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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15317, 4 March 1920, Page 2

J± all town clerics were as vigilant in the. interests of their ratepayers as is Mr A. H. Knigge, town clerk of the Mrirton Borough Council, the cost of tho necessities of life might Co kept vitliin reasonable limits (writes tho travelling reporter of tlie Wanganui "Chronicle"). . A short time ago tho bakers at Marton advertised that on fu>d after the Ist January they would j>aise the price of the 41b loaf, delivered, from S.vd to Bd. Mr Kniggo quietly wrote to the Board of Trade, forwarding a corty of the advertisement. A reply has been received from the Board, stating that the .bakers in question have beo-.n '"communicated,, .with, -informing them. thnf. they would have to revert to their original prices for bread. Tims the ''householders of Marton have to thank their watchful town clerk"- for keeping the cost of tlie staff of life within reasonable bounds.

The new Mayoress of Rochester, England;- is a mayor's wife, a mayor's daughter, mayor's grand-daughter, and mayor's niece,