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Southland Times, Issue 18856, 23 June 1920, Page 4

There are 11,000 British troops still stationed in France as guard to “dumps” of war material.' Over £50,000 has been disbursed by the Auckland Patriotic Association in helping permanently disabled soldiers. “The four Mayors in the four centres, if they got together,” said the Mayor of Christchurch recently, “could raise a million pounds for the Fight the 1 amine Fund.” The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, during his visit to Christchurch told a speaker, “I lind that a man can tell me all that is worth while knowing in live minutes if he has got any idea of the value of time.” Quite large quantities of narcissi are being sent from the Otaki district to the Wellington market. Thousands of violets are still being sent weekly, while numbers are being forwarded as far north as Auckland and south to Invercargill. At a recent meeting of the Thames Borough Council a letter was received from the Under-Secretary for Mines stating that a permanent scheme for coping with the minewater flooding difficulty was receiving consideration. It is understood that preliminary work has been commenced in connection with the setting up of a camp for the co-opera-tive workers, who arc to boro the Orongorongo tunnel, under arrangements with the Wellington City' Council. There were 4005 labourers in the employ of the Public Works Department in April (compared with 3821 in March), while the number of artisans was 570, an increase of nine on the preceding month. Only 40 more labourers were engaged on railway construction. An Opaki fanner, who last year placed his farm on the market at £4O (says the Wairarapa Times), and failed to lind a purchaser, has this year cut from several paddocks hay and clover seed which he estimated, when threshed, would give him the handsome return of £7O per acre. So great is the southern apple crop this year Unit in many places the trees are almost unable to stand up beneath the great weight of fruit writes a Marlborough orchurdist. There will be nearly 100.000 cases ot apples for export, and then plenty leit for home use. The crops are good almost everywhere in the Dominion. So far as export goes shipping will be the difficulty, and if any are exported probably they will go to England. “The theory of replacement cost being taken into account in fixing the price 01, goods in stock,” said Mr MacGregor in the course of his address in’the alleged profiteering cases at Christchurch on Wednesday, “has been entirely exploded and will shortly rendered illegal.” “What do you mean Ly that?” asked bir John Findlay. “My friend will find out in good time,” was Mr Macgregor’s rejoinder. The Finance Committee of the Christchurch City Council reported on Monday night that the revaluation of the city was a matter of great urgency. It recommended that the Valuation Department should be asked to carry out a revaluation at once, so that the new valuations would come into force on April 1, 1921, and the rates for next year lie levied on them. "If this is not done,” the report concluded, “the committee will have great difficulty in providing .sufficient revenue for essential purposes.” The report, was adopted. For same time now the so-called paradise duck has been a protected bird and its destination has been illegal (says the Otago Daily Tiinc.-;i. The result of this protection apparently has led to a considerable increase in numbers in some parts of (he South Island, and to many complaints from farmers as to their grain-eating proclivities. It has now been decided that they may be shot till the end of the present game sea son in Waitaki, Otago and Southland, but no one person will be allowed to kill more than five kinds. This provision, it is thought, will result, in a sufficient thinning of their number.-, lor the tune being. ; A man who contracted influenza during the epidemic found that a certain powder relieved his headaches. Since (hen he has 1 bought hundreds of these powders from a chemist at sixpence each, taking them himself and dispensing them amongst his : friends with many recommendations. The i other day he was surprised to be shown a 1 similar powder sold by a rival chemist a! twopence. An irate man was he when lie i rep.aired to the other chemist. That gen- i tlernan, it is said, is now somewhat afraid | : of eventualities, especially as the Profiteer- i ing Committee will be opening its local fit- i ting here (o-clay. 1 A general discussion ensued on the quest tion of indentured labour in Samoa, fol- t 1 lowing an address on the position in Samoa, i given before the Christchurch Council of > Churches .at its previous meeting by Mr E. i J. Howard, M.P. The Rev. J. K. Archer moved that the Council should urge the Government to abolish indentured labour i in Samoa. Mr Frank Thomson moved as 1 an amendment that the Council should postpone consideration of the matter, ponding ‘ inquiries from the various missionaries in i Samoa. After the matter had been fully 1 discussed, the amendment was lost by 25 I votes to 10, and the motion was carried by < 23 votes to IG. A number of those present < refrained from voting. i 1 Melville E. Stone, a well-known Ameri- ‘ can journalist, who has passed man’s allot- | merit of three score and ten, is writing a 1 history of his life for Collier’s Weekly. 1 Referring to his acquaintance with Elbert \ Hubbard, he says; “Then, on May I, 1915, < as I was leaving the Lusitania, which was i about to sail on her final fatal trip, at the c foot of the gang plunk I encountered Hub- s bard and his wife. We chatted for a mo t ment. We spoke of the threatening adver- i tisement in the morning papers, cautioning 1 people against taking passage on the ship, i ‘Well, if they sink her,’ laughed Hubbard, T i shall have a chance some day to meet the i Kaiser in hell.’ And with that we parted, g at this our second and last meeting. As is t well known, Hubbard and his wife perished £ when the ship went down.” i

Mr G. L. Donaldson has been appointed honorary organiser of the movement in Christchurch to raise funds for war memorials. “It may interest the legal fraternity of Christchurch to know that never during my twenty-five years as a magistrate have 1 found it necessary to give a decision on the grounds of equity and good conscience,” said Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M. ; at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on Monday. A Press Association telegram from Te Kuiti stales that a party of natives at Te Kumi ate wild honey and later all were ill. An adult and child developed epileptic convulsions and an adult lost consciousness. Medical aid was summoned and the patients are now improving. ‘T appreciate very much the good work done by school committees, and the interest they show,' said the Hon. C. J.. Parr, to the members of a Kaiapoi deputation which waited on him on Saturday. “It is one of the best things we have in New Zealand. though seme people depreciate it—the school committees who take interest in the school and the welfare of the nippers.” A strange story of the recent flood in the King Country is told. A Maori boy travelling on horseback to Pio Pio was carried away by the current. His horse became entangled in the wire of the fence, and the boy reached a willow tree a chain or so away. The horse ultimately freed itself and swam straight for (he boy, who mounted and after a hard tussle, got safely through. A New York financial paper, the Financier, contains an announcement of quite liberal bonuses given by one of the leading banks in the city to their employees. It is stated that the Irving National Bank gave to its employees for the first three months of this year a bonus of 40.75 per cent, of salaries, to help them to meet the increased cost of living. This is the largest compensation payment ever given in the history' of the bank. During the last quarter of last year the bonus was at the rate of 56.75 peewit .of the salaries. Delegates from the main centres of New Zealand have been meeting in Wellington as representatives of insurance offices. A guild (similar to that of the bank officers) has been formed. It has long been felt that the office staffs of insurance companies in New Zealand needed such an organisation as the guild bids fair to supply'. The approximate number of members enrolled in the new guild is 900. At the conference just concluded in Wellington a constitution of the guild was fully discussed and adopted, and a strong executive was set up. Among the principal objects of the guild is educational woik among members directed to iri»-arovement of their status in their profession. Mr H. P. Mourant, general secretary of the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild, was appointed secretary of the new organisation, the title of which is the Insurance Officers’ Guild of New Zealand. Brief reference to the coming session of Parliament was made by the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald) the other day. The indications at present, he said, were that the session would be a very' difficult and a very long one. Some of the existing legislation would no doubt be amended to provide for soldier settlement on the laud. So far the Government had not outlined any' proposal on this very' important matter, and whether any outline would be contained in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech was difficult to forecast, as there had been a tendency to cut down the speech as much as possible. The representatives from the various parts of the dominion, and especially in Wellington, would probably have some very pertinent questions to ask the Government on the outline of the policy in question, and on these would very largely depend the duration of the session. A somewhat tempting “bribe” was held out by Mr W. A. Banks to the Minister of Education on Saturday morning, when, as chairman of the Raugiora High School Board, Mr Banks said that if Mr Parr got the Department to purchase certain land for the Board, a column would be erected to him on the land, and an inscription would be placed on it to the effect that the unborn millions had to thank Mr Parr for the land owned by the High School. “Don’t tempt me too much,” Mr Parr said, “or I might fall.” At a later stage, Mr Parr mentioned that he had some recollection of the name “Ilangiora.” As a matter of fact, his parents went to Kaiapoi and Raugiora in the early 00’s, before they were married, and were, subsequently, married at Rangiora, afterwards going to the Waikato, where he was born. “So as far as my people are concerned," the Minister added, “they’ were Canterbury' people.” “That will make the column all the more appropriate,” Mr Banks commented. At a sitting of the Maori Land Board at Te Kuiti, Judge Gilfeddur referred to the practice that has grown up in regard to procedure, and to the weak administration of the board, where meetings of assembled owners had been permitted to carry resolutions to sell or lease whole blocks when only’ one owner was present (wires the Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily’ Times). He held that one man does pot constitute a meeting. Sittings of the board and meetings of assembled owners were being held without an official interpreter, and the proceedings were lo the Natives like a Star Chamber inquiry. The presidents of the board had apparently >een in the habit of pronouncing that if a Native was the legal owner of 30 acres of land ho was not “landless” within (he meaning of the Act, irrespective of the value or tlie productivity of the land, or whether it was leased or not. He characterised as ridiculous the idea that 30 acres of King County land under 42 years’ lease at a rental of Is 6d an acre would suffice for the adequate maintenance of a Native. While it is not quite correct to state that ;very Australian infant is born with a silver 'poon in its mouth (says Melbourne Age;, 1, is an undisputed fact that thanks to the Kishcr Government every infant born into he world in this great continent of the Jommontwalth represents a bank draft for i “fiver,” which the Treasury pays out in he shape of a baby bonus. For the eleven nonths of the present financial year, which :-nded on 31st May, the Treasury acknowedged 114,549 claims for the baby bonus mil paid out hard cash in consequence to he extent of £572,745. No doubt in numerous cases the money was urgently needed, mil was put to good use. But how many .housands of parents were there in sufficiently good circumstances not to require the Minus id. all? In five and three-quarter /ears Australia has spent £4,357,895 in ma--ernity allowances, and most of the money ias gone to persons who did not need it. In the circumstances the need exists for ;omc radical amendment of the conditions inder which the allowance is paid. ‘T do not think that the mere rep resen;ation of a nude figure, unless there are ither objectionable features, is necessarily m indecent picture,’ said Mr E. Page, LM., when giving judgment regarding an iction taken by the police calling upon a Mcture dealer of Manners street, Wellingon, to show cause, why a picture “The Soreress,” should not be destroyed. It was loubtful, however, said Mr Page, whether t was advisable to exhibit such a picure in a stret window. He did not conider that an order should be made that the licture should be destroyed and it would herefore be handed back to the dealer. Vebster said that he considered it much viser to sell such pictures openly than to arry on an illicit trade in pictures which core actually indecent. Many pictures of lothed figures he would not have in his hop as the suggestion conveyed by the picures was improper. Personally, he saw lothing harmful in a representation of a leautiful human figure and said that if a acre picture of such a form was considered ndecent the atmosphere of technical and irt schools where living nude figures were ometimes exhibited, was surely immoral in he extreme. Moreover, one would scarcely .ccuse the world’s greatest painters of imaorality because they painted nudes.

Ferrets are becoming numerous in the Hanmer Springs district owing, it is stated, to shep owners turning them out with the idea of keeping down the rabbit pest. Whether the ferrets has accomplished much in this direction is questionable (writes the Hanmer Springs correspondent of the Lyttelton Times) but it is certain that they are working-great havoc among poultry. On Friday a large ferret was destroyed in the fowlyard of Mrs Lahmert, Amuri Grange, but not before it had killed 21 fowls, nearly all approaching laying, which means a very considerable loss. Mr Harbison lost six fowls recently from the same cause, and in this instance two ferrets met a quick dispatch. The British Government nitrate factory at Billingham, Stockton-on-Tyue, has been sold to Messrs Brunner, Mond and Co., who will form a company' to take over and operate the factory', which was started early in. ISIS, with a view to supplementing the country’s munition resources, and was designed for the manufacture of synthetic ammonia from the nitrogen of the air, and for the production of ammonium nitrate on a large scale. Constructional work was stopped after the signature of the armistice. At that time the site, some 28G acres in extent, had been laid out with roads and sewers, and two permanent buildings and a large number of temporary structures has been erected. The purchasers undertake to complete the scheme by providing the additional buildings and plant required for the manufacture of synthetic ammonia, and for its oxidation to nitric acid and nitrates, suitable for the production of explosives and of fertilisers. In the workshop of the home the hardest worker is “Black Bess.” Always on the job from breakfast through the heat and burden of the day’, until nightcap time and often longer. This perpetual boiling job requires a good constitution. Steven’s Judge brand Kettles stand up to their work. \ Strong, staunch and rapid boilers from England’s leading makers and sold by Hyndmau’s, Dee street, at 8/6, 9/6, 11/6, 12/6. (Advt.) 8/11 Blouses at THOMSON & BitATTIE’S this week. This is one of “THE EXHIBITION” Stocktaking offerings. These Blouses are made in several smart styles in darK and light Washing Materials. Sizes, 134, 14, 144, and 15. Usual price 12/6 each, but are being cleared at the toregoing keen price. If ordering by post state size and colour required.—RAdvt.) Good news, I say’ —I say good news for all. HAVA Tea is now reduced to 3/3. Ye lovers oi good tea, choose itava lea at 3/3 —it is choice and good and cheers does Rava Tea at 3/3, and it is down, I say again, is down to 3/3. (Advt.) Reductions every lady’s idea; ability brings important lasting impressions to you; Sale always likens enthusiasm. Or otherwise, by using the first letters in each of tne above words brings to your notice that this big Reliability bale is a virtual boon to the many participating buyers. Over £50,000 worth ot goods at genuine reductions. See these specials; Rosedale plainkmtled Wool Hose in black. Sale price 4/11. A few pairs only Roslyn Worsted 110- splendid value C/u. Heather Mixture and Brown Wool Hose, Sale price 3/9. A special in Cashmere 1 unshed hose in heather mixture, Sale price 4/11. See window display oest quality English make Cashmere Hose in black and wnite, Sale price 5/11, 6/li, 7/0, and 8/11. Black Cotton Hose, Sale price 2/11, 3/3 and 4/6. Hundreds of dozens of Children’s Socks and U-Hose at greatly reduced prices. A novelty' in Ladies’ While Blanket Scarves, bale price 3/11. Sec piles of bargains in all Departments at H. & J. SMITH, Ltd., Progressiva Stores, Invercargill, and Gore.— (Advt.) HATS for men, youths, and boys — a fine shewing of all the popular styles and value prices. UNDRILL’S, opp. P.O. — (Auvt.) By consistently supplying a good class of Apparel and General Di apery, PRICE & BULLEID, Ltd., uuu the demand yearly greatly increasing tor their "lied Ticketed’ lines at Sale lane. The present "Colossal” now in its first week of progress promises to enormously eclipse any previous effort. They have been generously lavoured by buyers from all points of the compass, many journeying many miles by rail or road to participate in the benefits offering.— (Advt.) “Ladies who want lo preserve their stylish figure” must abandon the toil of rubbing the weekly washing and instead, let “NO RUBBING’ LAUNDRY HELP” do tin hard work.— (Advt.) “What muddle superfluous preparation makes.”—Staaus. Certainly be prepared, tor wise preparation means also the battle half won; but superfluous preparation is 111- Always be prepared during winter time, w’hich to the unprepared is chronic cough and cold time. Baxter’s Lung Preserver is ample preparation, for this sterling remedy is a sure, safe, and prompt remedy. It nips the trouble in the bud and fortifies against the return visit. The home that knows “Baxter’s” ia cough and cold proof. Get large bottle of tnis 54-year-old specific to-day. 2/6 at chemist and store. — (Advt.) RAPID FIRST AID. By promptly rubbing Q-TOL into a cut, burn or bruise, all dangers of inflammation or festering wounds are avoided.— (Advt.) . MASTERS, LTD, were the originators ol tne ru per cent, discount to returned soldiers. Other storekeepers have copied ua and we now go one better. We now invite ail discharged soldiers and those waiting discharge to have their military hats reblocked, free of all cost, by the only hattei in Southland. We still give a 1U per cent, reduction to all returned soldiers.—* HALTERS. LTD, Dee street.—(Advt.) A Special Display of Exclusive Evening Frocks, fcdk Dress Skirts and Blouses, now being mfeifl at THE “ECONOMIC, * Ladled Outfitters. Prices exceedingly reasonable, (Advt.) Ready for instant use, “NAZOL” is sun protection against coughs and colds. 60 doses 1/6. — (Advt.)