LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 25 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The Auckland Committee has decided to inform the clergy that it cannot see its way 'iiiV'dcecde"to the request to abandon raffles at the forthcoming Queen Carnival. The management has made arrangements to screen that fine scenic picture, “London by Day and Night,” at the Throe Stars Theatre to-morrow night. As this picture is an expensive one to sreen, patrons are requested to be liberal in .the collection.

In another column Mr. McCormick, of the Taihape Boot-Emporium, notifies that he will conduct a “Spot Cash Clearing Sale///from to-day till the end of the month. Every pair of boots, shoes, and slippers, whether for ladies, gentlemen, or children, will be honestly reduced very much from regular prices.

It is notified in another column that, the season of the Taihape Defence Rifle Club will be officially opened on Monday (Dominion Day) at II a.m. The Committee extend a hearty in vitation to the public to be present at the rifle range at Bennett’s Siding. A special match for ladies has been placed on the programme.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: —We had a very fair entry of cattle at our Palmerston North sale on Thursday, 23rd inst, practically every line of which changed hands at the following prices: Yearling heifers 32/6, £2 10/, to £2 -13/ y 2-yr. old heifers to £4 3/; dairy heifers £5, £6 5/; small yearling steers to £5 6/6; fat cows £9 10/ to £lO 15/.

Commencing from yesterday, an additional charge of a halfpenny each is to be levied on letters, books, parcels, and other postal packets of every kind, except newspapers, posted in New Zealand for all places either within the Dominion or overseas, but no additional charge is to be levied on any packet addressed to a country for which, the postage is levied at Postal Union rates.

At last night’s meeting of the-Tai-hape Borougli Council the Treasurer ’s report showed the various Borough accounts to stand as follows;—District Fund Account (dr.) £2,G50 14/(5. as against £2,874 18/11 as last meeting; Interest Account (dr.) £GI2 12/8, as against £Bl2 6/10 at last meeting; Temporary Loan's Account (dr.) £040; Loan Account No. 1 (dr.) £GG] L‘s/9Loan Account No. 3 (dr.) £l9l s/0; Oval Domain Account (or.) £52 8/7. Accounts amounting to £316 12/2 were passed for payment.

Creditors in the estate of A. T. Vickers, Taihape, bankrupt, arc notified that a first and final dividend of 1/0 in the pound is now payable by the Deputy Official Assignee at Wanganui.

At the Taihape Borough Council meeting last night, -Or. Wrightson ■ handed to the Council a letter which had been entrusted to him by the Secretary of the Taihape Girls’ Gymnasium. The letter challenged the present and past councillors to a game of hockey, and stipulated that the girls would wear fancy costumes, and that the male players would have to wear skirts and play one-handed. Cr. Barnett caused great amusement by suggesting that the matter be left in the hands of the Works Committee, but eventually several' councillors took the matter up, and it is understood that a strong team is to be formed. A hockey match in which a nuftibcr of Taihape’s representative citizens are contestants would no doubt create a great deal of interest, and if the proceeds of the function are in aid of patriotic funds, this should be a further incentive for i onlookers to attend in good numbers.

Now is the time to secure an excellent building site, within a stone ’f. throw of the business centre of a town that is sure to grow in importance. Raetihi is the business town o' a vast extent of excellent farming country, whose operations must always pass through the town. The town itself is now being developed, and a large loan has lately been arranged for the further improvement of the streets, etc., and it will not be long before water, drainage, and ele.ct.riet righting conveniences are available. On completion of the branch railway, which is now being constructed, the township will be linked up with the Main Trunk Line, and it promises to be one of the busiest and most important inland towns in the North Island. Suitable sections in this desirable locality are extremely difficult to obtain, and the present sub-division offers an excellent opportunity for investors to obtain a holding which may not occur again for a long time. The sale of these sections is to take place in the Theatre Royal, Raetilu, on Friday, Ist October, Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson and Co., Ltd., being the auctioneers. Exceptionally easy terms are offered.