REMOVAL OF MOTOR-CARS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1931, Page 12

REMOVAL OF MOTOR-CARS

FOUR SOUTH TARANAKI CASES

ALL MACHINES RECOVERED.

Reports of motor-car thefts and the subsequent recovery of cars near the scene of other removals seem to indicate that some person enjoyed a lengthy ride in South Taranaki on Sunday night, in the course of which several makes of cars were tried.

A small car owned by Mr. Henderson, Otakeho, was the' first reported stolen. It was later found abandoned near Mr. Walsh’s Okaiawa property. Mr. Walsh’s garage was then discovered to have been entered and his car removed. This machine was found in Collins Street, Hawera.

Then came the report that Mrs. S. C. Tonks’ baby car was missing from her garage in Dive’s Avenue, and the police report its recovery in the vicinity of Kapuni. Earlier in the week-end a small car was stolen from Napier Street and recovered at the lower end of High Street, Hawera.

HAWERA FLIER’S SUCCESS.

WINS HAWKE’S BAY COMPETITION. ■

Flying the Western Federated (N. 1. Flying Club’s machine A.8.A., Mr. Brian Haybittie, of the Hawera Aero Club and a pupil of the federation, participated in the Hawke’s Bay. Aero Club’s pageant at Hastings on Saturday and succeeded in winning the A pilots’ landing competition.

As a result of his splendid exhibition, Wing-Commander S. Grant Dalton, Director of Air Services, who was present at the pageant,' endorsed Mr. Haybittie’s A license without requiring him to complete the specified period of 40 hours, of which the pilot was several hours short. The endorsement permits the pilot to carry passengers. Mr. Haybittie, who had hired the areoplane for the week-end with the intention of completing the 40 hours, returned to Hawera shortly after 5 p.m.on Sunday. .

ALLOCATIONS FOR THE WEEK.

LESS WORK FOR APPLICANTS.

With £259 at its disposal for the payment of unemployed relief workers the Hawera Relief Committee has made the following allocations for this week: Hawera County Council 74, Hospital Board 8, Borough Council 26, Turn turn Mokai 32, Manutahi School Committee 1, To Roti School Committee 2, and Normanby Town Board 13. The committee found it impossible to give the four and three-day men their full number of days owing to the limited sum available. As a result of this the three-day men receive 24 days’ work and the four-day men 34 days.

WAVERLEY BOWLING CLUB.

THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD.

At the annual meeting of the Waverley Bowling Club Mr. Adlam presided. In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet he stated the club had a credit balance of £23 aud assets totalling £4O, and the outlook for the coming season was bright. It was with regret that the club received H. W. James, who has held the office the resignation of the secretary, Mr. for 19 years. His fine record of service was cordially acknowledged by all members.

'Subscriptions were fixed for the coming season at £2 10s, with £1 for firstyear players and lady members. Wednesday was fixed for the mid-week games, and it was also agreed that the club would enter for the Nixon Cup, which is to be played for early in the season.

The election of officers resulted: — President, Mr. A. J. Adlam; vice-presi-dents, Messrs W. J. Mills and W. Wicks; joint secretaries and treasurers, Messrs E. Palmer and S. Aikin; green supervisor, Mr. W. Wicks; committee, Messrs J. Matheson, J. L. Beer, J. Nicholls, J. Fitzgibbon, J. Pepper, J. R. Palmer, 0. E. Dallison and J. A. Adlam; selection and match committee, Messrs S. Aikin, J. Mathieson and 0. E. Dallison; honorary auditor, Mr. James Currie; delegate to (Vanganui Centre, Mr. S. Napier. A SLACKENING OF RELIGION. HINDRANCE TO WORLD PROGRESS. “To a large extent the affairs of the world are in a state of ‘hold-up’ because of a slackening of the true spirit of religion in men’s lives,” said the Rev. 11. E. Evans in the course of a sermon at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Hawera, on Sunday evening. His subject was “A world held up, causes of hindrance to progress, and the remedy.” The service was the third of a series of evangelistic services being conducted by the minister and elders. Mr. F. C. Bone presided. The atmosphere of the world, the speaker proceeded, was in a state uncongenial to the highest and best in life. World progress ceased at its high-water mark, and it was man’s business to make the world worth living in. If man kept material and seculai interest ever before him, progress in the true sense was impossible. Britain’s, in fact any country’s, greatest asset was its clean, clear minded men, who could see a vision with the hand of God behind it. The remedy was a, Christward movement, which alone would save humanity.

That were turning from the mechanical to the intellectual viewpoint, regarding the universe as a great thought rather than as a great machine, was the theme of a short address by Dr. W. M. Thomson on the subject “How a Christian should regard the leaching of science.” Science could study only the laws of the material universe, said Dr. Thomson; it could hot fathom a great mind in the universe.

Miss G. Dunn sang the solo “The Lord is piy Shepherd” and the choir sang the anthem “Sun of my Soul.”. .