LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4309, 26 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The one complaint at last night’s ball was that the hall was too crowded for comfortable dancing.

Written offers are invEed by the Public Works Department for the dismantling of the Police Station building at Karangahake and the removal and re-erectipn of the same at Matamata.

Great interest is at present being centred in the Jersey cattle in this district, quite a number of pedigree animals having recently been imported. The Jersey Breeders’ Club is a move in the right direction, and will be the means of helping along thos? farmers who are interested in the breed.

One of the Canterbury College roysterers on Friday last performed an act which might have been taken from, a picture thrill. The company were/at the time invading Che Beresford buildings, and there were weird figures all round the locality. One hopped on "to a passing tramcar in ColUßibo Street, and climbed Io the roof. Another car came along in an opposite direction, and this foolhardy individual jumped from one car to the roof of the other while both were in motion. He reached the street 'level safely. Fortune „in this case certainly favoured the foolish,—-Press.

There is professional pride in every calling. When a prisoner at the bar was addressing a jury in a case before the Palmerston North Supreme Court, in candid explanation of how lie came by certain information, be remarked, “In my occupation as a crook, it is my place to know these things.” At another stage in the proceedings the same prisoner upheld the theory that there is honour among thieves, claiming that, because of this he was unable to give certain information as to. his whereabouts on the particular night in question.

. “Do we as a nation devote too much attention to sport ?” asked Dr. H. J. McLean during a Red Cross lecture at Wellington. “The tendency of late years has been, towards top many competitions, and when one considers the number of teams touring the country all contesting for 'trophies presented by individual donors, the whole thing seems hardly commensurate with the benefit received. Recreation is, afte.all, only a change of occupation, and when watching the Sprinbox match here I was struck by the tremendous amount of energy used in games. If that energy could be applied to something more useful things might be different. But then, one could hardly picture our footballers working on the roads I”

The South African versus Auckland Rugby match takes pride of place io the pictorial section of this week’s issue of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review,” a fine series of interesting snapshots being caught by the camera. The recent Dempsey-Carpentier fight is covered in a strikingly realistic set of photographs, bringing home the sensational interest taken in the great combat. Football in other parts of the Dominion and racing at Riccarton .are included in an attractive miscellaneous choice, making the issue of unique interest.

The following pupils from the local Convent were successful at the practical examinations held aC Thames Convent Centre by Mr S. Myerscough, Mus. Bac. in connexion with the Trinity College of Music, Londpn: — Isabel Halligan,. 83, honours ; Muriel Tattersall, 86, honours; Stuart McDougall, 86,- honours; Edna Moore, 82, honours ; Eva White, 81, honours ; Evelyn Yelland. 77, pass.

When Mr Baron, the general manager of the N.Z. Co-op. Bacon Co., was ini this district giving addresses so the farmers on <he pig industry in June last he contracted a severe cold and had ,to abandon, some of the meetings. In accordance with his promise he is again paying the district a visit, and on Monday next will address a meeting at Matatoki and on Tuesday at Netherton and Kopuarahi.

“We are getting on to a too easily soluble food,” said Dr, Thacker during the course of his address at tlin Y.M.C-A, in Christchurch. “I want to tell you to cut out all the sugar you can, ‘and don’t, eat hard-cooked foods. I also want you to cut out pastry and scones, and -not to take any gassy drinks, and also to avoid having big drinks at meal times. These are some of the vicious.things which are causing goitre and bringing about nervous dyspepsia.”

Objection to children “going about town streets collecting” was made by Mr: Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Wellington, during the hearing of a case in whichc the Crown alleged indecent assault on a little girl by a man <0 whose shop she had gone collecting in aid of churca funds. “It is simply a temptation to men of a certain type to interfere with these children,” said His Honor. “I do not think that the practice should' be allowed —certainly it should not be encouraged.” The child’s mother was in Court. “If you £ake my advice,” she was told by the Judge, “you will not allow your little girl to go out collecting money.”

Something u.'iusual in the way of c.orrespondence came, before the managers of the .Masterton Technical School, when several replies were re-, ceived in response, to an inquiry for a skeleton in art classes. A Dunedin firm offered a special specimen at £2l. A Sydney firm stated that it had a very fine male specimen for £l4 ss, also a female—not quite up ■io the high standard of the male—at £l3 ss.

A Diggers’ Loan of £19,000,000 was recently launched at Sydney. Amidst scenes, of great enthusiasm Dame Nellie Melba cut a ribbon, and from every porthole in the huge Commonwealtli Bank fell a rainbow-coloured rain of gay streamers, while hundreds of pigeons fluttered happily into the sunshine, and balloons sailed over the crowd. The Lord Mayor (Aiderman Lambert) released a white dove of peace. With speeches, patriotic and appealing, with the music of massed bands, wi,th subscriptions from Sir Walter Davidson and Danie Nellie Melba, with the comedy of megaphone and the cheers of the multitude, the stout'ship “Diggers’ Loan” started (says the. Sun) on its prosperous voyage.

Advertising is cheaper than printing, especially at .the present price of paper. Advertising, besides reaching ten times as many people as posters do, entitles the things advertised to a mention in the news columns, of the paper beforehand, and a report afterwards, but job printing by itself carries no such right. The material is bought and paid for, like groceries or any other merchandise. Also, the amount of space given in the reading columns of a newspaper of any given event generally depends upon the length of time .they have been advertised, and the advertising space taken. These are general principles upon which all successful newspapers are run.

Of Caruso anecdotes there is no ending, but one may be quoted whicn displays the gifted Neapolitan as a pretty shrewd judge of the value f applause. When he was staying in Naples he was almost idolised on account of his bonhomie. He would enter a little restaurant and sing in the most glorious manner, between the courses, songs for which in opera he would be paid hundreds of pounds. The cook used to come from the kitchen; the padrone from his office, and all the women-folk of the place from their various occupations, and would stand around enraptured, and sometimes -with moist eyes, listening to the wonderful notes. After the applause one day Caruso turned to a friend, saying: “That is the praise I prize. If I can draw tears from the eyes of the man who copks my macaroni then I am sure I am in Voice. Women will weep because it is Caruso who sings, but the cook will only do so if his heart is really touched.”

Peanuts, silk, a pair of old boots, and a box of pig iron I. What; a fine mixture to import in one case from China. Needless to say the firm which received the case did not expect the miscellaneous collection (says the Wellington Post). According to the invoice the case contained silk; and from outward appearance i' did not look as though it had been tampered with. The wire round the case was intact, but, all the same, several parcels of silk had been stolen. The case was double-lined, and apparently every precaution had been .taken to prevent pillaging, al) to no purpose. In this particular instance it seems as though the theft must have taken place in China before the goods were-shipped to New Zealand.