NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11225, 2 June 1922, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

There is not a vacant Iwuse or shop to be found in Carterton.

Masterton experienced 7.4, 10.0, and 14.2 degrees of frost respectively on three recent mornings.

The foundation stones of the Marsden Church House are of Takaka marble with a polished surface.

A firm at Christchurch is supplying, daily, all unemployed soldiers, who present themselves, with fish and! rabbits free of charge.

The management of the Wairarapa bacon works is experiencing the busiest season in the history of the factory.

The Dannevirke shopkeepers have decided to celebrate the King’s Birthday on Monday, instead' of Saturday.

Louis Edgar IRoad and; Maurice Janies Foley, picture theatre proprietors, of Khandallah, have filed their petition in bankruptcy.

A Dunedin resident has donated the sum of £SOOO to the Otago University to strengthen the ethnological department. The donor has made several gifts with the same object.

After considerable discussion the St. Kilda Borough Council (Dunedin) has decided to reduce the wages of its employees in conformity with the Arbitration Court announcement.

An Order-in-Council gazetted yesterday apportions the representation on the Buffer Electric Power Board as under:—Buffer County, three members; Westport borough, two.

Regulations regarding the disposal of lands acquired by the Crown under the Native Townships Act, 1910, and its amendments were gazetted yesterday.

“I consider that if you want to ruin the organisation, then go into politics.” said Mr Hugh Morrison, the chairman, at the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the Fanners’ Union.

Preparations are now being made to lift the whole of the commandeered wool which has been stored in Wanganui for a lengthy period, and it is anticipated that the local stores will be cleared within the next two months.

The championship of the boys’ anO girls’ agricultural clubs in Taranaki last year was won by a girl, and it looks as if a girl will win this year, remarked Mr P. M. Compton at the Farmers’ Union at Masterton.

“Fruit export is practically at an end for this season, and orchardists are now at /work ploughing, pruning and generally cleaning up, said an official of the Department of Horticulture yesterday.

The Wairarapa District Poultry Farmers’ Association’s eggs are realising 2s lOd per dozen wholesale in Wellington. The association is at present dispatching 750 dozen per week.

An interesting item in the annual report of the Otago soldiers’ and dependents’ welfare committee is the announcement that no fewer than twen-ty-three maternity cases ; involving clothing assistance amounting to £lls B,v 3d, were dealt with during the year.

Heavy snow fell on Mounts Ruapehu, Ngaurulioe, and Tongariro during the week. The growing popularity of the National Park is evidenced by the fact that there are already two parties mountaineering within, itg confines,’and bookings for the huts for this winter arc already stated to be heavy.

Some 484 acres of Crown land at Kaitieke were gazetted last night as a provisional State forest; also 848 acres of national endowment . land in the Nelson-Marlborough district, and four areas of national endowment land, comprising' in all 34,595 acres in the .Wellington land district.

A sharp double shock of earthquake was felt ,in Levin. A “Chronicle” representative who happened to be speaking to the “Otaki Mail” by telephone at the time got intimation in advaneo that the seismic disturbance was coming, its effect being observed there a second or two before it reached Levin.

Although buyers have been scouring the Wairarapa for fat bullocks during the past w 7 eek or two for export, prices have failed to show a hardening tendency. The bullooks sought after by one large purchaser are those averaging iu weight from 700 to 800 lb. It is stated that some 2000 animals of this class are now being slaughtered at the Waingawa weTks.

The Secretary to the Treasury (Colonel J. J. Es6on) acknowledges the receipt of 10s, forwarded from Pihama to the Chief Postmaster, Timaru; of another 10s forwarded to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington; aind £2 to the local Deputy-Commis-sion of stamp duties, Auckland, each of these sums being sent anonymously as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

I Something novel in the form of electing a chairman was adopted at the Annual meeting of the Island Bay Life-saving and . Surf Club last night, when, owing to extreme diffidence of two nominees to the position, it became a queston (subject to mutual consent) to “toss up for it.” After various suggestions, such as: “Have you a ‘put-and-take’ outfit in your pocket?” etc., the successful gentleman took the chair, having chosen "heads.’’

A remark dropped quite casually at the annual meeting of the Island Bay Surf Club last night by the secretary caused a ripple of merriment to echo through the nail. He alluded to new bathing costumes which the club had manufactured solely for their own members: “Any outsider caught on the beach wearing these costumes can be interrogated by a policeman, who can order them to take them off and put on another.” Someone inquired if the police would be so hard as to demand “immediate action.” (Laughter.)

Amended regulations for the military forces of New Zealand, gazetted yesterday, provide that:—(l) When any person liable for military training changes his address, he shall notify his change of address as follows:—(a) If serving in a Territorial or Senior Cadet unit, by informing his commanding officer within fourteen days of such change of address; (b) if posted to the non-effective list, by notifying the nearest Defence Office within fourteen days, if by reason of such change his place of residence is within five miles of an established training centre. (2) Every such person who fails to notify his change of address as herein required is liable, on summary conviction by a magistrate, to a fine not exceeding _tea pounds..