LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2878, 2 December 1921, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

SECOND EDITION.

The annual meeting of the Bahiatua Horticultural and Industrial Society is to be held shortly. At a meeting of the directors of the Alas ter ton Dairy Company, it was decided to pay I s 3d per lb for butter-fat for November. Prices received, hv the local Egg Circle for its consignments to Wellington last month ranged from Is 4d to Is 7cl a dozen. Applications are to he called 1 the Woodville County Council for a. driver for tlie steam roller to he used on tlie tar-sealed road scheme. A “ working bee 7 ’ has completed the construction of a practice pitch for the local Cricket Club, and 6ft wide netting lias been placed round to avoid the necessity of players scouting for the ball. Mr Massey said yesterday in the House that lie had given instruction to the Daw Drafting Office to prepare legislation giving complete civil lights to all public servants, so that if an oupor Lun.it v should arise- it might be passed this session. The poliutukawa, commonly known as the “Christmas Tree,” is blooming freely in the Auckland district, and the time_is unusually early. Such blooming of tl«a pohutukawa is one oi tlie nature signs, by which tlie Maoris predict a fine, dry summer. ' Replying to Air C. E. Statlia.m in the House of Representatives yesterdav, Air Massey said he had no. intention of .raising the remainder ot the six million loan by compulsion, as it would impose a great hardship on many people if he found tlie money from another spprc.e, and purchase of soldier settlements had not suffered in the slightest degree. A water-diviner, Air A. Ingley, ot Ivon ini, has located on behalf of the local A. and P. Association, a hue stream of water, at a depth of from 16ft) to 20ft, on the Show Ground, near the main entrance gate.. It has been decided to put a bore down, and to erect a concrete trough, soi that at the next Show there should he l a plentiful supply of water for the stock exhibits. A question asked by a Councillor ah the meeting of the Woodville Countv Council on Thursday was how many of the Council’s employees engaged 1 by the overseer were playing in the band? The overseer stated that only one man employed by the Council was a member of the band, anti lie had been “ employed by tlie Council for tlie last three years. During November it rained on 16 days in this district, the total for the month being 5.69 in. The heaviest rainfall was on the 22nd ult., when Air E. Ashby, official recorder, Alangatainoka, registered 1.32 in. For the corresponding month of last year, the total rainfall was 9.44 in, rain then fell on 20 days ,the heaviest- IaII being 2.18 in on the 21st In the House of Representatives yesterday, the Hon. C. J. Parr said it was not the intention of the Government to stop the publication or the School Journal, although it wais costing about £II,OOO per annum. Alinisters recognised that it was the principal reading book used in the schools, that it was of groat educational value, and that it was supplied to the children free.