LOCAL &GENERAL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL &GENERAL NEWS

' The-annual Meeting- of the Tarafelki provincial, executive of ,the "New Zealafid Farmers' iMpn opened at In/'esW^qod The first part of the "> eportrapfreafs on page 6. jThe Park Croquet Club closed, its courts - on Wednesday after a successful season. The members purpose holding a social evening at" an early date in aid of the wounded soldiers. T,he meeting held last night in connection with re-forming the Waimate Trotting Club was most enthusiastic, and the business-like manner in which those present went into " the question augurs well for the future 'of this branch of sport in this district.. Food prices in Berlin in November were reported to be 20.9 per cent, above tiie July level, as compared with 16;4 per cent, above that level in October! In November, compared witS the previous month, there were increases in the price of '.wheat-flour, butter, lard, beef, veal, pork, bacon, rice, split peas, haricot beans, and lentils. Other articles showed no change, or a slight decrease. Comparing November prices with those prevailing in July, the articles 'showing the most marked advances were whearten bread, rye-flour, butter, lard, eggs, bacon, rice, split peas, haricot beans, and lentils. "There were particularly large increases in the last three of these which are very important articles in German housekeeping. The Harding bankruptcy came under review of the Supreme Coujft at New Plymouth' yesterday, when bankrupt applied.-..for tiis discharge. This was opposed on the ground that he had been guilty of .fraudulent action in respect, of properties he held prior to 'It appeared that after the Supreme -Court?-J[i&d vdeplared^ eer ? tain transactions void, a compromise had been arranged under which Mrs Harding gave up to the creditors the Otakeho property and retained a Norfolk road property... The Official Assignee (Mr Budge) estimated that the estate iwould pay 3s in the £■''It was Jcqntend<§d fpc bankrupt that the 1 pro-^ perty handedover would have paid 10s m the £ had it not been for expensive litigation. The Court reserved* judg T ment. , The Wellington Post's London correspondent writes as follows:—The Australasian Society of America, pf 1118, Hartford Buildings, Chicago, reports that efforts are being made to get the publishers of dictionaries in use in the iJnited States to print the proper New Zealand flag on the page showing the "flags'of all Nations," the one shown +^ere now not being the New Zealand flag at all. Flag manufacturers are also being asked to erctify the error. Foundation Day was celebrated on 26th January, when the American speakers referred in complimentary terms to the history and development of New Zealand, admitting that they had not realised the size aiid importance of the country in the South Pacific, and expressing the hope that the United States would hereafter come into closer contact with it. "So far the war has not materially affected the business of Messrs Cadbury 8r05.," said the New Zealand manager to an Auckland Star representative on his return to New Zealand. "Van Houten's, being in Holland, were laboring under certain disadvantages, and the Swiss people, with their, army mobilised, were finding . some difficulty in keeping up supplies. Our people informed the Government authorities that if our supply of sugar—we had a good supply—was not interf^re^ *vith. we could continue \o employ 75 per cent.,of our hands —about <ObO; but, if our sugar, were taken, it would reduce the staff .to 10 per cent, of its normal st§&ngth. You must understand that a shortage in sugar is being experienced owing to the Germanstioplv of beet sugar having been cut off. Whilst I was at Hon>e the firm got an order for 40 tons of cocoa for ihe Russian Government." During a recent meeting of the Tauranga Acclimatisation Society interesting details were given by Mr Macmillan with, regard to the disposal of New Zealand eggs in England. A gentleman residing in Derby informed him that he had frequently bougnt New Zealand eggs, whicn had gone to London and been sold there as fresh laid Derby eggs. Out of curiosity he had frequently set New Zealand eggs, and from the preserved variety had secured a fair percentage of chicks. But in frozen eggs there had been no signs of vitality. From these facts Mr Macmillan thought a way might be found of solving the problem of importing partridge eggs and rearing young partridges therefrom. Were the English partridge eggs ]ust sufficiently preserved, they might be conveyed here an dhatched successfully. This little discovery, he added, might enable societies to introduce in a cheap manner new strains of blood among both partridges and pheasants. When a tumultuous mob does damage to a shop or office occupied by a naturalised German, it has a*notion of fret-ting even" somehow with Germans abroad, whose crimes are not inspired nor directed by their compatriots of New Zealand. The Wellington Post explains that this rough-and-ready atcf^? pt *° Punisn the Continental Huns by persecuting local Germans is a breach of the British code; it is against the honorable traditions of a race which has condemned the policy of cruelty, as practised by the German war-makers. Moreover, the indiscriminate scheme of wrecking may not only bring suffering and hardship to naturalised British subjects who have not given cause for such ill-usage; the running amok of a mob may also put a penalty upon Britons. Foe example, '^c crowd which raided a German's s^oo at Wanganui imagined, no doubt, that every blow at a wall or window was a knock at Germany for the outrage of the Lusitania and other murderous excesses, but this battering was done at the cost of a Wellington citizen, Mr A. H. Waters, whose" property at Wanganui includes that snort. Thus it happens that by mob law, mob rule, mob justice (with the bandage drawn unusually iight over the eyes), a sufferer by the riot- at Wanganui 'is a citizen whose wife has been a very active worker in the movement to provide hospital equimiient f«r the sth Reinforcements. * j A pnlenGld line of children's pyjama' combinations has just arrived at the Melbourne Clothing Company. These garments are made of very fair quality flannelette, and are designed for either J little boys or girls, aged from three to seven years. As the""price, 2s lid, is extremely low, intending buyers are requested to ar>oly early before the' line is sold out".—Advt. r

Sunday Sctiool Hall this ».eyeniiigl;;^;"v;: ;,:■;">";.;■ .-■•,■; •■•-...• •...-■ ■ # Some idea of the bridge problem fac;>mg.; the, Stratford County Council during th6.coming y<aa^^w^^ mentioned by the chairman at tie meeting yesterday (says the Stratford Post). Mr Hathi^ftway stated- thattoalan average three i out of five bridges in the county were unsafe for traffic, What the Council was going to do about it, the speaker said ij.e did not know. ' • ! , The Auckland correspondent of the Chriutchurch, Press telegraphs' that a Sydney representative of a company with, a capital of £300,000 is in Auckland in furtherance of a project for theextracctum of kauri oil from peat. The possibilities of the scheme are said to |be very great, and of the utmost importance, to the northern part of the province, where it is stated hundreds and thousands of acres of land could be operated on and left in an improved state for agriculture. ! The death at the Dardanelles of Private David Shaw Baillie, of Dargaville, where-he was well and favorably known, recalls. t& the Auckland Herald a fatal drowning, accident which happened in the, Whau Creek 21 years ago, when Private Baillie was only three weeks old. A party of relatives and friends . were: out m & launch, which by some means. wa» pap&ized. Mr John Baillie, of Henderson, father of the deceased i soldier, went out in a dinghy in an effort to> sotw M» mother, sister, brother? and friend, but all were drowned. Det ceased .b.as a. Brother. Private John Bailliej afae>" ;d? Dargaville T with the i third reinforcement draft. I In the Supreme Court, New Ply- ■ mouth, yesterday > an order was sought jfoi' the "handing ovet to the' Assignee '■■ in the!" bankrap^estafce of Lue Moon Lun, of Manaia, of a gum .of £27 15s at rest. in tie, Bank ; of. Australasia. The suit was. at the instance of Ah Chang, on whose behalf evidence was led in support 'of the contention that the money properly belonged to bankrupt's- estate,^ t)iO,u^bt .it !was pre 4! , tended1' to'•.;b'<&,tnjs,i'money lodged' witK ; bankrupt by his brtitheT-in-law at Pahiatua for transmission, to Tahiti to pay the passage of another Chinaman to China. The* Court denounced the transaction as- a fxa.ud! y and ordered that the money should pass to tne Assignee and be* treated as an asset in the estate: - . At the annual conference* ol the Wellington provincial organisation of the Farmers' Union ; the chairman, Mr. T. Moss, defended the patriotism and generosity of the farmers, . and said that with regard to the high prices for produce, he believed the farmers .were prepared! to> ±afe fessy provided the British Government and people at Home got the benefit, bwb tlte farmers . were not going to be exploited by companies in our midst. They had their merchant princes who were* Asking advantage of the unfortunate position and holding stocks valued at thousands of pounds. No* sooner, nad! tn«> war been declared than they increased the prices of these s*ocks. He dealt with the plight of the back-block settlersi, their isolation, bad raods, antf bad seasons. He criticised the Fa#m Laborers' Union movement, and strongly condemned preference to unionists. Mr Leigh Hunt, manager of the New Zealand Cb-opera-I +iye Distributing Company, suggested tHat the Dominion conference of the union be requested' to act with tne Chamber of Commerce recarding tne overseas shipping ring. 'Referring to one local shipping company, he declared they we'-e in tbe ha^dsf of a frighcful monopoly. A good' deal of ooercinn |r was goinf» on. Con^nots entered into in good faith were broken- find pressure ; bronsrht to be^r. This company bs*^ raTTvifi.eations all n^f>r +be r.>"ntrv, f reiebts wev^ rop+intially going up with no .Hjstifif'+ion. It was a serio-'-'s r^attp". Tlie ele"+io^ of o^^ers •— Proß.'^ortt, T. Alb.«<s YF>p4-<Vhr-r'r>>> • i vice-president,* GT. L.- KarsM fiVlar+nn); treasurer, W. J. Birrh (Marto^X Sir James Wilson wa? elected a life member of the executive. . I