LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

An Auckland Press Association message states that the Waihi Grand Junction Gold Company crushed 5620 tons of ore in August for a return valued at £8154.

A brick warehouse at the corner of Albert and Swanson streets, Auckland, has been purchased by the Patriotic Association and Women's Patriotic League, at a cost of £12,500, to provide a nermanent Soldiers' Club.

Members of the Waimate Plains Trotting Club are notified that the annual meeting will ib© held in the Central Tearooms on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The committee hope that every member will endeavor to be present.

The Stratford Post reports that an effort is being made to float a limited liability company to erect a Mountain House, providing that the lease of a suitable site, with right of access thereto, can be obtained. A little over £2000 has already been subscribed.

It was stated at a meeting of the general committee of the Stratford A. and P. Association that the institution's bank limit is £1000, and that the account is now in overdraft to the amount of *£999 9s 9d.

Patea people are having put before them a "considerable number of suggestions in respect of the form a peace memorial should take. The Returned Soldiers' Association want a building for their use in connection with a public library scheme, and offer £300 and their influence in raising more. Another proposal is a non-utilitarian memorial, of which no details are yet suggested/ the principle alone being insisted on. Still another is the erection of gates to the Domain; another is an obelisk on the highest point of the Domain. So far very little money bas been subscribed, anel it has, been decided to organise a canvass, and then all the various propositions will be considered and probably a poll taken.

The, N.Z. Times representative report*: that a new demand involving some radical changes in the conditions .md hours of labor of carpenters and joiners has beon made. The new.award sought for includes proposals for an increase in pay and reduction in the hours of labor. Regarding the former, application is made to change tho present method of pay at per hour to weekly payments: and* to increase the rate of pay from Is lOd per hour (including the war bonus) for a 44 hours' week (which is equivalent to £4 0.. 8d per week) to a minimum wage of £4 los per week of 40 hours. The rate of pay desired for casual workers is 2s Gd per hour. Tt is also requested that the working week should he one of fiVe days of eight horn's per day, instead of* 5£ days of eight hours worked at present. In &A-, ditkm to the usual preference to unionists clause the application maintains th# principle that it is the duty of every non-unionist carpenter and joiner employed on a job to become a member of the union within seven days, and that if he fails to become a member within the time stated he should be deemed to have committed a breach of the award This clause enunciates the principle of compulsory unionism.

Miss Louise Mack, the famous novelist Sind lecturer, who met Edith Cavell while a, prisoner in Brussels, met with, a serious accident in Fiji while en route; .for.her tour of New Zealand. She was thrown out of a carriage on a stony hill road, and injured both knees so badly that slie was obliged to lay up for several months. Coincidental with her tour j Miss Mack intends writing a book on tho Dominions, ''New Zealand After tha War.''

"New Zealand wants a publicity bu 7 reau very badly in America," said a returned traveller the other day, "as only about one in every ten Americans Knows that such a country exists, and their ideas about New Zealand are very hazy.' If more prominence were given to Now Zealand it would result in a great amount of tourist traffic coming iJiJs way irom the States, and there would also be a considerable number of American workmen emigrating if they knew more about the conditions under which the New Zealand workman lives." The Cunard Company hag announced in the American Press that for the moment it does not intend to build any more express mail steamers, but is going to concentrate on imnroved Franconia-s and Tuscanias, cargo and passenger steamers of 18,000 and 15,000 tons gross and about 18 knots speed. Twenty thousand men, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds are gvvrng I,ondon the most thorough wash, shave, and brush up it has enjoyed for many a long year. And, if they could be procured, twenty thousand moye would be employed'in that beneficial task. "We have had to engage men who are drawing old-age pensions," said one manager "and they are now earning a s much -as £5 a week. Ihe only people who are going in for anything out 0 f the ordinary are those into who*<j possession have passed the tog estate^ which have changed hands. Iney want their new homes to look ; smart, and the: decorator is given carte blanche to use paint, paper, silk panels, and tapestries to an extent which SEES? jhe/,.h°^ anywhere between £5000 and £10,000 Some want modern homes transformed into ancient-looking places, and vice versa. From Windsor has come an order to modernise a house of 'the Jacobean period. This is being done by superimposing woodwork which can easily b$ removed when necessary." A dairy farm- as a going concern is advertised for exchange by W. H. and A. M'darry, Eltham—Advt. Ail previous selling records have been smashed by the Melbourne's great end-of-season sale, ndw in full blast. The silk blouse section has shoA-n unusual briskness due, no doubt t0 c „£ c P'jMie's knowledge of the state «n the silk market. Silks undoubtedly nre going to be very dear.— Advt. All good things come to an end and to must the Economic',. Winter Sale. To celebrate the closing snecial bargains will be laid out during the last few days. Machinery wanted! , We have, enquiries for every description, n ew and good used. Send us full particulars of any you wish to sell. Also let us have your enquiries. Manning Machinery Co., 188 Cashel street, Christchurch.— Advt. „rJ?£^ more Prlnd!hg oF leeth wit WADE'S WORM FIGS. Price, Is 6d —Advt.

The will of the late Father James Patterson, who died at Takapuna on June 4th, has been proved, the value of the estate being shown to be under £10,000. The bulk of the estate, says the N.Z. Times, has been bequeathed to the Mill Hill Mission of Josephan Fathers, Saiford, England, with which Order Father Patterson was connected.

In connection with the guessing competition conducted by the ladies of the Red Cross shop on tlie last two Saturday., it is announced that the winning numher is 3S, and" the prize falls to Mrs E. Wilson, .whose prize may be obtained by calling at 263 High street.

In a reminiscent moment at Uie Orphans' Club in Wellington on Saturday evening Admiral Jellicoe told a story of a Yankee destroyer commander who had sunk a U-boat. He Had wirelessed: "Sunk German submarine, latitude 55 north, longitude 22 west. Where am I?'' Sir Lewis Bailey, Naval representative at Queenstown, who received the message, was puzzled, for the captain had given his exact position, yet was asking where he was. So he submitted thd message to an American naval man, who explained that the Americai destroyer commande? wanted to know what class he was in (as the result of having sunk a suibmarine).

During the hearing of a charge in Christchurch against a man of having Stolen two bicycles—one valued at £3 and the other at £15 —the prosecuting sergeant said that 30 or 40 bicycles were stolen in that city a week 3 and not half of them were recovered. The accused had ridden the bicycle valued at £15 to Timaru, and had sold it for £_ 10s. The other was dismantled. Although the accused was only 19 years of age he was married, but was living apart from his wife. The accused said he had stolen the cheaper bicycle at the instigation of his wife, who wanted tyres for her own bicycle. He was convicted and placed on probation for 12 months, and was also ordered to refund £2 10s, the money he got for the bicycle in Timaru, and £3, the price of the dismantled machine.

Practical farmers express the opin- \ ion that there will be a very considerable shortage in the area devoted to wheat this season (writes' the Geraldine correspondent of the Christchurch j Press), and they anticipate] that next' harvest will not nearly supply the re-! I quirements of the Dominion. It appears that several causes have contributed to deter farmers from growing more wheat. One reason is that sheep need lesj; labor and are more profitable. 1 Another is that the cost of labor for cultivation- and harvesting has increased materially, and farmers are dubious whether labor will be available for harvesting. Still another rejison has been stated, and this is that farmers' wives and families, b&.ng unable at times to i secure domestic help, find that the work j of providing for harvesters is too great a strain upon them. Farmers recognise that a short supply of wheat may be a, I very serious thing for the country, es- | peoially considering the possible * difficulties 'in connection with transit, but they ask: "What can we do? We must consider ourselves.'' In the course of a lecture which he gave in Auckland, Professor F. D. Worley stated that it had been established that a person following a sedenI tary occupation required 2000 calories a day, but this quantity increased in pro- ' portion to the physical exertion, and for ' a lumberman 6000 calories were reI quirea. In this connection the lecturer 1 stated that this had a definite bearing • upon wages, because one could not get more work from a workman than the amount of fuel in the shape of food he obtained. A table showed that the amount of work per man varied throughout the world, the figures for England being low and those for Japan and China very high. It was quite posisible that the* values of the foods of j the two countries had a strong bearing j upon the results. He spoke of the imI portance of a knowledge of food values in .connection with the rationing of I armies and the providing of food at school^ and in publio institutions, but, declared that there was probably not lan institution in the country which ; fixed the diet on a scientific basis. i The deprivations of hotel licenses in I Victoria for the financial period of 1918----1919 have now practically been completed (says the Age). Since the beginning of this year 95 hotels have been deprived of licenses, making a total of 223 deprived in the two and a half years since the amended law came into force. When the amendments were being considered, it was pointed out that in many districts the operation ot the "statutory number prevented the closing of many unnecessary hotels. Under the new provisions the vote for "reduction" was deemed to have been carried in every district. In the two and a half years hotels have been closed in 114 different licensing districts. and in 30 6f these districts 140 hotels were closed which, under the old provisions, could not have been touched. The total number deprived of licenses to date ig 1277. The purchasers of land on the Cabrarnatta Park Estate have had a remarkable stroke of fortune (say s the Sydney Morning Herald). The estate was owned by the well-known property saltsman, Mr Hugh Pritchard, of Auburn, who. it is stated, received a divine inspiration to make a peace offering by releasing from their liabilities all the clients on his books to July 14 on Cabramatta Park Estate and other estates. This he has done by giving them clean receipts and free transfers. The aggregate amount of the gift will, it is estimated, run into £20,000. H e has not only given a complete clearance to those who have purchased from him land on the instalment system on his various estates, but he has wiped out debts owing to him to over £2000. One purchaser of land on the Cabramatta Estate has been handed a receipt for £431. two others for £200 each, and several for over £100. It would seem that those' who were behind in their payments reaped the greatest advan- ) tage. Several, it is stated, had taken advantage of the Moratorium Act, and got sadly behind in their payments. They, too. got a clear discharge, while those who struggled on and succeeded m paying off the whole of their indebtedness get nothing. The Kaupokonui store announces arrival of smart spring millery, and new boots and shoes; also manure, garden seeds and stock foods. Grant and Campbell, estate'agents, draw attentin to their replace advertisement in this issue. A large number of town and country properties are advertised for sale or exchange. 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