LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13103, 11 November 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was a time when a sick kitten registered most deeply as a spectacle of despair. Then came the motor-car and the flat tyre.

The Pahiatua County ranger last month impounded 41 head of cattle and .3 horses. The fees collected totalled los.

11l the early hours of Saturday morning thieves broke into the Morrinsville branch of Wallace Supplies, Ltd., blowing the safe open and removing £6O in notes. A quantity of silver, pennies and a cheque were not touched. Friday was the late shopping night and the safe contained the day’s takings.

Forty-one United States naval aeroplanes arrived at French Frigate Shoals late on Saturday completing without incident the first problem in ten days’ sky manoeuvring over the mid-Pacific, says a Honolulu cable. The fastest planes completed the flight from Pearl. Harbour S ll. 345 minutes. The flight was made in two divisions by 80 and 100-knot planes. The fast planes were timed to overtake. the slower ones en route and to finish in one formation.

Reports from the port of Alaga.llancs (tile most southerly town in Chile) indicate that the' Antarctic explorer. Mr Lincoln Ellsworth, is putting the finishing touches on his equipment for a. 3000-mile trans-An-tarctic flight, which is expected to take about twenty hours. The crew are carrying five weeks’ lood supplies and will wait on the opposite side for the arrival of their vessel the Wyatt Karp, which after the departure of the aeroplane will start, a cruise to encircle the ice continent.

A collision occurred in Dunedin at one o’clock yesterday morning between two cars at the. intersection of Princes street and Manor Place, iieces.sita.ting the removal of four persons to the hospital. John Wilson, a passenger in a. taxi driven bv Herbert Wilson, ol Balclutha. suffered injuries to the knee and face and abrasions, and another passenger. Mis Agnes Grazier, received abrasions to the hi sad, face arid hands. Both the injured persons reside at Balclutha. -The driver of the other car, Alistair Stewart, of Dunedin, was admitted to the hospital with injuries to the head and hands and the passenger, Miss Betty Bell, also of Dunedin, received injuries to the hack, face and finger. Her condition is regarded as serious.

The reconstruction of the BullsGreatforcl highway prior to tar-seal-ing is shortly to be commenced, siirvevors now being on the job pegging out the road. The contractors are Messrs W. Stevenson and Son.

The. Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, will visit the Wairarapa, electorate to-da.y, when he will address meetings as follow:—Piliautea, at 1.30 p.m.j Martinborough, at 3.30 p.m. ■ Carterton, at 8 p.m. On Wednesday, Air Forbes will speak in the Alasterton electorate as. follows: Eketaliuna, at 2 p.m. ; at Alauriceville on his way to Alasterton, and in the evening, at Alasterton The gate returns of the Manawatu show totalled £1147, as against £lO-5-5 in 1934, and £875 in 1933. Included in this year’s total was a sum of £4O for car parking, and the sale tickets on buses. The takings for the People’s Day this year were larger than tor a good many previous shows. Details, with 1934 and 1933 figures given for comparison, are: — First dav, £214 16s 6<l. £270. £202 ; second. £642 9s 6d. £342, £298; third £249 Bs, £443. £375.

As a result of high-pressure work by the Public AYorks staff in the Alalia,watu Gorge during the last few days, a track lias been cleared round the toe of the slip which came down on Thursday and the road made available to motor traffic yesterday. This track is not considered very safe owing to the tact that earth and stones are coming down all the time, but it was safely negotiated yesterday.

There is still a chance of four candidates going to the poll in Rarigitikei, All- E. H. Whiteman, whose name was lreely mentioned some time ago, not yet. having made up has mini-. He said on Saturday that three deputations had waited on him requesting him to offer liis services and he would give a, definite answer before Tuesday. Candidates so far an" trounced are:—All A. Stuart (Nationalist), Air O. Wilson (Labour), Air \Y . J. Crawford (Democrat).

After being accidentally shot in the loot on Saturday afternoon a youth, Harold E. Alorgan. aged 15. walked four miles belore lit- could receive attention says an Auckland wire. Morgan, was out shooting when his shotgun was accidentally discharged causing severe injuries to his left foot. After receiving treatment at Pukekohe the youth was taken to the Auckland hospital in an ambulance. His condition is not serious.

The Australian cricketers began a two days’ match against a Jamnagar eleven iii India. The weather was very hot. AJacartney captained the Australians and lest the toss. Scores : Jamnagar in their first innings made 158—Gurtu 15, Aleherlionji 21. Alanilal 42, A\ ansley 26. Bowling: Oxenham. took five wickets for 32 and Iroumongier two for 36. Alanilal batted superbly, pulling and squarecutting. The Australians in their first effort lost five wickets for 133 (Wen-del Bill 47, Allsopp 33, Alaeartney 34).

Four yachtsmen, comprising the crew of the 34-ft. keeler Pandora, had a narrow escajie from drowning when their craft was caught in a heavy squall and capsized between Brown’s Island and Rangitote, says an Auckland wire. After the crewL. Jurjevic (skipper and owner). AY. Alorrison. AY. Rewe and H, Arndthad struggled in their oilskins for over a quarter of an hour, they were picked up by the launch Aumoe ami brought back to Auckland. Although in a rather serious plight they were able to go to their hollies The yacht was subsequently recovered.

Judgment for £525 general and £149 special damages was awarded by the jury in a civil action concluded before Air Justice Smith in the Gisborne Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiff wa s Dorothy Catherine Afackay. of New stead. Waikato, and the defendant John AA'ard. of Ruatoria. The action arose from a collision between the plaintiff’s car and a lorry owned by the defendant near Te Puia on Alay 14. Negligence was the basis of the claim, and the jury held that this was proved. In the accident the plaintiff received a broken knee-cap. wlric-h medical opinion testified had left her with a. permanent disability’.