LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10920, 22 August 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary. - ' That shall be. This is the only law of success.—M i 1 abeam.

The Woodville Boys’ Band intends giving an open air performance m Pahiatua shortly.

F. Snodgrass, of Christchurclp who was injured in- Saturday’s Rugby game, should be right again m a tew days. He ricked an an me. The tender of Mr P. A. Petersen, of Parkville, for extensions to the present .secondary High School building lias , been accepted, at £2,000.

In the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday, George Creasy, on charges of bigamy and of making a false declaration under the Marriage Act, pleaded guilty and was remanded till Friday for sentence.

At Grey mouth. Jessie Eleanor Kennedy and Margaret Nelson maternity nurses, were each fined £1 with costs for having more than one patient in their homes at, the same time.

Mr P. Tulloch left for Wellington yesterday to attend Political Reform League Conference to be held in tliat city. He will represent Pahiatua. and Woodville portions of the Pahiatua electorate, while Mr G. Matheson. ot Dannevirke, will represent that portion of the constituency.

The Bush Ladies’ Hockey Association’s annual ball will be held m Eketaliuna, on Friday evening next. The music will be supplied by the Gaiety Orchestra. The presentation of Cu’ps will take place and also the crowning of the Queen in the CaruJval competition.

A “sympathy” stoppage has been arranged for West Coast mines tomorrow when men will refuse work as an expression of sympathy with the Denniston men to be prosecuted by the Labour Department at Westport to-morrow for alleged instigating an unlawful strike.

Whilst waiting for a train to pass a road crossing at Waiklohu. Gisborne, a house ridden by Peter Burns took fright ar.d ran into a carriage of the train. The gas generator cn ugh t the horse and carried it and the rider over a cattle stop before throwing them clear. Mr Burns was rendcred unconscious.

A Christchurch message states that a meeting of flic creditors of Miff. B. Batchelor, a young Christchurch solicitor for whose arrest a warrant was issued recently, hast been called for. Since the warrant:, was issued the police have been unable to find Batchelor and his office in Hereford Street is locked. He is understood to have gone to the North Island-

It is a proof not only that politics are livelier in the country than in Parliament, hut that travelling facilities have immensely improved. Much jocular conjecture lias taken place in the House of Representatives over the plans of the United Political Party. Its representatives in the House have been obliged to exercise great restraint because they tacitly admit that their programme and their leader have yet to be arranged.

If any family can beat the following unique record Mr and Mrs A. N. Beattie, of Ngaio street, Palmerston North, would like to meet them. In April, 1927. one of tlieir little girls fell and broke an arm. Twelve months later almost to the clay another daughter fell and broke her arm, in each case the left arm being the one to suffer. On Monday afternoon the “hat trick” in arm-break-ing was completed when the little boy fell and broke his right arm.

The most keen of Parliamentarians will admit that this session lias been particularly dull. Political feeling is rising, but has not developed to actual fighting pitch, though the contest of November seems never far from members’ minds. This is particularly noticeable in their week-end habits at least one-third of the members finding it convenient to re-visit their constituentcies during the gap in sitting days from Friday till Tuesday.

Mr Lloyd George, referring to the late Lord Haldane, said: “I always thought that lip was most harshly treated in war tin e, and accorded the basest ingratitude. No British statesman more greatly ensured the Allied success. He organised the Territorials wlip saved us in the dark winter of 1915 when we had no other troops organised, the General Staff and Expeditionary Force, and initiated file Officers’ Cadet Corps. Yet lie was treated as if a traitor to his native land. It hurt him deeply.”

A sequel to the science room explosion in the Pahiatua District High School in February, when a boy named Munpliv sustained fatal injuries was heard in the House of Representatives when a petition praying for compensation was presented by Mr A. E. Ransom (Pahiatua) on helialf of the boy’s widowed mother. While an experiment was in progress ail explosion occurred, tlie boy dying from internal injuries caused by pieces of glass entering his stomach. Mrs MurphyY; petition showed that her hopes we-e ren+re 1 around the hoy, and his death had lobbed her of his support and comfort in her old are. The Wellington Education Board had offered to help her so far as it was legally entitled to do so and had suggested compensation amounting to £SOO. She asked for this amount. The petition was supported by 38 residents of Patuatna.

A very fine sample of the Morris Oxford de luxe ear is on view at Donald’s Garage and motorists interested invited to call and inspect it *

Professor J. MacMillan Brown, chancellor of the N.Z. University, speaks in excellent terms of the administration of Niue Island, which, ho recently visited. That discretion in regard to tlio suppression of names should be left to the judicial officer presiding on r the court, and not the newspaper . was an assertion made by the Magistrate, Mr Mosley at Christchurch yesterday. He was considering th> case of a seventeen-venr-old lad convicted of assault on a female. When the same case was before the Supreme Court Mr Justice Adams sakl that he left the question of suppression to the Press. Air Mo.slev con—nier.ted that no editor or reporter could be aware of the circumstance® of the case. He agreed to suppress the name in the present case. Accused was convicted and discl^irged. After last night’s fight between Laclhe McDonald and Tommy McInnes the judges disagreed and Mr I. Burns (who had been given i. great ovation on entering the ring to referee after several years' spell) decided in favour of McDonald. » decision which was greeted with loud cheering, says an Auckland message. There was not much in it and ;i draw might have been a better verdict. Tommy Mclnnes. together with his trainer. Jack Warner, called at the Star office this morning to express their disappointment over t '<> verdict. The Scot is confident th.it lie won every round after the ten h. and believes he was entitled to the decision. Sir W. Jcynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, is again in the linielig' ~ this time in connection with the a ;i—----tation that M'Gartney. who was si i—fenced on January 18 to ten yea: s’ imprisonment for espionage, shot <l bo allowed to leave Pa.rkhuiv>t Prn >u to visit liis dying mother. Sir W_ Joynson-Hicks refused permission, pointing out that the Home OfU a liad no power to release a priso er for such a pur.iiose. Air George La r>bury. Labour member of the Ho. se of Commons, who is heading the a citation. refuses, however, to acci i»t his answer, and appeals to Sir W. Joynson-Hicks. not on the score of legality, but of humanity, urging that whatever are a man's crimes ho is a human being. A telegrams J as. also been sent King George begging him to order M’Cartney’s temporary release. The mother meanwhile Tea in a darkened room in Southampton Row continuallv calling .for her favourite son. A Harley Street specialist- states that «uch a visit is tha only hope. Nothing else would make* the dying woman rally.

An important programme <>. work. 4 involving the reconstruction and improvement of roads adjacent to the larger centres of population in tl.o Dominion was approved at the monthly meeting of the Alain Highways. Board huvt week. It will be recalled, tliat from the revenue available from the petrol tax the- board is making subsidies up to £3 for £1 available for reconstruction of heavily-traffick-ed highways, adjacent to centres of population of over 6.000 inhabitants. The new works include:—Highway District No. 9 (Palmerston North): Palmerston North-Woodville. four miles. Himitangi-Palmerston. 15 miles. Sanson-Paluierston Xcrth. 114 miles. Highway District No. 10 (Wairarapa): Weilington-Xapier via Wai-l-arapa Alain Highway, nine miles. Alsterton-Tinui, two miles. In tho case of the Rangitikci River bridge at Bulls, on the main Auckland-Wel-lington Road, the board lias do: ided to erect an entirely new structure. The present bridge is in a bad state of repair, in addition to which. itts width permits of one-way traffic only. The new bridge will provide for twoway traffic and the board has decided that it will subsidise the cost on a basis of £3 for £l.

Alessrs K. Young and Go., Al ain Street, near Hannah and Go's, slice, have a large quantity of seedling’s and plants for sale at very low prices. The firm also have stocks of fresh fruit, at wonderful values.

Attention is drawn to the list of bargains published on page 1 by Mr A . Levy. There is always undoubted values at this popular shop, and customers are very pleased with the treatment they receive. Air Lew's window reveals a few of the drastically cut lines he is offering. It is not only in soft goods that All- Lew has achieved much publicity, but. ’ hundreds in the surrounding settlements who read Air Levy’s advertisements m the Herald feel that tliev have quite a genuine provider of all their needs in many useful lines.

“It looks so good that 1 wouldn't mind eating it myself.” was th e remark made by a. farmer recently. “Tilings am not always what thev seem, but Tui Galfmeal looks good, smells good, and is good right through. There is net an ounce of disappointment in a ion of it.