LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

rAs a, continuation of the effort to raise funds for the purchase of addi- » tional land for the Tawhiti school, a dance will be held in the Tawhiti Hall 'on Tuesday evening next. The dances , held in this hall are very popular, and a special effort is being made to make the dance on Tuesday night enjoyable and successful. Lady friends are providing refreshments. j "It has been suggested that we should eat margarine," said Dr. Blackmore, *in a lecture at Christchurch on Satur- ■. day night. "It is undoubtedly inferior .to butter, and I think the suggestion that we should eat and give our children to eat margarine while this great; j butter-producing country exports butter :to the rest of the world deserves nothing but the strongest condemnation." i "Punters as a rule are a curse to race meetings," stated Mr. W. E. Bidwill at the meeting of stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club on Thurs- '• , day. He went on to say that racing I was not for betting purposes entirely, and some people had the impression that ■ no race, meeting would be successful ! without the punters. The issuing of complimentary tickets to young punters aa a means of inducing them to bet was wholly wrong. At the meetisgjjf. thg-p^naaT^.^ J™&™ ofthe Farmers' Union'yes-' terday, the president. Mr R Dunn ' brought up the qiiestion of the appeal now being made by the local Co-opera- ! tive Society for money to be placed on ' deposit with the society for the purpose of enabling them to finance far-! mers in Taranaki who. may be in need ot it. Instead of investing the money in institutions outside the province' where it will merely produce interest to the investors and will rob laranaki of , the necessary eapi_-! tal to foster production with its' own confines and he urged farmers in their own interests, to support their own organisation and their own farmers, rather than send their money tor investment outside the province, i Spurious half-sovereigns recently -coined m Canton, have made their appearance in Australia, and the Act-' ing-becretary .to the Commonwealth ; Treasury, Mr. C. J. Cerutty, recently'! issued a warning to the public to ex-' S^ C'£u fully -an-v offered. The spurious coins are an excellent imitation of the genuine article They are dated 1887, with the- Queen's Jiead and reverse shield design and are new in appearance. The lettering on the shield side in the word "Regina" is defective, the letter "R" being" out s of alignment At the foot of the shield", I w.the small "S," denoting that the 1 5 corns if they were genuine, had been! c minted at Sydney. It i s estimated that' i tn?f °^ S con.tain about 8s worth of l f gold. rhe coins have been machine [ 4 stamped, and it i« stated that very ex- 3 FocrnthecpnroacS ry ""** W ******* J Special offer for seven days only at C. y C. Ward's, the Cash Draper, Hawera. Lace, curtainmgs in cream and white, special sale price 2s 6d a yard; cretonnes, 30m. wide, sale price Is od and ; Is lid yard; single bed, white and un- + bleached twill sheetings, 2s 6d yard; f' double bed white and unbleached twill' j sheeting, 2s lid yard; double width j I striped winceyette, usual price 3 S lid ' p sale price Is lid yard : . coloured Turkish ~. towels, sale price Is lid and 2s lid a pair, good large, size Is lid, 2s 3d and v 2s 6d each; white Turkish towels, 3s o lid and 4s lid a pair; cotton shirtings, 'Zi white with black stripe, sale price Is -i? 6d a yard.—Advt. i * Barraclough's Magic Nervine " Stops G Tooth'^che. Price Is 6d.—Advt. F

The Red Sea cables are restored, ' and the E.E. rout© is now open for traffic again. At the United Friendly Societies 1 j euchre tournament -this week the For- ' esters' beat the Fire Brigade, the Druids beat the Hibernians, and the. Oddfellows secured a victory over the Huias. In response to a request fro m the Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen, o f St Matthew's, Auckland, a ladies' committee has arranged to receive donations of old clothes of all kinds at the G.F.S. room, St. Mary's Schoolroom, o*i Thursday afernoon next, July 28. Any old clothes will be ■welcome and will be sent on to Auckland for the relief of the poor of that city. , At a meeting of the provincial executive of the Farmers' Union yesterday, Mr Astbury referred to the question of rating on unimproved value, which, he said, had been discussed at a meeting of his branch. He had been told, he said, by a Government valuer, that it would simplify thing right throughout New Zealand if the rating was uniformly on unimproved value. The great difficulty with a valuer was to get at the value of improvements. He urged that the union should try and get something done in this direction. I The acute shortage Of houses in . Auckland is making is increasingly difficult for the Plun^jt nurses to carry on their work. In their reports for last 1 month they cite cases in which parents and children are all obliged to sleep iin one room. In one instance, father, | mother, and two children live, eat, and sleep in the one room because th«y 1 have found it impossible to secure a house. In another case the bedroom is too small to accommodate a child's cot, and patents and child all sleep in one bed. Relief work under such conditions is carried out with difficutly. , "That the Government, having recognised the principle of exempting showgrounds from land and income tax, be again strongly urged to. make mandatory those clauses in the Rating Act which give power to local bodieß to exempt agricultural showgrounds from the locai bodies' taxation." The above is one of the" remits (appearing under the name of the Manawatu A. and P. Association) in the list of resolutions for consideration at the annual conference of the New Zealand Council of Agriculture to be held next week. At yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki Society it was decided to support the remit. i stock, have long been a nuisance both in town and country, says the Hokitika correspondent of the Greymouth Star, and several serious : accidents have occurred through that cause. Latterly, with, the advent of motor traffic and consequent greater speed, Borough and County authorities have awakened to the necessity of eliminating the danger, hence the number of prosecutions in the S.M. Courts retVsnfcly. Fk>r the pa&t )six months the Borough coffers have received about £40 from fines. To show the extent of the nuisance, at the Hokitika Magistrate's Court recently the Borough inspector brought five prosecutions against owners of " wandering stock, whilst the County ranger had no less than ten. Referring to the teaching of manners, the Minister for Education (the Hon. O. J. Parr) had a word or twa to saj at the opening of a new school at Morrinsville. Addressing the parents and school children, the Minister said thai some complaints had reached him thai school children misbehaved in the railway trains on the way to school. He hoped these complaints were not true, They, • however, gave him the oppor tunity of saying that an essential part of every child's upbringing was thai it should learn good manners). He would, like to see more boys get up ir crowded traincars or trains and give their seats to ladies. Children shouM always show respect toi their elders, ■"Were we lacking In this respect?" asked the Minister. He was afraid so. It was the duty of the parents primarily to observe the little courtesies of life that really meant a great deal Chivalry to the gentler sex should be ; inculcated. Where the parents failed |he hoped that the teachers would rut in the lesson occasionally. After all there was very much in the old saying "Manners makyth men." The Ministei added that his remarks were addressed to girls as well as to boys. ; The representations made by the Southland Farmers' Union to the Government with regard to the recent j land valuations (says the Southland I Times) was referred to on Friday by the President of the provincial league. Mr G. P. Johnston, who said that ali though they had been unsuccessful in stopping the valuations they had been responsible for the valuers visiting the eastern district and conferring with the objectors with the result that the valuations wer amended. 'JETe strongly advised all farmers to., cqme^ to an agreement with the valuer's,' anTtliug save the expense of fighting their cases -12 che Assessment Court. The valuers were meeting the farmers fairly, and he was pleased at the spirit in which the valuers were approaching the amended valuations. So far the arrangements were successful from the objectors' viewpoint. Mr J. D.. Trotter said that what the president had told them was good news, and showed what could be done by continued effort. The large meetings heM in. the various districts had. had the desired effect. Mr Howe, Wyndham, said that the valuers had been round his district and in every case they had met the objections. The president said that the arrangement had resulted in a more equitable valuation ', and saved many farmers considerable expense. Mr. A. B. Burrell is the successful tenderer for the Park Bowling, Club's pavilion. Nelson, Moate's teas are blended by an expert of many years' experience, and contain only the choicest of hillgrown leaves. Ask your grocer lot" Nelson, Moate's brands.—Advt. m;W.f. A new lot of bargains for this week. 80in. Herringbone sheeting u.b., usually 6/11, sale price 4/11; 80in. heavy u.b. twill sheeting, usually 6/11, sale price 4/11; SOiai heavy white Herringbone sheting, usually 8/9, sale price only 5/11; all pure wool white blankets from 37/6"pair: crepe de chine silk, extra quality, all shades, usually 13/6, 15/6 a 2:lft at 8/11. 11/6; one only musquash Fur coat, usually 60gns "sale price lOgns; one only black fur coat, usually Jsgns, sale price 20gns. One third off ill fur collars, necklets and stoles at ;he Big Bargain House, J. C. Gillett. ft.ll these lines are less than to-day's wholesale price.—Advt. THEY LAP IT UP. 1 One of the advantages of Ceremilk s that it does not settle on the bot■om.of the bucket. It is finely ground rom fresh cereals, and the fine paricles remain in suspension. The calves re thus able to lick up evei-y drop, "eremilk contains the elements which alves need for Building up bone, iesh and fat. It prevents scour, as undreds of farmers testify. Sold in 001b, 1001b, 501b and 251b bags at tores and factories. Local agents: 'leming and Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 98, Wellington. Made by Fleming and ■a., Ltd., Gore- For pigs—use Farro ' 'ood. —Advt.