GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1929, Page 8

GENERAL ITEMS.

Joo McDonald, one of the Taihape Native players, sustained a broken leg in the early stages of the match for the Ratana Cup at Manaia yesterday. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed upon Edgar Penfold, of Hawera, by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., at Hawera yesterday, for failing to provide a receptacle for trade refuse upon his bakehouse premises after being instructed by the borough inspector to observe the regulations.

Gaol for a term of three months will be the lot of Frederick Jewell, a labourer, of Wanganui, unless he pays regularly £2 for current maintenance of his wife and two children, together with 5s off arrears, as ordered by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Hawera Court yesterday. The maintenance officer (Mr. R. J. Barrett) laid the information. The arrears amounted to £37 l'ss to June 17.

The scheme of instructing the students of the Hawera High School in agriculture was demonstrated to Mr. J. Renyard, departmental inspector of technical schools, Wellington, at Mr. H, C. Wills’ farm, Ketemarae Road, Hawera, on Tuesday. Mr. Wills onducted a party of 14 boys, who were accompanied by Mr. A.- Gray (headmaster) and Mr. J. W. Harding, a member of the Board of Governors, over the farm and explained the essentials that should be found on a well-managed one-man dairy farm. Mr. Renyard said he was much impressed with such instruction, which he considered was a very useful and practical part of the work of an agricultural class.

The prizewinners at the Kapuni euchre party on Tuesday evening were Mrs. R. E. Harrison and Mr. A. Thomas. The consolation prizes were awarded to Mrs. E. Scott and Mr. R. Walker.

Permitting four calves to wander on the Boylan Road, Te Roti, was ’the charge against Thomas Smith, a farmer, at the Hawera Court yesterday. A motor-cyclist had collided with the calves, but the cyclist’s injuries had not been serious. A fine of fl and costs was imposed by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M.

A cow belonging to Emily Hayward was found wandering on the roads at Normanby on June 18 at 9.30 p.m. by David Henderson, Normanby Town Board foreman. Again on June 25 Henderson saw a calf belonging to defendant, who was alleged to have caused trouble with similar acts in the past. Defendant, who did not appear, was fined 10s and ordered to pay costs 10s and witnesses expenses 18s by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Hawera Court yesterday.

An unenviable experience befel a Hawera motorist on Monday evening when he was hastening back to Hawera from Eltham to catch the mail train. Just at the point on the Boylan Road where the Eltham County Council has been widening the road, he found it necessary to°pull up just off the centre of the road to. allow a lorry to pass, but when he attempted to move off again the car refused to budge and, much to his annoyance, the motorist found his rear wheels were deep in the mud. All his attempts to move, the car were in vain and he himself floundered knee-deep in the wet clay. It was not until a car sent out by an Eltham garage came to the rescue that the machine was hauled out. The aggrieved motorist complained to a News representative yesterday that in cases where road improvements were in - progress warning lamps should be posted.

R. P. Morrissey and Co. will hold their annual horse fair in Mr. Gillanders’ Union Street stables at 11 a.m. to-morrow, when a splendid yarding of light draught, milk cart and waggon horses will be offered for sale, the animals being sound and young and recommended by the auctioneers. A lot of implements, vehicles and gear will also be offered.

Mr. J. C. Smith will sell at the mart, Union Street, Hawera, to-day a quantity of household furniture, 10 milkcans, 500 cases of apples and sundries. The findl night of the Auroa euchre and ping-pong tournament will be held on Friday. The points prizes for the season will be awarded in addition to the usual weekly prizes.