LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3265, 8 February 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“The Dominion finances are in a very sound position. I am glad to inform you,” remarked Mr O. P. Lynch when reporting to the Union on Saturday on the business of the Dominion executive meeting.

The penny-in-slot stamp machine at the Wanganui Post Office has a habit of playing “put-and-take” with the public every now and again. It was in one of its peculiar moods recently. An old lady became very excited when she got two penny stamps for a penny inserted, while a young man who was next up to the machine “put one and took nothing.’ ’

About the only pleasure the dairy farmer gets out of his industry are visions of a Utopia where taxes are no more. Needless to say he comes quickly back to earth when he finds the cows bailed up for the evening milking, when it seems he has only' just cleaned up from the morning toll. One of these visions appeared before the members of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday when the chairman, in reporting on the Dominion executive meeting, mentioned that a proposed had been put forward to exempt from land tax all lands in wheat This might act as an en, courageraent to wheat growers to grow more wheat. "They might extend that principle to the dairy farmers,” commented a member.

Palmer nap working trousers, all sizes. Quarrie’s price .10/6; Clearance price 7/11. Men’s striped negligee shirts, Quarrie’s price 7/6 and 15/6. Clearance price 4/11 at the C. M. Uosa Co. Ltd.’s; where special sale clearance is being made by Mr W. G. Quarrie’s stock—at big reductions.