LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 3 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ballot for the selection of a Labour candidate to contest the Awarua. seat resulted: W. C. Denham 91 votes; M. Mclntyre S 9 votes. Five votes in favour of Mr Mclntyre were received too late for inclusion in his total.

A motor lorry, owned by L. Hock, a cartage contractor, was being driven by one Hawkay along the Moonshine Road, Jlutt Valley, when it plunged over -a 300 feet bank. The driver jumped clear and was only slightly injured. The iirsi consignment of 20,000 trees this season has been planted on the Parahaki Reserve, and the Whangarei Borough Council has taken delivery of the final 20,000 trees to bo planted there under the council’s afforestation scheme.

Building operations in Whangarci remain considerably under normal and last night it wPs shown, at the meeting of the Borough Council, that during the past month permits issued were valued at only £l-481. Three new dwellings and four sheds wore included.

During the quarter ended June 30, there were 31 men arrested in Whangarei and 9G men and 5 women w r ere summoned to appear at the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-four boys and three girls were charged at the Juvenile Court. Civil plaints entered numbered 156, the amount sued for being £3603 13s 4d. Of that number 99 plaints wore hoard and £lßl6 Is 7d was recovered.

Seven civil and 23 criminal sessions of the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court took place during the quarter ended June 30, of which number 15 criminal sessions were presided over by Justices of the Peace, The number of summonses and other processes served by the bailiff was 171, and ho executed 20 warrants. Fines ,and fees totalled £312 ss, as follow Civil fees £196 16s, criminal fees £2O 17s, fines £B2 Bs, and licensing fees £l2 4s.

Onerahi residents returning home after work last evening may have been excused for gaining the impression that they were travelling in the wake of a cyclone or some disturbing force of equal magnitude. First a car stationary down the bank a chain and a half from the roadside; a little further along another ear damaged, .not far from the edge of a bank; then on. Mackesy’s Plat a- motorist busily repairing a bad blowout; and finally a passenger bus hoveto with engine trouble.

The new motor regulations which on me into force last month have not as yet become familiar locally. Motor cyclists should note that only two, the driver and a pillion rider, arc allowed to ride on a machine, and that passengers must ride astride. The regulations also specify that number lights on motor vehicles must be distinguishable for 60 feet. Whangarei drivers who merely possess a red reflector should take heed that this is not deemed sufficient for illuminating. A white light must shine on the number.

Tho reading public of Whaugarei smashed all previous circulation records for the Whaugarei Library last month. The total number of volumes taken out was 7932, an average of 317 for each of tho 23 days upon which the library was open. The previous record was established in April of this year when 300 circulated daily, but this figure was swelled by subscribers taking out additional books for the holiday period. Classes circulated as follows last month:— Magazines 883, philosophy 9, religion 19, sociology 33, philology 4, science 23, useful arts 26, fine arts 17, literature 82, history 61, travel 76, biography 73, fiction 3462, juvenile 1164. At last evening’s meeting of the Whaugarei Borough Council, Cr. A. T. Brainsby proposed that the Mayor and he should be a committee to consult with the solicitor and then to approach the Prime Minister relative to introduction of legislation enabling people to bequeath gifts to publicly owned libraries and museums without taxation by way of gift or estate duties. The council agreed, and today the committee resolved to forward rhe request through Mr W. Jones, MJ.P. The latter was asked to represent to the Prime Minister that already, by excepting literature from Customs duty, the Government recognises that special concessions may be made where valuable educational advantages are promoted. Mr Jones was urged to submit that there are many treasures of literature, art. and virtue which, the owners might be induced to give or leave to the use and enjoyment of the public, if such bequests were excepted from taxation.

Known in every street for high class repairs and artistic piano tun ing.—Dobson. Phone 192.

Meiklc’s Great Towel Drive is making people talk —20% discount. Stacks and stacks of lovely big towels, all reductions are shown in plain figures. So get in early before they all go! The sale of men’s and boys’ wear is booming at Meiklc’s, too.

A public. meeting in connection ! with the erection of on undenomina- I tional churcii at Onerahl will be held j in the Onenihi Public Hall at S o’clock ! this evening. “I find all these -water eases very dry,” remarked his Honour Mr Jusfive Blair during the hearing of a drainage case at the Hamilton. Supreme Court the other night. “I quite agree that it is a retrograde step to go oackwards,” observed a delegate at the National Dairy Association conference in Palmerston North, amid laughter. The outqiut of the Whangarei Dairy Company’s factory last month was dl tons d cwt 0 qrs 0 lbs, against 24 tons Id cwt 2 qrs 0 lbs for June, 1927. The total output for the present season has tieeu 1172 tons 1 ewt 2 qrs 22 lbs, compared with 11 (IS tons n cwt 0 qrs 1 lb for the corresponding period last season. Preliminary arrangements were made by the Whangarei Dramatic Society to stage “The Private Secretary” in Whangarei next month, but owing to one or two members of the east not yet being available for rehearsals, the committee has decided to postpone the production until early next vear.

The fortunes of the Whangarei and district hockey representatives in the Auckland Country Week tournament are arousing much interest locally, but the following instance of ignorance would be hard to beat. A business firm known to be in touch with the doings of Whangarei’s teams, and which also has on its staff a keen follower of horses, received a request by telephone this morning for information regarding the White Horse Cup. The junior, who answered the phone, referred the matter to the turf specialist.

A number of Chukor partridge and snipe from India will shortly be liberated by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, as the result of a decision reached by the council of the society (reports the Wellington Post’s correspondent). Mr J. B. Hughes, a member of the Bombay Natural History Society, attended the meeting, and offered to make arrangements when he returned to India shortly for the trapping of the birds and their shipment to New Zealand. The society decided to apply to the Minister of Internal Affairs for permission to import the birds, and an expenditure of £IOO was authorised.

Authentic records of • bottle drifts are always interesting to students of the tides, and a question has arisen as to which is the longest known. Mr H. P. Adams .probably holds the record. In 1908, on a trip from London to Melbourne, he put a message overboard on the fringe of the Antarctic, south of Kerguelen, Three years later it was picked up on the Willington Islands off the coast of Chile. The bottle had navigated itself just half round the globe, covering 7000 miles easterly, roughly speaking along the bOth parallel. The Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty stated that this was the longest authentic bottle drift of which it had any record. A published statement concerning the clothing worn by children while attending school was the subject of comment at the recent meeting of the unemployed in Christchurch • (says the Times). One man said that the children might appear to be well dressed at school, but in many cases they had no other clothes to change into. He had seven children, and he found it a very hard job providing them with clothes and boots. Two of his children had practically worn the boots off their feet, and he could do 'nothing for them. He objected to seeing reports in the newspapers stating that all the children were comfortably clad. The reporters did not know anything about the circumstances in the children’s homes.

The catching of their mudguards when passing on a rather narrow stretch of the Oncrahi Road, two chains to the Whaugarei side of Duck Creek, last evening, caused an accident to two cars, one driven towards Oncrahi by Mr H, .Scally and the other towards Whaugarei by Mr W. Snell. In recovering after nearly toppling over the road, the fivesoater Ford driven by 'Mr Snell again came in contact with the other car, which went over the bank, near a clump of willows, and after a fall of five feet ploughed through a mudflat for a dozen yards. Mr Seally’s car was hauled on to the road again this morning. The five-seater sustained damage to the front axle, mudguard, and also to the undercarriage, Mr Scally’s car, a two-seater of the same make, was also damaged to a slightly lesser extent. Xo one was injured.

Wilson’s values are always competitive—27in white towelling 1/-, 34in unbleached sheeting 1/2, 80in 1/6, coloured towels 1/9 pair, linen teatowelling single bedspreads 2/6, shadow crctones 36in white flannelette (good quality) 1/-, stout pillow casing double bed blankets 33/- pair, and all wool fringed rugs 12/6.