LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 15 June 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the anniversary services in the Trinity Methodist Church, Wanganui, last Sunday,' the Queen Alexandra’s Vlounted Rifles Band played several selections and the choir was led by an orchestra, under the leadership :of Mr. Will Hutchens, formerly of Hawera.

The automatic time switch controlling the jubilee beacon on the Hawera water tower ha.s been altered, so that the beacon will be illuminated nightly between the hours of 5.30 and 12 o’clock (midnight) during the winder season. This arrangement has been confirmed by the Marine Department, the beacon being a chartered light for the guidance of coastal shipping..

A very successful euchre tournament organised by the social committee of the South Taranaki Returned Soldiers’ Association, was held in the side room of the Okaiawa Town Hall last evening. The prises-winners were: Ladies, Mrs W. Rudge 1 (after a playoff with Mesdames Mack, Good and Everett, 11 games each) ; Mrs Mack 2. Men. Mr. C. Arnold 1 (after a piay-off with Messrs H. Webber and P. Matoe, 14 games each), Mr. H. Webber 2. The travelling prizes were won by Messrs J. C-ran and T. HoulaYau.

The depredations of sparrow hawks upon native pigeons were brought before the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society on Wednesday night by Mi: O. Walton, secretary of the Eketahuua. Rod and Gun Club. Mr Walton, in a ( letter, stated that the .sparrow hawks in his district got between the pilgeon and the bush, and chased the. pigeon until it became exhausted, when it urns easily caught and killed. Mr W. M. Manser, of Piitara, had recently shot a sparrow hawk and found! that it had billed a pigeon. Quite a. lot of remains of .pigeons had been found at various times.

Island exhibits will_ again be a feature of the South (Taranaki Winter Show, to be held at Hawera. from June 27 to July 1, and judging from" consignments 'already’ received, the display of native crafts this year will be particularly attractive. A shipment of goods from Niue Island arrived some days ago, and a consignment from Samoa is expected to be landed in Wellington to-day from the Maui Pomare. Canadian exhibits for the Women’s Institute section have arrived., in Auck- j land, also exhibits of writing and j drawing forwarded by the Canadian Education Department. j The question of whether newspapers could be sold and distributed in New Plymouth on Sundays was. raised in the Police Court yesterday, when a bookseller was charged with selling papers on Sundav evening. He said he had followed the practice for some years. Counsel said that at Auckland the distribution, but not the actual sale, ■of papers was allowed on Sundays. Tlie police sain that even if that were too practice m Auckland the New Ply mouth police would not allow it. Tin: charge was dismissed, but the magistrate warned the bookseller that the practice must cease. At the last weekly social arranged by the Mount Egmont Alpine Club and held a.t the Winter Show .Buildings m Hlaweira, Mr W. W. Davy gave a lantern lecture on lightning and thunderstorms, which proved of considerable interest to members, particularly to those more experienced alpinists who have encountered electrical storms at high altitudes on the mountain. Last evening a party of approximately 50 members of tlje club attended the Grand Theatre in Hawera for the screening of Sir Douglas Mawson’s “Siege of the South.” During the coming week-end members will undertake a tramp to the coast from Kaunokonui to Otakebo, under the direction of Mr. L. S. Mackie (Otakebo), who will explain the native flora to be seen in the locality.