Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2445, 24 June 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Seadden notifies that she has resumed nursing. Address Norbiton Road.

Mr Geo. Shaw, a well-known Wairarapa farmer, is a visitor to Foxton.

A very successful dance was held by the local Tennis Club in the .Masonic Hall on Wednesday evening last.

A number of local football enthusiasts proceeded to Levin to-day to witness the Horowhenua-Mana-watu rep. match.

A man named James Joseph Willoughby was arrested by Wellington detectives, in connection with the theft of a bag containing £l5O in cash from Mr Gamble, of Gamble and Creed. The theft was committed in a tra incur in Welling-

While motoring to Levin this week, says the Chronicle, Mr Judd, of Makerua had an unusual experience. When nearing Levin, not far from the butter factory, a hare jumped from a bank by the roadside and crashed through his windscreen, shattering the thick glass, and falling stunned at the driver’s feet. Mrs Judd, who was also in the car caught the animal as it revived and attempted to leap from the car, and brought it home to Shannon as evidence of what had occurred.

“Findings are not keepings" in the eye of the law. A man picked up a horse cover on a Taranaki road recently and who failed to find the owner, was convicted and admitted to probation for six months and ordered to pay costs. The Magistrate said the law as regarded the finding of articles was that the finder was under some duty to find the proper owner. A person had a right to pick up an article and his duty was to make known the fact that there was an article in his possession, the owner of which was not known. He should also communicate with the ]X>liee. An endeavour to purchase from Germany special surgical instruments for use at- Auckland Hospital is to he made by the Board. The instruments in question (says the Post's Auckland correspondent) is tiie cystoseope, which contains a series of special lenses for examination of the bladder by illumination. A number of these instruments have already been in use in the Auckland Hospital, bin they need replacing, and it has been proved that similar instruments of British and American manufacture do not possess the perfect,lenses that were turned out in Germany before the war. Provided cystosoopes of equal calibre are now being manufactured in Germany, the board proposes to secure one or two to replace those at present in use. A dramatic and distressing fatality to witness took place at Wliakaititle on Tuesday afternoon, when a Maori named Kara was drowned as a result of a launch overturning when crossing the AVhakatane bar. The launch carried two men, llomttnti, a returned soldier, who was shot through the body at the war, and Kara. They were advised not to go out fishing that morning, as there was a very heavy swell in the hay, the result of heavy southerly wind. The launch returned at dead low water, and attempted to cross the bar. When the launch was swamped assistance was immediately forthcoming. Romana was washed away, and came ashore a mile along the beach. Kara clung to the wreck, but those ashore were unable to get a lifebuoy floated out. Kara made a great, fight for life. Every wave went clean over the wreck, but he clung to the combings of the sunken boat against a fierce ebb until the combings carried away. The body has not been recovered, though search parties have been out looking for it. The outgoing current at the river mouth is very strong.

The local Fire Brigade bull has been unavoidably postponed from Tuesday, July 4th, until Monday, July 10th.

Yesterday was the twenty-eighth birthday of the Prince of Wales, and appropriately enough, the morning cables contained glowing accounts of his Royal welcome home to London.

Those present at Thursday night’s Council meeting were: —His Worship the Mayor (John Chrystall Esq.) and Councillors Bryant, Whibley, Smith, Ross, Thompson, Coley, Rand, Martin and Walker. Mr Climie, engineer, was also present. Mr Jas. Mclntyre, who for thirty years has been headmaster of the Levin District High School, retires at the end of the month. The old pupils of the school are arranging a re-union, at which he will be farewelled, next week. Mr and Mrs McIntyre intend to reside subsequently in Wellington. “After the slump came I got as much —I might say more —work from three men-thun I had previously obtained from five,” said a county engineer when giving evidence it. the Supreme Court in Palmerston North.

The coal output from Westport mines last month, over 53,000 tons, was it record (states the Westport News), but was a mere bagatelle compared with what existing mines are capable of producing, hot to speak of the production possible when other coal measures adjacent to the port are developed.

Another milk vendor has commenced operations in Wanganui, and is retailing at 4Jd per quart (states the Herald). He is informing his customers that he is prepared to give them a written guarantee that he will not. advance the price within twelve months. In Feilding one retailer is delivering milk at 4d per quart, and when in Wanganui the other day remarked to a friend that he was doing good business.

How little interest some employees have in their employers’ property was exemplified the other afternoon, when the conductor of the -1,33 p.m. Castlecliff car observed the overhead bridge to be smouldering, and on the car reaching the borough yards requested an employee to ring the tramways. His reply was: “It lias nothing to do with me. I have knocked off.” —Wanganui Herald.

A movement is on foot to amalgamate the motor services of the Dominion into one organisation, to lie known as the Star Tourist Association. The important part of this service is the establishment of a regular air service over Cook Strait to Blenheim and Nelson, and also between Wellington and Christchurch. It is intended, if possible to obtain three 24-seater Handley Rage Seaplanes. Important mails will be carried as well as passengers.

It is estimated that the annual value • f' the poultry and eggs in the Dominion is now in the region of £4,000.000. Also that there are between 13.000 and 14,000 members affiliated with the New Zealand Poultry Association. The last census r turns show that there are 143,110 Mocks, with an average of 24 birds, while 30 per cent, of the Hocks have 12 birds or under, 40 per cent, have between 12 and 25 birds, and 20 per cent, have between 25 and 50 birds. This goes to show that t'-e small man to-day is an important factor in the industry and is well worth consideration.