NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4012, 11 June 1920, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Way to Meet H. C. of L. The Acting-Chairman of the Oroua County Council (Cr. Pearce) made a new suggestion at this month's meeting for meeting the increased cost ol necessaries. The Council had before it a remit, the endorsement of which was requested by the Hawcra Borough Council, in which the Government is urged to remove the duty on children s footwear. A member had stated that the duty would be about 6d per pair. Whereupon Cr. Pearce said: ' Well, all that a parent has to do to make up that duty is to stay away from one performance of the pictures. This suggestion opens up wide possibilities. Thus, by self-denial, every increase is met. The women of Auckland and Dunedin are urging the same principle, if the price of the article is too dear—do without. Already, quite a large number of folks do not sugar their tea. Some drink tea less frequently. But who keeps a balance against the high cost of living by denying indulgence kn this against an increase in the price of that?

The Bloke Called Weigall. Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, who has just arrived in Adelaide to take up his duties as Governor of South Australia, and marked his reception in the City of Churches by displaying a sense of humour in telling the tale from Tarcoola of the master of ceremonies who asked Lady Weigall if she knew of "a bloke called Weigall," left a seat in tho House of Commons to join the noble army of Governors. He belongs to the new school of young men who aspire to statesmanship by attaining all-round qualifications. He is as keen and able an agriculturist as he is a sportsman, he served in the Boer War and also in the Great War, and he was making his mark in Parliament as member for the Horncastle Division of Lincolnshire when the South Australian temptation was thrown in his way. His wife will also enjoy the Bioko Joke of Tarcoola, for she is the only daughter of that typical ancl prominent- English sportsman, the late Sir John Blundelt Maple. It is interesting- to note, by the way, that Lady Weigall's first husband is a regular Hun, Baron yon Kckhardstein, who was Chancellor of the German Embassy in London. She discovered the brute in him long before the war, for she secured a divorce from him in 1908. He didn't like losing the Maple money, and during the divorce proceedings made all sorts of threats about making disclosures that would lead to a war. fie was, however, six years ahead of DerTag.