Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, June 8, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2635, 8 June 1916, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, June 8, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Mr Frederick R. Cullitncre, of Arrow, Inis been granted a traction-engine driver’s certificate of competency. The latest addition to the ranks of local motorists is Mr George O’Fee, of Crown Terrace, who has purchased a fivo-seater Chevrolet car. A valedictory social tendered to the Rev. \V. Uphill by the parishioners of St. Paul’s Church will ho held in the Parish Hall on Hnfisdny mms noit; A special meeting of the Arrow Borough Council will lie held this evening to receive and pass the audited balance sheet of the borough for the year ended 31st March last. The annual prize-giving in connection with St. Paul's Sunday School will take place ju the Parish Hall on Monday evening next. The proceedings will commence with a children’s tea at 6 p.m. The Lake County dairy factory was closed down for the season on Thursday last. The quantity of cheese manufactured during the season was 31 tons as compared with 3o tons last season. The shopkeepers and tradesmen of Arrow observed the King’s Birthday holiday on Monday. The weather was unpropitious, and the town was very quiet during the day. Mr D. R. Barron has kindly supplied us with the following meteorological figures for .May Rainfall for month, 2.8-tin ; number of days on which rain fell, 10; maximum rainfall. Go points on 28th. The total rainfall for the five months ending 31st May was 8.75 in. Very heavy rain fell in all parts of the district from the early hours ef Monday morning till shortly after noon. As a result the rivers and streams were all in high Hood. Mr D. R. Barron reports that the rainfall for the 2-1 hours ending noon on Monday was 103 points. “ Is hot water laid on to the bars in the Invercargill hotels?” was a question put to the Health Inspector by Mr Turton at the annual meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee held at Queenstown last week. “ There are no bars in Invercargill,” gravely repln d t e inspector, amidst laughter. Sergt. Walsh, in the course of his canvass ef Greenfield last week, met with an enthusiastic patriot of 70 summers and winters, who wanted to fill in a caid volunteering for active service (says the Bruce Herald). This was Captain Shaw, of Waitahuna West, an ex-captain of volunteers, who has five s< ns on active service. A meeting of the directors of the Lake County Co-operative Dairy Factory Coy. was hel 1 on Tuesday evening, and was attended by Messrs Wm. Reid (Chairman), Juo. Bute], T. J. Healey, and IT. Hunter. It was leporlod tl at tiie factory had been closed down on 3utli ultr., and that from a financial point of view the season had been a very satisfactory cur Accounts amounting I o „CI 47 were pissed for payment, and alter transacting some routine business the meeting was adjourned. The dilapidated state of the ceiling of the court.tense at Queenstown afforded a witness at the licensing meeting an oppori unity of scoring at the expense of an '•C muinical Government. A well-known 1 rrow hotelkeeper was asked if some of his rooms did not require re-papering, and in reply he admitted that the billiard room j required attention in that direction. ‘‘The I paper on the ceiling is a little frayed, but it is not nearly so dilapidated as the ceiling j of this courthouse,” ho a Ido l amidst general laughter. If you want to erect your own out 1 building drop a note to T. F. Bowden Timber Agent, Queenstown, who will cut 1 timber ready for erection and deliver same 1 at Fraukton at lowest rates.—Advt. | I

| The Wanaka correspondent of the Argus I states that Messrs Laftanchi’s dredge at i Cardrona sank on the 26th ulto. It is i doubtful if it will be possible to raise the i dredge, and the Messrs Lafranchi will be I heavy losers. In opening the Otago Winter Show, Dr McNab stated that he understood that the country would hive to face the contingency of the British War Office commandeering tho whole cheese output for the 1916-1917 season. Mr Justice Edwards appears to have but little confidence in industrial schools. In tho course of some remarks during a Supreme Court case he said that, personally, he would rather have children in gaol than in an industrial school. In the course of a speech in tho House of Representatives tho Hon. Jas. Allen stated that the Imperial Government has arranged for a shipload of ammunition to New Zealand, so that it would be seen that the position at Home must now be satisfactory. Speaking to a Guardian (Ashburton) reporter last week a farmer said that as soon as the “weather clears ploughing will be general all over the county and ho fears that there will be a great shortage of ploughmen. Already farmers have had difficulty iu getting good men and each quota takes away more experienced ploughmen. Probably a great many farmers will have to do their own ploughing. The Hon. A. M. Myers (Minister of Customs), replying in the House last Wednesday afternoon to a question by Mr Wilford whether he would introduce an amendment to the Old Ago Pensions Act increasing the payment to old age pensioners from 10s to 15s per week, and thus helping them to meet the increased cost of living, said that it was not at present proposed to increase tho pensions payable under “ The Pensions Act of 1918.” The gross payments under the Act last year, he stated, exceeded £563,000. The annual meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee took place at Queenstown on Thursday and Friday last. The deliberations of the committee extended over eighteen hours, and probably established a record for the dominion in regard to the length of a sitting of a licensing committee. Objections bad been lodged by i the Health Department in respect of thirty- , four applications for licenses and considerable interest was evinced in the proceedings by the trade and the public generally. The courthouse was crowded throughout Thursday, those present including five solicitors, eleven members of the police force, and upwards of thirty hotelkeepers. Tho committee adjourned at 10.45 pm. on Thursday and resumed at 9 a.m. on Friday, and the decisions in regard to (the various applications were announced at 4 p.m. His Excellency the Governor has been advised that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer the following honors on the occasion of his Majesty’s birthday:—Brigadier-General A. W. Robin, 0.11, O.M.G. (Commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces), to be Knight Commander of ihe Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.). Hon. F. W. Lang M.P. (Speaker of the House of Represent atives', to bo Knight Bachelor. Mr J. CulLu (Commissioner of Bodice), to be Companion of the Imperial Service Orel t ([ S O.). The commercial instinct is evidently highly developed in some of the Ralcaia youths (.-ays the Ashburton Guardian). Recently a small boy approached the clerk of the Road Board and intimated that he had some rats’ tails, for sale. The clerk asked the lad to spread them out in his hand for the purpose of counting them, and before making a deal he was induced to make a closer inspection owing to the peculiar appearance of some of the alleged tails. His surprise can be better imagined than expressed when he discovered that the j alleged tails were healthy specimens of dock ! roots, all about a uniform size, and about the same length as a rat’s tail. The specimens we.ro shown to the members of the board at its meeting, and created considerable amusement. “These exemptions in the Dominion are running into a large sum of money and I do not think we can go'on granting them,” said the Commissioner of Crown Lauds in AVellingtou in a case which came before him from Mr G. H. Smith, of Mangonui, who wrote asking if he would be relieved of paying rent if he enlisted. The applicant had a mortgage of £3OOO over the property but it was a productive farm. Ho said he would be able to provide for his wife and family if he went. The Board refused the applicant’s request, remark being made that such a man’s duty was to stay iu the country. “Ido not think wo should encourage a man in his circumstances to go to the front,” remarked a member; “his place is to stay behind and work the land.” Tho effect of the shortage of paper in the Old Country is apparent in the size of some of the London newspapers arriving by lata mails. Nows is condensed to its utmost. The Times of April 21 was down to ten pages, and the Daily Telegraph, another of the penny journals, was similarly curtailed. The case of the halfpenny papers, which, of course, have to deal with huge circulations, is even more striking, for the Daily News was brought down to six pages and even to four pages for one issue, and the Daily Chronicle to six. According to private advices, advertisement rates have been advancing persistently, and an indication of the tendency is given the domestic notice column of the Times, which was charging 7s Od for four lines, and is now charging 10s 6d for three lines, and naif a crown for every additional line. Tho financial position created by the war is causing the Wellington Education Board some concern. Tho annual report states that the board recognises the need for, and has always practised, economy in its administration ; but it has failed to perceive in the financial and trading operations of the Dominion that lack of which has been urged by the State as a reason for redneation of expenditure, even where expenditure is shown to be advisable. “ The records of trade, of racing, of the racing totalisator, of the drink bill, of tho picture theatre, of holiday traffic,” it is stated “ all point to a full ability to pay for those things which the people desire. Surely, then it can hardly be seriously suggested that this people, while quite able to pay fop its pleasures, is either unable or unwilling to pay the just charge, however large, for the sound education of its children.” The increases in the wholesale price of imported spirits since the war began have sot hotelkeepers in Australia wondering how tj make each bottle return a satisfactoiy margin of profit. At Adelaide, about a month ago, practically all tho hotels began charging 7d a nobbier. Several publicans there are resorting to the English practice of using a measuring glass. If a customer asks for whisky, imported brandy, or gin, the bar attendant, instead of placing the bottle on the counter and permitting the purchaser to help himself, as was the case in “ the good old days,” carefully measures a quarter of a gill and pours it into a nobbier glass. It. is stated that the quantity served represents a fair nobbier, which satisfies the average customer, and that a number of other hotels are likely to adopt the practice, especially if wholesale prices continue.