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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 4

On page 2: Chamber of Commerce report. Page 3: Cable news; N.Z. butter ; Waitahora notes. Page 6: Bush Districts A. and P. Association ; torpedoes that fly in tho air. Page 7: Parliamentary proceedings. The next meeting of they Chamber of Commerce will be the annual meeting. The monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Friday evening next. The Woodville Borough Council are calling for tenders for. the- erection of a grandstand on the recreation ground. The friends of Mr George Newett were pleased to see him taking an airing in the sun this morning after his recent severe attack of rheumatic fever. We are glad to learn that Mr Newett is now making vapid progress towards recovery . At the meeting of the Borough Council on Friday night', Cr Kilford intends to move, That the Gordon street property, being lot 5 and portion of lot 11 of lot 27, of section 21,' recently purchased by the said Council be sold, and the proceeds be utilised in connection with the construction of tlie proposed swimming baths. ; Judging hy correspondence received by the Chamber of Commerce last night the Mayor contemplates an early visit to Australia to recuperate his health. In view of this and in order to preservo. the .continuity cf Borough administration, we understand that at its meeting on Friday night the Council will be asked to appoint? Cr Collett Deputy-Mayor during Pastor Ries' absence. Mr W. H. Jackson made a telling reference to the question of universal training when proposing 1 a vote of thanks to Mr R. McNab at Masterton, on Tuesday night, says the Wairarupa Daily Times. He stated that when compulsory education was first * introduced there was a very great outcry against it, but it was only a * matter of a very short time before the people became accustomed to it. : The same, he held, would apply to military training. The deadly pea rifle is again in evidence. While passing •through Levin ono morning last week the passengers in -a first-class carriage on g tho Wellington-Palmerston express i wore startled at the sudden breaking of a window, and on examination 'twas found that a pea. rifle, bullet had l gone through tho window and lodged c itself in the sash frame, narrowly missing an old gentleman and his in- _ valid son, who wero sitting next the C broken window. The Raiway De- * partment have- the matter in hand, j and an effort will be made to bring a tlie culprit to book. s Speaking to his motion re the Tim-- -jber Commission's report at the Cham- j! Inn-of Commerce meeting last night, Mr W. -T. Irvine said that timber and flour were different to most commodities of trade, inasmuch as their cost of'production Mas known almost to a fraction, and unless the millers got some increase on that cost they must b bo working at a loss. He had no "t hesitation iv saying that the millers' d profits over and abovo the cost of h production in timber was not execs- 1< sive, and therefore if tliey were going a to get protection against the impor- a tatiou of certain classes of Oregon .si pine the sooner they got it the better; 1c

Dr Riddell has been elected t-> the Waipawa District Hospital Board, _ or ■ :"•- the Weber County Council, iri place of ■ Cr Speedy, who resigned the post. : " At Rotorua yesterday the Mountain Rimu Timber Company was fined £2 and 12 costs for paying a- carpenter less than the award wage. The Bartholomew Timber and Land Co. also prosecuted on a similar charge. Defendants urged that one shilling a week was kept back for the rent of a cottage in, which the man lived. They were fined £7 and costs 30s. A young man named William John McLean was arrested by the local police yesterday afternoon on a charge of obtaining the sum of £7 10s from Alfred Barnes, of Napier, by means of a valueless cheque. McLean was brought before Mr Dobson, J. P., at tho Police Court this morning, when the police applied for a remand to Napier. Mr Fitzherbert, for the accused, asked that McLean should he admitted to bail. A remand till Thursday morning was granted, and bail fixed at accused in £25 and one. surety of a like amount.