LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 16 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pleading guilty at New Plymouth to a charge of eoucealment of birth, a young Maori woman, Bella Thompson, was admitted to probation for one year. ■ - ■ - • •

Tin* first allocation of money from the Auckland Prosperity Week funds to social organisations and relief and welfare committees was made by the trustees yesterday, when the distribution of £3OOO was arranged to meet emergency conditions.

A waterside worker, John O. Wilson, aged 54, was seriously injured on the Walkawa at Lyttelton. He was ascend, ing a ladder when a sling came adrift and its contents struck him. His jaw was fractured and his left ear almost severed, states a Press Association message from Christchurch.

There is a prospect of early developments in connection with the Now Zealand embargo on 'Australian citrus fruits. While it is unlikely that the embargo will be completely lifted, it is possible that imports of Australian fruits will be permitted from a limited specified area, states a Press Association message from Wellington.

The death occurred in the Christchurch hospital of Mr Richard Nash, aged 50, proprietor of the Star and Garter Hotel and a well known sportsman. He suffered spinal injuries when lie fell 20 feet on the rocks while tramping on the Port Hills on Sunday, stales a Press Association message from Christchurch.

Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, the noted American explorer, is actively pursuing his plan of getting into training for his Antarctic expedition,. Yesterday he walked from the Chateau to National Park station and back, a distance of 22 miles. Mr Ellsworth has planned to make an ascent of Ruapehu today. Fine weather prevails.

Most persons think of the boomerang as a weapon used only by the Australian aborigine, but according to Professor .T. Shelley, the Egyptians about 2000 years ago had a similar weapon. Professor Shelley, in an address to members rf the Workers’ Educational Association in Christchurch, showed an illustration of an Egyptian hunter holding aloft a boomerang.

Brownie Burin, a nine-year-old Maori hoy, was playing football at the Ngararatumia School yesterday when, in falling, he fractured both bones of the right leg. He was taken to the Whangarci District Hospital, where, after an X-ray examination, the fracture was reduced. The patient’s condition is reported to be satisfactory this morning. A number of people residing in the Upper Bank Street area were startled at about midnight last night when what was apparently a firearm of some description was discharged. There were two distinct explosions. It is possible that the noise was caused by a car backfiring, 1 hough people who heard the sound quite clearly state that there was no accompanying sound of ah engine turning over.

While enjoying a pin to of oysters in a Tlmaru restaurant, a lady was astonished i o discover a pearl. At first site did not recognise the pearl, which was dull in colour, but closer examination revealed it as an article of value. A jeweller who examined the find valued it at about £o. Later customers, on learning of the find, ordered oysters, but no further discoveries were made.

It has been left to the Whangarei Amateur Wrestling Gymnasium Club to revive the sport of wrestling in Dargaville, for which purpose they have decided to run an amateur tournament this month at which Id bouts will be staged, chief of which will be a contest between B. Hollows (Whangarei ’s unbeaten champion, also North Auckland champion) and a specially selected wrestler from Auckland, whose name is not yet available. There will also he a contest for the \ osta. Challenge Cup between a Whangarei team and Ruawai, where there are several good bovs.

H, Hughes, the New Zealand lightweight boxing champion and holder of the Jamieson Belt, returned from Hamilton yesterday and is training in his brother’s gymnasium. “Scotty” has already fought, one professional bout, a* six-rounder, in which McKay received the decision. The Northland boy was scoring most of the points towards the end, and Ins staying powers should stand him in good stead in his match with Lon Robinson at To Karaka next month. Robinson, an oxNew Zealand amateur and professional champion, is endeavouring to'stage a come-back. Stove Hughes has also secured another professional engagement, and in a fortnight’s time will fight Watti Robinson, of Wellington, at Gisborne. Both the Whangarei boys arc very fit.

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A golden opportunity for unemployed semi-unemployed and employed fishermen presents itself in tlie obtaining of unlimited and regular supplies of crayfish to be delivered at Whangaroa for the Zealaudia. Packing Company Limited. See announcement on Page 1. 8(5(1 Henry Wilson’s monster sale of two stocks bought at an exceptionally low figure continues to break all records. Such price smashing on high quality drapery and clothing has never been approached in Northland, and customers who know the class of goods being offered are coining from far and wide.