LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 38, 14 October 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

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Methodist services for next Sunday will be as follows: Fairburn 11 a.m.; Oruru 2.30 p.m. ; Mangonui 7 p.m.

Bell & Matthews are Gash buyers of calf skins, etc. See advt. for prices.

Wonderful value Jap. crepe. All colours 7d at Nobles’.

Those who are desiring stock, furniture etc., should not miss the big sale at E&rmer’s Road at Mrs Geo. Gallagher’s farm on the 20th inst., which will be conducted by the N.A Farmers’ Co-Op.

A sale of work is to be held in Kaitaia on Thursday 20th, by the Presbyterian Church members. This function takes place during the afternoon and will continue into the evening. Do not miss this annual function.

Use White Island Fertilizer and save your flowers and vegetables from slugs and snails. Also prevents tomato black stem and collar rot in all seedlings. Full information from H R McCarthy, agent.

The Presbyterian services on Sunday will be Mangonui 11 a.m.. Fairburn 2 p.m. Kaitaia 7.30 p.m, Subject—“ The Portrait of Christ In The Earliest Preaching ”

The Roman Catholic services on Sunday will be Mass Kaitaia at 9 and Awanui 10.30 Bell & Matthews (as agents for J. C. Hutton, N.Z., Ltd.) notify that they are now prepared to receive prime baconers from 120 to 150 lbs. Clients please advise so that shipping space may bn arranged.

The Anglican services for Sunday will be Kaitaia II a.m. and 7.30; Awanui 2 p.m.

Insurance Office of Australia, Ltd., for all classes of accident, fire and marine insurances, li. R. McCarthy, agent.

H. R. McCarthy is a cash buyer of fungus. Highest prices given.

The first of the season Christ* church grown tomatoes were submitted to auction m Christchurch on September 2oth and realised 6s per pound. This worked out at Is per tomato —the early tomato is certainly a luxury.

Just arrived new shipment of Parisian ties. Inspect them at Noble’s.

H. R. McCarthy, late of Bell & Matthews, announces that he is a cash buyer of calt skins, hides and sheep skins. Highest prices given. Cartages paid. Salt supplied. Temporary premises R. Dean’s section, next door to Mart. Enquiries left at Dean’s will receive prompt attention. White Island Fertilizer best tor potatoes, maize and all root crops. Book your orders now with H. R. McCarthy, district agent.

Electioneering methods in Mexico are evidently much more sprightly than in Raglan, as in Mexico machine guns and aeroplanes evidently form an essential part of the amoury of argument. They take politics seriously in Mexico. When the Northern Company’s steamer Apanui, inward bound from Houhora, had rounded North Head on Wednesday morning, Mr F Hulgen, a seaman, fell overboard. The Apanui was immediately stopped and a boat was lowered, but the man was rescued by a launch none the worse for his experience. The Minister of Agriculture, in a letttr to Colonel Allen Bell, M.P., says that the work in connection with the blowfly parasite is developing satisfactorily and, as soon as sufficient material is on hand, it will be available for distribution. This will be good news to sheep men.

A French naturalist has estimated that if all birds were to disappear man could not live on the earth nine years, for without birds, all plants, trees and vegetables would disappear; worms and bugs would eat them root and branch, When that happened, the cattle and sheep would not have enough to eat and they would all die. Mankind unable to survive on fish, or on the insects themselves, would perish miserably in a horrible crawling creeping world.

Mr F H Levien, S.M., presided at-the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday at Dargavilie Mr Levien who has recently returned from a vacation spent in Australia, confesses that he is pleased to be back in the “Winterless North,” and it is quite a treat to see green pastures, and white sheep after the parched appearance of New South Wales, when he was in that State.

A patient teacher was trying to teach the small boys how to read with expression. “Where are you going ?” read Johnny laboriously. “Try that again,” said the teacher. “Read as if you were talking and notice that little mark at the end.” Johnny looked at the question mark, then said triumphantly : “Where are you going, little button-hook ?” Excitement was caused at the Settlers’ Hotel, Whangarei, recently, at just about 6 o’clock, when a cow wandered in through the Cameron street entrance, down the passage to the bar. Finding she had arrived a few minutes too late to be served, Sukey strolled out through the Walton street door and satiated her appetite on grass around the corner.

Sheep farmers near Otaki report that hawks are causing many deaths among lambs, and even picking the eyes out of woolv sheep which have been cast. One family alone has trapped or shot over TOO, but the number appears to on the increase.

Another instance of the Maori superstition is evidenced in the plans of the new Maori Anglican Ctiurch to be erected at Wangara, Poverty Bay. The specifications provide that no part such as windows or ratters, is to be built in odd numbers. There must be either two, four or six windows on either side ; seats must be provided in even numbers; in tact, throughout, everything has to be in multiples of two, A retired contractor commenting on the prices obtained for draught horses at a sale in Christchurch the other day expressed the opinion to a reporter that in a year or two he would not be surprised to find five to seven year old geldings being sold for as much as £IOO.

The tearing to shreds of a Union Jack was one of many incidents which marked a political meeting held at Bioemhof, in the Transvaal, where the Leader of the Opposition, General Smuts, was refused a hearing. The hall was raided by a lqrge crowd of Nationalists carrying the proposed new South African Union flag.

At the Whangarei Swimming Club’s annual meeting it was stated that this live body last year undertook the liability of lengthening the school baths to standard size at a cost of £IOO, and discharged that liability in the one season.

An amusing story in which those who do not go to church because they consider the congregations are for the most part composed of hypocrites was told at St Andrew’s Church by Rev. C W B Seton, one of the visiting preachers lor the Simultaneous.. Mission. “I went one day to a house where only husband and wife were living,” he said, "and before I left I was told by the lady of the house that she and her husband never went to church because so many hypocrites were among the congregation. To this I replied that there was always room for two more; and she having a sense of humour, brought her husband along the next Sunday.”

__ The North Auckland Farmers’ Co-op. will conduct Mrs. Geo. Gallagher’s sale at Larmer’s road on Thursday next. The sale will commence at 12 noon.

In this issue Mr. W. R. Grigg offers for sale several fine properties in Kaitaia. All offers ar» to be sent in by a given date. See advt.

An energetic working bee has commenced operations on the local tennis courts, It should not be long now before they are ready for playing on.

The official opening of the Victoria Valley Tennis season takes place on Labour Day. A well-known Centralite, has taken to white-baiting seriously. Yesterday he fasiiioned a net of huge dimensions, and to-night he will demonstrate how this" elusive fish may be captured with ease, weather permitting. The Mangonui County Council held its usual monthly meeting to-day.

One of the hardest hit industries with the new customs tariff is that of films. The duty on foreign films has been increased from Id to 3d per lineal foot. A meeting of fathers and men interested in the Boy Scout movement, will be held in the Band Hall, next Tuesday, at 8 p.rn, when a committee will be elected. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance to further the efforts of this worthy cause. Should there be any doubt as to hay intended to be stacked being sufficiently dry, a simple precaution is to sprinkle a lew handfuls of common or course salt between each layer. The salt absorbs the humidity of the hay, and prevents fermentation and consequent combustion. It gives to the hay a distinctive taste, and the cattle will eat it at any time, no matter how long it may have been stacked. Four or five pounds of salt to the ton of hay would be ample,