LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 1 November 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Those in search of Christmas Cards caauot do better than inspect the large range of beautiful cards now on view a' the "Press’ office. King telephone ill for plumbing and tinsmithing repairs. D. Jones, Egmont Street, Patea. A Wanganui resident, aged 73 years boasts that he has not yet been to a moving picture show. It is time he went. The ‘‘Mammoth" School Pads containing 200 pages of line quality paper ruioa both sides with blotter attached, can be obtained at the "Press" Office price 1/- each. This ig far and away the cheapest pad on the market and in addition to its use as a school pad it is also suitable for private correspondence, etc. The result of the year's operations of the Southland Partners' Co-operative Association, a concern of 2500 shareholders, with branches at Invercargill, Gore and Winton, was an estimated loss of £90,000, equal to the subscribed and uncalled capital. At the annual meeting the chairman, Mr Hugh Smith attributed the association's grave pos, ition to the slump and • bad management.

“There is some talk of the League game being started in Taranaki next season, ” said Mr J. McLeod, chairman of the Taranaki Rugby Union, at a function in connection with the Tukapa Football Club. “Now I have nothing particular against the League game,” he continued, “but I hold that there is only room for one game in this Dominion. 'There is, besides, a certain professional code in the League game, which we object to. If League is played it means the weakening of both but Rugby is on top and League will have a hard fight for it.”

Members of the Diocesan Synod, sitting in Christchurch have not yet become accustomed to the fact that their deliberations now are presided over by an Archbishop instead of a Bishop as formerly.; A member drew attention to the fact that several members had addressed the Primate as “My Lord” “.! do wish,” he said, “that members would address Your Grace in proper maimer.” It wotild not look well if, when the Church Congress met in Christchurch, the members of the local Synod were the only ones who did not address the Archbishop by his proper title. ‘ ‘ They should sta rt to piactise it now,” he said “in order to become accustomed to it. ” “ There is one man” said Archbishop Julius, “who will not become accustomed to it. ’ ’

Mr G. Y. Pearce, the Independent Reform Candidate notifies in another column that he will address the elect, ors in the Patea Town Hall on Tues. day next at 8 p.m.

The local Croquet Club have received an invitation from the Waverley Club to be present at the official opening of their courts on Saturday next.

In 1920-21 the number of persons employed on farms was 101,355 males and 31,905 females. This year the returns show that there are 101,839 males and 33,556 females so employed .

Coogee beach, where the sharks killed two batherg last season is to be made the safest in Sydney by the erection of a steel shark proof net across the bay. Provision will be made for a guarded outlet for fishermen’s boats.

A Manawatu farmer, fired by the advocacy of tree planting, and with visions of a family of wealthy grandchildren, wrote to an American firm for two pounds of seed of the sequoia or giant redwood tree. The firm sent the seed and drew upon his bankers for £ls, They explained that as only ma. turod trees bore seed, it was necessary to climb from 60 to SO feet of bare trunk to gather it.

Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., became somewhat mixed in his figures of speech dining the course of his address on the education vote at the Masonic Hall in Christchurch recently. When he was a boy at sea, he said, he used to marvel at the accuracy of the old sailors in their predictions of rough weather ahead. “They knew what was coming by the little ripples on the sea, and it is the same with politicians they can tell by the little ripples on the sea when there is going to be dirty wea_ thor at the cross roads.”

Living in a first class hotel in Germany, (states Mr J. J. McGrath, of Wellington, who has just returned from a trip to Europe) costs only 5/. per day in spite fo the fact that visitors were charged double the rates of German people. The railway fares would shock the New Zealand authorities. Imagine travelling 400 or 500 miles for only 5/6. Yet that is what an all day journey from Dresden to Munich costs. In Munich fourteen bottles of beer "the finest in the world" said Mr McGrath, could be bought for I/-, and the finest cigars he had ever smoked in his life cost only Id each.

One or two remarkable instances of strange places in which birds will build their nests and rear their young are told by Mr Johannes Anderson. One relates to the guard's van of a train running to and from Ashburton. A sjiarrow constructed its nest on a ledge in a corner, laid its eggs and sat there day by day making the journey to and fro daily. After the young 'had been hatched a day or two the parent bird left the youngsters to take the train journey by themselves, but came to feed them directly the train returned to Ashburton. In one instance in England a bird actually constructed its nest between the points of the rails on a main line railway, laid its eggs and hatched its young in spite of the fact that trains were constantly passing over the spot, only an inch or two from the nest.

'The ransacking of the Anuadale Public School during the week end by vandals was followed by a similar occurrence in respect to the LilyvaJe Public School, Anzac Parade, South Kensington. Small boys are suspected of both outrages. At the Lilydalc School all drawers, lockers and presses were forced open and their contents strewn on the 1 floors. Not satisfied with hurling valuable books round the rooms, the vandals poured the con. tents of four large bottles of ink into the piano, considerably damaging the instrument. Entrance to the school was effected through the doors which had not been securely locked.