LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 3, 12 September 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday the police recovered six of the twelve billiard halls recently taken from Mr Eager's saloon in Fenton Street.

“If there’s one tiring I hate it’s class distinction in a. cemetery. I detest. with all my being the buying of a plot—they ishonld all he free.” with, these wordn the Mayor of Wanganui (Mr W. J. Rogers) expressed his disapproval of a corporation running a cemetery as a commercial proposition.

Mrs Madeline Smith, of Auckland, haying been apprised of the need for a chapel in connection with Wesley -College at. Paerata, has generously oli’eved to donate a sum sufficient to cover the cost of erecting a suitable chapel at the college. The work is estimated to cost between £6OOO and £BOOO.

At the mooting of the Management Committee of the Taranaki R<ughy Union on Saturday it wa ;S resolved to play the Wanganui match at Hawera on Saturday next, and the Hawke’s May match at New Plymouth on the following Saturday. In order to meet the wishes af country patrons, it was decided to begin both ft latches at 2 p. m.

Mr A. C. Blake, headmaster of Lyall. Bay School, Wellington, since the opening, retiros from active service; at the end of the present year. Steps are being taken to locate all ex-scholars and to form an Old Scholars Association to take ' ail active part io the farewell, and afterwards to foster the traditions of the school and keep alive its history. The Committee have asked an old chairman (Mr A. Sando) to form the Association and to get into touch with the hundreds who have studied under Mr Blake.

An interesting domestic event is expected shortly at the Auckland Zoo.

as the birth of a young hippopotamus i,s being awaited (says the Star). As a precaution Air Hippo has been put iu a. separate enclosure, this being deemed necessary on account of his unseemly behaviour last year, when lie savaged his offspring, with fatal results. The Zoo officials state that it is very difficult to rear a baby hippo, ami it is now known that the latter has to be protected, until it is aide to fond for itself

“What are you doing with that document hero?’’ demanded a Witness of cross-examining counsel , in the Supreme Court at Lisbonrnc when counsel submitted an application to tlio Cisbornc Building Society for an advance by way of Mortgage/ ;<f l issued a subpoena on the society to produce the application,” retorted counsel. “The society lias no right to disclose anything os a private nature,’’ returned witness indignantly. “T will make ifi my duty to consult my lawyer on the matter,” he’added. “I don’t think you need bother,” was Air Justice Ostler’s laconic comment. “This court is here to find out the truth, and could have demanded and insisted that the document be produced if need he.”

According to a speaker at tlio Broad Bay School Jubilee celebrations on Saturday, school discipline 50 years ago was a sterner thing than it is nowadays (says the Otago Daily Times). One teacher under whom he had studied, said the speaker, neither spared the rod nor spoiled the child. During his mastership, the bln If adjacent to the school, which is now known as Cemetery Point, was covered with supplejacks, and with these the dominie administered correction to wayward pupils. In these punishments a certain grim humour characterised his methods as the delinquent was invariably sent to cut the rods for his own Back, “And,” concluded the speaker, who had himself doubtless cut many switches, “it was no use bringing in a ‘dud’ stick. We wore sent back toi bring; a good one, and such a subTerluge simply resulted in a heavier punishment.”

With regard to poaching, the annual report of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society says:—“ln the face of unceasing activities on the part of the society's rangers, some honorary rangers, and, in certain causes, the police, poaching continues The offenders are geiierailly known to someone or other, but, as no information is furnished to the staff, and no evidence is forthcoming, it is practically useless to proceed. The us© of explosives, and of unlawful methods of taking opossums, give, most trouble, both being difficult to sheet home. One gratifying feature of the day preceding the actual opening day of the game-shooting'season; is the fact that out of some hundreds of shooters held up no case of shooting without a license came to light.”

All experts agree that, with the bight prices land ha s reached in New Zealand, our farmers will he obliged to increase the carrying capacity of their land in order to got a decent return for their labour and capital invested. We will have to grow more lucerne, rape, mangels, carrots, swedes and other root crops. Attention is drawn <o Un announcement—Cooper’s “Seeds of Success,” Wellington—regarding this matter. x

Big advance in Cotton Goods. —We are pleased to notify the public that our Home buyers have purchased for us well over £250 worth of Abanco Sheetings at the old prices, therefore we are in the happy position of supplying the public with all cotton goods at least 20 per cent, below the prices for cotton- goods now ruling. Although cotton has gone up. our prices will remain exactly the same. Wc are well covered with stock' arriving at the old low prices. The Auckland Warehouse Drapery and Clothing Store (near Post Office).

The Borough Council -staff this morning commenced the work of laying a storm-water drain across Juliet Street on the northern side of the Fenton Street intersection. This will carry the storm-water from Hie west side of Juliet Street to the new drain recently pill down across Fenton Street, which carries the water directly into the river.

The Eitham County Council decided on Saturday not to make any grant to the Egtnont National Park Board this year.