The Northern Advocate THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 22 September 1910, Page 4

The Northern Advocate THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Dorothy."

The monthly meeting of the Whangarei Chamber of Co?nmerce will be held next Wednesday night, having been adjourned from last night for a •veek in consequence of Mr O'Gorman's lecture, which many of the members wished to attend.

For some time past there have be?.ri considerable confusion and misunderstanding locally relative to the compulsory weekly half-holi.!ay, and no. order to secure finality a number of Whangarei business people requested the ruling of the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Labor, In answer, Mr Millar has stated that Thursday is r.ie proper day for observing the statutory half-holiday in Whaug:. ci, under both the Factories Act and the Shops and Offices Act.

At the meeting of the Rugby Union to-mfrht the team to play against Hikurangi on Saturday will be formally selected.

A first offender, who was charge J with being drunk in a public place yesterday, pleaded guilty, and as convicted and discharged, at the Magistrate's Court this morning.

A dispute between W. A. Monoyar (Mr Killen) tnd Aiex. Alison (Mr Steadman) over a fencing line, which came before Mr Scott-Smith, S.M., y.-s----terday, was adjourned for one month, and Mr Costall was, with the consent of ,ioth parties, appointed arbitrator.

A meeting of the Management Committee of the Rugby Union Ball wiU be held in the Oddfellow's Hall this evening to arrange all the preliminaries early in order that the ball may he a success, when it even'.aates a v/cok hence.

The Whangarei Co-operative Dairy Company is this week paying out to shareholders a sum exceeding £2000. Of this amount £1724 is made up of bonuses to shareholders, being equivalent to l a /4d bonus on every pound of butter-fat supplied by shareholders last season.

Tho Returning Officer for the Kamo Town Board election, which was held yesterday, has declared the following duly qualified by the voting to act as members:—Messrs G. Kerr, A. Carter, R. Hoey, M. Mclnnis, and M. M. Jenkins. The only other candidate was Mr J Jenkins.

/ Mr D. W. Jack, who left Whangarei several months ago on a combined pleasure and business trip to England, is expected to reach Auckland on Sunday next. He will remain there for two or three days, and will probably return to Whangarei on the Thursday following.

A notice elsewhere in this issue advertises the fact that tenders will oi received up till noon on Friday OctoLer 7th. for the purchase of 52 kauri trees, containing about 111,059 sap. l\el The timber is situated '••. the Tangihua Survey District in tb I-lob-son County, and shoulj briirj forth tenderers from this district.

The Government is pushing on with road improvement through the Terawhiti Block, from Kaihu to MangaJtahia, and 50 men, under Mr F. Gocclnow making a 12 foot road that locality.. All the sections in the Terawhiti Block are now occupied, and bushfelling is in general prograss.

"Suppose," said Mr Steadman, examining a witness who was a builder, yesterday, "that you engaged a man to work by the day, and that after the man had worked a week you discovered him to be an incompetr.nt workman, how would you pay him?" The witness, without any hesitation, replied, /'I would pay him off."

Owing no doubt to the heavy downpour during the earlier part of last evening, there was a very poor attendance at the Rowing Club social in t"ie Drill Hall, not more than twenty couples being present. This must be disappointing to the executive, particularly as special notices had been issuoa to the members urging them to attend.

Out of seven candidates for fi/e seats on the Hikurangi Town Boa.d, the following have beer declared elected as the- result of the polling whi-jh took place yesterday:—Messrs W. Carter, J. Murdoch, W. R. Dunn, T. R. Gager, and J. Molnnis. T!:e uisucoessful aspirants were Mr R. Howie (who was only two votes ••»-- hind) and Mr A. MacLeod

>' Rapid work is beiig done by :he platelayers on the GrahamtOwn wharf line, which has now been constructed to within one hundred yards of the wharf, and it is expected that it will be there, and ready for the ballast train, by the end of the week. Space is being cleared for a station building, and a number of men are now employed in removing the temporal y approach and replacing it with bet f er material, reinforced by heavy stone work.

It is many years since such huge shipments of merchandise have 'bson landed in Whangarei' as have b< r m imported lately. Mr D. W. Jack has for months past been buying largely amon<r the manufacturers in England and Ireland, and his purchases are how being opened vi* and put into stock by Messrs D. W. Jack and Co. Dray after dray and cart after cart have been busy for weeks'past; lani-, ing case upon case at their door, and the wonderful new goods are an education in the latest styles and fashions of the old world. Messrs D. W. Ja."k \nd Coi have not yet commenced to display all their importations; bit when they do so the opening of their spring show should be quite an incident in the commerce of Whangare".

The old-time bugbear of New Zealand fruitgrowers, the codlin moth, has been brought into complete subjection since Swift's arsenate of lead was introduced som. 3 three or -four years ago. So successful has been the result of its application, that in orchards where the apple and pear crops were at one time not worth gathering, the fruit, after applying "Swift's" is. now marketed in perfect condition. Needless to say, the discovery of the remedy represents many thousands of pounds to the Dominion, and its effect is seen in the fact .that hundreds of acres of new land arei annually being planted with fruit trees. An advertisement of interest to fruit men is inserted by the New Zealand agents for "Swift's" in another column.

Ladies, do not shiver, Somervell's Overcoats are at half-price. ■

Mr Moody, counsel for defendant vn the case McDonald v. Alison, a claim for £143, asked tha magistrate at the conclusion of the hearing to gi v e his judgment in writing. He nwJe this request because he intended, if it should prove unfavorable to his client, to appeal to the Supreme Court. *fr Scott-Smith promised to do as requested.

When the Magistrate's Court icsumed on Wednesday morning, Mr Killen, who had been acting for Mr Richardson, the defendant in the Maungatapere school case heard theday previous, asked His Worship if ibe •#, would increase the fine imjpSed on ' his client so that the case $ould be taken to a higher court. Mr Sco.tSmith declined to do this.