LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2645, 13 October 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr P. Whitehead, Levin mail contractor, inserts a not ice in Ibis issue that, he is prepared lo carry passengers to Levin, or from Levin to Foxton for 1/- a head, single. Mr Hay, engineer to the Mano-wntu-Oroua Drainage Board has transferred his ollice from Palmerston North to Koxlon. The Board’s (diice will now be situated in the Council Chambers.

Mr Arthur Baker left Foxton yesterday morning for Hamilton, where lie has accepted a position with a motor engineering firm. It is interesting to note that there are live exFoxton boys in Hamilton.

A collision between a locally-ow-ned and Palmerston North cal' took place at Bainesse yesterday afternoon. The Palmerston North car was somewhat seriously damaged and had to be towed to its destination. The locally owned car suffered minor damages to the mud guard and lamp.

The attendance at the united meeting for intercession in the Salvation Army hall on Tuesday night was very good, Ensign Huston conducted the meeting and the Rev. J. Boothroyd gave an address from Psalm 147, vrs. 3-4, and also gave an account of the spread of spiritual healing in the United States through Mr Hickson’s Mission there in 1919. The next meeting will be in the Anglican Church and will be addressed by the Rev. McDonald.

Mr Massey had an audience with ihe King at Buckingham Palace yesterday morning (states a London cablegram).

Six degrees of frost were registered in Dunedin on Wednesday night. For this season of the year the frost was an exceptionally severe one, and considerable damage is reported lo have been done to potato crops.

The coal position is unallered. The miners' delegates in Australia reported to-day that the Miners’ Unions there were giving their support. This week the first relief payments were made at the mining camps, but it is slated that numerous men have not yet applied for any relief.

One of the most eminent surgeons in the world, Sir William Macewen. [•resident of the International Society of Surgery, and late president of the British Medical Association, is at present in Wellington en route for Australia, where lie is to attend the Australian Congress of’Medicine next month. JTe continues bis voyage hv the Tahiti to-dav.

“There are 100 many freezing works, too many factories and too many farmers lighting farmers for the good of New Zealand,” said Captain C'olbeck at Te Poi. “More centralisation was required. An American visitor to New Zealand had stated that if the freezing works wore run continuously for 50 days they would clean up the whole of the export of sheep and cattle from New Zealand for one year.”

Suspended across Main Street, in mid-air, since day-break this morning, is a novel sign in connection with the Band Concert. One unique line of music appears on the streamer which, interpreted, reads: — “Be sharp and come, he natural when there, hut don’t he flat and miss the fair.”

A Boxing Club has been formed at Shannon to be affiliated with the Wellington centre. The following were elected as an executive commit lee: Messrs W. Murdoch, A. Steer, W, Mclvegg, IT. Ilock, S. Cording, IT. T-lardie, T. Gardner, 11. Burroughs, IT. V. Hudson, .1. T. Bovis, J. Murray, and 11. Creighton.