Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2470, 22 August 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Correspondence and other local items are crowded out of this issue. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., Lanee Andrews, arrested for drunkenness on Saturday, Avas convicted and fined 5/-. For fencing the Round Bush, Foxton, a vote of £l2O appears on the Estimates. Tl is anticipated that £3OO will be required to do this work properly. The expenses of taking the coming general election are estimated at £25,000, and this sum is provided while the sum of £BO,OOO is earmarked for the preparation and printing of rolls. The annual concert and social in connection with 'the local Presbyterian Sunday School will be held in the school hall on Friady evening next at 7.30 o’clock, A capital programme has been arranged by Mrs Slade. Refreshments will be provided. Admission by silver coin. Those who argue with Magistrates usually come to grief, as a defendant at the Blenheim Court recently found to his cost. His offence was that he had dumped four benzine cases of fish offal in the Opawrii River. Hs Worship said defendant must not commit a nuisance. If necessary, he must bury the offal in his back-yard. Defendant : “We haven’t got a backyard." His Worship: “Welt, there’s plenty of space round here, or you could keep it in a covered tin.” Defendant: “There’s ‘too much for a tin.” His Worship: “Then get two tins.” Defendant: “There was four benzine cases full.” His Worship: “Then, get four tins or eight tins, but don’t throw i't in the river.” He was fined 10s and costs.

During the next two week-ends, members of the Tar urn a Tramping Club expect to lie busy between Otaki and Mt. Hector, conveying from the former place a seetionised mountain hut which is to be ercoted in the danger gap on the Tararua track. The sections are being built in Wellington, and will be conveyed to Otaki by railway. The but will not be a large one, but it will fill an interim purpose until a larger but (to which it will then become auxiliary) is erected. Anxious to “get something done,” the dub is not waiting for long-promis-ed and more ambitious schemes, but is putting its shoulder to the wheel in order to secure a shelter that will he immediately available for Hampers, and which, moreover, can be used by the builders of the larger hut when they proceed with its erection (it is hoped) this summer. At the Tararua Tramping Club’s social on Saturday evening it was agreed to abandon the walk programme for next week-end and to concentrate on the transport of the Hector hut sections.

The death occurred at Marton on Sunday morning of Mr W. C. Kensington, LS.O., at the age of 77, after a long illness. He was for many years Under-'Seeretary of Lands, and was an ex-Mayor of Marton. The late gentleman was born in Wales and came 'to New Zealand at the age of 18. He saw considerable service on the East Coast during the Maori war, and was awarded the New Zealand war medal. Later, he was appointed Captain of the Cadet Volunteers. In 1864 he entered the Landis and Survey Department, and at times acted as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor, later being appointed Chief Under-Secretary. He was awarded the 1.5.0. for his thirty years’ service, and took a prominent part in all public affairs. The late Mr Kensington is survived by two single daughters and three sons: Hubert Maturin (Survey Office, Gisborne), Norman Chas. (Chief Draughtsman, Blenheim), and George Mevillc (manager for .T. C. Williamson, Did., Melbourne).

’Tis a stern, cold world for the • “waster,” ’Tis a hard, rough world for the meek; But there’s ever a prize for the worldly wies Who boldly and earnestly seek. Never sleep when the world is waking, Hustle in and your share assure: And for colds get the habit of taking Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 26.