LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17976, 22 March 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A parachute descent from an aeroplane was made by Mr .Jonassen a few days ago at Longlands, near Napier.

In a golf match at the Yarn Yarn links Walter Hagen and Jr 11. Kirkwood beat the professionals Arthur Spence and G. Young, 5 up and 4.

Word was received in Hamilton this morning that Messrs Booth, Veats and Woodhall, who are fishing at Russell, caught a swordfish weighing 2241 b, off the launch Lorna Doone.

Certain land in the Matamata County —part lot i, D.P. 13944, Mangawhero No. 2a block, and section 10s, Tapapa Settlement —-is gazetted as a public road.

The Limited Express was 40 minutes behind schedule i on arrival at Frankton Junction this morning.

So far only one of the four youths who escaped from the Bortsal Institution at Invercargill on Thursday afternoon has been recaptured.

Fishing from the launch Rclemin, off Whitianga, Mr Stanley Ellis, of Hamilton, captured a swordfish weighing 3201 b. He had several other strikes.

Evidence is being colletced for the inquest into the mysterious death of Mr Walter Edwin Price, of Palmerston North, builder, and the inquiry will probably be resumed within a fortnight.

From the 23rd instant to Aprff 27 inclusive, the attendance at the Ngaruawahia and Raglan telephone exchanges will be extended to 9 a.m. to noon and 2 to G p.m. on Sundays and holidays for the convenience of telephone exchange subscribers and the public generally.

A service for men under the auspices of* the C.E.M.S. will be held at St. Peter’s Cathedral at 2.30 to-morrow afternoon, and will be conducted by the Dean. Archdeacon Mac Murray, Vicar-General of the Auckland Diocese, will be the preacher.

Mr S. Pearson, of Claudclands, informs us that the nectar-peach grown by him and to which reference was made yesterday is a seedling. The stone or seed was sown in March, 1923; the young tree was planted out in July, 1925; the first fruit matured in March. 1928. Its peculiar quality was noticed when the fruit was ripening, it having a peach skin and the nectarine flavour. It attains a good size, and is a prolific hearer. The crops last year and this were satisfactory, and less addicted to blight and pests than the ordinary peach or nectarine. It is a strong, hardy tree. He named it nectar-peach, because of the combination of the flavours. Being a firm fruit it is suitable for transmission.