Local and General.

Opunake Times, Volume LVV, Issue 3675, 19 October 1923, Page 2

Local and General.

:o— o : Advertiser wants to sell or exchange farm. Never lose an opportunity of he'j>ing your town along. It will pay you. Mrs Mc Donald announces very special values in toys, fancy goods, etc.

A most commendable local society is the Horticultural Society, but like some other local organisations it is struggling for existence. The society deserves the support and patronage of all who iove beautiful flowers. If this supporc is not forthcoming it will not be able to carry on. Therefore we hope that as many as can will attend the annual meeting at this office on Wednesday next.

In order to encourage residents to use electricity the Power Board will now give financial assistance towards the cost of wiring bouses and installation of motors. Application forms may be had at the Board's office.

Motor. hogs, who were in the habit of tearing through Opunake at lightning speed, have been steadied by recent convictions. These gentlemen would be well advised to to be satisfied with a slow speed on the tar sealed strip from the post office to Layard Street.

fn an interview with a "Lyttelton Times " reporter concerning a trip to the South Sea Islands, Mr H J Otley said :- "The land laws in Tonga are worth consideration. Every boy when he passes the age of sixteen is granted a piece of land of eight and a quarter acres which he has to plant. He is also granted U site for a house in the nearest village. This land he must cultivate. He cannot buy it, but he has to pay about 303 a year. That means that he plants the ground to provide food for himself and for his family, later on. The result is that thete are no poor. No charity is needed."

The Auckland Harbor Board has floated a loan of £200,000 in London at y per cent with a minimum of £95 fo. 20 years. The loan is a portion of the £1,000,000 authorised in igi9, and will be expended in the completion of the new Prince's Wharf.

Subject to the consent of the local bodies, the firm of Messrs A S Patterson and Co proposes to erect at suitable points throughout the Auckland Province, "Big Tree" road direction signs. The sign the company . proposes using is of neat workmanship and design, and the company will provide the signs if the councils will do the necessary as regards posts at the main road junctions and at other points where there may be some doubt as to the J joad direction.

There is some interest in the fact that the name of Jenkins is connected with longevity. Mrs Jenkins, who lives with her daughter, Mrs Beveridge, at Epping, N S W and who was 100 years old on the 18 th of May, must enjoy good health, since she was able to vote unaided at the recent by-election for Parramatta. There is, in a very old and remarkable little book, the following information concerning the surpris ing and wonderful man, Henry Jenkins, commonly called "Old Jenkins" of Ellertonupon-Swale, in Yorkshire, England. Henry Jenkins, lived to the amazing age of one nun* dred and sixty-nine years or more Like Mrs Jenkins, of Epping, Henry Jeknkins was also born in the month of May, on the 17 th, whereas Mrs Jenkins was born on the 18, 322 years later. An inscription on a monument erected at Bolton in Yorkshire, where he was buried, commemorates the fact that Henry Jenkins "lived to the amazing age of 169."

A number of work in s«i employed on the Kapuni Section of tlie Opunake railway have been transferred to the Waiteika camp.

Farmers' Co op bull fair and cattle sale at the Opunake yards on Saturday.

Owing to the holiday on Monday Plunket Nurse Dix will not visit Opunake, but will attend as usual on the next Farmers Co op sale day.

The Local Croquet green was officially opened on Wednesday afternoon by the President of the club Mr W Cron. Despite the inclemency of the weather there was a good attendance and mauy friendly games were played.

Mr J E Tomlinson Government Stock Inspector at Eltham has sent in his resignation to the Stock De ■ partment and will in consequence be retired on the superanuation. Mr Tomlinson is well known in this district having been in temporary charge of the Opuuake Stock district.

Internal affairs in Germ iny are close up to combustion Demon strations by angry and ' hungry crowds are frequent."' Plundering of shops is reported so often thai the police have no time to spare in arresting individuals, but charge mobs with bayonets and swords. The maintenance of law and order is being severely tested in G< rmaiy.

Thai the happy knack of forgetting one's age is not peculiar to the fair young thing on the wrong side of thirty, who is still hopeful of being taken down from the dusty shelf- of spinsterhood, was proved in the Police Court (says the Auckland Star). A man against whom proceedings were being taken for wife and child maintenance stated that his age was sixty-two. He was too old and ill to work—rheumatism „ and beait trouble. His wife was thirty. Counsel for the wif i then put in a word. How long had defendant been married ? Seven years And when he took to himself matrimonial responsibilities, did he not announce that he was thirty-six ? Grudgingly defendant admitted this, but his sense of humour seemed to be as poorly developed as his memory, for he did not join in the laughter which ran round the court when counsel observed that defend ant had aged with amazing rapidity in his seven years of married life.

Lord Kitchener has been gensrally credited with the statement made at the outset of war that the conflict would last at least three years, but the opinion that no such estimate was made by the late Commander-in-Chief was expressed by Sir Thomas MacKenzie, in a lecture in Auckland. Sir Thomas said that early in the war he called on Lord Kitchener, and assurred of the confidence the Dominion had in his leadership, "and at the same time expressed the hope that he would not ease up until the German was completely defeated. Lord Kitchener's reply, said Sir Thomas, was that no one could tell whether the war would last six months or three but he would* not leave the German until the latter was on his knees. It was clear from this added Sir Thomas, that Lord Kitchener had not made any estimate as to the duration of the war, such as was generally attributed to him.

'When a girl reaches eighteen she thinks she has a perfect right to walk out with her boy, " said Dr. H. J. Spencer, headmaster of High Pavement Secondary School, Nottingham, addressing a meeting of the Parents' Committee. "I think the practice ought not to be encouraged among school girls, " he added. "If, however, the girl works in an office ois engaged in home industry.it might be all right for her to go out with someone if she desired. That is entirely different. I hava seen girls get a boy on the brain, and the result has been that their education has gone to the dogs. " A bov attending a public school, con tinned Dr Spencer, might have a great admiration for a girl, but he must not show it. If a boy of eighteen attending school consideis his future at all, it wou'd be ten years before he could marry. There were.onlv two things: he must be either in earnest or a fool, and if he were not in earnest he was a cad.

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