LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11068, 15 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In times of unhappiness think ol the meat unfortunate; in time of elation, think of the most, deserving.

The New Zealand heavyweight Modi ii h knocked out ox-G uardsman Pen well in the .second round. —L ondon message.

At the Sydney wool sales, there was strong general competition All medium to good wools rilled .firm. Comebacks and cH'ossbrcds were unchanged. Creasy Merino sold at flOJd. A total of 11,162 bales were fold.

Acting on the suggestion of President Cosgrove that De V alera. should be released purely as an a. t 01. grace, the Minister for Home Affairs or Northern Ireland offered bun bis freedom conditional upon necessary undertakings being given. De \ ultra rigidly refused and thus rciin.iins in gaol.

The annual railway pieme was held at the Gorge Domain on Sunday under ideal conditions. The day was gloriously fine, and there was a record attendance of tip. public. Ibe committee, beaded by Mr Karl Rotter. chairman, Messrs Hujiti and JAleacliain. the energetic secretaries, and Mr Cl. Rose, superintendent of

games, did all in their power to make the function an enjoyable one for tlie visitors.—Examiner.

Patents’ fees received during the month of January—Mastorton Hospital £395 4s, Greytown Hospital and Bitch: nan Homo £l4B 11s 5d ; Pa!iiatun Hospital £lO3 2s. Return of patients for the month of Januait— Mastorton Hospital, admissions 117. discharges 101. deaths 5, remaining under treatment at 31st January. 75 Greytown Hospital. 42 33, 2. 24. Pahiatua Hospital 27, 23. 2. 14. The daily average number of patients under treatment were 73.9, 18.4 and 16.0 respectively.

Action was taken bv Stanley Gordon Perry, farmer, of Waituna. in the Palmerston North Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Smith, against the Feilding Club, Incorporated, claiming that the resolution of his suspension from the club was null and void, that life be restored to the hst of members and that, an injunction be issued prohibiting the committee and servants of the club from interfering with plaintiff’s participation of membership. He also claimed £IOO damages Decision was reserved.

Acceptances for all First Day events at tlie Autumn Meeting of the Woodville District Jockey Club close with tlie secretary. Mr AA . A

Lyon, at 9 p.m. this evening. The tracks are in great order and there is every indication that the acceptances will be very good. The chief event at the meeting, tlie Woodville Cup. run en the opening day. carries with it the Gold Cup, valued at 100 guineas, and the winning owner will have no fault to find with it for it is an exceptionally handsome tropin and one well worth winning.

Amateur photographers everywhere are invited to send their best snapshots to the N.Z. Pictorial News and each week a. first prize of 12s 6d will be awarded for the photograph adjudged the best for illustrating purposes and the second 'best will be awarded 7s 6d. All others used will be paid tor at usual rates The photographs will be judged on the basis of interest aroused bv the picture and the technical quality of the photographic work considered from the point of view of how it will respond to the process of p!"*torial display. During a visit of inspection to the Auckland prison, the Minister or Justice (Hon. T. AI. Wilford) had a conversation witli the Samoan Chief, Tamasese. wh’o is serving a sentence of six months’ imprisonment for resisting the police, on the occasion of liis arrest on a charge of refusing to pay liis taxes. Air Wilford stated subsequently that Tamasese was doing no work in prison, and was entirely separate from all other prisoners. “He was busy with a very substantial meal when I saw hirri. and his weight is 17st 61b,” added the Minister. Miss Marjorie A. Cumnierfield, daughter of Air and Airs E. H. Cummerfield of A-p-iti, lies in the Foilcling private hospital suffering considerable injury through being tossed by a. bull on her parents' farm on Monday morning. Miss Cumnierfield was standing in the cow yard with the cattle when the bull, considered a quiet beast, rushed her and tossed her high into the air. Fortunately, instead of falling back into the yard where the bull was. Aliss Cummerfield landed on the rocf of. the cow bails and rolled from there to drop on to a concrete floor. Assistance was rendered as promptly as possible and Dr. Barnicoat was called to render first aid.

The cause -of an interruption to the power supply from AVaikaremoana on Monday shortly after noon has been traced by the Public Works staff, with astonishing results. The discovery was made that a farmer had been straining up a private telephone line in the vicinity of Napier which passed under the main 110,000 volt lines conveying power from the Waikaremcana power station. In straining up the telephone line it was pulled up to such a point that it made contact with the power lines, thus operating the earth leakage relays of Wr.sikaremoana. and cutting off tlie power to no less than eight power boards. The farmer says that lie got- two shocks and saw tyo flashes. How lie was not- killed outright is a marvel to the electrical engineers. The telephone line was found yesterday the wires being bare 18 inches below the live Waiknremtoana power-lines operating at 110.000 volts.

The new model 65 Chrysler Sedan, a really finished job can be msneeted at A. and R. Donald’s Garage in Main- Street

Many people liave been frozen to death in various part s of Kurope owing to the intense cold. There liave been some appalling? occurrences in various partis. The Auckland highwaymen, i>. M. Stewart, 27, and R- I”. Ketch ia g, were sentenced at Auckland- The Gn liter to IS months’ reformative detention ami Retelling to one year. W. Cameron, New Zealand li)U yards swiniin.no champion, participated in a carnival at Gisboi.it and won the 100 yards in 57 sv v its, but was unplaced in the 50 .ods handicap, which was won I j£. Richardson (Lsec) in 27 3-ssec.‘ . Robert Vernon Rissett, agsd >7. of VVakarewa, who was admitted ho Southland hospital suffering 1: ,i & fractured skull, died early this morning. It appears that h, .as thrown from a horse at Nortn .[<, j ;nd struck his head heavily ag nst a post. The death occurred at Christchurch on Jo'cdiiesday night of Mr Rollers Roocher Ward, aged 49, <e' the ler ;t firm of Weston, Ward ;_nd Laseelie>. As a young man. Mr Ward was t.c!| known ill club cricket in C'hn ,- church. Later he devoted much a - tention to the administrative sit of the game. Mr R. P. Hudson, ex-M.P. o Motueka, and Mrs Hudson were - tei tained bv a large gathering ~f electors at Port Motueka prior to leaving on a visit to Ceylon, 'i he presentation was made to Mr Hik son of a handsome solid silver tea si -.’ice -.s a token of esteem and appreci tii n 0 f foiu-teen years’ valuable ai d ionourable service to the electorate and the Dominion. Herbert George Taylor was , und guilty in the Supreme Court • n a charge that on January 19 at t oi etch urch, he cairied on the busn -or occupation of a bookmaker. A ' red pleaded not guilty. Accused who arrested, had £52 in his posse on, betting paraphenalia and some .rnmunications fiom an organi on known to be the bookmakers’ --ociation. Accused was remanded ntil Saturday for sentence., permissi (icing given him to remain out c custody. A message from Valentine, ') .:as, states that the Australian in . tour visited Juarez Mexico, an \ere tendered luncheon by the j. alimr business men. The luncheon was ,-omT posed entirely of Mexican national dishes. Twelve Catholic members.*, the party witnessed ail unusual on Sunday. They saw over 10 dß' Mexican Catholics crossing the Ri> Grand from Mexican territory to id Paso to attend Mass. It was explained that this resulted from the Mexican ban oil the celebration of M ass. «md the migration oc’cihychl ■ Sunday at points where Catholic C u uicne.s "tU'6 situated in ad j icentr American territory.

Ihe question of unemployment in Masterton was placed before the item J. D. Donald during h;s visit to Mastorton by Air G. R. Sykes, ALP. There were at present 22 men on the unemployment list compared with 12 last year. All Sykes said, and ho had heard, although he hoped, it was not true, that several butchers at the freezing works were to be dr—peused with. If this were correct, the unemployment position in the town would become acute, and lie would like Air Donald to bring the matter btfore the notice of the Alinister in charge cf the Labour Department. rhere was some work at Alouut Bruce, lie said, but 1 be considered that this would not provide work for many. Air Donald stated that tlie Government was dcing its best to pushicn with its railway programme. It was hoped to have some of the work started before the v. ir.te ■ came on.

Alission and commercial weiß in the Solomon Islands are both making definite headway, according to Rev. J- F. Goldie, chairman oc the New Zealand Methodist Mission in the group, who arrived bv ,iie Alakura from Sydney. Air Goldie, who has sjieut 2< years in the Solomons, is chairman-elect ol the New Zealand Methodist Conference, which is to >oe held in Auckland this month. Alr Goldie stated that the Solomon Islands now had a direct export trade with Singapore. The East and Eur9P®- while importing chiefly through Sydney German interests were making a bid to regain some of their pre-war commercial status in tlie group. The principal of the industries ol tliq. group was the export of copra There was little cocoa produced, and the market for pearl shell and bechc do rner was at present so slow that these subsidiary ex errs had great lv decreased in volume The islanders were being successfully taught to run their own plantations, end Air Goldie cited the case of one man. who 20 years ago was a naked savage, but who was now a T . employer ct labour otfliis own holding.

hat lambs sold freely at Addington at the further drop in the ex- | port schedule. Fat sheep also sold rfc a reduction. Fat cattle declined up to os (xl per 1001 bs for steers and somewhat less tor other classes of cattle good heifers in cases showing \cry little drop. Lambs formed a big proportion of the store sleep entry. I here was little change in the <stori> cheep prices since last week Valucs were; forward rape lambs 24s o , . to os s i, medium rape lambs 2Lsoo to r r 3 ? P°°d mixed sex lambs Zws txt to Los; medium mixed sex lambe 19s to 21s (id. Fat s li6ep : The entry was larger than usual and tlie quality good with some drafts of very twime wethers from the West t oast and Nelson. Values we* o Extra prune heavy wethers to Ass 10dprnne heavy wotliers 29 s 3d to 32s fed. •be heaviest entry of fat •-attic,or , ,"<*>ks w as' forwaixl. .550 head, rim heavy entry and the fact that the warm weather a fleets the demand for beef caused ; pronoumxxteasing in values. reaching for big steeis and heavy cows quit; 30s iko bead with an average decline ol 27s per head.