LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3157, 7 November 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday marked the completion of the first year of Mr Herbert Hoover’s Presidency of the United States of America. In continuation of his work of placing Bibles in the bedrooms of the leading hotels in New Zealand, for the use of the travelling public, the Rev. David Calder, Dominion secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, is visiting Dunedin. Mr Calder estimates that up to the present he has distributed 3000 Bibles, and by Easter, or perhaps a little later, he considers that 5000 will have been placed. The following extract is from a leading New York newspaper: “An unusual specimen of a dog, called an Australian goose hound, has been received from that country by Dr Hearle of Minneapolis. This strange creature was ordered in January last, and has been hold in quarantine thirty days. It has a bill like a duck’s, webbed feet, and a flat beaver-like tail. Instead of barking it honks like a goose. It is very friendly, and the doctor thinks it will make a nice pet for children. Strange to say, the hound sleeps under water, and is very fond of craw daddies.” In other words, a platypus has arrived in Minneapolis. “I think we are very fortunate in Dunedin in having the body of men who comprise the police force here,” said Mr H. Halliday at the annual meeting of the Otago Motor Club. “ They administer the law, but with a great deal of generosity. They do not rub it in. Very often the police warn the motorists, and that is a very gratifying way of stopping dangerous driving. We once thought speed’was the dangerous element, but we now agree that it is not speed, but cutting corners and doing other absurd things that are dangerous. By warning motorists the police obtain their objective quicker than through the Police Court.” “Australia resembles a flapper of 15, ’ ’ said Mr Lcitch who, with his wife gave a reception at Australia House in honour of Archbichop and Mrs Head, “and like a flapper, she wants everything she can think of, and wants it immediately. But 1 believe she will develop into a fine woman,” he added. Excellent entries in all grades have been received for the Dominion baud contest, to be held in Dunedin from February 22 to March 1, 1930. Mr C. Smith, of Auckland, has been appointed judge of selections and quicksteps, and Mr A. Schnack, of Christchurch, judge of the solos. On Friday last a phenomenal storm occurred early in the afternoon at ■Whitehall. The storm came up rapidly and burst with tremendous fury. The rain was most remarkable, more in the nature of a cloud-burst and though it lasted only about twenty minutes, during that short period the whole country side was flooded. Mr E. A. May’s farm seemed to be in the centre of the storm and it is estimated the the rainfall during about twenty minutes totalled an inch and a half. Mr May declares he has never before seen anything like such a severe rainfall. It was just as though the whole heavens had opened and the rain fell in a deluge. The flood water ran down the hillsides and flooded the low-lying country. In some parts of Mr May’s property the flood water, in a few minutes mounted to the fourth wires of the fences. Although the storm was all over Whitehall, many parts escaped with nothing more marked than a sudden shower. “Do not ask me for an opinion on how the wool market is going to go,” smilingly remarked Sir Alexander Roberts, head of the firm of Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., in the course of a chat with a Poverty Bay Herald reporter. “If I could tell with confidence what is likely to.happen in that market, my firm would clean up in a couple of years, and we could afford to go out of business and leave things to our competitors. As it is, we' are hoping for the best, as every one else in the business is.” Sir Alexander mentioned that the past three or four years had been most serious in their effect on some of the oldest and most stable businesses in the Homeland wool trade, and the firms could not go on losing money for an indefinite period.

Particulars of train arrangements and issue of special excursion tickets in connection with the Waikato Agricultural Show at Claudelands on 13th and 14th November arc advertised in this issue. “If the promise is carried out to give a first-class road between. Rotorua and Taupo I am quite satisfied with the stoppage of the railway,” said Mr C. H. Clinkard (Government —Rotorua) in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night. “I am saying that on behalf of the great majority of people in the Rotorua electorate.” ;

The Hamilton Horticultural Society holds its annual rose show on Tuesday next, 12th inst. at the Hamilton Town Hall, as advertised. A liberal prize list is announced and copies of schedules can be secured free on application to the secretary. It is hoped Cambridge growers will compete at this show, as competition from neighbouring towns stimulates interest. Entries definitely close on Monday next at 12 o’clock.

When listening in to wireless at his home at Waihi on Tuesday evening Mr Daniel L. Wilson (55), an old resident of Waihi, suddenly expired from a heart attack. Mr Wilson had been employed -for a lengthy period as a fitter in the Waihi Company’s workshops. He leaves a widow and grown up family. He had been suffering with his heart for some years and was receiving medical attention.

A new vegetable recently introduced into New Zealand —a nine-headed broc-coli-—has been tried out in Cambridge. Lapt year a resident of Leamington purchased several plants from Mr G. Martin, the local horticulturist, and the manner in which they “headed” up surprised the grower—several of the plants having not nine, but “nineteen’’ heads on them, varying from slbs to lOlbs in weight.

The egg-producers of the Auckland Province have increased their export of eggs by 100 per cent, as compared with last season by totals to date of 600 crates, of 30 dozen each, shipped on the Rotorua, and 300 crates on the Corinthic. In addition, another 300 to 400 crates will be railed to the latter vessel at Wellington on November 19, making a total export, for 1929 of approximately 1300 crates. This is 800 crates in excess of last year’s shipments.

The district public will note as advertised elsewhere in this issue that Mr Bernard A. Meyer, M.P.S., a well-known ex-Cambridge resident, has returned to his home town to establish a new Pharmacy in Cambridge. This latest new business for Cambridge is situated in Victoria Street, and will open to-mor-row (Friday). Mr Meyer is well-known in Cambridge and during the past two and a-half years has been in various parts of the Dominion gaining experience in his profession. The now business is furnished with the most modern fittings, which will do justice to the ”'ide range of high-class stocks. The Dispensary is fitted with modern equipment ami stocks of pure drugs, assuring an efficient prescription service. All fears of a serious early dry season, with accompanying effects upon the harvest, have now been set at rest in this district. The heavy rains of a few days ago followed by the humid conditions and the. warm rainfall this week will ensure an abundant hay crop of the best quality. Since the breaking of the dry spell about a fortnight ago the growth of the pastures throughout the district has been truly amazing, and farmers, especially dairymen, are jubilant at the prospects. All the dairy factories report heavy increases in supply and although additional accommodation has been provided in some instances, the vat facilities will be taxed to their utmost. Some idea of the returns from herds may be gained from one Bruntwood farmer’s happy experience. With 125 cows on 150 acres, he was receiving 52001bs milk daily about a fortnight ago, which will be appreciated as a very good performance. It will bo recognised that the farm is heavily stocked, but the farmer is not sparing with topdressing, no doubt the secret of his success. It will be noted, in an advertisement elsewhere in this issue, that the local Ex-Servicemen’s Association invites all ranks, relatives and friends to accept an invitation of the local picture management to attend a free screening of the Armistice service in London last year. This special screening will be given on Monday morning next (Armistice Day) commencing at 10.45. The entertainment, which promises to be most interesting, will be preceded by suitablo music reproduced by the “talkie” plant, and at 11 o’clock the two minutes silence will be observed. After this a “talkie’ ’reproduction will be tendered of the Armistice service in London last November. With eight massed bands playing, together with the various incidents associated with the ceremony, and remarks by His Majesty the King, a realistic impression of London’s ceremony will bo conveyed. The screening is a compliment to ex-service-men, but everyone is invited.