LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4482, 26 September 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Te Awamutu at 11.45 o’clock on Wednesday night.

At a special meeting of the Tauranga Agricultural and Pastoral Association it was decided inadvisable to hold the annual show this year.

At a sitting of the Military. Medical Board at Te Awamutu on Wednesday last, a father and son from the Hauturu district presented themselves for examination and both were passed as fit for service overseas. Thus was established a record, probably unparalleled in New Zealand.

Publication of a numjbeir of local reports, letters to the Editor, and other matter is unavoidably deferred till next issue. Reports of Te Awamutu live stock sale yesterday, the Ohaupo horse fair, and other commercial matter are published on page three.

An increase of one penny a gallon in the price of petrol—making the retail rate 2s 7id —operating from to-day, is provided for in the Gazette issued at Wellington last night. It is understood the increase is to cover higher overseas costs and shipping freights.

A decision to invite the patron of the Association, Sir Alexander Young, to open its Jubilee Show, to be held at Claudelands on October 31 and November 1, was made at a meeting of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s committee at Hamilton yesterday. It was also decided to ask five former presidents to speak at the opening ceremony. In order to assist the scheme formulated by the Returned Soldiers’ Association for the provision of suitable stock for returned soldiers, it was decided to encourage farmers to raise more heifer calves from next season onward.

A charge of negligent driving causing bodily injury was preferred against Edward McDonnell, a police constable stationed at Otorohanga before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., at Otorohanga yesterday. Senior-Sergeant A. G. McHugh presocuted, and Mr J. F. Trapski appeared for defendant, who pleaded not guilty. Evidence was given that defendant was driving a car between Otorohanga and Kio Kio on August 5 and was involved in a collision with a car driven by Mr Keith Parkes, who, with his wife and child, was injured. The defendant reserved his defence and was committed to the Supreme Court at Hamilton for trial.

No reliable information is available concerning the prisoner who escaped from the Waikeria Borstal Institution last Saturday, Richard Humphreys, aged 23, who was serving a term of two years’ reformative detention. The fact that a small car is reported to be missing from the Ngutunui district, between Te Kawa and Kawhia, is believed to be connected with Humphreys’ The car is a sedan, painted blue with black mudguards and hood, the left-hand running board repaired, and bearing number plates 157,284. Humphreys formerly worked on a farm in the district a few miles from where the car is reported missing. The search is being continued by the police and Waikeria wardens.