LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16626, 23 October 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual 4 p.m. Frankton train will be delaved till 4.25 p.m. on Labour Day-

Junior cricketers are reminded that entries for the Lapraik Shield must he forwarded to the Association' not later than November 2nd.

The Thames Star will not be published on Monday (Labour Day).. Will advertisers please note and make arrangements accordingly ?

“It takes 25,000 casks of oil to make a whaling trip pay,” said an officer of the whaler Sir James Clark Ross, to a reporter. “Last year we took out 32.000 casks from the Ross Sea, and hope to do better this year.”

“Our kauri is world-famous timber,” remarked Mr. F. E. Hutchinson in his address to the Christchurch Agricultural Science Club, “and I have seen it sold at fabulous prices in the United States for building the pleasure yachts of retired bootleggers.”

The indications are for westerly winds, moderate to strong, and abcking by west to south. The weather Avill prove squally and changeable. Rain probable. Barometer rising. Seas moderate swell, tides good. Barometer 29.84, thermometer 67.

Cricketers with the good of the game at heart are requested to assemble at the new cricket ground, on the foreshore, on Saturday afternoon, for th.e purpose of clearing the area of scrub, and generally making the ground fit for play on November 7th. Enthusiasts are requested to supply the necessary implements for the purpose.

The beautiful chestnut tree on the corner of Pollen and Mary Streets is attracting much attention just uoav by reason of its Avealtli of bloom. It may not be generally known that the seed from Avhieh this tree sprung was obtained by Dr. and Mrs. Payne (who lived in the corner house) from the gardens of Fontainebleau, near Paris, in France, when they paid a visit to that place.

“We are all unceasingly advertising from birth to death,” Mr. C. E. Miles, of London told the Drapers’ Summer School at Oxford, “and 1 am not sure, after having read epitaph's on tombstones. that it does not continue after death.” “It is false economy,” he added, “to underdo advertising. The preparation of copy is no job for the amateur, and in advertisements m a great newspaper you are sending out a million or more salesmen to speak for you. Therefore, none but the very best should he sent out. It is probable that advertisements upside down, silly pictuies, and exaggerations have sold goods, but the house that builds on those tilings builds on sands. The most economical advertisement is that based on sales, and the keynote insist be sincerity.” -

“It-won't work,” said Mr. F. Per* kins, "at the Pukekohe High School Board of Managers’ meeting held tho other evening when the advisability of asking the employers of the town to urge their apprentices to attend night school was under discussion. “Why,” continued the chairman, “when T suggested it to two of my boys the other night, the young scamps disappeared, and 1 found them hiding in a tank.” (Laughter.) Volunteers on overseas steamers at Auckland are a mixed lot, and even include Auckland’s only baronet, Sir Graeme Lockhart. He is trimmer on the Athenic, now in Wellington. There are King’s College boys, farmers’ sons, young fellows who have been employed in shops or factories in tho city, yachtsmen, and even some men who have had experience with engines. They have signed on for the trip Home only, but, on arrival in England, they will havp their board and lodging paid until there is a ship leaving for New Zealand, when tliev will be provided with a third-class passage back. Some rather extraordinary questions are put to political candidates at election time. At Taramoa, for instance, a solemn, grey-haired farmer rose at a meeting addressed‘by Mr. Perrelle to inquire if he would support legislation to prevent people on small sections of a quarter of an acre or so keeping bees, which be declared was harmful to farmers’ pastures, as it prevented fertilisation of clover. Tho candidate relieved his anxiety by explaining that the position was the other way about, and that the humble liee had been imported by the Government for the express purpose of fertilising red clover.

The Piako County Council at its meeting on Monday passed a resolution in recognition of the assistance it bad received from time to time from Mr. May, of the Public Works Office, Paeroa, who has recently been transferred and promoted. The chairman said that the help Mr. May had given the Council had always been the best that could he given. Resolutions were also passed by acclamation thanking Messrs. Poland, M.P., and Macmillan, M.P., for the assistance they had given the Council in the matter of obtaining Government grants.

'Several shipments of Poverty Bay lemons have been made to the South Island this season, and the results in the majority of cases have been satisfactory to growers. Several different growers sent consignments to Dunedin, where all the fruit was sold in advance at 1.5/- per case, but one grower who sent a trial sample to Invercargill, was less; fortune, and will lose over the deal. The possibilities of the Southern market have been clearly demonstrated, and next year it is probable that some concerted effort will be made by local growers in sending shipments to Dunedin. Fairly good prices have been received for the lemons sent forward to Auckland, although the results were not as good as those received from Dunedin.

A suggestion of “Nevermore,” the word which inspired Edgar Allan Poe to pen liis ghostly verses about the raven, was noticeable in a letter produced at the Arbitration Court the other day from a lady of South Otago. It was in reply to an endeavour io include in the great family of private hotel-keepers a fairly large number of those who provide bed and board for the weary and the hungry, and this, of course would necessitate her employing union girls. But she had had a union girl once before, and her letter was couched in outspoken terms. “I wish to state,” she said, “that my daughter and myself have managed without a girl for six months. This last fortnight we have had a girl to wash up, etc., while we do the spring cleaning. As for union girls, they are no good in a little business like mine. I had one union girl, but n.ever again. It is better to keep fewer hoarders and do the work yourself; it simply means I could not afford to do it. My opinion of girls is they want the pay, but don’t ask them to work. They just get dressed and go out. I am not the only one that has that opinion of girls nowadays. Of course, there are exceptions.' You will get a good girl occasionally. I am only expressing myself in the matter, and you will understand it will not suit me to join any union, as my business is not large enough.” As Poe might have said: “Quoth the lady, ‘Nevermore.’ ”