LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12429, 23 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The only quite fatal sin in the world is to give up trying.—Ed. Lyttelton .

* The death is reported from Sydney, of Mr W. M. Shedden, Mayor of Newcastle, following a major operation. He was aged 70.

The final visible payout for the season was distributed to Riverbank Dairy Company suppliers on Friday, the total sum involved being £1360.

Forty men who were to go to the relief camp at Ashley (Christchurch) refused to leave the city as a protest; against the withdrawal of the bus service between the city and the camp.

The Zionist Congress will consider a plan to take a quarter of a million Jews from Germany, settling a hundred thousand in Palestine and the rest elsewhere, including a quota in Australia.

“Prices may be low. but the dairy factories have, this year, stopped, the grass from growing on the streets of Woodville.” —Mr J. G. Brechin at the annual meeting of the Papatawa Dairy Company on Saturday.

Dr. Teddy Morgan, the Welsh Rugby international player, famous as the scorer of the try leading to rhe only victory against the All Blacks in 1905, marries a New Zealander. Mrs Margaret To!hurst at Hampstead, on April 28 next.

The annual quadrangular interCollege Rugby tournament, between Wellington College, Christ’s College. Wanganui College and Nelson College concluded on the Wellington* College ground in a victory for Wellington College, who defeated Christ’s College in the final by 9 points to 6.

Outlets for excess population in China and Japan are so pressing, and the struggle lie tween Great Britain and Japan for markets for .their cotton industry has so increased that the Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations ha.s decided to spend at least another two days considering them.

Adopting a defiant and insulting attitude to the management committee of the Otago Football Association at Dunedin when lie was disqualified for the remainder of the season for questioning and abusing a referee’s decision, W. Albertson, a. Port Chalmers third-grade player, threatened to fight the members of tlio executive. He was ultimately chased from the room by a member, and was disqualified for life and. warned off all grounds.

After swimming without a stop for 79 hours, a world's record, Ruth Litzig (Berlin) is in hospital with a high temperature and cramp. Her condition is serious.

At the Hamilton Supreme Court true bills were returned in two cases of a sexual nature and others of alleged conspiracy and making a declaration which amounted to perjury.

M. Louis Bleroit, the first man to fly the English Channel in 1909, and for years a leading aeroplane designer and manufacturer in France, has decided that he must close his factory.

In order to combat the paper shortage, the Leningrad authorities have decreed that citizens buying newspapers must give an old copy in exchange in addition to the full price for the new edition. Sir John EUerman, the twenby-four-year-old multi-millionaire, son of the late Sir John Elterman, was secretly married bo Miss Esther ue Sola at a Registry Office in the country. Only two official witnesses were present. Miss de Sola is a Jewess and •Sir John E Herman an Anglican.— London cable.

It is understood that one of those in the syndicate holding the winning ticket in the ‘‘Lucky Chance” art union is Mr John Gladstone Riddler, vho lives at 69 Hutt road, Pet one. The ticket was taken out in the name of “J. Gladstone, 53 Richmond street, Petone.” Mr Riddler, who is a dental mechanic, is a single man, about 30 years of age. At Forest Hills Mrs Helen WillsMoody, by a narrow margin, defeated Miss Betty Nuthall (England) in one of the most tense matches at the current women’s national tournament. The Englishwoman’s victory in the first set was sensational. Her drives were unusually hard and she played desperately for every point, her backhand and service functioning perfectly. At the last meeting of the Eketahuna County Council on the motion of Cr. L. Houlbrooke, a resolution was carried: “That this Council protests that the transport regulations now Laid down tend to still further embarrass the rural ratepayers, and further that the fixing of minimum charges and the curtailment of competition is opposed to the best interests of the country as a whole.”

The following resolution was passed to-night by the South Canterbury Employers’ Association“ This executive views with misgiving the tendency of some employers who are notcontrolled by industrial awards cr agreements in taking advantage of the workers by publicly offering unfair wages, thus endeavouring to take advantage of and exploit male and. female workers in their existing distress.”

Two thousand spectators last night in Wellington saw “Twist” Jaggers outpoint Charlie Purdy in a tenround professional boxing contest. Jaggers, who weighed 10.6 to Purdy’s 10.0, owed his victory to doing most of the leading. He was the stronger of the pair and frequently rushed his opponent to the ropes. Purdy was only a shadow of the brilliant boxer who was lightweight champion of the Dominion some six years ago. The contest was unexciting, owing to the fact that neither man possessed a punch.

It was stated by Mr J. L. Hewitt, S.M., at the Assessment Court at Wanganui yesterday, that, although the Act provided that valuations of properties should be fixed, by selling values, m absence of sales it was impossible to do this and valuations would have to be fixed in such a way as to distribute the burden of rates fairly among property-owners. Jt was shown that the main street of Wanganui was paying one-third of the rates of the entire city. Mr Hewitt stated that it would have to be considered if this was a. fair ratio to the rest of the city.

The Times’ Riga correspondent states: “Intensifying its campaign against grain-wreckers. the Soviet has suspended the regulation requiring provincial courts telegraphically to inform the Supreme Court whenever they pass death sentences, as it is useless, involves wasteful expenditure and overburdens the telegraph system.” Picked Communists have been sent throughout the country to strengthen the punitive forces, numbering 70.000, and judges have been sent on a circular tour to pass the death sentence on peasants and directors of collective farms failing to deliver the stipulated grain on the prescribed date. The death sentences are. enormous and the ferocity of the campaign surpasses any since the revolution. The price of bread has been doubled at the Government shops throughout Russia.

Frederick John Martin pleaded guilty at Palmerston North to the theft, on June 8, at Palmerston N. of a radio testing meter, valued at 25 s, the property of L. R. Dry den Mr Quirke said that accused had walked into a shop and quietly taken possession of the meter, Which had been recovered in good order. Accused’s people were respectable and he had employment to which to go. Counsel for. accused: This man’s trouble is that lie has been out of work for three years. The Magistrate: But a man out of work does not want a radio meter. Counsel said accused had succumbed to a temptation when in the shop, thinking the meter would enable him to secure radio work. He now had employment to go to. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, an order being made for the return of the meter to the owner.

Tyres, motor spirit ana oil at keen competitive pricey at Donald’s garage. This firm carries a bi<r stock of accessories. It executes repairs in first-class style—in fact ? there is nothing in motordom but what it can- > ot 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.*