HAWKE'S BAY JOTTINGS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 142, 18 July 1929, Page 4

HAWKE'S BAY JOTTINGS

Earthquake Fund. The Makotuku schoolckildren have subscribed £2 ls 2d to the earthquake relief funds, which sum has been forwarded hy the headmaster to the Dannevirke F/Vening News' list Cas at Waipawa, The Waipawa municipal gasworks manufacture 436,000 cuhic feet of gas during the month of June, showing an increase of 400 cubic feet as compared with the same month last year. Flood Damage. The men engaged on the work of repairing the breaks in the overflow at Meanee caused by the flood are making good. progress, and should, if fine weather prevails, complete the work in a month. Kitchen Tea. Miss Schenek, of Whetukura, who is shortly to be married, was the guest at a kitchen tea held in tlie Whetukura Institute by the residents of Whetukura and Te Uri. Dancing and competitions _ contnbuted to a very plcasant evening. Norsswood SOcial. A most suceessful social evening was held by the ladies of the Norsewood Methodist Church Guild. The Ngamako School was well filled and the evening was spent pleasantly in games, competitions and elocutionary items, Mr Itose giving two delightrul recitations and the Rev. Mr Duncan a humorous item. Adjourned. The hearing of the cases of the Waipawa County Council against C. McLeod, sawmiller, of Waipawa. for breaches of bv-laws and damage to road, which should have been lieard at the Waipawa Court to-morrow, has now been adjourned to next Friday, as the magistrate, Mr A. M. Mowlem, is unahle to visit Waipawa this week. Ball at Makotuku. There was a good attendance at a meeting held on Monday evening m the MaJrotuku Hall, to make arrangements for tlie holding of the annua! lesidents' ball, Mr P. Murphy was in the cliair, and Miss Piki was appointed secretary. The balance sheet from last year was handed in, showing a credit of over £2. It was decided to hold a ball on August 16. and preliminary arrangements are being made. Paraiysis Among Cows. Meanee stockowners are puzzled by a peeuliar sickness which has attacked their cows this Winter. It generally strikes the beast in the hindquarters and causes semi-paralysis and often total paraiysis. In very few cases has the beast recovered. No one seems to know what it is. One dairyman lost four of his milking herd witliin a month. Cows that were near calving were the first to be stricken, and now it seems to attack yearling heifers.

Onga Onga Sohool. Tlie following is a statement of funds of the Onga Onga school, indicating the receipts and expenditures of the comm.ittee. — ^Receipts: Grants and suhsidies from board, £64 0s 3d: suhscriptions (pony), £28; direct donations towards heating system, ,£9 5s; euchre tournaments, £8 2s ld; half proceeds dance, £5 6s 9d ; balance forward from last year, £21 13s 6d; total, £136 7s 7d. Expenditure, or money owing : Cleaning, £15 7s 7d ; firewood, £5; asphalting playground,£19; water trough, etc., £9 4s lld; stationery for school, £2 3s 3d; bank charges, 10s; lawn mower, £4; school library, £10 14s 3d; teaclier's trea-sua-y, £3 12s 6d; prizes, £9 10s 4d; sundries, £3 12s 8d; repairs and xnaintenance, £3 17s 3d; heating system, £46 ; total, £132 2s 9d ; balance in hand, £4 4s lOd. In reference to the heating the lowest tender teceived exceeded the architect's estimate by £43, namely £138, the committee's share of the cost amounting to £46 instead of £31. "The Awakening." The thrill of hard-ridiug cavalrymen, the gaiety of twiliglit coiirtship and the stern clrama of liuman intoler-anc-e and oppresision are the ingredients of Vilma Banky's first starring picture for United Artists, entitled "The Awakening," which has just had its first screening at the New Majestic Theatre, Wellington, and will be screened. at the Waipukurau Theatre on Saturcfay next. "The Awakening" has evoked the highest praise from leading reviewers. When the totals of filmdom are summed up for the year, there can be little doubt that "The Awakening" will be found near the top of the list of tlie year's best. Tbe beautiful Vilma Banky is the outstanding star, tbe Hungarian rhapsody, as she has been called. She gives the finest perfonnanco of lier careei- as the adorable little spitfire, who loses her heart to a romantic young officer who has been merely toying with her love. It is a dynamic story of liuman souls ablaze with burning passions, meri-y with rolliclcing laugliter, and tlirobbing with profound drama. The box plan opens at Woods' Music Depot this morning, ancl as a full house is expected intending patrons are advised to reserve. Accidental Poisoning. A verdict that death was due to shockj following the accidental taking of poison was retumed at an inquest held at Waipukurau yestea'day, iiito the circumstances of the death of Ernest George Boderick, the stranger who was left at the Waipukurau Hospital on Thursday last by scme person unknown, and who subsequently succumbed in the institution. *Unica Mary Murphy, of Wellington, identified deceased as the man she had divorced some years ago. He was addicted to drink and had twice before attempted to take his life by poisoning, once in 1913 and once in 1916. The last time witness saw him he called at her house in Wellington in a drunken state and was arrested hy the police. Singe then slie had received many threatening letters from him. Sister Wagner, of the Waipukurau Hospital, said that when deceased was brought in by a man who had found him on the road he said something about liaving found a bottle on the road which he thought contained spirits and had drunk the contentsHe also said that he had walked from near Dannevirke. Dr. J. L. Eeed, medical superintendent at the hospital, gave evidence that in his opinion death was due to sliock,. following on irritant or corrosive poisoning. Dr. W. B- Fislier gave corroborative evidence, after a post-mortem examination.