THE Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MARCH 7th, 1922.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10306, 7 March 1922, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MARCH 7th, 1922.

A grand Irish National Concert will bo given in the Dominion Theatre on Friday evening next, when Christchurch and Tiraaru artists (as well as local talent) will give Temuka folk a taste of their ability. '" Replying to a public welcome,' Mr Massey said he believed that tho worst of the slump waß over, but It would continue to be felt till the end: of the year. The Government was aiming at. three things—reduction in the cost of living, coat of production, cost of government. Speaking to a well-known threshing mill owner a representative of this, paper was informed that as far as it could be judged tho threshing averages would be about 10 bushels per acre lees than tho "armera expected. Collections in aid of the fund for the starving children of Europo were taken up in the Catholic churches in the Temuka parish on Sunday last, and resulted as follows ; St. Josoph's (Temuka) £SB 16s 3d, St*. Joseph's (Pleasant Point) £ll 3s 9d, making a total of £70 —n very creditable response to tho appeals of the local clergy. A farmer iu tho Palmorslon North district told a Manawatu Times reporter that the Railway Department" charged him £1 15s 6d to convey a purebred pig from Wellington to Foilding. He states that ho was charged rate and a-half for the crate because it contained a, purebred animal, and he wants to know why this should be so. A southern exchange says it is rumoured that overtures aro being made to Sir Joseph Ward to assume the leadership of the United Progressive Liberal-Labour Party. Point h: given to the rumours by tho fact that on Tuesday last the "Now Zealand Times," the or can of tin- Liberal Party in Wellington, basod iis leading article on tin.' reception which was given to Sir Joseph Ward in Invercargill several weeks ago, and expressed a strong d.-yire tmu Is-.' would return to political life. "There ;ire not more honourable men in the country," said the Crown Prosecutor (Mr p : S. K. Macassey) in the Wellington Supreme Court, "than tho detectives. Their duty is to protect tho public, ;t:'d they do their duty honourably.''__'"; _["Ji" was protesting against ih'^J.-'. 1 - '"' 1(,(1 of cross-examination " Of""*:;"" detectiveadopted by. counsel for tin.. rLfenco. he Friof. When you ask,.for If" bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, aril Liarrhoeti Remedy, do not alloiv lie- deal.'!' to sell you a »nhrri;n; <• 0 • Ann in your conviction that 'here i.-i nothing so good. Tliir: v.i< dicin. has boen test, d in ihf most sever , . il dangerous cises of cramev. «•■:■.. red diarrhoea, and has n. •. -r ;<■ •>. ■;;<>.• n to fail. Sold bv j:ii cn.-nnsff: and storekeeper;. V'-jro:! j ' nd <:• ruldinc. 7;-. ~n ; ;n;i - d :u-.;i e.ii tnniieuza Take "NAZOL, tiie ready-for-usc and money-snvitig remedy. 60 doee* U fld. I

Of 46 laJid agents who were licensed in Hastings in 1921 only 2i have renewed their licenses this year. Tenders will be received up to 12 o'clock noon on Monday, March 13, for additions and alterations to building in Geraldine for the Geraldine Fire Brigade. Plans can be seen at the Borough Council offices. The annual meeting of the Temuka Football Club will be held in the Fire Brigade rooms on Thursday ovening next, and it is hoped that there will bo a large attendance of members and intending members. At the Temuka District High School yesterday, a letter was read from an ex-pupil of the school now living at the Chatham Islands, in which ft was suggested that, a correspondence should be opened up between the writer and some of the pupils of the Temuka School. As; the Chathams are only connected v\fth\the-[ Dominion by an occasional boat service ii is,.only natural that school chlldrenj outlying'pqrtion bt "th# J Efcpire should have a longing desire to know how their old mateß are getting along, and with this end.in view -it la "hoped that a sort of "hands across the sea", movement will eventuate as a result of the correspondence above referred to. At the Temuka Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before Mr 11. E. Gapper, J.P., a man named James Green was charged with (1) being drunk in a railway carriage ' betwoon Timaru aud Temuka on Friday, and (2) tfcat he did behave iu an offensive manner to the annoyance of others travelling in the same carriage, iu contravention of the Government Railways Act. Sergeant Dwan briefly outlined the circumstances which led to the arrest of accused, and pointed out to the Beuch the seriousness of the offences, the class of which were becoming only too common. Accused admitted the offences, but pleaded In extenuation that he had never been before the Court before and asked if given a chance he would proceed to work in the'country. TheBench, after reprimanding the accused, convicted and discharged him ;on the first charge, and on the second 'fined him 10/-. The names of 120 unemployed returned soldiers have been recorded at the office of the Auckland branch of the Returned Soldiers Association during the past two days, as the 'result of an invitation to register . The men include 90 New Zealanders, 29 ex-Imperial Army men, and one Australian. The occupations of the men cover a wide range , including farmers, engineers, all kinds off artisans. , seamen, grocers, drapors, cooks, and various others. A successful, method of dealing with aphis on apple treos was mentioned to a Chronicle representative bv Mr H. Taylor, Levin. He stated that during the winter season he spread limo around the base of the affected trees to a thickness of six inchoe, and extending for a foot or more out from the trees. The lime gradually dissolved into the ground, with apparently beneficial effects. for the aphis.fajled to reappear during the following summer. The reporter was shown trees • which were badly attacked last year, but are now perfectly clean, after being treated with lime during the past winter