LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17971, 21 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stop Press news appears on page 8

The Tatuanui Dairy Company paid out Is 7/68d per lb for butterfat for cheese-making last season.

The workers’ representative, Mr. P. M. Butler, in his address to the Arbitration Court at Wellington, at th© hearing of the builders and general labourers dispute, said that “the main argument to be used against us will be that prices of primary products have fallen, and that there is less of a national income to be distributed amongst the population. Whilst the prices of primary products may have fallen, the total value of products has increased, and in reality we are in a better position to-day than we were in 1926. when the present award was made.”

The New Zealand Co-operative Daily Company, Ltd., has decided to advance to its suppliers 1/2 a lb of butterfat for first-grade cream supplied for butter-making during July and, 1/4 a lb of butterfat for firstgrade milk supplied for cheese-mak-ing.

An elderly woman, who conducted her own case against a farmer at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court recently, had some uncomplimentary remarks to make concerning the defendant. The items in plaintiff’s claim were numerous, and most of them defendant disputed. The plaintiff several times exclaimed: “You’re grabbing, you’re always grabbing.” To cap the issue, however, she exclaimed as defendant left the box: “You’re are crooked as you look.” The defendant took the remark in good part.

“Henpecked husbands and wives ‘wearing the breeks’ have always existed, even in societies in which women have been nominally in strict subjection,”, said Mr. J. A. Bailsford, lecturing under the auspices of the W.E.A. at Napier last week, on the status of women in India, China, and Japan. He said the Chinese had several good stories on this theme. One told of 10 henpecked husbands who met to form a society for the protection of down-trodden males. The wives got wind of it and came along. The men took flight—all but one, wdio stayed firmly in his seat. The women retired, and the men came back, intent on honouring the brave on© by making him their president. They 'then found that he had died of fright. F. N. Jacomb. M.P.8., M.A.0.C., sight specialist (registered chemist and registered optician), is at present at Kirk’s Pharmacy, Thames, Anyone suffering from eye-strain and headaches should take this opportunity of having their eyes tested by the latest scientific methods, and obtain, suitable glasses.*

“You couldn’t boil a kettle,” interjected Mr. F. Langstone (Labour — Waimarino), when Mr. A. Hamilton (Reform —Wallace), claimed he had “fired” an engine for many years.

The special German stamps to mark the completion of the recent evacuation of the Rhineland by the Allies will be overprinted in black with the surcharge “30.6.30” between the value figures on the lower edge.

On the railway the age limit for children is 12 years, for the purposes for the lienefits of the National Provident Fund it is 14, it is under 15 for! ttye Widows’ Pensions Act, and 18 when it comes to exemption from income tax.

The announced candidates for the Western Maori seat are now: Mr. A. H. te Mete, Tauranga; Mr. Taite te Tomo, Tauno; Mr. Tumate Mahuta, Huntly; Mr. H. Piahana, Tauranga; Mr. P. te H. Jones, Te Kuiti; and the Rev. R. T. Haddon, of New Plymouth. Mr. R. Wakarua, of Waitotara, may also be a candidate.

The Government Statistician m his latest Abstract of Statistics, states that it now takes £l/11/8 on the average to purchase what could have been purchased for £1 in July, 1914.

The primary schools in the Auckland Province will close for the second term holidays to-morrow afternoon,' and wify rie-topen again on Tuesday morning, September 6.

A proposal is on foot to hold a reunion of South African War veterans at in the near future if sufficient support is forthcoming. Those residing in the Thames Valley are asked to get in touch with Mr. A. W. Stuckey, of Morrinsville. The proposal has been taken up enthusiastically by a number of South African veterans all over South Auckland, and a definite date will be fixed when it is ascertained how many can attend.,