LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31362, 18 January 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i As the* mitwme of a * rcoiiKxl liouse 1 -nilt at Wanganui I Kust for lire Wajijiaimi County | Council lias been a bio to let the j building to one of its employees at | 10j> a week. ' Daring ti.- past six months a p.:*cat '■ olianiro has come over the policy of i tiie banks operating in New Z<valand, ! says tho Wanganui Chronicle. Wien* I once they would not consider making any advances, no matter what tin seen in ty, tlioy now show a teiideiny ,to help business enterprise again. * This is tlie experience of one investor, or speculator, who was in Wa- ! nganui on Thursday last. Ho wanted j £.'5000 for a venture, but was turn-

ed down without consideration six j months a<4o. The same bank smiled kindly at him when recently he made ; a similar propo^d. | New Zealand newspaper propriet * ors are apparently not yet assure*! of ! any probable reduction in tiro rest of * newsprint paper, remarks the Otapo DaiJy Times. Air Howard Smith pre- •• sident ol the Howard Smith Paper Mills', Canada, expressed the opim. n when ho arrived cn Ibis bane last ; month that the forecast of another pajxr shortage in the ne .r future is : lapdit. \\ liile there is no actual shortage at present, tiicire is «y.- : i aii. :y st i ■ ncy : •- j are in Air Simth's opinion. j rule on account of the increased cost j tri wood used for par>er pulp purI There js a standing reward oi f j r-t '4 H. v the Hastings Borough ; Council lor information leading to the conviction of any |>erson for ir- | moving: books or papers out of the j municipal library. In view of the rej cent conviction, when a man was fi?:!ed os, 1 Councillor F. W. C\>ok sutrsted that it would Ik* profitable tor | two people to commit a theft. * one | actually removing a paper and the I other doing the informing act. atm sharing the reward. On bis suggestion the council decided to have the question reported on. A Christchurch message states that the will of the late Air A. K. G. Rhodes has been sworn for stamp duty purposes at £263,000. It pro- \ ides only one public bequest, namely, £2OOO to the Christ’s College Trustees. The executors are Messrs R. H. Rhodes, St. Andrew’s South Canterbury, and K. J. Ross and Al. H. Good by. solicitors, and do<v;ned > only son-. Tabu Rhodes. The trustees are instructed after payment oi <x-

ponses and legacies to pay C'aptam Tahu llhode- twt>-thirds and tin? only Mrs G. H. Sutton. onotliird of the. estate*. A life inU re l in “To Aioha.’’ tlu* resideiuv. is f-Tivon to the widow. who rewivos Cl-500 a year. Knell clerk. en>plovel f »r seven years in the rrm of Rhodes. Ross, ami Cmlby (solicitors) receives ■six months’ salary, ami small sums aro left to servants. ’•tie unusual siylu of a farmer rc uucliuji up ii:s rattle l>\ more r oar v. as \\ it imss'nl by a minibor of passeneors by the Main Trunk which at rived hi W .mi Wodno-dav a' ter noon. All tbo man.sun res ,V on oxpi'ri. my.l stock horse \\ <* rc perlonnod h.v the unusual st«cd as :be farmer described an erratic ...urs*. ov„r tbo paddock in pursuit of f .. 0 lairtrintr stock. wl tie ini|x.ic.. ua* Hi'en by a series of iliscord.int notes tl»o horn which did excellent dutv as a whip One passenger comment my; upon the farmer’s efforts suggested that the insfall.it ion of „ SO p_ .es Of are lamps ill The poultry card should I>e adopted by this modem mail to spur tin? fowls to further . f. tort.