LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17409, 23 May 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Douglas Mill's flight from Auckland to To Kuiti in his "Moth" was completed safely yesterday. The plane is returning to Auckland to-day. It passed over Hamilton shortly before noon.

A movement to have the shooting of live pigeons suppressed by law in New Zealand has received the support of the Auckland S.P.G.A. The practice of live-pigeon shooting had been prohibited in England.

A delegate to the provincial conference of the Farmers' Union yesterday compared the pig subsidy with a child's dummy, "it does no good,'' he said, •'and only benefits those who manufacture it." (Laughter.)

"The Labour Party is fundamentally free 'trade," said .Mr W. Lee Martin, M.P., at the provincial conference of the Farmers' Union this morning, Mr Martin was subjected to a close examination concerning his party's attitude towards protection.

"Would you object to subsidies on roads?" asked Captain Rushworth at ihe provincial conference of the Farmers' Union yesterday when a member protested against the giving of subsidies by the Government. "Certainly—and wc never have had any in our district," was the reply.

Stating she had been attacked by a man while returning from work at 5.45 on Monday evening, Miss Alice Morphy. of .Morningside, Auckland, ran into her home with a 41n. wound on the back of of her head. Miss Morphy believes her assailant flung a stone at her at close range. Residents in the neighbourhood state that,on one or two previous occasions women and girls have been frightened by a man at night.

A special business men's train, comprising four sleeping cars and conveying 60 persons, will run through the Auckland Province on a nine days' itinerary late in October. The arrangements are being made between the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Railway Department. At Hamilton on October 27 the party will inspect the railway house factory at Frankton Junction and the Ruakura State Farm.

The "exhibitions" on scholarships offered by the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, have, been won, this year by: Miss I'. F. C. Hart, of Wellington (tenable in pianoforte at the Royal Academy) ; Mr H. McCutchcon, of Gore (tenable in violin at the Royal Academy) ; and Miss F. S. Mac Clean, of Carterton (tenable in pianoforte at the Royal College).

In connection with the return to New Zealand of Mr F. R. Hyde, who sustained serious injuries in Canada and was brought back to New Zealand by the Aorangi, it is explained that the injured man was repatriated at his own request. It was not a matter of deportation. His return . was solely prompted by humanitarian motives, and not on the ground that Mr Hyde was an undesirable citizen, it being felt that he would be happier among friends and rolatives rather than among strangers.

Those who, like the .Power Board's linesmen, spend much of their time off the ground, become inured to the sudden emergencies which a life in the air entails, and their equanimity is not easily disturbed (says the Poverty Bay Herald). To his long training in meeting emergencies, one linesman, workins in Peel Street, Gisborne, recently owed his immunity from a bad fall. Working at Ihe top of a ladder, just under the crossbar of one of the poles, the electrical worker was busily manipulating his pliers when a message boy, mounted on a cycle, collided with the ladder and snatched away the linesman's support. With a clatter that brought shopkeepers to their doors and attracted the attention of pedestrians in Gladstone Road, the ladder fell to the concrete; but the linesman did not fall with it. Those who sought him found the workman with his legs wrapped round the upper section of the pole, his left hand grasping the crossbar, and his pipe smoke puffing unconcernedly away in the light breeze, while he awaited tin; replacement of the ladder.

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