LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14820, 7 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The more defenceless and humble the creature, the greater the merit of treating it kindly. _. Orchards on the West Coast (South, Island) are suffering from the depredations of the flsheye, a diminutive hut voracious bird. » The two little girls, Francis Symons, and Norma Garland, admitted to the hospital on Friday evening suffering from fractured skulls, arc still in much the same condition as when brought in. At the Hamilton West School proficiency examination, 75 pupils were presented. Certificates of Proficiency were obtained by 72 pupils and Competency by 2. Leslie Hobbs, son of the late Ser-geant-Major Hobbs, of Hamilton, has been awarded a Trcntham Scholarship of the value of £4O per annum. A bursary of £3O has been awarded to George Bluck, Te Awamutu. So much enjoyment is secured by the numerous bathers who visit the Hamilton Lake, out of the raft anchored a short distance out, that the Domain Board has decided to procure a second one. A Wanganui dairyman told a reporter that the present had been one of the best seasons he had ever experienced. Feed was abundant, "and, in fact," he added, "there is enough milk being produced in this district daily to flout a battleship." A youth of 17, named Samuel Casely, of Huntly, was charged before Mr Justice Stringer at Hamilton, to-day, with committing rape on a girl of 15, and alternately with carnally knowing a girl under the age of consent. The jury, after a short retirement, threw out the first charge and returned a verdict of guilty on the second. Sentence was postponed. Mr B. H. Norllicroft appeared for accused. At about 10 a.m. on a recent Sunday, the police received information that a gang of men after hanging about a certain building in Hereford street, Christchurch, had quietly vanished within its portals. Two constables were quickly on the scene, and proceeded to take up strategic positions. One remained outside, while his comrade stole quielly into the building, to find, not a "two-up" school in full swing, but some thirty-odd members of the Chrislchurch Licdertafel placidly sitting for a group photograph. A special millinery sale for ten days only is advertised at McElwee's, Victoria Street, just over the railway line. Shoppers are advised to avail themselves of the striking oportunities which are available, at this leading house. A special discount of 3s in the £ is offered off the balance of the large stock of charming dials at McElwee's. To be able to produce to-aay silk hosiery that is absolutely guaranteed ladder-proof will appear to all wearers of these goods as a great boon. We will test these goods in our hosiery department to all customers interested, who will at once see the great advantage to be obtained from wearing genuine ladder-proof hose. Excellent quality of silk in black, 23s 6d pair. Money refunded if our guarantee does not hold good. Hooker and Kingston, Ltd., Hamilton's Famous Hosiery House.* Sharland's Tomato sauce makes a eood addition to Soups and Gravies. It makes them richer and more appetising. (5)

The Hamilton Gun Club will hold a £IOO clay pigeon shoot at Ruakura tomorrow. Entries have been received from many parts of the North Island and from as far south as Christchurch, and a successful meeting is assured. Shooting will commence at 10 aim. At a meeting of the Waikato Central A. and P. Association this week it was decided that trie association should carry out its proposal of leasing for five years with a cumpulsory purchasing clause the showgrounds pro-* perty at Cambridge. In the report of the Auckland Show Mr W. J. Chynowcth, of Cambridge, was credited with winning a number of prizes in grade Jerseys. This was an error. Mr Chynoweth only exhibited pedigree animals, and all his prizes should have appeared under that section. The price for the best hides at yesterday's sales at Auckland were slightly firmer than those obtained at the previous sales. Faulty and second quality, however, brought no demand, and were passed in at very low prices. Cow skins and yearlings were firm at late rates, while there was little or no demand for sheep skins, only a few of which were sold, the majority being passed in. A meeting of the congregation of the Frankton Methodist Church was held in the church last night to tender a welcome to Rev. L. A. G. Brooks. Mr L. Hames, circuit steward, presided, and was supported by his co-steward, Mr R. Bell. Speeches of welcome .were given by Revs E. 0. Blamires, and E. T. Olds and Mr H. Major, and items were contributed by Mr Gilling apd Mrs Carless. Mr Brooks suitably responded, and the ladies provided supper. ■ * The public will be given a treat in the way of entertainment on Thursday in the Strand Theatre, when Thos. Elmac Lucey, the American entertainer, will make his first appearance in Heir Zealand under engagement with the Hamilton Municipal Band, proceeds being in aid of "Uniform and Instrument Fund. Professor Lucey is making a 60*000 miles tour of the world and arrived in Auckland on Monday last, direct from a six weeks successful tour of Canada. The clearing and ploughing of- the triangular piece of ground situated between the croquet lawn, gasworks, and Clarence street, was moved by Mr R. Parr, at a meeting of the Hamilton Domain Board, last night, but an amendment was moved by Mr D. Hay that the matter be left over for consideration by the committee to meet the children's playgrounds committee. He moved in this direction, he said, because he thought that any expenditure should be considered very carefully at the present time, in view of the expense of labour, and that no work not of an urgent nature should be undertaken. The amendment wag carried. "The fence on the Cook street side of Steele Park is disappearing little by little," said Mr J. R. Fow, at a meeting of .the Hamilttm Domain Board, last night. "It was deplorable," he added, that the property of the Board should be stolen in this way, and that the appearance of the grounds on a main arterial road should be thus spoiled. The Board decided to put the matter in the hands of the police, and also to have the fence repaired. It was further decided to have the main gate painted, and to ask the - people resident in the neighbourhood to act as a vigilance committee for the protection of public property in their locality. It was considered there were a number of responsible public men in Hamilton East, who would doubtless be only too pleased to act . in this capacity. An address to business men was delivered by Mr'Paul E. Derrick, at the Nottingham Rotary Club's luncheon recently. Advertising, he said, was the only means by which mass opinion could be influenced. They would find that selling costs would go down in proportion to the goodwill of the public towards" an article. "Get an article just a little better than someone else, and then tell the world about it," was hi motto for business men. If a man could make a mousetrap better than anyone else he could, after advertising the fact betake himself to the middle of the Sahara desert if he chose, but the world'sbuyers would make a pathway to him. Advertising was a creative power; It found new buyers and, developed business with the old ones; it was not merely an aid, or a stimulant, it was business itself.