GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18620, 16 July 1930, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

Shortly before midnight, with very little warning, a southerly squall was experienced, a fierce -gust of wind being followed by heavy rain, which continued for some time.

Five members of the Newmarket Borough Council rejected a proposal by the Mayor (Mr Donaldson) at a special meeting, that another poll of the ratepayers should be taken on a £29,000 loan issue, on which there was a dead-heat at the poll last week. Only three Councillors voted with the Mayor.

The Maunganui, from Sydney, with 142 passengers, arrived at Auckland yesterday at daybreak, but did not berth until an hour after the usual time, until the doctors had conferred about a mild case of chicken-pox aboard. The patient was a two-year-old girl. Pratique was subsequently granted without quarantine.

The fortnightly social at Pleasant Valley was a most enjoyable evening. Prizes were won by Miss J. Walker and Mr W. Harries, and the consolation prizes by Miss M. Easterbrook and Mr Thompson. Music for a dance was supplied by Mrs Sharp, Miss Gregan and Mr Benbow, and Mr J. Robinson carried out the duties of M.C.

Ten shillings reward was offered on July 15, 1870, “for information concerning the whereabouts of Henry W , who left the Temuka district without paying his debts. A reward of five shillings will also be given for the name of the party who assisted him with his horse and dray.” The advertiser was a well-known man living just eastward of Temuka.

There is nothing new under the sun. In its report of a meeting of the Borough Council on July 16, 1870, the

“Herald” said:—“After considerable discussion, which was at times most irrelevant to the point at issue, Councillor Hamilton said he thought the meeting a most disorderly one, and he could not understand the occasion for it. Councillor Green said that if the business of the meeting was not proceeded with, he would leave the Chamber.”

A message from Greymouth says that recent trouble between parties working the Jubilee co-operative mine at Rapahe, led to an assault last Thursday by George Stanton on the mine manager, William Wallwork. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Stanton was fined £2 wit hcosts for assault, and also fined £5 with costs on a charge of employing a man without permission of the mine manager. Lino Comis was fined £1 for assault on Wallwork.

The Maori pageant, “Hawaiki Calling,” was broadcast last night from 2YA, Wellington, and retransmitted by 3YA, Christchurch. Listeners were taken in imagination to Hawaiki, the legendary home of the Maori, and voyaged with the wonderful navigators in the canoes over that long ocean journey. They heard the tohunga chant incantation at risings of the sun and of the moon, the rhythmic beat of the paddles, a stirring haka, and saw through the morning mist, the outline of Aotea-roa, the “Long White Cloud.” The entertainment concluded with a variety programme by Maori artists, the items including “Dream Boat,” a hymn in Maori, the Komate haka, “Home, Sweet Home” (in Maori), and God Save the King. The singing of the Natives was delightful, and the presentation was even more successful than last year’s effort by the party, who hail from the Wanganui district.

Station 2YA (Wellington) will commence a record run this morning, when it is due to come on the air at 10.30 to broadcast from the Radio Exhibition. It will continue without intermission until 10.30 p.m., and at 11 o’clock will commence a second presentation of the Maori pageant, “Hawaiki Calling.” This reproduction, which will occupy until later than 1.45 a.m., is being made for the benefit of listeners in the Islands. 3YA, Christchurch, will rebroadcast the entertainment.

At the social in the Howard Hall. Arundel, on Saturday evening, a very pleasant time was spent. Miss Bremner was successful in winning the ladies’ prize, and Mr W. Foster the men’s, while Miss F. McDonald and Mr T. Lysaght secured consolation prizes. Miss Harris won the ladies’ aggregate for three nights, and Mr W. Ashby the men’s. Miss R. Ashby and Messrs J. Charles, R. Johnston, and A. Popple well supplied dance music, and Mr W. Foster controlled the floor.

A cable message from Sydney reports that in the New Zealand League team meeting the Country team at Armidale to-morrow, Wetherill will play inside five-eights in place of Dodds. The coach (Arthur Hennessy) considers the team to be the strongest so far fielded. Dufty is not playing. Dobbs had his foot X-rayed, and the doctor informs him he will be unable to walk for a month. He is now on crutches, and returns to New Zealand by the Maunganui on Friday of next week.

“Any person who has not visited the township of Waimate for two or three years,” stated a writer in the “Hex*ald,” on July 16, 1870, “would be surprised, and at the same time pleased, to observe the substantial progress of the place during that period. Three yeai*s ago it was with difficulty that the township could be distinguished from the surrounding country, but now we find it containing several buildings of considerable size, and some of them of very creditable architectural appearance.”

An assertion that drinking at marriage ceremonies was one of the ways in which young people, including many belonging to the churches, firet learned to take intoxicating liquor, was made before the Auckland Presbytery by the Rev. W. J. Comrie, president of the New Zealand Alliance. He said in this matter ministers had a grave responsibility. Temperance supporters, he said, had been laying undue stress on the result of the vote and neglecting education on the benefits of abstinence and the cultivation of a moral sentiment against the use of alcohol as a beverage. Members of presbytery agreed that grave results sometimes followed from the custom of drinking at weddings, and it was agreed to ask the temperance committee to consider whether a circular should be prepared and supplied to ministers concerning this custom.

A meeting of the Committee of the Inventors’ Association was held in the secretary’s office on Thursday. Present:—Mr G. J. Wallace (in the chair), Messrs M. Rolls, T. Riddler, A. A. E. Pennefather. It was moved by Mr Rolls, seconded by Mr T. Riddler, and carried, that the Association be called “The New Zealand Inventors’ Association (incorpoi-ated).” The objects of the Association were defined as follows: —To protect the interests of all inventors, who are members of the Association, by:—(1) Giving advice to inventors with regard to their inventions; (2) taking out patents for members if they so desire; (3) assisting inventors in the marketing of their inventions; (4) endeavouring to assist inventors in the protection of their inventions; (5) assisting in perfecting the patent laws so as to give the greatest protection to inventors; (6) promoting international uniformity in patent laws. The membership fee was fixed at £l/1/- on joining. The officers are to consist of a president, two vice-presidents, and a committee of three, with president and secretary ex officio.

Many and varied, useful and useless, are the gadgets that scientists and inventors have inti-oduced into the home to save modem mothers labour. Among the most notable we may mention men’s watches, which are guaranteed to keep the baby quiet for hours at a stretch, and razors which are deucedly handy for peeling potatoes and paring corns. But, to be serious, there is one worth while addition a wise man will make to his household—the “Acme” wringer, it needs no effort to turn, needs no oiling, and has reversible mangle and draining boards. Price from 30/- at England, Mcßae's