LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12077, 22 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master.

A Persian cat, which was awarded first prize at the Mauawatu Winter show, died from fright. The “Otago Witness,” Dunedin, established in 1851, ceases publication on J uiie 30.

All the coalmines on the Mest Coast resumed on Monday, the men being anxious to get to work again. The Greytown Company’s orchard on the Moroa Plain is the largest a-p----ole orchard in New Zealand, covering as it does 116 acres.

Three dairy cows, coming to profit in the spring, were sold undei the hammer at- the Woociville stock sale at 5s apiece. This surely constitutes a record. —Examiner.

The friends of Mr J. Pryde, of the Cosy Theatre staff, who has been confined to bis bed for the last week, will be pleased to learn that he is now' on the way to recovery.—AVoodville Examiner.

A golf match played on the Solway club’s links between teams representing the Eketahuna and Solway clubs, resulted in a. win for the visiting team by 15 games to 14, one being halved, after an evenly contested match.

It is now regarded as morally certain that the Woodville and Paliiatua A. and P. Associations will be included in the group of organisations to benefit by the next art union sanctioned by tile Minister of Internal Affairs.—Examiner.

Mr K. O’Sullivan, whilst taking part in a meet of the ManaWatu hounds at Manakau, sustained a serious fall and was pinned under his mount. Several ribs were broken in addition to tlie victim receiving concussion. He was removed to I.cvm hospital. The Appeal -Court dismissed a further appeal oi one of the New Guard convicted of an assault" on Jock Garden, but in this instance reduced tile sentence from three months to one month. All the other seven appeals were dismissed, and the sentence of three months stands.

A challenge, has been lodged with the returning officer, Mr A. j. Ching m respect of the election, expenses of Mr Jeremiah Connolly, M.P. for Mid-Canterbury, a breach of the Electoral Act being alleged in that the expenses incurred by the candidate, either personally or on his behalf, exceeded the legal amount.

The Premier of New South Wales announced yesterday that Cabinet bad decided to abolish the AgentGeneralship in Ijoiulon and was making provision for trade representation there. The Agent-General. Mr A. C. Willis (a l.angite), is living recalled immediately. This post at present costs the State £14,(100 per year.

The death occurred suddenly at his residence, Oriental Parade, of Mr Janies Donald Mitchel, manager m New Zeaand for Aexauder Cowan and Sons, Ltd., the oil g-estabi slied firm of printing paper merchants. For some time he bad suffered from a heart strained in an attempt to force a jammed door in tin- firm s warehouse at the time of tile Murchison earthquakes.

At a meeting of the directors of the Nireaha Dairy Company the following resolution was unanimously carried in respect to telephone charges: That the resolution of the Eketahuna County Council be supported in the endeavour to bring about a reduction in telephone dentals and that the secretary advise the Postmaster-General and the member for the district.

Mystery surrounds the cause of a disastrous conflagration at the Awapuni racecourse, Palmerston, North, during the early hours of this morning, when the two-floor stewards’ stand was burned to the ground. Discovered about 1.15 a.in. the flames were then raging unchecked throughout the 23-year-old wooden building, and only a calm night prevented the tire from causing still more disastrous damage.

Dr. Raymond, the medical superintendent of the AVaipukurau hospital, and an enthusiastic follower of the hounds, met with an unfortunate accident at the meet of the Dannevirke Hounds at Ashcott on Saturday . His mount crashed at a wire fence and its rider is reported to have had Ills collarbone, also ribs, broken, while his jaw was also damaged. He was immediately removed to .Mrs A’Deane’s homestead and subsequently by ambulance to Waipukurau hospital lor attention.

There was a urge following of mourners at the funeral of Mrs Walter E. Knott, of Masterton, who passed away suddenly on Saturday following a heart seizure. The pallbearers were Messrs E. .!. Brown, B. Hunter, D. F. Thurston (“Wairarapa Age”), G. Mahno (Masterton Savage Club), Alex Thomson (Wairarapa Caledonian Society), and A E. Bell (Masterton Orchestral Society). .Mrs Knott, who by her bright and cheerful disposition had made many friends in the Wairarapa, had the distinction of being a. life member ot the Canterbury Rugby Union.

The death of Mr Albert Dunstall, in his 82nd year, occurred at his residence in Bower Hutt or. Saturday. The late Mr Dunstall landed in Oamaru in 1870, where lie followed liis trade as a builder. Mr Dunstall also worked on the Government Buildings, Wellington, and later helped to construct the breakw.nds oil the Rimutakas. In 1887 be went to the Newman district, being flic first man to settle there. After farming there for 27 years, he retired to his late residence, where be lived for 18 years. One of liis sons is Mr F. Dunstall. of Kimbolton, and another Mr J. Dunstall, of the Wobdville railway stall'.

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