LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The final result of Poppy Day in Wellington is £1746. The expenses were 10s.—Press Association.

The dispute between the PostmasterGeneral and the P. and T. Officers' Association concerning the proposed affiliation of the association with the Alliance of Labour is at a standstill pending the conference of delegates. The executive of the association has referred the decision to this conference, but is expected to make certain recommendations. The date originally fixed for the conference was May 9. A further month in which to report has been granted to Mr F. W. Flanagan, Valuer-General, who is acting as a commission investigating the difficulties of dairy farmers; in the Waikato and Taranaki districts. In a brief interim statement, Mr Flanagan reported that he had met many of the farmers | who were in difficulties, and had been able to recommend adjustments in many cases so as to ease their burdens and enable them to pull through the time of stringency. The New Plymouth police were advised last ■■ night by Constable Longbottom, of Inglewood, that an eleven-year-old boy, Leonard Blanchard, has been lost in the Egmont National Reserve near Inglewood. The boy, who lives with his uncle, Mr McEwen accompanied the latter on a journey through part of the Sgrnont Reserve in the earlypart of yesterday afternoon. Lianchard, strayed away, and became lost. A search made by Constable JLtOiigbottom and others was continued for some hours without result Tne search will be resumed at daylight to. oay.. T£ e, b? y's Paren*s reside in the South Island.—News.

The -usual monthly meeting of the laranaki Land Board was beld on Ihursday and Friday, April 27 and 28. lhe following transfers were approvedSection 1, block 4, Hawera, Wm." Winks to T. Tarrant; part section 21, a* r>B' Kaupokonui, Public Trustee to M. P. lot 1, section 2, Ohawe Town Belt, P. T. Donnelly to M. Barraclough. The valuer's report on section 6, block 12, Hawera (education reserve) was received. Fortyseven applications under the Discharged Soldiers' Acts were considered, and ot thes.e seven stock applications were recommended two adjourned, and two refused; seven applications to transfer were recommended, and one ; application to subdivire was provisionally approved. The next meeting of the board will be held on t\e i/th, a week earlier than usual.

+ Lord Burnham, in responding to the toast of the National Advertising Society, said: "You hear a good deal in these days of key industries, but to my mind advertising is the key industry of the universe. Some people might say that advertising is not the highest test, of truth. lam quite sure it fe the surest measure of value. It is only advertising that establishes the truth m-i ?i. ng run ' and therefore, if it is said that truth 'will prevail, the proviso, must always be added Provided it be properly advertised.' » Referring to the relationships of the advertising statt of a paper with the printing staff kSI? Urnham !Said -that when Sia^se kittens were advertised for sale under musical instruments," as they were the other day in his own paper, it wS andeto ha + \ ann°yif g i° the -dvStoS (Laughter ) 6 **** Wh<> PaSS€d tt on"

SUITS TO MEASURE AT H.B. A suit to measure from our eelebrifprl good wearing tweeds for £G. S*w suite are well known throughout the ZnfT 11 aS £°od wearers; they are suj-c at the New Zcal^cf <££.& 7al toiy, Hawera.— Advt.

A Manawatu farmer who employs many casuals, says the old-time English farm servant, of whom there are still a few arriving, is the best and most contented m the world consequently he succeeds where all" others fail.—JMLanawatu Daily Times

An interesting evening is assured at the Joresters'j Hall, Hawera, tomorrow, on the occasion of the Hawera Football Club's euchre party and dance Excellent prizes have been donated, and these are now on view at Jury's shop Hawera. '

The Shannon Dairy Company (reports the Manawatu Daily Times; produced 30 tons more butter iin .nine months of this season than it did for the whole of last season—and last season was a record. The company is contemplating erecting a large concrete building to keep pace with the growth of the dairying industry in Shannon.

The magazines to hand from Messrs Gordon and Gotch include the Royal for March. This is a really fine production, and it contains a number of com-] plete stories well up to the standard of the best magazines." My Magazine will be welcomed by the children. The beautiful illustrations and instructive articles written in a style and dealing with subjects dear to the child mind make the March number most interesting. The Yellow Magazine contains stories by no less than fifteen authors of standing, and provides an unusual quantity of delightful reading matter for a low-priced magazine.

An Invereargill resident who spent the Easter holidays at Mount Cook states (according to the Southland Times) that there were about sixty tourists at the Hermitage while he was there. This, it is understood, is something like five times the ordinary number of visitors to New Zealand's highest mountain at this time of the year, and is attributed to the fact that the motor car fare from Timaru to Mount Cook was reduced by nearly .fifty per cent., while a reduction was also made in the tariff at the Hermitage.

A strikirig instance of the influence of growing competition in reducing estimates for contracting was furnished (states the Auckland Herald) by a comparison of tenders received by the Mount Eden Borough Council for the work of installing sewers in two of the borough streets. The borough engineer's estimate of the work was £1037, yet the lowest tender of the various contracting firms who applied for the work was £450. This was accepted.

The careless manner in which wives sign informations against their husbands when seeking separation and maintenance, was shown in the Auckland Court last week (states the Star). A young wife had sworn jn the information that her husband was guilty of habitual drunkenness and persistent cruelty. As she made no reference to this iii her evidence, Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., pointed this out, whereupon counsel remarked, "Oh. that is only the formal information laid; she has left her husband and wants maintenance, to which.he consents." A young and wealthy Australian tour. Ist, to take him at _S?s own valuation, travelled through from Christchurch to Blenheim last week on the "never" (says an exchange), explaining to the car proprietors, hotelkeepers, etc., with whom he had small business relations, that his father, who was in Nelson wrfti their Rolls-Royce, would be through in a day or two and would settle all accounts. Unfortunately for the tourist, who was accompanied by a lady friend, he was recognised at an unhappy moment as an ex-Ghrist-church hotel porter, and then trouble started. He managed to find enough money to pay his car faro from Blenheim to Nelson, and under the urge of the police dug a' little deeper into bis pocket and raked up sufficient to settle his hotel bill within a shilling. The wealthy one proceeded on his journey to Nelson with a stern warning from the police that, any further reference to his Rolls-Royce and his squatter father, which might induce the unwary to give "him credit, would probably lead to trouble.

Not long ago a writer in the Lonclon I Times, referring to the great number of books constafiU? being published, asked why it is that such a very large proportion oflEem are so dull. Apparently he was content to raise the question without seeking for a reason. To his question three replies may be given: That we are all foo intelligent; that we are all too stupid; and that the people who make books are all too lazy. And to the extreme critic doubtless there is satisfaction in each of these replies. Yet tfrere is a fourth that is much belter, and that is that books are not dull; that there never was a timo when I such a large proportion of book's were so interesting. This fact appears to be confirmed By careful observation and comparison with past periods. Perhaps one of the chief troubles with so many of the books of the present is, not that they are dull, but that they are too interesting.^ The expense of producing them has increased so largely during the last few years that before beins» issued they are more carefully scrutinised than ever before."—Thomas L Masson, in the World's Work.