Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, October 7, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2857, 7 October 1920, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, October 7, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Sittings of the Magistrate's and Warden’s Courts will be held at Arrowtown on Tuesday next at 2. 30 p.m. Tho Like County dairy factory was opened tor the season on Monday last. The opening price for milk is 2s per lb of butter-fat.

A new bowling green at Bannooburn is almost completed and will probably be opened for play next week. What about making an effort to resuscitate tho Arrow Bowling Club? /

The success that attended the Bachelors' Ball held in the Garrison Hall on Friday evening h.is evidently stimulated the benedicts and spinsters into action. We understand that a return ball is being arranged and will take place about the end of October.

Mr A. Miller, of Crown Terrace, invites tenders for catting a water race. Particulars of excursion fares in connection with the Dunedin Spring Races will be found in our advertising columns. The Lake County Co-operative Dairy Co„ Ltd., invite tenders for cartage and supply of fuel for the coming season. Tenders close on Friday, 15th inst. The annual meeting of members of the Arrow Lawn Tennis Club will be held in the Press Office on Monday evening next. .Intending members are invited to be present. There is every prospect of cheap motor cars from America, if the cut in prices as reported is correct. Henry Ford cars started with a reduction of 140 dollars and now other firms are following with reductions from 100 up to 450 dollars. Ate meeting of the Council of the Lakes District Acclimatisation Society a vote of thanks was passed to Constable Dunlop and McMahon (Arrowtown) tor their efforts in protecting local fishing streams against the depredations ©f poat'hers. Splendid weather has been experienced in tl>is district daring the past ten days. Farmers complain, however, that a succession of fairly heavy frosts are retarding growth, and that up to the present crops and pasture have not made much headway. Nominations for the county general election and of a member to represent Lake County on the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will close with the returning officer (Mr GB. Harm)at noon on Ist November. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns. A jumble sale and social in aid of the funds of the Gibbston Tennis Club will be held in the local school on Friday, 15th inst. A varied assortment of useful and ornamental articles will be offered fcr sale at reasonable pric -s, and a good musical programme will be presented A dance will follow and supper will bo provided. At the annual meeting of the Public Works Cricket Club bsld at Cromwell on Saturday evening it was reported that the membership was about fifty, and it was anticipated that a strong team would be placed in the field during the coming season. The team will probably visit Arrowtown to meet the local team on Labour Day. With the increasing use of strychnine poison, quite a number of dogs have been lost by eating the carcases of rabbits destroyed by this poison. A well known settler informs us that if a dig affected is taken in time it can be saved by bleeding at the roof of the mouth. He assures us that personally he has saved a dog by this treatment, and quoted other cases he knew of.—Cromwell Argus. The trout fishing opened on Friday last under favourable circumstances. Local anglers report that fish are plentiful in Hayes Creek and during the week some good baskets have been obtained in the upper reaches of that stream. Trout are also said to be plentiful in Lake Hayes, and present indications are that local disciples of Izaak Walton will experience a successful season. There appears to be a revival in the sport this year, quite a number of licenses having been taken out by novices in the piscatorial art. Several properties have changed hands in the Hawes district recently (says the Argus). The run leased by Mr P. McCarthy has been purchased by Mr A. Brown of Hawea, and another run recently owned by Mr Robertson is in the possession of Messrs Keliher and Carter, Mr C. Harvey has disposed of his farm property at Hawea to Mrs Spear and her brother, Mr S. M. Barclay, and a section on the Hawea Pembroke road belonging to Mr R Barclae has been purchased by Mr S. Pringle. “ Are shed bands who are paid by the hour entitled to receive payment for the time work if the woolshed is suspended for * smoke-oh ’?” Snch was a qnestion regarding the Canterbury Shearers’ and Shed Hands’ award put by the employees to the Arbitration Court. The reply of the court was in the negative, although the provision of “ smoke-ob.a ” for hourly workers in the case under review was regarded by the, court as fair and reasonable, Mr Horn h*s given notice to ask the Minister of Internal Affairs whether he will instruct the dominion meteorologist to insert in the daily weather chart published in the dominion newspapers the particulars of wetiher conditions at either Alexandra, Clyde,or Cromwell. (Note: A letter has been received from a Wellington resident stating that this should be done, as the fine weather conditions registered would astonish New Zealand, and should be published for health reasons). Colonel Mitchell, speaking at the R.S.A reunion in Masterton on Satuiday, said “ I advise the men wanting land—there are about 6000 of them and I should wish there wore ten—to save their money for the present as there were hard times ahead. I have been informed that the next market will see wool down to lOd per lb. Let the would be soldier settlers wait until Crown lands are opened up. Anyhow they will gat their farms more cheaply ’, The “ Week of Pity ” effort in Otego and Southland is about closing (says the Dunedin Star). Invercargill is doing very well in the final days. The people there sot out to collect 113,000 as a minimum, and have already banked over £4.500. Gore and North Otago are also contributing freely, and the organisers still have a hope that the total for Otago and Southland will not be far short of the £20,000 that formed the high-peak estimate, duly jeered at as an exaggeration, when the scheme was first launched. “ I may be pessimistic on this subject but I think we are tending towards soil exhaustion in New Zealand, a condition which has caused farmers in other countries to abandon their land,” said Mr R. A. Alexander, director of Lincoln College, in a lecture to farmers. He added that often when son succeeded father on the same land and did not do so well, it was said he was not the farmer his father was. Quite the reverse might be the case, Mr Alexander said, for the father might have squeezed the land like a sponge and left nothing but a collapsed soil for his son to work. A northern farmer, inattemping to justify the increase in the price of butter, writes to a Christchurch paper and suggests that a visit to the picture shows and theatres several nights a week would show the public whore the money goes that should be nsed in buying milk and butter. The farmer goes on to state that there is no reason why the people should not spend their money on amusements, if so inclined but it should certainly not be done at the expense, in many cases, the extinction of the dairyman, for if he cannot get a payable price for his produce he must go under A London cablegram stetes that the Ameflcan firm of Vesteys has purchased tbe whole of the Government stocks stored in England, Australia aud New Zealand, and also in transit, less Army requirements The moat trade is gratified because it will clear tbe market. A correspondent interviewed Vetseys, who stated tout the stocks probably totalled 1.000,000 quarters, the greater portion being stored in Australasia. He was unable to estimate the quantity acquired until the Army requirements had been ascertained. It was not decided where and when they would ro-sell the beef. He denied that they intended canning. The worlds markets were already overstocked with , canned meats.

Nominations for four vacancies in * Arrow Borough Council close w»“ *r Returning Officer (Mr T. J. Cotter) on - day 15th inst. A poll if nsoessary wiU oe taken on Friday. 22nd inst.

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