GENERAL ITEMS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12426, 19 August 1933, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS.

The' annual football match for the Heckler Cup was played at Alfredtan, between the holders, Alfredton, and Pukehinau. Alfredton won the match, by 8 points to 3, thus retaining the cup for this year. The annual Fire Brigade ball was held m the Woodville drill hall. The gathering, which was attended by a large crowd, included visitors from Palmerston North, Dannevirke. Pallia tua and Eketahuna. The Mayor presented certificates, medals and bars to various members for long service.

At the Masterton stock sale fat sheep sold at about last week’s rates, while stores showed a slight improvement. Dairy cattle were in better demand at low values.

At the annual meeting of the Kaponga Dairy Company Mr V . F. Hollard commented that lie did not think rich milk was the cause of poor quality cheese. Tie said he had worked in the cheese industry when it. was in its infancy and often he had seen the cans come in with cream two inches thick on the milk. “The cost of repairing damage to school furniture caused wilfully or by carelessness must be a charge on the school committee’s funds,” says a circular ent out by the Department of Education to education boards. It does not say who is to define damage “caused wilfully or by carelessness.” Recently a girl pupil at the Eketahuna district high school was the victim of a peculiar accident while playing basketball. She evidently received the ball on the tip of a finger, and this was dislocated at two joints. There was a decline in the price of cattle, and an easier tendency in sheep prices at the Johnsonville sale when Wright, Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., and Abraham and Williams Ltd., offered an average yarding of all classes of stock to a full attendance of buyers. Fishing in the Wairarapa Lake recently, two Featherston anglers landed 92 flounders in a little over an hour. Tlie -World Wheat Conference of 31 countries is to open on August 21 in London. A plea for increased use by the cabinetmaker of the beautiful and varied New Zealand native timbers was made by the Governor-General, Lord Biedisloe, when speaking at the opening of an exhibition of antiques in aid of Y.W.C.A. funds in Wellington. The Board of Trade Journal states that in the current year there has been a slow, but steady exj.ansioii :n the value of United Kingdom exports. Night sniping is reported in India. Aeroplanes have been fired on. The death occurred at her home in Brooklyn, Wellington of Mrs Mary Ann Gowdy, on her 71st birthday. All's Gowdy was a pioneer of the Southland district, coming to New Zealand in the sailing ship Waitara in 1878. She was born at Porta Down, Northern Ireland. “I consider that the system of issuing new number plates every year is a reproach to our national mtelf:genee,” said Air W. A. O'Callaghan in tlie course of his address at the opening of the annual conference of the North Island Alotor Union. Values for fat sheep at Addington were distinctly better than at the last sale a fortnight ago. Fat cattle sold irregularly at little change in values. The death occurred, suddenly of Air John Joseph Quinn, proprietor of the National Hotel. Lambton Quay, Wellington, at the age of 40 years. L. C. A. Payne, labourer, .*ll. of l, was s< years’ hard labour for breaking, entering and theft. He had a bad record. Air A. Harris. ALP., has left for Sydney to further negotiations in connection with the Waitem it i (Auckland) bridge. Described by his counsel as more a fool than a knave, William Reginald Norman, a bankrupt car salesman, who had pleaded 'guilty to a charge of failing to discover property to tlie official assignee, was sentenced at Christchurch by Air McGr< g< >r to sis jdi imprisonment. Mr A\ . J. Alorrell, rector of Otago Boys’ .High School for the past 27 years, retires on superannuation at the end of the year.