LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6411, 6 November 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The residents of Te Aroha West are always to the fore in supporting any deserving object whether of a public or private nature. They pro-, pose holding a social on 23rd November the proceeds of which are to be applied in aid of the Ambulance Fund. Particulars will be advertised later.

‘As I have travelled throughout the country 1 have s -on .a any butter and cheese ‘factories, wn I have also heard of some remarkable outputs of honey, which leads one to the opinion that the Scriptural quotation, ‘a land flowing w'th milk and honey,

has been literally fulfilled, said Air F. B. Smith, in the course of his remarks at a function at Invercargill.

The most northerly completed section of the North Auckland railway, between Kailtoho and the Lake Omapere plateau, has been taken' over by the Railway Department from the Public Works Department. It is a length of 81 miles, and includes the Tahuna tunnel. The next section, which is in hand, is a length of 14 miles between the plateau and Rangiohua.

The value of kauri timber- is often spoken of, and a striking testimony to its worth comes from the Southern ReservdTr (Dunedin). The woodwork of the tower there has been standingin the water since 1877. During the recent excavations it was found that while the cast iron work under the same conditions had rusted so that it had to be built up with -reinforced concrete, the kauri timber seemed as fresh as when it was put in.

A published statement that a French surgeon at Bordeaux recently reported a case in v/hich a 12-day-old boy had cut a tooth, and that the occurrence was very rare, was read with interest by a Christchurch resident. He states that his little daughter, who is now five years of age, was born with a tooth. The tooth has been preserved, and the child’s father has had it set in gold and hung by a light golden chain to a lacepin, which he has presented to his wife.

A small boy, about ten years of age, named Niko Thompson, and who resides with his uncle, Mr W. Douglas, of Okauia, met with a unique but painful accident last week. It appears the little fellow, while waiting for the mail, threw a penny up on the roof of the Okauia post office, and after recoveringl it attempted to leap to the ground. A fence-post, from which a piece of wire projected, was in the way, however, and in jumping the boy became impaled on the wire, which entering his foot penetrated his leg for about eight inches, coming out through the calf. Medical aid was summoned from Matamata, and the wire being removed the wound, Which was of a septic nature, was cleaned and dressed. The little sufferer is now progressing favorably.

The ’phone number of J. E. Wild, housepainter, signwriter and paperhanger, is 208.

Dunedin Society Lady—Unable to wear evening dress owing to a disfiguring rash, the wife of a well-to-do Dunedinite used Q-TOL, which permanently banished I lie outbreak in three days.

There is no doubt that at the present time Southland is the best looking province in New Zealand. Everywhere the pastures are doing well, and lambs are particularly numerous (states the “News”). Even on the high country where the winter conditions were severe the stock look well considering what they came through. As Mr F. B. Smith, Agricultural adviser to the Overseas Settlement Delegation, stated: “Nature has dealt kindly with New Zealand.”

A letter Avamreceived at a recent meeting of then Walton School Committee from Mr T. H. Paterson, Department of Agriculture, in connection with the Boys’ Agricultural Club, the letter stating that Walton occupied third place with 120 tons of mangels to the acre, in the competition for the Steward-Wilson Gold Cup. At the time of writing the Cup had not been awarded; the prize runners-up are growers of 132 tons of mangels arid 22 tons 4cwt of potatoes to the ache respectively. Mr Denis Moroney suggested the growing of Stratagem peas this season, and in the event of a scholar growing two bushels '"■per one-fortieth acre, undertook to reward him at the rate of one guinea per bushel. The matter was left in the hands of the master to secure the support of the Department. Thursday last was All Saints’ Day which, next to the festival directly in connection with Our Lord Himself, is one of the greatest Feasts of the ecclesiastical year. It is celebrated throughout the Catholic World, and from the very early times has been a festival dear to all Christian people. In keeping with the practice throughout the whole Catholic Church, Holy Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph’s, Te Aroha, at 6.30 a.m. and at Ba.m., in the presence of large congregations. Yesterday was All Souls’ Day on which is commemorated all the countless millions who have passed away in the Faith. Naturally therefore, the appeal of the day has been stronger since the Great War, when so many made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of honor and justice. Until the era of the late Pope Pius X, Christmas Day was the only occasion on which any one priest or bishop, etc., Avas privileged to celebrate three Masses in one day, the maximum on other occasions being two. But so devoted to the prayers for the Holy Souls Avas the late Holy Father that he sanctioned his clergy to celebrate three Masses on All Souls’ Day as Avell as on Christmas Day. At Te Aroha Masses were offered at 6.30 a.m., 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., vvhile Masses Avere offered at Manawaru and MorrinsArille also.

Phone number of Hy. Warner, wellborer, 250 Te Aroha.