LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 123, 19 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Slates Not Sound Economy! As an economy measure, a request was made to the Wanganui Education Board yesterday by the Patea School Committee that slates be re-introduced into the schools. The board declined for health reasons. Bankruptcy of Sawmiller. •Tames Alexander McCulloch, sawmiller. of Onga Onga, has been adjudicated a bankrupt on a creditor’s petition by the Waipawa County Council. The Official Assignee at Napier is 1 also in receipt of a petition in bank- / ruptcy filed by Ernest Robert Corson, baker, of Hastings. “Ten Acres And Cow.” Messrs J. Hobson and J. G. Wilson have been appointed an advisory committee in connection with the “ten acres and a cow” scheme as applied to the Hatuma district, for the assistance of the unemployed. Messrs C. Dalby and W. D. Fleming have agreed to accept in a similar capacity at Fleming. 163 Families Receive Rations. The staff of the Dannevirkc unemployment relief depot, which was opened on Tuesday was kept busily occupied from 10 a.m. till 4 o’clock, closing time, attending to the requirements of their customers. No fewer than 163

families, representing 627 persons, wore supplied with meat and vegetables, also orders for bread. Children Return to Napier. The children from the Hawke’s Bay earthquake area who have been eared for at the Community Sunshine League’s camp at Motuihi Island will leave Auckland for their homes this afternoon. There are 95 children at present on the island, the last party of 65 having arrived from Napier at the end of February. Hatuma Hall. At a meeting of the Hatuma Domain Board held on Wednesday evening tenders wore received from the following for the erection of a public hall: R. Woodburn £790, A. .T. Smith £715 10s, Ronner and Bendeich £639, Lorrimer and Lyons £636 Ils Id, W. A. Chambers £620, — Sinclair £604 10s, J. Winlove and Sons £598, H. Williamson £595, J. Hill £573. Mr Hill’s tender was accepted. Work will commence in a few davs.

Waipukurau Theft Charge.

In the Waipukurau Court this morning. before Mr E. J. Turner, J.P., a local solicitor, remanded from May .12, appeared on a charge of failing to account for a sum of £250, thereby committing theft. On the application of Detective Farquharson, a further remand till May 31 was granted. An application for the continued suppression of accused’s name was granted. Bail was renewed on the following terms: Self £4OO. with two sureties of £2OO each. Scout Demonstration. Under the auspices of the Waipukurau Troop of Boy Scouts a demonstration is to be held in St. Mary’s Hall to-morrow (Friday) night at 730 o’clock, when the Wolf Cubs will make their appearance followed by the older boys in a display of various features of their training. An address is to be delivered by the District Commissioner (Mr J. B. H. Cooksey, of Rissington), and this will be of special interest not only to the lads but their parents as well as other citizens interested in the Scout movement, whose presence will be welcomed by the committee. Kerosene Should Be Used. The habit of handling petrol with a careless disregard of its extremely inflammable quality was the subject of a general warning by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at Hamilton on Monday, when considering the death of a child through burns resulting from the ignition of petrol, with which the child’s father was cleaning his. motor car. A flash from a short circuit caused by the blade of the cleaning knife ignited the petrol. Had kerosene been used for the cleaning there would have been no tragedy, stated the Coroner. Kerosene was the customary fluid, he said, for cleaning cars. It was cheap and effective, but the familiarity which breeds contempt had caused the child’s father to use benzine.

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