LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17606, 10 January 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the last 80 years only seven people have been killed in New Zealand as a result of earthquakes.

Charged with being found drunk in Victoria Street yesterday Joseph Green was fined 20s in Lhe Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning.

The Director-General of 'Health will meet the Waikato Hospital Board some time in March, to discuss matters in connection with the King George Hospital, Rotorua.

A daylight theft occurred at Onehunga on Tuesday, the home of Mrs Alice Hotehings, of Amaru Road, being entered. The sum of £l2 in notes was stolen.

Captain Pearson, of the Anchor Company, will leave Wellington next week for Scotland to bring out the company’s new steamer Rata. The vessel, which is to have a dead-weight carrying capacity of 1000 tons, will leave early in April, via Panama.

On the occasion of a recent visit to Tc Aroha the Main Highways Board recognised that on account of the great volume of traffic between Hamilton and Tc Aroha the' main road should be tarscaled. The engineer for the Piako County had gone into the matter of cost of the main road in the county ridings, and it is confidently expected lhat the board will approve at least a certain amount of expenditure for bitumenising at its meeting to be held next month. ,

“The law of the world allows you to take no more than a man owe: ” was a remark passed by Cr. T. Parker when the Raglan County Council was, at its meeting yesterday, discussing the allocation of its portion 'of the balance of money left over when the WaikatoWest Coast Railway Board was wound up. “The Railways Act is later than the law of the world, I’m afraid,” retorted the county clerk, Mr H. Marsiand, and the council proceeded to place the money pro rata to the ridings from which it was collected.

The eighth annual camp and conference of the Anglican Bible Class Union concluded at Mastcrlon last Saturday. Delegates from various parts of New Zealand were present and t.he camp, which was under the Rev. 11. S. Kenney, of Palmerston North, proved highly successful. The following officials were elected to be the Dominion executive for the coming year:—Dominion president, Rev. 11. S. Kenney; vice-presidents, Revs. T. Fciiden Taylor and 11. S. Hamilton; secretary, Mr D. Ryan; treasurer, Mr R. Watt.

The attitude of the Auckland Harbour Board toward the proposed bridge over the Waitemata was explained yesterday by the chairman, Mr ii. R. Mackenzie, to a deputation representing the Auckland Harbour Bridge Association. He stated the Harbour Board had not opposed the bridge in the slightest, but that structure must not, of course, interfere with navigation. The board must see that nothing was done to jeopardise the welfare of the port.

The spirit of the pioneers is not yet dimmed (says the Northern Advocate). Recently a member of one of the missionary families, aged 80, motored through from Kaitaia to Auckland, and arrived on Monday at Whangarei. The fine old lady was extolling the virtues of her grandson, who had been at the wheel for the journey. “ Yes,” she remarked, 11 he is a good driver. Round the bends he travels slowly, but on the fiat stretches goes along nicely at 40 miles an hour." And this from an old lady who remembers the Northland when the visit of a store ship, once in three months, was the only communication with the outside world.

Of interest to every housewife, bathers, and boardinghouse-keepers is a great sale of nearly a thousand pairs of Sample Coloured Towels now on at Hooker and Kingstons. Tlicir London agents cleared this huge quantity from a Manchester manufacturer at about half the mill price. No two alike and every towel extra large and of highgrade quality. Don’t miss this opportunity, for you’ve never had a chance like this for a long time. Towels worth 7/6 for 4/0 pair; 7/11 for 4/H so~on. But you need to sec them to appreciate the value. Don’t leave it too late —the values are so remarkable that they will simply be gone in no time. Hooker and Kingston always famous for good values.

Barraclough’s Magic Nervine stop! toothache. 1/6.

Sir Harry Lauder, who is deep-sea fishing in the north, will probably commence a vaudeville tour of New Zealand at Invercargill at Easter.

During the month ended December 31 the daily average number of patients in Waikato Hospital was 230. During lhat period 135 operations were performed.

The two guns and carriages of Captain Cook’s period recently presented by the British Admiralty to the Captain Cook Memorial Committee in New Zealand have been placed in position at Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound.-

The management of the White Star Line announces that its headquarters will be removed from Liverpool to London. The change is merely an executive one. It will take place some time in the next few months.

A Taranaki paper reports that Mr N. Manssen, of the Public Works Department, while camping at Lhe Blind Channel, was bitten on the neck by a katipo spider. He sought medical atiwas ordered to a hospital.

No agreement was reached at the conference which was held yesterday between representatives of the 15 stonemasons involved in the dispute at the new railway station in Auckland and iheir employers, the Hansford and Mills Construction Company, of Wellington.

Following a brief discussion on warning signals at a dangerous railway crossing in Frankton, one member was heard to remark at the meeting of the Frankton Citizens’ Association last night: “What with all these devices, you will soon have to inaugurate a pension fund for undertakers.”

Two of the pupils of the Waiuku Primary School, Robert and Maurice Jerram, are striking out for themthemselves by way of a holiday jaunt, says the Franklin Times. They intend to walk to Hamilton. In these days of motorists it is quite refreshing to come across occasional people who remember that Providence has provided them .with legs. The joys of a walkiiug tour seem to be almost forgotten now-a-days, but they are very real to all who have the grit to try it.