GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18618, 14 July 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

The name of the Hannaton school, near Waimate, has been changed to Nukuroa.

Stanley Clarke (38), who was caught by Auckland detectives busily taking bets on the Wellington races, was fined £75.

Five degrees of frost were registered at Timaru Park yesterday morning. Good weather conditions prevailed throughout the day with indications of another frost at night.

Fifty-three employees of the Otahuhu railway workshops, Auckland, who were given notice of dismissal a week ago, have now been notified to continue work till further notice.

The Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Association, in view of the repeated trouble with Alsatian dogs on exhibition at its show, decided to delete classes for these dogs from its schedule.

The Timaru Permanent Mutual Benefit Building and Investment Societty, which operated in Timaru sixty years ago, guaranteed a minimum rate of interest to shareholders of 8 per cent. Depositers were paid 7 per cent.

On Saturday evening a collision occurred at the corner of Selwyn Street and Wai-iti Road, between a motorcycle and a car. Fortunately no serious injury resulted, and the cyclist, after being attended by Dr. C .S. Fraser, was conveyed to the house of some friends.

The Timaru Artillery Volunteers’ ball and supper, held in the Royal Assembly Rooms on July 13, 1870, was one of the events of the social season. The “stewards” were Messrs B. Woollcombe, R.M., A. Perry, M.P.C., G. Healey, M.P.C., H. Belfield, J.P.. Lieut. Stubbs, Lieut. Green, Sergeant Smith and Gunner Hobbs.

The Rolleston Hotel was destroyed by fire at about five o’clock yesterday morning. The proprietor, Mr R. H. Davies, and his wife and three children, wore the only occupants at the time. They escaped with personal effects only, the building and contents being a total loss. The hotel was a very old single-storey wooden structure, on the Main South Road.

The documents in connection with the Ashburton licensing case, which has been referred to the Privy Council, will be forwarded to England next week, and an effort is to be made to have the appeal set down for hearing at the sittings commencing in October. The appeal concerns an application made by Joseph Scales, of Ashburton, for writs of certiori and a mandamus against the Mid-Canterbury-Licensing Committee (which had held that it had no jurisdiction to hear his application for a publican’s license in respect of the Somerset Hotel, Ashburton).

Every dairy company in North Taranaki is in the happy position of being able to record a substantial increase in output of either butter and cheese for the past season and this has to seme extent at any rate compensated for the lower prices that have been ruling. The weather has continued favourable and feed has been fairly plentiful up to the present, so much so that many farmers have not yet found it necessary to use the contents of their hay and ensilage stacks. A considerable number have sufficient hay and ensilage left from the previous season to see them through without having to use any of last year’s crop, unless, of course, the spring is a very unfavourable one.

Bees are busy in the districts north of Auckland making their mid-winter stock of honey. They began this part of their year’s programme about two months ago, and will continue until late September or October. During these months they work the tiny manuka flowers, and the result is a honey similar in appearance and taste to the heather honey of Scotland. It lacks the amber clearness of the clover honey, but is much in demand in the early spring. On July 18 beekeepers from the southern parts of New Zealand will be taken on a tour of the bays north of Takapuna to see the bees at their winter work. It will be an education for some of the experts to observe bees storing honey in the off-season, as the southern bees are always dormant in winter.

The Theatre Royal was comfortably filled last evening, when the Timaru Municipal Band, under the conductorship of Lieutenant W. H. Osborne, assisted by Timaru artists, gave a concert in aid of the Mayor’s coal and blanket fund. A feature of the band items w r as the solo playing of Bandsman G. Buckley in the trombone number “Firefly,” and of Bandsman A. Taylor in the cornet solo, “The Lost Chord.” Miss Florence Munro contributed violin solos, and Mr W. Minehan elocutionary numbers, while the vocal portion of the entertainment was entrusted to Miss Amy Holdgate and Miss G. Grant. Acknowledgment of the support of the public to the appeal was made by the Mayor (Mr W. Angland), who stated that the concert had realised £l2. He thanked the Band and artists for their enjoyable programme and the theatre authorities for their generosity.

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