LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13091, 26 October 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The hardest time to get the baby to sleep is when she is eighteen. The “Pahiatua. Herald” will not bo published on Monday, Da hour Day. It is understood that ticket number 55852, which won a prize ot £I(XX) in a recent Tattersall’s consultation, and was taken out under the' name of “Spring,” is held by a syndicate of seven employees of a prominent firm of Dunedin solicitors. Among the legion of rumours that have traversed Palmerston North city in association with the name of tin* winner of the first prize in the recently drawn art union, none has been more persistent that the one current yesterday that, out of loyalty to religious beliefs, he had decided to return the £2OOO. If such a resolution had indeed been taken, it would be admired as much as it would be regretted. However, approached last night, the prize-win-ner would offer no more than the emphatic words: “I have no statement to make concerning the matter.”

Dord Galway, Sir Herbert Hart. Dieutenant-( ommandcr *-T- Head, Captain D. V. Morgan and Major A. Purvis are among the 108 entrants for a golf tourney for men who served in the Great War, to be played at. the Miramar links next Wed nesday.

For poisoning 164 opossums instead of trapping thorn, Alexander Summers, a farm labourer, was fined £2 and costs and the skins confiscated in the Taihape Magistrate’s Court. The ranger did not press for a heavy ]>enalty owing to the confiscation of the skins. A verdict for £PHK) was awarded by the jury in the compensation ease heard in Wellington on behalf of the*, four Maori children of Corral no Enoka who was fatally injured in a collision lx'tween a motorcycle he was riding and a car driven by Jean Catherine Dallas. The Chief Justice* ordered that the amount, should be* held in trust by the Public Trustee for the maintenance and cditeration of his children.

Using explosive to blow the* door off the salC, in the; Lit,tic; River railvay station early yesterday morning, thieves made a haul of £l4 in cash. This was the* third time that similar methods had been used to rob the station within the past 18 month* The station was locked at midnight and the discovery of the burglary was made at 6 a.in., when The station master's room was opened in preparation for the day's work. ( 'l>ristchurch wire.

The executive of the Miners’ Federation rejected the British Government’s mediation plan, pointing out that it did not offe/r an increuse in wages but merely sought to extract from the owners a promise to Jo in July, 1936, what should have been done in 1931. The federation also objects to the Government refusing to accept the* proposal to submit tin* miners* claim to arbitration. The strike ballot will there! ore proceed.

r l he fears of farmers of South Canterbury that the* prolonged dry spell would have disastrous consequences have been dispelled as a result of beneefiial rain during the* last three days. Lp till early in the week crops throughout the’ district appeared, to be all light, but were stunted in growth, and the general opinion of farmers was that a fall of two inches was necessary to enable them to face the summer with any degree of confidence. A change came on Wednesday and south-east-erly weather lias prevailed. For three days there have been occasional breaks, but generally light penetrating rain has prevailed. The c ounti yside is looking much hotter already and rain is still falling. The total fall this ye.nr So far Ts lof inches, compared wit-li 24$ inches for the corresponding period last year.

An unusual experience befell a party oi Palmerston North Anglers who were fishing in the Manawatu river. One had hooked an average sized trout when the other immediately had his line drawn taut, but, he let the line almost right out before playing his catch. After about L> minutes’ “play,” in which time the; angler realised that he had hooked something heavier than a trout, he succeeded in bringing the fish to the water's edge. He then discovered that he had caught a huge </el three feet in length/ about five inches m width, and of an estimated weight of 15 pounds. As the struggling eel was brought to the surface, its jaws opened and dislodged the hooked trout, which weighed nearly a pound.

This week’s issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review contains a particularly attractive selection of topical pictures that will have a general appeal. Bowling is represented in a page of enthusiasts at Rocky Aook; for golfing there are snaps of tin* British ladies’ team \. North Island players at Middlemore. A bea.itolul coloured supplement and photographs of stage, and screen favourites add to tin• attractiveness of the magazine, and the diverse liiiscellane<pus illustrations include a feature picture of a. full-rigged barquentine in the Atlantic; contystants in the Hamilton-Auckland cycle road race* a. Flemington scene, overseas visitors, and sporting champions. The Review is on sale at all leading booksellers.

Mr Norman H. Bailey, F.1.0.X.Z , representing Messrs Noedl and Bailey Opticians, Palmerston North, will again visit Pahiatua on Tuesdav next. October 29th. and may be consulted by appointment inly at Mi* Timms* Phannarv. For appointments ring Phone 47.*

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