LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The flag was flown on the Post Office today in honour of Empire Day.

The Minister of Education has secured Cabinet’s authority for the expenditure necessary to erect a janitor’s cottage at the Whangarei District High School.

A Los Angeles cable to Australian papers states that the Grand Jury has indicted Tom Mix, the noted film actor, for allegedly defrauding the Government of £20,000 income tax.

Three students of Victoria College, Wellington, Messrs Hall, Bowles and Mount joy, leave in September to undertake a debating tour in Canada and the U.S.A. They have all won honours in debating in Now Zealand,

At Rotorua, Vati Howard Chamberlain, of Fiji, was sentenced by Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., to two years’ detention in a reformative institution for the theft of clothing. Accused had a previous two years’ Borstal record.

John L. M. Lefoy, aged 21, a clerk 'formerly employed by the Pahiatna branch of the .Bank cf New South Wales, pleaded guilty to three charges involving theft and forgery. He was remanded for sentence at the Supreme Court, Wellington.

The Napier Chamber of Commerce, at a largely -attended special meeting, unanimously decided to telegraph to the Minister of Public Works urging him to give his approval to a comprehensive scheme of river protection, proposed by the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board,

The Hikurangi Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd,, was successful at the Whakatane Winter Show in winning first prize for the best box of export butter taken from the export stores in the month of March. The competition was open to all dairy companies in New Zealand.

Playing in the Otamatea Rugby Union's district, the Paparoa senior team, which headed last year’s competition, has had three successive wins. The position of the teams is as follows: —Paparoa, played 3, won 3, losjt 0, points 6; Maungaturoto, 3, 1. 2,2; Waipu, 2,1, 1,2; Batley, 2,0, 2, 0.

A most unusual, and somewhat dangerous, happening was discovered by a local motor-cycle dealer in a well-known garage in Whangarei. Some brand now cycles had just been imported from England, and upon opening the tank of one of the machines it was found to contain a quantity of petrol.

After being idle- for six months, the Auckland stonemasons today resumed work at the now railway station. When the dispute arose, 15 men left the job and they have returned, under protest, 'contending that the Arbitration Count’s decision of a few days ago, not to limit the calibre of the rpnehines used, is unfair and against the weight of evidence.

Nine and a half tables were occupied at the usual weekly euchre tournament organised by the Whangarei Lodge, 1.0.0. F. (N.Z.), in the Friendly .Societies’ Hall last evening, first, second and third prizes be:.ng given. The first award was won by Mrs Webster with 20-J points. Mrs Peterson and Mr Osborne tied with 19 points each for second place, and in fhe play-off Mr Osborne won, placing Mrs Peterson in third position.

The Full Court;, at Wellington, reserved its decision on a motion for a, non-suit brought by Henry Schneideman, merchant, of Wellington, in coniieetion with the Supreme Court judgment against him for £ooo in favour of fan Meiklejohn Matheson, clothing • manufacturer, in a recent slander action brought by the latter. Counsel lor Schnoideman submitted that the mere possibility of malice was not sufficient to justify the jury in 1 finding for' Matheson. Alternatively to a non-suit he asked for a new trial.

In the Snooker Tourney now in progress at the Club .Billiard Saloon, the most up-to-date room in the north, the second, round will soon commence. The attention of competitors is drawn to this fact. The results of the various games will be published at. a later date.

'S ou may have heard the remark that Tailor-made Suits are too dear. They may have. been, hut our latest price for a hand-made Suit of fine quality Serge or Fancy Worsted at 8 guineas is not too dear, and is easily the best suit value obtainable.—Geo. Hendy, High-Class Tailor, 27, Bank Street, (opp. P. 0.)

The streets of Dargaville are reported (to be quite dusty, on account of no rain having fallen for several days.

Under the will of the late William Plowman, £IOOO has been set 'aside for seats to be erected in the city of Napier. Compulsory stop signs were erected yesterday at the Kamo level crossing, which is regarded as one of the most dangerous in the North.

At the inquest into the death >f William .Graf this afternoon the jury found that deceased met his death accidentally from a fall' of stone.

Members of the Fire Brigade team which represented Whangarei so creditably at the Hokitika demonstrations wore entertained to a game supper recently by Mr and Mrs H. W. James.

Proposals for the amalgamation of the North Canterbury Farmers’ Cooperative' Freezing Company, whose works are at Kaiapoi, and the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, whose works are at Belfast, are under consideration.

The Thursday Soccer Club, recently re-formed in. Whangarei, had a successful opening practice at Kensington Park yesterday, when 10 players attended. Goal-posts were erected on what used to be Rugby Ground No. 2, across from the grandstand.

A slight, accident occurred on the roadway outside the railway .station this morning, a Maori girl who was about to* join a train being knocked over by a taxi. A hip was bruised and her clothing torn, but otherwise the girl escaped injury. She was put on the train and made her contemplated journey.

The fact that the cost of maintaining the Cook Hospital, Gisborne, is higher than that in respect of any other hospital in the Dominion, with the exception of Dunedin, when mentioned by Mr D. W. Coleman at a meeting of the Cook Hospital Board recently, caused some perturbation amongst the members, says an exchange.

It was rumoured in town today that construction of the railway line from Klirikopuni to Dargaville has been stopped. The rumour arose from the fact ithat 30 men were discharged this week owing to the particular work upon which they w'ere engaged being finished. There are still 350 men employed and the advanced gangs are working almost on the boundary of Dargaville.

A number of settlers in Mangakahia Valley are isolated, except for horseback communication. Yesterday a ear succeeded in negotiating the Gorge, but the driver took every precaution, and waiting at the three bridges was a draught horse which led the way until the metal was reached. This morning a Whangarei commercial traveller .succeeded in coming through from Kaikohe, but his engine >■ had several times to rely on the pull of extra ‘ ‘ horse power;’ ’

“It is a pity that it cannot’ bo made illegal for a man to hold more ignd than he can farm properly,” commented Mr Wyvern ‘ Wilson, S.M., in the Te Awamutu Court, when a farmer was prosecuted by the district inspector of the Agricultural Department for failure to clear his land of blackberry and ragwort. The inspector said that defendant’s 400-acrc farm adjoined a very clean farm—-in fact all the neighbouring farms were kept clean of noxious weeds'— and defendant’s neglect penalised other landowners. Counsel for defendant said that he had been caught in the land slump, and had more land than he could farm properly. The magistrate adjourned the case until August 31. In the meantime defendant could do the work to the satisfaction of the inspector, otherwise a Ane would be imposed, he said.

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