LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 23 February 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The opening of a native school at Tuturumuri was authorised by th© Education Board on Wednesday. 'Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., has returned his election expenses at £193 Is 9d.

Building permits to the value of £20,000 were issued in New Plymouth during the month of January. A relieving teacher is at present taking the place of Mrs Wilkinson at the Masterton Central School until a permanent appointment is made.

Grants of £32 8s 3d to the Ngaumu School for the building of a shelter-shed and an additional grant of £lB 16s 5d to the Poroporo School were approved by the Education Board. The Farmers’ Union has invited Mr David Jones, chanrman of the Meat Control Board, to give an address in Masterton at an early date. It will probably take place early in March.

The Martinborough Lawn Tennis Club has decided to hold a Wairarapa Easter Handicap Tournament on the Martinborough courts. The executive hope that this will bring a large num - ber of visitors to the town. At a meeting of the Stratford Borough Council a discussion over the electric light department became somewhat heated, and the Mayor had to summon the aid of the police to eject one councillor who refused to withdraw a remark. It is probable that Haeata, the Maori concerned in the Blackrock snooting affair, will be well enough to stand his trial for attempted murder at the Supreme Court sittings at Masterton early in March. Kenrick will not be charged, as he is understood to have acted in self-defence.

“I think, gentlemen, that perhaps the schools are getting more holidays than they should,” said Mr J. J. Clark at the meeting of the Wellington Education Board, “and I think that perhaps it might be advisable for a conference to be held to point out the position clearly to all concerned.”

Daniel Richard Cooper and his wife (Martha Elizabeth Cooper), who are charged with the murder of the infant child of Margaret McLeod and William Welch, at Newlands, near Wellington, in October last, and with other crimes, have again been remanded, and will most probably be brought to trial on February 28. The Wairarapa portion of the Wellington Centre athletic team who will compete at the New Zealand championships to-morrow, will leave Masterton this afternoon, by car, for Wellington. The team comprises Messrs R. A. Rose, W. J. Candy, R. Gully, R. A. McKenzie, B. Lozelle, G. McEwen, G. Harvey, and W. Harvey. T. Oakley and H. Oakley have been added to the team for the cycle events. The Tahiti for San Francisco had an exceptionally large number of Chinese passengers on board, all of whom are bound for Papeete, where they will be engaged in plantation work. Over 24 in number, practically 1 all are new arrivals from Canton, I and are looking forward to their new | home. The schooner W. H. Smith, which cleared Apia, Samoa, for Sydney, has over 77 Chinese coolies on board, who are returning to China.

The prize-winm J’s in the class at the Masterton Show for floral decorations for table were: Miss K. .Jaques 1, Mrs Allen 2, M’ss Thelma Allan 3.

The following petitions in bankruptcy were filed yesterday Andrew Thompson, of Masterton •salesman, and John Robert Bous tead, of Kopuaranga, farmer.

At a well attended meeting of the Masterton Women’s Efficiency League held yesterday afternoon the election of parents’ representatives to the High School Board of Governors was discussed. It was unanimously resolved to recommend that two of the parents’ representatives to be elected should be women and also that a greater proportion of the assistants on the staff should be lady teachers. It was decided to invite the parents of pupils to a meeting on Tuesday afternoon to discuss this matter.

Sportsmen and other people who have been in the habit of carrying guns into the Orongorongo State Forest are warned that in future any one caught with firearms in this locality will be prosecuted. This measure has had to be adopted in order to safeguard native bird-life, many species of which are in danger of extinction through the ruthless operations of parties of shootists. The State Forest Service announces that no permits to carry guns in this forest will be allowed until further notice.

At the annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association the selling price of newspapers was discussed, and it was resolved: “That, in view of the probable hardening of the market for newsprint paper in the immediate future, and of heavily increased cost in other directions in the production of newspapers, this association is of the opinion that it would be unwise at present to consider any reduction in selling price of newspapers; but that a special meeting be held to consider the question when new quotations for newsprint are announced in June.”

Mr Alex. McLeod (secretary of the Wellington District Freezing Workers’ Union), who has been making a circuit of all the works in his district, informed an “Age” reporter last night that conditions generally round the shed* were not good. Many sheds had been working less than half time, though this state of affairs was largely brought about by the unfavourable weather retarding the fattening of stock. With such a cumulation of unfavourable conditions, he said, the prospects for improvement were not bright. All classes of men volunteered their services to take the place of the seamen who recently refused work under the new award. Among them were some medical students. One of them, who hag now returned to his studies, declares that he had quite a good time. He had good food and sleeping accommodation, earned £22 a month, and did not find his work at all exhausting. The captain of the steamer wishes that he could fill up his complement of hands with men of the same quality as the medical students.

The Hume Pipe Co. (Australia). Ltd., which recently acquired the business of the Cement Pipe Co.*, is taking immediate steps to develop the business throughout New Zealand, and proooses to open branches at Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Mr W. McKenzie Jeffrey, who holds a responsible position, in the Western Australian branch, ha l ' been appointed to take charge of the New Zealand business in conjunction with Mr T. Evans, manager of the Cement Pipe Co. Mr Jeffrey will arrive in New Zealand early in March.

It is not often that the sting of bees proves fatal. The exceptional case has just occurred at Gatton, in Queensland. Two fine buggy horses were tethered in the vicinity of some beehives at Gatton on a recent morning, when a slab wall which divided the hives and the horses was knocked down, and one of the hives was overturned. The bees promptly attacked the animals, and, although the reins by which one of the horses was tied was cut, thus allowing the animal to escape, some considerable time elapsed before the other horse could be released.. By that time it had received innumerable stings from the bees. It could not be got away from the spot, and died within an hour. The other horse was bled and fortunately recovered.

i The stock receiving committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, ! under the energetic marchall, Mr L. . R. Wilton, established a record yesterday by loading 31 trucks of show stock in a few minutes over an hour. The special train entered the siding at 3.45 a.m., and by that time numerous stock paddocks had beei. mustered in the darkness; by 5 a.m. 55 stockmen and special helpers were able to sit down to tea and sandwiches. The railway officials in charge of the specials were highly congratulatory. and are prepared -to recommend that next year the trains shall’ arrive three-quarters of an ho in later, in order to give the busy stockmen a chance to become better acquainted with the sleeping accommodation on the showgrounds. The trains departed, amid cheers, a. little after 6 a.m. for their destinations north and south. Owing to an error in the judge’s book Mr F. Smith's Kawhai, was awarded first prize in the English setter dog clas<. The class was won by Mr J. J. Swanson’s Shot. SANDER AND SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. The unequalled remedy for ccl.B influenza, bronchitis, lung troubles • neuralgia, diarrhoea, rheumatism : SANDER’S EXTRACT, the suresu protection from all infectious fever. I diphtheria, meningitis. SANDER ’£ ; EXTRACT, the great healer af wounds, burns, ulcers, sprains, skir diseases. SANDER’S EXTRACT proved at Supreme Court in Victoria to contain antiseptic and healing sub stances not present in other eucalyp tus preparations, hence the superior and unique curative power. SAN ( DER’S EXTRACT is free from irrij tating and heart-depressing ingredi i ents of th© common eucalptus oils and the so-called extracts, and is safe and beneficial for internal, well as for external use. Insist on th* GENUINE SANDER’S EXTRACT.

A Tankee t mrnament played at the Matahiwi tennis courts during the week was won by Miss L. Archibald, with Miss I. Grant second.

The 1923 New Zealand Waterloo Cup ha s been allocated to the Selwyn Coursing Club, Christohurch. The Hamilton Club has been given the Derbj, Oaks and St. Leger events. Sir Robert Baden-Powell i 8 asking New Zealand to send a contingent of Boy Scouts to the British Empire Exhibition next year. The matter will be submitted to Cabinet at the first opportunity.

As a result of its autumn race meeting the Taranaki Jockey Club pays Government totalisator tax amounting to £3392 16s, stakes tax £44j 10s, gates tax £34 Ils 6d, a total of £3874 17s 6d, exclusive of amusement tax, which has still to be adjusted.

A Sydney cable states that MiHick son, the British faith-healer, whose mission is under the auspices of the Anglican community, has concluded a visit to Tasmania, where a number of remarkable cases of healing are reported. Already the Anglican authorities in the various mainland towns, which Mr Hickson will visit, have been inundated with applications for treatment. A warm battle is raging in the press over the merits and demerits of faith-healing. Another article from the pen of Mr A. R. Flint, who has been travelling in New Zealand, appears in the ’•Derby Daily Telegraph.” Among other thing he discourses oil the activities of the “wowsers,” who succeed in fixing absurd speed limits and by-laws for motor-cars, and he says: “You dash through crowded London traffic at over 20 miles an hour. I get a police court summons because 1 go over a road crossing in a small seaside town—Timaru—at more than six miles per hour—and that, too, at a time when the streets were absolutely bare of traffic.”

The presence of a lady stenographer in the Criminal Court at Melbourne, in the place usually occupied by a male shorthand reporter, was viewed with disfavour by Judge Woinarski. The Crown Prosecutor was interrupted soon after he commenced to outline the case to the jury, and his Honour relieved the young woman of her attendance. Her place was immediately filled by a male reporter. Judge Woinarski said he would like emphatically to protest against any lady being asked to sit in the court and take notes of some of the cases heard in that court.

According to advices received in Sydney, an expedition has just set out from San Francisco for the South Seas to search, for hidden treasure. Captain Charles Arcy, an old-time whaler, is in command, but has given no particulars as to the destination of the expedition. All he has said is that the boat would call at Samoa, and probably go on to Sydney. The expedition is travelling on the threemasted barque Narwhal. The crew include a physician, attorney, former army officer, two Stanford graduates, two veterans of the Canadian Army, a newspaper man, and a doctor of jurisprudence. The first mate was a former champion footballer. Each of the 20 men was required to provide 8000 dollars as his share of outfitting the Narwhal. Captain Arcy stated that he was convinced that there was a large amount of hidden treasure in the South Seaa. Last week there was a strike of school children and their parents in a Victorian country town, on account of the poor accommodation provided for pupils at the State School (writes a Sydney correspondent). Now there is a more serious strike developing in education crcles in Victoria. The ’ trouble is that the parents think they are being exploited by the firms which sell schoel books. In many of the States, children are allowed to purchase their books at school, but in Victor a no such socialistic plan is permitted. The children have to g» to the suburban bookseller, and his ■ profit has to be added to those of the 1 publisher-. Trivial geography books j containing a score of pages, cost tenI pence, and exercise books, which prob- | ably cost about a penny to produce, * are retailed to the children at six- | pence. The parents are tired of the I extortion, and they have made such f a noise about it that the Minister of Education has ordered an enquiry. Gas cooker for sale. Gas engine wanted. Furnished rooms t) let. Married couple wanted. Waggon driver wanted. Green tain lost nt show. Furnished ronr is wanted. Help wanted ior country. Posiiion as nurse-coninanion wanted. Companion-help or children’s governess seeks position. Look out for King Butler’s side delivery. Mis Kendall, tent her of dancing, will recoinmcnce classes on March 5. Private lessons can be arranged. The strikingly handsome solid silver cup, donated by Mr A. McDonald to the Masterton A. and P. Association for ladies’ jumping competition, is now on view at R. 11. Hill and Co.’s. In a change adv ‘ rtiscnient on page 7 rhe Wairarapa Farmers' draw attention to their new stocks of English tinware, also to a very large assortment of enamelware which has ju*»t arrived. New supply of cheap editions at 3/6 each:—“The Mysterious Rider,’ ? by Zane Grey’; “Docrt Valle.’,’’ Jackson Gregory; *Prid' of Palomar,” Peter b. Kyne; “The Hlgugrader,’’ William McLeod Raine; 4 ’Webster Man's Man,’’ Peter B. Kyne; “The Long. Long Trail,’’ A. G. Hales. Now on sale at McLeod and Young’s. BEAUTY OF CANDLE POWER. Many home-makers have re-discover-cd the fcauties of caadle and candlelight, and thousands of New Zealand homes are now illuminated by the soft light of 44 Golden Ray” caudles. 4 4 Golden Rays ’ ’ are made in the Dominion, give a better light, and cost less than imported lines. Being very bard, they are more suitable for hot climates and conditions. If your grocer docs not stock, write for supplies direct to Ellis and Manton, Ltd, Manufacturers, G.P.O. Box 222, Wellington.