LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XLVI, 24 August 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A reward is offered for the return of an English retriever lost in Patea.

A pair of boots lost near the corner of Egmont and Bedford Streets are enquired for in this issue.

A reminder is given of the sale of properties to be held at the Auction Mart to-morrow at 2 p.m. A reminder is given of the meeting of the Plunket Committee, to bo held this afternoon at 2.45. Messrs Gibson, Ltd., have an important announcement in this issue with regard to some bargains in ladies' furcoats, which they are offering for two weeks only. A movement is on foot to organise the 17,U00 New Zealanders in Sydney into a New Zealand Association to keep alive their interest in New Zealand and to entertain visitors from the Dominion. The association will be launched at a dinner on Dominion Day. Mr Massey has intimated that he will be unable to attend, owing to his departure for London, but it is hoped that he will visit Sydney on his return journey. There are in existence to-day trade secrets which could not be purchased for many thousands of pounds. A Wiltshire firm of bacon-curcrs holds the recipe for curing hams by the Bradcnburg method. 'This was bought for £IO,OOO, but that sum would not wrest it from its present owners. Another trade secret, a special method of mixing chutney, changed hands recently for £7OOO. It was bought for a few shillings. Most costly of all secrets is that of making Chartreuse. It was lirst the property of the monks of La Grande Chartreuse, who, when they w-ere driven from France, sold the recipe for £330,000!

Croat preparations are being made for the Druids' annual dance, to be held on Tuesday next in the Town Hall, 'lire proceeds are in aid of the children s Christmas tree fund, which brings gladness to the hearts of many children each year.

►Speaking in the House on the Gaming Amendment Bill, Mr Isitt said he did not hope to stop racing or gambling, but he did maintain that both were destructive of the economic and moral interests of the Dominion. One of the great dangers of this country w r as the feverish search of our people after pleasure and unwillingness to settle down to thrift and hard work.

The gamble Avhich exists in the present method of consigning produce to the English market (says the "Taranaki Herald") was strikingly illustrated at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Tikorangi Dairy Company on Friday. In quoting the prices secured for the various shipments of produce, the secretary stated that one vessel which was loaded for West Coast of England ports arrived Home whilst good prices were prevailing. Delay took place in the vessel's discharge, and it was three weeks before her produce Avas landed. In the meantime the bottom had fallen, out of the market, only a shilling being advanced on the shipment of butter. On the other hand, another vessel spent several weeks longer than she should have cruising arodnd New Zealand. Her cargo, which, according to schedule, Avould have arrived in the middle of the slump period ,caught an improved market, and realised nearly top prices.