LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIV, 26 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An o-.ntr is i.-'jidred for Iwo kev.-

rsiel on Saturday

Try 0. Jones, Egmont .Street, foi plumbing and Inmaiiliiing repairs. Tele A one lII.*

A meeting of all willing to assist in a farewell to Matron Lochhead will bo held in the County Council office on Wednesday next at 3 p.m.

h ranee now.>hopcs to reduce her debt i the Ge.it ed- St at os, according to rciri, by the sale of poia.di deposits, ro,'nilv discovered in Morocco. The

erne of the deposits is said to be fO • cirs ill-' expected German indemnity o France. ,

I* on 10 produce merchants at Tiniaru, i view of (jie pleniiful supplies of 'wap pot;;'and a certain shortage

'f wheat before next harvest roaches i, ills suggest that people should al vice begin taking more potatoes and ss broad, to economise in wheat. A see.nan named Pichard Henry 'arard was a.nvs'.ed in I*a:ea on Fri ay on a warrant ismied at Wellington '.urging him wiih fading to jirovide r the n;aln(eua.ace of his wife. The ■acu; ■-•d was brought before the local 'ourt and remaiiiled. Io appear at \VelAn enoraions, • absolutely flawless in k op,; 1, pi'.cda'inc.J as the larges! incut premium skiin' in the 'vorld, has e on reveutly d’sc.ivercd in (he Unite,;! ‘ale;, and is now in Ike ofliee of a moveniiuent o ;p■ al in Washington, m.e cm i contains approximately -I i u;le iindies, and is value Iby the owners £.10,000.

"One of tin' gieaiesi lessons I learnt I the war." said Colonel Young at - !iristchurch "was that you never knew •i.iv man. Some of the hardest cases had to dead with in depot or camp arm'd out to be the bravest of (he rave la the line. A nan has always umdaing good about him ii you can :i< 1 it out."

Mr. C. A. R. Bradley, of Westport s civd'led with drawing (ho highest ratuily of any member of the New lealand Fxpeditiouafy Forces (sta'es he Westport Times). The amount drawn was £l.‘M odd —one day (or Is d) of the possible.- He left with the ■lain Body in September, If) 14, and returned on December Ihith, HMD.

A story typical of the present-day nidness in properly transactions is told i Xew Plymouth as being true. An

wner of a house desired to sell and ,il tin l properly in the market a! :£7do. he agents could do no business, so he aised the price to iiIOOO. Time elapsed ml,still nobody seemed willing to take his bargain. In desperation, the owner ecided to ask itib’.OO —and a sale was lade.

“It’s a dog’s life being a borough ;i, ncillor,” remarked one of the Wanganui civic fathers at the tramway oower plan! inquiry, as he started to relate the bad lime the public had been •;iving him in consequence of the recent Mam way breakdown. The Mayor said hal a m:fu came to him the other day :;ad asked if there were any tramcars or sale as he wanted one for a fowlhouse. Speaking a! a civic reception tender'd to him at Wanganui on Friday after■looll (General i’irdwood expressed pbms•ite at again mooting llrigadior-ocnora 1 Mieldrum, one of the ofiicers who had boon with him at the start and who had gone right through the rear, coming back with the rant: lie had mentioned, lie added : It must have boon one of 's men who wrote from Bethlehem, “Tills is the place where onr Lord was '■urn, but I wish to the Lord I was back in Wanganui, where I was born.”

Tin;; is 'from :i Eos Angeles paper: '-■’■uk-ral prohibition officer;; found Id,•'ii:) gallons of ivash ready for whiskymaking on a farm near IVoria. The I'anncr said lie needed a littio ol lac muff for medical purposes for his fa roily, but I lie ofiircra 'lll on "lit I hat baby night gel ait overdose and so llicy dc-:-.!niyed it. Twrlvc thniisaiid gallons is •i lot of whisky, even when there arc severe.! chronic ailments in the family. Dai around Peoria they get so used lo if (hat it is a wonder they don’t try it for bathing purposes. The Wanganui Iranis were installed ore-v. a r. They have broken down, and a public enquiry is to be held into the ri o ■iiestanees. One engineer insists h ; |u carry (Ml with the present plant in i . ];;;/ardonlie advises laying ■ii ;’■(■ ■:v .tei i till the power plan! is o\ -m 1 1 ■! r 1 1 - ■. 1. Alec n t i e:e this is what {lie ; 'hronicle says about “the magnitude ;,r j i|.> ratepayers’ liability in conneeI ion with tin' trains :—“As a matter c. fas' ;pe tramway loan iiecor.nl stands a! sdo I.Ou<l, this including the loan recently authorised for A!I -I(1,(1011. carried a few years ago, of which £•!()()() roughly has been spenl. (I is eslimated that (he .amkOOO will not cover the cost of (lie- steam plant and extelisions, and that probably a farther £.10,000 will lie required-- a grand total of £2O-1,000. ’ ’

Owing to the Church of England social the dancing class will be held on Friday next in place of Thursday.

A northern exchange says the licensed victuallers of lS T cw Zealand have set out on propaganda work, in view of the great poll in 1912, when the iigurcs are expected to be very close.

j\ reminder is given of the dance in si;neetion, with St. George’s Church, which is being hold on Thursday next. An advertisement appears in another •damn.

A meeting of the local Repatriation Committee was held on Friday night, when several applications for linanci.il assistance to returned .men were conidered and dealt with.

Messrs Freeman It. Jackson & Co. in ■onjnnction with Messrs .smith, Wobdor & Co., arc holding an important ■ale of dairy heifers at. Jackson’s yards, '.Vanganui, on Thnrs lay next. Full pariicnlars will lie found in another column.

The New Zealand Clothing Factory, Uawera, announce in another column that their Winter Sale commences today and will terminate definitely on Saturday, 7th August. Prices have not vet reached high-water mark, and all evidence available points to still higher ind then higher again prices.

"Frozen fish is spoiled fish,” said ’ o Hon. G. M, Thomson in the Legis•;live Council on Tuesday. "Fish can ie preserved for an iudoliuito length of :mc by the use of chilled brine. Chillng in brine is a perfect preservative if fish; It docs not destroy the fibre ir tissue nr cause the fish to deteriorate

u any way."

Claiming to be the loneliest Britisher, :i. member of the Overseas Club and

Vitriolic League, who lives in the Fauv.otus Archipelago in Mid-Pacific writes n "Overseas" ; "Nothing grows ’■.ere but cocoauut, absolutely nothing. No soil, no sand, no trees, no bird life, a i cattle, no sheep. One must even ■..■ port soil if ho would grow a dahlia, ■vul fruit and vegetables have to lie rought from Tahiti, hundreds of miles

.way." He is the only Britisher on the stand, which is forty miles long and wenty miles broad.

"I am sorry to have to state that ’or some weeks now the supply of gas has been deplorable," said Mrs. Bay'ey, matron of the b’angiatea Homo, New Plymouth, in her report to the Hospital Board on Wednesday. "We have had to perform our early morning r.ul evening duties with the aid of •audios and the old people havtf not. ’ ('on able to read or play cards in the •veniugs, which have under the circum.lances been gruesome indeed." The Hoard instructed the House and Finance Committee to go into the question of •ost of installing electric light. Patea nid Wanganui arc evidently not the mly places suffering from a shortage >f light and power.

Some information of interest to widowed mothers and other dependants of soldiers who served in the late war is out ained in a letter received from the Defence Department by the Soldiers’ Mothers’ League. Prior to last year, widowed mothers were entitled to receive an allowance in respect of one son idy, irrespective of the number of sons who were on active service. The regulation now in force imposes no limitation as to the number of sons, and provision is made for the consideration of applications for the granting of retrospective allowances. Each caso will be dealt with on its merits under cither

die old or the amended regulations. It ■ s stated that when a payment is approved it will be made under the set of regulations that will be most advantageous to the applicant.

It was proposed some time ago that a commission should be sent from New Zealand to Britain to investigate matters in connection with the meat industry, and to bring the resources of the Dominion more prominently before ‘lie people at Home. Mr. S. C. Journoaux, at Wednesday’s meeting of the executive of the Auckland Farmers’ Fnion, wanted to know what had happened to (lie commission. The people In Great Britain, he said, did not know !hat New Zealand was exporting meat at ml per Hi. and wool at Is 3d per lb. There had been exploiting, and he thought that was the fault of the British Government. It was true New Zeals.ml sent to Britain a commission which would go through the country and explain the position. The people could ihoii demand justice, and the Farmers’ Union was the body to bring that about.