LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1933, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Advice lias been received at Morrinsvillo that Hector James McDonald, who escaped from the Morrinsville lock-up on Tuesday, Was recaptured yesterday on the road ..between ...Hotoxua and Taupo.

A fatality occurred ait' Cromwell yesterday, when Mark Holmes, married, aged 4i>, of Clyde, fell from a pontoon into the Kaw.arau TMyer and was drowned. A search for the body proved unavailing. •

Competition for official positions at the Kensington Bowling Club’s annual meeting last- night -was exceptionally keen. Ballots had to be. taken in the election of every committee except one. The meeting did not conclude until’ after 11 o ’clock. Police officers' searched the intercolonial liner Marama yesterday afternoon at Wellington for silver, but without result. The vessel sailed at 3.5 p.m. for Sydney. At Auckland, the luggage • of all passengers on the Monterey, from Auckland to Sydney, was searched yesterday. Although the examination continued from 0 a.m, until 5 p.m., no coin was found.

Extra special week-end bargains at Henry Wilson’s sale, —Pillow cases, 37pair;' 46in. stout pillow easing, KUd yard; coloured towels; 1/4 pair; 80in. unbleached sheets (best quality), .11/9 pair; 36in, dress tweeds, Hid yard; Indies’ vests, wore 2/6, for 1/3; ladies’ fleecy bloomers, 1/-; and all wool cashmere hose, 1/9,

A conceTf will be given by the Whangarei Municipal Silver Band in the •Town Hal] tomorrow (Sunday) evening. Gabriel Whearty, aged 16 years, daughter of Mr Martin Whearty, of Wheatstone, Ashburton, was found hanging from a rafter in a shed on her father’s farm yesterday.

Following the easier trend of butter on the London market, Auckland wholesale distributors have announced a reduction of Id per lb on all grades. Thechange becomes operative on Monday, First and finest grades will sell at 11 id per lb, second grade at 10-Jd, and whe\ at fUd, subject to a cash discount of a halfpenny in each case.

The Kensington Bowling’Club, at its annual meeting last night,, decided to elect four selectors, two for Thursday and two for Saturday, instead of three as previously appointed. A suggestion that a sole, selector be appointed was defeated, several members claiming that too much responsibility would be placed on the selector’s shoulders if this was done. A further motion that three selectors be retained was also defeated.

Humorously apologising for the language he spoke, Dr. H. T. Stearns, of the United States Geological Survey, told during' the course of the lecture ho ,gave in Wellington an amusing encounter with a Maori youth in the UrewCra Country. The Maori had listened with awed interest to what Dr. Stearns had to tell him about America, and he finally asked how much longer Dr. Stearns would be staying here. Having been told that the visit was only a short one, the Maori youth remarked that it was a pity, for had Dr. Stearns remained a bit longer he might have learnt to talk good English, and he added a disparaging remark about whoever had been responsible for teaching him his English.

, The first largo consignment of bobby calves to reach the Moerewa freezingworks for two years .was handled yesterday, when 200 were forthcoming. After killing, the carcases are bled and hung on rails,-where the skin is opened .tip in front and pulled-off by- a new electric-powered machine. The carcases are then placed on trolleys, and' as they travel along each man attends to a particular process under the new “chain system. ” The completed article then is taken into the grading chambers. Here it undergoes a. careful scrutiny, the oh-" ject being to build up the reputation of quality for the industry. Immature calves, which show signs of being insufficiently ’ nourished,, are rejected, sa. that farmers are ad vised to feed their; calves properly for at least four to five davs.

The:, gold fever has hoiv gripped Alexandra with a firm hold, and'the past week has seen a considerable amount of activity in the- way of the pegging ont of claims, states the Alexandra correspondent of the “Otago Daily Times. ” Practically every available section has now been pegged; in fact the -gold-mining enthusiasm has reached the stage where it borders on the ludicrous. The Bendigo Hotel, Hcsson Is store and boarding house, the recreation ground, and two private residences have been pegged out. The reason for this is not altogether clear, as it is only conjecture that gold exists in any of these localities all d no shafting or tunnelling has been carried ont recently. The. Bendigo Hotel, however, has always been,looked upon by the early miners as a rich spot, the dredge having obtained a. good returns as near to the hotel as they were able to go.

A matter which has claimed the attention of Whangarei' local bodies for some years was raised once more at the County Council meeting yesterday, when provision for replacing the old Brewery Bridge at the bottom of Tikipunga Hill was mentioned. Cr. Morrison asked whether anything had been done concerning the proposed deviation, which would eliminate the nasty corner and allow for replacing the bridge with a concrete culvert. Construction of the deviation could bo done cheaply with unemployed labour. •Cr. A. Clarke supported these views, and said that the road would never be suitable for traffic until the hairpin bend was removed. The county engineer, Mr .T. Norris, pointed out that the scheme previously had been held up on, account of the compensation in which the Borough Council had been involved. The meeting decided to approach the Borough 'Council again with .a view to having the deviation made.

To the wonders of the world must shortly bo added the Hoover Dam at the Colorado River, between Arizona and Nevada, according to Mr T. 6. Beck, an engineer of the Public Works Department, New Zealand, who reached Sydney last week by the Orsova after an extensive tour abroad studying hydraulic problems (reports the ‘ ‘ Sun, ’’■ Sydney). The dam will bo the biggest in the world. It is already under construction, and for the next three years 15,000 cubic yards of concrete will be laid daily,. .1000 men 'being engaged. It is for irrigation, and to .supply water to Los Angeles,! 250 miles away, and is a bigger undertaking than the construction of the Panama Canal. The artificial lake will be .110 miles long, and the retaining wall of the dam 7.10 ft high; 4,250,000 cubic yards of concrete will, be re-' quired. To avoid the temperature rise caused by the setting concrete which would burst the dam, six miles of pipes convey pre-cooled brine.

If you must economise, then got a Tailor-made Suit for fi guineas at Geo. Hendy’s, High-class Ladies’ and Gentlemen’? Tailor, Corner Bank and Vine Streets.