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Northern Advocate, 24 September 1919, Page 1

The concrete roads of France -greatly impressed the New Zealanders. Such was the faith in their efficacy for New. Zealand that a prominent Rangitikei resident put down several chains' of concrete road just outside of the .boundary of the borough of Palmerston North, the arrangement being that if the experiment proved; a failure the said resident was to bear the cost, but if it proved successful, the_Rangitikei County Council were to reimburse the resident. It is said that the. experi-. ment has proved quite successful. The Palmerston North Moron<zh Council intend to construct concrete and tarsealed roads. The development will be watched with considerable interest.

How can Now Zealand best prepare to meet competition 1 ? The guiding star of our future policy is to increase our output. To do this will entail niany problems, the chief of which is to reduce the cost of production. This does not necessitate a decrease in wages; rather the reverse, for the demand will bo for moro efficient employees. Increases in the money wages do apt necessarily mean increases in real wages. If, then, the present inflation of the currency can be lessened, which will result in a pound purchasing more goods than it does now, real wages would go up without disturbing the money wage, and the workers would be in an improved position.—"N.Z. Mercantile Gazette."

Som e excitement was aroused at Sumner the other afternoon by the fact that two young girls had been isolated on Herring Rock by the rising tide* The visitors had been reading during the midday hours, and had not noticed their predicament until about half-past two when they found their return to shore cut off. A number of lads borrowed a long plank from a contractor near by and made repeated efforts to get across a passage of water which by this time was rolling in three to four feet deep, and all attempts resulted in failure. Meanwhile a very heavy sea had risen, th c rock being surrounded by an exceedingly dangerous wash which, on the seaward side, reached the exit of Cave Rock. As it was considered inadvisable to attempt a rescue by mean s of a boat, the girls patiently resigned themselves to their fate and awaited a falling tide. Just before six o'clock a stalwart-member of the Sumner Life-Saving Club succeeded in -reaching the girls, and eventually carried each to safety. Both had apparently experienced a very trying time, one being rescued in a state of collapse. After receiving attention from the residents near by, the girls sufficiently recovered: to be able to return to town by tram.