LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 6 April 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A reporter of the “Northern Advocate” was told this morning that one grower at Kerikeri has 181 miles of passion fruit vines on his property. A telephonic message from Waipapakauri this morning revealed that fine weather was being experienced in tho district, and that prospects for the race meeting were good.

The Onchunga Band, that visited Whangaroi, played in the Central Park "rounds on Sunday afternoon, and, in * , i the evening, to a good audience in the Town Hall. Their various numbers at both places wore played with much effect. The cornet playing was especially appreciated.

According to the president of the Hamilton Law Society, a discount of ten per cent will be allowed on all solicitors’ and clients’ costs on all matters completed in the district on April 1. The question of reducing the salaries of the staff of legal firms was an individual matter.

For the first time in a. quarter of a century the Northern Wairoa Co-op. Dairy Company, Ltd. is without a steamer trading on the Northern Wairoa River, the taking off of the s.s. Pioneer on Tuesday night ending a long and successful period of the company’s steamer traffic on the river.

“We’ve had a very happy time in Whangaroi, and all the boys want to come back next Easter,” said the secretary of the Oheliiinga Citizens’ Band today, prior to departure for'Auckland. During their stay in Whangarei, the party, thirty in number, was accommodated at tire Windsor Private Hotel.

A decision that will have a farreaching effect on the future of the town of Hastings was made- on Wednesday evening at a meeting of 60 property owners and residents, who were addressed by Mr J, W. Mawson, director of town planning, when a resolution was unanimously carried that Heretaunga Street be widened by 10ft.

One of the leading players in the North Auckland tennis tournament was stung in the palm of his right hand just as his name was called to play a championship match this morning. A friend was unkind enough to suggest that ho would not have much sting left in him. However, an application of boracic powder countered the (swelling and within a few minutes the sufferer was making the ball fly on the courts.

Although at the beginning of the season and up till the end of January the cream supply to the Hokianga dairy factory was above that of the same period for the previous year, the dry spell that has been experienced lias caused -a drop in the supply, and now the total is below that of the preceding season, although more cows are being milked. The cream lorries are running now on most of the collection runs every third day.

Although no tennis was possible on Saturday, visitors to the tournament were given social enjoyment in the evening, when a dance was arranged in the Grotto Hall. Between 30 and 40 couples were present. The music was (provided by Miss Calkin’s orchestra of three, extras being played by Miss G. Matheson and Mr A. Gillespie. Supper was supplied by lady members of the Whangarei Club. The M.C.’s were Messrs H. E. G. Smith and A. Gillespie. “I reckon that this No. 5 scheme,” said an old worker to a reporter of the “Northern Advocate” the other day, “is the greatest thing that has yet been devised. I don’t care if the Avages for married men come down to ten shillings a day. I shall work even then. I know only too well that the,board and the local bodies are only making work —a great deal of the work is not needed —but it is better than the dole, and I get very sick with some young fellow's who will not do a tap more than they need. It has been a Godsend to me.”

A young solicitor from England, Wilfred Wilson Leggc, aged 26, appeared before Mr E. C. Gotten, iS.M., in the Auckland Police Court, charged with committing the forgery of a mortgaged deed to secure £6OO in money

in England on January 15, 1030. Ho was also charged with being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient means of support, at Auckland on February 20. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said the police in Auckland were now awaiting papers from England in connection with the forgery charge. Accused had said that he was prepared to consent to a month's remand rather than he brought down from the gaol every week. By that time the papers should have reached New Zealand. In any case, accused could be brought down as soon as the documents arrived. Legge was remanded until May 2.

Only address of J. W. Dobson, wellknown Piano Tuner:—4 Banff Street, Phone 192.

When you have searched everywhere, and unable to And just the kind and style of Coat or Costume you want, call and let us make it for you. —Geo. Hendy, High-class Ladies’ Tailor, Corner Bank and Vine Street.

After May 1, a charge will be made by the native trustees on all people using the Ngawha hot springs.

The motor garage owned by Mr \. Burton in Ward Street, Hamilton, was broken into on Saturday evening, and a “Baby” Austin car removed without authority. At a late hour last evening it had not been recovered.

A gift of a boar and two sows of the Large White breed, chosen from stock of good type imported trom Canada, has been made to the Ruakuva State Farm by Mr Colin W. Anderson, of Tamaki House, Kohimarama, Auckland. The gift has been acknowledged with thanks by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. A. J. Murdoch). The two moa eggs discovered by Mr L. ,T. Matthews at Doubtless Bay, Mangonui, over 25 years ago, have been presented bv Itim to the AVar Memorial Museum. They are small, about 4A inches long, but very valuable, only six other specimens being known. Two are in the Dominion Museum, one imperfect egg in the Wellington Museum, another likewise imperfect in the British Museum, and two in the hands of English private collectors.

It is reported that the well-known All Black footballer, A. E. Cooke, who since leaving Hawke’s Bay, played for Wairarapa and 'Wellington, has now returned to Hawke’s Bay, and is working in Hastings. It was Cooke’s intention not to play football again, but it is said that he has been induced to turn out for the Hastings club. It is not unlikely that he will take the held as a full-back, but his position lias not yet been definitely decided. Mr Harry Wilson, of Kaikohe, met with a painful accident while motor* ing to Kaco last week. He was on a motor bicycle and was turning the sharp bend with in the bush just past Waimate North when the bumper of a car coming in the opposite direction smashed his right foot again the bicycle’s radiator. He was taken to the Kawakawa hospital, and an X-ray examination revealed that the ankle had not been broken, but the heel had suffered severe injury.

With the finish of hop-picking in the Nelson districts, some very good records are reported. The best, which is fully verified, is that of a picker in a Riwaka garden, who averaged 98 bushels a day for a week, her biggest daily score being 113 bushels. Anything between 40 and 50 bushels a day is considered very good, but the picker referred to must have been an exceptionally fast worker. At 3d a bushel, which is the rate paid, this picker earned £l7 12s for 16 days* work.

The following is from the “North Auckland Times” .‘-—“The Nomads cricket team has won |he Whangarei senior championship for the 1930-31 season with 22 points, Whangarei being second with 17 points. Taking a line on the result of the match played in Dargaville on St. Patrick’s Day between teams chosen chiefly from the banking interests of both towns, it would seem that Dargaville cricket is well up to the average- of that played in Whangarei, as most of the Whangaroi players who took part in the game on St. Patrick’s Day are members of the Nomads team which has won Whangarei’s competition. It will also be membered that early in the season Dargaville ifistrict High School team beat Whangarei High School, which was well up in the Whangarei competition, very decisively.” There were six members of the Nomads best team in the side which visited Dargaville. It is a pity no match was arranged between the centres this sea-

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