LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10514, 8 April 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The very moment one is satisfied with oneself, then one is certain to be on the down grade.

Electors are advised to see that their names appear on the municipal rolls in view of the elections to be held shortly.

The Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce has elected the following offijoers for the ensuing year-Presi-dent, Mr S. H. Rasmussen ; vice-pre-sident, Dr. Simmers : auditor, Mr G. T. Allen.

Persons who are out of work and are looking lor employment may be taken on the road work which is being commenced on the Main Highway (Eketahuna to Mount Bruce section) if they apply to the labour office of which Constable A. Ede is in cl i a rge. —Express. At the general meeting of members of the Eketahuna Football Club this week, after considerable discussion, it was decided to enter a senior team in the Bush competitions. Mr S. Gooding was elected as club captain and Mr G. W. Brown as coach to the third grade team. Mr and Mrs E. Nutter, formerly of Paliiatua, were visitors to Paliiatua this week. Mr Nutter has sold out his business at Tauranga and is returning to the Old Country on April 25th with his wife and family. He is going into the business of an uncle and does not know yet whether he will come back to New Zealand. A solicitor was busy in preparing a distress warrant to seize a cai of a country settler when in walked the settler and the hitter was informed that he was about to lose liis oar. “Well, replied the settler, in a jihilosophicel mood, “the gale the other day blew the hood off it, so jou can take it new if you like, lor it is worth nothing.” “Chinamen are just as law-abiding as white citizens, and are entitled to as much protection,” said Air A 1 os lev S.Al.j at tlie Christchurch S.AI Court He fined Jack Taylor, a seaman, aged 25, £2, and ordered him to pay witnesses expenses and interpreter's fee, l(fc< 6d, for having unlawfully assaulted a Chinaman on the previous evening in Manchester Street. There was a good attendance of the public at the Alasterton Lands Department office when two properties were submitted to auction and sold under keen competition. A cottage and three-quarters of an acre of land, situated at Castlepoint was purchased by Air AI. J. AlcGregcr (Hikorangi), for £770, while a. block of 22 acres at Solway was bought by Air Bruce Cameron (Solway) for £1335. The Earl of Birkenhead, who has never been seen without a lug cigar was the guest at a luncheon given by cigar manufacturers, who said that ii it was not for men like Lord Birkenhead the cigar trade would be deplorable. Between puffs at the King of Cigars, weighing two-thirds of an aunee, which had been presented to him, the guest said: “Cigarette'and pipe smokers are men of crude, grosis palates.” “Owners of motor-cars seem to be under the impression that their responsibility tor giving notification of transfer of ownership is discharged by handing over the papers to the purchaser,” oaid Senior-Sergeant Edwards during the hearing of a prosecution in the Police Court at Auckland (reports the New Zealand Herald). “This is not sp ; the Act provides that tlie owner must give notice of transfer to the authorities. This mistake is causing us a good deal of trouble.”

Two hundred enthusiasts have formed a Women’s Cricket Association in London with the object of enabling women to keep tip cricket after tlieir school years. Fifty matches have been arranged to begin in Alay. If the association js a success it will assume the same powers as Alarylebone. Alen will have nothing to do with the association, even as umpires or scorers. Women supporters say that many women are bowling overarm and are mastering the secrets of the spin break. Says the Dannevirke New.s :—Alembers of tlie Alangatera Presbyterian Church congregation and Bible Class held a social in the church to farewell Mr S. Bickerstaff, who is leaving to take up tlie duties of missioner in the Pongaroa district. Tlie time was passed happily with games, competitions, etc., and supper was served by the ladies, after which ALr Aloore presented Air Bickerstaff with a Sheaffer pencil and electric torch in appreciation of his services during the* last six months.

“In a few years Palmerston North will be the education and university centre for New* Zealand,” declared the Mayor. Concerning the agriculture college, he explained that the Borough Council had not yet exercised its power to buy the AlcHardy property, as part of the college srte, ior £U),OUO. Tlie extended option, however, he had no doubt would be exercised by the council so i oon as it was indubitably satisfied that a university in tlie fullest sense of the word was to be established on tlie outskirts of the town.—Times. The tale of a rather awkward predicament in which a guest in a loading Wanganui hotel found himself when the premises were burgled at night was related in the Napier Police Court during the hearing of a burglary charge. Hie wiluces said that lie went to sleep having the only pair of trousers lie bad with him over the end of his bed. When lie awoke next morning he found that his room had been burgled, and bis trousers gone. To complicate an already* delicate situation tlie speaker narrated that bis trousers were ultimately located in the ladies’ bathroom. It transpires that when the* Duke of York was in Sydney attending the returned soldiers’ luncheon, in the Wentworth Hotel, opposite which Dr Lang’s Old Scots Church was being dismantled, the workmen had undermined the tower in preparation for dropping it. While they were waiting tili the crowd got away, a few minutes after the Duke left and the crowd dispersed, the tower suddenly* and unexpectedly vettled down, and a quantity- of debris crushed through the fence where numbers of people bad been standing. some lodging close to where the Duke’s car "had (been parked. Don’t wait for the Easter fix-di. Get your motor repairs done now. See A. and R. Donald or ring 77 f OI an early appointment.