LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12438, 2 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It takes both grace and grit to get along pleasantly with people who never make mistakes.

The Kainpoi Woollen Co made a profit of £8782 last year.

Tile wharf at Opunake, to build which a loan of £55,000 was raised some years ago, is to be dismantled.

The opening of the passengei service Ijetween Stratford and the Alain Trunk will effect a great speeding up in the mail services between Taranaki and Auckland.

At the annual meeting ol Ihe Rongomai Cheese factory the advisabilitv was stressed of obtaining the largest possible supply, and steps will be taken to that end.

Tlie Liverpool expedition, comprising Messrs Parris, Warren and Nicholson, has just returned to Simla (India) after reaching the summit of Liu Pruyal, over 20.000 feet, in the Karakoram Range. They had to negotiate a 1000-foot ice wall.

Prisoners sentenced in the Dunedin Supreme Court to-day were:—Lionel Roland Robert Horn, aged 19, theft and breaking and entering, two years’ Borstal treatment; Edward Edwin McLaren, aged 24, breaking and entering, fifteen months’ reformative detention.

The London Daily Express understands that preparations are being advanced for launching a Government conversion loan, probably ol «t‘300.000,000, durum September. Possibly it will be popularised by the Chancellor announcing a prospect of an income tax reduction of 6d.

William Gee, aged 27, who was found under a bed in a suburban house, pleaded guilty at Auckland to a charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, and also to other similar charges. He was committed for sentence. Among his possessions were fifty-four keys.

The Soviet has decided to dump 150,000 casks of Russian butter in England at 10s a cask less than the Latvian product. Lewis Williams, aged 29, a canvasser was at Auckland fined £3. »n default a month’s imprisonment, for having seditious literature in liis possession.

A nine-year-old boy, Keith Edwards, fell while playing on a fence? in Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, Wellington, yesterday afternoon and received a fracture of the left arm.

Cabled advice from Sydney reports the death of Mr Alfred James Langan, former manager of the Sydney Daily Telegraph and for many years its "advertising manager.

Mr S. Gambrill, senior clerk in th-i head office of the Department of Lands and Survey, has been promoted to chief clerk, vice Mr J. R. MacCormick, who has retired after 40 years’ service.

After forty years’ service. .Mi* W. J. Gow, second assistant secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, retired yesterday, and was farewelled by a large number of officers of all branches of the department. A presentation was made to him.

Pleading guilty* in the Magistrate’s Court at to the third offence ol being intoxicated when in charge of a motor-car, Walter Frederick Marris, aged 34, was fined £3O and prohibited from obtaining a driver’s license for five years Accused was also fined £5 on a charge of driving without a license. ‘‘lt has been a great season—perhaps a record one,” said Mr E. J. C. Wiffen, secretary of he Wellingon Acclimatisation Society, when questioned yesterday about the opossum season which closed the night before. It is estimated that approximated’ 50,000 skins were taken in the Wellington district Some of the super skins brough as much as 15s.

AT. Richardson, the A.B. who was injured on the C. and D. liner Port Fremantle out in Cook Srait, through falling from a mast, and who was rushed to port by the tug Toia, died early this morning. Besides internal injuries and shock from his 60 foot fall, he had a fractured right arm and dislocated elbow. The deceased's home town is Greenock, Scotland.

The chairman stated at the annual meeting of the Xireaha Cheese Company that the grading of milk «*;h now a daily process at the factory. The price fixed by the Dairy Division for second grade milk was }d lower than for first grade and this had been adopted by the directors. The manager and first assistant were now licensed to carry ou: the grading and he invited Mr Dumbleton to explain the two methods which would be adopted.

During the past few weeks Blenheim has been a regular hive of industry-, with preparations* for the “Come to Blenheim” week being pushed forward energetically in ail directions. An epidemic of painting up has smitten the town, to its undoubted benefit. The habit has proved extraordinarily’ infectious, for radiating from Government Building, which dominates the market place, it has spread from one end of the town to the other.

Interesting events of the week are artistically reproduced in a w ide variety of illustrations in this week s issue of the N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review. The centre pages are devoted to enthusiasts at Ellerslie who came under the photographer’s notice. The new Masonic Peace Memorial Building in London forms an exclusive page, and miscellaneous illustrations include incidents at Wimbledon, athletes at the White City, members of St. Andrew's Prpe Ifhnl (Auckland), delegates to New Zealaind Homing Pigeon Federation’s conference, Millerton All Blacks and New Zealand Cross-country Champions. The subject .of the coloured supplement ‘is the Dominion ladies’ golf team now in Melbourne, and w itli stage, cinema and social portraits the N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review will appeal to every section. Tire Review is on sale at all Booksellers and stationers.

Bortli wick's trucking dates for Tuesday next have been cancelled.

The funeral of the late Mrs A. Harland, of Sedcole Street, has been fixed to take place at 12.4.5 p.m. to-morrow. Friends are asked to note the time.

Nat ure has depicted gorgeous colours and the reproduction of fresh shades has had the attention of the English weavers, as the advance showing of spring dress fabrics at the W.F.C.A. now indicates. Ihe selection is very laige and in most instances there is only one dress length. Early inspection is cordially invited.

Tyres, motor spirit ana oil at keen competitive prices at Donald’s garage. This firm carries a big stock of accessories. It executes repairs m first-class style—in 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 lowcosts.*