LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19686, 18 April 1936, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Young Draughts Champion. The New Zealand draughts championship was won yesterday by an 18-year-okl Dunedin player, R. Weir. Borough Council Anniversary. The first meeting of the Thames Borough Council was held 02 years ago on April 15, 1874. Mails Arrive in London. Mails which left Wellington on March 17, via Su* Francisco, arrived in London on the 15th instant. Ngatea Bey’s Accident. While taking part in a football practice this week, a Ngatea High School boy, Ivan Laurence, had his collarbone broken. He is reported to be making satisfactory progress.

Labour's “Ticket’’ for Election. The Paeroa branch of the Labour

Party nominated a “ticket” for the Paeroa School Committee, as did the Thames branch locally. In both towns indications are that more than the usual amount of interest will be taken In the elections.

Flooding at Matatoki. Communicating with Mr. J. Thorn, M.P., stating that the Public Works engineer at Paeroa waS preparing a report on the Tuhitahi and Warahoe stream flooding, the Minister for Public Works added that it is the intention to make a comprehensive investigation of the whole position. A definite scheme of improvements will be evolved to deal with the problem of flooding in all the area on the western side of the railway line.

Escapees Recaptured. Another one of the five youths who escaped from the Werarou Training Farm this week was captured by tlio Devin police yesterday. Three were caught on Thursday and the search is still being made for the fifth escapee. Cruelty To Cows Alleged. Following complaints of cruelty to boner cows through the animals being driven along hard roads, the executive of the Auckland branch of the -New Zealand Farmers' Union has decided to again ask the Kailway Department to reduce the rate on such cows sent from the Waikato to Westfie d. One member said that evidence could be had at the freezing works which would show that road-driven stock arrived displaying less injury than stock that had been railed. Museum on the Move. "I expect that the whole of the contents of the museum will be transferred to the new building in a week or so,” said the director, Dr. W. It. B. Oliver) in Wellington. Four lorries, and some 15 men (of the Post and Telegraph Department) have been .employed for over a week now in moving the collection of 70 years from the

existing museum to the new building. A good deal of the contents of the old museum building consists of mountains of Parliamentary debates, appendices and Gazettes, which used to be sent by other departments to the museum for safe-keeping. Such papers do not rightly belong to a museum, and as there is no record of

anyone ever having looked at them, it is probable that a good proportion of them will be destroyed.

Journalism in New Zealand. Mew Zealand journalism is held in high repute in Australia, where there are plenty of opportunities for ambitious young M'ew Zealand writers, stated a prominent Ausralian journalist on his arrival at Wellington. Ho was Mr. A. MeCay. special-article writer on the Sydney “Sun.” ‘‘During the last 30 years the contribution made by M'ew Zealand to Austra'ian journalism has been first-class, ’ said „Mr. McCay. ‘‘Your journalists who have come across the Tasman hu\o all made good in Australia. I do not know one who has not. That applies not only to the past but to to-day. Any man who has won his spurs in the Dominion need have no fears about trying his luck in the Commonwealth.' 1 He named many M’ew Zealanders, both past and present, who had risen high in the Australian newspaper world.