General Items

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 87, 17 August 1923, Page 2

General Items

A party of prospectors who have been for the past two years prospecting the Alexander River district (West Coast) have located a payable reef 6 feet wide. Gold is plainly visible to the naked eye. A Wellington business house has just taken out a policy of £20,000 with a mutual life assurance associaaion in order to provide for superannuation and annuities for its staff. This is believed to be the Orst transaction of its kind in New Zealand, and is certainly unique in the Dominion in the experience of the association concerned.

A very severe thunderstorm passed over Inglewood between one and two o’clock on Thursday morning. The lightning was very Vivid and the thunder exceptionally loud. On the Windsor Road one resident (Mrs Brock) had several windows smashed, while her neighbour (Mr L. Butler) had his house cow killed.

The balance-sheet in connection with the recent Queen Carnival promoted at Pahiatua, for the purpose of erecting a grandstand and acquiring the freehold of the land, for the A. and P. Association, showed that the total amount in the carnival fund itself was £1279 /9/3, in addition to which the carnival had been the means of bringing a sum of £7l, on account of the life membership of (he Association. The balance in the Bank of New Zealand is £1039/12/10.

The greater part of Thursday’s sitting of the Supreme Court was occupied with the re-trial of John Howard William Tapp on charges of forgery, uttering and false pretences at Hawera on May 19. The jury again failed to agree and a new trial has been ordered for the next sessions of the Court. After hearing a petition for the dissolution of marriage a start was made late in the afternoon with the hearing of the claim by the Official Assignee in bankruptcy in the estate of Ahatahi Rukuwai against Hughson’s Ltd., for the recovery of £315/3/4, money allegedly held on behalf of the bankrupt. . To-morrow the Judge (Mr Justice Chapman) will hear undefended petitions in divorce and motions for discharge in bankruptcy, the sitting starting at 9.30 a.m. The subject of damage to dairy produce while being shipped from the port of New Plymouth was a matter brought before the Harbor Hoard yesterday in a leter received from the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works Co., Ltd. The company requested that the board would kindly arrange to supply movable M-ooden sections, so that these might be pdaced in position wherever loading occurred on a portion of the wharf where permanent timberwork did not afford the necessary protection from contact with the railway lines. After discussion a resolution was passed to the effect that the board believed that the best system was being used at present, and that to adopt the company’s suggestion would be a retrograde step. From inquiries made, the reported damage had been found to be exaggerated, and what damage there was was not due to lack of facilities. The board would, however be pleased to meet representatives of the company to discuss the matter when a liner was working at the port.

Deliberations of the Wanganui Borough Council on Tuesday evening (reports the Herald) even reached the stage of dealing with boys selling papers on the street. One local bookseller complained that a boy stood outside his shop selling papers and made a nuisance of himself, and was also a source of annoyance to customers in the shop. Cr. Burnett said the same state of affairs prevailed outside the Post Office, where the public had boys yelling in their ears. If they only moved about the public would get better service, Cr. Sharpe said he looked upon the matter in the same light as street fruit vendors, and it was not fair to a bookseller, who paid rent, to have a boy taking up a stand outside his shop. Cr. Green; The boys are trying to make a few ■shillings honestly. Cr, Gohns pointdc out that if stands were allocated for the boys, it would mean a charge of £l3 per year. In other towns of impoi tance they found that boys were permitted to sell papers on the streets, and this was ,a great convenience to the public. A council lor: If they arc a nuisance the police could shift them. The matter was referred to the Works Committee.