LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2125, 17 May 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Masterton motor firm is reported to have disposed of five second-hand cars last week. The dates fixed for the holding of the Christchurch Metropolitan Show are Thursday and Friday, November 9th and 10th. A Hastings telegram states that Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., was to have met the Liberal and Labour Party at a meeting last night. Nineteen new members were elected at yesterday's meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, while 20 resignations were received with regret. A Gisborne message states that an infant child named William James Hanna died as the result of scalding, through falling into a bucket of hot water. The chairman at the Farmers' Conference in Wanganui yesterday congratulated the Union in having elected such a live wire as Mr W. J Polson to the office of Dominion president. There was loud applause and cries of "Hear, hear." The names of the men who were fined in Palmerston North on Monday for being on licensed premises during prohibited hours were Thomas Brownlee, Alfred Paltridgo, Fred. Rendle, Jacob Styris, Jas. Marshall, Jas. Fahey, George Jack, L. E. Downs, and Jas. Larsen. The whole of our exclusive millinery now marked at sale prices, also balance of Madame Villeval's assigned millinery stock at clearance prices. Special lino of smart ready-to-wears, were 23/6 to 37/fi, all one price, 18/fi. See -window display.—The C. M. Ross £o* JLt(L».

Official advice has been received in Wellington that the price of Taupiri coal at the mines were reduced as follows from Monday:—Household coal, 1/ per ton; kitchen and steam coal, 2/6 per ton".

Frequent outbreaks of diphtheria and typhoid fever, especially in villages and in the country districts, suggest at once to the lay mind that the source will be found in the water supply, or the want of drainage, or care in regard to these essentials. Upon examining' his experimental half-acre of artichokes, a Dannevirke farmer finds they are bearing a crop about double the weight of the same area in potatoes. They are much more easily grown, and are not. subject, to blight. ' The pigs will he turned in on them to fatten next month.

The health authorities have taken stringent measures to deal with the rat menace in Feilding, but a story told to a "JManawatu Times" representative proves that other parts of the county must also be infested. A farmer in the Feilding district has destroyed on his property since February last over 100 rats.

Speaking of the beef market at the Farmers' Union Conference at Wanganui yesterday, Mr Morrison said it would be the greatest mistake if the farmers of the North Island failed to breed cattle, as their pastures would go back and revert to weeds, etc. They all knew the value of cattle for keeping- their pastures right. The committee of the A. and P. Association have taken up the suggestion first mentioned in the "Times" to increase the interest in its shows by establishing an art display on a Dominion scale. It is too late for the Winter Show, but will be ready for the Spring Show. The work of the subcommittee will begin immediately.

Mr Bvron Brown prefaced his address to the Lunch Club yesterday with the statement that he lived in Palmerston North 35 years ago, and was now more firmly convinced than ever in his admiration for the foresight of the town planners in Palmerston North, who set aside the Square. To cut it up now for purposes of commerce would be a sacrilege and an outrage.

A severe earthquake was felt at Whakatane on Friday night last. The local paper reports that Otakiri experienced a great shaking. Reports state that the residents were unable to sleep in their houses, and took refuge in tents and in ti-tree, while some slept in the school shed. Tanks were shaken off their stands, motor cycles capsized, and at least three chimneys shaken down. "New Zealand is the richest country in tlic world, and exports three times tis much p'cr head of population as America," said Mr F. Byron Brown in his address to the Lunch Club yesterday. He stated that this was borne out by statistics ho had gone into in compiling an' article in connection with matter forwarded by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to the "American Trade Review."

Eggs have risen in two months from 1/6 to 3/ 600 per cent per annum' If some practical housewife in Palmerston North will conduct a series of systematic experiments, she will yet discover a means of perfect preservation for the new-laid egg, and thus wax rich at the rate of 600 per cent per annum. Her success will rival Wallingford of •gct-rich-qulck" fame, or even the gold brick trick. There was only a small attendance of ladies who reside in the College Street School district at the meeting held in the school yesterday afternoon for the purpose of discussing ways and means of raising funds for the laying out of children's recreation grounds. A committee was set up, and it was agreed to commence canvassing immediately for goods for a produce and iumblc stall. It. was also decided to hold a further meeting on Monday afternoon next to ascertain what progress was being made'. One very serious thing in connection with the proposal to locate the extensive railway yards a mile to windward of Palmerston North, appears to have been overlooked. It is' the smoke nuisance, and one lias only to live near Church Street. West or parts of Cook Street, to realise the effects of this. At some of the most important railway• stations in England, the engine sheds arc two to three miles away from the station, in order that this intolerable nuisance may be obviated. The townspeople should take timely action in the matter. Aahhurst has a distinction in church building. It cost the community nothing mor e than the addition of one letter to its name, and has never been in debt. By faulthy orthography, the little town w r as christened "Ashurst" in honour of Lord Ashhurst who owned land in the vicinity, which he had acquired through the Manchester Corporation, who originally settled the block. Lord Ashhurst's sister discovered that. Cockney-like, an "h" had been omitted. She made protest, and was so gratified with the ready compliance, that she presented the people with a handsomely finished and furnished church. A correspondent writes to the "Manawatu Times":—The PostmasterGeneral mentioned yesterday the enormous expenditure on telegraph extension. Being new to the game, he may not know that quite recently an annual appropriation of £600,000 was exhausted in six months. This is said to have been due to the exhaustless energy of the. young telegraph engineer; but even Palmerston people knoAv the main cause to have been that when wages were at the peak, work was pressed forward with top speed, and, worse still, that four men were to be seen even at the town work of dismantling and erecting, doing just exactly two men's work.

In the Dunedin district one of the many romances of life insurance i 3 known to the few immediately concerned. A certain citizen, chancing- to be in Auckland when the' races for the first Sanders Cup were on fourteen months ago, felt goaded by an Aucklander's taunt into backing- the Heather to beat the Iron Duke, and when McCulloch's dinghy won, the Otago man found he had won £l5O. An insurance agent heard of the windfall, and suggested that as the winner had come by the money on a side-line, as it were, and did not require it for ordinary purposes, he might as well invest it in a substantial policy. The argument prevailed, and an insurance for t'sooo was effected on what seemed to be a sound life, but the beneficiary died quite unexpectedly when only one premium had been paid.

English Dress Tweeds in email check effect, 4Sin wide, worth 8/11, sale price '4/6. Navy Serges in fine coating estamine, 42in and 60in wid-, were 5/11, now 8/11 to clear.—The C. M. Ross and Co., Ltd., Assigned Stocky Sale,*

The tender of the Hopwood Hardware Company has been accepted by the Palmerston North Borough Council for the supply of ironmongery for the current period.

At yesterday's meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, it was resolved that the matter of additional attractions for the spring show be referred to the special committee. Those who attend Miss D, Wilson's dancing class are notified in another column that the class, next Thursday evening will be held in the Foresters' Hall, instead of the Anzac Club.

Dairy farmers in the Kangiotu, Bainesse. Mangawhata and surrounding districts are invited to attend a, meeting called by the Dairy Farmers' Union in the Kangiotu Hall on Thursday evening next at 8 o'clock.

It was agreed that, the subject of show judges' expenses be referred to the finance committee for revision at yesterday's meeting of the JManawatu A. and P. Association. It was further resolved to bring forward a remit, dealing with the subject, at the North Island conference to be held here during Winter Show week.

A remarkable incident is reported to have occurred in one of the country districts adjacent fo Oamaru a few days ago (says the "Mail"). It appears that a farmer was somewhat surprised at the sudden death of a rooster, so he performed a post-mortem examination with the object of discovering the cause. To his astonishment he found a mouse in the crop of the bird, and it is assumed that this was the cause of death. , J

The electors of Palmerston Nortn are reminded of the policy speech to be delivered by Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., Leader of the Labour Party, in the Empire Hall to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr Holland will outline the policy of the Official Labour Party, and the chair will be taken by Mr V. A. Christensen, who has been selected as that party's candidate for the Paimerston North electorate at the forthcoming elections. Considerable interest will attach to Mr Holland's visit to Palmerston North, and there la sure to be a large attendance to hear his address.

The files of the "Manawatu Times" of 1897 —a quarter of a century ago —make interesting reading. Mr P. Bryant, a local butcher, was then advertising beef for sale at lid per lb, mutton from lid per lb, steam-made sausages 51bs for 1/, mixed beef 41bs for 1/. Land was advertised for sale at Fitzherbert at from £5 to £6 per acre, at Colyton at £ll per acre, and at Ash hurst at £l2 per acre. A fourroomed house in Ferguson Street, Palmerston North, with furniture included, was offered for sale at £SO, and the advertiser stated, "nearly all money can be arranged."

Three hens —a White Leghorn, a Black Orpington, and a Minorca — belonging to a Masterton resident, recently underwent an endurance test, and two of them emerged to prove that though three meals a day may be necessary to stimulate a hen's egglaying instincts, a bird can sustain life for a considerable period on the memories of past crop-filling repasts. The hens in question were missed just before Easter, and it was surmised that they had proved the centre attraction of an illicit Eastertide dinner. However, 15 days later they were discovered underneath a gin-case in a fowlhousc. Apparently they had been standing on the edge of the box, which turned over, imprisoning them. The edge of the box fell on the Minorca, and she was dead, but not offensively so. The other two recovered after a few days' careful feeding.—"Wairarapa Age."