LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1930, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sir Walter Carncross, editor and proprietor of the Elitham "Argus” for 27 years, has disposed of his interests iu that paper to Mr A. W. Packard, formerly of Palmerston North.

The appeal of the St. John Ambulance for funds to enable it to carry on its work in Auckland resulted iu a collection of £719 in the streets of the city yesterday. With sums from outlying suburban districts the total will reach £9OO, and perhaps £IOOO.

On a. recent evening a burglary occurred in Kelburn, Wellington. It is umleristood that a house in Grove Road, Kelburn, suffered from an unwelcom-e-d visitor -or visitors, and the occupants will have excellent reason for remembering the call as it cost them the sum of £OO.

At Wellington yesterday, Edward, Kennedy, sec-re tary of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, for failure to make returns of income tax for the past four years, was fined £5 -on one charge and £2 on -each of the others. George de Wolfe Mitchluson, on a similar charge, was fined £3.

A. beautiful display of twelve distinct pansy varieties is on view in Messrs Tiniewell and King’s Cameron Street window. The blooms have been cultivated in municipal reserves by the l.orough gardener, Mr Wood, and *rd exceedingly tine specimens, of largo span and delightful colouring.

Messrs Norman and Ken Mimro beg to announce to the public generally that they aro commencing in the carrying business and are prepared to undertake any class of carrying work. Loghauling and timber-carting will he specially catered for with a new Rco truck and trailer and smaller trucks are ■available for general cany ing work. Communications to Phone 351 will meet with prompt attention. .103 Only address of J. W. Dobson, wellknown Piano Tuner —4, Banff Street, Phone 192.

The Rev. Father McGrath concludes

a very successful mission at Portland tomorrow morning, and opens a week’s mission at the 11 o’clock Hikurangi service. "The estimated cost of a workable coal carbonisation plant ’is £75,000. That in the Waikato is said to bo costing £150,000. Everything in this country isoe.ms to cost double what it does -elsewhere',” isaid Mr S. C, Joun n-eux at the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce mooting last night.

The secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Teachers, Mr Ashbridge, lias received word that the proposed cricket tour of Australian teachers through New' Zealand during the summer vacation has been cancelled on account of the depression. They will be pleased-to receive a New Zealand team.

A woman resident of Oriental Bay, Wellington, 'returning home unexpectedly yesterday discovered a masked man, -carrying a revolver, prowling in thq grounds. She gave such a loud scream for help that the intruder evidently tl'nought it wisest to decamp and, as there was no one to follow him up, made his escape.

The Cambridge competitions concluded last night with a most successful demonstration. The concert festival has been -one of the most successful ever held there being large atten-d----ancois and great enthusiasm shown. The judges, Messrs Will Hutchens, Wanganui and Byron Brown, Wellington, expressed great pleasure at the standard of the work in all sections, especially those for ladies. According to a statement issued by the Minister of Labour there was a decrease of 74 in the unemployed registered for the -w'c-ek ended last Monday against the previous w'cek. Monday’s total was 6025. A table sets out those with dependants and without dependants as follows; Auckland, 960 and 729; Wellington, 523 and 411; Christchurch, 663 and 427; Dunedin, 302 and 142; Invercargill, 116 and 75. The first meeting for the season of the Whangarei Cricket Association’s Management Committee was held last night. Accounts totalling £2O 6s were passed for payment. Messrs W. G. Grove and G. Hedditch were given authority to -sign cheques. The date for closing -of nominations was fixed so that the competition will commence on Saturday, October 11. Mr W. G. Grove w r as appointed assistant-secre-tary.

In Wellington is Mr S. T, Williamson, -of the Williamson Shipping Lino, Hong Kong. He has bought the U.S.S. Company’s Kamo and the A.U.S.N. Company’s -Stay, which aro being taken from Sydney by Chinese crows. Mr Williamson says all Eastern commodities are down. Rubber, copra and silk have all depreciated and w'ith the exchange, silver has deprecited from 6s in 1920 to Is 4d today. Vfrade is difficult, but ho hoped things will improve before long. $ "The public mind is -greatly exer eased concerning -offences of this kind,” said (the Magistrate, Mr P. K. Hunt, a.t Auckland, in fining Josiah Alonso Holroyd, aged 45, £4O for being -intoxicated in charge of a ear. Holroyd was described by witnesses, including a detective, as an habitually sober man and a careful driver. He is employed as a bus driver by the Auckland Transport Board, but when arrested was in a private car. Defendant took out a prohibition order and the Magistrate placed him on probation for six months to enable him to

pay /the- fine by instalments. Whangarei's proposed town clod has thrice- been refused a home, accord ing to a report made to the Chambei of Commerce last night. The secre tary said the Public Trustee and the Bank -of New Zealand management ir turn -declined to have the tower erected on their buildings, and finally the Postal Department provided a doublebarrelled reason —that no provision for a -clock was made in -designing the new building, and that it was not the policy of the department to erect clock towers. The chamber appointed a committee, comprising the president and Messrs Benjamin and H-alse, to pursue the clock question further. "Although I did not always think «o, I have come to the conclusion that j New Zealand must become an industrial country,” said Air -S. C, Jounneaux in an address advocating the establishment -of coal carbonisation plants to the Chamber of Commerce (last night. "Modern conditions have [made it imperative for each country to I study its -own .interests and become as 1 sellf-contained as possible. I say support Britain, -but give New Zealand first preference. Britain could easily semi money to establish industries in this country instead of pouring millions of invest mentis into other countries. With our advantages of climate, power and minerals wo could become a great producing nation, and T cannot see why New Zealand could not in time be the distributing centre for many manufactures. The old bogey, distance, is becoming exploded by modern transport, and we are equally as near half the world’s markets as Britain is. ’ ’

Specials for week-end shoppers at "Wilson’s:—4oin Pillow Casing, 94d yard; 27in Linen Teatowefling, Hid; Coloured Towels, 1/11 pair; 52in White Damask, 1/4; 54 x 54in Damask' Cloths with coloured border, 2/9 yard; 54in White Sheeting, l/7i, 72in 2/4, 80in 2/74, and 36in Curtain Net, I/-.

Hero is a Tailor made Suit Free for any one person ordering a suit during October, who can give the nearest to the correct total cost price of all materials and suits in our window. Or a suit at cost price, if yours should be the 10th or 31st order received for the mouth. Order youjs now for Xmas., at Geo. -Bendy’s, High-class Tailor, 27, Bank -Street, opp. P.O.

The 'body of Magnus Hunter, one of the fishermen drowned from the launch, at Island Bay, Wellington, was found today.

In a ten rounds boxing contest at Ashburton, last night, Tommy Griffiths, 9.0, Dunedin, defeated Jack Crowley, 8.131, Wellington, on points after a somewhat dull exhibition.

A letter from the Thames Valley A. and P. Association was read at a meeting of the Whangarei A. and P. Society this morning expressing appreciation at the notion of the Whangarei Society in putting forward its spring Show dates so as not to clash with the To Aroha Jubilee Show.

The North Auckland Farmers * Co-op., Ltd,, report holding a horse fair at Kamo yesterday. There was a heavy yarding of all sorts. Young unbroken light drafts made from £l2 to £l6. Unbroken hacks, £5 to £7; heavy draughts, £36 to £4l; light to medium draughts, £23 to £35; useful light spring-cart horses, £9 to £l7; hacks, £2 to £10; ponies, 5/- to £4, The racehorse Fairlands, 30/-.

Au impressive ceremony was that of the official opening and dedication of the new Maori Anglican Church at Awanui North last Sunday morning. Cason Keretene .of Whangarei represented the Archbishop, attended by the incumbent, the Eev. H. M. Paorata, six other Maori clergy and the Pakeha Vicar of Kaitaia. The dedication was made in the presence of a large congregation of Maori and Pakeha from the. steps of the church, and the Canon took as his text I Ohron. 29 v 19.

A sedan ear owned by Miss Watt, Cambridge, recently taken unlawfully, was recovered last evening under rather ‘ sensational circumstances. The police received advice that a man named iSpillett had a car at Okoroire and set out to secure same. They met Spillett, who had become suspicious, on the road and on meeting the cars collided, both being somewhat damaged. Spillett was arrested and brought before the Court at Cambridge this morning and remanded.

Farmers’ attention is called to the advertisement of Mr Frank Armstrong’s Annual Stud Polled Angus Bull Fair to be held in Dannevirke on the Bth October, 1930. Invented by a Wellington engineer a simple shock absorber, the “Universal,” fitted to the springs of any make of automobile causes- it to ride the roughest or smoothest of roads as if they were glass. So successful have been the varied tests that all the cars of a well known city taxi service, those of a provincial road service, as well as many privately owned, including the Wellington Free Ambulance Superintendent’s, have been equipped. The / “ Universal ’ ’ Shock Absorber is sold in sets of eight for £2 10/-, and may be obtained from the manufacturers at 62 Webb Street, Wellington, on a money back guarantee after seven days’ trial. 398