LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5333, 1 October 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In line weather and before about 2000 people the final fixture for 'the much-co,voted Peace Cup was played ajt, Morrinsvillc. on Saturday between the Morrinsvillc team (holders) and Paeroa. After anj excjting contest. Morrinsvillc retained the trophy by 20 points to 9.

Xmas. Day is a fang-looked-for event with the kiddies, but with adults the Annual Social of the Rugby Union, ,to be held on Monday, October. 8. is a firm favourite.*

Mr W. P. Spry has decided to replace his old premises with a concrete structure similar to and in harmony with the new building adjoining which has just been completed l . The next adjoining shop is also, to be isubstantitijUy renovated, and both these preanises are already let.

Sir Henry Whitehead, who died in London recently, leaving. £672,086, made charitable bequests amcyinting to more than £125,000. They include £40,000 to Masonic institutions.

About. £4OO will go to the Christchurch uuemploymcsit fund as the result of the gate takings when Me Southern Cross .arrived at. Soe.kburn. The gross takings were approximately £5OO, but the- cost and repair, of fence: will absorb about. £lOO.

A mad. cow charged a yo.ung child in a Taranaki district recently, and followed up by attacking the father, who had gome to the. resc.ue, knocking him down and trampling him underfoot. The child’s mother, who wept to her husband’s assistance, wa,s also attacked, but she escapee!) unhurt, and the .farmer rolled himself clear under the wire fence. A little later the cow dropped dead. i

When Bro. P. Williams was speaking ,a ( t the Orphans’ Club On Thursday night he related a circumstance which befell a party of Paeroa, Orphans, when they visited Cambridge a fe ; w weeks ago. They were grangers to Cambridge, and when entering the town stopped and asked a coiuple of small boys if they knew where the .meeting of the Orphans’ Club wnp t'oi bfe held. “No,” said one of the boys, “1 don’t think we have any.” The other, with a bright inspiration : “Yeisi, mister., I know ; you will find them up at the Orphan s ’ Home. ’

Many of the. stories in circulaitic-n concerning Kingsford Smith are not authentic, but it is un,do.ubtedly true that if Kingsford coitild be in P.aproa on October 8 he would a;ttf!nd the Rugby Unions Annual social.*

Mr John. W,ajll& advertises that he will have the firpt spring lambs of tjlie season on Saturday next, a,nd invites customer,s. to book their orders.

“There are at the present time in the various State Departments about 4009 clerical officers on 'the maximum salary for their, grade of £295,” states “T,he Public Service Journal.” “Quite a large percentage of these, officers are capable, if they haff the opportunity of filling more responsible positions, but how seldom indeed do they have the opportunity—the vacancies are few in comparison to their numbers. Many of them h.a t ve passed the necessary departmental, professional, or technical examinatioins, necessary to qualify them for promotion, but; except in the case of a fortunate few this proof of their capacity and fitness for more responsible positions and work is unavailing, anff thev perforce have to mark .time until they become discouraged and lose heart. This is: one of the tragedies of the Public Service, and one for which it i's difficult to suggest any adequate remedy."

' A dance and euchre tournament is advertised to take plaqe in the Nat'herton, Hall to-morrow evening. A bus will leave Brenan’s garage at 7.30 q’clock.