LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15033, 2 September 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.—Fuller.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co.’s dried milk factories at Waharou and Waitoa commenced operations last night. Community singing was held in the Empire Theatre at Morrinsville last night. Many persons were present. Messrs P. W. Maddock and R. Cook, both of Hamilton, acted as leader and accompanist respectively. During the evening which proved a great success, Mr. .Maddock related short stories which highly amused the audience. A petition signed by 24 residents of Papanui was presented to the Christchurch City Council, asking that a lethal chamber might be established immediately for tiie humane destruction of animals, and that the present system of drowning the animals m disinfectant might be abolished. The Mayor (states the Christchurch Press) said that the Council had already decided to provide a lethal chamber. Mr .T. Gilbert, Hamilton, lias been appointed chief agent for the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Ltd., in the Waikato. Messrs House and Baking, Ltd., have pleasure in announcing the re-opening of their Dressmaking Department on Monday next, the 4th September, under the supervision of Miss Melndoe, who will give personal attention to all orders.* The Fourth Battalion Regimental Band, under the baton of Lieut. A. Salter, will play a programme of popular music at file hospital to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon. There is nothing so infectious as a cold. Stop it at once with a dose of Bonntngton’s Irish Moss or It may go right through the family. 1/6 and 2/6. 31

An incipient'fire occurred in a house at a residence owned by Mrs Quick,'in Clyde street, between Grey Street and the river, shortly before iO o’clock last night. The brigade was quickly on the scene, and quelled the flames before much damage was done. The building was insured for £SO. A meeting of Labourites was held in Hamilton last night. The atten-’ dance was only fair. It is understood that the party intends to put up a candidate against Mr J. A. Young for the Hamilton seat at the forthcoming election. The selection will, in all probability, be made in about a fortnight’s time.

The war against straying catUe which is carried on by the New Plymouth borough inspector is having embarrassing results—the animals impounded are costing too much to feed, and the fees are not high enough to cover the cost.

It is the intention of Mr W. H. Field’s supporters in Levin to entertain him t at an early date in recognition of liis work for that portion of his electorate. Under the alteration in. the electoral boundaries, Levin is no longer a portion of Mr Field’s district.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by John Batters, of Matamata, labourer. His schedule shows debts totalling £l2O 8s 6d, and assets at £2OO 5s 6d, including-18 cords of wood, £l3 10s book debts, £36 15a (id, and 200,000 ft. of timber, £l5O. There is no real estate, and there are no secured creditors. The first meeting of creditors is called for next Friday at Matamata.’ The Main Trunk express has beer£ the subject of several questions in Par-f Lament this season. The Minister of Railways stated yesterday that there was no prospect of a' second express being put on again until railway finances changed materially. It cost £450 to run the express from Auckland to Wellington, and records showed thaW another train was not justified. -It was absolutely out of the question at the' present time. At Auckland, yesterday, the girl who recently gave unexpected birth to a child in a motor launch on the Whau River, Daisy Christina Ireland, aged 15 years and 10 months, was charged that on August 6, by omission to perform or observe a legal duty, she caused Ihe death of her female infant child. Cecil Nathaniel Williams, whose age was given as 22, was charged in connection with the affair. Mr Allan Moody (for the accused) 1 said that the young man had married the girl in the case, and they were nowhusband and wife. The couple were remanded for one week, being released on their recognisance. At Thames Police Court yesterday R. L. Harvey, the licensee of ths Warwick Arms Hotel, was fined £2 on two charges of breaches' of the Licensing Act by selling liquor after hours, and \T. M. Patterson, P. J. Pitt, and H. Hodd were each fined a similar amount for being on licensed premises after closing hours. The evidence showed that the three last named defendants were staying at the Shortland Hotel, but being unable to obtain liquor, went to the Warwick Arms, booked bed and breakfast, and secured liquor, after consuming which they returned to the Shortland Hotel, where they stayed the night. The Magistrate (Mr J. H. Salmon) pointed out that the fact of them booking rooms at the Warwick Arms in such a case as this did not clear them from Ihe charge of a breach of the Act, it being only an attempt, to evade the. ■ , law.