LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

VALUE OF TOOTH-BRUSH DRILL

The value of tooth-brush drill is indicated by the .result of a report ironi Dr. Elizabeth Gunn on a largo Taranaki school, which was before the notice of the Taranaki Education Board by the senior inspector. The report states: “This school was the first in Taranaki to start toothbrush drill. Every child does it, and the results are most satisfactory. There arc no septic mouths, and what to my mind is most extraordinary is that there are practically no enlarged glands or enlarged tonsils. Children noted last year as having two or three decayed teeth show no more canes at the end of the 12 months. This was demonstrated in many cases, and proves, I consider, that the use of the fruit acid wash that is used at the school daily not only cleanses the teeth but prevents decay.” FOOD PRICES IN MARCH. Food prices in March were at the level reached in August 1918 according to the calculations of the Government Statistician. In relation to thoso ruling in July, 1914, the March rates showed an increase of 41.21 per cent. There was a substantial reduction from February to March, the groceries group being affected to the extent of CO points by the fall in the prices of flour and bread, while the dairy products group declined ds points and the meat grown 10 points. UNLUCKY THIRTEEN. A point of considerable interest to solicitors, tenants and landlords was mentioned by Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M.. during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch. It has been customary to regard the seven clear days necos■sary in giving notice to. quit as dating from any day on which the notice j must be given so as to fall on the day on which payment of rent is due. Thus, if Thursday is rent day, and notice is given on the next clay, l- 11day Friday, it docs not become effective for 13 days. THE CLAIM JUMPERS. • Says the Masterton Times editorially: The alleged “sports” of Wellington appear to be under the .impression that they are the only people in the Wellington province who have any rights in the matter of what cfa> a sports gathering or race meeting should lie held on. The Wellington Racing Club is making an attempt to filch the Masterton Racing Club s race day, March 17. Now tlio Wjw - lington 'Caledonian .Society has the colossal impudence to request the Wairarapa Caledonian 'Society to forego its rights to New Year’s Day, because the Wellington concerns desire to have a two days’ gathering at New Year. Apparently Wellington sports bodies have no sense of de-cency-or fair play. It is to be hoped that' the Wellington Caledonian Society will receive the stern rebuke that its attempt to jump the \\ airnrapa Caledonian Society’s day richly deserves. EASTERN "PHILOSOPHIES Here arc some savings which illustrate tlio wisdom of the philosophic East: (1) The (logs bark, but the caravan travels on. (2) Asked which he liked best, the uphill or the downhill track, the Camel replied, “Allah s curse on them both!’.; (3) It is not by crying “Honey!”- that sweetness cometii into the mouth. (4) Tlio soles of the feet heal, but not the spirit of the man who was bastinadoed. (5) All wood burns in silence, save thorns; for the thorns, being swiftly consumed, desist not from crying out, We are wood.” (0) Haste is from Satan, but Leisure from Allah. (7) Love is a worthy gift for the Sultan, but only the beggar can be sure it was given. (8) Sav not what is pleasant, but untrue, nor what is true but unpleasant. (9) Believe everything rather than nothing at all.

AIASTERTON’S AVAR. MEMORIAL. A campaign in aid of the Mastcrton soldiers’ memorial monument and park, which lias been in progress for some weeks, closed on Saturday, the total sum realised being £3680. 01 this £675 went in expenses so that the nett profit will be over £3OOO. The money was raised through a silver bullctt campaign, and revelie, in which local performers look part. On all the Rugby football grounds at Palmerston last Saturday, the total gate takings were £22. At Feilding, on the one ground, the takings were £ll 18s Gd. At to-night’s meeting of tho Civic Club, Mr S. M. Hobbs will give an address on the N.Z. Society of Accountants. An experiment made in tho Buller Dairy Factory, in the curing of bacon, 'lias turned out very satisfeatory (states an exchange). Up to date 310 pigs have been cured. This methods of handling the pigs is stated to have tightened up the market on the West Coast in the interests ol the breeders who formerly were able to command very small prices. For bacon they have received double, and more than they could obtain by selling the pigs for pork. “Your counsel has urged leniency in your case,” said his Worship Mr Justice Chapman, addressing a prisoner at the Christchurch Supreme Court (states an exchange) because you have a wife and family to support. If I were to give effect to that argument I should have to arrange a graduated scale according to the number of dependents. An Australian who was in Hamilton during the week, in conversation with a AVaikato Times representative, remarked that living appeared to be very much dearer in New Zealand than in Australia. “Especially do we notice the difference in the price of men’s clothing and boots,” he remarked. . “As a commercial concern it has been a very bad investment for the borough.” Such was the declaration of the Mayor of Pahiatua at the Borough Crfuncil meeting concerning the Pahiatua electrical scheme. “It has not paid one penny interest.” “I don’t know how it is,” said the Hon. J. G. Coates, at Ekctahuna, “but people seem to think that because £5,000,000 has been raised Jn London it is all going to be splashed about. It is nothing of the kind. 1 have strictly to limit our expenditure and get a decent result for the money. “He has retired altogether from public life. He has gone right into his shell. He sold Ilia wethers for nine bob.” This sad story of an Eketahuna celebrity was told at a gathering of farmers. “It’s a wife’s duty to grill her husband’s chop and bake his bread, instead of going away and living with her mother,” said Mr Hunt, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court in AVellington.

A master mariner who was before tho Court in England, told tho police that he wag on the point of starving. There wore hundreds of captains working as deck hands, he added, and he could not get work. Recently a Wanganui settler had 80 applicants for a position as married couplo, while another who advertised for an elderly mail at £1 a weekhad 20 applications, the majority being young men, and some of thorn ried. jA female bankrupt is described in this week’s Mercantile Gazette as the wife of a .“gentleman.” Tho latter, it may be mentioned, was also declared bankrupt some months ago. “It. cannot bo too widely known that repatriation as far as the Government is concerned, closes on June 30,” said Mr G. E. Roper at the annual meeting of the Now Plymouth Returned Soldiers’ Association. There has been an increase of 29,303 in the population of New Zealand since the census of last year, according to the estimates of the Government Statistician. It is reported that the opening of the ‘Otira Tunnel will result in the building of a new and considerably larger station at Greymouth. Great changes will also take place at Elmer Lane, to which , place the locomotive workshops and other departments will be transferred.