LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Through being knocked down by a motor-car as she was crossing the road in Eden Terrace near Dominion Road about 9.30 last evening, Mrs. Vera Bartley, aged 40, sustained lacerations to the face and extensive bruises. Mrs. Bartley, who resides at 20, Brentwood Avenue, Mount Eden, was taken to the Auckland Hospital by the St. John Ambulance.

A revised list of retail prices for mutton and pork, to take effect from Monday, is announced by the Auckland Master Butchers' Association. The classes of mutton affected are forequarter, shoulder, shank end of forequarter and neck, which are one-halfponny to one penny a pound cheaper. All lines of pork with the exception of leg and sausages have been decreased by one penny a pound.

A small model motor-car, owned by Mr. V. J. Parkinson, of 7, Telford Avenue, Dominion Road, was removed from Chancery Lane, City, between 6.30 and 7.15 last evening. The car had not been recovered at a late hour.

One hundred acres of the Manurewa property known as " Wairere," including the residence, has been acquired by Sir James Gunson from Mr. A. W. Gillies. It is the intention of Sir James to make the place his permanent residence. The purchase price has not been disclosed.

When the Auckland Harbour Bridge Commission resumes its sitting on Monday the Harbour Bridge Association will be ready to lead its evidence, stated the president, Mr, R. H. Greville, yesterday. It is possible that statistical evidence will first be tendered on behalf of local bodies, but that point of procedure has yet to be decided.

The university examinations for matriculation, accountancy and entrance scholarships will commence on Monday. Candidates from the Auckland Grammar School and the Mount Albert Grammar School for matriculation and accountancy will be examined at Spots Hall, but all candidates for entrance scholarships will sit at the University College.

Before the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, left King's College yesterday he said he had a favour to ask of the headmaster; he thought it was only right that the boys should be given a holiday. " A half-holiday?"- asked the headmaster, the Rev. H. K. Archdall, smilingly/ "Oh, no,", replied His Excellency, " the Governor-General never does things by halves."

An interesting history attaches to a wreath of poppies, laid on the Auckland Cenotaph on Thursday by Mrs. A. W. Averill on behalf of the Auckland Mothers' Union. The wreath had also been laid on the Unknown Warrior's tomb in Westminster Abbey on Anzac D&y by Miss A. O'Neill, on behalf of the union, and she brought it back to New Zealand, regarding it as appropriate that Auckland's Cenotaph should be so linked with the tomb in the heart of the Empire.

That fish are plentiful in the Hauraki Gulf is indicated by the experience of several residents of Manly. One man has used an endless line with seven hooks attached, a pulley being fixed at the top of a low cliff and another anchoring the line to a deep -water. When & fish is hooked a bell rings and so gives warning at the house. Among other fish, a full-sized octopus, "stingrays and a 101b. schnapper have been captured by this method. Two men trolling a doublehooked spinner caught 15 large kingfish in four evenings, while a morning's catch totalled 10 schnapper, a shark, kahawai, and 200 herring.

The appeal for funds launched by Sister Esther in the Herald for the purchase o£ a new bath-chair for Mr. C. R. Christy, a legless cripple, .who is one of the regular donors of blood for blood transfusion at the Auckland Hospital, has drawn a very gratifying response. The chair is estimated to cost £75, and of this amount £43 Is 6d has been received, £ls 4 coming from one anonymous donor, who stipulated that the construction of the chair must bo started immediately, and that any deficiency in the funds would be made good. It is expected that Mr. Christy will be supplied with the chair, which has to be specially designed, in " about six weeks.

An unusual sight was witnessed in Victoria .Street, Hamilton, yesterday, when a quaint vehicle consisting of a motor chassis, with a caravan body, and drawn by an old horse, passed through the town. The vehicle was driven by an old man, Mr. William Cameron, of Te Puke, 1 who had improvised the vehicle as a means of seeing the country. The old man carried his bed and cooking utensils in the van. He was on his way to North Auckland, where he said he contemplated taking up fruit-farming.

Heavy rain tinged with red fell at Oakaiawa on Tuesday evening, says a Press Association message from Hawera. On practically every farm in the vicinity evidence was found of tho phenomenon. A rust-like deposit was left on. concrete paths and the roofs of houses. Milk cans standing in tho open were streaked with red. Evidence of the presence of this red substance in recent rains has been found also in Hawera. .

The appointment of two married women teachers to positions that had become vacant at the Linwood Avenue School in Christchurch gave the school committee concerned opportunity last week to voice strong objection. The committee wrote to the Education Board stating that while married women are appointed it will be difficult to find employment for young teachers and thus hardship will be created for other applicants. The committee stated that it had no objection to married women teachers provided that they are solely dependent on the incomes they derive from teaching.

A find was made by Mr. L. Nicholas on his proporty at Temuka recently, when he unearthed, about sft. under the surface, a stone adze of a rare shape, which must have been burjed for many years. Tho adze is very well made, and is of unpolished grey stone. The length is 10in., and it is 3iin. in breadth, and ljjin. in thickness. The cutting edge is hollow ground, in this point differing from tho usual straight-ground edge of the true Maori adze. Mr. Nicholas presented his find to Mr. H. S. McCully, who has made a study of this subject for some years, and who has a collection of flints and stone implemeut.s collected from all over the South Island. Mr. McCully said that the adze was of considerable scientific value, as it might help to prove that another race of human beings inhabited New Zealand before tho advent of the Maoris.