LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12083, 29 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

(ireal works are performed not by Strength but by perseverance.

All silk operatives m Shanghai went out on strike lor increased vwigos. The (iIHKI native workers have |,eon working 12 hours a day for approximately Sit’ cents. They demand a l,en hour day ami 27 <■< nts a day.

The deaths have occurred of Mr Kd I‘ledge, ol Musterton, aged 72; Mr Wm. Haw son, Masterton aged ('■(;■ Airs I sol,el Dcvonpbrt, <u Ashliiirsf, aged 512; Mrs Helen Garrett, need 83; Mrs dalle Taylor, a- pioneer el Wanganui; and Mr Win. Gray, of l.ongaere, Wanganui.

The death has occurred in a Wellington private hospital of Dr. It. G. Ii Sinclair, who was m practice at I law era up to the time d his illness. ■|'l u . late J)r. Sinclair was a wellknown Rugby footballer. He came into prominence when at Otago university and by his line performances as a full-bark he won high honours in the game.

“I am a frail man with no children to receive the crown.” With these somewhat pathetic words King Prajadhipok of Siam accepted the terms dictated by the newly-formed People’s Party, whereby without disorder of life in the capital a coup d’etat was successfully accomplished and the last remaining absolute monarchy in the world passed.

The obsequies of the late Mr Tuiti Makitanara, M.P., for the Southern Maori district, who passed away on Friday night, were earned out with all the honours due to a chief of the Rangitane tribe and a legislator. The tangi commenced on. Saturday last at the family residence at Hokio, and was continued up to the time of the funeral yesterday afternoon.

Stated to lie an economy measure which would effect savings ol £1433 per annum the Dannevirke Power Hoard yesterday decided upon staff reorganisation, including dispensing with the services of Mr R. Knight, engineer, and five other members of the staff, with a consequent readjustment of duties. Mr F. O. Devlin was appointed manager at a salary of £450 a year.

A decision of interest to dairy factory suppliers was given by Air Maun sell, S.AI., Nelson, in a defended case, 'the Waunea Dairy Coy., Ltd. v. William Max, a claim for £3 15s 5d in respect to a refund of an overad van.ee made on butter-fat supplied to the company. The Magistrate held that the company was entitled to recover from defendant an amount either for money paid under mistake of fact or . poll the ground that the provisions of article 17 are an implied term of the contract. Leave for appeal was granted.

Mr IT. C. Valentine, who is reported to have sailed alone from Auckland in a 22-foot mullet boat named Waima for England, via Rarotonga, Tahiti and Panama, arrived in Gisborne about five years age and for a time was farming at Patutahi, about ten miles from town, later coming to reside in Gisborne. He was dissatisfied with the conditions in the Dominion, the burden of taxation being one of his principal complaints, and a fciv weeks ago he sold his property and told his friends he intended to sail back to England by himself.

On his rounds early oil Monday morning, a few minutes after midnight, a Wellington nightwatchman who keeps his eye on a number of city establishments, found a small motor-lorry standing in a half-enclos-ed area behind some Courtenay Place shops. The lorry had on hoard two benzine cases full of miscellaneous jewellery, and the nightwatchman made some noise investigating it. Suddenly two men appeared from the back door of a shop, and sped away into the darkness. The niglitwatclinian had upset an impudent andi sys-tematically-planned robbery. The funeral obsequies of the late Tuiti Takitanara, M.P. for the Southern Maori division, took place yesterday afternoon, the interment being on a hilltop in the grounds of his residence at Hokio (Levin), in the presence of the Prime Minister. .Minister of Education, many tribal representatives, Parliamentarians and European residents. In the course of his address, Mr Forbes referred to Air Makitanara’s devotion to the interests of tile Maori people and his <■lo.se attention to Parliamentary duties. The funeral rites were carried out by representatives of the Mormon Church.

With very little to guide them as to the identity of the badly charred body found in the ruin 3 of the early morning fire 011 Monday at the annexe of the' Awapuni (Palmerston North) Old People's Home, detectives steadily pursued inquiries until yesterday they were able to announce officially that deceased was Percy Codling, aged 49 years, dyer, formerly of 1A Nash street, Palmerston N. This decision was eventually arrived at owing to the fact that a thumb and finger were missing from tlie hands, while a set of false teeth taken from the body were recognised by a city dentist as having been sunplied to the unfortunate man in 1928. In addition a description given l>y witnesses corresponded, to that of the missing man.

The W.F.C.A. Ltd. have certainly proved their contention that they are “keeping in step with the times.” Bargain prices in drapery abound in, every department. Quality goods with the firm’s reputation behind them have been ticketed down to the very lowest possible figure. At times like these where every penny counts values of drapery must be carefully considered—where to get the best value for your money; where to get the quality unimpaired by the low price. Well, the AA'.F.C. A.’s great winter sale will solve all these problems. “Quality goods at the lowest prices” is the slogan of the W.F.C.A., Ltd. All necessary motor accessories stocked at Donald’s. Prices in keeping with the times. Your enquiries will be appreciated. *