LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 2 March 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A shop with 33ft frontage to main street in Paten is advertised to let. An advertiser wants lease a farmlet of 30 to 40 acres handy to I’atea. The Mayor of I’atea, Mr. E. llamsbottom, in this issue asks all 'business people to pdose their premises on Wednesday next, the 4th inst., on the occasion of the annual school and district picnic. Xu one who has not been in the Dominion for months can be employed under any of the Unemployment Board ’s schemes of work, Mr. M. K. Leadley stated at a meeting of the Uhrisqchurch ..Unemployment Committee. 'The board had had to do something in that way. he added, to stop the influx from Australia.

“Tumble ymi fur a match, sir.’-" (It warn ia a Wellington street ear). ‘No!’ snapped the man addressed, ‘‘haven't gut one. wouldn't give it ii I had. Smoking is a shocking waste of lime and money.” ‘‘l’m not wasting your time or your money, either,” came the reply. The surly passenger grunted. There are men like that unfortunately. They get no pleasure out of life, and hate to see others get any. The chap that has no use for tolmeeo is to he pitied, Only the smoker knows the joy of smoking. It's a very harmless pleasure, too. t'house your tobacco wisely, that ! s all, and avoid brands loaded with nicotine, as most of the imported leaf is. Our toaster! New Zealand tobacco is the stuff! The toasting neutralises the poisonous nicotine, so that you can smokp all you want with absolute safety. Toasted leaf has a most delightful flavour, by the way, and a rare fragrance of its own. There are only four (brands: Riverhoad Gold, Cut Plug No. 10. Cavendish, and Navy Cut No. 3.

Messrs. Freeman Jf. Jackson and Go.. Ltd., will hold their usual sale at the Wanganui yards on Wednesday, Mare! 4, at noon, when good yarding* of sheep, cattle, and pigs will be offered. Tenders closing at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, are called in this issue for the erection of a Druids’ Hall in I'atea. Plans and spec-ideations may l»e seen at Mr. G. J. Gardiner's shop, Mgmont Street. Low prices for sheep are not unexpected this season, but two sales at Addington will go down in the history of the market us remarkable. One was of nine aged cult ewes, which were sold for “Is Hd the lot.” loiter, a line of Kid four, six, and eight tooth hali'bred ewes were sold at l id. “The Waikato farmers are the best off in the Dominion,” said a wellknown Waikato grazier and dealer last week. Feed was plentiful in the Waikato at present, he stilted, .and there had been ample right through the season. Most of the farmers had been able to get the bulk of their lambs away when the prices were on the higher levels, (Southdown rams at rerent fairs sold at practically boom prices and heavy yardings of breeding owes offered in parts of the district were readily disposed of. There did not seem to be any real lack ot money for stocking up. In the report of the recent assessment ease it was stated that His Worship, in delivering judgment in the first ease, reduced the annual valuation of the property from £:’.S to £d(). This was obviously an error, the reduction being from :GIS, the amount mentioned in the first portion of the report. The section had, wc understand. when being valued, been confused with another property with improvements on it.