LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18813, 13 September 1924, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A Press Association cablegram states that tho steamer Manuka left Sydney at 1 p.m. yesterday for Auckland. She is due to arrive at this port on Tuesday. Tlie first safety zone accident for some weeks occurred yesterday, when a Studebaker ,rnotor-car came into contact with a zone at the corner of Karangahape Road and Pitt Street. The car was somewhat damaged, but the zone did not suffer. The road from Auckland to Pukekohe, via Papakura and Karaka, will soon be metalled throughout its length, a distance of about 10 chains now being completed by the Franklin County Council is tho only unmetalled portion. Another satisfactory operation is the repairing work on tho Great South Road between Huntly and Taupiri. Work on this formerly rough section is being pushed ahead. 'Two Pacific mail steamers, the Makura and the Maunganui, are due in New Zealand on Monday, ono vessel being outward and the other homeward bound. Tho Makura is due at Auckland at 11 a.m. with passengers, mails and cargo from Vancouver, Honolulu and Suva. She is to resume her voyage to Sydney on Tuesday afternoon. The Maunganui is due at Wellington from Sydney about 6 a.m. After loading New Zealand cargo and mails and embarking passengers at Wellington the vessel is scheduled to sail on Tuesday afternoon for Rarotonga, Papeete, and San .Francisco. Mails to bo despatched by the Maunganui will close at Auckland at 5.50 p.m. on Monday. Hie narrow margin between tho arrival of the Makura and the closing of the Maunganui's mails at Auckland gives very little time for replies to inward correspondence being despatched by the Maunganui.

Trespassing on the grounds of the Kowhai junior high school is still a subject of complaint. At a meeting of the school committee on Thursday evening, the principal, Mr. 11. E. Rudman, stated tliat no fewer than 25 people, making tho " short cut " across tho grounds, were counted on ono ofterncon. Complaints of vandalism were also mentioned. Mr. Rudman said that he had placed eight or nine benzine boxes in the grounds for use as rubbish receptacles. By next morning he said thoy had all disappeared. It was resolved to again bring the matter under the notice of tho. Education Board.

A strong attraction at the forthcoming Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Spring Show, to be held on October 24 and 25, will be a trotting exhibition. The president and secretary of tho association recently waited on the Auckland and Otahuhu Trotting Club officials to discuss the proposal, and both clubs have agreed to donate £100 each towards the exhibition, the donation to be made an annual one. Prizes will be awarded on Doints. for soeed conformation and style. The offer was discussed at a meeting of the association committee yesterday, and accepted with thanks. A Moascar Cup match between the New Plymouth High School Rugby fifteen, holders of tho trophy, and the Mount Albert Grammar School team, winners of tho Auckland secondary schools championship, will in all probability take place at New Plymouth on September 27. New Plymouth High School have already withstood three challenges this season, but Mount Albert Grammar have a fine team, and should the contest tako place tho holders wjll find the Auckland players Vii'y hard to beat. In connection with the New Zealand brass bands' championship to bo held in Auckland next February, it has been erroneously reported that the test selections had already been issued by the executive. There has been no departure from the custom of issuing tho selections simultaneously to all bands throughout tho Dominion, exactly three months prior to the commencement of the contests. Tho test solos, however, have been issued throughout the Dominion and Australia by tho contest committee. It has not yet been decided on which grounds the contests will be held. A visit to the Kowhai Junior High School was made this week by Mr. W. Chapman, chairman of the Christchurch Combined School Committee. Ho was shown through tho school by tho principal, Mr. 11. E. Rudman. Mr. Chapman expressed himself as highly pleased with what he had scon, and stated that ho would return to Christchurch with a high opinion of the efficiency of the first Junior High School in the Dominion. A request for tho supply of free, water to the Otahuhu public school was made by a deputation from tho school committee which waited upon the Borough Council this week. The chairman fit' the committee, Mr. T. Henry, stated that over £1500 had been spent in beautifying tho school grounds, and that the sum of £20 a year, now expended on water, would, if remitted, prove a welcome assistance in the upkeep of the property. The Mayor pointed out that the committee was nowpaying one shilling per thousand gallons as against Is 9d paid by ordinary consumers. Ho stated that tho committee's request would receive consideration. "Now Zealand supplies London annually with about enough food to last it for 10 days only," said Mr. D. O. Williams during tho course of a lecture to accountant students in Wellington.