LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15183, 8 March 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During February- the estates of Margaret Eleanor Baker, late of Raglan, and Horace .John Scott, late of Rotokauri, were accepted for administration by the Public Trustee. S. Whitehead, of Auckland, and formerly of Hamilton, fell in the Egmont Handicap at the Hawera motor sports, and was removed to the hospital in a semi-conscious condition.

At the inquest: on the body of the child found in a petrol tin on a rubbish dump at Ghristchurch, the coroner returned a verdict that the bones of a child were found, but there was no evidence to show how, when, or where it met its death.

Mr G. H. Barton's exhibition of water colour sketches, at Toorak Chambers, is attracting much attention. The views depicted of New Zealand and the Soutli Sea Islands are varied and interesting. The exhibition will be open to-night and all day tomorrow from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., and in the evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is no charge for admissjon. Preparations are well in hand for the forthcoming Methodist Girls' Bible Glass camp, to be held at Easter. The local girls are very keen, and are planning to give the visitors a happy time Delegates are coming from all over the Auckland Province,, and it is expected that nearly 200 girls will be encamped in the High School. Mystery 'surrounds the disappearance of the assistant purser of the Wahine, who left his ship on Saturday, and has not been heard of since. At noon on Saturday Mr R. Rashley intimated to his superiors that he intended to go on shore to get his hair cut. He left the vessel, and the rest is a mystery as he has not been heard of since.

A drowning fatality is feared in connection with the disappearance of Jas. Gillie Patterson Spencc, a married man who left home on Saturday afternoon on a fishing trip to Oreti River. He was seen in the neighbourhood of the river during the afternoon, *and when a search was made his bicycle was found on the bank and a rod further down stream, but there was no trace of Spencc.

A car conveying 13 passengers from the Christchurch express to Ilokitika ran off the Christchurch road at a bend near Aicken's, capsizing after falling six feet. Three passengers were injured severely. Two Timaru residents, Mr and Mrs Frascr, fared badly. The former had two ribs broken and his left eye seriously injured. Mrs Fraser sustained a broken leg. Mr Mann, of Christchurch, had a shoulder injured. The others escaped. Mr and Mrs Fraser were brought by the express to Greymouth and placed in the hospital. At the first sign of a cold—due to germ infection —.create an atmosphere of Nazol about you—which will counteract the infection ai give rebet (">) iNflwr.omerc! Wc welcome you ui >f\\ Zr>*Jan<i, t.n<> honif of "NO iihrpimv i ;iiii-iiiry Hi* ibolislicr of washboard -'■ *>*!;:;• —HwaUtojj (jrueofa. 13

The Church of England Sunday School will hold a plcnio at the Narrows on Saturday next. The s.s. Manuwai will leave the wharf at 9.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. The 1923 season of the Y.M.G.A. Gymnasium will consist of two terms of four months gaoh, the first now forming, and the second starting in July. The classes include gymnastic dancing, physical culture, oalisthenics, Swedish drill, tumbling, heavy apparatus, reoreational games, etc. At the Supreme Gourt, Auokland, Mrs Margaret Pike, Cambridge, was granted custody of her boy, under satisfactory supervision. The woman's husband, after three attempts, obtained, in 1921, a divorce on the ground of alleged habitual drunkenness and neglect of household duties, but no order was made concerning the custody of the b6y.

A labourer, William Growder, aged 26, residing in Grey Street, Huntly, has been brought into the Waikato Hospital suffering from a gash in his throat which ho inflicted on himself by hhe rather unusual means of, a pair o"! scissors. His condition, however, is not considered serious. The Maori, Kere Opa, who attempted to end his life the other day with a razor, has taken a turn for the worse.

Two new cables, one between Auckland and Fiji and the other from Sydney to _ South port, are to be laid for the Pacific Gable Board by August 14 next. The scheme will cost about £300,000. The total length to be laid is 1860 miles. Over 2,500,000 paying words are transmitted annually between Australia and New Zealand, and there has been a considerable increase in the traffic with the Pacific islands during the last 12 months. Aka meeting of the Auckland Board of Education the following appointments, were authorised: Headmasters. Mr W- W. Edgerley, Huntly; Mr H. Foley, M.A., Glen Massey; Mr K. McKenzie, Rangiaohia. Assistant masters: Mr G. W. Slane, Te'A'roha D.H.; Mr M. R. Downey, Fairfield. Infant mistress: Miss D. A. Smith, Huntly. Mr I. F. McKenzie was temporarily appointed secondary assistant at the Pio Pio District High School. A good story was told by Colonel McKenzie when addressing an audience in' the Salvation Army Hall at Wellington. When jjthe troops were passing through a French village he noticed a signboard bearing the following inscription:—"Washing done here; English spoken—Australian 1 understood" The sign, the colonel said, explained for itself the opinion in the minds of the French people of the vocabulary of the Australian soldier.

Most New Zealanders will have heard of Miss Rosina Buckman's purchase of a farm near Piopio. At present it is being run by her brother, and carries some pedigree Jersey stock..- "Shall I tell you why I bought it?" asked the prima donna with a smile. "Well, it was so that I could feel that although I have to live so far away, I actually do own a bit of New Zealand! I may do sdme stockraising there later on—l don't know; the main thing is that I now have a real 'stake' in my own country." When crossing Mount Reeves, near Greytown, recently, Mr D. J. Gibbs, of Wellington, saw a race between a slug about an inch long and a dark brown earthworm about 3in. long (states an exchange). The earthworm, when they were seen first, was following the slug's track, and extending and contracting towards the slug, which seemed to be going "all out." The earthworm caught up to the Slug, touched it, and immediately whipped itself around the slug's body like a snake, crushing it. The captor then contracted and coiled up, apparently satisfied with its day's work. The Auckland Education Board decided to renew its protest to the department against the use of schools as polling places, and also ordered that a return should be made showing the number of schools that would be used ,as polling-places in the forthcoming licensing elections, the number of children who would thus lose a day's schooling, the number of teachers rendered idle, and the approximate value of the day's services thus lost. In regard to the Education Board's protest on the use of primary schools for elections, an electoral officer stated last evening that the Legislature Act gave power for the taking of the schools for election purposes. It had been the custom to use them as polling booths, the object being to save the expense of hiring halls.

A young man. named Neilson, who disappeared from Alton some 20 days ago, was discovered in a dug-out not far from his home on Wednesday (says the Patea Press). The discovery was made hy a brother of Neilson's, who had no idea of the existence of the dug-out until he was right upon it. Although he had been away from home for nearly three weeks, Neilson was not a great deal the worse for his adventure. When found hexappeared to be in a somewhat dazed state. However, After careful attention and some nourishing food, he became much better, and was soon in his normal state, and, as one person put it, seemed to awake after a long sleep. Neilson himself states that he can remember nothing, and is glad to be home again. The place where he was discovered is in a rough gully not very far from the house, and was supposed to have been thoroughly gone over by the search parties.

A find of half a dozen Maori adzes of beautiful workmanship is reported? to have been made on the banks of the Aparima River, where the old Beaumont settlement used to be, by workmen employed on the river prospective works in that district (says the Southland Times). The adzes were found beneath a stratum of silt some eighteen inches thick at this point, and arc stated to be of a design and workmanship far superior to the usual variety of IVfaori adzes found in Southland. One of the implements was a beautiful greenstone adze, and the others are of a darker stone. Mr Pearce, of the local Public Works Department, who saw one of these adzes, describes it as being about a foot long, witli sides two inches and four inches, and a bevelled edge which is four inches across the face. The oilier (Mid is in the form of a handle, and the adze is the finest specimen of the kind lie has seen.

The usual notices regarding deer shooting appear in the Gazette. In addition there are published regulations for the destruction of deer by persons appointed by acclimatisation societies in districts where the society deems it necessary to have the deer thinned out. There is to be an open season for wapiti and moose-shooting in the Fiordland National Park. The season will be from March 24 to May 31. Only wapiti stags and bull moose may be killed. The license fee for wapiti is £lO. Only tw,o licenses will be issued and no licensee shall kill more than two wapiti stags. For moose the license fee is £3O. Only two licenses are to be issued and each licensee is entitled to kill only one bull moore. If there arc more than two applicants the licenses shall he fixed by ballot in far.h r.Hse.

L'%c Naaoi for that fresh cold. (1)

The Hospital Board has decided to act on the recommendation of its house and finance committee, and to expend £15,000 on the nucleus of a new Nurses' Home at tho Waikato Hospital.

When a local body receives a notification of a rise In the price of one of the commodities which it uses in large quantities its members generally look far from pleased, but not so the members of the Waikato Hospital Board at its meeting to-day, when advice was received from the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company that the price of butter, of which commodity the hospital, of course, takes a great amount, had been raised Id per lb. The majority of the members, being dairy-farmers, could ill-suppress a chuckle of satisfaction, and the letter was received^ The desirability of instituting a fmore satisfactory system of collecting funds for charitable purposes in place of the present cumbersome methods, was discussed by delegates of charitable and social organisations at Christchurch. The chairman, Mr H. Holland, said it was thought that it would be better to have one joint i appeal each year instead of having separate appeals for each organisation. Satisfactory arrangements could be made for an equitable division of the funds among the organisations. Moreover, it was thought that business men and others would subscribe more generously ty one appeal.' The meeting was adjourned so that delegates could place the position before their societies.