LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17388, 28 March 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The S.S. Rangitoto leaves Thames to-morrow at noon."

The staff of Hetherington's, Ltd., Hamilton, has decided to form a Sports Club for the inter-house competitions. Mr. Sexton, who is well known in Thames, was elected president, Mr. Hodder secretary, and Mr. Fendell treasurer. It was decided to enter a ladies' and men's basket ball team. Tango and black were decided upon as the Club's colours.

A rather humorous incident occurred at a school recently, when a certain gentleman teacher, while trying to remonstrate with children who were swinging on the school gates, in rapping on the window to draw the attention of the scholars, exercised too much vigour in doing so, and broke the windows, to the delight of the children.

The magazine of the Navy is being sent to over 700 schools in the Auckland province. The balancesheet of the Auckland branch of the League showed a credit balance of £846. There was an excess of expenditure over income of £Bl/14/-. the total revenue for the year being £7OO/12/-. ,_■

It is understood that the procedure in the matter of serving summonses tor debt will come into operation on April 1, when all debtors living outside a four-mile radius from the Court may be served by post. All Thames cricket matches, which have been postponed for the last two weeks, will carry on as usual on Saturday. Tararu will meet City and High School will play United, with Karaka having- the bye. "After a hundred successes some slight errors of judgment may be made, and the Government is considered to be no good/", said Hon. A. 1). M-cLeod at Waingaro durmg his recent tour of itaglan County. "After all we are only human and while fair criticism is reasonable the accusations we *o often hear of deliberate attempts to obstruent progressive measures are most unreasonable and discouraging to us."Of interest to sportsmen are the newest shooting regulations which provide that duck shooters must now peg out their stands much in the same way as mining'claims are pegged out, a board carrying the name of the shooter and the number of his license having to he planted on the place where he intends to establish his •'possie," on any lake or-other site. One stand, one'gun, one shooter, is the new regulation.