LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2190, 16 October 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The increased price of butter will result in the price of board going up by at least 2/(> per week throughout the Dominion.

The monthly meeting of the Foxton Hiirbour Board will be held at Palmerston North on Monday at 1.30 o’clock.

New season's butter is being retailed locally at 2/10 per lb, the Avholesale cost of which is 2/7-1, plus handling.

The Town Clerk has already received cheques for the amounts of the Council's insurances on the Council Chambers and contents.

Mr Scollay, local hemp grader, left for Auckland to-day on relieving duty. Mr Stewart will act totally during Mr Scollay’s absence. The popular young actress. Mary Miles Minter, will appeal 1 in an exciting detective story “A Bit of -Jade,” at the Town Hall on Monday. Fsual prices (id and .1/1.

The friends of Mrs 11. H. Daniell will regret to learn that she is an inmate of Dr. Hardwick - Smith’s hospital, Wellington, where she underwent an opera! ion yesterday. She is progressing satisfactorily.

The number of men employed in the eon I mines in New Zealand in 1917 was 8985; in 1918, 8994; in 1919, 8944. The overage quantity of coal produced per person employed below ground in 191.7 was 1715; in 1918, 703; in 1919, 048 lons. A bag of brown sugar arrived at one of the I'oxton stores yesterday. The news of its arrival was circulated, and it .disappeared in small quantities almost immediately. It is hoped (hat supplies will be on I he market again within the next fortnight. During the month of September the arrivals in the Dominion numbered 4280, as against 2441 in September, 1919, and the departures 2449, as compared with 1845 for the corresponding month of last year. Two returned soldiers (brothers) who recently took up a 77-acre section near Wanganui, and are asking for financial assistance from the local Patriotic Association, in a letter read at the meeting this week slated that’ they were running 84 cows, and with pigs, etc., expected to take off i'l2oo during the coming season. This is an age of broken records in anything ranging from pianoforte playing to money making, and (lie local potential law breakers are also in the swim (says the Southland TimAs). Not one has occupied a cell at the police station for 14 days. This is a record that is alluded to by the police officials as indicative of Invercargill’s freedom from crime.

“Incidental expenses of scliools" are I lie subject <d‘ ions gazetted recently. These expenses are to include cleaning, heating’, upkeep of grounds, repairs ol‘ buildings, furniture, and appliances, stationery, water supply to school baths school libraries, and apparatus used in connection with the provision of: hot bundles for children. The scale of allowances for incidental expenses as increased by supplementary grants has also been revised, and now ranges from £ll2 to £177, with an additional £lO for each 10 or part of 40 in average attendance.

The plain and fancy dress children's ball held in the Town Hall on Thursday under the auspices of .the Hide Club, was a most successful and enjoyable function. Them was a large attendance of children, a large proportion' of whom were in, fancy dress. The prize fur the best fancy dress were awarded to Margaret Tyer (Cosma) and Gilbert Tyer (Chinaman). Hilly O’Brien was awarded a special prize for his fancy dress (Robinson Crusoe). The little ones thoroughly enjoyed the evening's entertainment, including the very tasty supper provided by the ladies.

Sitys Hie Lyttelton Times: There are now totalisator permits allowed i'or 28(i days in the year. Stakes are provided for the tune of half a million sterling, and totalisator invesimenls have grown to the enormous total of £8,797,00(1. It is surely not an immoderate view that these Jigures are large enough —that already quite sufficient time and money are expended on the turf in this small country at a lime when the problems of the day consist of debt and taxation, and when, as the statesmen and other competent authorities so frequently observe, the watchword of the people should be Economy and Increased Production.

COMMON COLDS

Do you know that by neglecting a common cold you lay yourself open to pneumonia and other lung troubles. If you have chronic catarrh, chronic bronchitis, or other throat and lung troubles, they are aggravated by each fresh cold you catch. Do not take chances when you have a cold, even though you do call it a common cold. If taken in time, Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will relieve the cold before any of these chronic complaints can be affected. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy contains no harmful drugs, and can be taken with perfect safety by the oldest and youngest. For sale everywhere, —Advt.-

William Farnum's roles in the “Jungle Trail’’ to ho screened at: the Royal on Monday night include — lover, rival, hinder, fugitive, lighter, fortune teller, god, infidel, ehieftan, swimmer, martyr and husband.

If a man deliberately placed dealt) in your path and you survived and later had the opportunit v to revenge yourself, what would you do? William Farnum Ims a novel solution of this problem in the William Fox photoplay, “The Jungle Trail.”

Nearly every household in Fox!on lias had several of its members down with measles or mumps —in some eases the whoß* family. The epidemic has just about run its course, and with a few days’ sunshine the health of the community should return to normal.

The Hospital Board has appoiuled a suh-eommittee consisting of the Chairman (Sir James Wilson) Messrs Ilornhlow, Penn, Vincent, Smart, Rramwell and Broadhelt, to confer with Dr. Valentine re the future of the Otiiki cottage hospital. The conference will take place at Otiiki. /

Under dale Ist October, the Sydney Sim's special London correspondent cabled: —A slump Ims arrived in West Fad tailoring and in Bond Sired. Sac sails and overcoats are four guineas cheaper than recently. Saxony cloths are down (J>, and Cheviots 4s. and only the best worsteds remain unchanged. A prominent tailor, in an interview, stated that the end of the highpriced suit had come, and added that the statements (hat they would he dearer were all nonsense. The slump is due to customers not Inlying, and wholesalers have been left with enormous stocks. It seems that the Legislative Council will have an opportunity of discussing fully the desirability of imposing' a more severe censorship on cinematograph lilms. The Hon. 0. M. Thomson, of Dunedin, recently gave notice of his intent ion to ask the Government a question on the subject, but he has now changed it into a proposition as follows: “That the Government he asked to strengthen and make move drastic ihc censorship of cinematograph lilms introduced into (his country, with the object of eliminating the noxious elements which are lending |o destroy the moral sense of so many young persons.”

Several Palmcrslon school eommillees wrote asking the Hospital Board to provide free treatment at the hospital for school children. It was pointed out that the medical inspection of school children did not go far enough as many pa reals, owing !o lack of financial means, failed to have their children attended to. If was explained that the hospital existed primarily for those who could not afford private treatment, and the children of indigent parents or parents in poor circumstances need have no tear in this connection. The Board, while not agreeing to make the institution free to all school children, decided to admit any child to the institulion on the recommendation of the school medical officer.

The Dunedin Public Subscriptions Association has been formed through (he agency of business men with the idea of removing the inconveniences and shortcomings ol the existing method of making individual appeals for each one nf the creditable number of organisations in the city engaged in work of a philanthropic nature. The assoeia;on is intended to-represent organised public giving for philanthropic purposes and to provide the machinery to that end. Its motto is “One appeal —one interview one Mibseriplion." In place of the frequent appeals to which Dunedin people have been accustomed it is to make one great ellort once a year to raise a sum sufficient to meet the needs id' the eo-operating societies und institutions. A similar arrangement lias been adopted by Ihe Foxton Retailers’ Association.

Two Salvation Army officials waited on us yesterday and took exception to the Borough Band secrelarv dragging the* Salvation Army Band into any disagreement (hat ■exists between the former and the Borough Council. limy also took except ion to being referred to as an “inferior band.” They desire to point out that they have the kindliest feeling towards the Borough Band, and have in the past assisted them in any way consistent with their regulations, and will be pleased to do so in the future. The gamut of £.lO from the Borough Council was much appreciated, but carried no condition. Probably it was an appreciation of the band's regular weekly open-air programme, and could be withdrawn at the will of the Council. They pointed out that the Army cannot play at public functions except in keeping with the organisation's regulations. In conclusion they would esteem it a favour if the Borough Band secretary would in future leave the Salvu* lion Army Band out of this controversy with the Borough Council. A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the .winding? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, hut just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*

The Methodist Ladies’ Guild, ar*!k preparing for a sale of work to hV- * held next month.

“ An impulsive act, you say. Well it is the sort of impulsive act I am going to stop,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., at Wellington, yesterday, after hearing the plea put forward on behalf of a young man, named Edward King, and the statement made by sub-inspector Fauerson to the effect that the accused had accosted and annoyed a young girl in Willis Street the previous night. A fine of £3 was imposed, the alternative being lixed at 14 days' imprisonment.

Much eonlroversy has taken place fi’om time to time as to whether eels travel overland from one river or lake to another, and there are many, including the Maoris, who believe this to he the ease (states the Levin Chronicle). The theory was substantialed a few evenings ago, when a resident of King’s Drive was motoring home, lie spied an eel some distance off making across the road evidently having come from (he water-race near by, the motor running over and killing it. It is stated Ihiil several have been killed on the Foxlon road in the same wav.