LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6546, 20 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The output of cream from the Waihi district is steadily increasing. One day lost week 184 cans of cream were railed from the branch line, some being for Paeroa, and others for Te Aroha and Frankton. '

It is reported that a meeting in the interests of the Country Party is to be held at Paeroa and Ngatea early next month, when a candidate to contest this seat at the general election will be selected.

Accounts passed by the Piako County Council at its last meeting totalled £6907 18/1, including expenditure on loan/ works £3627 3/2, miscellaneous £2529 17/3, and riding expenditure £750 18/8. ,

Mr Fisk has announced (says a Sydney cable) that experimental wireless signals transmitted on low power from Sydney have been received in England. This is the first direct transmission of wireless signals from Australia to England.

Says a London cable: Mrs Dean, a famous spirit photographer, took up a position in Whitehall at daybreak and exposed plates during the silence. It is stated that the photo discloses a whole sea of spirit faces, mostly young men, surrounding the Cenotaph.

The Hamilton Retail Association has decided that all members shall close their premises from 10 p.m. on Wednesday, December 24th, until 8 a.m. on Monday, December 28th, and also from 10 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31st, until 8 a.m. on Monday, January sth.

At a meeting of representatives of associations held at Christchurch on Thursday evening, it was decided to form a federation of South Island Agricultural and Pastoral Associations though some present contended that the Royal Society could carry out everything the proposed federaton included in its objects.

The Post’s London correspondent records that when Newport was leading the All Blacks with three minutes to go, one Welsh spectator, who had secured for himself a seat on the roof of one of the grandstands became so excited that he fell from hs perch on the heads of the people below. But the enthhsiasm was running so high that none of the parties concerned seemed to suffer any injury.

“We read in our papers with horror of the starving children in Europe and India, but thex - e is something infinitely more tragic here in New Zealand where men and women are having their souls starved for want of spiritual food,” said Mr Kedgely, a home missionary, when speaking of the need for home missionaries in New Zealand at the Presbyterian General Assembly at Palmerston North.

Two sparrows facing each other in mortal combat had the issue decided for them in one of Palmerston’s quiet streets on Thursday morning. It came from a cat, which, noticing the struggle from afar, executed a strategical advance under cover of the long grass that fringed the roadway and literally killed two birds with one leap. A local resident who witnessed the whole affair, and whose veracity is unimpeachable, issues a challenge to observers of nature to cap this incident.

Referring to the Dairy Export Control Bill, Mr Lye stated at Te Waitere recently that he had been against the compulsory clause of this as there was the danger of creating a monopoly. However, the bill had been passed, and it was now the duty of the suppliers to see that the right men were elected to the board, so that any evils of this kind would be obviated. The Dairy Industry Amendment Bill, which in the opinion of the speaker had been instigated by the banks, had clauses embodied which were not in the interests of the suppliers, and if it went through would be a serious infringement of their rights.

The S.P.Q.R. have moved their stock of drapery, toilet goods and stationery into one of the fine new shops opposite their present premises, leaving the crockery, toys, fancy goods and bedding in the original premises. This arrangement has about doubled the space in which to transact their expanding business, and makes it possible to display their goods to better effect, besides making it possible to transact business in greater comfort. In order to celebrate this important occasion in their business career, the S.P.Q.R. are offering for one week—next week—ld in every 1/- worth of goods purchased during that week. Their new advt. in this issue refers to this matter.

A country bank clerk tested the honesty of his fellow-men the other day by pinning a corner of a poundnote between the leaves of a counter blotting pad, so that it protruded sufficiently to be noticeable. Five of the bank’s clients pulled at it furtively, and blushed to find it immovable. One lady boldly put the pad in her bag and apologised hurriedly for her absence of mind—when detected. Three strategists slyly elbowed the outfit on to the floor, and all of them glared suspiciously at the innocent-looking teller when he replaced it. The only visitor who didn’t take the bait seriously was a Chow. He turned'' up the leaf that covered the deception, and with a grin that exposed all his yellow fangs, remarked, “Whatffor you!”

The following letter was received by a local resident who is at present carrying out contract work at Auckland:—“Your work on the Mount Roskill sewerage contract has caused me no little loss in egg production, and I do not know how much more loss I will be put to. It appears that your men had to put a big hole under my fowlhouse and they used to use a lot of shots with some kind of dynamite. Well, sir, ever since those shots were fired my hens stopped laying. I spoke to one of your men about this, and he had the audacity or rather indelicacy to suggest that my rooster must have got ‘shell-shock;’ This, you will recognise, sir, is only adding insult to injury. Howevei*, be that as it may, I will certainly look to you for more consideration, and this at your very earliest opportunity.”

A well-known civil servant, who is as punctual as the town clock, was not at his post a few mornings ago when the time for commencing work came. His non-appearance (says an exchange) was considered strange/ and as time went on the staff began to wonder what had happened to the head of the department. Later in the morning he turned up, and it transpired that shortly before he was about to leave for the office he had gond into the fowl house and his infant son, seeing an opportunity for what he regarded as a good joke, locked him in. The head of the department could not release himself, could not attract attention, and the infant calmly stood outside and listened callously to his enraged parent’s promises of anything from a tricycle to a moon. It was some considerable time before someone happening along the way of the infant gaoler and the parental prisoner effected a welcome release. And the infantile joker now uses a pillow when he sits down for meals!

HOARSENESS, sore throat, sneezing, running at the nose and eyes, indicate germ infection. Immediately these symptoms "appear an atmosphere of Nazol should be created, by free inhalation of Nazol, which destroys germ infection. 1

To send potatoes to Pukekohe is akin to sending coals to Newcastle. However, in view of the blight in that district. this year a very successful Pahiatua farmer, famed for cultivating fine potatoes, has sent several tons of the tubers to the order of a resident in the chief town of Mr Massey’s electorate.

After quoting the latest cable re prices of dairy produce on the London market, Mr Wm. Goodfellow told an assemblage at Te Awamutu that further information forecasts slightly lower prices for January and February, than was previously cabled, undoubtedly due to exceedingly heavy production in Australia. Recdnt advice from Melbourne stated that the wholesale price for butter there was l/3£ per lb.

At a date to be announced later, about the middle of December, the annual concert in aid of the Te Aroha Convent will be held. The programme will be given by the Convent pupils and in the songs between 70 and 80 voices will be heard. The programme will consist of action'songs, instrumental items, fancy dancing, drill, and an operetta in three parts. The pupils are now under training and a high-class entertainment may be expected.

At a well-attended meeting of the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Labour Party the following resolution was carried: “That this meeting, while disappointed at the result of the* Home elections, is not dismayed in view of the fact that the Labour vote increased by a million. The election points to the need of proportionate representation, and is also an incentive to the New Zealand Labour Party to work unitedly for the return of a Labour Government in New Zealand.” *..<,• , l ' *

Some time ago the Hauraki Plains County Council caused signboards to be painted and isseud to the various school committees in the county for exhibiting to warn motorists to drive slowly. However, the writing was made so small that close inspection was necessary to decipher the import. The council, therefore, gave instructions to have the boards collected and repainted. The Turua school committee chose to have the work done themsqlves, and the customary warning, “School, drive slowly,” is now conspicuously displayed.