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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11633, 7 September 1918, Page 4

The Plunket nurse will visit Marion, on Monday, September 9th. The'ladies of the district, Marton Junction —Wellington Road to Blackwell St., are asked to meet on Tuesday afternoon. A dance in aid of No (5 Baby will be held in Mr O, Jefferson’s barn on Wednesday. The next term of St. S’ephen’s Parochial Day. School, will begin on September, 2Brd. The Presbyterian Church Services to-morrow, at Marton and Tutaenui, will be taken by Rev. L. H. Hunt. The evening subject will be “The Pool of Bethesda’’—a Parable of Life. Tbepnost profitable corner in yon r garden will be the onion plot - Plant a few “before this month i 9 out. Onion plants Is 3d per 100. cabbages and lettuce plants 2s per 100 from J. B. Barrington, Marton, ’phone 294. * A pertinent question about buying your footwear by mail appears in the advertisement of Collinson and Cunninghame on another page. This Palmerston firm caters for 32 different departments of which tootwear is by no means the least. Anticiuating the Imge rise in prices, Messrs Lloyd’s Ltd , purchased heavily in dress materials, so that nowhere will be found a more varied keenly priced stock of the very latest fabrics. On page one can be found a special offer of cotton garbadines at fully fifty per cent below present market values.

"A meeting of ratepayers will be held in the Bulls Town Hall on Monday evening next at 7.30 o’clock for the purpose of discussing the Town Board’s Financial position, the proposed purchase of the electric plant, and matters of general interest to the ratepayers. A verv enjoyable evening was spent at Mr and Mrs Barney’s residanco at a farewell given to “Mr A. W. G. Schroder of the local Post Office, piior to his goinsg into camp. Musical items and oauciug were indulged in and during the cveuing"Mr Schroder was made the recipient of a present from his friends as a token of the esteem and regard with which lie is held in Bulls.

According to the latest complication made by the Government Statisticians (covering the June quarter), the purchasing power of the sovereign continues to decline at a somewhat alarming rate. According to the Statistician's deductions, what could have been purchased (in the three food groups meat, groceries, and dairy products) for 20s, in July, 1914, iu Wellington cost 30s 2% in the Juno quarter, a shaae greater inertae than in any other centres. The increase has been least in Christchurch. In the adverse ratio (airived at iu the same manner), the sovereign, worlth 20s, iu July, 1914, is now ouly worth 13s 6>x'd, when expended on foodstuffs comprised in the three groups mentioned. As a reduction iu the price of broad is already'announced, and milk is to be reduced in price in October, the current quarter should not show any marked decrease.

“People in New Zealand, “said the Acting-Prime Sir James Allen, to a reporter on Thursday, “are every uosv and then communicating with the Red Cross or the War Contingent Association in England, asking for information with respect to sick or wounded soldiers in hospital or convalescent home. The Defence Department is now so complete with respect to reports of casualties that the public 'may rely on receiving from it regular and reliable information about sick and wounded, because it comes from an official source. I should be glad if communications «houii casualties were sent lo Rase Records, W Iliugton, and not to the Fled Cross or the War Contingent Association, because that merely menus duplicating the work, and in some install-es bus led to incorrect information being supplied I may add that I have consulted the Red Cross people on the subject, and they quite agree with my view” Conditional upon his estate being valued for death duty at over £50,000, the late Mr R. H. Rhodes, of Blueciiffs, St. Andrews, Sooth Canterbury, has, the Christchurch Sun reports, bequeathed the sum of £2OOO to the Timaru Borough Council for improving and beautifying Caroline Bay. Under the same conditions, the sum of £IOOO Is left the Church Property Trustees to invest and use the interest for the upkeep of the Anglican Church and ground of the parish containing the Blueciiffs homestead. Mrs Rhodes is left €IOOO, with all the furniture and household goods. Also, she will have the use of the homestead and about 10 acres so long as she remains a widow. During widowhood, too, she is to receive £2OOO per year, which will be reduced to £IOOO if she marries again. The residue of the trust fund is to be held for tire children, the eldest son taking a double part, and the others sharing equally. The executors are: Messrs F. J. Rolleston (Timaru), A. E. G. Rirodes (Christchurch), H. El worthy (Craigmore), and M. H. Goodby (Christchurch). They are expressly authorised to carry on the husinesss of sheep farmer, and other business carried on by the testator.