LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

1 Replying to a question in the House last night, the ±»remier said he was i not yet able to make a statement regarding the Government's intentions towards home service men. The Invercargill Stock Exchange was formally opened for business yesterday with suitable ceremony (says a telegram from Invercargill). The exchange begins operations with ten members, and is affiliated with the New ealand Stook Exchange Association. The enormous wastage due to strikes m New Zealand was commented upon at yesterday's meeting of the Council of the Central Chamber of Commerce which passed the following resolution - "That this chamber, believing that the enormous wastage due to strikes is not known to the people generally, recommends the Government to compile and ; issue statistics fully setting forth the continuous direct and indirect loss occasioned thereby.*' i The Hawera Retailers' Association is decidedly against adopting the Saturday half-holiday. Mr Westaway, who introduced the matter at the meeting last evening, said that one or two bodies were agitating: in favour of Saturday, and they would have to be alive to what was taking place. The general feeling of the retailers was against any change, and they must fight any attempt to have Saturday adopted.. Another member thought the universal Saturday half-holiday would come sooner or later, but until it did come, Hawera should retain the Wednesday. Eltham had stated very emphatically that it would not change. No resolution was passed. Captain R. Russell,. D.F.C., whs is piloting Messrs Walsh Bros.' aeroplane in Wanganui, has no great faith in the present possibilities of aviation as a profession. He admitted to a Chronicle reporter on Wednesday that aviation in New Zealand is not yet sufficiently developed to offer attractive possibilities in times of peace. He mentioned that although there were about 260 qualified aviators in New Zealand at present, only half a dozen, himself included, were regularly engaged; so that, for the present at least, the profession may easily be overcrowded: Although a life-long supporter of the Labour party and a believer in the ideal of a co-operative commonwealth I am quite unable to understand the drift of the Labour movement to-day (writes Mr Laurence Johnstone, in the Auckland Star). Sunday after Sunday in Quay street we hear a bitter tirade of abuse of the British Government, while physical force is advocated in the coa.rsest and most brutal terms. I am quite satisfied that these speakers do not truly represent labour, but rather the shirker and the traitor, and whoever will help to put an end to this sort of propaganda will earn the lasting gratitude of all right-thinking people—including every sane labour man and woman. It is ndt a pleasant duty to adversely criticise one's own party, biit I trust that the old sane leaders will wake up, come to the front again, and lead the party onward along constitutional lines. With a view to conserving the* consumption of bunker coal, Captain J. V, Reilly, master of the steamer Carpentaria, which arrived at Auckland from Avonmouth and New York on Saturday, took full advantage of the ocean currents after clearing the Panama Canal, these greatly assisting the vessel on the voyage. Steamers leaving the canal for New Zealand usually take the "great circle" sailing track, which brings them near Pitcairn Island. The Carpentaria steamed south of the Marquesas Island and north of Tahiti. This route gave her favourable currents for 300 miles*, and she met with exceptionally fine weather. She actually steamed 265 fcaiies further than she would have done, on the usual track, but the extra mileage was more than made up for by the lessened consumption of coal. "For five days the steamer was assisted by currents flowing at the rate of 20 miles a day, while on one occasion she ran into a 30 mile current. The speed of the lesser currents varied from 15 to ■10 miles a day. A passage across the Atlantic . has been made by the 35ft. yawl Typhoon, of 15 tons displacement, which reached Cowes recently? The little vessel made a non-stop run from Cape Race, Newfoundland, to Bishop's Rock, Scilly Is^ lands—a log distance of 2100 miles—in 15 days 9hrs, which is believed to b e a "record" for such a tiny craft. The crew of three consists of Mr Frederic W. Baldwin, of Toronto, Mr Jim Dorsett, of Washington, Columbia, and Mr William Washburn, Notting, managing editor of the Motor Boat Publishing Company, New York. They had a most successful passage in their little craft, and, although heavy seas were encountered, the only damage was to the mizzen. They did not hear the result of the America's Cup races until arriving at Cowes. They Jeft Cane Race on July 22 and sighted Bishop's Rock on Aug. 6. All are well on board. The Yankee saleman who strove for an hour to persuade a farmer of the old school to buy an incubator and offered as a final argument: "Look at the time it will save," realised that the sale was off when the answer came, "What's time to a settin' hen?" Time to wards of the State, too, is always too long, always too plentiful, and probably no other than the prison Department could have afforded to demolish the feig brick chimney at the now-disused brick kiln near the Mount Cook Gaol by sending men up a specially constructed interior scaffold to peck away at its 90ft, brick by brick. It was a long and probably uninteresting job after the toilers became bored with the view and thoroughly engrained with brick dust and mortar from the tedious pecking out of bricks, and the more tedious work of_ cleaning them up, but when the bricks did reach the ground they were ! clean and very valuable, both on account of present kiln prices, and the vast amount of labour expended on them. Moreover, very few were broken. In the ordinary course of events the stack is brought down with a crash, but with an eye to the safety of the workers and of the nearby buildings, the Prison Department adopted the surer, less spectacular, and more wearu some course; —Post. . The following new books have been received at the Public Library: McGlusky, the Gold Seeker,! by A. G. i Hales; The Top of the World E. M. Dell: When the Empire Crasned, A. W. Marchmont; Henry Elizabeth, J. H. McCarthy; The Vow of Silence., Alice Perrin; The Twenty-six Clues, Isabel Ostranderj Beauty and Bands, E, T. Fowler; Mr Pond of Borneo, Peter Blundell; Estrina, A. SaffroniMiddleton; Irish Stew, D. Conyers; The Dummy Hand, C. N. and A. N. Williamson; The Silver Tea Shop, E. E. Green; The Duches© of Siona, Ernest Goodwin; Sonnica, Vincente Ibanez; Shuttered Doors, Mrs Wm, I Finks Bcjicll. Ladies should project ; themselves ajjainst influenza infection by putting about ten drops of Nazol on a handkerchief and placing inside a blowse on the chest. Use Naz.ol freely in this wav — 5+ fines v*+ satire the moat delicate : ffthric—Advt. .

The postmaster reports that the rainfall yesterday was .02 inches. The rabbit-akin season iv Obatjo is now getting through, and it i s satisfactory to be able to report thut with all its ups and downs— "lightings without and fears within"—the industry has survived, and is to-day flourishing payable prices being obtained by the men, still numerous, who make their living that way. —Dunedin Star. In the five years 1909 to 1913 the average annual export of butter from Ireland was 36,110 tons; in the same five years the average annual export of cheese was 301 tons. In 1920 this had changed, for the export of Irish butter had fallen from 36,110 tons, the prewar average, to 16,585 tons, while the export of cheese had risen from 301 tons, the pre-war average, to 15 273 tons. . ' | This is an age- of broken records in anything ranging from pianoforteplaying to money-making, and the local potential law-breakers are also in the swim (says -the Southland Times). Not erne has occupied a cell at the police station for 14 days. Thfts is a record that is alluded to by th e police officials as indicative of Invercargiil's freedom from crime.