LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 13 June 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Relief work' for this, week was allocated to 187 Hawera registered unemployed—l2 A class men-, 104 B and 51 C class men—compared’ with 172 last week.

At Hamilton recently an angler was fowl'd by a ranger fishing with inanga (live minnow) (bait in a. river which lias been dedicated to artificial fly fishing for trout. He was taken before the "magistrate and was fined £3. Recently an. area of 20 acres was given to the Jit. Albert Grammar School, Auckland, and arrangements have been made for horticultural and agricultural courses at the school. The scheme of work i® under the direction of the Horticultural Institute of Auckland.

The Auckland Institute of Horticulture is conducting a campaign in the neighbourhood of the city to ascertain the bush areas within easy reach of the city which earn be preserved, and a bush conservation fund is, to be started.

The 17th annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held in Wellington next Tuesday. More than 50 delegates will attend the gathering. During the past year the New Zealand R. ST A. has increased its total of affiliated branches by 15, making the total 71. Th.e active financial membership for the Dominion has increased bv more than 45 pea- cent, in the period. The increase is attributed to the awakening of interest in the association's/ activities on behalf of deserving unemployed ex-sen vice men. An interchange of three Western Federated (North Island) Flying Club ’planes took place yesterday when, the machine which lias been at Hawera was sent to New Plymouth for overhaul. Flying Officer lan Keith was piloted from New Plymouth to Wanganui in one ’plane by Mir C. Linn. From there a machine was flown to Hawera, and left at Dunlop Field, the ’plane there being brought on to New Plymouth.

An escape from serious injury was experienced on Sunday by Mr H. IV. Man-tin, of Inglewood. With two others Mr Martin was climbing to the skiing ground noair the second Staircase. The .snow was frozen and they were wearing crampons to prevent slipping. It is not known exactly how the accident happened, but it is thought that as. Mir Martin was walking ho caught one ci-ampon on the other leg. He stumbled and fell and immediately commenced toi slide down the face of the frozen, snow. A little soft snow slowed him down a. little, but did, not stop him. Mr Martin then rolled over a. few rocks which were protruding from the isnoiw and fell over a 15-foot bluff. Fortunately the seoriai and rocks at the bottom were well covered with snow, and although he suffered shock and bruises be escaped 1 the serious injury which must havei befallen him had he fallen on the rocks.