NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17492, 28 August 1928, Page 11

NEWS AND NOTES.

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.A special general meeting of the South Auckland Caledonian Society Will be hels thus evening, when business i will be the consideration of a proposal to purchase new uniforms far the Pipe Band.

The De Havilland Aircraft Company has secured a contract for the supply of eight Gipsy Moth planes for a training squadron of the Danish Air Force.

' A message from Rome states that Signor Turati, general secretary of the Fascists, has ordered all the branches of the organisation to exclude foreign wines, including champagne, from banquets. The newspaper Impero says this is only the beginning of a boycott of French goods. It will soon be extended to perfumes and dresses.

•Lord Eblisham (Sir Rowland "jiules) has heen elected president of •.'v. Headers' Pensions Committee in accession, to Viscount Burnham.

A 15-years-old boy named Harry Pomfret, of Ml'ton, fell 20 feet on to a ti-ec while cliff-ehrnbing at _ the Happy Yalley, Llandudno, and received severe injuries.

There's a Faville Branch near by for your shopping convenience. Five shops spread over Hamilton, supply the daily requirements in biead, cakes, smalls, etc. L. W. Faville, Baker and Pastrycook.

The Butter Bonus to be paid out at. the end of August represents about 12 i per cent on average price paid out las'- season. Increased production is wanted this season. This means tha more shed room and more conveniences are wanted- See Bartholomew Timber Co. for timber, where prices are right and quality the /best.

The unemployment situation is ( still acute in Wanganui, says the Chronicle. Mr A. HtckfQrd, unemployment organiser jn Wanganui, stated that the names registered at the Government Lalbour Bureau do not represent the true numbers of those seeking work, while another Wanganui citizen, well acquainted with the situation, stated that those who are not registered at the bureau are generally those who most need employment.

Professor Share Jones, professor of Veterinary Science at Liverpool University, has been; appointed president of the Boyal College of Veterinary Science.

Brighton regatta, whfch last year had to be postponed eight times owing to .rain, was held recently in ideal weather on the date selected, the first time for many years.

"As president of the Farmers' Union in Southland 1 want to claim some credit for the part the Union has played in this matter of finance for farmers'," said Mr D. Dickie at a Farmers' Union rally at Oaeramika. "Without the efforts of Mr Poison, Dominion President, in putting the position before the public the progress that has been made might not have been* achieved."

Great interest is being created in gardening circles toy the use of White Island Manure in exterminating slugs, snails and garden pests, which for the pu-.pose has no equal. Many repeat orders are being obtained at Laybourne and Co., Grey Street, Claudelands, 'phone 2853,

We are sole Waikato Agents for Avery Scales; Any class of scales adjusted or repaired; reasonable charges Frankton Junction, 'phone 2887.

The motor-ketch Black Swan, 145 tons, with •• crew of 12 t has reached Oowes, Isle of Wight, from Singapore, which she left on April 21, 1927, on a 20,000 miles world cruise.

The general council of the Trades Union Congress, in its annual report, recommends the establishment of a National Industrial Council of employers and employees, together with the necessary conciliation machinery, on the lines of the Mond Conference. The recommendation will come before the Trades Union Congress on September 3, when it is expected to be endorsed.

, A large crowd gathered in Onslow Street, a main thoroughfare of Guildford England, to see bees swarming on a lamp standard and then settling on the chimney stack of a shop.

Nearly 2000 drivers and conductors •of the General Omnibus Company marched to the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, one day recently, and laid a wreath to the memory of their fallen comrades.

Girls! How about a set of lovely Stanless Cutlery and Tableware for your "(bottom drawer." You can easly get them Free with "Ghoysa" Tea. Ask mother to buy it.

Put new life into your 'furniture by -having it upholstered by us, We specialise in repairing and manufacturing wire mattresses; also bedding. -Buy direct and save middleman's promts. J. Trevarton, 19 Victoria Street, opposite Savings Bank.

Tuis have literally invaded Virginia Lake Domain, where the bushy slopes echo with their liquid notes, says a Wanganui paper. As one resident put.it, they are "more common than blackbirds" on St. John's Hiil, particularly in the vicinity of the lake. It was not long ago that the tui was pronounced to be well on the road towards extinction, but with the bell bird, he has made a strong rally in the Wanganui district.

A horse attached to a milk float at Batheaston, near Bath, bolted and ran three miles to the centre of the city, stopping, in an exhausted condition, outside a regular place of delivery.

' Sixty vacancies for boy apprentice Ulerks in the Royal Air Force between ; ;the ages of 15i and 17 are announced by the British Air Ministry.

A warning against permitting salmon netting in the rivers of Canterbury was voiced by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (Riccarton). If this were aHowed, he said, eportsmen and anglers believed that the chances of developing salmon-Ashing as an attraction to overseas people would beoome negligible.

The public is respectfully informed by the oldest established undertaking itfflrm in trio Wailsato, that of Mr 'Walter Burrow, all funerals rates now f bear a reduction'of 5 per cent., thus "'making the lowest charges possible. -Modern motor hearse, mortuary van ./■mortuary chapel. Head office, 212 v Victoria Street, 'phone 148 o; Branch : Office, 22 Hood Street, 'phone, lo7t>. ■night 'phono 2298.

Advices from Louisville, Kentucky, state that machine-gun bandits turned a stream of leaden bullets upon 22 gamblers in a fishing camp casino. They wounded four players and escaped witn £4OOO, firing from a motor car as they fled.

\ child named Edith French,, whose home is at Blackfriars, was killed on •the Southern Electric Railway, near Oxshott, Surrey, when she came in i contact with the live rail on the track.

Frederick Leonard, 23, carter, Wm. McDonald, 28, labourer, and Wilfred Leonard, 21, labourer, were each fined £1 at North Sydney Court for riotous behavicus on August 20, at Artarmon. Constahie Hammond stated that the reason given by defendants for engaging in a flght was that there had been an argument in a hotel over a game of dominoes, and they had gone outside to settle it.

' \ steel (box attached to a tramway standard in Nettlellcld Road, Liverpool, exploded through the fusing of an electric cable, and three boys who were standing near it—Charles Cook, 9, WilUam Evans, 10, and Arthur Evans, 6 —were taken to hospital suffering .from burns.

The supremo All Black of New Zealand is Findlay's pure bread. New Zealand Champion honours at last Waikato Winter Show. Put it on your table and watch the ' kiddies grow.

A 2/4 tin Rolfe's Wax contains as much as three 1/- tins.

Here is a cas© of distress mentioned in Christchurch:—-Eight children, another baly expected shortly, eldest son, aged I'B, very ill. Boy of 17 out of work; father also out of work; ■boy of 15 earning £1 a week —the only income at present. Other children are: boys of 13, six, and four years; girls of 11, eight and two.

When a young man, Roy Ingram, was bitten on the finger by a snake while digging out rabbits near his home at Dellicknoora, New South Wales, he blew off the top of his finger with his gun and then walked home ""He was later taken to the iooal "hospital, where the shattered finger was attended to.

Douglas William Dobson, a Nantwich farmer, who gave his horse a ''vicious" beating in a horsebox at the Bath and West Show because it was unsuccessful in-a jumping competition, was fined £lO with costs at Dorchester, New South Wales, Police Court, for ill-treating the horse.

Dr. Benwell's Healing Ointment heals obstinate sores and ulcers. Burr .ton, Chemist, Frankton.

Disturbing two men in the act of breaking into a shop at Cheltenham, Melbourne, a constable fired three shots. None took effect, and the men escaped after.a short chase. On returning to the shop the constable saw a third man filing an iron grille over a door. He climbed a fence to get into the yard of the shop, but the noise alarmed the man, who ran off. He was captured in a shed. Near the door of the shop a stick of gelignite, a length of fuse, and a pair 'of socks, which could have been used as gloves, -were found.

The Waikato farmers to a man know the whereabout of absolutely reliable Blacksmiths and Body Builders A. A. Hawker and Co., 21 Barten Street, famous for their extraordinary Mole Drain Plough. 'Phone 2032 await your favours.

The Mascot. (Sydney) impounding ■officer reported to his council that the owner of stock found straying in the nark had threatened to "blow his brains out" if he Impounded the animals The officer added that he went to Botany Police Station, about the matter, but there were no police there Council instructed him to impound all stock found in parks.

Every day the papers report one nr more motor accidents. The fact is; accidents will happen, and they leave their mark on both car and occupants. The car concerns us. We will return Ami car to you-as good as new. Montefth and Parker, Sheet Metal Workcrs%artori Street. 'Phone 3061.

; Insistent rumours arc current in Havana that the Government of Canada proposes to retire its diplomatic representative in Cuba. This is said to be because of differences which have arisen out of Cuba's refusal to endorse the proposed special concessions, for, Canadian interests under tlic projected commercial treaty.