LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 1941, 8 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lieutenant N. Sansoru, late of Wellington, will be the soloist to-morrow night at the Army Citadel. A medical superintendent's residence and a nurses' home are to be erected at the Otaki Sanatorium.

A Napier insurance agent stated this week that there was an average of one motor-ear or lorry per day being accidentally burned in New Zealand. Two large crates of pigeons arrived at the Palmerston North railway station from Auckland yesterday. The birds will be liberated at 7 o'clock this morning.

The cuckoo has made its appearance in the Otaki Gorge, which is generally a sign of an early summer. The makomako is also plentiful in the same vicinity. The amount contributed in Palmerston North last year towards the Jubilee Institute for the Blind was £59 7/0. The Feildiug contribution was £3O 1/C. The Banking Amendment Bill, fixing the hours for the opening and closing of banks for business, was read a Becond time in the House of Representatives last night. In spite of the efforts of officials of the Shearers' Union to prevent shearers from going to work, the shearingsheds on several Hawke's Bay stations are now in full swing. During August there were 104 mei employed on the Stratford-Main Trunk railway works, 70 being at the east and 34 at the west end. On the Opunake line there were 38 employed. The- Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that ho could not promise to bring down the Public "Works Statement any earlier in the session this year than usual. Replying to a question by Mr Burnett in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, the Hon. G. J. Anderson stated that the Government was considering the question of re-cast-ing the regulations regarding the renting of houses. After a week of perfect spring weather, the temperature suddenly fell in Palmerston North yesterday, and it became much colder. A shower of rain in the afternoon caught many napping, including the driver of the borough water-cart.

It was stated at a meeting of the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, that the saving effected on the shipment of 15,000 carcases of meat from Patea to New Plymouth, instead of to Wellington amounts to over £6OO.

The oat market shows a weakening, states the Christchureh "Press," and maximum offers at country stations are now about 2/10 for A grade Gartons, only specially bright, heavy feed or seed lines bringing 2/11. A good deal of business has been done at 3/6 f.0.b., s.i. The following Bills were introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday: Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Bill (Mr Isitt); Taieri Eiver Improvement Bill (Mr Edie); Judea Land Drainage Board Empowering Bill (Sir William Herries). Times aro changing. A South naki farmer told a "News" reporter recently that last year he had difficulty in engaging labour at £1 a day. This year he has been inundated with requests for jobs, and is paying 12/- a day, and getting 40 per cent more work done than he got last year for 20/-. An unusual freak in the shape of a two-headed calf has been born on the property of Mr Ivan Cameron at Mouriceville (says the "Wairarapa Daily Times"). The calf has two distinct heads, otherwise it is quite normal. Considerable local interest has been evinced in the freak, and a large number of persons have seen it.

The members of All Saints' Guild intend holding a flower show on Wednesday, 30th inst. Prominent flowergrowers have olfered their support, and have expressed readiness to help. Classes will be provided for all sizes of gardens, and a schedule will be ready shortly. Mr Mason, of Feilding, has offered a prize of twelve choice rose trees for the best rose in the show.

A schoolboy enjoying his holidays in the Lake District, writing home during his first week, said: "Dear mother, —I am having a glorious time. Ham and eggs for breakfast, roast beef for dinner, meat pies for tea, sausages and ice-cream for supper." A week latex, came the pathetic announcement: "Dear mother, —I have been bilious for four days, but I am going to Morecambe to-morrow."

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A dairy farmer named John Casey, aged 52, was found hanging in his barn at Porirua on Thursday. The Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Bill was read a first time in the Legislative Council yesterday. A young man was sentenced to threo months' imprisonment at Auckland fo» wearing a soldier's badge without authority.

One Palmerston North angler has taken 37 trout from the Manawatu River since the opening of the fishing season.

The annual conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation will be held at New Plymouth on 16th November.

Night prowlers have been about in Palmerston North during the past week and several cases of theft have been reported.

First of the season Canterbury hothouse tomatoes were sold at auction on Saturday and made the exceptional price of 5/5 per lb. About half a million young forest trees have been transplanted in the Darfield district this season by the Selwyn Plantation Board.

Speaking at Levin recently, Mr Marsh-Boberts is reported to havo stated that there was a danger of tho W.E.A. being captured by the middleclass.

It is freely rumoured in Parliamentary circles that Bruce will bo one of the two South Island constituencies to be wiped out in the new alterations of electoral boundaries.

Five young men -will appear beforo the Stipendiary Magistrate in Palmerston North on Monday, on charges of having done wilful damage to the premises of a Chinaman.

A reunion of garage proprietors throughout the Wellington province i« to be held in Palmerston North ou October 20th. Members of Parliament in the surrounding districts are being invited to be present.

Mr D. C. Bates, Government Meteorologist, wired last night: The indications are for strong south-east to northeast winds. Cold, changeable and showery weather generally. The barometer is unsteady, with a rising tendency. At a general meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the South African War Veterans' Association, held on Thursday evening, Majqr J. T. Bosworth presided. The chairman was appointed to represent the Palmerston North branch at the Dominion conference to be held in Wellington on October 25th. It was decided to hold a ladies' social evening at an early datei

To those women who appreciate the importance of following their own styles and finding tho perfect expression of their natural beauty, Gossard front lacing corsets offer au unfailingfoundation for becoming dress. The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., havo pleasure in announcing that they are sole Gossard agents for this. district, and draw attention to special displays now being made of this ideal corset.*

Mr Marsh-Roberts, the lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association, apparently does not entertain too kind- 1 ly a feeling towards Palmerston North. In the course of some remarks at Levin, he is reported to have said that "whatever he thought about the rest of New Zealand, he would always have very happy memories of two places— Feildiug and Levin—and he would remember the friends be had mado in those places."

There are signs that a start is about to be made with plate-laying on the Te Jtioti-Opunake railway. Formation work has been done for a considerable din. tfunce for some time, but the work of laying the rails has not been possiblo owing to the bridge over the "Waiongongoro being in course of erection. This bridge has been completed, and considerable quantities of rails are now being stacked at Te Eoti in readiness for laying.

"The newspaper is a great text book if intelligently used," said Mr F. Milner, rector of the Waitaki Boys' High School, at tho first Pan-Pacific Educational Conference at Honolulu. "Tho teacher, to use it properly, should be well informed on international matters. Its use promotes interest in the subjects discussed, and helps to prepare the studeut to take part in affairs. It cultivates an interest in international topics which so profoundly affect all humanity. It makes the students broadminded, and able to envisage big problems in an intelligent way."

The "N.Z. Herald" points out that there is a novel feature in the November list of sugar prices of which no explanation was given by the Minister of Industries and'Commerce in hi* speech on Tuesday. For many years there has been a difference of 10/- between the price for delivery in Auckland and tho rate for shipment to othe* parts of New Zealand. Now tho Government proposes to charge consumers in Auckland 30/- a ton more than southern buyers. Ostensibly the Intention is to supply sugar at one price throughout the Dominion, though that result would have been more exactly obtained by fixing a price for tho wholo country that would cover the cost of distribution. The arrangement will probably work fairly enough, but why should it be applied only to sugar? Wheat and flour are under Government control, but no attempt has been made to equalise prices. In fact, the maximum rates are £l6 10/- a ton for flour at Lyttelton, Timaru and Oamaru, and £lB in other places. Thus Auckland consumers always pay more for flout and broad than residents. in Canterbury, paying the penalty of depending on distant sources of supply. Now the compensation of cheaper sugar is tu bo withdrawn by this equalisation scheme. The difference in the wholesale prices is probably too small to be appreciable to the retail buyer, tau* it will be an important item to manufacturers using large quantities of sugar.

Dainty voile frocks for spring in very latest jazz patterns, stripe and shadow effects, attractively priced from 29/6 to 63/-. The C. M. Eoss Co., Ltd., where all goods are priced upon the lowest market quotations, making every day bargain day.*

The fourth case of bubonic plague was reported in the city of Brisbane on Wednesday.

Hindus continuo to monopolise all the city fruit stands in Wellington, for which there is open competition. The Grey Lynn and Timaru murder mysteries are still unsolved, though the police are continuing their investigations.

A Wanganui telegram states that Andrew Peter McKinnon, 40, single, a roadman employed by the Waimarino County Council, dropped dead at Kakatahi yesterday while at work. A petition has been, filed in bankruptcy in Napier by Gordon McKechnie, storekeeper, of Ormondville. The bankruptcy was originally filed in Palmerston North, but was transferred to Napier.

For some years Mr B. S. Carver, of Waipukurau, and formerly of Hastings, has been experimenting with a new varnish. Mr Carver has now perfected the new oil, and it is understood will shortly establish a factory for its manufacture. .

A Napier motorist who went through, to Wellington and back this week stated that ho passed extraordinarily few cars on the road. Where in*./ previously passed dozens, they could now al-. most count all they passed on their fingers.

On the recommendation of the Palm'crston North Borough Council, tho conference of the Municipal Association passed a remit urging that, in future, all pigs sold for human consumption shall be killed and inspected at a public abattoir.

A consignment of 1800 bags of rice and 100 sacks of peanuts, originally from China, which* arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Riverina lasi. week, were condemned by the Government fruit inspector. The rice was infected with weevil and the peanuts with meal moth.

The death of a resident of Ross, in the person of Mr George Orr Martin, took place on Monday afternoon at the Old People's Home, Kumara The deceased was a native of Londonderry, Ireland, and had reached the advanced age of 91 years. One of his daughters is Mrs W. Skiller, of Pahiatua. Mr T. E. Y. Seddon has given notice that ho will ask the Government what , its intentions are in regard to the possession by returned soldiers of revolvers obtuined on battlefields. "Many of these revolvers," Mr Seddojx states, "were obtained at great personal risk, and in unparalleled circumstances, and' the soldiers would deeply resent any attempt made permanently to deprive them of such souvenirs."

Mr C. B. Lye, hon. secretary of the Manawatu Hockey Association, was the object of many complimentary remarks from fellow-officials on the executive of that body at a washing-up meeting for the season, held Jast night. Mr Ly», it was stated, worked untiringly throughout the recent ladies' tournament, the success of which was in hiany respects unparalleled. He was voted an honorarium of £lO 10/-..

It is evident that New Zealand is considered 'for its poultry industry, even by Vancouver, tho greatest poultry centre of the world. This is demonstrated by the fact that a gentleman, who was once in the Vancouver Government service, is at present in the. Dominion inspecting tho numerous poultry farms. Yesterday he was in Pal-' merston North, looking over the local farmers' flocks. In the course of his remarks to one well-known Palmerston North poultry breeder, ho stated that he was inspecting the farms with the' intention of procuring a suitable one, and settling in the Dominion.

A gentle attack on the taxing policy of the Government came from Mr J. Caselberg, chairman, of directors of the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, at the annual meeting in Mas* terton yesterday. The director recom mended that no dividend should be paid • this year, and on that point Mr Caselberg commented: "I must make mention of the fact that the taxing policy, of the Government has been such as to prevent companies from building up a dividend equalisation fund, so that when a lean' year comes along the usual dividend cannot be paid. A tax of practically 10/- in tho £, such as we are called upon to pay, completely pre« vents such a fund.being built up."