LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19501, 3 December 1926, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Suffering from the effects of swallowing a pin Daphne Melville, aged nine, whose parents reside at Henderson, was admitted to ;the Auckland Hospital yesterday. It was reported by the hospital authorities "last evening that an operation would probably not be necessary.

A waterside worker, George CargiU, was admitted, to the hospital yesterday morning suffering from a wound in the fleshy part of tl)e hip. The injury is not serious. Following an incident which led to the injury, another waterside worker* Joseph Andre, was arrested on a charge of assault. Andre will appear in the Police Court to-day. ; . ,

While returning to Bayswater to connect with the 7.15 boat for the city last evening, one of the carriages of the steamtram slipped the rails near O'Neill's Point Cemetery. The tram was immediately stopped, the passengers dismounting and proceeding to the wharf in buses. The disabled carriage was jacked back on to the rails and taken to the barn on Bayswater wharf.'

Seeking an opportunity to act in a motion picture, over 60 persons yesterday replied to : an' advertisement in the Herald calling for three actors to appear in a local film. The- majority of the applicants were recent arrivals from England, and a number had previously acted in pictures. Five of the applicants were immigrants from Canada. Most of those who applied were out bf employment.

A new Roman Catholic primary school is being erected by voluntary labour in Alberton Avenue, Mount Albert. The school is well advanced and is expected to be ready for occupation next February. Through the activity of parishioners in organising a bazaar and sal.e of work the school js already free of debt. It is only a few months: ago since the parishioners built a very handsome presbytery.

"A spirit of general contentment and happiness exists among the men and women in the homes for inebriates at Roto Roa and , Pakatoa.,'' said Colonel ' Knott, general secretary of the Salvation Army, who returned to Wellington last evening alter an inspection tour -of the Army's activities in the North Island. "I have mingled with the men, who have expressed complete satisfaction with the treatment accorded them." Colonel Knott addeci that' he was convinced the system was working well, and in almost every case absolute reformation was the result.

Mistaking a plate glass window in a tobacconist's .shop- at, Ngaruawahia ' for the door on Wednesday evening, a youth walked into the: glass,. which was a quarter of an inch thick, and * shattered it, but, s beyond being somewhat dazed, he was not injured by the splinters. The window is about the same., size as the door, and with a bright light shining behind it might easily be mistaken by one in a hurry as . an open space.

Apple crops throughout the Poverty Bay "district will be -lighter .than usual this year, and tho commercial growers are afraid there will' be : hb surplus for export. Unfortunately, all the cases ordered for export have arrived, says the Poverty Bay Herald;- and growers will have to take delivery and hold them for next season. The crops gen&ally a repatehy, and i t appears likely -that the ..whole of the apples grownwill be . able to be con-, in the district, more especially as - excellent arrangements can he made for cold storage. Pear crops look good, but it is probable that these, too, will be needed for the local market.

In 1920 the. "king natives" raised £ISOO to purchase ten acres, of land at Ngaruawahia, which is vested in the Maori rfeing,":.Te Rata to hold in trust as a papa.kainga for all natives acknowledging his leadership, Costly improvements have been made, water laid on, lighting, connected and sanitary measures taken. The .work now iq hand involves the completion of a hall, approximately 120 ft, square, which will contain a refreshment room, an audi tqrium t and stage, and a meeting house. The opening has been fixed for March 15, 1927, and . the Prime Minister is to be invited to be present. After the papa kainga is well'established it is. intended to start a school to revive among tho young men and women of the native race the arts of woodcarvfng and -weaving and other useful handicrafts;

" Not many of the unemployed who apply to tho Hospital Board for help are able-bodied," said Mrs. -H. F. Herbert "at a meeting of the North Canterbury Board last week. " Some will not work and you can't make them work. One man I have come across Vrould rather let his wife and children starve than do' the' work-' -he is able to." These- remarks followed on the report of the board's benevolent committee, which 'stated;' " With reference to the request of the deputation which waited upon the board regarding the amount of work to be done in return for benevolent relief, the committee recommends that all able-bodied men receiving, relief Worn the board be required to perform work of a value equivalent to the value of assistance given."

A reference to a disease that is attacking pinus insignia trees on his property was made by Mr. F, C. Hammond at a meeting of the Marlborough Provincial "Executive of the Farmers' Union "last week. Mr. Hammond said he had been cutting up some affected trees and had discovered numbers of large grabs in the wood. These grabs were all facing toward the outside and were boring their way out from the centre of the wood, although there was nothing to show how they had got inside. He had noted that when they reached the bark, the grubs lay dormant until they developed into large black moths. The meeting suggested' that Mr. Hammond should send specimens to the .Cawfchron Institute for examination.

" One thing that cannot be too strongly emphasised is that manufacturers must be loyal to one another/' said Mr. E. H. Marritier, of the New Zealand Manufacturers*' Federation, to the Canterbury Association last; week;; " There' are instances which come under our notice of firms which are anxious for assistance in their own line/arid at the-, same time are using imported raw materials when our own are available. There is one instance < i' a man who was representing a London house, and who was very anxious to have a heavy duty placed on American goods of the Same line as he was handing,, and saying that we should support England, who buys our products. Yet, outside his office was one of the. latest American earsy which .he had recently parrinwed.'; .