The Te Aroha News Published MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1920 Local & General News

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5975, 8 September 1920, Page 2

The Te Aroha News Published MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1920 Local & General News

At the S.M. Court on Monday, before J. Motley, J.P., two first offenders for drunkenness were convicted and discharged.

The draw for the. first two days’ play at the Dominion golf tonrnament at Hamilton next week shows tho.Te Aroha players have drawn the following opponents :—First day: J. Kenny plays D. O. Whyte, and W. W. Maingay plays H. C. Leese. Second day Jas. Kenny plays D. Pryde, W. W. Maingay plays H. E. Troutbeck.

The Borough Council meet 9 this evening.

Mr F, W. Furkett has been appointed Euginer-iu-Chief and Undersecretary for the Public Works Department.

Settlers in the Waiwero special rating area of the Hungabuuga Drainage Board will • e iuterterested to note that tenders are invited to-day for improving about three miles of the Waiwero outlet drain.

A sitting of the S.M. Court will be held at Te Aroha on Friday morning. Oue of the matters to be brought before the Magistrate is in connection with the recent bnrglarly at the Northern S s. Co.'s local wharf.

According to a judgment delivered by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., whea a newly-bought motor-car is damaged, the purchaser is liable, though an agent of the vendor is giving tuition in driving to the owner.

“ Who bids for the mare ? ” asked the poundkeeper at the Carterton public pound. “ Three ! ” came a laconic ejaculation from a bystander. “ Three ? ’’ repeated the poundkeeper, a look of horrified surprise on his face ; “ three what ? ” “ Pounds,’’ came the response. “ Oh, right,” said the vendor brightening up ; “bid away,’’—and then under his breath, “ I thought the beggar meant three bob.”

If it is drapery—you’ll get it cheaper at Roland’s * It is understood that during the next few days a Gazette notice will be issued by the Government instructing all bakers to sell no bread under 24 hours old. The Board of Trade, it* is stated, considers that in view of the undoubted siivj.taga of wheat in this country some economy is abt > lutely essential, and they have decided in favor of stale bread rather than the manufacture of 80 per cent, flour (producing brown bread), which has been practically a failure at Home.

The opinion was expressed by Mr J. G. Harkness, secretary of the National Dairy Association, at a meeting of dairymen at Levin, that the uext few years would see good butter prices ruling. There was a great scarcity of this commodity in the whole of Europe, as well as in other countries, and it would take some years before conditions righted themselves.

A Wanganui retailer states that this is the first season during his experience in business that such an extensive demand has been made for packets of vegetable seeds. He considers this- is an indication of the high cost of living being felt, particularly in regard to the retail prices of vegetables during the. winter months, and a desire to counteract it by householders cultivating their own garden patcnes.

“ I may be pessimistic on this subject, but I think we are tending towards soil exhaustion in New Zealand, a condition which has caused farmers in other countries to abandon their land,’’ said Mr R. A. Alexander, director of Lincoln College, in a lecture f-i '-.-mers at Temuka. He addedtthat often when son succeeded father 6n the same land and did not do so well, it was said he was not the farmer his father was. Quite the reverse might be the case, Mr Alexander said, for the father might have squeezed the land like the sponge and left nothing but a collapsed soil for his son to work.

“ The practice ot women who propose to divorce their husbands, getting separation orders in the meantime iB a dangerous and unnecessary practice,” said His Hanor Sir John Salmond at the Supreme Court yesterday. “A separation order up to 1913 was an absolute bar to divorce, apd it was still so except under the special provision of the Amending Act of 1913. If a woman wants a divorce the should get one and not a separation order. There was no object in it. She can got a maintenance order or the guardianship of children. There is r either sense nor reason in getting an order if they want a divorce.”

The New Zealand Trade Review in its reference to the money market, after reviewing the rash of calls for money that has been made recently from all sides—municipalities, harbor boards, companies—besides the Government requiring large sums in the fntnre and the producers financial assistance, says : Apart from this there is the congestion in the Home markets to be reckoned with and new outlets for oar produce are needed. Importation is growing rapidly, which is another very big- factor in the money market. It is evident, therefore, that money is not going to be over abundant in the future.

The revised scile of charges in connection with the Sapreme Uourts and the Magistrate’s Uourts of New Zealand is now in operation. In the Magistrate’s Court the charges that were la have gone up to 2s, and the other increases are: 2s to 3s, 3s to ss, 5s to 10s. The minimum solicitor’s fees for appearanee in defended cases in which the amount involved is under £lO remain at a guinea, bat in cases in which more than this amount is involved there is now a charge of £2 2s, and.the fee on chamber matters has been increased from £1 Is to £L lls 6d. Expenses allowed to witnesses have gone up roughly 20 per .cent. An increase of about one-third has been made in Divorce Court fees.

;For materials to make up kiddies’ dresses, mothers can’t do better than go to Roland’s. We’ve got the right stuff. *

“ It was held in a case in New Zealand that a woman whose husband was continually, day after day, weok after week, making groundless charges of. misconduct against her, and thns rendering her miserable, had sufficient cause to leave his house,’’ his Honor, Mr Justice Herdman, said in the Supreme Court at Wellington. “But when a woman marries a man she marries him for good or ill. Mere fits of temper, threats of suicide, petulance of manner, rudeness,- are not sufficient reasons to justify a woman in taking that step. If they were, women would'bo leaving their husbands every day in the week, add this Court would have a busy time listening to petitions for dissolution of marriage. The sanctity of the marriage tie must be observed.’’

-• > ' l - “I’ll get my drapery at Roland’s,” repeat this three times a day; get it, and be wise. *

Suppliers to the Matangi glaxo factory have been paid approximately 2s 4d per lb. ofibutterfat for the past season’s Orini (cheese) and FraDkton (butter) factories were chosen as the basis of payments for the coming season.