HERE AND THERE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 22, 30 June 1911, Page 3

HERE AND THERE.

During the fireworks display at Hawera a child was seriously injured by the stick in a rocket, after it burst, rebounding from a shed it decended on, and striking the child on the head. The sufferer was taken to the hospital in a critical condition and operated upon. - The movement to establish a cow-testing Association in Eketahuna on similar lines to the one at Dalefield is meeting with every success. An effort is also to be made to establish an institution of the same kind in the vicinity of Pahiatua. The Journal of the Department of Agriculture states that there is every reason to anticipate that although there will be no real shortage of feed, the value of beef and mutton will be considerably enhanced during the next few months—beef particularly so, for there is already a shortage of forward stores. The president of the Maori Land Board, which sat in Masterton on Friday, informed a representative of the Wairarapa Age that the clause in the Native Land Act, 19x19, which provides for the disposal of native lands on a vote of a majority of native owners at a duly-convened meeting, was working admirably in Hawke's Bay and other portions of the North Island. Under the provisions of the Act it is not necessary to obtain the signatures of the whole of the owners before a title can be granted. The Board may issue a title on the vote of a majority of those attending a meeting. That there are a lot of careless people about is indicated by the experience of the postal officials in charge of the Dead Letter Office in Wellington. It seems incredible that through incorrect or insufficient addresses and other such-like causes, so much valuable stuff could be so carelessly handled by the senders. Here are a few of the figures for last year:—49s cheques, 652 P.O. Orders, 54 bank drafts, 384 bank notes, representing a value of £9950, 48 gold and silver watches, 43 gold rings, 41 gold brooches, 21 greenstone pendants, 14 gold and silver watch chains, 6 sovereign cases and a host of other articles of greater or less value including spoons, sleeve links, binoculars, tankards, tusks, bangles, medals, and 10 pawn tickets.