LOCAL & GENERAL

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXXI, Issue 4131, 16 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

A leminder is given of the Fire Brigade Social and Euchre Tournament which is.to take place in the Central Theatre .to-morrow night. Complete arrangement's are now made, and the event promises to be a huge success.

Next Wednesday, commencing at bno o'clock, Messrs Stansfieid and Co. will hold a clearance sale at the residence of Mr D. McDonell of the whole of his furniture and effects. Details of the sale are advertised.

It is understood Mint as a result of recent disclosures and 'subsequent Court proceedings, an action for divorce has .(says the New Zeal an 3 Times) been commenced by. Mrs 0. E. Mackay, of Wanganw.

An auction sale of rsidential sections at Paeroa will take place at the Hikutaia saleyards on Tuesday, June 29, at one o'clock. The sale will be conducted by the Farmers' Auctioneering Company, acting under instructions from the "Public Trustee, as executor in the estate of the late J. E. Hart. Full particular's are given in' the advertisement in another column. If a shopkeeper gives a firearm to a customer in exchange for another, does he commit a breach of the regulations ? Mr V. G. Day, S.M:, answered that question in the affirmative in the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch last week (says an exchange), though the weapons concerned were only boys' airguns. He also held that it was illegal to "sell to boys round lead pellets for the air-guns. For complete satisfaction in spectacles and eye-glasses you need not go beyond Paeroa. Eyes are scientifically tested free and glasses supplied only if required by Geo. P. de Castro, Chemist-Optician, Paeroa.* By means of a multiplex telegraph system, such as that which is shortly to be introduced info New Zealand, it is possible for one who has had no special training in .the Morse alphabet to send telegraph messages, the message being signalled by depressing keys similar to those of a typewriter. Eight messages may pass over one wire at the same time, and be automatically type-printed at the receiving station on -the usual telegrapa forms. ' In one system, at the completion of a message, the sending operator depresses a switch which automatically turns-over the page at the receiving end, leaving a-fresh pago exposed ready to receive the next message. At the meeting of the Thames Hospital and Charitable Aid Board last week the house surgeon, Dr. Ritchie, reported as follows : Number at last return, 32 males, 22 females ; admitted, 44 males, 3& females ; discharged, 43 males, 30 females ; deaths, % males, 2 females; remaining, 32 males, 24 females ; attendances, 159 males, 30 females ; out-patients, 26 males, 6 females; operations, 33. The District Homes superintendent report ed: Number at last date, 17 male's, 7 females; admitted, 2 males; discharged, 1 male ; remaining at date, ,ia males, 7 females. The milk returns were. 25731b and eggs 461 for month. Everything in connection with the farm and institution was very satisfactory.

* "There's one matter which we, as an Industrial Association, will have to-take up sooner or later," said Mr I J. A. Frostick at a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Industrial Association on Tuesday evening— "that is as to what the.term 'bonus' means. Is it wages or what is [itl Not scores, but hundreds: of awards were made with the proviso that the 'bonus' should cease six months after the end of the; war. Not only was; this not the case, but the bonuses have been confirmed and others added .to them. A union which doesn'tlike to go and ask the Court for £4 10s has no hesitation in asking for £4 6s and a 'bonus' of, 45." Other speakers expressed the opinion that the bonuses would be withdrawn when prices fell, pointing out that the proviso for withdrawal six month.s after the end of the war was made when it was thought that prices would drop after the war, whereas they had gone up.

Trousers with hip pockets of convenient width and depth, and coats with tails such as the redoubtable.Mr Pickwick was wont to affect, are a feature of the spring fashions show for men conducted by the Custom Cutters' Club in New York. While disclaiming any suggestion that the new sartorial designs are born of a public demand for facilities wherewith to evade the country'-s prohibition laws, says the "Daily Mail" correspondent, the fashion arbiters agree that the new models are receiving general approval, particularly from .old-.time bon vivan.ts. Trousers like wise are to be cut wider, and waistcoats higher, possibly to correspond with the coat. It will be possible, if the new style's attain general adoption, for almost any man to pull his trousers on over his boots, or if occasipn demands, reverse the operation. ! j

"There is nothing going to save New Zealand -so much as hard work. The only way for national salvation to be worked out is by work." These sentiments from Mr G. W. Leadley at the Farmers' Conference at Christchurch last week met with enthusiastic "Hear, hears" from his fellow delegates. "More production and less rows," was the remedy suggested by Mr G. Sheat to reduce the cost of living.