LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 18 July 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Governor’s Visit Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Viseounltess Gtalway are to visit Waipukurau to-morrow, when they will be accorded a reception in the Municipal Theatre at 1.50 p.m. The business people are invited to close their premises from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. for the occasion. Lower Power Charge in Taranaki The New Plymouth Borough Council has unanimously deaided to reduce the charge for electric current for all lighting purposes by one penny a unit, as •from the half-yearly period commencing October 1. This will mean that for all commercial lighting the charge will be 7d a unit up to 50 units, and 6d from 51 up to 500 units, and the balance at sd, with a minimum charge of 1/6 a month, and a discount of Id per unit on all units consumed. For dwelling houses and places of worship the charge will be 6d a unit, with the same discount and the same minimum charge a monlth. A Woman as Stowaway When wharf labourers commenced ito remove cargo from the Marama on Tuesday in Sydney they discovered in the hold a woman -who appeared to be about 50 years of age. She had been four days without food ot water. She explained that she hoarded the Manama at Wellington and wandered round avoiding, the crew. She jumped

12 feet from a storeroom to cargo in the hioOd. and had hardily done so when someone closed ithe door, unwittingly imprisoning her. She had never been in Australia before and all her people were in New Zealand. She had suddenly taken it into her head to come to Australia. Case in a Million “This is a ease in a million,” said Dr Arthur Davies, an expert pathologist, at the inquest on a 16-year-old boy who died under an anaesthetic in Hospital, London. The boy was injured in a cycle accident', and a minor operation was being performed on his elbow when he stopped breathing. Dr Davies stressed the fact that every organ in the boy’sbody was (perfectly normal. It was> one of those extraordinarily rare cases in which there was absolutely no indication of the cause of death. “One might almost call it an ‘Act of Goa’,” he added. A verdict of “Death by misadventure” was recorded. Railway Station Incident

What might easily have been a seriious accident was averted by the

prompt action of a porter at the Waipukurau railway station yesterday. A woman, who was in one lof the carriages farewelling a friend, attempted to alight from the train when she discovered that' it was moving out of the station. Realising her danger, the porter jumped onto the carriage and stopped her, at the same time applying the Westinghouse brake and bringing the train to a standstill. A short time ago an elderly woman was killed at the Waipukurau railway station i® similar circumstances, when she attempted to alight from a moving train and fell under the wheels.

Wild Cat Kills Lambs. A midnight vigil of farmers armed with guns at Seiside, near Kendal (England) was described by Mr. John Dargue, a noted Westmorland sheep breeder, who, with others, had lost many lambs by worrying. Beagles, otter hounds and foxhounds had previously failed to pick up the scent of the marauder, so it was decided to lay in wait all night with firearms. At midnight', Mr. Dargue saw a dark object in the shadows which mounted a wall and crept along the top. He fired at twenty yards range and with a bound the animal disappeared. Next morning a huge cat was found with fatal gunshot wounds. Lamb killings have since ceased. Shepherds have identified the cat as one which had been living wild in the wood all the winter.