Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 February 1916, Page 2

Local and General

There are 208 cases of infantile paralysis reported, of which three have terminated fatally.

There was no work in the Extended mine on Wednesday, and Ralph’s mine was idle yesterday.

On Sunday there will be services of thanksgiving for harvest held in St. Paul’s Church. The Church will be suitably decorated for the occasion.

In the Methodist Church on Sunday at 7 p.m. the Rev. W. Lea, will give his Experiences as a Miss'onary among Zulus in Africa. Everybody Invited.

To-morrow] (Saturday), Mr J. Elliot will sell by public auction at 1 p.m. a large quantity of excellent tomatoes, and if forward several cases of pears and apples

There will be a service for men held in St. Paul’s Church next Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The subject of the address will be ‘’The Manifestation of God in Nature.”

The Auckland Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the whole-

sale price of butter and eggs for the week ending February 19, as follows : Farmers’s, separator and dairy butter, lOd. Eggs, Is 3d per doz.

Mr J. Elliot’s sale last Saturday was most successful, a large quantity of poultry, fruit, tomatoes, and general furniture, being sold readily and quickly. Fowls brought 2/- each, tomatoes 2/6 per case, and pears, small cases 3/- to 3/3, large cases, 5/- to 5/6.

Local candidates who were in the examination for students of mining schools held under the Mines are as follows :—in mathematics Messrs R. Waugh, D. White, Walter Tyssen, A. Turton, Win. Anseough, and W. C!. Davies being successful, the last-named

obtained satisfactory percentages in coal mining, ventilation, pumping and winding.

A ballot taken on Wednesday last by the Huntly Miners’ Union subject to the alteration of rules, etc., resulted as follows : Alteration to rules, for 192, against 44, informal 2—carried. Fortnightly levy of Is — for 144, against 88 —lost. To pay check-weiglunon average wage of miners—for 27, against— To pay check-weighmen 13s per day, pit time —for 58—carried. To pay check-weighmen 11s per day and overtime —for 25, against— Total informal votes on checkweighmen 36,