LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15225, 30 April 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Prime Minister, in referring to the reduction Ja beef freights, said it was equal to 7s 6d a head on beef exported. Notices appear in the current Gazette proclaiming oertain roads in the. parish of Karamu and Cambridge Road Districts.

The United States.,naval vessel Ontario arrived at Auckland yesterday from Pago Pago, with the Governor of American Samoa, Captain .Edwin T. Pollock. , ■ / . The following appointments in the Fourth New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Waikato)' ; are : : gazetted: Hans Rudolph Haeusler, to be second lieutenant; Leslie Moncrieff Nutt, second lieutenant (on probation). It is notified in the Gazette ; that Empire Day and His Majesty's Birthday will be observed conjointly on Monday, June 4, and that that day will be observed as a.public holiday in the Government offices of the Dominion.

While carrying out excavation work in Tutankhamen's tomb at Luxor, ach<§ aeologists discovered what is believed to be the oldest specimen of canned beef in the world. It is 3350 years old, and while not wholly palatable is in excellent state of preservation. On Anzao Day, Rev. E. T. Olds, formerly of Hamilton and now of Kilbirnie (Wellington), addressed an open-air memorial service at the temporary cenotaph at the corner of Manners and Dixon Streets, Wellington. The crowd numbered about 8000 people.

\ Experiments are 4)eing made in with the object 0 f introduce the sport of gliding in the air. A machine has been imported for this purpose, but owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the country used <for the experiment, the trial was not a success. Further experiments are to be made shortly. The conductor of the Choral Society (Mr Gladstone Hili) is in receipt of the following letter from the Mayor (Mr J. R. Fow): —"I have great pleasure in conveying to you the thanks o£ the citizens of Hamilton for your splendid help at the Anzac Commemoration meeting. There was a, marked difference in the singing as compared with previous years, and your efforts were greatly appreciated by the public generally." A regrettable accident happened to a footballer during the progress of the game, Frankton and Suburbs. Early in the play a young man named Baden Law, of Orini, who was playing halfhack for Suburbs, kicked at the ball at the same time as a Frankton player, with the result that their legs clashed and Law broke a small bone in one of his ankles. He was attended to on the field by Dr. Currie, a Frankton player, and later conveyed to the Waikato Hospital. f'he very narrow escape New Zeal had from a crisis through shortof wheat some little, time ago was referred to by Mr. Masscy when addressing a meeting at To Waimakarua. Wheat was borrowed, he said, from Australia under pledge to return it when required, and this was fulfilled by getting wheat from Canada at nine shillings a bushel to honour thu bargain. It was a pretty close thing. When the first wheat of the season came in New Zealand had only ten days' supply left, lie did not wish to have to face such a position again. Mr. Massey was at the time deploring the fact that wlieat-growing was becoming Jess profitable and therefore less popular in New Zealand.

This winter I will have two dresses for the price of one—pretty dresses, too, designed by an expert, specially for me. And these two dresses I've set my heart on will be made by myself from material bought at Hooker and Kingston's "Home Sewing Week," and cut out to measure "Free," by their expert. That's how 1 will have two dresses for the price of one. "Homo Sewing Week" commences Thursday, May 3rd, and is planned to show how cheaply dresses may bo made at home. Only conditions arc that you pufcha.se your materials from cur Dress Department, and* supply some picture or style that you want copied. The call for economy is great —why not get into line? and save on your winter garments during "Home Sewing Week'" at Hooker and Kingston's.* Woods' Great icppcrmint CUMu

Mr Massey htfs advised the THayor that Cabinet will contribute a subsidy of £ for-£ up to £2ooo'for flood relief of the disressed in"*'Dunedin and Green Island^ "We have 850 separate chairs and tables as seating accommodation for the children at Central School. There _, is no other school of its size -in ' British Empire which has toot a desk in it," remarked Mr L. F; de Berry, [ headmaster of Central School (Palm-; erston North), at its meeting of house- • holders recently. ■ ". ■ : Evidently motorists jrequire to I|P careful of thieves on {He South roa<J» says an Ashburton paper. On one re* cent day, when a motor-cycle £K>ke down and was left at, the roadside three miles from Dunsandel, the entire kit of tools was_stolen from it. On the same day a motor cycle and side-chair were burnt a the north end of the Rakaia bridge. From tins machine have been stolen the engine, magneto, and other parts. "If something isn't done, theffe will be the makings of a first-class accident . down there," said Mr. C. R. Clark to the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society's annual meeting, apropos of a, suggestion by Mr. L. A. Shand thatl measures be taken to stop shooting! from motor-boats on Lake Ellesmere. I "It dqesn't matter so much, about shot- ! guns," he went on. With those they r can't hurt anything but the birds, but i it's different with rifles. <You all know ' how a ! bullet can ricochet off the «<* water. It is simply wicked to go , shooting with rifles, on Lake Ellesmere 4 I , With high-power rifles the bullet may \ travel up to half a mile or a mile. Once \ I was standing near a hut*wben a man ■ away down at the mouth fired af rifle, 4' and I heard the bullet sing through thevm air over my head." Mr.-A: L. Smith suggested that the ranger be instruct- I ed to lay an information against the first man he' caught scooting from a ; [ ' boat this season. The zeal shown by "the various *bus drivers of the town apparently | reaches beyond the bounds of discretion at times, and as a result, of his keenness in the interests of his em-, ployers, the Waikato Motor 'Bus Co., Joseph Balle Was charged at the local Court this morning "\with negligent driving. From the evjaence of the prosecution it appealed that a "taxi.'bus driver, Robert Hastings, .had been parked behind two other 'busses at the Frankton Junction Railway Station, awaiting passengers from the; trains. The second 'bus moved out, ~ and Hasting's naturally moved ward to take its = place. Balle, how- < ever, whose t conveyance was drawn up alongside' Hastings', ■■. saw" his. opportunity and darted forward for the , gap, no actual collision, however, ocourring\ Mr Strang, on Balle's behalf, urged his Worship to reduce,the I charge, as it was not a care of reckless or negligent driving, but merely of misplaced • keenness for the busi- . ness. His Worship, however, held, that if Hastings had. not, stopped his ' •engine there would probably have been a collision and then defendant would have been to blame. Balle was fined £i and ordered to pay witnesses' *. expenses, £5 15s, anil.' Court costs, Q ips. • ; • , . '> "7