LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 121, 17 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

McHardy Home Re-Opening The McHardy Maternity Home is to be re-established immediately by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board, according to a decision arrived at- by that body yesterday afternoon. It was decided that only approved cases be admitted after the strictest inquiry into all the circumstances of each case, and that no increase in fees be made at the present time in view of the board’s attempts to reduce the general costs of its services to the public. Fighting Among Themselves!

Father Moriarty, of Edgecliff, New t South Wales, who returned to Sydney ./ last. week, by the E.M.S. Narkunda, after a business and holiday trip to Ireland, would not comment on the oath argument,there, but said the people were happy enough in the Free State. ‘ ‘ When the Free State was proclaimed,’’ he chuckled, “one lady was heard to exclaim, ‘Well, the English have gone, have they? Faith, well now we’ll bo able to fight among ourselves in peace.”

Farmers’ Unemployment Levy

“A fellow on the relief works is better off than I am, ’ ’ complained an Ekctahuna farmer who appeared in. the Pahiatua Magistrate’s Court charged with failure to pay the quarterly un- ' employment levy of ss. It was stated that the defendant had not paid the levy since December 1930. The defendant told the Court that he was a married man and was living on his credit. The magistrate said that the levy was only a small amount and that defendant must make an effort to pay. A fine of 10s was imposed. Lower Sugar Prices. A decrease of 10s a ton in the price of sugar is announced by the Colonial Sugar Relining Company, Limited. All grades of refined sugar, except tablet y and icing sugar, are affected by the reduction, although the prices of golden syrup and treacle remain unchanged. The new prices for sugar are as follow. Brewers’ crystals, £2l 5s a ton; No. 1 coarse grain, £2O 10s; No. 1A 1 fine grain. £l9 15s; No. 2 soft, £l9 ss; No. 3 yellow ration, £lB ss; castor

sugar, £1 3s per cwt.; invert sugar, in casks, £l7 15s a ton.

Large Halo Around Moon.

An unusually pronounced lunar halo was seen in Auckland on Sunday evening in the northern sky, a golden-hued ring of large dimensions attracting considerable attention from many observers. Mr H. M. Vincent stated that the phenomenon was due to the refraction of the rays of the moon through innumerable ice particles in cirrus clouds, and was only visible in this type of cloud, taking place at about seven miles above the earth. Occasionally two discs can be seen at opposite angles, when the rare phenomenon of mock moons oi' mock suns is witnessed. The occurrence is usually, a prelude to stormy weather, as it denotes a great variation in the temperature between the upper layer of air and that at the surface.

It is required by the Public Trustee •that all claims against the estate of the late Mr W. H. Davey be lodged at the District Public Trust Office on or before the 18th priximo. Claims in the estates of .Tames G. Syme and Allan D. Syme, are also due on the same date.

Next Friday sees the opening of the most extensive and exclusive collection of model gowns and millinery yet shewn in Hawke’s Bay. A shipment of goods is being opened from the leading gown and millinery houses of London and the Continent which we confidently assert cannot be bettered for style or price in New Zealand. Be sure and see our first showing- on Friday, March 4th—MATHEWSONS LTD., 34 Memorial Square, Napier, Phone 747.