LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 July 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“I am an Indian gentleman of means ail d good character,” wrote L. Brower to the Palmerston North Borough Council in "applying for a . street barrow license “Many people seem to think the sheep-farmers live like millionaires,” stated the Prime Minister to the guests at the Wellington Winter Show supper on Saturday night. “In point of fact during the last couple of years they have had a very hard time.*” Dwellers in the town who complain if footpaths are a little muddy after much rain may perhaps take comfort by contrast from the fact that people in the country are much worse off. A settler at Glorit, north of Auckland, recently did a journey of 16 miles on horseback, and the journey took exactly, five hours. It was a matter of ploughing through mud knee deeo for the whole distance “We are in a good position, and we have a sporting people’, who get their work done even if they do go to the races more often than some people think good for them,” remarked Mr. Massey at the Wellington Winter Show snfiper. The great , tragedy of the present educational system, said Dr. J. ,j. Van Dor Leeuw recently, was the fact that most, of the children were unable to choose a vocation. Not merely the genius, hut every child, had a calling, and it was often the case that a man who was a poor politician would have made a good gardener. (Laughter.) Heavy frosts have been experienced in Hawera, and on Sunday morning 12 degrees were (registered. This morning the thermometer on the grass registered sixteen degrees of frost, that is, the temperature was 16 degrees below freezing point. Mr Shailer, whose thermometer has registered these figures, says that this morning’s was the heaviest frost, he can remember in the seven years he has been in Hawera.

% To-night, in place of the ordinary lecture of the W.E.A. class, Mr. Sheat is giving a public lecture in the Borough Council Chamber at 8 o’clock, on the -subject “Some Aspects of the Money Problem.” This will be a more detailed treatment of the same subject as was dealt with at the last meeting of the class, and he is extending and repeating the lecture at the special request of a number of those who were present last week and considered the subject one of wide general interest. Money may he the root of all evil, but it is certain that those of us who haven’t any are missing a world of fun. Those who have so far refrained from accumulating wealth on account of the worry which attends the possession of riches may be led to reconsider the matter after reading the following essay by a Maori boy, on “What I would do with a million pounds.” “If I had a million pounds I’ll get a Hudson and go all round New Zealand to show and exbition and also a house with 10,Q00 stories with a million servants and richest furniture and jewel for my wife and children. Have a good dinner and be a healthy man, and go all round the world to see the wonderful countries and go to the cinema every night and for a few months I went Broke so I have come to New Zealand.” A euchre party and dance in aid of the sports candidate for the Kaponga queen carnival will be held in the Convent schoolroom, Kaponga, on Friday next, July 11.

Great interest is being evinced in the forthcoming plain and fancy dress ball to be held in the Whareroa hall on Friday evening, and a number of interesting impersonations are to. be displayed. The arrangements are all in good hands, and an excellent attendance is assured. Bonny bargains at the Melbourne’s sale of N. B. Howell’s assigned stockLovely 29in. Fuji silk, 3/9 yard; ladies'’ smart .knitted cardigans, 34/0; ladies’ artificial silk and woo] chemise vests 3/11; best quality real Llama hose, only 4/11 pair; ladies’ black sateen aprons, 3/9: little boys’ small colonial tweed overcoats, 22/0, worth 4fi/-; children s all-wool ribbed cashmere three-quarter socks, up to size 12, 1/9 pair.—Advf. OTJTRED’S. Last few days of Outred’s Sale. Coat frocks from 35/6, splendid value; velour coats from 49/G, latest styles; Burberry coats, half price; marvellous reductions in all millinery; woollen jumpers from 7/11. —Advt." EDWARD ELLIOTT. When iri New Zealand some nine years ago this clever ventriloquial artist was cured of an attack of laryngitis by gargling Fluenzol. Mr Elliott has enthused several members of the talented Humphrey-Bishop Company, and they find that, in the words of Sir Harry Lauder: “Fluenzol is ‘just the thing to keep a singer’s voice in trim.’ ’’ ] THE is.Z. iUUI’OB WRECKING CO LIMITED. Wo supply now and good used parts for practically all makes of motor cars and motor cycles! Several motor cycles in first-class order for sale. Special: 2i-ton Ivissel Truck in good running order, tjwe.s perfect, twin solids rear, a bargain. 29 Harris St., Wellington. Telegraphic address: “Motorecko,” Wellington.

In connection with the incident quoted by Mr Brown in his letter published yesterday, in which Mr Corrigan did not record his vote upon an important division, Mr Brown desires us to state that Air Corrigan not only did not vote, but hurriedly left the Chamber after the interview with Mr Coates. The New Zealand Romney Marsh Breeders’ Association are exporting several-rams to the Argentine, for exhibition at the international show at Palermo (Buenos Aires) early in September. Amongst the number is a ram hogget- selected by the association’s inspector from the flock of Messrs Joseph Mosley and Sons, “Riverslea,” Clydevale, Otago, which is bred from the most fashionable Romney blood in the Dominion, the leading sire of which holds the South Island championship for 1923.