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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12091, 28 June 1920, Page 4

The wages bill of Kiwitea County Council totals £6OO per month. London reports that the King gave a luncheon in honour of Sir Tnomas Mackenzie, at Buckingham Palace, An obvious misprint occurred in an editorial note in Saturday’s issue in which the price of a certain line of children’s ■ boots quoted from an English tradesman’s advertisement was given as 55s 6d instead of the correct figures 5a 6d.

A meeting of delegates of local bodies and Chambers of Commerce the .deviation of the Main Trank Line between Levin and Marton will be held at the County Offices, Sanson, on Satur-. day, 3rd Jaly, at 1.30 p.m. A fire at Otaki on Friday night completely destroyed the tine large residence belonging to Mrs Ling. The boose was one of the largest on the coast, and the loss will be very heavy, the insurances only amounting to £l4lO. The origin of the fire is a mystery.

Mr W O MacGregor, K.C., Grown Solicitor at Dunedin, has been offered and has accepted the Solicitor-Generalship vice Sir J. Saimond who is now on the Supreme Court bench. Mr MacGregor leaves for Wellington in a few weeks, A £IO,OOO loan is being raised by Kiwitea County Council for the purpose of erecting workers’ dwellings, and at a special meeting on Saturday, formal resolutions were passed authorising the raising of the loan, striking special rates and providing sinking fund. Starting at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday business of Kiwitea County Council was unfinished at 5 p.ra., when accounts were taken. A special meeting ' V iU bo held at Feilding on Friday r <to discuss several matters of .my, ortance. A large sum of money has been spent recently by Kiwitea Oonnty Council in purchasing up-to-date road-making plant, and Council contemplate going one, better. The Engineer on Saturday submitted plans for a tramway at the pit at Kimboiton, which will result in a big saving, and ho has been instructed to nrocoed to Wellington with the deputation to arrange for the necessary plant, T The death has occurred at Tanranga of Mrs Barnett, wife of the Rev. W Barnett, Baptist minister The deceased was a daughter of the Rev J W Campbell, England, and a granddaughter of the late Admiral Bedford. She was related to Captain Stopford and the late Sir Arthur Douglas, both well known in New Zealand The friends of Mr Angus Keith, the well-known starter, will learn with regret of the death of hia wife, which took place at Turakina on Saturday The late Mrs Keith, who was the only daughter of the late Mr Owen McKitterick, one of the early settlers of the district, had been ill for a considerable period, and her death was not altogether unexpected Besides her husband she leaves a family of three boys and a girl, all of whom will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their bereavement. The funeral took place to-day in Turakina cemetery

: B Boys’’ 5 All Wool Grey Flannel Shirts have been a very scarce line in the trade for a long time past. Parents will be pleased to learn that these goods can be procured in all sizes from Lloyds’ Ltd, Marton, Boys’ Clothing Outfitters. In addition to a good quality grey flannel shirts Lloyds have also the heavy Grey Plaiding Shirts for winter wear, the warmest and best boys’ shirt made. ’ For further particulars and prices see Lloyds’ advertisement in this issue.* BOON TO DEER STALKERS AND OTHERS.—Stags’ Head Boars’ Hoads, Birds, Fish and Animals Mounted. Skins tanned. Every kindof Furs, Coats, and Rugs made and repaired. All work guaranteed. J. JACOBS (from London), 55 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North,*

A Melbourne message states that, the price of American tobacco has been increased to Is per ounce. The schooner Helen B Stirling met a gale on the voyage from Newcastle to Auckland. The vessel lost several sails and a quantity of dock cargo, comprising Japanese oak, was washed overboard.

Lasker has resigned the world’s championship to Casablanca on the ground that the chess world does not approve of the terms of tbe proposed match between Lasker and Casablanca.

At the Scarborough Labour Conference on Thursday a Glasgow proposal for total prohibition was overwhelmingly rejected. A motion in favour of State control was narrowly defeated. The conference approved of local option. Some people have all the luck. At auction last week a Manawatu farmer purchased a draught horse for £22 10s. After he had embellished it with a canvas cover and three feeds of chaff he got rid of it —for £4s—Manawatu Times.

Wheeler’s branch grocery store at Ponsonby was destroyed by fire at daylight on Saturday. Stock valued at £4OO and plant at £IOO were badly damaged by water. Tbe insurance on the building, owned by Mr E. Gray, was £4OO, and on the stock and fittings £350,

The 10-year-old daughter of Mr L M Smith, inspector for the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Wellington, fell under a Kelburn cable car on Friday morning. Her right foot and left hand were badly mangled Rear Admiral Decker, of the XJ. S. Navy, in a letter in the Service Magazine, charges Secretary of the Navy Daniels that he tried to break Admirals Sims, Fullam and Fiske because they would not permit the demoralisation and degradation of the Navy. Mr Daniels, in testimony befoie the Senate investigation committee, stated that this was intentional and ddliberate*misrepresentation cf the acts of the Admirals

Edward Henry Duggan, aged 22 years, a married man, met with a fatal burning accident on the Manaia Kaponga road on Tuesday night. He was driving a motor lorry when he noticed the benzine leaking. Ic was after dusk, and in seeking the leakage he used one of the lamps, Tmmedately the whole lorry hoist into flames. The unfortunate man was terribly burnt and removed to the Hawera Hospital, where he succubmed to his injuries. Westport recently lost a Mayor, and £IOOO which he" was able to annex through a payment from the Public Trustee made by open cheque. It is not considered desirable that Mayors should be able to help themselves so freely as members of a Parliament can by vote of the House, and Mr Holland has asked the Minister in charge of the Public Trust to have cheques crossed in future, which will be a deadly blow against any further private enterprise.

“In the event of your trouble being taken up again,” stated by Mr .1 Roberts, secretary of the Transport Workers’ Advisory Board, in an ad dress to railwaymen at Auckland, “you can count on us, but for.goodness sake let us pull together. Our main objective is to own and control the industry to which we belong, and we appeal to you to take a wider view of the matter. Organise along the right lines. Be loyal to your executive, and some good may be achieved. ’’ General Bird wood is a raconteur of no mean order, and his visit to New Zealand has clearly enriched and replenished our current stock of good stories. One that does not seem yet to have gained publicity was told by the General in Dunedin, and concerns the habitual Australian use of a certain forbidden adjective. A lady was visiting the Tower of London. Approaching a guide she asked, “Will you please show me the Bloody Tower?” “I’ve met many Australian men, ” was the cordial response, “but you’re the first Australian lady I’ve met!”

Writing to a country newspaper in New South Wales, a pastorallst grimly comments, says the Sydney Sun, on the political cry for more production thus:—“We are producing more sheepskins to the acre than since the days the boiling down works were competing with the drought. Recently 80 of my breeding ewes were skinned in one paddock. I got the skins, and the crows got the carcases. That’s what I call a fair division of profits. Lambs: Well, if this drought continues I’ll have nothing left to mother a lamb, and if I’m onted I’ll go to Sydney and get a job agitating for longer hours for sheepowners, and a law to protect rabbits.”

The concert given in the Marton Town Hall last evening by the Municipal Brass Band added another to the list “of successes by this popular combination. The Band items were given in good style, indicating good progress under the tuition of Conductor Orozier. The items were-.—March, “Heroes All”; tone poems, “Sing Me Love’s Lullaby,” and “Let the Rest of the World Go By”; fantasia, “Pagilacci” ; march, “British to the Backbone.” Mr H Sherriff was in great voice. Always popular he excebed himself in his rendering of “Star of Bethlehem.” Responding to a hearty recall, he was. equally successful in “Life’s Glorious Anthem. ” Miss G Gamman was another popular contributor of elocutionary gems and she was highly successful in her recitation “Song of the Market Place.” She received an emphatic recall, giving “The Night Toast.” Mr G L Roper, Marton, wants someone to take charge of baby. Mr O O McDonald, boot importer, Marton, calls special attention to his stocks for winter wear, O, pins and needles! O! needles and pins! When a man marries his worry begins— Nurses and babies and plasters and pills, Doctors’ prescriptions, and dress makers’ bills, Mumps and measles and quinaey and croup, And all the ills that make one droop— 0 But amid such worries comes solace sure, When using Woods’ Great Peppermint Core “UNIQUE” HOT WATER BOTTLES will not crack or burst. Vulcanised seams and patent stopper mean seasons of satisfaction. Obtainable everywhere When buying make sure of the brand.