executive.

The Ngatiawa, of Auckland, which arrived at the Whangarei Town Wharf at 11.30 a.m. today, is quite a large boat to negotiate the river. She'has a tonnage of 220, and her cargo consists mainly of 3500 cases of benzine. This is her second trip to Whangarei. Her departure is timed for 10 o’clock tomorrow morning.

The following will constitute the Marsden cricket team to play Onerahi on the latter’s ground on Saturday: —Meredith (captain), East, Teesdale, Jennings, A. Martin, Boggs, Alf. Martin, Arneil, Broomfield, Le Compte, Flewellyn, Hellyer (12th mqn). Players are requested to meet at the Post Office at 12.45 p.m.

After the tour by the Minister of Lands and his party through the Bay of Islands electorate has concluded, Mr Allen Bell, M.P., intends to conduct the Government cinematographer to places of interest in the Far North in search of film records of its potentialities and charms. Already he has arranged for a cattle muster at Parengarenga station and a Maori gathering to take place on the Ninetymile Beach to provide subjects for the moving picture film.

A record catch of gamefish for one day’s operations was made at the Cape Brett grounds % on Wednesday. Fifteen fish were hooked and the following successes were achieved:— Zane Grey, two swordfish, 2581 b and 2841 b, and a mako shark, 2581 b; Mr G. Alma Baker, swordfish, 2721 b; Mr F. A. Burr, of New York,' swordfish, 3001 b; Commander Edwards, two swordfish, 3061 b and 2281 b; Mrs Sparrow of England, swordfish, 3001 b; Mr W. Branson, of Napier, swordfish, 1441 b; and Mr F. J. Milne, of England, mako shark, 3861 b.

Yesterday Mr Allen Bell, M.P., for the Bay of Islands, went to Riponui, where he met the settlers and discussed reading requirements with them. Opinion is divided between the settlers, some being in favour of raising a loan to metal the HikurangiJordan road, and others favouring the money being expended on metalling the road, via Ruatangata, which gives the more direct connection with Whangarei. The member advised them to reach an agreement on the point, because the district’s finances would not stand two outlets being metalled. When they had decided which road they want he would get the money for them.

Dobson’s, Kamo Road, is the place for all your seasonable requirements. Famous for low prices. 735

C. O. Roscoe, Cameron Street, is now fully stocked with wide-niouth preserving jars in all sizes and the prices arc - right: Pints, 6/9 doz; Quarts, 7/9 doz; 13/ dozen. Wo advise customers to place their orders at once as these .iars cannot be replaced to sell at above prices. So bnv non- from C. O. Eoseoe, Cameron An opportunity to view the coastal scenery between Whnngarci and Auckland is afforded by the fact that the s.s. Ngatiawa will leave the Whangarei town wharf at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, completing the journey about 8 o’clock at night. The long daylight trip, with the comfortable travelling facilities thus offered, is an inducement worth considering. 294

In a will of 110 words, Mr. Scrimgeour, of London, who floated most of New Zealand loans, left £357,406 to his wife. Mr S. L. P. Free, S.M., of Masterton, has been granted 12 months’ leave of absence, and will leave with Mrs Free early next month on a tour of the world. Mr Free will be relieved by Mr. A. Mowlom, of New Plymouth. Good progress has been made with the erection of saleyards on an extensive scale about half a mile distant from Waibtira railway station for Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., and the work is approaching completion.

This morning the Mayor, Mr J. E, Holmes, the acting engineer, Mr J. Archer, and Cr A. M. Rust made a visit of inspection of the new roadway under construction between Walton Street at the Triangle and the Whangarei railway station.

The Ministerial party "was met upon arrival at the Whangarei station yesterday afternoon by Mr W. Jones, M.P., Mr J. E. Holmes, Mayor of Whangarei, and Mr Allen Bell, M.P., for the Bay of Islands, through which electorate a nine days’ tour of inspection is to be made. Eighteen hundred Christchurch people are waiting to be connected with the telephone, and 400 of them must wait 18 months yet. This state of affairs was disclosed by enquiry at the Telegraph Office. The Department can never catch up -with the demand, 1 they say. A Reuter message from San Francisco states that Barbara La Marr, picture actress, died at her home at Almadona, California, ’on Saturday from complications following on a nervous breakdown! several mouths ago.

We have the girls who dress like men. We have the boys who bring themseves out in Oxford bags and other freakish absurdities. But on Saturday there appeared among the men athletes at the Park a young fellow wdio, proud of his locks, and unwilling to allow their careful adjustment to be disturbed in the effort of the race, did them up carefully in a hairnet!—“New Zealand Times.”