LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15035, 5 September 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Postal Department is calling tenders for the carrying out of mail services in the Hamilton district as from January 1 next. Particulars are obtainable from any Post Office. Som e half a dozen applicants were absolved from attendance as jurymen by Mr Justice Stringer at the Supreme Court sittings this morning. In one instance the applicant was over age, and the others had essential duties for attention. It is expected that the present session of Parliament will terminate about October 20, and that the elections will take plaoe during the last week in November or the first week in December.

"This has been the best dairying season for production that I have knoWn in 32 yeai'Sj" said Mr G; Godfrey Taylcr to a Walrarapa Age reporter. "The Konini Gompany, in 1921, made 102 tons of butter. This season, with just the same suppliers, they made 45 tons more." Hamilton Is to be represented in the next race for the Sanders Cup, the trophy donated to commemorate the heroic New Zealander of that name by Lord Jellicoe, for competition amongst "fourteen-footcr," one design sailing boats, as Mr Harold Martin of Hamilton East is engaged in building a very neat boat of the design indicated and intends competing for the cup. When dealing with directors' fees and the chairman's honorarium at the Whangarei Dairy Co.'s annual Meeting, one shareholder stated that he knew of a case in the Feilding district some years ago where a chairman of directors who had served faithfully and well for a lengthy period was voted the munificent sum of £1 Is. The recipient had the cheque framed and hung it up in his dining-room. At the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, this morning, only a very few civil cases came, before Mr H. A. Young, S.M. Judgment for plaintiff by default with costs was given in the following undefended civil cases: State Advances Superintendent v. Kathleen Wcstland Mcintosh (sued in respect of separate estate), £l4 18s 9d, costs £1 3s; H. R. Lister v. J. Batters, £l3 3s, costs £2 16s; Borough of Hamilton v. Keid and Wintle, £1 10s, costs 8s; J. Smith v. E, Vernall, £2 ss, costs £1 6s 6d. A paragraph published recently mentioned that a Paeroa man had inadvertently thrown seven £5 notes and his savings bank book into the Walhou river,in a bundle of newspapers which had served him as a tablecloth. Discovering two hours later what he had done, the loser made a fruitless search and gave the matter up as a bad job. On the following evening, however, a launchman happened to notice some floating papers, which on examination turned out to be six of the missing notes and the bank book. Thus the lucky owner got off with the loss of £5.

Cambridge Is now moving in the direction of having a siren fire alarm installed, for which the Fire Brigade have alrealy an amount in hand, approximately £25 (the proceeds from the recent citizens' dance): It has been decided to donate the net proceeds of the next community "sing," to be. held at Cambridge on Thursday evening, to the fund for the proposed alarm. The "sing" is to be the last one of the season in Cambridge. Mr P. W. Maddock, of Hamilton, has kind/y consented to act as leader. A fire alarm, such as a siren, is a long-felt want in Cambridge, the two bells in the town proving inadequate for alarm purposes.

A neighbours' quarrel, which led to the Supreme Court at Wellington, presented some unusual features. A wrong survey of the subdivisions of an old town acre, and the repeated demolition of a fence and brick wall erected on land the ownership of which was originally disputed, were not (relates the Dominion) entirely new grounds of litigation. But it is related, that, as the space between the houses was too small to permit, of broadside attacks on the wall, the defendants erected a haltering ram hung from the ceiling', and broke down (he wall by its aid through a window. Another unusual feature was the appearance in Court of counsel without a defence, because, lie staled,, his recently acquired clients had been acting, in breaking down the wall, on other legal advice, subsequently found not to be correct. This is just the lime that everyone is thinking about new curtains and we believe that when you see the new designs and fabrics and the new prices that Hooker and Kingston's will be the one store where you will buy them. The new Madras muslins are opened in either plain, smart-lace, or tasselled edge, and the new values make the furnishing of your windows this season less expensive. Charming .Madras muslin at 2s 7d, 2s 9d, and 3s lid per yard. Double width lace nets, a new production, at 3s 3d, 3s (id, and 3s 9d per yard. The popular easement cloths in creme grounds and thoroughly washable coloured borders in an extensive range of colourings, Is <i.sd per yard. Hooker and Kingston's, the famous store for curtain \ slue, Hamilton.*

In a Rugby game at Auckland, this morning, the Marist •fifteen (Hamilton) defeated Vermont Street by 9 points to 3 points. The Mauriceville Dairy Company, Ltd., has pai'l out £13,994 to suppliers during the season and has another £2600 to distribute. An alteration has been made hi the Presbvterian charge of St. Andrew's. Tamahere and Newstead, which have hitherto been worked from Hamilton, _ will In future be attached to the Home •>■ Mission charge 0 * Walkato East* with \ headquarters at Matangi. >. r^ A house at Huntly, burned to the ,' ground on Saturday night, was occupied by Mr. Geo. Groom and owned by Mrs Shaw, senior. The furniture is insured in the Victoria, and the house in the Sun Fire offices. The Hamilton Fire" Brigade was called out tliis morning at 3.15 to suppress an outbreak of Are .... in a wash-house at a house in Lake Road, occupied by Mr James Mullins, and owned by Mr J. Jebson. The building was almost totally destroyed when the Brigade reoeived the call, and oh their arrival it was impossible to do anything. The wash-house was valued at £25.

"The Prime Minister has asked for more production. The salvation of this country is entirely in the hands of the workers, and from close knowledge of the men engaged in the dairying industry, they are the greatest workers we have got."—Mr A. D. McLeod, at a luncheon at the Dominion Farmers' Institute at Wellington; When a case was oalled at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, counsel stated that the debtor had left his home and had not been heard of since. "He has a habit of doing that," added counsel, "when his debts begin to accumulate. He gets worried and disappears. That has occurred more than OhCe." When Greek meets Greek. Thus a witness of Gaelic extraction -in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth last , week concerning endeavours to obtain a reply to telegrams and letters to a land agent. "He sent him a long wire —cost three and sixpence-—and they had to pay for it at the other end; and he told them to 'please reply to future corresp'ondence.' " Asked by Lady Luke at the sitting of the V.D. Committee at Dunedin it she thought modern fashions rather tended to increase immorality, Dr. Emily Siedeberg said she thought the fashions were an index. The mental condition, she added, was at the bottom of the fashion. If morals were better, then dressing would be better. In reply to a question regarding jazz dancing, the doctor said that the ibvr dances she had seen seemed to be quite free from any suggestiveness. At the Police Court, Auoklandj yesterday, Queenie Harwood was arraigned on a charge of having ?)/s]£en her probation and aIBO being an idle and disorderly person. She pleaded guilty; Mr Cullen made a strong appeal for another chance for the girl, but Mr Poyntoh; SM., pointed out that she had been given every chance but had made no.,effort to redeem herself. The girl was sentenoed to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be consecutive. '

How will the decision of the National Assembly of the Church of England to issue a revised Prayer Book, "to be sanctioned by authority for optional use," affect the Church of the Pro-, vince. in New Zealand? Referring to this matter, the Auckland Churcli / Gazette states: —"If ,the alterations V| are sanctioned by Crown and Gonvo- | cation in England, as they probably * will be, they may be adopted in New 9 Zealand without any violation of the Constitution. The matter will, no doubt, be considered by our bishops and synods in due course." The Te Aroha branch of St. John Ambulance Association has decided in favour of the purchase of a motor ambulance, in order to make travelling on the hard and rough roads between Te Aroha and Hamilton as comfortable as possible for patients. A start, to raise the money was made on Friday With a sale of flowers. Mesdames F. Bliss, C. A. Arthur and G. F. McGirr, : assisted by a bevy, of young lady sellers, collected about £4O, and with donations, etc., the fund stands at £SO. Arrangements are now being made for organising entertainments throughout the district to augment the fund.

Apparently those wh'o seek the preelection of the Bankruptcy Court s.va not expert book-keepers. Aprop'os, one learned judge remarked that if a man. in business was a skilled book-keeper he would never reach the Bankruptcy Court, for his knowledge of accountancy would enable him to rectify financial mistakes before it was too late. At a meeting of creditors held in Wei- j lington the Official Assignee expressed ' the opinion that 75 per cent of the men who came before him should be. prosecuted for not keeping proper books. When asked for a financial statement they could not furnish cue. As to whether there was criminal intent—that was another thing. Margaret Williams, who has 197, "appearances" registered against her, was again arraigned at the Police Court at Auckland yesterday on a charge of being idle and disorderly. She had recently completed a three months' sentence, and had been twice charged since. Accused, who is 64 A years of age, had slept out one' night and had no money, and had then appealed to a policeman. The Magistrate, staled he could only impose a sentence of three months under-the charge of being idle and disorderly, but if she were arraigned as a rogue and vagabond she could be given a term of reformative treatment. . She was therefore remanded for a week to enable the charge' to be amended.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company has just landed and put into commission the latest model of an electric locomotive. This is being used for shunting and hauling railway waggons in the company's yards at Frankton Junction. It is a Goodman elec- ' trie locomotive of 50 nominal horsepower, and will pull 100 tons or about eight trucks; it has 126 A 8 type cells of 300 amp, hours with a capacity of 4(1 kilowatt hours; it brakes on all four wheels and reverses. A great feature about the locomotive is that It can be charged at night,' while the load en electric lines is easy, reducing running- costs considerably. Also at Frankton Junction Dairy Factory, a synchronous motor has been installed . for fire pump purposes, which at Hie \. same time corrects the power factor of i Dora Hora, saving- about 30 to -i0 per "* cent of all power. The Purity Products Co., Ltd., manufacturers and proprietors 'of the famous "Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap for washing clothes, wish to emphasise the fact, that their wonderful compound contains no deleterious substance such as para fin wax, caustic soda, etc., or anything else that would injure the finest fabrics. "Fairy Wonder" is clean, sweet and wholesome. All grocers stock it.* Nazol never fails in giving immediate relief in Bronchial troubles. 1 Whether a cold be located In the head, $■ throat, or Bonnlngton's Irish Moss i clours the choked up air passages, banishes ' the stuffy feeling' and relieves the dry, parching sensation. 1/6 to 2/6. (33), Kor Children's HacKtng CougU, s .Woods' Gi'eat geneM»iat £»*s&, x