LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17449, 11 October 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Waikato Hospital fee of 12/- per day board chaigos. .The contractors for the painting of the Thames Hospital completed then cont,™ to-day Sell wKW» «•» eat,mated time. Heartv laughter was caused by Mr. Crawford Vaughan, ex-Premier oi South Australia, in the couise address in Timaru recently, when lie said: “I believe you have some :erj promising politicians m Wellington, but thev are not as good as oms aie in Australia. They promise us the moon and the stars, and then send us home to lied in the daik. An Auckland resident recently purchased a baby motor—a diminutive model of a certain we.l-known English make. As he proposed to move from the property, he built a garage on skids to suit the car, so that, if necessary, he could transfer the - building to another section. However, during the fecenr gale the garage was lifted bodily off the car and was completely wrecked.

In the report of a. judgment summons case Fraucis Grubb v. Gay Challis. the amount was stated to be £ls/9/- and costs £6/9/-, whereas the amount owing 'and for which a judgment order was obtained should have been £6/9)-. the amount of £lO having been paid to Mr. Grubb direct.

Tho N.S.S. Company will run an excursion to Auckland next Saturday to the Auckland trotting meeting, leaving Thames at 6.15 a.nr. (not 6.25 a.m. as advertised), and returning cn Monday afternoon. It is a coincidence that the elections in New Zealand and Australia will be conducted cn the same day, November 14.

Alotorists are concerned over the state of the western approach to the Hauraki Bridge. The ruts are so deep that car differential cases touch the ground and in one case the oil-drip under a car engine was torn off by the high ground between the ruts. Some attention requires to be made at once by reducing the ridges and filling in the ruts.

A good story is l , being told about a well-known Te Awamutu resident. It appears a district farmer had a couple of cows which escaped from the herd, and when located on a small island formed by the river adjoining the farm they each bad a calf. The farmer had difficulty in getting them to swim across, so be impressed the services of the Te Awamutu man, a lad and a boat./ Both calves were secured and transported, one cow swimming behind the boat. The other cow became excited and charged the boatmen when they returned. It is said the man. in anticipation of one charge, put up really >'emarkable time in a 40-yards dash, the final leap (said to be 16 feet) into the boat being a “real corker.”

So many imposters are engaged in tho calling of hawking that it is a wonder more complaints are not heard regarding their operations. It is high time that some protection was afforded the public, and especially women against the bullying or other objectionable methods of these gentry. It would be a good thing if hawking were absolutely prohibited. 'Hie police know very well that all sorts of scoundrels fall back upon this occupation, party to evade a charge of vagrancy, and partly to give themselves aii opportunity for the commissioning of further cranes.

Much amusement was caused by a story told by Air. L. Cohen in replying to tho toast of the “Bench and Bar,” sit the social of the real estate agents in Wanganui last week. On one oecaision be defended a man before Air. J. S. Barton, S.AI., who was present as a guest that evening. He lost the case and it afterwards appeared that the defendant had a previous conviction for a similar offence against him. When this fact was pointed out by the magistrate, the man said that be should not have been convicted on that occasion, but his lawyer had advised him to take a certain action. <! ‘Then you were badly advised by your lawyer,” said Air. Barton. “Yes,” agreed the defendant, “but the trouble is that the lawyer was yourself.” He was glad that the man , was convicted, said Mr. Cohen amid laughter, or he would not have had that story to tell against the magistrate.

What is the relation Ijetween main highway speed limits and the fashion among womenfolk of “buster cutting” their hair? A certain local hodv in the district, comprising farmers from various -parts of Waikato, apparently saw some analogy, for during; a discussion on speed limits one member suggested that conditions were changing in the direction of meeting a popular craze. A year or -so ago it was said the craze for“blister cuts” was foolish and deplorable, yet it was now almost universal among womenfolk. Local bodies could not curb the craze for motor speed any more than men could influence buster cuts. There was a roar of merriment when one # member referred to the general use among womenfolk of silk stockings and very short skirts. “We menfolk pooh-poohed the innovation, but we ail take a good look at them!”