LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

An indication of the demand for building allotments in Hawera may be gauged from the fact that Messrs Grant and Campbell disposed of seventeen sections in Brown's Estate on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Most of the purchasers contemplate building as soon as the building- trade assumes anything like normal conditions.

The British Ministry of Munitions from first to last turned out 256,000,000 shells.

A Wellington message states that the arrival of the battle cruiser New Zealand is to be delayed till a new date. The arrival date has not yet been fixed.

The Hon. W. D. S. MaeDonald, at a> social at Wairoa, gave a word of warning in regard to Bolshevism (reports the Poverty Bay Herald). "Bolshevism," said the Minister, "is rampant' iv this country, and will break the Do-; minion, as it has broken Russia, unless extinguished. I hope the women of New Zealand who have given such I valuable assistance during the Avar will now give their co-operation in fighting this menace. Whoever may be called upon at the r ext election to' control the destinies of the Dominion, it was to fee hoped that the men and women of this country would look to it that right and not wrong was put iv power."

During the course of an address, Mr T 11. Fleming (Chief Inspector "of Schools in Otago), in referring to the kinema, said it was a thing which could be made of great educational value. But could it be said that the kinema as we had it was of great value? True, the films were censored, and some of the pictures were good, but many of them tended to arouse excitement for the moment, without any consideration of the future effects, especially on young children. In his opinion the State would be quite justified in exercising a more rigid censorship and in making something more than immorality the test of exclusion. ,

The committee of St. Mary's school is now open to receive applications from parents to avail themselves of the facilities offered by the boarrlino; establishment for pupils, which will be ready ' at the commencement of next tern!.l Full particulars may be obtained- from' the 'ady principal, Miss Banwell. j For Bronchial Coughs, take ' Woods' tireat Peppermint Cure.

The persistency with which the number 13 kept turning up during the Crown lands ballot recently for sections in three soldier settlements would appeal to superstitious people as being uncanny. Under the procedure adopted three soldiers were selected by ballot from those applying for each section. Twelve times No. 13 applicant drew a place in the trio. At the thirteenth drawing No. 13 applicant drew No. 13 section, and the coincidence went further, for it transpired that there were thirteen letters in this man's name and 13- in his address. It was freely stated that he had drawn one of the best sections offered. Owing to the peculiar circumstances referred to many of those present at the ballot were driven to the" conclusion that the word "unlucky," as applied to the number 13 is, after all. a misnomer.—N.Z. Herald. A _ story which was told the other day at Uie Melbourne Town Hall (says the Age) gives further evidence of a long standing disgrace—the profiteering which goes on in the buying of war bonds. An elderly woman "called at the Town Hall recently, introducing herselfaas. s "the mother of three soldiers," one of ivhom was blind and still in England. She had, she said, in an effort to raise money to send to her son in England, offered a war bond for sale to a Collins street broker. The face value of the bond was £10, and with it she offered war savings stamps to the amount of ,15s. To her amazement, however, the broker offered her £8 for both bond and stamps, volunteering, when she declined his bid, to keep the property for her for the. afternoon, in Ci-s-e she should ultimately decide to accept. She nevertheless persisted in her refusal. An official of the Town Hall, ascertaining the market value of the bond to^ be £9 10s, paidhh r that .amount for it, purchasing the stamps also for 15s. The Hon. Arthur Myers, ActingMinister of Finance, states that the ■ sum tof £460,000 was received by the | Treasury during the month of July as ' subscriptions to the Final Victory Loan. It was in December last that [ the Minister notified that the Treasury j was prepared to receive subscriptions | towards the balance of this loan, and, since that date, the total amount voluntarily subscribed in the manner referred to is nearly three and a half millions. Mr Myers also pointed out that as soon as the Miniser of Finance, Sir "Joseph Ward, returns to New Zealand, tjie ! question will be considered of issuing a iormal prospectus in respect of the loan in question, and stating the exact sum I still required. Our continued heavy ob- ! ligations on account of war expenditure, retrospective allowances, gratuities, repatriation, etc., make it qui^T ; evident thai it will be necessary to take | action in regard u> the flotation of the loan at an cany date, and although the public generally have responded to the extent of the amount mentioned above, : the compulsory clauses of section 16 of , the Finance Act 2 1918, are still operative. It is therefore advisable that tnose who are liable to subscribe under this Act -should make available whatever amount they are likely to be called upon to invest in the \Var Loan, as subscriptions (as pointed out previously I by Mr Myers) made under the compulI soy clauses carry a rate of interest of 3 per cent. only. The seamen's strike in Australia is : cutting off supplies of various co- m- ( modit.es, such as Lever's soaps, Haveiock tobacco, tea, macaroni, vermicelli .a number of patent medicines etc' (says the Otago Daily Times). Stocks ' Of.i, m, osfc of tiiese lines are > however • still held by wholesale merchants. As ; regards Eastern goods, especially tea. importers consider that this is a cxise where the Government might ■ step in and induce the Imperial authorities to look into the position where vessels call at Colombo and then proceed to Australia, and there discharge cargoes of tea for New Zealand. These vessels at present then come on to New Zealand in ballast, and a very unbusinesslike position arises, as the tea unloaded in Sydney has to wait until an intercolonial steamer is available to bring it across, a most tin warrantable delay occurring. Many instances can be quoted where lines of tea for New Zealand are lying in Sydney, despite! the fact that the vessels which brought them on from Colombo have since arrived in New Zealand. Two women patrols who are at work in Christchurch under the direction of the District Health Office, have reported several cases of' disease amongst women and children, and steps have been taken to see that the persons suffering receive proper treatment, live in clean sanitary conditions, and taKe'the curative measures prescribed by the medical authorities. The patrols have extensive powers, but their work is not of a detective character. If they find a girl in company that seems to be undesirable, they may ascertain where 'she lives and report the matter to her parents and advise them to exercise more restraint on her, but their actual positions are those of investigating nurses. One is a trained nurse, and the other has had nursing experience The experiment of their work and the appointments, it is expected, will prove very satisfactory as far as discovering victims of special diseases and preventing themkfrom spreading are concerned. 1

I It will amaze many to learn that not a tew of the official residences in England were without bathing accommodation. This is partly explained by the j long practice of tub bathing. In'a reI cent discussion in the House of Comj mon s the Lord Chancellor's bath figured I prominently in a discussion on the"Civil berx ice estimates. Sir Alfred Mond referred to the criticism mads at a previous sitting on the proposed expenditme of £3800 on the Lord ChancE's rosidenee m tlie Royal Court, including the construction of bathrooms and a •lit Sir Alfred read extracts from a letter written to him by the Lord Chancellor. «I am sure," wrote Lord Birkennead, "that both yourself and the committee will understand. . . that I am both able and willina, in a house of mv own to provide my family and myselt with such bathroom and"other accommodation as may be reasonably neoessarv. ••It would W mo«t unfair" commented Sir Alfred Mond, "to suggest that two bathrooms are unnecessary"Mr C. F White remarked that Lord Birkenhead had £5000 ealarv and £0000 a year for "keeping the King's Conscience " The fact that the work vm the house had already been started was an insult to the committee The committee deeded to renW P the estimated expenditure by £3800, and the Lord Chancellor still lacks his bathrooms.

A lantern talk, entitled "What I saw in Rome," will be given to-morrow (Thursday) at 8 p.m., in the Methodist Schoolroom, Hawera, by the Rev. J. Napier Milne, of New Plymouth. ]yf r Milne has secured some beautiful views of the most fascinating city in the world, which will be exhibited by a first-class lantern. il PROPER TREATMENT NECESSARY Immediate and proper treatment is necessary in cases of diarrhoea and dysentery, and for this reason a bottle of Chamberlain's Co'ic and Diarrhoea Remedy should always be kept in the house. It never fails to give relief. ] Sold everywhere.—Advt.

It is announced by the Hon. W. D. | S. MncDonaid, Acting-Tresideut of the > Board of Trade, that, acting on the re- j commendation of the 13oard, the export ' ok potatoes, which was permitted up to ; July 31st, will not be renewed, but shippers who hav e the potatoes on. board before July 31st, will be allowed to ex-j port. i The Hon. J. T. Paul, speaking in 'Rm.-u-u Isat week, said he did not think j that profit sharing, as proposed by ' Messrs Ross anc. Glendining, of Dun- \ edin, would solve -.he Labor difficulty, j Why was a pound of wool fold for «»• j few pence by"the producer, and for 14s i when it was retailed? They would not • get over the present diff culLy i:-y ii- ; creasing the number of those who were j to share the abnormal pfonts. It is | -pretty hard to think of anything that; would satisfy leaders of ".he Sempie-' Holland-Fraser-Pa.il! typ-~. j A settler having land by a tidal i creek in ihe Whangarei Harbor has fenced off a veste corner and j)lanted 1000 pinus inaignis trees bought from the State Nursery at Whakarewaiewa at 25s per thousand. The optimistic settler radiantly discourses on the* investment, picturing <v good return in at least 25 to 80 years, whe;i the timber will be full-grown and doubtless, by that time, very valuable (says the Advocate). Assuming that only half thi trees grow, the expenditure will yield a handsome profit not only personally, but nationally. The settler remarked that but ore in a thousand realises that 1200 trees can be planted on an acre allowing for a distance between each, of six feet. Two explanations of the shortage of tobacco and cigarettes are given by a representative of the Imperial Tobacco I Company. The explanations are: "A I preference for cigarettes by soldiers who smoked a pipe before the war. The increased and ever-increasing number of women who have developed the habit of cigarette smoking. With regard to the second point, the Imperial Tobacco Co.'s representative saidl that most people failed to appreciate the huge number of cigarette.? consumed by women. "Recently," he added, "two girls about to start on a fortnight's holiday called on one of our customers for 2000 cigarettes, which they 'hoped' would see them through." The shortage, a factory manager said, was more i apparent than re"\, and was brought about by the extraordinary demand, which wa? "greater than at any time in history/ Mr J- E. Shaw1, a Dunedin poultry expert, in a lecture to returned soldiers on poultry fanning, said the business \v as now 4 conducted on much more scienI tine lines than formerly, and there was abundant evidecce that fowls kept in reasonably large flocks, under healthy I conditions, paid well, and the profit, on ] the average, was from 6s to 10s per j bird p*r annum, .-md go lifetimes coni siderably higher, but the cost of labor j and rent was rarely taken into consider- : ation when making the estimates. Though poultry paid now it might not do so in the future, unless the Government recognised that the industry was | entitled to th© sole right to its own market. The most important point was practical experience, and unless a prosi pective poultry farmer could get some I practical experience he would advise him not to go into the business. No amount of theory would replace prxstical experience. A poultry, farmer should have a keen love for the work, and he would need to be a keen observer, industrious, and a capable man of business, with, no fads.