LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12428, 22 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Friendly Societies’ card tournament at Eketahuna, in which there has been keen competition, was won by the Oddfellows.

The Public Hall at Eketahuna has undergone extensive improvements and is now under the managementof a new picture concern.

Under an Iraq Government deportation order, the Patriarch Marshinnum left for Cyprus, where his father and mother have also been given asylum.

Walter J.ohn Basieville was sentenced at Auckland yesterday to six months’ hard labour for stealing £230 17s worth of benzine ft om the Public Works Department.

The secondary pupils of the Eketahuna D.H.S. held a most enjoyable end-of-term dance at the school, when, as well as the pupils there was a good number of parents and friends present.

As a result of the proposal recently made by British importers in connection with butter marketing, a movement has been started by several North Auckland dairy companies to establish a free marketing association.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, lias decided to advance to its suppliers 9£d per lb. butterfat, free of share credits, for finest cream supplied in July for fcutter-makmg, and lo£d per lb. for finest milk supplied for cheese-mak-ing.

Ezekiel John Reed, aged 51. a salesman, was sentenced by Mr S-til-well, S.M., Wellington, to three months’ imprisonment for failing to account to Henry Bray for £5 9s 3d. He was convicted and discharged on three charges of obtaining £1 3s 6J by false pretences.

At the Waitaki hydro works on Sunday a three months’ old child Ivan Ourrin, the son of Mr and Mrs Ivan James Ourrin, was found dead in his mother’s bed at 9 a.m Death was evidently due to suffocation. The child had been taken out of a perambulator and placed in his mother’s bed.

Prolonged trials are progressing before military and naval courtsmartial and an ordinary tribunal in Kobe (Japan) of forty persons accused of the murder of the Premier, M. Inukai, and others on May 15, 1932. The trials are all remarkable for the entire freedom given to every prisoner to address the court, expatiating on his loyalty and purity of bis motive, and the necessity of the crime to ensure the reform of a corrupt political system.

“My advice to those who can supply a cheese factory is certainly to do so, as there can be no oversupply in cheese but there certainly can in butter.” So remarked Mr J. G. Brechin at the annual meeting of the North Tiraumea Dairy Co., Ltd. last evening.

The New' Zealand winners in the Paramount “Search for Beauty” contest are Miss Joyce Nielsen (Wellington) and Mr Colin E. Tapley (Dunedin). Miss Nielsen, who is a daughter of Mr C. W. Nielsen (Wellington) and a former pupil of M-ars-clen School and Mr Tapley will leave for Hollywood from Auckland by the Monterey on September 23.

As a result of a French suburban fire a widespread Communist espionage S3 7 stem has been revealed. The fire broke out while a man was cleaning clothes with petrol. He was severely burned and sent to the hospital. The firemen threw the contents of the room into tlie street. The police below examined the papers in the clothes and found Communist literature.

When Mr Joseph Rose was re-elect-ed chairman of directors at the annual meeting of the North Tiraumea Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd.. last evening and in returning thanks said he would do his best again for the company, Mr W. Olsen remarked: “The main thing to do, Mr Chairman, is to keep the prices down so that we do not get collar proud.” The meeting enjoyed the gentle sarcasm.

A blind boy his bister to remove their younger brothers and sisters from a burning house on the East Coast, according to a report from Gisborne. The owner of the house, Mr Tope Huriwai. and his wife were absent at the time, the eldest girl being awakened by the roar of the flames. Assisted by her blind brother, -thhe girl carried the younger children to safety'. The house was completely destroyed.

Bending down to pick up a string oj beads which had fallen on the bedroom floor, a schoolgirl in an •Auckland suburb on Saturday afternoon saw a man’s hand projecting from under the bed. She screamed and her brother, after a chase, caught the man and handed him over to a constable. The man said he “wanted a feed.” Yesterday William Joseph Gee, aged 27, a cook, was remanded on two charges.

The annual ball of the Eketahuna Volunteer Fire Brigade will be held oil Wednesday' evening and it promises to be the chief dancing event of the Eketahuna season. Tlie brigade men fully reali-.e that the standard of their function is a high one and they are sparing no efforts to again live up to the reputation they enjoy as hosts. Ken Hicks’ Melodians, of Dannevirke, have been engaged to supply the music The supper arrangements have been left to the Brigade’s lady 7 friends who have formed themselves into a strong committee.

Mr John McKay Morris, who died in the Masterton Hospital on Saturday 7 morning, was well-known and deservedly popular in Masierton and m other parts of the Wairarapa. He was born at Sawyer’s Bay 7 . Dunedin, 65 years ago, and at an early 7 age went to Haunui, Eketahuna, whore he took up farming pursuits, and after clearing the land of virgin busli, remained there for thirty years. Ho then came to Masterton. where he has been a taxi proprietor for fifteen years. The late Mr Morris was a man of strong and upright character, always ready to do a fellow man a good turn. He acted on the Waterfalls School Committee, Eketahuna. and after coming to Masterton served for a period on the Lnnsdowne School Committee. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 238. He is survived by' a w idow and two daughters.—Age.

Tyres, motor siDirlv ana oil at keen competitive prices at Donald’s garage. This firm carries a big stock of accessories. il executes repairs m fiiab-class style—m fact, there is nothing in motordom but what it cannot do or sell. Of course there is the splendid service the public look for, the geniality and personality that wins and retains customers. Donald's for skilled workmanship, Donald’s for courtesies and low costs.*