LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20718, 31 January 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bookmaking Charge Arrested yesterday at New Plymouth. Donald Godfrey King was fined £ls and Leslie John King, his stepson, was fined £5 for bookmaking. They were first offenders. Bankruptcies In Hamilton Three bankruptcies were filed in Hamilton during January, the petitions concerning a restaurant proprietor, a bush worker and a painter. The same number was recorded in January last'year, the petitioners being a sharemilker and two farmers. Swimmer Btlll Missing Mr Robert Franklin Jones C 22), who was seen swimming in the Auckland harbour off Shoal Bay on Saturday evening, has not been located. Cries for help were heard on the hull Wanganui, but It was Impossible to go to his assistance. Fall From Ladder When he fell from a step-ladder at his home last evening, NTr Lionel Lawrence White (43), of Galloway Street, Hamilton East, received a fracture of the right leg. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital where his condition is stated to be satisfactory. Schools Open To-morrow The summer vacation for Hamilton primary schools will end to-morrow when the children will assemble for the new year's work. The Marist primary and secondary departments will start work to-morrow, but most of the other secondary schools in the district will open next week. Martha Mine Menaced An extensive scrub fire at Waikino over the week-end caused some anxiety regarding the safety of the battery plant of the Martha Gold Mining Company. All available men were put on to beat back the llames, which actually caught the poles carrying electricity to Waihi. An officer of the board mounted the standards on several occasions to extinguish the fire, his clothes being repeatedly Ignited. As the fire neared the power house leads of hose were brought out and the flames were subdued. Famous Writer’s Talks “The big attraction was Mr H. G. Wells, whose talks were most provocative and well attended,” stated Dr. C. M. Focken, lecturer In physics at Otago University, referring to the Science Congress he attended in Australia on his return by the Maunganui yesterday. “His talks held the attention of the audience right through, and when he addressed a meeting In the Albert Hall it-was (Tiled to overflowing, although it was a hot, sticky night. Those who . could not find room inside the hall took up positions on the lawns.” Bankrupt for Trial Pleading not guilty to two charges under the Bankruptcy Act Robert Wakefield Harris, a farmer and land agent, of Marton, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial when he appeared before Mr 11. J. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui yesterday. The accused was allowed bail of £IOO in his own recognisance, with one surety of a similar amount. The charges were of failing to keep proper books and incurring debts at a time when he had no reasonable or probable expectation of being able to pay. Japanese Copyists An example of Japanese ability to copy other people's products was quoted by Mr B. D. Stevens, of Chicago, first president of a printing press manufacturing- company, in an interview in Wellington. “Some time ago we received an order from Japan for six-colour presses suitable for currency printing,” he said. “Later, when visiting Japan, I was shown 18 similar machines, and the 12 copies the Japanese had made were so like the originals that I could not tell them apart.” Mr Stevens said there was nothing his firm could do about the use of their design by the Japanese.

Struok by Boomerang A Pahlatua scout was the victim of an unfortunate accident at the Australian Jamboree not long before the Dominion contingent sailed by the Awatea for home. Another scout was demonstrating the throwing of a boomerang, and it struck Ivan Merrie, of Pahlatua. on the back of the head. As the boomerang was of the type used by the Australian aborigines for the killing of animals, the wound was serious. Four stitches were inserted by a doctor and the boy was admitted to hospital. He was transferred to the hospital aboard the Awatea before the vessel sailed, and by the time he arrived home had made a good recovery.

£SOOO Scholarship Offer A statement that the University of New Zealand would be in an undignified position if Mr Arthur Sims, who had made an offer of £SOOO toward the establishment of a research scholarship In memory of the contributions to science of Lord Rutherford, returned to New Zealand to find that nothing had been done was made by Mr C. T. Aschman at a meeting of the Canterbury University College Council yesterday. Mr Sims’ offer was made on condition that the Government should be prepared to make a similar contribution to the scholarship fund. The council agreed to ask the registrar of the University of New Zealand, Mr I. F. McKenzie, what was the position about the Government subsidy.

Girl's “Deception” With arms outstretched and golden hair flowing in the breezes, the inanimate form of a girl was carried across Victoria Street. Hamilton, to-day by a man in his shirtsleeves. Bystanders had visions of a serious—apparently fatal —accident. Reaching the footpath the bearer stood the girl on the kerb, and amazingly she did not collapse, although he held her by the neck while he chatted with a companion. A few minutes later the girl adorned a window in a drapery emporium. dressed in an attractive spotted outfit with a neat apron. She would have made a very chic waitress had she not been made of wax. Anyway, she deceived many people, and she certainly looked like what the Americans call a “regular girl."

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