THE Inangahua Times. SATURDAY APRIL 23, 1932 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Inangahua Times, 22 April 1932, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. SATURDAY APRIL 23, 1932 LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Inangahua Times will not be published on Monday (Anzac Day),

The Reeltoa Telephone Exhange will be closed all day Monday. (Anzac Day). The mails which left Wellington on 22nd March, per Makura, via San Francisco, arrived in London on 18th April.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Pacific Lodge will be held in the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock to which visiting brethren are cordially invited.

Final lists of divorces in England in 1931 di close that during the vear 3800 decrees were made absolute. This is a record figure, being more than 600 in excess of the previous year.

Blotting paper consists ot tiny threads with thousands of openings bttweeu them The ink rises in them by capillary attrac tlon. In a smooth paper the tiny openings are filled up with glazing material. Re the County defaulters’ list, we are asked to correct the impression created that all owing rates cannot vote at the forthcoming County and Hospital elections. This applies lo those whose rates are U'-paid lor any year prior to March 31st 1930. The Anzac Day service to be held in Princess Theatre on Mon day afternoon at 2 30 o'clock will be attended by Ministers of religion, and short addresses appropriate to the occasion will be given. The day will be observed as a strictly religious one.

The Anniversary Soiree which I usually lakes place on Monday following the Meibodist Sunday School \>iniversary, will be held on Monday, May 2nd. j A huge bullock ia at present on exhibition at Wellington The animal weighs 37501 b— over l ton lSewt.—.->nd i< is 19 hands in height, and has a girth of 13 feet. It is a New Zealandbred animal, and it is interred to exhibit it at the Toront, Exhibition •horily. Indications for the fire plugs are j low b ing pi-iced lr position bv I fhe County I'Uis is r .novation fiat will b grea*’ i'predated bv metnhcts of th Brigade and others, wco, wh »• an outbreak o fire takes p acebave • • oct-asinn--Ist valuable lim e Inn' jj the F owing 1., he , >hich g.ows so rapidiy on Reef ton Streets, obscuring it from view. Although the New Zealand woo season baa closed in unrelieved gloom* there Is caule to hop* in the Confident statement on the healthy condition of I the Bradford industry made last week I by the President of the Board of Trade • and confirmed in a meeeaga published this weak. Mr Runeiman said, “In the West Riding of Yorkshire there ie i greater activity than for years past, I the mills having Ceased •bortiiHe work, I and tnsny of them are working overtime." The reason why that activity is not reflected in prices for raw material must ba sought in the world trade deadlock. Thera have followed the currency restrictions to which tho message refers To quote one writer, in addition to tariffs, quotas, prohibitions and other purely commercial obstacles, the Governments of 18 countries in Europe and eight countries in South America bad by January forbidden the purchase of foreign currencies except under restrictions rarely i and capriciously lifted. Thus large potential markets for British exports canrot obtain the credit to boy them. Until the jungle of tariff and currency restrictions is cleared, the world ttade cannot function normally. Meanwhile It ie encouraging that, in spite of the odds. Bradford is busier than for years. Everyone is saying it—the orchestral are playing it, and the weather in the cold, iCy VolCe Is bidding yon button up your overcoat. Remember, -to prevent a cold ie better than to cure one. You cannot afford to bo without a good warm coat any. longer, so call in and see our wonderful selection, priced from 66a, in all the newest shades and styles. J. W. Chalk attd Co„ ia undoubtedly the leading 'bouse for theee necessltiee. tc