LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10767, 20 February 1928, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Air H. K. Sm'th stent th. 1 st week-end in Wellington. Alt H. A. Biek will judge tiie photographic section at the H*.itVi:ltural Show to-morrow. Air 1-. Stubbs i s : n inmate of flic* Pahiatua Public Hospital stiffeimg from a severe attack of influenza. Tiie Duke* and Ducluss <>t York’s Australian and New Zealand t r. ; o cording to a Tr;a-i:r\ White Paper, cost £72.000. A feature at the H ■'rticuliural Show to-morrow will lie the exhibition ot handiwork by mouthers < f the local branch of the Women's institute. rhe floods jn Nev. South Walts ami Queensland have done considerable, damage to farm lands. crops. :nd dwellings. Much stock has been drowned. I here wa.s a notable levjv; 1 in the demand for Lincolns at the Alasterton ram fair. while the sale tor Southdowns was the be-t ever ex-wr-Jt-nced in the district. Alls A. East and Air* .T. A. Walsh have been appointed judges of tho cookery and preserves classes at the AAoodville Horticultural and Industrial Show to lx- heid next month. The annual conferences of new spaper men throughout New Zealand I will be held, 111 AAelliu gton this week, commencing to-day. Tlie different ,»r----ganisat'ons which will meet will lx> Die United Press Association, the Newspaper Proprietors' Issoriafion and the New Zealand branch ot the Empire Press l nion. All arrest was made at Hamilton o' Charles Henry Bust in. aged 36, single, a well-known grocer, who was charged with a serious, oHe in- against, a 14-yenru eld box. A remand was granted till February 22. The Aladsti'nto refused bail, sating that he declined taking that conr.se where evidence had not been beard in cases of that nature. Detective C ull ;> stated ilia; five other charges prehabß will he preferred. In a class for sheep for ficozing purposes (tour .Down-Long-wool crisis I,nubs, in the wool, any ~*x 1 at this Masterton Show, Mr J. S. Jcssep, manager **! tlie N.Z. and Euglutik Meat Co. ha., donated a cup. to Iks awarded on the ■ ader's judging at the Waingawa. Works. The Cup !<* to won three times in succession. < r live times at intervals. Th. cup was competed for at last week’- show .nr the hi st time. Seventeen pens, each ot tour lands, were enter.*d i*i the cla- (56). The 6< lambs were, killed at \\ aingawa-. Ali-,. Betty Ogihy w; •- placed firs; and second.