LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11559, 25 September 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

He sparing in critic.sun to those who are closest to you. Constant association creates so. intimate an understanding that disapproval or displeasure is felt without recouise 10 words. The failure ol partners .11 business or marriage m countless cases has been the failure to recognise this elemental truth.

The closing of the Sun newspaper means that about a hundred persons in Auckland ar c thrown out of employment.

Tuesdav being the commencement of the vear 5691 in the Jewish calendar, ill Jewish business houses observed a close holiday.

A short but sharp earthquake was experienced in Pahiatua shortly? before 8.30 o’clock on Tuesday night. The direction was from west to east

At yesterday’s meeting ol the N.Z. Meat Producers’ Board Mr David Jones M.P., was unanimously toelected chairman of the board for he ensuing twelve months.

The fifth bomb outrage in Bengal took place on Tuesday when a bomb was thrown at the Khulna police-sta-tion. The head constable and sub-in-spector were wounded, the former seriously.

After further evidence at the inquiry? into the death of May? Schubert (Sydney), the Coroner returned a verdict that the girl died from strychnine poison feloniously? administered by her father, whose, whereabouts arc unknown.

Herald subscribers not receiving their paper punctually? will oblige The proprietors hv immediately reporting failure to deliver. Telephone No. 32 or communicate otherwise with the publisher. We cannot know of faulty? delivery if not informed by those wtto are inconvenienced.

A deputation representing local bodies, mine owners and miners left Grcymouth to interview the Government regarding the coal situation. r t was learned however, that the Railway? orders for the Dobson and Waliisend mines had been renewed to within 10 or 15 per cent, of the quantities taken prior to the recent cut.

A useful and well compiled road map has been issued by? the Atlantic Union Oil Co., Wellington. It has been revised by the various Automobile Associations in New Zealand, and it contains several very original and useful features The map is in a handy form, and in addition it shows the mileage distance between towns. Motorists can obtain a copy from the firm.

Commenting on the Baltic exchange reports that numerous ships have been chartered for the Russian grain trade, the Times attributes she Soviet’s anxiety? to swell its exports to tl»e enormous cost of carrying out the five-year plan of the industrialisation of Russia. 'The only? way? of finding the money? is by exporting the very things for which the Russians are striving.

Cyril John Lov.-ry- Young, a Hamilton resident, received intimation that he has won -£ISOO in Tatter■sall’s. Mr Lcwry drew Gay Crest, which ran second to Paquito at Ilaiul-v.-ick on September 13. Gay? Crest was beaten by? a short head only?. Had Gay Crest won. Mi Lowry would, have taken first prize, £SOOO. Mr McCod, an ex-Hamiltonian, v.Oll a Rugby? Art Union prize of £2OO a short time ago

The official history? of the New Zealand forces at the South African Walls at present being written and lyelore long should be completed, according to a statement made by? the president of the South African Veterans’ Association (Captain J. -J. Clark) in Wellington yesterday. “The greater portion of the work has been written and corrected, but it is unfortunate that Mr Shand, owing to his having taken up an appointment, has not vet been able to complete the work.”

“It is rather amusing to isee that as soon as trouble at Lake Coleridge occurs the people in the South are going to b c ruined unless daylight saving is introduced,” said Mr W. J. Holdswortli, the chairman at a meeting of tile Auckland Power Board. “When we. urged that the Government should introduce daylight saving a month earlier to relieve the position, following tile closing of Arapuni, it was turned down, as it was going to interfere with people in the South.”

The functions arranged by? the Otago Rugby Union for the celeb ration of its golden jubilee yvere commenced, when a successful smoke concert yvas held in the Early Settlers’ Hall. Representatives of all periods 1 r the history- of the game in Ota<ro were present. Mr H. Harris. President of the Union, presiding. Mr \. E McPhail, President of the Canterbury Rugbv Union proposed the toast of the Otago Union and Major King spoke on behalf of the Wellington Union.

Neyvs ol the departure of Premier Bennett yvith the executives of the Canadian wheat pool and specialists m grain for the Imperial Conference on 1 uesday yvas received here with great interest. The assumption is that some arrangement may be made between the British Import Hoard and the wheat and Hour producers ol the Dominions which will not benefit the exporter in the United States. Some quarters see the beginning of ■> new world market structure in which the British Empire and every? other v. heat-producing country w ill lie a .self-contained unit, growing only as much as might be used within its own boundaries. Government officii.s were unable to comment. The oldest established garage in Pahiatua. is still to the front where service is required. Pioneers in your town in most of the up-to-date garage equipment, such as High Pressure Lubrication, Breakdown Tru?-k, High Pressure Washer e.nd Twelve Hours per day Service, which all assist us in giving the motoring public a quicker and better service. Donald's Garage invites you lu make use of tile service provided motorists *

Candidates nominated for ?ho Western Maori by-election are : p e j Te Hurunui Jones (Young Maori p a ~_ tv) ; Hami Tokouru Ratana (Rata.na Party). Taite Te Tome (Reform ty>. Yesterday Alexander Hat was found dead in a room at 9 GanStreet, Wellington. Death was apjiarently? due to natural causes, lie . , ls _ cd has no relations in Welling,.,., but is thought to have a v.-t Duued in. One of the few- who have u , n part in two expeditions to tin Antarctic, Mr Harry McNeisli. the Wellington Hospital ye-- -i, the age of 64 years. He had 1,....1, ~, the Ohiro Home for some y. . , K [ went into, hospital about a v., , j ; ; , 2a He was a member of expeditions to f*' Antarctica led by both Scott and Shackleton. K There was a dramatic su? Lie outside detective headquarter, 111 Sydney yesterday?. William Alt. aged 45. manager of the Wattle weaving nulls at Camperdorvn was brought to -ho detective office in a police He had just alighted when he whipped cut a revolver and shot himself in the temple, fell into the arms ol the escorting detective, and died immediately. Before Mr J. Miller S.M.. at the Dannevirke Magistrate’s Court. William Stock, a labourer of Dannevirke, who had. been arrested by Constable Chapman on the prey?ious afternoon, was charged with the theft on Nol vember 4th. 1928, of a grit grinding machine, valued at £2 10s, the property? of J. S. B. Anderson. As other charges are pending the police a,ked for a remand until October 6tli. and this yvas granted. Six more speakers contributed to the debate on the Unemployment Bill, which was continued in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon and again in the evening. It is expected tljat the division on the lion. W. Eamshaw’s amendment, which involves the fate of the measure, will bo reached this afternoon. A hint lias been dropped that a point will be raised as to the powers of the Council to interfere with a money bill. At Baltimore, Maxwell Byers, president of the Western Maryland Railways, and D. G. Gray, vice-president, had a revolver duel in the Standard Oil building. The police said the pair apparently locked thcm.-qjves in the president's office and shot it out. Tile cause of the dispute is unknown. Crowds outside held up the traffic, and the police broke in and found Byers dead w?ith three wounds, me through the heart. A pistol yvas Ireside Gray?, yvho yvas shot in the back and chest and badly yvoundod.