LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11071, 19 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Some peonle liave such a respect for the truth that they hate to make use of it. A reminder i s given, of the next meeting of the D ru, rd® '!*'J * w lu n is to take place on 21st no-t., "Inn a large muster is requested. “I'd rather he an optimist and ae turned .uvoy hum He.v.l, WwlirSir Joseph Ward at a ceremony : t Lyttelton. Lambing conditions have been yci V favourable at Ruakura State hum this season (reports the New belaud Herald). The 1100 owes on tho farm produced Ho lambs a 1 -- which have been fattened and sold u. the paddocks at favourable prices. According to the secretary of tr.o Wellington' Acclimatisation Society between fifteen and sixteen thousand deer have been culled from herds in the. Wellington district during ti c past five years and as a result heads are improving every year. Jhe .socictv is "till expending about tl()0 a year in supplying ammunition to farmers who undertake to cull on lands overstocked with red deer.

Number plates at present m use on motor vehicles are available to* use up till May 31. June 1 being the first dav on which license fees tor tlie wear 1929-30 may bo paid. Last year” the beginning of the year was taken from April 1, two months earlier. The change this year was made in view of the end of the financial year falling on May 31. and the largo amount of additional business entailed thereby.

“I recollect in my young days that women wore crinolines, and whenever I was Lining to receive ».* smacking I would lnde under the crinoline of my nurse—it was good cover. How the women of jthose days, with their enormous headgear, got home in a nor’-wester —or how they sat down comfortably in their bustles, I don’t know,” stated Dr. Thackcr at the recent meeting of the Summer Dress Reform League ill Christchurch .

There is a time and a place for everything. That popular singer o; popular songs, Alec. Regan. "as; sii.ging the pabhot-ic* little balluil v-*J List I.ike a Alelody Out of the Skies,” at the Regent Theatre the other night (says the Dominion). He had just reached the lines. “Isn t it Heaven ; isn’t it Heaven, to hear a baby cry ” when there rose above the lingering notes the subdued, hut, persistent sobbing ol an infant somewhere in the audience.

Signs of industrial activity are in evidence everywhere in the vicinity of the Ratana settlement (states the Wanganui Chronicle). The stacking of the wheat crops front the 600 acres put under cultivation last year began recently, and for the first five days 54 stacks had been finished. Tho stocking was done by over S(H) Maoris. From the time when the cultivated area was first broken into use until now. the Natives have shown great skill and care in ensuring the success of the cropping.

For each night on which a visiting motorist uses Victoria Park as a camping ground he is charged 2s 6d and Is for each successive night (says the Grey 7 Star). Recently* one of the visitors ’ camped at the park generously" went the rounds of hi,; iy-eainp-ers and collected the tees owing, ‘‘to save the caretaker trouble,” he said. Evidently 7 he forgot to “part up” to the caretaker, who considerably surprised the campers by going the rounds for the collection. The gen-eroua-mhiided one had disappeared with the caisli. and the other campers had to pay a second time.

When a certain bee and her attendants from the hive decided to go in search of a new home the other day. they flew away in a blank whirling moss and alighted on a verandah post in Ridgway street, close to the taxi rank, where they made pas-sers-by 7 run the gauntlet all day (reports tlic Wanganui Chronicle). Portions of the swarm kept falling down on to the footpath, and a motor cyclist who, left his machine in the vicinity returned to find the, scat in their possession. h ortura.toly*. m the warm sunshine, the bees were in an amiable mood, and an enterprising citizen with a benzine box and visions i/ (Kits °f honey was able, to gather the strays up and, take them away. The London Daily News special correspondent states that- r., visitor to Milan. Italy’s industrial capital, scon realises Mussolini’s prestige is diminishing. Allegations of graft and jobbery are freely made. It is complained that the Fascist bosses practise systematised extortion. Milan is aghast at the savage punishment which Signor Starace the assistant secretary of the Romo Fascist- party, is inflicting during a special cleansing campaign, of which he is organiser. The whole city is panic-stricken and the Fascist organisations, are hastening to pass resolutions palpitating w ith loyalty to the Dure. Discontent is spreading from the workers to the fina-nciens and business men, who resent the restrictions imposed on foreign travel mid the high taxes, which are harshly collected. The disaffection has reached Turin, which the Fascist papers brand as a. black snot. Owing to the falling birth rate the Fascists are rigorously 7 enforcing the bachelor tax. Employed's are obliged to disclose the number o,° single people cti their staffs and promotion is sternly refused bachelors in Government and municipal offices. The new model 65 Chrysler Sedan, a reallv finished job, ran be inspected at A. and R. Donald’s Garage in Main Street

Nineteen patients died from tuo burning of an insane asylum i-i Tokio Heartrending scenes were witnessed during the rescue of the survivors .

At Brighton, the internatio at amateur Soccer match between England and Wales was played -n t.r.s weather on a snowcovered ground, before an attendance of 5000. England drew with Wales, one all.

A storeroom near the centre of Gishorne owned and utilised by A! - G. S Vincent painter, and cor -m ing 6000 to 7000 rolls of wa ■i er paints and oils, was badly cl. aged by fire on Saturday night. Tin wilding was insured for £2OO a the stock for £4OO. Extract from letter written c a certain insurance company by nJy complaining of delay in the ment of insurance. .. - " " conclusion 1 may say that your lay in paying tlie insurance money > e,• exasperating that 1 almost wn my dear husband had not died. General Higgins, the new Sal vtion Army leader, begins on -Mo w y u t-our of London and tlie pi' * m at cOeiitTC.s ixTdre«sin«JC lOftss end conferring with local U iAe <. Most of tlie High Councillors, vvi.o are still in England, including ommandcr Eva Booth, attended l:b nitial meeting. A £IO,OOO dive wa-s made at Broome on the non h-wixL com-, ofi Australia, recently. Plunging nto tho «ea, a diver came t-o the ; u 'lace, i* few 7 seconds later with a jc mtiful pearl as large as a marble -i,d valued at £IO.OOO. The pearl wa, said by a French buyer to ve ? 120 grains and to be one of t-h 0 b -t ho had seen for years. Advice has been received 1 tho chairman of the Wellington A naming Centre from the New - and Swimming Council that the* of tlie noted swimmer, Arne Be to Wellington had. been cancelled !org is proceeding from Australia t * mevica on the Aora.ngi. and it 7 -fated that he will make an app. nice in Auckland, if desired, dur tho vessel’s stop at that pert. The method of rating on nimproved values has been the. ghly tried by the Marlborough C -nty. and, in the opinion of som * *un—cillors at least, lias not given i<> results anticipated. Recently th . o'inoil decided to prepare heading lor a petition, tc be signed by ratepayews, praying for a reversion to tl o system of rating on the capital value. These will be circulated as a first step toward an attempt to restore the previous system of rating.

Divergent opinions were expresoeet at c, meeting of tlie Waikato County Council on Tuesday as to the virt: a of loose surfaces' on metal road.;, states the New Zealand Herald. Ti,<* county engineer. Afr A. A. Woodward. stated that loose surface metal saved the- firmei base ot th ro.od from breaking up. In America tho loose surface w;.s used extensively. Roads in the country i hat had boon formed with a hard surface had worn rapidly. Several members of tlio county stated that the loo*c metal was destructive to tyres, and mado travelling too slow.

A motor accident oe< urred yesterday morning on the Main South Read., near Balclutha. when Mrs Thomas Holland, of Gore, received injuries- which proved fatal. A car driven by Mr M. Robertson, of Gere, and carrying three passengers, skidded in loose metal and overturned. The occupants were all thrown dear and with the exception oif Mrs Holland, escaped serious injury. Sho was taken to Balclutha hospital, where she died 20 minutes after admission, her skull being fractured. An incident w hich demonstrate 1 tho isagacious nature of the trained -sheep dog occurred at the Damve—virke Show ‘-beep dog trials lastweek. The Jog lmcl difficulty m hooding one of a number of sheep intj the pen. Eventually the sheep was induced to partly enter the enclosure, but not in sufficiently for the gate to he closed. A fa Is-' move on the part of the dog would have been disastrous, and spectators waited with interest for what would happen. To their astonishment the dog crept up quietly behind the sheep, and using both front paws, pushed the stubborn ruminant the remainder of the distance. (Mr H G. Wells' first- film story, “Peace of the World,” may never he screened, for the simple reason that every producer in the world has rejected it. because of ti e demand for sex appeal. When a <ortain i»roduoer approached Air Wells, tho latter agreed to write a film story - The title was advertised and the producer was besieged with ho king orders on tho strength of Air Wells’ name am! the theme of the film. Hollywood ofi< red £10.00(1 provided certain alterations were made, but Air Wells refused to alter the story. Other American and European producers also wanted sex appeal. Air Wells who has just published the story under the title ‘ A King Who Was :• King.” has steadfastly rejected fabulous film offers conditional on sox appeal being introduced.