LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 34, 18 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

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Speaking with reference to the support given the Hospital Board by Mr R H Walker, Mr D Kitchen yesterday said: “When he sends his wife up to the maternity hospital we will give him special treatment. (Laughter) Anglican services for Sunday, 22nd April: Mangonui II a.m. H.C. Awanui 7 p.m. Kaitaia II a.m. and 7 p.m. Anzac Dav, Wednesday, 25th: Holy Communion at 10.30 a.m.

An item of interest to motorists is announced by TaafFe’s Motors. This is to the effect that they have opened up a large and varied range of special motor accessories.

Presbyterian services for Sunday, April 22nd; Pukepoto 11 a.m. Herekino 2 p.m. Kaitaia 7.30 pan., Harvest Festival.

Users of Michelin tyres are boosters for Michelin tyres. You try them and bjone a booster for Michelin. Stocked by Northland Ford Service, Kaitaia.

Redan’s bridge seems to be favoured by the romantically inclined. The contractor however, would be pleased if the visitors will not disturb the paint. The Harvest Thanksgiving service of the Presbyterian Church will be held next Sunday night at 7.30. Gift* of fruit and produce may be left at the church either morning or-afternoon of next Saturday. The offerings of fruit and vegetables will be sent to the hospital after the service. Special music will be rendered.

“Make the railway pay !” is one of the mottoes that the railway staffs ha*e had flaunted in their faces for sortie time now. Other slogans have been invented which indicate that economy is needed. This wave of economy has had many effects, but the latest one is regarded as the last word. Travelling officers of senior rank are allowed a certain* fixed sum if they are away from their homes for a night, but if they are away for part of a day, they are'allowed actual expenses of meals. So a new circular has been prepared which states that officers, instead of having meals at hotels, should take sufficient food with them from their homes. “They’ll be issuing us with nosebags shortly,’’ declared a prominent officer in Christchurch to a Lyttelton Times reporter.

A Manawatu farmer had a large ball of binder twine in the back of his car. A “wag" in Palmerston Norlh tied one end to a post, and when the farmer got home he found to his lament that he had paid out twine in ah unbroken trail on the roadway. A policeman started out from Palmerston North to iuvestigate the mystery of the trail, and followed it round corners and along stretches of level road until he reached the farmhouse.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from Mr A Watson of a copy of the Motor Regulations, Motor Vehicles Act and By-laws. These are distributed by the Auckland Automobile Association for which Mr Watson is the lt?C?l aflent.

The Fairburn-Kaiaka basket social eventuates on Friday. Don’t miss this treat.

At the recent showing of the Follies Revue at Oruru a handsome quilt donated by Mrs J. Foster, of Oruaiti, in aid of the Mangonui X Ray plant, realised £l6 and was finally won by Mr T. S. Houston, of Ahipara. A meeting of the Mangonui Rugby Referees’ Association will be held on Friday. See advt.

A gun and clog are advertised tor sale in this issue.

The Hospital Board yesterday expressed their thanks to Mr RH Walker for what he has done in raising funds in aid of the X-Ray plant at the Mangonui Hospital and in raising funds for the Kaitaia Hospital. It was stated that the total secured as the result of Mr Walker’s effort for the X-Ray plant is £6l. Mr Walker in returning thanks said he enjoyed doing the work and the members of the company too had been enthusiastic some coming several miles to attend rehearsals. He appreciated what had been said. It gave a great deal of enjoyment to those associated with him in the functions held. Robert Tanton alias Theodore Gregory Tanton, saluted Messrs Mclntosh and Bedggood, Justices of the Peace in the Kaitaia Police Court on Monday. He wore a Tom Mix hat, dungaree pants and tan boots as part of his equipment and pleaded guilty to the theft of a camera the property of Mrs Grace Wilkinson. The bench considerately gave Mr Tanton three months in Mt Eden gaol and incidently provided Mr Pat O’Gorman with a holiday trip to Auckland. Although a Caucus of the Re" form Party is being held in Wellington, Colonel Bell M.P is not attending. He is at present in the Rawene district. Does this mean that he is aiming at another change of his political coat. A deputation consisting of Messrs W R Grigg, D H Lewis and G Rickard waited upon the Mangonui Hospital Board asking that evidence be compiled and submitted to the electors on the occasion of the next election with a view to securing the sanction of the electors to erecting a main hospital in Kaitaia. It was decided ultimately to get out a return showing the c®st of the two institutions to the ratepayers and also to compile an estimate ot what one hospital would cost. A meeting of the Mangonui Hospital Board was held yesterday. Present: Messrs T S Houston, (Chairman), E A Evans, L J Matthews, C B Michie, G Gosson, L H Mclntosh, D Kitchen and C J E Barriball Everyone knows that boots are as necessary as butter, and that bootmakers and dairy farmers are equally important parts of industry as a whole; but this does not mean that in New Zealand primary and secondary industries are of equal value. Our future lies mainly with the farmer, and unless we rid him of the burden of the Arbitration Court we are setiously compromising that future, and threatening the prosperity of the whole nation.— Christchurch Press.