Local And General

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10907, 7 August 1928, Page 4

Local And General

A very will —especially f QI tnut,e left out. The annual sale of win S'»»grounds on W cdnesda> . A party 36 boys, will arrive in WeH.i.gt.m by the ’under thl auspk- of the Salvation Army. A resident of Waitoa has decided that the raising of g^pterciber fitable side-line. Between . his turn of £6 3s.

Recent sales Its owl At l sale at B^upuna over £4OO.

The W F.C.A Stock Department who has sold her property -nd is leaving the district, at Kolnnui on Wednesday. August 8. The cows a e Jersey and Jersey croqs, and then are handy lines of young stock.

A bulletin issued vesteruay M-tes that Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, is making .satisfactory progress. A bulletin issued on the 3rd. stated that Sir Austen was suffering from a mild attack cf broncho-pneumonia. There was nocause for anxiety.

The Prime Minister. Mr Stanley Baldwin, who celebrates bis 61st birthday on Friday, is spending the first portion of hi s summer holiday in his Worcestershire home. Mr Baldwin will leave for Aix-les-Bain- (a small town in the French Department of Savoy) at tli e end of tins week.

Lambs are making their appearance throughout the district, says the New Plymouth Herald. This year they are a sturdy lot, hut tlici e <u e fewer doubles than in previous seasons. From one small flock, from 43 ewes, 47 lambs were docked. It the favourable conditions continue theie should be a good lambing throughout Taranaki.

Some pointed remarks deprecating the considerable delay in announcing the loss of a mail bag from the night express on Sunday, July 29. ueio made bv business men in Invercargill on ' Saturday, tlie consensus ot opinion t>ein£ that tho senders °* mail were entitled to know of tbe occurrence as early as possible in order that arrangements could be made to avoid unnecessary inconvenience.

Frank Bailer and John Leslie Buckley, who admitted having escaped from lawful custody and also tc a series of thefts were each sentenced at Auckland, to three years’ imprisonment- in addition to the sentences "they are already serving. Mr Justice Reed said that he had nothing to do whatever with any complaints made in the written statements put in by each of the accused.

Great, excitement prevailed at Port Said on Saturday night when, cv.uug to a strong bieeze. the first iseetion cf the Singapore Dock swung across the mouth of the canal, threatening to block it. For half an hour the dock drifted broadside on and threatened to wreck itself, but a Dutch tug managed to push the dock back to a ..straight course and save the canal. The transport of the dock from the Tyne to Singapore will cost £200.000. including £IO,OOO for canal dues.

A pleasant little function took place when members of tbe Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Hockey Clubs paid a surprise visit to t-lie residence oi Mr and Mrs Gus. Jones, to bid them farewell. Mr G. A\. Brown in the course of a short speech referred, to the many kindnesses shown both teams by Mr and Mrs Jones and thanked them for their interest, wishing them good luck in tlieir new sphere. Miss Hazel Seymour then presented Mr and Mrs Jones with' a Doulton salad bowl, as a token of esteem 1 . Mr Jones suitably responded. - -Express.

The death of Mr John M. H. Griffin occurred after a brief illness on the 28th of last mouth at tlie Ractihi hospital. He was born 53 years ago at New Plymouth and resided at Palmerston North for many years, where ho was highly respected. He did, heroic work in the great Raetilii fire of 1918 and later in the year performed noble service during the influenza epidemic. Mi Griffin was a lifelong member of the Salvation Army and was art Oddfellow etf 40 years standing and abo a member of the Druids. He leaves a widow', one daughter, a brother (Mr W Griffin, of Hamilton) and a sister (Mrs G. Clifford, of Majfeterton) to mourn their loss.

First steps in an organised effort I<> obtain a local measure of daylight saving in place of tlie Bill in the House were taken at a meeting of sports followers at Leys Institute, Auckland, lost night. Representatives of ten organisations attended. It was decided to invite tbe City Council, Chamber of Commerce and other bodies to join in petitioning the Government to take a. referendum on daylight saving at tbe general election, failing which it was suggested employees and employe!** in the main centres of the Dominion should come to a mutual arrangement with transport services and reta.il houses to observe dayligj.t isaving hours next summer.

A very fine sample of the Morris Oxford do luxe car is on view at Donald’s Garage and motorists interested nr. invite.' ‘.. call r.iul inspect

Count Uchida, formerly Foreign "Minister lias been appointed ueleSte for’ the signature of the AntiWar Pact at Paris. Tokio menage. AH B W Hawke lias been chosen as Hie United Party's candidate for the Kaiapoi electorate. He is e.' - chairman of the AVaunatre County Council.

Mr D B. Kent, .barrister of Wa - pukurr.u, and a Borough Countillo . opened his campaign as an Independent Liberal-Labour candidate for tl > , Waipawn seat. He is the only cppoiert vet announced against Sr George Hunter, the sitting member.

Good prizes will be available ; ft the hockey girls’ euchre i»art\ to l a held in the Anglican Schoolroom, tli * evening. A large attendance is ant - ciliated, and everyone can depen l upon having an enjoyable time.

In the Police Court at Duncdi i hole re Mi H. W. Bundle. S.M. Elon Plank, an hotelkeeper, was fine l £3O tor selling from a bottle brand / which contained a brand of liqu. tother than that specified on tl . label.

Air Ramsay Macdonald, in an interview on Ills arrival at Aloutre; I from Quebec, declared that imined a to reestablishment ot relations wifh Russia would he one of the first ac‘ s of the Labour Party in Britain we: e it to return to power.

Y message from Winnipeg stat< a that Archbishop Matbeson Piima'o of the Anglican Church in Can ad i. has announced his retirement fro a the Primac-v. He will continue us Bishop of Rupertsland He is ag< d 70. His successor will be chosen n. Seiitembcr.

Tbe Queensland tennis players, s. F. Moon arid R. O. Cummings, aie visiting Budapest. In matches yesterday Tacacz beat Cummings. C— I. .1 0. Cummings abandoning the set. Von Kehrling beat Moon 6—3. 6—l- - and Alocn beat A on Jvel a—ling and Knchnieyer. 6—4. . 4. 9—7.

A plebiscite relative to the ad. >- ticn of a local system of daylig it saving for employees was taken it the Omnaru woollen mills yesterday resulting in a majority ot 117 to 47 in favour cf the scheme. Daylight saving will be brought into operation rt the mills on O tober Ist. c-ont:n----uing to the end of March. Hcuns of work w ill be 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

George Perry, a single man. of Waipukurau, a drover pleaded guilty lie.fore Justices yesterday on

sheep-stealing charges, viz... 30 >heep from Janies William McNutt, farmer of Waipukurau, 100 sheep from Harry Singleton Hooper, owner cf Arlington Station, ami 35 sheep from Charles Twist, a Marakeke settler, of total value of £282. He was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court, at Napier.

The attitude of the Department of Labour towards the establishment of daylight saving in anv special locality this coming summer, is expressed in a circular just received by Air J. I.owden. in charge of the Palmerston North office. It has be: n decided that the Department will re "aviso any such schemes which are mutually agreed upon bv the parties c-im crued (viz., unions of employers, workers etc..) as a compliance with tbe various awards.

In tlm Supreme Court yesterday, at Auckland, three young men. Walter Frank Go-Mall. Jchn Charles Colcord. and William Henry Coleord. appeared for sentence on six charges of breaking and entering and theft by night and one of breaking and entering bv night with intent to commit a crime. Goodall also appeared for sentence on a charge ot forgery. Goodnll wars sentenced to four years’ hard labour Charles Oilcord to three and a half wears’ hard labour, and William Coleord. aged 19, received probation for a term of three years.

Ernest Heaps rleaded guilty to bigamy 'll tbe Supreme Court, in Auckland and was sentenced to IS months’ imprisonment, to be cumulative with a sentence he is n~w serving for failing to maintain bis second wife and •family. Counsel tor accused said that In’s wife left him in 1913 and got to England. He bad written to her. but lie got no replies. In 1919 lie went through a form of marriage with bis second wife. Air Justice Reed said that prisoner’s offence was a serious- one. Ho had gone through a form of marriage without making inouiries as to whether liis wife was alive.

Edith Emily Collins petitioned :>fc Auckland for divorce from Frederick Trevor Collins on grounds of desertion. Counsel iso id respondent was an habitual criminal, and had married her in Alav. 1925. without disclosing the fact. They bad spent six days of the honeymoon in*a hotel. Collins depriving bis wife of £4OO and attempting to get away to Australia. He was arrested a.t Wellington for breach of probation, and lias been there ever since. Petitioner stated that on tbe strength of false telegrams she bad given Collins £4OO tr» invest. The Rev. Jasper Calder gave ei idence that he knew respondent under six different names. Air Justice Reed adjourned the ease to allow tbe present evidence to be supplemented affidavit evidence from Wellington stating tbe fact that a man’s being in gaol did not c-or-st;-titto desertion.

If you went to an Agricultural Chemist for tbe best possible food for your young calves, lie could nor. prescribe anything better than “Tui” Calfmeal, because it comprises tlie rich ingredients carefully balanced to produce sturdy well grown calves and is made rs fine as flour bv flourmilling machinery, and free from coarse irritating matter. Insist on “Tui.”