LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rock Oyster Season The rock oyster season in Auckland will open on Thursday. Compared with last year there will he 110 change in price, tho rates at the Government depot being £1 Is a sack, 5s Gd a sugar hag and Is a paper hag. Those prices are slightly above those charged in i:m.

Struck By Rivet A painful injury- to his left eye was suffered by a mechanic, Mr. Cyril George Payne, of Te Awamutu, through being struck by a rivet when working in a Te Awamutu garage yesterday morning. He was brought to Auckland for treatment and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday afternoon. His condition is not serious. White Butterfly Parasito The breeding of the parasite of the white butterfly continues to occupy the attention of the Auckland Young Farmers' Club, according to the report submitted to the fourth annual meeting yesterday. Many thousands of the parasite have been liberated in the Manukati district, while largo numbers have also been forwarded to tho pupils of primary schools around Auckland, which havo co-operated in the work by supplying chrysalids. Evidence in Mareo Retrial The evidence in the retrial of Eric Mareo, who is charged with murdering his wife, The!ma Mareo, by administering to her an overdose of veronal, now totals 273 typewritten foolscap pages. It is expected that this number will be increased to almost 'IOO pages when the evidence for the defence is completed on Monday. In the first trial of Marco the evidence of tho Crown amounted to 197 pages. On that occasion no evidence was called for the defence. Maori Curios for Rotorua A request has been received by tho Potorua liorough Council from Mr. F. 0. Peat, of Titirangi, for the transfer to him of the lease of the famous carved house at Whakarewarewa. In making his application Mr. Peat stated that he proposed, if he could secure the lease, to transfer his collection of curios at present housed at Titirangi to Whakarewarewa, which he considered a more suitable place to put them on exhibition. After discussing the proposal, which was sympathetically received, the council referred it to the reserves committee for consideration.

Herald Scholarship Candidates Three of the six pupils of the Auckland Aero Club who qualified for A licences after examinations at the Waikato airport, Kukuhia, on Thursday were candidates in the New Zkaland Herald aviation scholarship contest held recently. Two of them, Messrs. A. A. Yeoman, of Whakatane, and Mr. D. Carlson, of Okoroirc, were finalists in the competition. With Mr. P. ,T. Dee, of Hamilton, they were among the outstanding candidates, and took advantage of the club's special offer of an inclusive fee of £35 for training to A licence' standard.

Milk for Meadowbank School The statement published in the Herald yesterday that some of the schools in the Auckland City area were not taking advantage of the free milk scheme being sponsored by the Auckj land City Council lias resulted in the committee of the Meadowbank School j deciding to make application to be inI eluded in the scheme. The chairman | of the committee, "Mr. R. T. Hook- ! ham, stated last evening that the committee had not been aware that the school was entitled to participate. How ever, it was now intended to ask that milk be supplied to •'JOO I children who were eligible to receive it | Combating Piri Piri Liberation of the piri piri saw-fly has just been made by officers of the Cawthron Institute and .Massey College. An observation colony has been established at Mr. T. C urrie's property at Kai lwi, near Wanganui. Mr. Currie is chairman of the Wanganui Provincial Farmers' Union. Other colonies have been liberated in the Mangamahu, Matahiwi, Karioi and Para para Road districts. Further colonics will be established in a few weeks as the insects are available. Dr. Miller, of the Cawthrou Institute, is very sanguine of good results. Jt is estimated that the annual loss to farmers in the Dominion through piri piri is £250,000. The Horse Described Five letters from school children in the United States, who wish to cones- ! pond with children in Christchurch, J have been received by the secretary of j the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, i Mi . ,f. Roy Smith. They wore for- j warded by Miss Ruth Brundage, a' teacher in the Washington School, ! Wanwatosa, Wisconsin, with a request j that they be given to a fifth or sixth j grade teacher in a Christchurch school. ; The letters are mostly descriptive of j school lite in Wauwatosa, but there is ! one dealing with farm life. It contains the amusing statement: "J know you do not have barns in New Zealand. A barn is the cows' and horses' house. ( 1 he horse, as you may know, is the beast of burden in America.)" Improving Conditions

Business generally is on the upgrade in Wanganui, romnrkctl a retailer this week. "There arc few vacant shops in the city to-day and during the past three months quite a number of new businesses have been opened up. The indications are that Wanganui will soon be back to its former position >ns a business centre. Wanganui was one of tho first centres in New Zealand to be hit by the depression, and I am confident that it will be one of the first to recover fully. Wanganui people are prone to condemn their own city when they visit other centres wheu they should be proud of it. There is nothing wrong with Wanganui, and 1 am sure that it has a great future ahead of it if the people only co-operate in any move for its advancement."

Dental Care for the Needy A plan for extending tho work of the dental hospital by enlisting tho services of dentists practising in suburban and rui a I areas is to be tried by the Auckland Hospital Board, which has invited offers from such practitioners to treat cases allotted to them from the hospital. Since tho appointment of Sir Alexander Young early this year fs director, tho work of tho hospital has been reorganised with tho object of making its service availahlo to a larger number of needy people, and the present scheme has boon launched tor the benefit of patients who cannot be conveniently treated at the headquarters in Kitchener Street. It is hoped, with the co-operation of the profession, to provide dental (.'are for children and adults who are unable to make journoyß to the city.