LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 125, 21 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

» —: Taking the Bisk. ‘‘You all seem to barge on and take the risk,” said the Magistrate at New Plymouth to a motorist charged with cutting a corner. Th© motorist explained that he had cut the corner in order to avoid a collision with another car coming across his track, but the Magistrate said he saw no reason why the defendant should not have stopped instead of cutting the corner. A Record Sized Pumpkin. At the Poverty Bay Winter Show this week the heaviest pumpkin was a mammoth weighing 18811bs. The judges declared, they had never seen or heard of a pumpkin of equal weight. The second heaviest was a com-parative-dwarf. It Weighed only 1621 lb., but that was 111 b. over thoiwoight of the heaviest pumpkin in last year’s show. A pumpkin just a few ounces short of 131 stone is something to crow about. Damaged Gable. Twenty-one reels of aluminium cable, imported by the Public Works Department some months ago from Canada, were returned to the manufacturers from Dunedin by the steamer Canadian Challenger. The cable, after being unloaded at a New Zealand port, was conveyed to the hydro-electric works at Waitaki. It was found that the cable was pitted,.probably through the action of sea water, and it was therefore not suitable for the purpose for which it was imported. Building of Small Shops Overdone? Opinions were expressed by counsel at yesterday’s sitting of the Hawkes’ Bay Adjustment Court that the building of small shops in Na pier was being overdone, and that they would attract an undesirable class of tenant. In one application the mortgagees opposed the plans of a proposed building on the grounds that the shops would be too small. Counsel for applicant pointed out. that the extra shops would provide more revenue, to which his Honour said in reply: e The mortgagees want to sete decent shops erected and you want to put up dog-boxes. ’ ’ The Retort Courteous! Miss E JameSi who is leaking a. walking tour from North Cape to Bluff, raised a laugh at a reception at Geraldine recently, says, the Timaru Herald. Describing the beginning of her tour, she said that in due course she t’eached the Ninety Mile Beach, where she was 'introduced to “Wizard” Smith, who. when he heard that she proposed ’to walk 1600 miles, said, “Go home to bed—you will never do it’: ” When she reached Wellington she. sent him a note 'stating that she had walked 900 miles, and asking what ho had done as far as records were concerned. Fire At Kiritaki. During the absence from home of the family the seven-roomed residence of Mr S. B. Fairbrother, farmer, at Maharahara, was, with its contents, destroyed by fire between 3 and 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. Only a few small articles of bedding were saved. Mr Fairbrother was in Dannevirke attending a meeting of directors of the Maharahara Dairy Factory and Mrs Fairbrother was also in Dannevirke. Two boys, aged 12 and 13, though on the farm, were some distance from the house atf the time of the outbreak. From a hill they saw smoke and flames coming from the kitchen and immediately went for help, but owing to the absence, of a water supply nothing could be done to extinguish the flames. Next Friday sees the opening of the most extensive and exclusive collection of model gowns and millinery yet. shown 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.