LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 29 October 1932, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Among the private companies registered in Aueklnnd reeently is that of Northland Newspapers, Limited. Capital: £7OO in 700 shares of £1 eneh. Suhseribers: Kaitaia, W. F. Berry 350, C. W. B. Mieliie 150; Pakarnka, J. W. P. Jones 200. Object: Newspaper proprietors, publishers, printers, etc., and incidentals.

Members of the Ministers' Association have arranged for an exchange of pulpits tomorrow at the Bapt.st, Congregational, Methodist end Presbyterian Churches, and the Salvation Army. This is Vicing done to foster the spirit of Christian unity amongst the churches and to emphasise the fundamental truths of Christianity,

On n charge of ill-treating a horse 1

by driving it while it Avaa lame, Percy .lames King Avas fined £2 in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, yesterday.

While felling bush up the Waikato River between Hamilton and Cambridge yesterday morning, Leslie Cordon, aged 38, captain of several of the Roose Shipping Company’s boats, was killed instantly. It is understood that a wire rope snapped and struck him. Mr Gordon, who liA-ed at. Mercer, Avas married, with 10 children.

None of seven sections at Tauwhareparae offered for lease by the Gisborne Harbour Board was taken up Avlion thoA were offered by auction at Gisborne yesterday. Not even a bid was secured. Prospective buyers maintained that in times like the present they were not prepared to operate under the present, eonditions of the leases.

The Whangarei Racing Club executive decided at a meeting yesterday, that at the Spring Meeting, when over four horses start in a race, there av ill be a first and second dividend. They also decided to reduce admission charges, bringing the prieo for men to the lawn enclosure down from 7/(5 to Ladies avi 11 lie charged 3/-.

The consideration given by the Wha■ngarei Agricultural and Pastoral Society in postponing its autumn show until March 1 5 and Hi t,o avoid clashing with the Waiotira Show, which will bo held on March 0, is much appreciated by the Waiotira Society. • They feel that co-operation in this form will dc much for the mutual benefit of both associations.

At a recent meeting of the Whangarei Unemployed Workers’ Association, a, letter ivas received from the Ladies’ Gardening Club offering to giA'e prizes of £l, 12/G and 7/(5 for the best gardens grown by unemployed. The object is to foster gardening in all its branches, and the Avorkors are giving the scheme Avholc-heartcd .support. It is expected the competition Avill be judged shortly before Christmas.

The “Aotearoa” Maori newspaper is being printed on the Treaty «’f Waitangi press, which has been brought to Whakapara for that purpose. Owing, however to ill-usage, the plant is far from complete, and a lot of expense and work has been necessitated. Tlie editorial chair will be occupied by Miss Nell Nathan, who, besides being well versed in newspaper work, is a scholar in both the Maori and English languages.

Definite information that the American tennis team will play exhibition matches in Auckland on Monday was received by the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association last evening. The Americans are travelling to Australia by the Niagara, which is due at Auckland from Vancouver on Monday, and will sail for .Sydney on Tuesday. They will return to New Zealand about the end of February and tour the chief centres of the Dominion.

Our gardening correspondent “Taiuni,” in liis notes in .'mother port of this paper, lias written a short article about that uncommon native plant Xeronenia sp. It is very quaint an distinguished looking, and fits in perfectly, with our native form and colouring, just as the Rewarewa blossom (now out) do. A tremendous fuss was nade about X Moorei when it first dowered in cultivation. “Tainui’s” comments arc commended to readers.

A lamb weighing 121l>s was recently reported to have been horn at West field, Ashburton, but in size it is surpassed by two lambs which are reported from Mr W. Dennis’ farm at Pnkapuka, North Auckland. The first weighed 2(ilbs., but both lamb and ewe died. The other lamb was 191hs. in weight and lived for about a week, but seemed never to get properly on te its feet. Both dams were North Auckland show champion Lincoln ewes.

The tawhara is now in flower in the kiekic which clusters in the trees in North Auckland native forests. Tawhara, which means, in Maori, to open, to receive and to conceive, is the female species, the male being known as the patangatanga, or ureure. The white leaves of the tawhara are a much sought-after delicacy. The Maoris used to boil them down, mak ing a very tasty drink, not unlike sweet beer. The patangatanga, which is shaped something like a straight banana, and ripens in the autumn, is also edible. The tall fingers, when ripe,, must first be stripped of the scaly outer covering.

If you must economise, then get a Tailor-made Suit to order, from seven guineas, at Geo. Hendv’s, High-class Tailor, Corner Bank and Vine Sts. Specials for week-end shoppers at Henry Wilson’s, Lower Cameron Street:—27in Prints, 5Jd; 32in Cambrics, 7?,d yard; 54in White Sheeting worth 1/1.1, for 1/4$ yard; SOin Ditto, worth 2/11, for 1/11 yard; 54in White Damask, worth 1/1), for IHd vard: Coloured Towels, worth 2/o,'for 1/6 pair; Heavy Tea towelling', Sid yard; Ladies' Cotton Hose, lOd;" Ladies' Vests, were 1/11, for 1/4; Men’s Allwool Blazers, 10/11, Men’s Heavy Black Shirts, worth 5/6, for 4/3; Men’s White Tennis Shirts, 4/6; Boys’ Ditto, 2/11; and Aten’s Felt Hats, 5/6.