LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 2944, 22 March 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tli.*- finaiuiftl stau*ment of the Wcodv illo Horticultural Society "tShow and prize money, showed sl credit baLuice of £4. During last w eek four cases oi scarlet fever, one of diphtheria. one of tuberculosis, ooe of poliomyalitis. and one of opthalmia. neonatorum were reported in the Pali: North Hospital district. A petition is to be presented to the Hou>e .1 1 Representatives asking that bookmakers should be licensed under .-.ilesuaius. and that a select committee should b> sot up to take evidence on a proopsal to amend the Gaimn" Act to allow that to U» done. Tlie j»otition has been cir* ulated from by tlie Dominion i Sports* Association. It sets out that j it would bo much more satisfactory in the interests of the pubbe morality mr the State to license bo»*kir.:ikers ta carry on their business on racecourses only, under p»oper control bv the New Zealand Racing Conforcnco. and the New Zealand Trotting; Confcrence, and with due provision*, for the protection of public* rc venue. I The Otaki I>airy Company ba> manj ufactured a. largo quantity of \\ hey butter this season whey cream ho-ng ! reecived from alloyer the Manauatu, j Hawke's Bay. Wairarapa and Tara- • naki. Tlio output so far is 100 tons ! which is in »re than that of any other j two manufacturing concerns pm t«»j gothcr. The u hole of tlie company's j manufacture to I/tudon, and * wing. to it * <‘\<t‘lloiice lia.s brought up to within bl «*f the best cream butter. I Owing t«*- tlie fall in tlie price «il tl*o j latter article, however, there is not I the same (kmand for whey butter . just now. li< • • i arter* the Kev V ' Soldiers’ Association has offer: <1 a prize in each education district in New. Zealand for the say On the subject of “Tlie binding at Anjtac." The competition i- open to scholars in the fifth and >i\il I standards at the public schools. fn j connection with this competition VrGeorgt* lilted* s has presented a liaiin,r for the *-<hool in tlie Canterhury Rducation Bistrict obtainin'! the Itfghesf . gregato of m rk<. T : - brnm-r will luobablv be presented to I tlie succc-sful school on Anzao Oa\ The number of men to be met with daily on the !»«»k-out for work i< increasing in the country distru >. An illustration «»t the keeness of son>o to secure a job ax- any price lias come tc notice where ?»ne man accepted a position with an Ohaupo farmer at li’-. a week and keep. Kven lower rates have luce reported. but the Waikato Ti m - vouches for the authority of the i «r recorded. I'hcne might. from tin «* figurt's be a readiness to cla>- .ii rural dweller as a supporter of . t«*d labour. Ti.is is not so. As he put it lie la s plenty of work m be dene, but the iow butter-fat ures have reduced the coffers to al-nio-st_ depict ion judnt. The farm h.< • 1 was insistent on getting: in. and ; : i was the the farmer cotihl do. *‘Out-of-work" readily accepted, .ad is now eiugaged clearing: garw blackberries imm tlie fatm. In its of the Irish Nat- ; . 1 Couct I 11 i day, the fSveuhijr Hen hqfs: ‘A jiood prograiuuie was presented, t • e sontgs • <hc I*. Far Fn'm the 1. nd -When tlv* l>ay Shall Break n Ki*i*i'* by \l,* I«\ Bourke. Wing :• •' outstanding; gom>. In response to .. deniable <'mnrc>. Mr Bourke. of ! liiatua. ga\o also tlie “Irish Ki giani" and ‘‘Terence’s Karowoll, ’ lvotli of which were equally able. Mr lb>urke has a fine voiev ;i fun pn»so!Hv. and his svmpat h» i i«ivmlering of the old songs gavo them a fresh benuiv. llis "* re n;* ely plaved bv ;i verV \ piuiiste. Miss Boris Burt ”' -