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Opunake Times, Volume LVV, Issue 3675, 26 October 1923, Page 3

Visiting on the telephone must stop in New England (U. S. A. ). That is the edict of the 'New England telephone companies and it has received official approval of the Massachussets public utilities com mission. Five minutes will be the •limit. When a man calls his home he snorts a few monosyllables and hangs up, investigators report, but when a woman calls a woman she talks indefinitely.

Thebsrd-teva-ig schema inangura t:d by the W-iirara,i 1 branch or ilu Dairy Farmer's Union has 1800 cows under test.

The interest paid by Wellington City Council 0.1 loans (general ) has increased from £46,299 in 1919, to /;64 : 877, in 1923.

The conversion of the local telephone service fiom an earth-working circuit to a metallic circuit is to be undertaken at an early date. This news will b? welcomed by subscribers, as communication has been somewhat difficult since the -electric scheme has been opened,

Ihe s s. Dorset, which arrived in .Auckland from Southampton on Sunday brought 357 third-class passengers, of whom 254 v/ere assisted immigrants who came out under the nomination system. A short stay was made at Pitcairn Islands, where all inhabitants were in good health.

A copy of a daily paper published in the United States, the 'Middle West Reporter,' which has reached Wellington, states that Wellington is the "capital of one of the richest provinces of Australia. " The natives it is remarked, "are quite intelligent,' but do not take kindly to motion pictures. "

"While New Yo k Sleeps" which i acciaime.l a-; one of the world's greatest motion pictures, will bi screened at the Town Hall to-morrow night and its screening should certainly see (he hall taxed to its full capacity. Extra seating accommodation will be provided.

At an inquest in South Australia on a man who had been blown L nieces by biting a gelignite detonator round a fuse to blow out po-tholes' ti*s coroner referred'to the practice yi miners who often thaw explosives 0 a 0:1 a shovel or in a frying panover a fire, mentioning that if gelignite is put m a fire carefully it may merely fizzle awav, but that accident il detonation often causes unexpected exp!o ions. The coro.ier also referred, to the common, habit of miners, who carry explosives in the bosom of their shirts against the skin for the purpose of •'thawing « them,

Thus the Auckland Star's 'Frisco correspondent: Mr Massey excited undisguised surprise when be related how New Zealand had lowered its taxation in a degree undreamed of t:i other countries which had felt the war strain. "No country can be prosperous," said Mr Massey, "if that country has taxation which is too heavy for ihe people" We commenced to reduce taxation, and in the current financial year we reduced the income tax 20 per cent and knocked out half tne land tax, eliminated half the amusement tax, and abolished a'l tea tax. 1 staked my political Career ori that reduction of taxation, as I know it will lead to prosperity better than any other agency. New Zealand has the highest per capital for productio 1 in'the world. This sort of thin,' cannot be done without hard work. Our dairy farmers work at least twelve hours a day and seven a week The result is that with such national energy New Zealand is getting back to prosperity quicker than if all the politicians of the world got together and tried to solve the problem ofpost-war rehabilitation and reconstruction.."— (Applause).

"Pussyfoot" Jo'in-.on, the world's f.imous prohibitionist, is now touring the Union of South Africa (says a correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph •, and on the whole being cordially received. Evan in the winegrowing districts, where he boldly delivered lectures, he had a patient reception and tried to impress hh keenly interested, though naturally hostile, audience that the grape a-rowers of America were more prosperous now than ever bsfore, as iince prohibition came into force they stopped making wines to produce non-alchoiic grape juice, which had become an almosc universal drink in the States. Prohibition has turned the Red Indian from a vanishing race into an increasing aid prosperous nation, and on the b\∽̱, in America it had an exceile and most beneficial effect. Naturally the various temperance as-ocia-tionshave g'ven the plucky Ameri cm reformer a very co'dial reception whilst the wealthy vineyard owners of the Western Province showed a forebearing to'erance at the meeting.

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