The Te Aroha News Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6602, 21 May 1925, Page 4

The Te Aroha News Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL

For the purpose of extending the municipal housing scheme, the Christchurch City Council has decided to apply to the Government for a grant of £50,000.

It is considered probable that when the amalgamation of the Waihi School of Mines and Technical Training School is effected, that one or the other of the buildings will be available for the use of the secondary department of the District High School. The accommodation provided at the present school for this department has for some years past been both inadequate and unsatisfactory.

“Househife” writes to the Southland News: “For the first time since the war I had this week the welcome experience in a drapery shop of having English goods specially brought to my notice and recommended. - Hitherto there had been no desire apparent to push English or colonial goods, and probably we are daily buying goods that come from the enemies we were fighting so desperately seven years ago. There are a lot of women like me who would always prefer to buy English goods, and who apreciate having our atention drawn to their merits, as was done in the establishment I refer to.”

The totalisator investments at the Te Aroha Trotting Club’s meeting amounted to £9049, not £8049 as stated in our report.

“Shingle headache” is the latest complaint in England. Many women who had their hair shingled are suffering from neuralgia as the result of the sudden removal of the warm, protective covering of hair .above'the nape of the neck, which has exposed the skin to the winter winds.

Mr Manning’s ’bus with free seats for all will leave Firkin’s corner for Waihou Hall on Friday night so as to give Te Aroha people who wish to couple with an evening’s entertainment an effort to assist a family who as a result of a fire have been placed in an unfortunate position, a full opportunity to do so.

“I know that at least 150 g'ood heads have been taken in the Wellington district this season, and ten of them are particularly good, one being a 23-pointer, while there were several 16-pointers and better. We have had as good deer heads in our district this season as anywhere, and more of them.” The statements were made by Mr C. I. Dasent at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society Council in Wellington.

The many Waihi friends of Mr A. M. Scott, for many years a battery worker here, will regret to hear of his sudden death in Auckland a few days ago (says the Telegraph). Deceased is survived by the widow and a grown-up son and daughter, the son being Mr Arthur Scott, formerly of Tocopillas, Chili, and now following mining at Oaklands, California, and the daughter, Mrs Stevenson, of Mt. Albert, Auckland. While working on the stone protective wall at Te Puti a few days ago, Mr P. Moke noticed a remarkable fish floating on the incoming tide. He immediately secured the stranger, and found it to be a fine specimen of the flying fish—the first of this variety ever found in the Kawhia harbour. It measured 20ft. in length, with a corresponding spread of wings, and, although quite dead, was in ,a perfect state of preservation.—Kawhia Settler.

In a recent issue of the Otago Daily Times, a paragraph apeared relating to a silver coin 228 years old, minted in the year 1697, in the reign of King William 111, which was in the possession of Mr K. Smith, of Blenheim. A few days ago Mrs W. E. Wright, of Harbour- Terace, Dunedin, brought to the Times office a silver coin which was minted in 1822, in the reign of James I. The coin is in an excellent state of preservation, and is understood by its possessor to be a crown.

Complaints are being received from motorists who have occasion to travel through the district immediately surounding Napier, that the dogs belonging to cattle and sheep drovers are becoming a regular nuisance. It is stated that the dogs occupy the middle of the road and refuse to budge, however much the horn is sounded, and it is not until a motor driver makes an absolute charge that the animals give way. It is asserted that the drovers although not actually encouraging their dogs in this malpractice, at least take no steps to see that the evil is remedied.