Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyselfj be just. Arrowtown, March 15, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2981, 15 March 1923, Page 2

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyselfj be just. Arrowtown, March 15, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In accordance with a request by the Acting Mayor the business people of Arrowtown will observe a full holiday on Show Day. Messrs Prapwell and| Holgate’s workmen arrived in Arrowtown on Monday and have commenced the work of erecting the Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial. I'here was no sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Arrowtown on Thursday last. The cases set down for hearing on that date were adjourned until next Court Day. At a recent sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown a resident, of the bor mgh whs fined £1 with £1 8s costs for erecting two barb wires on a boundary fence contrary to the borough by-laws. At a fitting of the Warden’s Court held at Queenstown on Thursday last the adjourned application of Mr W H Paterson, of Oauiaru, for change of purpose of license at Soho Creek from mining to mining purposes, irrigation, feeding and driving machinery and generation of electricity, was granted, the Minister’s consent having been given.

Mr H G Bruce notifies that fie has opened autumn goods. Seeadvt. The actual revenue received by the Southland Hospital Board for eleven months, ending February 28, was £II,OBO, the estimated revenue being £8,84(3, an increase of £2,234 over the estimates. The estimated expenditure for a similar period was £35,760, while tho actual expenditure was £36,322.

The writ in connection with theTauranga by election was issued on Saturday. Nominations close on Monday next and the election will take place on March 28 Intense ‘interest is being taken in the election, and despite the fact that in December last the late Sir Wm. Merries defeated the Liberal Candidate by 1200 votes, the coming contest between Sir Joseph Ward and Mr C. E, Macmillan, the Reform candidate, promises to bo a close and keen one. The monthly meeting of the Dairy Company held last week was attended by M< ssrs Wm Reid (chairman), J ButM, J W l*iown, M Jenkins, Leo Lee, and R M Paterson. Permission was given to the manager (Mr Jaekwaysl to exhibit cheese at the Dunedin Winter Show. The chairman s»H that Mr Wm Alexander, chief dairy instructor for Soul bland, had promised to pay a visit to the dist. ict at an early date. Accounts amounting to J6396 were passed for payment, The t Rowing judges have been appointed in connection with the Lake County A. and P S ciety’s Show which takes place on Thursday nexi : raught horses, Mr Walti-r Blaikie (Branxholmr); Light horses, Mr I hos. Prondergast (Wallucetown) j Cattl». Mr Wm Brash (Waikiwi); sheep, Mr KK Smith (Tarras); Sundries, Miss Callan ; er (Mosgiel) ; Da.ry produce. Mr Alex Milne (Government Dairy Produce Grader, Invercargill) ; Grain and Seeds, (Mr R BTennent,Government Agricultural Instructor, Dunedin). The quarterly meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee, held at Queenstown on Thuroday last, was attended by the chairman (Mr Geo. Cruickshank, S.M.) and Messrs Wm. Reid, Chas. Murphy, and D. F. Sutherland. The following business of local interest was transacted : —Tranfers of the licenses of the Garston Hotel from G E Harvey to M J Forde, the Mountaineer Hotel, Queenstown, from J S Collins to J M Petrie, and the Wanaka Hotel, Pembroke, from J L McCormack to II G Glass, were giantod. At the quarterly meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee held last week comment was made by the Committee on the fact that structurally, some of the hotels in the Wakatipu Licensing District did not afford safe exit to inmates in case of fire. After some discussion it was decided to instruct the Clerk to write to the Public Health Dept., Dunedin, asking them to embody in their annual report on hotels a special report regarding the conditions pre vailing in, and facilities afforded by, the various hotels for safe exit in the event of an outbreak of fire. Consideraele interest is being evinced by local followers of cricket in the match between teams from tbe Arrow and Queens town Cricket Clubs which will take place on the Recreation Ground on Saturday next. The teams have already met on four occasions this season, and as each side has won two games there will be a keen contest for the “ ashes.” Arrow will be represented by the following players:—J Forbes, Rev J N Goodman, J Fletcher, R L Fletcher, S George, P F Cotter, J B Thomson, G Thomp* son, T Henderson, H Garforth, W Higgins. Emergencies, C Forbes. L Churchill, Q Metzger. Play will commence at 10 30 a.m. The first criokst match this season for the cup presented by Mr Sew Hoy for competition amongst Lake County schools was played at Queenstown on Saturday last, when a combined team from the Arrow Public and Convent schools met tna Queenstown Public school team. Arrowtown scored 41 (W Murphy 22) and 33 (W Murphy 9) and Queenstown 32 (W Davis 16) and 41 (A Buckham 19), the Arrow boys thus winning by the narrow margin of one run. W Murphy and F Stevenson (Arrow) and Buckham and Gardiner (Queenstown) were the most successful bowlers. The Arrow team was in charge of Mr John Forbes, and Messrs Forbes and McDonald acted as umpires. The annual concert in connection with St Patrick’s t'hurch will be held in the Atheneum Hall on Thursday evening next (Show Night). An excellent programme has been arranged for the occasion, the vocalists ineluding Mrs Campbell, and Messrs I McNeill, J Lynch, and R Roma..«,

of Quo nstown, Miss Ethul Mayno, Miss Enright (Gibbston), and Messrs D Rowe and G Metzger. Instrumental item* will be contributed by Mi and the Misses Waning, and the pupils of St Joseph’s Convent School will appear in several Bpt ct cular items. The concert will con elude with a comdietta entitled “ The Real Truth ” which will be presented by local amateurs. The concert will be followed by a danc-. to which a nominal charge for admis-ion will bo made. Mill owners in Scotland have decided to matte it a condition that the women they employ shall not indulge in any form of betting. They state that the women are bad losers, and the betting spirit creates trouble among tham. Three rules which may help to cure stammering are : (I) Read aloud slowly and distinctly while alone in a room. (2) take a deep breath before speaking, and when, difficu’ty arises, stop and begin again. (3) Look ahead for any word known by experience as a stumbling block, and tako a deep breath before tackling it. Henry Allen Wilson secretary of the New England (U.S.A.) Anti-Tobacco League, said in an address in Portland “ Carefully compiled statistics show us that for every cigar a man smokes he shortens his life three days, while with every cigarette he shortens his life a week.” At this point a prominent Portland physician rose in the rear of the hall. “ Are those statistics absolutely accurate?” ho asked. “ Absolutely. Sir,” said Secretary Wilaon. " Why?” »• Because it’s rather important,” explained the physician. “ You see, if your statistics are accurate, I’ve been dead over 300 years. ’ Uhoque-bonks for depositors in tho Post Office Savings Bank are wanted by the Wellington Brandi cf the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators. Tho i following remit from the Society is to be discussed at tho annual conference of the Labour Party : —That with a view to tho establishment of a Stite bank, the Parliamentary Labour Party endeavour to have extended the facilities cf tho Post Office Savings B ink—(l) By granting depositors the right of use of cheque-books on accounts exceed ug £100; (2) The issue of Government or ’Treasure or State bmk notes through ilia Pest Office bank. The number of notes issued by the Post Office bank to bo deducted from the number issued by private banks.”

To role around the world on a bicycle, to earn his own living, ami to boost Australia is tho task undertaken by Mr W Jeffrey. of Newcastle, for a bet of £ 1,000 to £1 Mr Jeffrey left Newcastle on the momin■< of February fi, and is now in Sydney From there his route will be Melbourne, Adelaide, G olgardie, Perth, Fremantle, England, Glasgow, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Now York (he must cross the North American continent twice, once by the Rocky Mountains), Mexico, Cape Town, Port Said, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and back to Newcastle. His machine, which ho is to choose in Sydney, must be of Australian make, as also must be everything be carries with him, including camera and cooking utensils. “I am confident that I will win the wager,” he said.

A Wellington message states that Mr Wil> ford. Leader o! the Liberal Labour Party, after conferring with those who had lodged the petition against the return of Mr Eolleston for the Waitomo seat states it has been decided not to proceed further with it The petition had been lodged on behalf of Mr Jennings, who bad since died. The fescue grower* at Mosaburn have finished stacking their oiop after a protracted period of bad weather. A few farmers threshed from stook, aad the seed is in good condition with a fair weight. Growers have not sold yet and several of the larger ones are considering cleaning their seed and shipping it on tbeir own account. A lady who was one of the competitors in the sheep judging at the Masterton show discerned something that those compiling the points to be judged had overlooked, and duly recorded it as a suggestion on her card. The point was the length of staple, and she rightly showed it was impossible to arrive at this unless some indication was given as to when the sheep were last shorn. “ When I was a boy,” said a member of the Manawatu Fruitgrowers’ Association at the annual meeting, “the provincial Government of that day tried to pass a law providing a fl gging for any boy who broke a sparrow Vegg.” As a contrast to this, another member stated that ho had bought 41 dozen blackbirds’ eggs from one hoy dining last season. Altogether 400 dozen eggs had been bought. A farmer from the Meremere district, at the back of Ms worn, told a Daily News reporter that ragwort had got a gioat bold there through the carelessness of some absentee land-owners, on whose land the cattle grazing c >u!<l n T ho soon owing to the height of the ragwort He never would have believed ragwort would grow so high and so rank, nor that it coaid so rapidly spread and devastate a whole countryside. Further circumstantial evidence, if such

were needed, regarding the sheep-killing propensities of the kea came under notice on Saturday nnrning at Hanmer Springs, when Mr J Bidelph succeeded in shooting one on tho wing (states the ‘ Lyttelton Times’), On examination a quantity of wool was found tangled in the bird’s claws. There were also stains on the beak, which had every appearance of being bloodstains, making it evident that the bird had attack- , ed a sheep that morning. At the Hornby crossing (Christchurch) on Thursday night the West Coast train ran into a motor car containing Robert McMillan, well known in trotting circles as a trainer, driver and breeder, and Eugene McDermott one o£ the leading light harness reinsmen in New Zealand. McMillan was killed outright and McDermott suffered severe injuries to his head and shock, but has shown slight improvement since admission to the Hospital. The car was badly smashed. Both are married men.

How greatly opinions of good cooking differ was demonstrated at a show recently held in Masterton. A Masterton lady cooked a number of articles for entry in a certain section. After selecting the best for her own exhibit, she passed on the culls to a friend, wbo entered them. The lady’s breath was almost taken away when she learned that the judges had awarded the culls a prize, and her pet entry was placed among the “ also starteds.”

An effort is being made in the United States to develop the dairy industry on Swiss lines. Plana have been perfected in Denvrr. Colorado, for bringing to the mountain-sides and valleys of the Rocky Mountain region young Swiss dairymen to engage in cheese and butter-making in the State and possibly in Wyoming and Utah. Two colonies of at least 50 young, industrious Swiss will be brought from Switzerland next spring and established on suitable tracts of land where they may carry on profitably the dairying activities as in their* native land.

The codlin moth, the curse of orchards, bids fair to become a thing of the past in Taranaki. Soma two years ago an insect was introduced by the Government Pomologist to attack the codlin moth. It has done its work exceedingly well, for in most of the orchards in North Taranaki the codlin has almost entirely disappeared this season, says the Herald. The brown or ripe rot which attacks the stone fruit is the next thing to defeat So far the various measures tried have proved ineffective, but hopes are entertained that the cause of the rot will soon be diagnosed and a remedy found. In conversation with a Timaru Post reporter recently, Mrs Colonel Mclnnis, of Wellington, who is lecturing for the Salvation Army, stated that smoking amongst women was increasing in New Zealand. She ted of an incident which occurred in the Auckland Wellington express recently, when she and another officer of the Army were travelling. They were in a nonsmoker carriage, and were approached by another woman, who inquired if they objected to her smoking. On another occasion the colonel was travelling up from Dunedin, and noticed a wnm m who went out on to the carriage platform and there inuulged in two or three cigarettes to help to while away the journey. “ An amusing incident has been related to us in connection with the most recent popu lar wedding in this city (states the Auckland Star). It had been arranged to hold the wedding breakfast at the residence of the bride’s married sister, and a carrier was employed to convey the necessary crockery to the house. Upon Arriving there the carrier observed at the gate a stout elderly msn, in negligee attire, and said, * I say, old chap, would you mind lending me a hand to unload this crockery?’ ‘ Certainly,’ said the ‘ old chap ’ and at once rendered efficient aid in unloading ond bestowing the breakables in safety. Imagine the carrier’s surprise when he later discovered that the old chap who assisted him so readily was none other than the father of the bride, Mr himself! We leave it to our readers to supply the missing word.’* Preparations are now in hand for next Poppy Day, which will be held all over New Zealand on April 24. Headquarters of the Returned Soldiers’ Association has received advice that this year’s shipment of poppies is on board the steamer Makura, which is due at Auckland on or about the loth oil this month. The Otago district wil receive 40,000 small and 9,500 large popios. The former will be sold at Is each, and the latter at 2s each. The money is to be devoted towards the relief of unemployment among returned soldiers on the same lines as last year, and, in addition, £IOO is to be

givnn to the New Zealand War Veterans’ Homo at Auckland. The poppies are made by the widows and children of the devastated areas of France. For their work they receive 2kl for each small poppy and 9d for each large one. TAILORING. It is pleasing to advise that our Tailoring Department has man; extra apeciil offerings. Extensive stocks of New Autumn and Winter Suitings hj ive just been opened up, and are displayed in our new Tailoring Department. Our popular cutter, Mr L L Padget, wants to show you our many special offerings. We guarantee a perfect fit. Only the very best of furnishings are used. It will bo to your advantage to call early. Indigo Serge Suits, 9,and 10 gns ; Hlack Serge Suits, £lO 10/-j Colonial Worsteds, in greys and browns, 168/-, 189/-. 210/-. English Worsteds, nice weights, 189/-, 210/the snit. English and Scotch Tweed' 150/-, IGO/-, 168'-. 189/- the suit NZ. All wool Tweeds from 150/-. Now is the time to order your Dross Suit. Prices range from 12 gns, silk linings. Costumes made to any design at prices ranging from 189/np at H. & J. SMITH, LTD, Progressive Stores, Tsy Street, Invercargill, and Main street, Gore.—(Advt)