LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Good progress is being made with the community lighting recently adopted by the Eltham shopkeepers. ■

At the Hawera Magistrate’s Court this morning a first offending inebriate was fined 10s by Mr. G. H. Buckeridge, J.P On charges of committing a breach of his prohibition order and of supplying liquor to a native woman named Kino Chsdwick. Hugh Rodger was remanded until Thursday. Mr. G. H. Buckeridge, J.P., was on the benchThe native woman, who was charged with drunkenness, was fined £l. A Hawke’s Bay sheep farmer informed a Manawatu Evening Standard reporter the other day that in several quarters or the province the lambing season had been the poorest for many years past, many ewes having succumbed to an undefined disease. Hr stated that he himself had lost 40 ewes through this cause—an unusually high percentage. ; Despite poisoning work, rabbits are doing much damage to the young trees planted on the 3000-acre experimental tree planting area on the Oroua Downs sand dunes (states the Manawatu Standard); and the State Forest Service Department is preparing to erect rabbit-proof fences of a total length of about five miles.

A Maori patient at the Wanganui Hospital on Thursday morning at six O’clock announced to the other patients in the ward that the score in the AH Black match was 40 to 3, and that this information had been disclosed to him by a dream. The hospital authorities were naturally more than astonished when they learned at 8 a.m. (states the Herald) that the Maori had announced the correct score.

The ‘fact that the best barometer Taranaki has is Mt. Egmont was emphasised by Cr. McWilliam at the meeting of the Eltham County Council on Saturday, when the clerk read a circular containing a proposal that the present facilities, for providing weather reports should be increased. “The best course Taranaki people can adopt is to watch the mountain top and ascertain the direction of the wind,” said Cr. McWilliam.