PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 30 October 1918, Page 4

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Minister for Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, is strongly against the appointment of women police. He says : —" The only women, in my opinion, who would be fit to be women police are women who would not take such positions."

A "Gazette" extraordinary contains regulations providing that after November 1 all butter for export must be packed in rectangular boxes, of which the inside measurements shall be 15£ in by 10Jin by lljin, and the outside measurements shall be 16£ini>y ll^inby 12£ in.

Diplomacy is essential even in prohibition districts. Witness a note from, a railway station master to a fellow townsman, a justice of the peace : —•• Sir, Please send - without delay for the case of books directed to you, which is lying at the station, and is leaking badly."

Mr L. L. Bailey, of Helensville, was the successful applicant for the position of Organising Secretary for the Kaipara Sub-Provincial District of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. Mr Tascred Cooper, the Provincial Organiser, is leaving shortly for Palmerston North to organise the Wellington Province.

Government have issued a brochure giving an account of the work of the Department of Imperial Government supplies in New Zealand to the end of August, 1918. The work has been written and compiled by Will Lawson. It should form one of the historical works of the part New Zealand has been enabled to take part in this world war.

The Te Aroha News learns that one local land agent whose sales of dairy farms during the past five months have aggregated close on £100,000 has further increased this amount by completing the sale of a well-known dairy. farm of 1.50 acres not seven miles from Te Aroha at £60 per acre, and also a herd of fifty picked cows at £20 per head.

At Market Bosworth, England, the Magistrate issued a warrant of commitment for Mary Ann' Or ton, the wife of a farm Labourer, who is said to have stayed in bed for three years and refused to get up, though perfectly healthy. The last time her husband got her up was by throwing buckets of water ovor her. Mr Buskill, for the District Council, said that the woman was still in bed.

It is seldom that an aged couple, after passing long years of married life together, finish their earthly career within a few moments of each other, but this occurred on Saturday at Manurewa, when Mr and Mrs Robert Scott both died within ten minutes of each other, and in each case death was due to cardiac failure, supervening upon an attack of influenza. The couple were very old residents of Manurewa. Mr Scott was born iii Leicestershire, England, 83 years ago, and has been in New Zealand for 66 years. His wife, who was 79 years of age, was born in Sydney, and came to New Zealand 67 years ago. - They are survived by six sons and two daughters. " Nazol for Influenza and Catarrh." Shoot into a flock of birds with a rifle—you may hit the mark, but by chance only. There are plenty of Cornflours on the market, but don't leave your choice to <jhance—there's only one that will satisfy you—DTJBYEA'S MAIZENA. The Burnt Child dreads the fire —once taken in you'll dread the substitute for DUItYEA. MAIZENA CORNFLOUB.

The movement for the union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Churches was the subject of an informal conference of ministers and office-bearers of the three Churches mentioned in Wellington lately. It was stated that the union was now well on the way to accomplishment. A majority of the Presbyterian governing bodies _ had already expressed themselves in favour of the proposal, and the subject would be fuither discussed at the General Assembly in Christchurch next' month.

It is said that small men have big voices; and some of them can use very forcible language vide the following from a speech of Mr W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia on the German:—" The Whining Hun, the howling wolf finding—instead of soft flesh that he could rend and devour with teeth like razors and claws like saws—his own flesh all torn and bloody, panting with rage and fear bleats like a sheep. A few weeks ago the Germans spoke of allotting the spoils. But the Marne has been fought, and the alluring vision of success fades in a bloody mist, Germany now licks her wounds and seeks to conquer us by words, by creating dissensions within to allure us to a premature peace."