LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 14 October 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kin;' (elephant! AO. jll for plumbing t insuiithing repairs. D. Jones, Egmont Street, Putoa. The Auckland East byc-electlou will probably lake place about October 21st. A reward is offered for Hie recovery of an English sot for pup lost from Wlienuakara rccently. Now samples of Art Christmas greeting cards may be seen at the “Press” office. Orders should be placed early to catch overseas mails. Whites have a replace advertisement in this issue of special interest to me,, uim are on the lookout for-bargains in working clothes of till description.

A mishap to the brushes at the power house caused a break in the supply of current for about an hour on Wednesday night. , The Children's .Dance which was to have been held in Mahoney's Hall tonight will bo held in the Town Hall on Friday next (October 2 1st.; Tho Borough Council has an important advertisement in another column with regard to the forthcoming visit of His Excellency the (rovernor. Cricketers are reminded of the. match which takes place on the local Domain to-morrow between the A. and B. teams of the local club. Way will commence at 1 .:>() p.m. sharp. A sign of the times. There were no less than 31 applicants for the po.-;-i'ion ill electrical engineer to the local Borough Council, the applicants hading , from all parts of the Dominion. * I'he Patea Butchery Co. desire to notify the public that they will have a quantity of new season's lamb on sale to-morrow. Forequarters will be offered for Kkl per lb and hindquarters lid. Fork has, also been reduced to lid per lb. The Postal authorities advise that in order to expedite the work of the telephone operators it is. absolutely necessa:y that subscribers give the number of tiie subscriber they wish to communicate with, whether in town or country. Mr L. M, Istll, M.P., says the people of Xow Zealand are largely themselves to blame- for the present financial slump. They failed to save whilst earning good leeiu-y. Despite hard times tin y had last yen spent forty millions ea amusement.-. Ftictor.es Fiat have consigned for twenty -SI vc years have only been beaten twice in that period," said Mr W. \ . Hark ness, chairman of the Tarikl Dairy Company at. the annual meeting when he was reviewing the consigning versus selling policy iu regard to disposal of dairy produce.

A social evening and dance will be lieid in St. George’s Sunday School room on Wednesday evening next, 19th inst., at S o’clock, when a .‘-erics of progressive card games including euchre, bridge and eribbage will bo played prizes being awarded to the winners of each.

Goliath, the big Xew Zealand bullock, after touring South Africa. America and England, is to bo lodged in the Loudon Zoo. His measurements arc:— Height dft -tin, girth 14ft, width across back 4 IV et; weight 3700 lbs.

*The Borough Council have received instructions from the Health Department that in view of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney and the interchange of boats and cargo between that port and Xew Zealand residents be earnestly requested to thoroughly clean up their % promisos, paying particular attention to any places likely to harbour rats.

A A apicr insurance a gem staved that there was an average of one motor car or lorry pci's day being accidentally 1 ill rued in Xew Zealand. A wise man will therefore see that his car is insured. Mr A. O. Horner, of the 1.0. A. Insurance Co. makes a specialty of this branch 0 c insurance work and will be glad to furnish owners of cars with full particulars as to rates, etc.

cording lo Air D. Buchanan, of Pal. morston, who has Just returned troni iiie Old Country, is the finest in the world. The test is extended over 273 days. It is not merely carried out: on one or two cows for record purposes, as in New Zealand but the whole herd lias to be tested. Each tester is allotted 28 herds for the season.

“ Aleu in business will sometimes tell you that they have tried advertising and that it did nor pay. This is only when advertising is done sparingly and grudgingly: homeopathic doses of advertising do not pay perhaps; it is like half a dose®of physic making the patient ill but effecting nothing; administer liberally, ami iho cure will be 'Uie and permanent.”—P. T. Barnaul.

“Coming' back to New Zealand from tec Old Country makes me realise how noil we hero arc getting through the sunup,’’ said the Prime Aidaistt’r to a Xew Zealand Times reporter. “As a matter of fact we don’t know wheat a slump is in New Zealand. Just think "f i.—four million men unemployed in England for six months; and six millions unemployed in the United States.”

At (he Thames Police Conn Sergeant .MuDumioll commented on the strange way some men picked up—or attempted. to pidc up a living. The two men in the dock, ho said, apparently made a practice of camping near an abbatoir. They got hold of discarded horns. One of thoiy was a polisher. The horns were scraped and polished, mounted in a cheap way and thou hawked about for sale.

A very handy device for sawing up trees was-in evidence on Wednesday las; iu Middlesex street whore Mr J. H. Cronin was to be seen with, a mechanical cross cut saw operated by a small nod or cycle engine busily engaged in sawing up a. large pine tree in front of hs residence. The outfit, which was designed and manufactured by himself, is a A ery compact and handy one and fu Hi Is its purpose admirably, enabling a maximum of wood to he sawn with a minimum of labour and expense. ■‘l hope it will not be long before we have ladies iu Parlamont," said t-iio Hun. W. Downio Stewart in the course of a speech, .at the lunslreon given by the Wellington City Council ; i the delegates attending the Municipal Conference. Ho explained that •'■lieu the Bouse divided on the Bill to allow - women to become members of Parliament, Dr. Pomare, who was voting against the measure, remarked to ’dm;--- “if this goes through I will have an old .Maori wahinc elected and she will sit alongade you all day eating dried shark." ■ Although in Xew Zealand the danger • f bubonic plague is loading to a sudden 'activity in rat destruction, in England the work has been progressing for the past two years. Iu 1919 a special A r called the Rats and Mice destnua Doa Ac: was passed which compels owners of premises to destroy rats and mice. Statistics have been compiled ami it is computed that the number of in the’ Pidled Kingdom is about equal to the population of it. It is also reckoned that each rat costs about fit annum-—a figure that looks like guess work but that was arrived at after a great deal of inquiry. For a long time rats have been known as carriers of disoas,. not only of bubonic plague, but also of septic pneumonia and jaundice -op iff inie. it is also stated that a pair of rats can increase to the number of •">(.!(.) millions in three years unless they me iu some way checked from breeding.