LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3731, 17 December 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is reported that the division of opinion on the licensing issue among members is responsible for a special Reform [Party caucus earlynext month. The Royal Humane Society awarded a bronze medal to Thomas Rennie, aged 17, of St. Ivilda, Dunedin, for rescuing a man from drowning and a letter of commendation to Alexander Zachan, a nightwaitchman at Napier, for saving a schoolboy from drowning.

The local Labour Social Club held another successful euchre tournament last evening. The priks were won as follows:—•Firsts: Mr. Williams and Mrs. Small; seconds: Mr. Yertongen and Mrs. Watts; third: Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Rand.

The Balclutha Boys’ Band will visit Foxton next Friday. The Mayor (Mr Perreau) has been successful in finding billets for the boys. . The Band will play a* programme of music in the town or. Friday afternoon, and at the Town Hall in the evening. What are believed to be. the remains of the victims of the disaster of 1914 in which three men lost their lives were discovered at the Hochsetter Glacier, 17 miles from the Hermitage. They consist of a •leg, hand, part of a scalp with auburn hair, skull bones, rope, and ice axe.

At the conclusion of the school concert on Thursday night, the Committee entertained the teaching staff and those who had assisted' its producing the entertainment at supper at Fairey’s rooms. The usual congratulatory speeches were made iitid seasonable greetings exchanged.

The weather during the past few days has been decidedly wintry and colds are very prevalent throughout the district.

Ernest Boeck, at Wellington yesterday, was fined £2O for practising dentistry while unregistered under the Dentists Act. A case against E. M. Cohen was also heard. It was stated for defendant he was a registered dentist in Scotland. Here he had only been doing repair work. The Magistrate reserved his decision, pending a personal inspection of defendant’s premises. “Now, children, I have an uncompleted proverb problem for you this morning,” remarked a teacher at the Eltham school the other day to her class. “I want you to complete the saying: ‘People who live in glass houses should not ” “Have a bath!” was one hopeful’s brilliant idea, which convulsed the class and also upset the teacher’s facial equilibrium. —Eltham Argus. Bessie Lee, a pupil of the Matarawa School, has an unbroken attendance record for six years. She has not been absent from school for tven half a day during the period, and hah often had to walk two and a-half miles. This year Bessie has obtained her proficiency certificate. Aits this week’s meeting of the Education Board it was decided to forward Bessie a congratutatory letter.

The advent of another faith healer among the Maoris has created quite a stir in the settlements of this coast (says the Raglan paper). The new “prophet” visited Kawhia, and is reported to have effected several remarkable cures, his methods being of ithe mesmeric order. The fact that his services 'are quite gratuitous also appeals strongly to Ike natives, and he has established a very favourable reputation. The Auckland Cit yiCouneil does not seem to be at all popular with the Mount Roskill Road Board, states the “New Zealand Herald.” At the meeting of the road board last evening, when the question of water charges was being discussed, the City Council was referred to as “the octopus.” Later, when the council gave formal notice of the new tramway fares and sections, and stated the matter of furnishing the board with an estimate of the probable loss on the working of the tramway system in Dominion, road had been referred to the "tramways manager, the board resolved to receive the letter “with disgust.”