LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4322, 26 September 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. Owing to a bereavement in the family Mr W. Bain’s shop will be closed temporarily. The right to strike is beginning to seem much less important than the right to work. The annual meeting of the Paeroa Bowling Club will be held m the Criterion Hotel tp-morrow night, at 7.45. The official recount of the votes cast at the machinery loan for the Hauraki Plains was made at Ngatea on Friday and the figures show that there were 325 votes for the proposal and 233 against. The attention of the ladies is directed to the list of articles of furniture advertised to-day in a clearance sale announcement of Mr F. Finch’s sale at Komata North on Friday. The Waihou River in the vicinity of Kopu on Friday morning presented quite a busy appearance, there being in sight no less than seven vessels, which included the Northern Chief, Louis Theriault, and the s.s. Taniwha. It was an American General of the Civil War, I believe, who first defined war as hell. Nobody seems to have quarrelled with this definition, but there is at least one man who at any rate thinks the phrase an exaggeration. During the hearing of an assault case in England recently the husband of the defendant in evidence said his life since he returned from the front had been hell. “I had,” he added, “a more peaceful time in Flanders I”

The case of a girl ,11 years old, who had a gap in her humerus (the bone of the upper part of the arm) filled by a boiled beef bene at the Paddington (London) Children’s Hospital, is described by Dr. C. W,. Gordon Bryan in the Lancet. A piece of bone cur from the leg cf an ox, boiled for 48 hours, shaped, and drilled with holes, was inserted into the gap, and secured with pegs. The muscles were stitched round it. A plaster cast was applied to the limb. In three weeks the beef bone was firmly united, and the patient left the hospital a month later. A few weeks after the girl had full use of her arm.

A ' Masterton farmer informed :i “Daily Times” represetnative that he recently used up the last of his store of benzine, purchased at 17s a case shortly after the outbreak of war. The same farmer purchased a ton and a half of sugar at less than 3d a lb Xor use on his table shortly before th 9 acute shortage took place. The only thing his keen foresight did. not prompt him to do was to sell his farm at the top of the boom —and for this he is extremely sorry.