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Southland Times, Issue 19522, 23 May 1922, Page 4

About 100 telephones in Auckland city and suburbs were disconnected one morning last week owing to non-payment or subscriptions. An important meeting of dairymen, which will be held in Alien’s Hall, is called for Friday next, when the proposed dairy pool will be discussed. Mr Hugh Morrison in his report at the Farmers’ Conference at Wanganui advocated a tax on batchelors. Why not tax the old maids as well as the batchelors? queried a delegate. On April 1 the value of the general constructional plant and motor vehicles on hand was £9872 19/10, states the secretary of the Power Board in his statement of accounts. *

What’s in a name is likely to exercise the minds of the good people of Johnsonville this month, when a public meeting will be held to consider changing the name of the township. Mr H. B. Gould, who is widely known in commercial circles, has resigned his position as secretary of the Lancaster Park Board of Control, telegraphs the Christchurch correspondent of the Southland Times. Athough an albino of the pukeko species is very rare, it is stated that a specimen was captured in the Manawatu district years ago, and is now a valuable exhibit in a museum in England. Albino native pigeons are also rare.—N.Z. Times. “We know that the Government has been right up against it, but we feel that the light of day is now dawning and that we have happier times in front of us.”— The Mayor of Eketahuna (Mr P. Pike) to the Minister of Public Works. A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that the Crown law authorities have decided not to proceed further with the charges against James Reynold Hayne, of Dunedin, chemist, who has already been three times tried. A farmer stated in the Assessment Court at Wanganui that he had kept double entry books during the ten years he had had his farm of 250 acres. The best year he had was in 1920 when he cleared £BlB, and the worst was last year when he made £378. The average for the ten years was £378. The Aucklanw Gas Company has announced a reduction of the cost of gas and coke. The Star states that the lower price of 3d per thousand cubic feet on gaa will represent a reduction in the cost of living of £12,800 per annum to the gas consumers of Auckland and suburbs. The final shipment of British Australian Wool Realisation Association’s greasy wool will be made in the s.s. Tasman, which is due at Bluff' to-day. The number of bales to be shipped is 2632, representing the balance of the Imperial Government’s greasy wool purchases. The bulk of the slipe wool, if not the whole, will also be shipped in the Tasman. While the occupants of a private boradinghouse were at tea on Monday evening, says a Wanganui writer, a thief got through the bedroom window, stole a wristlet watch and other jewellery. On Sunday night a young man who escorted a young lady to her home in town was struck on the head, presumably with a sandbag, and money aggregating £ll was taken from A party which visited Mayor Island recently reports that bell birds are very plentiful there (statse the Taranaki Herald). Ihe party also inspected the famous giant pohutakawa tree, the base of which measures 32ft. in circumfrance, and attains a height of about 15ft. before it branches The spread is tremendous. The pohutakawa is associated with Maori history, and is tapu. The first half-year’s interest due to debenture holders in respect of the issue of £750,000 by the Southland Power Board was paid in London in March and amounted to £22,500. As against this, however, the investment of the value of the loan money produced interest during the same period amounting to £19,182 9/7, so that the nett amount of loan interest debited to the capital account was £3317 10/5 for the halfyear.

Mr F. W. Kirk, who died yesterday after a long illness in his sixtieth year, was very well known in Christchurch, 'where up till a few years ago, when he entered into business on his own account, he was fire loss adjustor to the Canterbury Underwriters’ Association (telegraphs the correspondent of the Southland Times). Prior to coming to New Zealand 21 years ago Mr Kirk was in the Belfast Fire Office, Ireland. He suffered from an infirmity sustained in jumping into the sea to save a drowning boy in Ireland. ‘T can tell you,” said a well-known local sheep farmer to a Levin “Chronicle” representative, “that same sheep farmers sold their wool last season as low as per lb, and, unfortunately, one of those farmers has gone to the wall.” The producer stated was still under a big handicap. Shearing cost 3d to 4d per sheep, woolpacks were 4s 6d, as against 2s 6d pre-war and 7s 6d during the war. The latter price, of course, was the highest, but at that time good prices were ruling for wool and the higher prices for packs was not much noticed.

An indication was given by the Mayor, Mr R. A. Wright, M.P. (says a Wellington Press Association telegram) that it will 'probably be necessary to make an appeal to the citizens shortly for moneys for unemployed relief purposes. Although the City Council has been successful in raising a loan of £693,000 on the London market, the Mayor explained that most of the money would be required for material and for payment of the wages of skilled workers. Actually there would not be a very great deal of money available for unskilled workers, who constituted the majority those out of employment in the city at the present time. On Saturday evening a Aery enjoyable time was spent at Mr W. Cochrane’s residence at Spurhead, Edendale, the occasion being a house-warming by the members of the Southland Pipe Band, along with some members from the Wyndham Pipe Band and several friends. Mr G. Taylor, president of the Southland Pipe Band, acted as chairman and carried out his duties admirably. Songs were rendered by Mr Archibald, president of the Wyndham Pipe Band, Drum-Major Wilson and Messrs J. Archibald, R. Sutherland, R. Walker, F. Sutherland, and A. Henderson; pipe selections by Pipe-Majors Sutherland and L. Taylor, W. Cochrane and Sergeant Mackay, and dances by Misses Cochrane and Archibald. During the evening Mr G. Taylor presented Mr Cochrane with an enlarged photograph of the band, of which he was pipe-major, and Mrs Cochrane with a beautiful eiderdown quilt. Several members spoke at length of the good qualities of Mr Cochrane as a bandsman and otherwise, all expressing their regret at losing such an old and valuable bandsman. Supper was provided by Mrs Cochrane, and the party broke up by ringing “Auld Lang Syne.”

Mails which left Wellington on April 11 by the Tahiti, via San Francisco, arrived in London on May 17. With the re-opening of the schools at Otama, Knapdale, and Waipounamu, the post and telephone offices at those places have resumed their usual hours. A children’s library has been established by the Palmerston North Borough Council, and the first thousand books has been purchased. A young man named Jack Smale fell from the side of a cliff, a distance of about 60 feet, at Napier, one day last week, and escaped with severe cute and abrasions. A brief sitting of the Supreme Court was held before his Honour Mr Justice Sim yesterday afternoon, the majority of cases set down for hearing being adjourned until to-day. The case John Moir (Mr Aitken) v. Southland Farmers’ Co.-op. Association (Mr Bowler), summons for the removal of action into Supreme Court, was struck out. One or two chamber matters were dealt with and the Court adjourned until this evening, when the criminal cases will be proceeded with. It has been rumoured lately that, upon the grounds of economy, the Government proposed to close the State nursery at Ranfurly. It will be learned with regret that the rumour is well-founded, official intimation having been received by Mr J. Horn, M.P., that operations at the nursery are to be discontinued (says the Otago Daily Times). A strong protest is likely to be offered from Central Otago against this decision, which is regarded as of a distinctly retrograde character. The fact that military jingoism was being eliminated from school books in Germany was referred to by Miss Margaret Thorp in the course of her address on famine conditions in Europe in the Auckland Town Hall one evening last week. The anti-war spirit, she eaid, was also strongly apparent throughout the country, and in Berlin large no-more-war meetings had been held. The spirit- of peace prevailing in movements akin tp young citizens’ leagues was a further significant sign of the trend of thought. A Dunedin sharebroker recently had occasion to forward a parcel of scrip to a client in the North Island, and he sent it by registered letter (says the Otago Daily Times). A day or two after it should have arrived he received a telegram stating that tho parcel had not been delivered. Inquiry at the post office elicited the statemnt that ordinary registered letters were frequently sent by goods train, so that their transit is delayed. On payment of an extra 6d the sender would ensure its despatch by an ordinary train. In this cace the parcel was delivered, if somewhat late; but if the statement of the postal officials is correct there is something strange about the arrangement.

This year British housewives are offered a novelty in the form of special masks, warranted to keep out the dust of the season when spring cleaning (states an exchange). These masks were originally designed for the use of industrial workers, especially in the textile and cement factories; but medical men suggest they are equally desirable in the home when carpets aro being beaten or tho room is being dusted. The home-mask has a specially-treated filter, which resembles a piece of blotting paper, and is fixed into a zinc cap, which screws on to the nozzle of the mask. A packet of filters is kept, and when one filter becomes clogged it is replaced by a new one. Medical experts are even urging the use of a mask as a protection in foggy weather. But here they are in advance of their patiente. Many women might be tempted to don a rather unsightly mask for a special occasion such as spring-cleaning, but will hesitate to wear the same thing, say, on church parade, or during a constitutional in Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens. An attractive offering: 34 beautiful evening frocks in dainty crepe de chines, silks and rich velvets, were 150/- to 225/-, for 110/- to 120/-, at SMlTHS.’—(advt.) Gore and Lumsden residents are notified that Mr R. T. Bickerton, Eyesight Specialist (son of Professor Bickerton) who is returning to Wellington will be in attendance at the Elbow hotel, Lumsden, on Wednesday (to-morrow) from 1 p.m., and at the Carrington Hotel, Gore, all day Thursday and Friday. Carborundum is not a mineral in the ordinary sense. It was discovered accidentally by Acheson in America 30 years ago whilst experimenting at very high temperatures with an electrical furnace to makes artificial diamonds from coke and sand. It is nearly as hard as diamonds resisting most acids. In the manufacture of Carborundum every conceivable grade is obtained from the finest impalable powder to quite coarse varieties. It is. from the excessively fine kind that the very best and most successof all razor pastes has been made. A little on the strop now and again puts on a keen and permanent edge. Its a luxury to shave after the razor has had an aplication of this paste. Vernon Smith and Company sells this paste at 1/6 a stick. Next P.O. Invercargill.—(advt.)

As a result of reading “grosses” where “dozens” were intended a large trading agency is landed with a surplus stock of 5000 Hot Water Bags. Hyndman’s, Dee street have been asked to assist in the unloading and have secured a large parcel for Southland at practically half price. Sales for these super quality Bags will commence to-day at these prices, with every bag guaranteed 12/6 size for 6/6; 13/6 size for 7/6. Postage 8d extra. Doctor’s prescriptions I when a doctor writes a prescription he bases his calculations on the effect obtained by the use of standard drugs, usually known as 8.P., meaning “of tho strength mentioned in the British Pharmacopoeia.” In the dispensary of G. H. Brown, chemist, only English drugs are used for dispensing doctors' prescriptions, as English drugs are the standard of purity and strength. By taking your doctor’s prescription to G. H. Brown, chemist (late Neil's Dispensary), you are sure of having it dispensed with the purest English drugs.—Advt. MEN—For Gloves and Hosiery you should inspect the showing at Undrill’s, Opp. P. 0., Dee Street.—Advt. McNeil and Clark continue to sell clothing cheap. Piles of men’s strong tweed and fine worsted trousers, saddle tweed, buckskin and denims at real cut prices. Boys’ and youth’s superior tweed suits cheaper than for years. Boys’ overcoats and odd shorts just at your own price. Dark rugs and camp blankets at astonishing low rates, so come right along to McNeil and Clark, 94 Dee Street.— (advt.) When baby snuffles or sneezes, sprinkle pillow or nightgown with “NAZOL.” Instantly relieves and soothes.—(Advt.) Smiths’ Bargain List. To boost the Orphans’ week we have turned whole eectionfi of our extensive stocks into glittering magnets to draw all buyers by the superior quality of the goods and the wonderfully low prices. Huge stocks aro on sale at these attractive prices. Men’s all wool pants and shirts from 6/fl, 7/6, 9/6. Men’s officer shirts 5/6 to 7/6. Men’s strong working shirte 7/6, 9/6, 10/6. Men’s ready-to wear- suits in Roslyn, Petone and Mosgiel tweeds 60/-, 75/-, 90/-. Men’s tweed overcoats 59/6, 70/-, 95/- to 117/6. Men’s wool mufflers, special price 5/6. Wool gloves 3/6 to 4/6. Men’s collars 1/each. Ties 1/11 and 2/6 each. Special line of men’s hemstitched handkerchiefs 1/6 each or 7/6 half dozen, other makes from 1/- to 2/6 each. Men’s police braces 2/6 pair. Men’s pyjamas 12/6, 16/6, 17/6. Boys’ suits 29/6, 35/-. Boys’ shirte 4/6 and 5/6. Boys’ golf hose 2/11, 3/6, 3/11. Also men’s saddle tweed trousers, all sizes, 19/6. Men’s canvas overcoats, D.B. for walking or riding, special price 35/- each. Men’s denim overalls, double seats and knees 12/6. These are only a few of the many snipe to be had at H. & J SMITH LTD., Progressive Drapere, Tay Street, Invercar•rill and Main Street, Gore.— (advt.)

“We need the development of a common conscience of identity of sentiment among nations, regarding international conduct to antagonise the frantic excesses of nationalism which are rending the fabric of modern civilisation. Material progress cannot safeguard our complex inheritance. The startling divergencies of national feeling witnessed in Europe show that normal approximation, and the spiritual agencies of enlightened education, are alone capable of countering these destructive forces.”— Mr F. Milner at the conference of the Secondary Schools Association. “History as taught now has a bias to exaggerated nationalism and to she glorification of military activities,” said Mr W. T. Cresswell, M.A., in his address to the Secondary Schools Conference. “There is complete failure to teach a background or framework of world history so as to give each people the right perspective of the mighty evolutionary drama of humanity through the ages, a drama in which all are participants, and to which all are contributors. In our own country we need such an interpretation of English literature—that inexhaustible well of inspiration and idealism—and of social science (history, geography, civics, and economics) as will widen and liberalise the outlook, eradicate particularism, and give sympathetic insight into national psychologies and ideals.”

“We think that the Americans pursue the almighty dollar,” remarked Mr H. Howell, Director of the Wellington Technical College, at the Technical College Conference, in drawing attention to the fact that people were sometimes too apt to look down on things that were American. “Well, a good many of them do, and I am afraid a good many New Zealanders are not altogether free from that reproach. After spending some three months in America I went to Cambridge, and I came into contact with Dr. Lawrence, the famous authority on international law. In his younger days he had been a professor of the University of Chicago. I had been greatly surprised by the genuine, deep-seated culture one found among American educationalists, and I mentioned this to Dr. Lawrence. He said; ‘Well, this is my opinion. The culture that we Set at Cheford and Cambridge is a very igh form of culture, but American culture at its best is a higher culture still.* We cannot sneer at American educationalists or at the American system of education.” All Savings direct to the Customer— Thomson and Beattie’s London Buyers report having bought next Simmer's Stocks at remarkably favourable Prices and have forwarded a summary of their purchases— Under ordinary circumstances these savinge would not be available to the public until next August, but “The Exhibition” are giving their customers full benefits of these reduced prices aud have marked down prices of goods in stock to conform with prices which will be ruling next August— Seo displayed advertisement on page 3 of this paper giving a few of the reductions.— (Advt). Money’s worth. You will get it at Baxter's, Groceries of best quality at lowest rates for prompt cash. Small profits— Quick Returns is Baxter’s motto. 8 P. Q. R.—(Advt). ITCHING PILES CURED. TRIAL TREATMENT FREE. Mr W. Napier, writes:—“Your Zaun Double Absorption Pile Cure has given me great relief. I feel like a new man.” Try the Zann Remedy at our expense. We will mail a generous trial treatment, in plain wrapper, if you mention this paper and send eightpence in stamps for packing and postage. Address, the Zann Proprietary, Box 952, Wellington. Booklets and stocks of “Zann” can be obtained from Mm. Stewart, Chemists, Dee Street, Invercargill. Inhaled or taken on sugar, “NAZOL” gives wonderful relief from coughs, colds; or sore throats.—(Advt.) For Quality and Variety at Lowest Cash Prices, Mothers are recommended to shop at The Economic, Ladies’ and Children s Outfitters. 60 Dee Street.—Advt.