TOWN and COUNTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 227, 24 April 1933, Page 4

TOWN and COUNTRY

j Anzac Day j The Sunt ford Evening Posl will not ; be published tomorrow (Anzac Day).

i A Shot in tho Dark ! "Does anybody

know anything

■about monetary reform?'' asked Cr I D. Mackintosh, chairman of (he VVa- | nganui County Council, at Friday's 'meeting when a, disfanl county asked I support, for tho project. Cr. 1). iVle- : Gregor: No, but nv can support it on ! spec. (Laughter.) A Voice; Is that what all the cranks are doing? (ReI ncwed laughter.) It, was decided to ! receive the letter. j "Wholesome Terror" i "It's quite right for you to have a | wholesome terror of lawyers/' said i Mr. Yv". 11. Woodward, S.M., in the i Stratford Court to-day, "but they can I |do anything if you have not any j money." The magistrate was addressj iug a complainant in a maintenance j ease, who sought payment of arrears I in order to allow her to pay a debt, I owing to a, legal firm, whom., coin- | plainant said, had written to the of- ; feet (that "they were proceeding to ! lake steps."

| I'up..id Levies j Several cases of failure to pay un- ! i'W : .'nient levies were finalised in. 1 ti.., Stratford Court today. The j charges have been preferred previI otisly, but to allow defendants to make ! applications to the Unemployment i Board for exemption adjournments i were granted. Edward Lawrence GoodI win, Midliirst, was convicted and finI ed £l, with costs 13s. lie was allowI cd two weeks in which to pay. Arthur i Edward Belk was convicted and fined i £2 (costs 13s), in default. 14 days' j imprisonment. John Thomas Jacobs | was convicted and fined £1 (costs I 13s) in default seven days' impiisonj nienf. j Week-end Storm ' A very stormy week-end was St rat- ! ford's portion and a certain amount I of damage resulted therefrom. In tho | early hours of Sunday morning the | wind, which previously had been I strong, rose to gale force, and this I was accompanied by thunder, lightning ! a.nd torrential rain. Pieces of roofing j iron were torn away in some cases, I and carried considerable distances by i 1h« wind, while many fences were dani- ! aged So great was the force of the j wind in one case that a stray motorist ; coming home in the small hours found jon on turning a corner that his car | was slewed r< iiwl almost at righ an- ! gies. In addition the weather was bit- ! lerly cold. Although the wind died j down to some extent yesteray and toI day have been most unpleasant.

Baseless Rumours | Dame Rumour has been very busy ( with Lho moral characters of certain i people in Stratford lately, and much j heartburning hits been caused usa j result, of some of the things which j have been said, in many of the casesj there is not a vestige, of truth in the remarks made. Another rumour that j has gained ground is that a lady hv- j ing in the country district near herej contracted the dread disease of an- j thrax from a newly purchased fur i coat. This rumour has had its fling in both Auckland and Wanganui, and I now it has been given local colour. here. There is no truth in it whatever. An outbreak of anthrax has been dm- , covered on a farm in North Auckland,] but the Agriculture Department has, taken the necessary steps to deal with it and prevent its spreading. There, is no case locally or anywhere else hi New Zealand of a human being contracting the disease. A. further rumour in which the imagination of certain women with nothing belter to do relating to a police raid is equally untrue.

j Butter Quota i Tentative opinions submitted »Y Mi' Coate.s in Auckland suggest that ! the Government may be feeling its way j i„ the matter of a butter export quota, I says (lie Dominion editorially. Mr. j Cotites may have been impressed by ! the result of the arrangement volun- | tarilv entered into with the exporting j countries whereby Britain _ placed i bacon imports on a quota basis. 1 hat | was intended to operate for two months, but Ihe period h:is been oxI tended to three, and the quota is I jii-rlv states the Round table, to be ! juiuie' permanent. As a result of the I restriction, it has been pointed out by j , vl vrence to the Board of Trade reI turns for March last, bacon imports ! W in, the same month of the previous I declined by 124.3 per cent, compared ! voar. The decrease in monetary va - iue. however, was only 1.7 per cent. Comparisons in respect to butter show L„ inc voaso in quantity for the same „,<„,( h of 2G.3 per cent, hut the monetary value fell by H. 6 per cent. Comi nnr'soiis like analogies, are often misloading. The quantity production in ! v.—ual to butter is in an altogethei ! different proportion to bacon. It we j adopted the quota system for butter ! ,i,..' ui lion would Still remain: What j of ,he surplus? The question is one ) which certainly needs to be approached with circumspection.