LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10305, 4 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

'rentiers for all privileges in couneciion with the Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural ami Pastoral Association's forthcoming Show, close with the Secretary. Mr W. F. Evans. Temuka, at .1 p.m. to-duy. The vital statistics for the Geraldine district, for February wore as follows, the figures in parentheses being those for the corresponding period last year:—Births 1 (ii). deaths 2 (2). marriages 1 f - ». The services at the, Methodist Churches, Temuka, ami at Winchester, to-morrow, are advertised in another column. Tire annual meeinic of tip; Temuka Football t’luh will he held ou Thursday evening, n*>-Vi h March, at S p.m., in the Fir" Brigade rnoinp. Old members and intending members are asked to ruli up iu force. .

The annual autumn show of the 'Temuka Floral and Horticultural Society will be held in the Drill j Hall, Temuka, to-day. Very numer- | bus entries have been and ■ a fine display cun bo looked .for-j ward to. Lovers of flowers will find | plonly to interest and admire, and the show of fruit and vegetables is certain vo bo a large and high class one. Tae other departments will be well represented, and the Society looks for the hearty support of the public. The Floral Society is one of ‘ our most deserving local institutions,, its aim being to benefit the community by inducing residents to make beautiful gardens. Everyone who Ims a spare hour or so should patronise the show, and help to make it financial. The usual auction sale will oe held to-day by Mr A. H. Penn, which includes a largo entry of furniture, poultry, etc.; also a graphophoue and 2 D records. An extraordinary general meeting of the Temuka Tennis and Croquet Club will bo held in the 5 pavilion (his afternoon' at 3 o’clock, to deal j with important business. a It is intended to erect in her date school a memorial -tabletVtb Miss Pearson, for many years mistress at Cera’dino, and a small committee consisting of Mrs Cliff and Misses Hughes and Mcllroy has the matter in hand, and will be pleased to receive contributions from’her friends-. Prior to the opening of the Dunlop Mission at , Temuka on Thursday evening, Mr Hunlop and the chcir proceeded. to the home of_ a lady who is lying on a sick bed, and sung a number of hymns, their thoughtful action being very highly appreciated. Entries for the Geraldine St. Patrick’s Sports close on March 11th, five dava before the day of the sports, ” which will take place this year on Thursday, 16th March. Entries to date have been very good and large .fields may be expected in all events. An important notice to persons desiring to apply for registration under the Dentists’ Amendment Act, 19211922, is advertised in another column. Notice (in writing) of intention to sit for examination, to the Director-General of Health, must be given on or before the 29th April. The rainfall for February registered at Cefn Orchard. Geraldine Downs observatory was 2.27 points. Rain foil on eleven days, the heaviest fall being registered on the morning of the third of the mouth .63 points. Several high shade temperatures wore recorded, the highest being 97 degrees on the 141 li. The lowest registration was 42 on the 7th. One of the male passengers from Timaru to Temuka by the midday train yesterday, who was somewhat under the influence, caused.* some little trouble by his behaviour during the journey, and was taken into custody by Sergeant Dwan, who happened to be travelling in the same carriage.. He will be brought before the Court in due course. ■ ■ A few days ago a Dunedin institu- ■ t-ion advertised that it wanted a thousand fr.ogs, offering 20/- per 100 for the little reptiles, and the notice " brought, a quick response. Frogs are fairly plentiful in the streams and pools in the Temuka district, and pupils of the Arowhenua Native School were able to send away a consignment a few hours after the advertisement came under their notice. ■The legs of a species of frog are used as an article of diet in France, but we have not before this heard that frogs had any commercial value in New Zealand. The demand will moan a little pocket money for the children With reference to Professor Jack’s wireless telephony experiments at Dunedin, it is interesting to note that Mr G. Blake, of Blaketowu, who holds an amatuer license for a wireless receiving set, has on two occasions recently heard quite distinctly music and speeches from Dunedin. Recently Mr Blake picked up a programme of gramophone records. The wave lengths varied from 430 to 475 meters. Each tune was heard distinctly, but the speeches, whuk were of a technical nature, were not so clear Reference to the work of Katana was contained in the Maori Missions report presented to the New Zealand Methodist Conference at Auckland on Saturday. ‘‘Most of our staff have been able to turn the spirit influence of Ratana’s work to good account,” states the superintendent, the Rev. A. J. Seamer. ‘‘Ho is a son of our Church, and although not in full membership with us he has very rightly looked for us for advice and assistance, and wo have not failed him. Our silence regarding Rataua's work has. been part of a carefully considered policy. The executive has received much contidental information, and has/heartily supported the policy followed; ' No Church has been as closely and - consistently in touch with the movement, or done as much to keep it on the right lines as our own. But powerful , influences of an unsatisfactory typo have been at work, and the real tost of strength has still to come.” At the Magistrate’s Court, Timaru, on Thusday, Harry Hay was charged, on the information of Mr J. Lcckie, witli having illegally taken a trout from Lake Alexandrina on August 11, 1921. Mr Pinch, who appeared for the accused, said that ou the date named, Mr R. Wigley had taken a party in his motor car to Lake Alexandrina, and Decide (then ranger to the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society) had been invited to accompany the party us a guest. Mr Wigley’s mission was to secure photographs of trout for the Tourist Department, and to inspect and weigh some of the bigger lish in the lake. The defendant was a member of the party. Scott’s Creeknvaa visited and some fish were taken out, weighed, photographed and put back Unfortunately the defendant conceived the idea of playing a practical joke on the ranger by taking one of the fish under his nose as it were, and bringing it back to Timaru in the car with the ranger without letting the latter know anything about it. Mr Campbell, who appeared for Mr Deckic, staid he believed-the facts were as slated by Mr Finch. The Magistrate imposed the minimum line of .C2, with costs 17s. \ report appeared in a cuntemporarv slating that a consignment of potatoes received at Waimate was in a very bad state, the evidence of blight being very apparent by ‘ large patches of moisture on the bugs and an odour that made one wish for a gas musk." This caused us to make inquiries, and we could hear nothing of anything serious in the way of blight in the Temuka district. What we heard was very reassuring, {in- potato crop being a particularly sound one at present. A imrebant consulted said the bad condition referred to was most probably the result of t ile potatoes being dughen tin-v were green. He had iumsell seen some being dug long beiure Uiev were ready-,- wlum the lopwere quite green in laci ami m such a case every potato that, was damaged bv a digger's fork or was bruised, rapidlv decayed, and in the course of ~ week or two such pot a lot's would ; naturally bo lu a very bad condition. ■ f;rijuf-rs should bo careful not to dig ■ Um potatoes before they are ripe unless they are for immediate local con- ( sumption^

Siuc&: ouf. last, issue the weather has continued dull and cold. with occasional falls of rain. A great deal of threshing is beingdone from th-e./Stook in ,South Canlerbur./'- this season, and; oon.pmiut j are general that the wheat is out of condition.. Brokers who hare handled a.great many lines say that they very seldom get one' which could be classed as of first quality milling. Farmers say that by stopk threshing they save the expense of stacking, but brokers contend , that the money lost through st'ook t hreshing would much more than compensate for the expense of stacking. Many growers have, lost a shilling a bushel through rushing their wheat on to the market before it was in milling condition. •