The Te Puke times TUESDAY. JUNE 7,1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Puke Times, 10 June 1921, Page 2

The Te Puke times TUESDAY. JUNE 7,1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr W. J. T. Hicks applied for permission, at last meeting of the Town Board, to erect an addition at the back of his premises, Main Street. —The Clerk was authorised to refer Mr Hicks to previous correspondence on this matter.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. have received the following Cable from their London House:—“Wool Sales opened yesterday with a full attendance. There was active competition by Continental Buyers. As compared with the pre* ceeding series closing rates were:—Merino about 10 per cent higher, Crossbred no change/*

Samples of quartz from the new gold reef recently discovered near Reefton have reached Wellington. They are uncommonly rich, and experts state that, if surface appearances are confirmed by further investigations, the find will be of great importance. The three miners who found the reef have already received an offer of something like £40,000 for their rights. “The only way to avoid a catastrophe in the fall of dairy prices is to make your cow produce more, ” said Mr A. H. Cockayne, the Government Biologist, in reply to a question at Featherston. “And the only way to do that is to feed her more. A dairy cow requires 10 tons of grass per annum for adequate maintenance. It is necessary that a cow should be fed to the limit of her production.”

We are in receipt of the following letter from Mr Thos. E. Whitton, secretary of the Manurewa Children’s Home “Dear Sir,-Our matron has received from Mr C. C. Roberts and Mrs T. Harvey the sum of four pounds (£4), being proceeds from a tea and concert given by the Paengaroa Sunday School. We are exceedingly grateful for this help from friends quite unknown to us.”

At the S. M. Court on Tuesday, before Mr Kenrick, S.M., the following civil cases, in which judgment with costs, was given for plaintiffs, were heard B. Chaytor v. Wtn. Webb, claim £4: R. King & Co. vj. B. McPherson, claim £2117s 2-J: Tumu Kaituna Drainage Board v. R L Ramsay, claim £lllßs 4d ; J. Newey v. F. Wills, claim £lolls6d ; John Wilson v. H. Ray Vercoe, claim £8 6s 6d ; W. H. Alexander v. Pat Wihapi, claim £2 10s ; Far-, biers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co. v. T. Best, claim, £2 16s Id. In a judgment summons, Nestle Milk v. H. Alley, claim £8 13s 3d, an order was made for payment of the amount with costs, in dsfault fourteen days’ imprisonment. The change back from the Saturday to the Wednesday halfholiday, in Palmerston North, resulted in the arrival in town of large numbers of country people on Saturday. ‘Country roads were covered with traffic as soon as the early morning work was completed, and there was a continuous stream of vehicles of all descriptions coming into the town all day. There can be no doubt as to the popularity of Saturday as a shopping day with farming folk. The Square looked livelier than it has done for some time past, and there was a. very large number of cars parked on the private stands. There were also many people in town on Saturday night. Shop-keepers report a healthy revival of Saturday busi ness as the result of the change. —Manawatu Times. The question of forward sates of stock was referred to by Mr T, W. Ellingham at the annual meeting of the Southern Hawkes Bay provincial Farmers’ Union. Very often, he said, forward sales were made in which the purchaser did not lift the stock, owing to various circumstances cropping up, and in this case the m in who bought was usually held responsi ble for payment. He thought the firm making the sale should be held liable Some forward sales which had been signed up in the past were absolutely valueless. Pastor Ries stated that if the sale note was properly signed up by the firm and stamped the sale was quite in order.

This week's issue of the Sporting aud- Dramatic Review gives pictorial prominence to the principal events at the Auckland Racing Club’s Winter Meeting in a fine series of snapshots depicting keen contests, Athletics in England form the subject of a double pace centre set of photographs. The miscellaneous section includes photograifhic groups of the Council of Boy Scouts, Dominion Organisation, Delegates to N. Z Dental Association, and members of the Wellington Harbour Board, the Dunedin Operatic Society in' 'The Cingalee” the Wanganui Gun Club’s Shoot, and the Sculling Champions are also attractive features in addition to the stage showing.

Our "Wanted 0 column gives quick results,

.; w :■ ;v .'. The Rotorua Auctioneering Co. notify that they will sell by auction at 11 a.m\, on Thursday, June 16th, a farm of 58i acres, situated 3 miles from Rotorua. The schedules for the Winter Show, to be held on July 2lst, are now in the printer’s hands. Very little alteration has beep made in the various classes. 1

Mr F. R. Howard, representative of Mr Samuel Barry* optician, Auckland, may be consulted at the Alliance Hall every afternoon from June 17th to June. 24th. Mr Neilson, of the Premier Cash Drapery, announces that he is now showing a splendid assortment of ladies* blouses 1 and hosiery, of which he invites inspec-

tion. A man advertised in Auckland

recently that he desired to purchase a house for cash, up to £I4OO. No fewer than 2(78 houses were offered him.

A crop of Yellow Globe mangels grown at the Central Development Farm (Levin, Manawatu), from seed selected from picked roots, yielded fifty-three tons to the acre.

The officer in charge of the Valuation Department, Auckland,, has advised the Morrinsyille Borough Councii that the unimproved rateable value of the town has been increased from £125,000 to £296,065.

The Mercantile Gazette of last week says All that can be done is to use prudence and caution, but politicians are guided by expediency, and the necessity for vote-catching, and the extraordinary expenditure will continue/’ *

The Commission appointed to inquire regarding railway facilities at Palmerston North, has given its support to the scheme proposed bv the Railway Department, involving the Removal of the present station to a point on the northern side of the town, a little over a mile. west of the present line. Mr Geo. Sweetman has offered a gold medal to the Winter Show Committeee to be awarded for the best essay by schoolchildren in Standards V and VI on the Bay of Plenty, its resources and how to develop them. Competitors will have to write their essays under supervision, at the Mission Hall, on the day of the Show, . Tenders, which close at .4 p m. on Thursday, June 30th. with Mr Arthur H. Bridge, engineer, of Whakatane, are invited for the following works at Otamarakau : (1) Erection of two timber bridges, and (2) Formation of 122 chains offroad, ."The plans and specifications for thb works may be seen at Mr R L Thomas’ office, Tauranga, Farmers* Auctioneering Co., Te Poke, and at Mr Peeble’s store. Matata. Intending tenderers will be met at Mr Crawford’s, Otamarakau Valley. on Thursday, June 23rd, and shown over the work.

Acting under instructions from the Official Assignee, the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co. will sell in the estate of J. A. Nicholson, bankrupt, at their Mangaroa saleyards, Awakeri, on Wednesday, June 15th, 61 dairy cows. 8Q 2 to 2Jyr heifers,' 22 store cows, 17 18mth heifers, 1 3yr steer, 28 calves, 160 ewes, 40 lambi and nine farm and light horses.; On the same day at the farm of J. A. Nicnlson the company will sell a large number of implements, vehicles, dairy utensils, tools, etc., as well as seed and table potatoes, and oatensheaf.