Mt. Benger Mail WEDNESDAY, APRIL , 26 1933 Be just and fear not. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mt Benger Mail, 26 April 1933, Page 3

Mt. Benger Mail WEDNESDAY, APRIL , 26 1933 Be just and fear not. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i o . .1 .. >■*.• • - I ■' A ■ 1 ‘ ” i :.ml ...ay consulted o: ! lie i omau-i i p m. i Special excursion [arcs in counctioa j wAh the Tv-rbury Paik Tiutuog ALct ; g, 4th ami Oth .May. ate annouueeti | i-y the Railway In pa it man t in th.s | An ollittai cncction has tnen sup j tio inv estiin nls oa the lo'-alis,.or for th' three days 1 the Riverton iv.'h Faster meeting, showing a deer.-use on i nXd-i’t pu. mcfi a.-, £7.27; s.-eou-l dav. f • | | £l3. opd. Dei r-asc £!9: thud uay, Tib, | .5-1.3. decrease £(i!s. Tlte total invest IU" f o r three days amounted to £37. 1 7'2 P's. s eomoai. ! with £37, s s9 it's j ! _ j * { ’ It is eouiuuniiy supposed that i the cumpietition in vegetable grow- j I lag has heel; and is so eager thal I | profits tire cut to tiie lines! point j j -says the Mar . Then is, how-j I ever, .i reasonable assuranc of a | j fair return to t lie grow ers vv iei j van bring ehoiei sorts to market j jsi mew bat earlier or later tban the j ordinary season. An illustration) j oj that tact comes from the lhm-| i edin marts tins week. A m w do- j parturo is tin growing of Fn-nch j in alls tinder glass. Samples of! tiiesr- beans realised at auction as high as 7LI per lb. As a protest against a proposed | 2n per rent, wage reduction at the | Hciiown mine ail the miners in the j ilintly and CiK-nailon districts, ex- | ' ci (it idikendro. refused to resume j work last week. The nom are op- ) posed to the cutting of coal prices, i which they regard as being done! I with ulterior motives. It is the intention of the men to seek Uuvi rnment intervention to a fa.r price for the coal. Numbers of Jews continue to se<k refuge in England from Germany. The latest include a judge, several barristers, literary men, doctors, musicians and business men. Tiie majority found a welcome in London among Jewish families. Unly about a dozen are in temporary shelter dealing normally with Jewish transmigrants. As a result of a resolution by the Southland Electric Lower Board at its last meeting, non-re-ticiliated ratepayers will at least enjoy some relief ill the matter oi levied rates. Un the question ol the future policy of the board in tin matter of collecting rates a motion was put forward to adhere P the present practice of collecting a uniform general rate only. Tins was defeated in favour of an amendment to the effect that the board would raise half of its rates by a general rate, and the balance by a special rate, which will also apply to the whole district. Ratepayers in imn-retieu-lated areas will enjoy relief in respect to the general rate, but it was explained that board had no statutory authority to enable it to give relief from the special rate. One night little Johnny was noisy and rampageous, so his father gave him a big slate and a long pencil, and told him to work out the following sum. _ “A cal fiil down a well 40 feet deep. Every day it climbed up three feet; every night it fell back five feet. How long will it take the cat to get out of the well/ Johiinny was as quiet as a mouse for 20 minutes. Then he said “Dad, can 1 go down the street, and buy a big new slate V’ “What fur?” said Dad. “Well, if J had another slate, I'd have that cat in hell in five minutes.” We don’t want another slate to find out I where butter'd gone.

l On Good Friday evening there was a large muster of members of the Roxburgh Silver Band when they played ;■ several selections in front of the Roxburgh Hall before the screening of the pictures. It is a long time since the bund played in such full force, there being a total of el members playing. ' They again played out on the afternoon , of Master Sunday at the tennis courts, giving an enjoyable afternoon’s programme. The band is celebrating its Jubilee on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week. A smoke concert will be held on the Thursday evening and a grand social dance on Friday evening, April 2S. In the course of administering i aii estate, a Christchurch solicitor has discovered an anomaly in the Unemployment Act (stales the Christchurch Times). A gir! under'the age of 20, who is in receipt of an income oilier than sales or wages, is compelled to pay the emergency unemployment | charge on any litemue exceeding 220, while a boy in a similar position is exempt until he reaches tin age of 20, As a ease in point. I two children under the age of 20 I were each left a yearly income tinder their fathers will. One of! the In indiciaries, a girl, lias to pay | the emergency charge while her brother is exempt. According to j tile Act. annum the persons wlm I is n exempt from I lie emergency i charge nii income other limn sal- | ary or wages are absentees from | New Zealand and youths tinder! j1 he age of 20. There is im ex- | empthui for girls under the age | ef 20 other than an amount of I ; 120. Solicitors whose attention j j w;is drawn to the anomaly, admit- . | t: j ‘hat it was quite nnfair. I “It was a great experience,’'! i said a \\■ liingmi carpented who j : lias just r« 1 tinted from over 12 : months spi in ;i! his ! rade in tlie i | gold mining areas of the West | it oast. “Ami w ha; nopresseil me, I n-osl was the extent to which tin ; |v. hole disl riet was i horoughly e*.mbed over ii\ tin gold miners : lof tlie earlv r;i'in s. )mi may | pi net rate many mi!' . s into {in- bill- ;> :d !binl; yon have reached a spo’ I v. !;■ re surely imbody lias ever • smmhl gob!, and oil rounding a | corner \mi will s» e bireii 1 ives ; m. r1 y a foot thick growing up j through in aps of tailings that j ' j must hove d- en d- posited wry j i manv y< ;ns ag i." In- stated. “la j 1 other places neatly pihd leaps oi | idg stoms show former activities. | The indefaligihie nature of tin ! v ork done ;> show n by traces of! Hides and miles oi water llunie- | in 'he Uo.sj illiteei ssilde pliiCes. i One township that one supported U 1 ! ,0l(ii miners ami marly a dozen j k is desert'd and overgrown j with only a few people about. 1 i know a man and his u ife, .how - j , i \ . r, Who went a little deeper in I , an old work dm t iian the piom ers I , ami they ueia- averaging 2 s a we. k o\ cr a cmisidt raide period. I A good number of men are malt- j iiig wagis." -