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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12041, 30 April 1920, Page 4

The Morning Advertiser, London, was Informed that owing to a world whortagi; of papermaklng materials, the price of newsprint next duly will he Is per lb -.CI 12 per ton. Before the war the price of this quality of paper was Id per Ur-All) Os HD per ton.

Your attention Is called to Medimer's''advertisement on the leader page. This itrui amm nee Cm* this week ladles’ Hosiery and Underwear Hjuwlftlw. Tim goods are of exceptional vttlim, end just what you WMIlt

A large number of land sales in the Kaipara district are reported. Several farms have lately changed hands at £65 per acre.

Various branches of the Post and Telegraph Association have passed motions of sympathy with the railwayman, and reiterated demands for improvement of their own conditions and pay.;

At Taihape yesterday the ringleaders in the recent strike at the Freezing Works were prosecuted by the Labour. Department and each was fined £5 and the other men participating were fined £1 each. The railway strike notwithstanding Bangitikei Motor Cycle Club Will carry out the programme of sports arranged for to-morrow. The programme is an attractive one, and many well known riders are competing.

* At a women’s meeting held in Leith, Scotland, recently protests were made against high prices and profiteering. A resolution was adopted urging upon all to boycott high priced articles and articles of luxury.

The greatly increased cost of production is seriously affecting some of our contemporaries, The Colonist, Nelson’s*, morning journal, which was established in 1857, has beenincorporated with the Nelson Evening Mail, and its publication will bediscohtinned after Saturday, May Ist. It is stated that draught horses suitable for country work are in great demand in the South Island. They have risen in price a good many,pounds sterling during the last month. Not long ago £3O was thought to be a good price for a horse, now they are double that figure if of the right stamp. A Fairfield resident, says the Otaki Mail, has just cut some 3001 b weight of pumpkins from ov.e plant. These included five which turned the scale at over 501 b each. As pumpkins require practically no attention during growth, they are a profitable and useful crop. The dance promoted by Marton Football Club proved highly enjoyable last evening. Some 50 couples danced to excellent music supplied by the Diggers’ Orchestra —Messrs J McDonald (violin), J Hailwood (cornet), and S Whitehead (piano). Extras were contributed in finished manner by Miss Brown and Mr A Blair. Mr E Schultz officiated as M. O.

All preparations have baen com ploted for the Chrysanthemum Show which is being held in Marton Town Hall to-day and to-morrow. The programme this evening will include a Japanese Tableaux by twelve young ladies who have been practising for some weeks past. Afternoon tea and supper will be provided, also cold luncheon to-morrow, commencing at 12 noon. See notice on page 8.

Carpenters wanted for work in the country have in some cases stipulated for £1 per day and board. They say they can get £1 per day without going from home, and do not see why they should go away without being fully recompensed. In one case, where men were wanted to build a house way back, in upland country, for a returned soldier, they refused to go unless the pay was made not at 2s 6d per hour but £1 per day, rain or shine—Dunedin Star.

Dairy producers will no doubt be interested to know, says the Mana■watu Times, that in future another buying institution will bo wooing them for their produce when the commandeer ceases. Representatives of English and Scottish wholesale co-operative societies will arrive in New Zealand in a week or so, with a view of making arrangements for supplies of both butter and cheese for these huge institutions, the capital of which approximates £80.000,000. It may he of interest to know that they could sell the whole of the New Zealand butter in their owu stores, and over 50 per cent of the cheese output. An exciting family affair was narrated in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland last week, when private proceedings were instituted to have a woman bound over to keep the peace. The affair took place at Mercer on Sunday. April 11th. The defendant had taken exception to a s’onng man who was courting his daughter, although the proposed alliance was favoured by her husband. She therefore proceeded from Auckland to Mercer, where the three were working, and on meeting the young man began to poke a stick into his face, while he stood with his hands in his pockets. Her husband witnessed the a ff air from the houae and remonstrated. Thereupon the woman rushed in, lifted a teapot and banged it on the top of the young man’s head. She next seized her; laugh ter by the throat. A wild scene followed, in which the daughter, father and mother took part, the woman being finally ejected. The door was closed, but she returned to the fray with an axe, with which she made unsuccessful attempts to got into the kitchen. Before things quietened down, she had thrown her gun into the river. Various garments worn by the participants in the fray were produced in Court to indicate the intensity of the scrimmage. On defendant swearing to leave the parties alone the complaint was withdrawn. A notice appears in this issue of the annual meeting of Pavisnioners of the Parochial district of Marton, to be held in S. Stephen’s Sunday Schoolroom on Wednesday next.* Llojni’s, Ltd., are showing some particularly smart new .'Silk Blouses in Good Quality Pugl Silk with plain or .fancy Stripe Collars at -his fid, !VJs fid. afis. fi7a fid, fills fid ami 45a. White .Tup Silk Blouses lUs fid. k’fia fid. fias, to 47s fid. Crepe do Cheno Blouses white and all leading shades, fiTs'fid, lies, fills fid to 755. It is interesting to note that the importation of silk from the East has almost entirely ceased owing to the prohibitive prices now asked, and ladles are well advised to secure their needs from present stoks. * A special offer for uu is made by The Economic (Low and Gregory), Marton. who hare just received a long overdue shipment of men's shirts which they are clearing at fis ltd each, wovih Ifis fid. All a isos in stuck. Woollens of -all kinds are in short, supply, but Marton residents can skill obtain ts to order from all wool N. 7.. T.vcods. The Economic (Low mid Gregory), Markon, have just received further .stocks of muter Inis, and arc prepared to take orders for suits (fit, and style guaranteed) while these last.* Woods’ Great IViipeiniint Gove For Uonfths andGoMs, never tails Is Dll, Us IM.