The Te Puke Times FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Puke Times, 15 July 1921, Page 2

The Te Puke Times FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1921 LOCAL AND GENERAL

«, Mr L. Buddie has been elected Chairman of the Whakatane Harbour Board. The South African footballers arrived at Auckland on Monday night. The party numbers 34, including three supporters. The Auckland Roller Mills Co. announces that flour is reduced to £22 2s 6d per ton for sacks, less 2£ per cent For ten days, I commencing on Wednesday next, MrD. Wrigley, draper and mercer, will clear his stock at “slaughter" prices. The latest valuations for the Opotiki and Whakatane counties and boroughs are as follows Opotiki County, £2,211.399 ; Borough, £260,115. Whakatane County, 1,912,189; Borough, £234,601. There is widespread concern at Home for the health of the Prince of Wales, owing to his over-strenuous life, and an announcement that he must rest is probable. Wilsons’s Portland Cement Co. notifies that plenty of Star brand cement is available in quantities to suit all requirements. The company is issuing a pamphlet entitled " Concrete Information" which will be posted free to ahyone sending name and address. Special prizes of 10s each will be given by the A* and P. Association in the following classes in the industrial section at next Friday’s Winter Show : - Glass 12, collection of small cakes ; class 14, jam sandwich ! class 58, em broidered camisole ; class 60, embroidered nightdress. In reply to a letter from the Minister for Public Works t.o the effect that, pending completion of surveys, he could not fix the site for the railway station at Taneatua, the Taneatua Chamber of Commerce stated that it considered the time was now opportune for survey to finally fix the site.

j Full particulars of a clearance j sale to be held by the Farmers ! Auctioneering Co on account of Messrs Walker Bros of Ponga l.kawa, on July 20, will be found on our fourth page. The stock to be offered consists of 50 dairy cows, 35 18 month steers, 15 weaners, pigs, horses, implements, dairy utensils, fowls, furniture and sundries. The average wages earned by the men on the Sumner Road relief works, after the last “measure up" were about 10s a day. One man, an experienced navvy, earned 17s a day, and some received as low as 7s and Bs, most of the latter being men who had never done that class of work previously. A salesman pleaded guilty at Palmerston North last week to stealing £l7 15s from the firm he represented, and to stealing 20s from a letter belonging to a convent. He was admitted to probation for three years At the; same sitting of the Court, a man who stole a pair of boots while under the influence of liquor was sentenced to three months’ hard labour.

The taxation per head of the white population of New Zealand has increased in twelve months by £4 83 4d. The June “ Abstract of Statistics" states that during the twelve months ended last March £lB 11s Id was the average figure paid in taxes by each person in New Zealand, excluding Maoris. If the natives are taken into the calculations the average increase per head is reduced to £4 5s 2d. “It is shocking the way some of the agreements are foisted upon people," remarked His Honour Mr Justice Hosking at the Wanganui Supreme Court, i referring to agreements to pur- j chase properties. “They are elaborate printed documents which people do not understand." The witness, who was giving evidence at the time, remarked that the agreement was read over to her. His Honour: “He might as well read something in Greek “

I George Girdiner, the local athlete, took part in the boxing com peti’ions at Auckland on Monday ■ night Gardiner’s weight was ■ 13st 2ib, and that of A. James, his opponent, list 91 b The Star, i describing the bout, says:-A , quiet first round saw neither man Jdo any damage, though James I did thp leading. The second round was barely more lively, though | Gardiner fell through the ropes | in backing from swings by James I just as the gong went. James I rattled the big man by swing- | ing at him, and scored rights I and lefts to the face without any return. Gardiner gave ground when James started to rough it, and went down for six to a right swing to the jaw, James won.

On all fancy goods, toilets, pipes, and several brands of cigarettes, Mr W. Davis is giving a 20 per cent, reduction. Notice is given that a muster will be held on Saturday, 16th inst. of sections 3 and 4, Block 5, Waihi South Survey District and that any strav stock, not claimed will be sold on July 20th.

Mr and Mrs Frank Amoore, of Whakatane, who are about to take up their residence in Taranaki, were tendered a farewell by the Whakatane Citizens Band on Tuesday night, when there was a large attendance of townspeople and country residents. Acting under instructions from Mr M. Charlesworth, who is leaving the district, the Farmers Auctioneering Co. will sell on his farm, Rangiuru, on Monday, August Ist, hacks, farm horses, house cows, tip cart, maize sheller, etc,, and a large quantity of high class furnitnre. On Frida}, the 29th inst., a concert will be held in the Alliance Hall in aid of the funds of the Town Band. The arrangements are in the hands of Mr J. Wilson, who assures us that an excellent programme of vocal and instrumental items will be presented.

Mr C. Lally has received a wire from the Minister of Lands to the effect that the sale of Moturiki township sections, to have taken place on the 25th inst., has been withdrawn. The sale will be held later on at Tauranga, and particulate will be duly advertised. Mr C. Luke, secretary of the local branch of the Farmers' Union, is in receipt of a similar telegram. The following team will repre sent the local Hockey Club against the Paengaroa Club in a match to be plaved at Paengaroa to-morrow Misses Lemon, Paterson, Geraghty, Noble, Kerr, Phelan, Hicks, Brosnahan, Donovan, Galbraith, Mack. Emergencies : T. Hicks, A. Tucker, and A. Montgomery. Players are requested to meet at the Alliance Hall at 1 o’clock sharp. At the Whakatane County Council meeting a letter was received from Mr F. F. 'Hock Iv, M.P., enclosing a letter from the Public Works Department, stating that railway traffic to the White Pine bush was not expected to be opened for at least twelve months, so that information regarding the WhakataneWaioho road was not urgent. Trains would probably be running to Awakeri towards the end of the year. Thus Mr E. P. Webster, president of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce; '‘Taranaki in a few years, with closer settlement and intensive farming, will be producing double its present wealth. Last year the value of exports was £5,095,764, equal to over; £BO per head of population, the ; average of the Dominion being a little below £4O, By those figures it can be. seen what a wonderful fertile district ours is. Yet we are, as a province, only in our infancy. With a deep sea harbour an accomplished fact, and enabling the district’s exports to be shipped direct to the world’s ! markets and also the district’s j requirements from overseas being { landed at our door instead of I having to bear extra cost of j transhipments, etc , the future] possibilities of Taranaki are unbounded.” I

Mr T. E. Palmer brought up the question of tree-planting at the last meeting of the Town Board, and humourously twitted the Chairman (Mr Montgomery) with not having a single tree to commemorate his five years term of office. The Chairman replied that he was as much in favour of beautifying the streets as any one. but the present state of the finances prevented the Board from going in for a scheme, It was not that the co3t of the trees was excessive, but the expense of protecting them would be very considerable. The Board would be quite willing to supply a trees if the residents in the streets would plant and protect them It was pointed out by another member that not having the levels of the streets made it awkward for planting, as some trees might be planted too low and others too high At the Wairoa Magistrate’s Court, Hawke’s Riv, on June 29, before Mr It. W Dyer, the Tourist Department proceeded ag.iinst Thomas Parker, a p-om-: inant member of the Acciirnalisa • tion Societv, fo' shooting Virginian qu til, a pp-cie not open to he shot this year. Too ranger stated that these birds were not 1 yet sufficiency established to al'ow of their being shot, and 1 the Wairoa county was the only place in New Zealand where any of the original stock liberated' had survived, and further protection was necessary, or they would be exterminated. They could not possibly be mistaken for the Californian or Australian ! quail, which were open for j shooting, as they were slightly j larger and with feather markings similar to a young pheasant. 1 Parker was convicted and fined j £5 and costs.

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