LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2593, 14 June 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A tender of £25,825 has been accepted for the erection of woollei mills at Wanganui.

The sweepstake sparrow shooting match for the championship of New Zealand, held at Wanganui, was won by L. R. McKelvie, of Bulls.

At a public meeting held at Dunedin last night, a resolution was passed urging the ratepayers to vote in favour of a loan for a new town hall.

For the lirst time in New York, a woman motorist has been convicted of manslaughter. She was sentenced to from one to three years' imprisonment for running; down and kitting a hoy. Waller William Webster, of Rahialua, an elderly married man, a baker by trade, whilst cycling to business on Monday morning, collapsed and expired before reaching the hospital.

The provincial conference of the Farmers’ Union held at Auckland yesterday re-allirmed by 28 votes to eight its decision stating that it is desirable to form a Country thirty.

At the Palmerston .North Magistrate’s Court on Monday, John Augustine Chesham was charged with disturbance at a public meeting in the Opera Mouse, held during the recent contest lor the Mayoralty, ami was lined £2 and costs.

The escapees JLTorn the Weraroa Training harm, Victor Kirner and James Scorringer, were arrested at Ohingaiti railway station in a truck amongst some bags oi' chaii. They were taken to Hunterville and charged with breaking and entering and theft from a hut at Ohingaiti and were remanded for eight days.

“While X was in -New York a cow was put in the Zoo, because so many New Yorker’s had never seen a cow.” This amazing fact (says Lire Christchurch “Press”) was related by Mr M‘Cannon, lecturer in engineering at the Victorian School of Mines, who recently returned from the United States.

A new mechanical fire-ladder costing £2,800 arrived in Wellington last week on order to the Wellington City Council. Tt is mounted on a motor truck and can be raised 85ft. in 20 seconds.

The appointment of the Hon. W. Downie Stewart (Minister for Customs and Internal Affairs) as Minister also for Industries and Commerce has been announced by the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey).

A conference at Levin yesterday of representatives of the eight largest dairy companies on the coast, after an till day meeting, decided unanimously to affirm the principle of control as embodied in the Dairy Produce Bill. A Maori family who had received a substantial sum on account of the freeholding in To Kuiti went to Auckland and purchased a Player piano. On the instrument arriving, however, it was found that it would not pass through the doorway, and they lmd to demolish the side of the house to provide egress.—Chronicle.

A mun named B. Connell was engaged in blasting a large log near the hotel at Taptt, on the coast, and placed a charge of gelignite. He lit tt match to lire the fuse, then, thinking it, had not caught, was in the act of lighting another match when the charge exploded and killed him, blowing the side of his face off and his right hand.

A young lady had a remarkable experience whilst shopping at Wagga (N.S.W.). She asked to he shown some gloves, and tried one on. When she withdrew her hand she was astonished to find a valuable gold ring set with a diamond. She proceeded to the firm’s office and reported the matter of the finding of the ring.

“When you go to Rotorua for a change and a rest, yon get. the change and the Maoris get the rest,” said Mr J. A. Nash, M.P.. amidst laughter, at the farewell to Mr and Mrs (i. 11. Espiner, at Bunnythorpe. Renewed hilarity followed Mr D. Matheson's observation that, when people went to Palmerston North, they got the rest all right but the business people got tlie change.

At last night’s school committee meeting, the chairman mentioned that the winners of the recent primary schools seven-a-side football tournament were coached by Mr 11. Gnbites late first assistant at the local school. It was decided to send a letter of congratulation to Mi- Gabites and express the wish that the Foxton boys would turn the tables fin his team next year.

A well-deserved tribute was paid to Mr Davidson, first assistant at the local State School, by the chairman of committee at last night’s meeting in connection with the enthusiasm displayed by this teacher in school games. Reference was made to the success of the local boys at the recent seven-a-side primary schools football tournament in which they were runners-up in the final. It was decided to ask the schoolmaster to convey the committee’s appreciation to Ah- Davidson.

“’file way that young men are going about wasting their time and means in search of pleasure,” commented Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court at Wellington,- “is perfectly shocking. They are not studying, they are not reading, and they are not looking at anv books worth while. He had seen scores of young people running night after night to playhouses, instead of studying and being careful of their means.

A deputation consisting of Archbishop O'Shea, Bishop Sprot-t, Rev. Father Cullen and Rev. K. Inglis, waited on the Minister of Justice at Wellington to ask that the publication of details of divorce and other cases bearing on sexual matters should be forbidden. In reply Sir Fram-is Bell said that he had no duty to protect the morals of the people except through the police. In a matter of the kind under notice' there was a difliculty to intervene by authority. Sir Francis Bell said that if he were to grant the deputation's request it practically meant the establishment of a censorship of new>papers and he could see no way in which that could be done legally and effectively.