LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2499, 14 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Tui” Calfmeal for better result* is the beading of an advt on pogß 8 to-day. Sold by most Storekeeper*. A poll will be taken amongst tho County ratepayers to-morrow on the proposal to strike a rate of £l5O an—mi ably for the upkeep of Carnival Park.

Messrs C. YT. Afexted and Grove* left by to-day’s Alain Trunk express for Hamilton, o«i route to W liukatane. where they will spend about a week.

AH J. Doyle, who has recently been a representative of the A.AI.P. Society in this district left for Wellington yesterday to take up a position on the staff of the Government Life office.

A meeting ol the Pahiatua II.S-A----will be held in the Borough Council Chambers to-morrow night Arrangements in connection with the retura* dance to be tendered to the Ladiw Patriotic Society will be maele and matters of general interest win b*» dealt with.

Following on a statement made by Air S. Bolton at the Farmers’ Union meet in g on Saturday when the duated scale of subscriptions was I*' mg discussed that the wharf labourers had a strike fund. Air Brorni said that the Farmers’ Union should have a ‘ fighting” fund, for they never knew when such a thing would be required. If the wharf labourers had a srike fund it was most necessary that the farmers should have a fighting fund.

It has been argued that there are some who cannot pay and others who will not pay,” said Air J. F. Hewitt at the Farmers’ Union meeting on Saturday when the graduated scale of subscription was under consideration. He contended that the Farmers* Union was an insurance union in that it protected the interest® of the farmers aixl being such it was up to the farmer to pay his subscription or insurance fee. If not, then the farmer could nut expect to have bis interests protected. A verv painful accident leurrel at Tiratu near Dannevirke, on Saturday. Miss Lydia Cunningham, * daughter of Airs J Cunnlngham of Pahiatua. who is attendin'- school ac Daunievirke, was spending the weekend with some friends at Tiratu, ami while walking along the r<-ad at about- 5.30 p.m.. 'he was run into by a motor cycli-t The unfortunate girl was thrown lu-nvile to the ground and sustained a broken b-_. Mis* Ounningliani was convoyed to the Pahiatua hospital yesterday. and reports this morning state that she is progressing favournh’y. Tlie question as to whether tho local hiaiu-ii ol tho New Zealand Farmers Union sliould sever its connection with tho Mausiw atu Provincial Union and affiliate with the Wa*rarapa has been tlie ,-nibj* et of lengt by dehauis at farmers iiio i ngs held here lately. (In Saturday the socorarl meeting within a w»x-k wa~ Jield iwhl tin* matter further discussed After h-iiglhy arguments for and against affiliation with the \Ya rarnpu. tho fellow Lug motion was carr-.d unanimously, "that the local blanch r»-~ tnain nth iated to the Alanawntn.” An aniendraont 'that. the l.vrnl hi'anch join tho Wairaropa Provincial Union” was lost on a show of bands. Ali-ssrs C'olhnson ana l *nuigliaine s advertisement up|xsn& uil page 7 ot tins issue."