LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Beginning ill this issue a series qf articles by Mr John Houston will appear in the Saturday magazine section of the ‘ “Hawera Star” on the subject of Tori, the Maori navigator, to whose memory a memorial is to be unvei'led at Patea next month. A statement recently published in the “Hawera Stair” to the effect that inmates of the Mercy Jenkins Bojs Horne at Eltham were 'being retarded in their school progress by lack of stationery and books was recently brought under the notice of Hawera businessmen and others by Mrs O. Twaddle, Hawera charitable aid officer. The immediate needs of the institution in this respect have been met as a result, of this action, a parcel of school material having been forwarded to the home yesterday. A .pulblio address will he given dn the Grand Theatre, Hawera, on Wednesday night by Mr Walter Nash, Labour member for HiUitt, who will give an exposition of tlie Labour Party’s policy, dealing particularly with such subjects as monetary reform, equities in land and homes, overseas and. internal marketing, guaranteed prices and unemployment. lit the Matapu Hall on Monday night next, under the auspices of the Matapu branch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union, Mr B. E. Mason will deliver an address on the Douglas Social Credit system. The lecture -should be of special interest to the farming community and it is hoped a large audience will be present. Mr C. Dickie, Chairman of Directors of the Patea Co-operative Freezing Company, addressed members of the Tokaora branch of the Farmers Union last night on the question' of the bobby calf industry and the prospects for the coming season. He said that everything promised exceedingly well, strong advances being shown in prices in most branches of the business and he hoped that farmers would receive much more for their calves than last season.