LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 22 October 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

So far as infectious diseases are concerned, Whangarei can at present show a clean, bill of health.

It is expected that the body of the late Edmond Jack will be brought to Whangarei by the Kaniori on Friday morning for interment. Up to the time of going to press no further dotails were available rb to the cause of death, etc.

Attention is drawn to the appeal of the Whangarei Municipal Band for goods of all kinds for their surprise packet prizes. Vegetables, jams, poultry, eggs, needles and haystacks, etc.. are required,, and will be gratefully accepted by Mr Conway, Water street.

Progressive citizens of Kaitaia nave secured a dredge which started operations last month. It has been busy in the river cutting off corners and straightening the river banks, and deepening the river. A little ceremony took place on the occasion of the first day's working, when Councillor H. B. Matthews tipped the first bucket.

Amongst the matters which came before tho Whangarei School Committee last night was a letter from Mr F. Higginson, headmaster of Hora Hora school, requesting that he be allowed to close the school early to-morrow, on. the occasion of a sale of work by the pupils with the very worthy object of assisting a crippled girl by providing her with an artificial limb. An invitation was also sent to the committee hoping that some of their number would be able to attend the function. Mr Organ proposed and Mr Moore seconded that Rev. ,T. R. Clark be officially appointed the committee's representative, leaving it open for any other members to at tend if able to do so. This was carried and the ' secretary was instructed to write and inform Mr Higginson accordingly, also that permission was accorded for early closing.

All the questions other than wages, contained in the Auckland Lime unci Cement Workers' dispute, having been settled by conciliation, the remaining point was brought before the Arbitration Court in Auckland yesterday. Mr Wright appeared for the employers ami Mr A. O'Neill represented the union. Tho application was for a flat rate of 14s a clay, the union contending that the time had arrived when the war bonus should be done away with, but the employers argued for the reteniion of the bonus as against the flat rate. Mr Justice Stringer said it was no longer a war bonus, but a "cost of living" bonus. It was also submitted that the cost of living was 6 per cent, higher in Whangarei than in Auckland, but Mr Wright contended that the lower rents in Whangarei more than compensated for the slightly higher cost of foodstuffs. The Court, reserved its decision. Two people met the other day and begun to talk about Stato purchase and control of the liquor traffic. Then one of them asked this question: Is it the best cure for the liquor evil thil we can think of? This gave rise to a train of thought that we ought always to go i'or the best, in all reforms. The most ardent advocates of liquor trade purchase never for one moment say that we slinll have no further trpublo, if the country would buy out the Trade. The most they say is that things would not be so bad. I confess that I can see little difference. Whiskey will be just tho same. It will steal away the brains just the same whether Massey pr Ward or Allen, or Issitt distributes it. An long as whiskey is poured down tho throat'it will poison. There is a cure, and that in National Prohibition, That will do the work, make a clean job or it, and I have never heard of anything else that will do it. Under N«ilioiml Prohibition every Drink Slave would be Free, intone act. 390

. A Sydney cable message announces t-he arrival at that port to-day of the s.s; Katoa from New Zealand.

Memories of the olden days of thi> limber industry in Whangaroi district were revived yesterday by the specacle of a huge kauri log, covering siv trucks passing into the station yard.

A batch of 22 mou sent to the Kanganui railway construction work last Thursday, by the Groverament Labour Bureau in Auckland, is being supplemented this week by another draft of employees.

The Whangaroa Dairy Company at Kaco is doing its part in the development of the Far North. A record output is expected this year, despite the fact of a less favourable season than usual. New supplies are expected, the total now being 7(i. To ensure that the butter arrives' in first-class condition in Auckland, the trip taking two days from the factory, an additional 200 feet of piping for ammonia has been installed in the butter-storage chamber. A motor truck is contemplated. Look. Who's here- Charlie Chaplin in "His New Job," Britannia tonight. Matinee, Thursday, 3 p.m. 381