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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12019, 24 March 1920, Page 4

Thames reports that Edwin Ford, aged 51, has been jnissing from his home for several days. At a meeting at Levin io obtain guarantors for next year’s Chantanqua there was a poor response, aid the chairman eventually remarked that after two years’ trial, it was evident the peoplp did not want the Chautauqua again, 'so there was nothing to do but close the meeting and leave the matter were it was, Tomatoes choice table hi and 6cl per lb —for sauce 5s and ns per ease of 241bfl.—J, B. Barrington, ’Phone 294, Mar ton.*

Mias Wells, a resident of Te Euiti, ; died on the Riverina on the voyage j from Sydney, and was buried at sea. The Eagießbam settlement at I Makirikiri was disposed of to dis- | charged soldiers by ballot at Wanganui yesterday. Section 6 was secured by Mr G B Moyle, Marton. In our secqnd edition yesterday the reports of Taikorea Sports and the Marton Eailwaymen’s Picnio. were# “mixed up” by the printer, with cnrions results. They - appear in correct form to-day on page 2. _ The Imperial building, a fivestorey modern building with fifty to sixty feet frontage, to Queen Street, Auckland, bas changed hands at a price said to be about £90,000.

The meeting of Ruapehu Royal Arch Freemasons at Marton last evening was well attended. The,, principal business consisted of conferring the side degrees of Ark Mariner and Red Gross Knights on a number of candidates.

Over 50 boys are in camp on Mr E Short’s farm at Parorangi undergoing a course of* agricultural instruction. They are. in charge of Messrs J Grant and O A Banner, instructors in’agriculture, and Roydhouae, physical.

Following the sale of surnlus aeroplanes, the Ministry of Munitions has accepted Messrs Rownson, Drew and Clydesdale, Limited’s, offer of £5,000,000 for all surplus factory stores in Britain, comprising 30,000 different kinds of art ides.

A special meeting of the Grand Lodge of N. Z. (North Island) U.A.O.D. was held yesterday at Wellington to consider the question of consolidation. The question has been before the Grand Lodge for the past ten years, and was discussed all day, it being eventually agreed to unanimously. Consolidation will come into force on' December Ist, 1920. The question of insurance was also discussed, and a new scale for new entrants was adopted, which will put the fund on a. sounder footing.

The Mayor of Foilding stated at a meeting of the Technical School Committee that to-day there are from 35 to 38 houses in course of erection in Feilding or about to be started. This was evidence that there was no doubt about Feilding’s future development. Even with the equipment of the new Agricultural High School, the educational facilities would not be adequate for the increase of scholars in this town.

[Feilding Technical School Committee has decided that Mr La Trobe the new Superintendent of Technical Education and the Council of Education be approached with a view to an early constitution of the present Committee into a Board of Governors for Feilding Technical and Agricultural High School, It would take some time to frame the necessary regulations and to bring them into effect. The necessary Board of Governors, of coarse, would have to be elected by the various representative bodies.

f Mr N Gifford has severed his conneation with the N.Z. Farmers’ Distributing Co, Ltd, to commence business on his own account as land agent and valuer. On the eve of his departure be was met by the staff of the Company and presented with an oak mantel clock. In making t.he presentation the manager, Mr Giller, conveyed to the recipient the good wishes of the staff which accompanied the token of esteem. His remarks were supplemented bj r Messrs J Pe r ny and Me Elroy, directors. Mr Gifford suitably replied. The death took place at Adjmere, India, this month, of Mr Grant McIlvride. The lace Mr Mcllvride was the third eon of Mr George McIlvrlde, and was born in the Lower Hutt 40 years ago. He served in the South'African war,' and afterwards joined the Indian Armv. Later ho joined thei service of the B. B. and C.I. Railway, and at the time of bis death was stationmaster at Almedabad. «His death was the result of injuries received last April, during the Indian riots at the Viramgam railway station. The deceased was a brother of Messrs VV and G Mcllvride, of Petone; his sisters being Mesdames Laing, Marton ; Bradfield and Randell, Palmerston . North; Hodgson, Ashburton; and Jillett, New Plymouth. ....

A Carterton agriculturist of considerable experience expressed hio amazement the other day to a News reporter at the outcry against flour at £l6 10s a ton, when oaten chaff, which includes grain, husk, and straw, is being sold at £l3 10s a ton, and no talk at all made about it. “This price for oaten chaff must,” he said, “tend to further increase the price of wheat for it made the cost of working the land heavier, whore horses were used, and certainly made growers more inclined to go in tor oats than wheat. Oats at 401 bto the bushel at 7s are considerably more paying to the grower than wheat at 601 b for 7s 7d while the price of chaff compared to the price of flour is ridiculous. ” “Yet,” he added, “although oats and chaff are indirect competition with wheat and flour In the matter of growing them, you do not hear as much about regulating the price of oats and chaff as yon do about wheat and flour.” Oats seem to have ail the best of it, is the comment by the News, and presently, that paper savs, the public will know it by a further increase in the price of oatmeal. The people are being “hit up” in every direction. ?!;MoGraer’s sale of Milligan's Crockery Stock is now in full swing. As every article mn?t be sold, now is yonr chance to buy at sale prices crockery and kitchen utensils.*

BOON TO DEER STALKERS AND OTHERS. —Stags’ Heads, Boars’ Heads, Birds, Fish, and Animals Mounted, Skins tanned. Every kind of Furs, Goats, and Rugs made and repaired. All .work guaranteed. J. JACOBS (from London), 55 Kangitikai Street, Pplmerston North,*

It is readily anticipated in the trade that there will bo an acute blanket famine during the coming winter, and people are well advised to secure their requirements while stocks are availubo. Llolyd’s Ltd, Marten’s Big Drapers, have been laying in stocks al*l through the summer and at present can show a splendid selection in Double Bed, Threeqviarter Bed and Single Bed sizes, both in White and colon red. The values ottering are undoubtedly the beat in the district, and Lloyd’s Ltd invite your inspection. Full information given and ho one pressed to buy.