LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“What on earth has happened here?-’ queried anxious-faced pedestrians passing Marshall’s corner on the way to work this morning. Eight on the edge of Ihe pavement was a big pool of congealed blood, conveying the impression of a tragedy. Further investigation disclosed that things--were not , as bad as they might have been,-although the accident was sad enough, The victim was a large greyhound,, which was run over by a motor vehicle at (he entrance of Water Street about o'clock. The dog was desperately hurt and was i quickly pul out of its misery by a pearifle bullet.

Henry Wilson’s Monster Sale of Henderson’s stock, bought at 4/0 in the pound, continues to be the centre of great business activity. Immense savings on all classes of drapery and clothing are being made by thrifty, buyers, particularly on winter goods, such as underwear, blankets, rugs, flannelettes, Manuels and winter 'dress materials. Ladies should not miss the new seasou's millinery in all the latest shapes and colours. A selection of sdo, priced from 1/11 to 3/11. 1

The United hockey team to play Pir

ates oh Kensington Parle at 2 p.m. toniorroAv will be as follows;—Saul; Smear,' Sutcliffe; Wilson, Bates; Harford; Dreamer, Doyle, Patterson, Kelly and Elliott.

The Whangarei Acclimatisation Society’s meeting last night decided to procure 100,000 trout, ova,, from North Canterbury. This will be used in stocking district streams, principally Mangalea hi a.

A labourer, William Mnjnry, was found dead yesterday near his house at Tararn Creek, Thames. A shotgun Avas lying beside the body. Deceased, who was a married man, aged 44, had eight children.

The body of Mrs Elizabeth Susan Osborne has been found among the willows in Hie Hntt River, some distance from Moiling Bridge. Mrs Osborne had been missing from home siipm April 2G.

About three o’clock vestordav after

noon an ammonia generator exploded at the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s butter factory at Taupivi, and the manager, Mr A. J, Garry, sustained a cut over one eve and burns.

The Auckland Transport Board has decided to raise a loan of £15,000 uy Avay of overdraft for the reconstruction of tram tracks as an unemployment relief work The interest is not to exceed 5 per cent., and the loan is to be repaid by annual instalments of not less than £1,875.

Owing to the stoppage of four Waikato coal mines, there is a shortage of coal for domestic purposes in Auckland. According to one coal merchant, the supplies from the Pukemiro and Walton mines is not sufficient to go round, and a. rationing system has been in operation during the past ten days.

A blow-out in the joint of the eightinch water pipe running underneath the railway bridge in Water .Street occurred last night. Quite a subsidence was caused, and in the darkness one passer-by narrowly escaped a tumble. This morning borough workmen remedied the defect.

Only four attended a meeting- called last evening for tlie purpose of forming a Whangarei Hockey Referees' Association. The mooting Avas postponed in order that others interested might attend. Referees will eon for tonight for the purpose of discussing rules, with a view to uniformity in interpretation.

An employee of the Pearson Sandsoap Co., Ltd., Mr Afichnel Kilfoyle, aged (U, single, was partially burie i in a fall of pumice which occurred at the company’s sand pit on River Road, Hamilton, yesterday. He Avas soA’erely shaken, and Avas admitted to the Waikato Hospital suffering from shock and bruises.

■Several. Whangarei plumbers have recently returned from the West Coast, where they have been working in 32 houses, built under the small farm ccheme, between To Kopuru and Bayly’s Beach. The farms, which have been made by the cutting up of the Bassett and Wilson estates, range in extent from 30 to I2G acres, according to the quality of the soil.

While assisting to load timber on the steamer Tanewha at the Northern Wharf, Auckland, yesterday afternoon, a waterside worker, Mr A. Penney, whose home is in Brydon Street, Grey Lynn, slipped ami fell .Id feet into the hold. He received injuries to the left thigh and right foot. After receiving treatment at the hospital he was able to return to his home.

As a result of slipping and falling backward when he was ascending stairs at the Queen’s Head Hotel, Auckland, yesterday afternoon, the manager, Mr Francis Owen O’Connor, aged 4S, received a .severe gash in the back of the head and other head injuries. Ho was taken by a St. John Ambulance vo the Auckland Hospital, where his eontion is reported to be fairly serious

False telephone messages, apparently given by a woman, requesting the delivery of goods, or the services of business people and residents in the suburbs and. city, are causing widespread annoyance and inconvenience in Auckland. In some instances the victims of the hoaxes have been put to expense before the telephone messages have been proved false, and in every ease time has been wasted and confusion caused.

| A meeting of householders at the { Central School, Gisborne, passed the following resolution,'which is to be sent to the -Minister of Education:—“This meeting of householders views with indignation the callous incompetence with which the department has handled the situation created by the recent earthquakes, thereby disregarding the safety of the children attending the, 1 school, and resolves further, unless' within 14 days the department promises to reconstruct the .brick school satisfactorily, that parents be urged not to allow their children to attend the school after the present term holidays.

Air. .1, T. Skelton, of the Riverbank Nurseries. New Lynn, is advertising in this issue 11 assorted fruit trees for £.l cash with order. A catalogue will be posted (6 your address immediately on request. ‘ (328

Fashionable Ladies’ Tailor. Maker of high grade Costumes, Coat Frocks and Coats.—Geo. Heady, High-class Tailor, Corner of Bank and Vine Streets.

Attention is drawn to an advertisementappearing in this issue for the Morningside Timber Co., sawmillors, timber merchants and joinery manufacturers. Advice is given to send tor timber and joinery lists, as the service and prices, are unexcelled. All advice and information forwarded free of charge. 626

The results of the mocal municipal

electious, and those of elections in other parts of the Dominion, will be' posted ' up" outside- • the -‘ ‘ Advocate ’’ office as thev come to hand this even-

Advice has been received from the Rural Intermediate Credit Board that the rate of interest to he charged on both existing' and future loan's will be reduced from (U per cent, to 0 per cent, as from the Ist May. The reduction applies fo loans granted through Co-op,-Rural Intermediate Credit Associations as well as those obtained direct from the board.

‘Without discussion, the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association passed the following resolution at the annual meeting*. —“That this meeting reaffirms that portion of the constitution making the association non-political and non-sectarian, and considers tliat any departure from this would have disastrous effects upon the future welfare of the association, and great I}'* hinder the work of earing for distressed and disabled men.”

A soup kitchen, which will be the only one of its kind in Auckland, will be opened, by Mr T. Heaton, a social worker, on the top floor of the building at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets, at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. The beef tea for the soup kitchen, which will remain open till September, is being provided by Messrs R. and W. Hcllaby, Ltd,, Mr John Hcllaby being a keen supporter of the guild whicli Mr Heaton established in December last.