LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2729, 23 August 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sr Maui Pomare stated in the House yesterday that the returns showed that the influenza epidemic was gradually disappearing. One Arm in Palmerston North has

!J,ooo,oooft. of timber stacked in the yard, valued at over £20,000. It is being seasoned for manufacture iutc casks and butter boxes.

Owing to McDonald not being available for the South Island tour, T, Ryan of Feilding, will be included in the team. W. Dustin replaces McDonald as wing-forward on Saturday in the match against Walrarapa. . A Palmerston North wireless amateur is reported to have received the Honolulu musical programmes, using two slops of amplification. It was heard without interruptions, but it wa* rather faint, he says. A Knitaia (North Auckland) amateur has received Honolulu’s music regularly, on only one valve, employing super-re-generation.

The president of the Carterton Dairy Farmers’. Union has sent the following wire to Messrs Massey, Wilford and Holland: “On behalf of the Dairy Farmers’ Union of the Walrapa, representing working dairy farmers, we ask you to press the Dairy Control Bill as a factor towards efficiency in the industry.”

Voting (ook place in Timaru yesterday, on three loan proposals by the Borough Council, amounting to £48,000, for. the purposes of improv-

’ g water, reticulation, kerbing, and channelling, and sewering for the rocently added suburb. The poll was r» 'fight one, but each of the proposals was carried by a large majority. (Press Association).

“Motor mechanic” writes: ‘“Cars, unlike the human frame, are made upon hundreds of afferent designs, and these arc being changed every year. Consequently, our profession is more difficult than that of a surgeon. Every owner should be in a position first to diagnose the trouble, when the mechanic will quickly remedy it. If a patient called upon his doctor to relieve a pain in his arm, when it was really in his leg, he would be considered tit only for an asylum.”

At a meeting of returned soldiers at Putorlmo, Rata, on Monday night, to receive and discuss the report of the delegate to the recent conference in Palmerston North, it was resolved to notify the president that the meet - ing had decided to take no further action in conjunction with the R.S.A. in connection with the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Bill as it was considered that several matters requiring to be ventilated laid not received attention.

Tragedies on Mount Hgmont are not confined to those cases which appear in the Press. Only yesterday we learned of one such instance. Two months ago in the depth of winter, a party of tour venturesome young people essayed to make the circuit of the mountain at the snow line. They lost their way in fog end snow, and were obliged to lake t of age under a ledge of rock for the night. One youny lady, with both feet (dozen, was carried out after much difficulty. Later on the surgeons proposed amputation of both foot, which coarse was, fortunately, averted, though up to the present the patient is unable to put them to the ground. Danger selves onlv to spur on those with the spirit of adventure; but men and women should he warned of the hidden risks of mountain climbers.

If you’ve got to travel these cold days why not take a rug with you to snuggle into? We carry the largest stock of New Zealand travelling rugs in the. district —at very reasonable net cash prices. Whilst you’re in have a look at the Prince rug, as presented to His Koyal Highness. The C. M. Ross Co.*