Lake county Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, June 1, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2634, 1 June 1916, Page 4

Lake county Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, June 1, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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4, • Mr John James Mcßride has been appointed agent for the Public Trustee at Queen6town. The annual meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee will take place at Queenstcwn to-day. Constable Melville has completed the work of collecting the agricultural statistics in Arrow Riding. The Government has decided to take the census in October next. The work will be undertaken by the Postal Department. Mr D. R. Barron was awarded second prize for his exhibit of Tuscan wheat at the Otago A. and P. Society's Winter Show. The gross receipts at the recent entertainment in aid of the Local Wounded Soldiers' and Red Cross Funds amounted to about .£57. On Monday morning twenty-six passengors from Arrow connected with the steamer at Queenstown en route to the Dunedin Winter Show. The King's Birthday holiday will be observed in Arrow on Monday next instead of on Saturday. A notification to that effect appears in our advertising columns. The Argus states that an evident case of suicide has been reported from Lindia Crossing, where on Sunday afternoon the body of Thomas Cassidy was found in a hole in the Lindis River, with the throat cut. Cassidy was a- wool-classer, and he was well-known in this district. Following on a sharp fall in the barometer a fairly heavy rain set in on Saturday evening last and continued throughout the night. Sunday was a bleak and squally day, and a good deal of rain fell. The weather now appears to bear a more settled appearance. Mr D. R. Barron advises us that the rainfall for the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. on Sunday was 73 points. Several large orchards are to be planted this year at Arrowtown, in the vicinity of Lake Hayes. Mr R. M. Paterson's fourteenacre apple orchard planted in this locality in 1913 is looking exceptionally well, and carrying quite a small crop' of fruit thia year, pioving the capabilities of that part of the country for the purposes of the culture of the cool temperature fruits.—N.Z. Farmer. It was decided at the monthly meeting of the Southland Education Board on the motion of Mr C 4. T. Stevens that it be an instruction to teachers and sewing mistresses that the Board is desirous that sewing lessons shall consist of the making of articles suitable for Red Cross Purposes and the comfort of soldiers at the front, teachers to be requested to report to the Board iii a month's time as to what steps have been taken. Baritone, who won the Te Puke Welter at the .N'orth Otago Meeting on the second clay, was left in by mistake, he having previously taken part in the day's programme (says " Old Identity " in the Star). But M v Spratt left the scratching too late to escape a monetary penalty, so he gave Baritone another run, and invested £3 on him, and the unreliable son of Finland never left the issue in doubt, paying a dividend of nearly a third of a century. Baritone's owner made a substantial payment to the Jockey Club's patriotic fund. The piece of tapestry work presented by Mrs Jopp. senr., to the Arrow Concert Party fer sale by auction at the recent Patriotic Concert realised the handsome total of £27 12*. The following were the contributors to that amount:—H. McKibbin, £2 2s; Dr Edie, £1 10s; Jack Reid, W. S. Reid, and J. W. Miller, each £1 Is; Jno. Allan, junr., A. Jopp, Thos. Allan, T. Reid, junr, Leo Leo, R. Butel, Jno. Butel, and Win. Reid, each £1 ; J. W. Perriam, D. Cosgrc.ve, and W. Mayne, each 15s; Mrs Baird, IDs; Ah Wak, 10s ; Ewen Duncan, 7s ; A. Smith, J. Dagg, B. Partridge, P. M. Tobin, A. J. Campbell, R. Stickle, W. McPherson, Joe. Thompson, C. Johnston, and W. Olds, eich ss; Mrs W. Keid and C. Rodwell, each 2s 6.1; Mrs R. M. Paterson purchaser), £5 ss. A well-known local resident, Mr George Silver, met with a painful and serious accident on Thursday last at the Cromwell Development Party's works on the Kawarau river (says the Argus). The injured man was engaged in hammer and drill work on the main channel, when a fall of gravel and stone.-• einie clown suddenly from the face, striKing him heavily on the back. He was immediately removed to the Cromwell Hospital and medical examination showed that the injuries to his back were of a serious nature The injuries are such that a definite opinion cannot yot bo expressed, but nevertheless it is fully realised that they are s> serious as to cause his family great anxiety. On making inquiries on Monday morning little progress could bo reported. An important letter dealing with men requiring operations to make them fit for eervi e has been received by the Christchurch Citizens' Defence Corps from Hon. James Allen. The letter reads : "In view of tho request of your corps, the whole question with respect to what are known as minor operations to fit men for service was referred to the Director-general of "Medical Services, '>\ho advised the Recruiting Hoard that it is a question whether disabilities such as varicocele, varicose veins, ruptures, appendicitis, hallux varus, and hammer toes, when more tnau one is affected, should bo operated upon at all to render a man fit for army service, as the results cf such operations so far have been most discouraging. Theie have been several cases whore men operated on for these complaints have broken clown afterwards whon training. It has therefore been decided that a man who undergoes an operation for any of these troubles will not be permitted to join the Forces until six months after the operation, and only then if the Medical Board report that the operation has been success.iil and that tho candidate is fit for hard physical work."

An entertainment in aid of the Bed Cros 8 Fund will be held at Gibbston on Friday, 16th inst. Mr John Allan (Thurlby) was awarded first and second prizes for Chevalier barley at the Otago A. & P. Society's Winter Show. " It is easier to drive a motor car in London than in Wellington," said Mr T. M. Wilford in the Wellington Supreme Court. " This is the meat difficult city in the world to drive in," he added, " owing to the absolute absence of traffic control." It is understood that the banks trading in New Zealand nre seeking legislation to issue ton-shilling bank notes. Information was recently received from Australia that no mere half-sovereigns would be minted there pending the cutting of new dies. Since then, hawevor, the export of gold from Australia has boen prohibited. At the monthly meeting of the Southland Education Hoard held on Friday the following appointments in the Wakatipu were confirmed: Athol, headteacher, tJeorge Mackenzie; Green vale, sole teacher, Helen E. Fisher.—Mr ft. Gibb of West Plains was appointed instructor in agriculture under the Hoard. —The secretary reported, amengst others, that Athol, Cardrona, Gibbston, Greenvale, Kingston, Macetown and Pembroke had failed to elect committees on the statutory date set apart for that purpose. It was decided to hold a fresh election in each of the placea mentioned on June 16, at 7.30 p.m.—An application from the Glonorchy School Committee for halfcost of removing and re-erecting fence and planting willows was granted, the Board's share of the work not to exceed £5 10s.