LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northland Age, Volume 24, Issue 48, 26 March 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society will now be heid on April 18th.

A meeting of the Kaitaia Football Club is called for to-night.

The annual meeting of the Mangonui Rugby Union is advertised for next Saturday night.

A concert and gift auction at Mangonui last week in aid of the Methodist Church funds realised £22/16/-. Kumavas for sale.

New York, the wonder city of the world, and other notable places in America are described in this issue by our own correspondent, who has just returned to New Zealand.

The N. A. Farmers Co-op report having sold a Dodge Touring car to Mr. J. T. B. Taaffe.

The Kailaia Lime Co have a larg# quantity of crushed lime for sale. Cars are running regularly over the Takahue Saddle to Broadwood and Kohukohu. Work on the Saddle is proceeding apace.

Good progress is being mide by the contractor for the Kaitaia Dairy Co’s new fictory at Awanui, the concrete walls showing up prominently. Every effort is being made to have the factory ready for next season.

A two-roomed house at Diggers Valley belonging to Mr. John Curreen was destroyed by tire on the 14th inst. Sawmilling plant is advertised for sale.

The suspected cases of infantile paraly. sis from Kaitaia have, we understand, proved abortive.

The commencement of the kerbing and channelling in Commerce St marks a definite stage in the work of the “Reform” Party. It will improve the appearance of ihe street and if is a pity the work cannot be done down both sides to the Central Hotel before winter comes, The best thinks of parents are due to teachers of local and district schools for the mannerin which they are endevouring to teach the children by correspondance and other means. Parents can help the teachers by seeing that these home lesson s are carried out. Girl is wanted for housework

It is regrettable that the Show Committee have found it necessary to abandon this year’s Show, but as there was no possibility of the health restrictions on children being lifted, thus necessitating their absence from the Show, the Committee perhaps took the best course. A barn containing about eight tons of hay, the property of Mr. Geo Hodgson, of Wireless Road, was destroyed by fire on Monday. As ihe building and hay were uninsured Mr. Hodgson is a heavy loser.

The Reka Ana Club consisting of Queen Victoria College girls are giving a concert in the A. and P. Hall, on Tues lay night. Original costumes will be worn by the artistes in different items. Be there.

High production is being obtained from Friesian cows in the Waikato. Lately at Putaruru [month not given] a Friesian gave 100 lbs butterfat, one at Matangi 103 lbs, and one at Matamata 113 lbs, another at Matamata Il4lbs. At the Wangonui wool sales last Friday the following prices were obtained : -4850 made I7d to 20%d per lb ; 46-48, 1 31 to lßJ£d ; 44-46, ls%d to I7d ; 40-44, 14 t 0 l6d. 22%d was obtained for lambs wool.

Our Aaikeri [Herikino] correspondent writes: —Mr. Henaie Pukeroa, who was recently drowned on the Herikino Bar, was a leading mail of the settlement of Waikeri. His wife an 1 nine ch ildren are left to mourn their loss.

The need for improved inaii lervices in the North is p liiitully apparent, districts such as Waihupo, Kohumara : »d other places being sadly neglected. This is a matter that should engage the attention ol the Chambers of Commerce all over the North. Mails despatched promptly from Kaitaia, take a week to reach Kohumira and in some cases a fortnight to reach Waihopo. A hat are you after when you buy a car —the amount of plating and the colour ol the paint ? or are you after aetual moneys worth in performance, reliability and service. With ordinary tyres a Ford starter touring car at £l7B cannot be touched for value by any other car made; Equipped with five full balloon tyres at £lB9 no other car is in the same street for value. Arrange for a demonstration at the Northland Ford Service, Kaitaia.

In a Wexford church, the clergyman had announced his text, “Paul we know and Apollas we know, but who are these.-’ Just then the verger was showing two strangers into a pew so in an audible whisper he shouted out, “Two commercial travellers from Treacher’s Hotel, your reverance.”

Refuting the slander that Scotsman are a thin skinned race, Chief Watson told the following story to the St. Andrew’s Society at Invercargill. A wild red-haired Highlander, booties and bonnetless from birth, called at a blacksmith's to have his horse shod. During the process the blaclcl smith declared that there was an unusuismeil o’ burnin’.” The Highlander could not explain and told the workmen to go on with his job. Five minutes later it wis discovered that the barefooted one li id been standing on a red hot bar of iron. France’s method of raising the wind is by a ten per cent tax on bachelors, and the pronouncement by the Arbitration Court that New Zealand is the single man’s paradise sounds ominous. Here however, there would not be enough bachelors to pay the cost of collecting the tax. But if bachelors are to be taxed, why not spinsters ? It’s is vain to argue that women have to wait advances from men, and are not free agents, for this negatives the whole princip'e of sex equality. The consistent woman vot r must maintain that women have the same rights of initiative as men, and the spinster is therefore guilty, either of a selfish preference for the single state, or a lack of energy in pursuit of her quarry. In either case she aught to be taxed with her fellow culprit, the bachelor. Did you know that Lord Jellicoe w is a devote of the “weed”? He chiefly smokes cigarettes, but confines himself to one packet of ten per diem. Qjite moderate! Yes. Some people smoke thrice that quantity between breakfast and bed. But despite the popularity of the “cig,” millions of smokers prefer the pipe. As to the injuriousness of smoking it largely depends upon tha tobacco. The imported brands, as a rule, are simply loaded with nicotine, so that their habitual use cannot be good. In that respect they differ in ilerially from our Zealand grown tobaccos. These are toasted—hence their delightful flavour and fragmnee, Also they are comparatively free from nicotine and do not burn the tongue, wreck the nerves or affect the heart. There is unquestionably a great future before these tobaccos, and already the growing, curing, and manufacture of the leaf is becoming an important New Zealan 1 industry and farmers are finding a tob ibcp crop a profitable one to cultivate. Bran is chiefly iti demand are Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium ; an 1 Cut Plug No. to, full.

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Inward passengers per s.s. Ngapuhi, on the I2th were: Miss W right, Mesdames A ood and child, Rolland, Fleming, Nicholas and child, Bowman, Messrs. Me Donald, Rolland, Smith, Armstrong, Swann, Rawlinson, Fleming, Bowman, Alison, Hicks, Reynolds, Antonivich, Moodie. Outward: Misses Morison, McCull, Ridings Mesdames Tomlinson, Peace, Brent, Green, Messrs. Graham, Churchill, Tomlinson, Hill, Thompson, Harvey, Quinn, Schilling, Moodie, Master Reed.

More commercial travellers drive Buicks than any other make. Why ? Ask yourself. Bert S. Brott, District Agent. A car of amazing speed and stamina—the “Rugby”—N. A. Farmers’ Co-op, Kaitaia agents. Two cinema plants are advertised for sale.