LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 20 December 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two further defalcations were discovered in the affairs of Hector Robert Malcolm, the missing' solicitor, which brings the total of the defalcations to £BOSO, and debts totalling £425 bring the deficiency to £8475.

Today is the 2Sotli anniversary of the discovery of New Zealand by the celebrated explorer and na.vigat.o7 1 , Abel Tasman, who landed on .December 20, ,1642. At the time Tasman was in charge of Van Daemon's expedition to circumnavigate Australia, discovering at the same time Tasmania (calling it Van Piemen's Land), and the Friendly and Fiji Islands. He. also made a second Voyage to the East Indies, during the course of which ho discovered the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Northern Australia.

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Coming to Wliangarei, the Magic Five.

Mr Justice Smith, in. the Supreme

Court at Wellington, granted an interim injunction restraining the Otorohanga Operatic Society from giving any further unauthorised performances of “A Country Girl.”

At the Oamaru Magistrate’s Court this morning, Leonard Walter Cooper, pleaded guilty to the theft of letters at the Kurow Post Office and burning down the Post Office; breaking and entering and theft at Oamaru, and several lesser charges of theft. He was committed for sentence.

A conference of representatives of the Country Party in the Bay of Isla'nds electorate is being held at Ohaeawai this afternoon to decide what should be done in regard to the election of Captain Rushworth as M.P. for the district. Up to the time of going to press, the decision of the conference had not been announced.

Only two more days remain in which to forward nominations for the principal events in the athletic section of the Waipu Caledonian Society’s annual sports gathering to be held at Waipu on New year’s Day. Nominations, accompanied by nomination fees, must reach the secretary, Mr J. N. I. McKay, Waipu, by 5 p.m. on Saturday, December 22.

This afternoon a 'Whangarei Thursday Trades Cricket Club team, reinforced with several 'Saturday players, is playing Maungakaramoa in the country centre. On their own wicket Maungakaramea are a particularly hard team to beat, and there are no keener cricketers in the district, although the ties of farming keep them out of competition play. The Waipu Cove Surf Club is functioning very satisfactorily. On popular days at the beach, patrols are on the lookout for the swimmer in trouble. Recently the club held a rescue demonstration before a large and interested gathering. , Several photographers -were in evidence, and so the well executed work of the •brigade h{& been put on record.

A Wellington telegram says that in the hairdressers’ dispute heard before the Conciliation Council, agreement was reached on all points except the day of the half-holiday and a small matter in connection with deduction of wages which the parties desired should bo referred to the Court of Arbitration. The agreement is on the lines of the existing award.

Evidence of the approach of Christmas and the holiday season generally is very noticeable in the streets of Whangarei, Many people from the country, join with town gift-seekers in viewing the window's a number of which show signs of very careful preparation. The railway station, upon the arrival and departure of each train, bears a very busy appearance. A special meeting of the North Auckland section of the Public, Service Association wms held on Monday evening to receive the .resignation of MY O, Bauman, secretary of the branch for the past five years,, who. is now leaving the district. Several speakers eulogised the w T ork done by Mr Bauman, and his resignation vras accepted with regret. Mr R. J. Hill w\as appointed secretary.

Messrs J. S. Yates and S, H. Bandford, service officers of the Auckland Automobile Association, who passed through Whangarci some weeks ago erecting signposts on all the main and junction roads between Whanga rei and Auckland, have just completed a comprehensive tour of the further North for the same purpose. The officers report that most of the main roads are in good order, and the information they have collected should prove useful to members of the association who have occasion to go North, or who will be taking touring holidays through the district this summer. The officers returned south via Waipoua.

Following the excellent lead of their parent company in Londonj who recently puz'chased the whole of the ad J vertising columns of the London. “Evening News,” Columbia Gramophone (.Australia) Ltd., on December 3 paid no uncertain tribute to the wonderful publicity value of the Australian Press. 'Co-operation with such widely known firms as A. Hordern and Sons, Marcus Clark Ltd., ©owing Bros., W. H. Paling Ltd., A. Saunders, etc., etc., in the preparation of Columbiaised displays, has resulted in the creation of a remarkable precedent, in that the edition of the “Telegraph Pictorial” on December 3 carried Columbia announcements either wholly or partly throughout its allotted. advertising spaces. Bncl\ enterprise as this is deserving .of every possible success, marking as it does an epic page in the history of the Australian Press.

Wilson’s grand Xmas fair is attracting great crowds of shoppers. The cut prices together with a wonderful stock of- useful Xmas gifts and moderately priced novelties l are in themselves sufficiently attractive to ensure record trading. Join the happy band and shop where your money goes furthest.

Aequatic enthusiasts) who ••wish to enter for either launch or yacht events at the (forthcoming regatta to lie held at Onorahi on Mow Year’s Day are finally reminded that entries definitely close on Monday December 24, at 3 p.m. The collection of valuable trophies and pennants for the regatta arc on view in the “Northern Advocated’ window, and are ■well worthy of inspection, 603