LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

George Davies, seaman on the Joan Craig, appeared before Messrs H. C. Harley and D. McKay, J. P.’s yesterday on a serious charge. Mr. W. Joyce appeared for accused who was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court m Groymouth.

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A somewhat sensational occurrence is reported from Greytown, involving the death of a man named Thomas Maxwell Mclntosh, who was well known in Masterton. It appears that Mclntosh .went to the township at 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening, and engaged a room at the Club Hotel. He retired to bed, apparently in good health and spirits. At 1.20 o’clock next morning the inmates of the hotel were alarmed by cries for help, and Mclntosh was Tound on the pavement in front of the building in great pain, suffering from injuries apparently sustained from a fall from some height. It is surmised that the unfortunate man fell from his bedroom window while in a slate of somnambulism. He was conveyed to Greytown Hospital, where ho died during the dav.

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“I believe that the price of woollen goods is a scandal,” • remarked Lieut. - Colonel G. Mitchell, M.P., during a complimentary function at Wellington South, “and I think the Government should stop in and protect the people.” Whether profiteering was going on or not, he said, did not matter so much as the fact that the people believed that it was going on, and he believed that such was the case. He instanced having bought some knitting wool at 14/- per lb, and this cost only 1/6 to the farmer. “Who gets the difference?” he asked. “It is, high time,” he urged, “that some commission was set up by the Govorin ment to properly go into the question.” Lieut.-Colonel Mitchell also suggests that consumers' committees might be formed similar to those in Paris, which had brought down the price of foodstuffs by 50 per cent, within a week.

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In these days of dear living a prescription on “How to earn £IO,OOO a year,” should have a wide sale. One formula was recently given by a member of the British House of Commons at a public lecture in London .He remarked that an income of £IO,OOO was within the capacity of most people, though employers generally had not enough imagination to recognise those who were worth it. Then, after warning his audience that few £lO,000 a year men were really happy, he gave tuis advice to those who desired to qualify:—“Don’t grumble. If you don’t like your job sack yourself. Never envy the successful ; emulate them. Smoke or drink' if you must, but do everything in moderation. Take pain§ and be ready for emergency. Play the game. Be punctual and careful of your personal appearance, look prosperous, be kind, and never break your word.” It sounds simple enough to bo worth trying.

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Replying to a resolution demanding ihe release of Alice Parkinson, the Minister of Justice (the Hon. J. G. Coates) has written as follows:—“1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the fifth instant, in reference to the proposal to petition Ids Royal Highness the .Prince of Wales, in reference to the release of Alice Parkinson. In reply 1 have to inform you that I am unable to depart from the decision of my predecessors in office, that there are no grounds to warrant a recommendation being forwarded to his Excellency the Governor-General for Parkinson’s discharge from prison. While I cannot see my way to recommend his Excellency to grant Parkinson a full and final discharge, I propose, during the coming session, to introduce legislation that, if passed will allow this, and similar cases to be placed under the jurisdiction of the Prisons Board. The question of releasing upon probation prisoners situated as Parkinson is, will then ho considered by the Board, who will have if nil power to adjudicate upon the matter, and recommend Ins Excellency the Governor-General to release them on probation if they deem such action advisable.”

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Answering statements made/ criticising the Government’s action in permitting export of timber of Australia when there is an apparent shortage in New Zealand, the Prime Minister said recently that the New Zealand Government at the express request of the Australian Government, had entered into a reciprocal arrangement by which the Commonwealth was to allow the export of coal to the Dominion in return for certain New Zealand timber, essential to the Commonwealth butter industry. “Not merely coal, but also salt, superphosphates, wheat, and hardwoods, are required in New Zealand,” added Mr. Massey, “and we have to look to Australia, where export is under the control of the Commonwealth Government, for a large proportion of these supplies. Another point is .that the boats bringing coal from Australia to New Zealand have to be sent back loaded on the return voyage. They take timber cargoes in accordance with the arrangement with the Commonwealth. Government. It is interesting to note that for the four* months'from Ist July last a total of 8,438,000 ft. of timber was produced, iwhich is equivalent to upwards of 25,000,000 feet for the year. The export of timber for the period amounted to 1,245,000 ft only, equivalent to about 3,500,000 ft for the year, as compared with an ejcpov.t of . 10,454.000 ft for the year ended 31st March 1918.”