LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2492, 10 January 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Parliament re-assembles at Welling ton to-morrow (Wednesday).

First-grade factory butter is now being retailed at Christchurch at 1/3 per pound.

It has been decided to form a cowtesting association at Tauranga;- provided 1500 cows can be guaranteed for testing.

The New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association's championship meet ing is set down for decision at Wcl lington on February 4. C, 8 and 11.

The dried milk factory at To Awanuitu, though taking milk twice daily, is not yet working at full capacity. The manager, Mr A. Scobie. was rcticient when questioned as to its future prospects. A number of the law firms, accountants, and others of the more fortunate people who were able to take extended holidays for Christmas and New Year, resumed business yesterday morning.

Mrs Hulme's new kiosk, opposite the Cambridge Domain is now completed, and will be open to the public on Saturday next, when stocks of cordials, ice creams, cakes, etc., will be on hand. See advertisement.

The vendors of peppermint sweets are doing a brisk business since the price of tobacco soared, says as exchange. It is stated that peppermint has a soothing influence on the yearning for a smoke, and consequently renders the |>ractice of economy much easier.

In the first nine months of 1921 there were 53 industrial in New Zealand. The average duration of the troubles was SK days; 84'firms and 8,002 employeeVwere affected; and the approximate loss of wages was £08,202.

Twenty thousand firearms have been registered in the Palmerston North police district, during the past year. Two hundred of these were automatic pistols. Compensation was paid on 110 pistols which were surrendered.

A sheep-farmer told a representative of the Otorohanga Times that he recently forwarded 2000 fat wethers to Wellington for freezing and only averaged C/2 u head, out of which 1/G per head had to be paid for freight.

"If I win the toss I'll lose the championship," said Dick Arnst to a Wanganui Chronicle reporter sometime ago when discussing the relative merits of the inside and outside course on the river. He added that every time he had lost the toss he had won. This statement made jokingly, proved prophetic, for Arnst won the toss and lost the championship.

A To Awamutu telegram states that the Valuer-General was there on Thursday and Friday conferring with farriers who are financially embarrassed through allegedly fictitious land values, 'and who seek an adjustment, of their mortgage responsibilities. A number availed themselves of the visit to place their position before him, but there has been, no announcement of any practical or probable solution of the difficulty.

This season has been a particularly favourable one for the growth of plants of the cabbage family. There is on exhibition, G. E. Clark and Sons' poises, Duke Street, a of a Savoy eabby Mr A. W. Martin, of Cambridge, which turns the scale at 3041b5. This Savoy woidd take a lot of beating.

An example of resource on the part of the postal officials is afforded by the prompt delivery of a misdirected letter posted recently in Auckland. Instead of addressing the letter to Otaki road, Mastcrton, the sender inadvertently directed it to Opahi road, Epsom—an entirely non-existent address. Nevertheless tho letter reached its intended destination without loss of time. An added difficulty which faced the postal authorities was the fact that the recipient of the communication was not a resident of Masterton, but was staying there with friends as a visitor. ARE YOU COUGHING YET?

It is unwise to let your cough run on, for this frequent coughing naturally increases the irritation of the bronchial passages. You are wondering what to take—suppose you try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy this has relieved others, and will relieve you. Pleasant to take—soothing and healing. Sold everywhere. Stews—Soups—Gravies are ali the tastier for a dash of Sharland's Tomato Sauce,, which is maQe from the finest tomatoes a&d purest spices. _ 3

A pictorial record of the race for the world's professional sculling championship, rowed between Darcy Hadiield and Dick Arnst last Thursday, is being shown at an Auckland theatre. The film is of the greatest; interest, showing in detail the whole of the race. Mr G. Seifcrt, of Hamilton, has offered to back Paddon to give P. Hainan ten lengths over a three and a-quartcr mile course for £SOO aside. This jrace should decide the claim to row Badfield, who is believed to look favourably on the Wnikato River as providing, a stretch of water suited for rowing, and with facilities for the spectators obtaining a good view of the race. , ; . ; rtU .>.

The rainfall at Tirau for the month of December, 1921, was no less than 6.oGin. Rain fell on seventeen days during the month, the heaviest fall being 1.09 in on the 10th. For the same period last year the rainfall was 2.81 in. For last year the rainfall was 40.44 in; for 1920, 53.47 in; for 1919, 39.03 in; and for 1918, 50.83 in. We are indebted to Mr F. Shannon for the above figures.

The stormy voyage experienced in the Tasmari Sea by the steamer Marama, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney early on Friday morning, was as severe as her commander, Captain B. M. Aldwell can remember having gone through in the past 29 years. The voyage occupied six days and 11 hours as against the usual period of slightly under four davs.

The difficulty in obtaining positive identification was exemplified some days ago in Wellington. A. body lay at the morgue which no less than three men who visited the institution affirmed was that of a certain William Smith, a -watersider. Satisfied with the result, of his work, the constabio who had conducted the investigations was patrolling the waterfront a few hours later when the identical William Smith stood before him in the flesh.

A despicablo theft, which assumes an even greater degree of absolute meanness by reason of the particlar institution and the circumstances in which it was perpetrated, was made on Christmas Eve at the Whangarei Hospital.' Thd thief entered the kitchen through a window, and stole five fowls ready dressed for cooking. The poultry was meant for the Christmas dinner of the invalid patients and nursing staff.

"While in the Shetland Isles" stated Sir Robert Stout to a New Zealand Times reporter, "I visited the very house I was born in at Lerwick. It is a stone house of seven rooms, built by my grandfather, and is now owned by my cousin. Though they'' arc beyond the 60th degree of latitude, the people live longer in the Shetland Isles than in what we usually consider more favoured climes. For instance, I called on my first cousin, who will be 91 in February; and, though somewhat deaf, she has all her faculties.. And the same week I called upon another cousin, 91 in September. He, too, is a little deaf, but his intellect is as bright as ever, and he is the author of several books. Neither of these cousins has ever been out of the islands. Sir Charles Hercules Read, LL.D., St. Andrews, late keeper or curator of the British Museum, is another cousin of mine; and was locking very well. He is one o: the greatest authorities in the world on the Maoris and on Maori relics, of which they have a very fine collection at the Museum. It would be very interesting if he came out to New Zealand. He could give us some very valuable information as to Maori relics, etc. Dr Buck told me that he had seen him, and that he seemed to know more about the Maoris than anyone he had ever met." *