Untitled

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5495, 27 November 1909, Page 2

Bowling notes, commercial news and a report of the Education Board meeting will be found on the first page. The reading matter on the fourth page consists of Australian News.

Mr Will Crooks, M.P., on the gambling evil: —“ I like a man who likes sport for sport’s sake, but not if he uses sport for the purpose of getting the other fellow’s money.”

The Education Board have recommended the establishment of a sohocl at Pourerere and have applied to the Education Department for a grant for the erection of a building. The Methodist Church anniversary occurs to-morrow. At the evening service “The Mission of the Church” will be the subject of the Rev. Mr James’ discourse and an anthem will be rendered by the choir. Tho postal authorities advise that the Mariposa, which left San Francisco for Papeete on the 22nd inet., has on board heavy American mails for New Zealand and Australia, which are due here, ex Hauroto, on the 18th December. The Hawke’s Bay Education Board have approved the recommendation of their Instructor in Agriculture (Mr Loteo), to make Waipawa an agricultural centre. Mr Loten hopes to complete arrangements so as to begin work here by the New Year. The following tenders for the conveyance of mails have been aooepted : Takapau, Ashley-Olinton and Makaretu, thrice weekly, and daily between Makaretu and Takapau; J. E. Nielsen. Waipukurau, Wanstead, Wallingford and Porangahau, daily; O. H. Sutton. In the opinion of the New Zealand Herald it is impossible for moderate men to avoid the conclusion that by the Budget the thin wall between the old political parties has been broken down, and that unless it is reconstructed a coalition between the moderates of both parties is sooner or later inevitable. Mr B. J. Marquet, chief wool-grader for Mr W. Hill, of Christohuroh, and an instructor in wool-classing at the Christohuroh Technical College, has been authorised by the Agricultural Department to collect type samples of the different breeds of wool in New Zealand for the Dutch Government.

Messrs Williams and Kettle have received oable advice from their London agents as follows The wool sales have opeued with a good attendance of buyers and keeu competition all round. Compared with the closing rates of last sale, Merinos show a decline of per cent, while coarse crossbreds have advanced 2£ per cent. For other grades the rates remain unchanged. It is expected that prices will be maintained

At the meeting of the Education Board, on Thursday, Mr Gill’s report on the Waipawa District High School, which has appeared in cur colums, was read. Members expressed their appreciation of the exceptionally favourable Dature of the inspector’s remarks on the Bound work being done in the school and the ability and energy of the teaching staff. “ The merchants at Home are beginning to realise the advantages of the preferential treatment extended to British goods by these oversea dominions,” said a prominent colonial to an Auckland Herald representative. “ While I was in a London warehouse recently I was urged to take goods of foreign origin as cheaper than the British article, but when I explained to the salesman that to do so meant increasing the dues on the shipment by something like £ls without any apparent benefit to myself, he saw the point. The ooDsequonce was that British goods were ordered in preference to the foreign artiole.”

Ia the course of a conversation with a Lyttelton Times reporter, Mr H. B. Sorensen, who has just returned from a our of Great Britain and the Continent, -•aid that he found only one shop, at Ipswioh, where New Zealand mutton was exclusively sold, and the fact made publio. An Australian lady, now reei dent in England, told him she hac frequently tried to get New Zealand mut ton supplied to her but the butchers told her they would not stock it. In view, however, of the fact that if frozen mutton was properly defrosted it could uot be distinguished from newly killed meat, Mr Soreusen expressed the opinion that a great deal of New Zealand mutton was sold by British batches as newlykilled meat.

Nearly twelve months ago the Government decided on an experiment calculated to induce people to be thrifty. The soheme was to issue little safer, for whioh the users had to guarantee the State fis as security, and pay an annual fee of 6d. The “ home savingsbank safe” was handed out looked, and the key was retained at the office which allotted the box When it was de>ired to bank the savings, the box was taken to the Post Offioe Savings Bank, and the oontents were credited to the owner’s account in the ordiuary way. Up to the end of last September over 350 of these boxes bad been issued in Wellington and suburbs. So far, Wellington is the only place where the experiment has been tried The boxes are of iroo, neatly finished, measuring 4in by 3in by 2in, with a handle to assist the savor to carry his wealth to and fro. Mr Clement L. Wragge told a DuDedin audience on Wednesday evening that betweeu now and 1914 New Zealand, in QommoD with the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, must look for more earthquakes and droughts, and more frequent voloanio eruptions. Ha said that the solar disturbances during the past decade had been more than usually severe ; but the position was such that the Northern Hemisphere had bsen more readily effected. As a consequence, the Northern Hemisphere had suffered the San Francisco, the West Indies, and Messina earthquakes, as well as a great number of minor disasters. Now the altering position of the earth in the solar system was bringing the southern part more direotly withiu the influence of the “ sun-spots,” and certain results were fore shadowed. Mr Wragge as surod his hearers that he had no intention of alarming them in any way. He did not definitely say that there would be any earthquakes of magnitude,, or things of that description ; he simply stated a scientific fact, that the south part of the earth was entering a probable danger zone. Incidentally, and in order to oliuoh his argument, he referred to the recent earthquake in Wellington, and the drought from which the Argentine Republic is at present suffering, Mr A. W. Hogg, late Minister of Labour, reoeutly endeavoured to be a “ Minister of Belabour ” when referring to his former oolleagues. He said that the present Cabinet reminded him of a show whioh he saw in the Old Country when he was a boy. The show whioh he remembered was described as a “ happy family” by the owner; it was a cage containing a dog, a oat, a white rat with red eyes, a pigeon, an owl, a htiwk and a sparrow. Dr Findlay, alleged Mr Hogg, might be described as a political hawk, ready to seize and pluck either friend or f >e ; the Hon. J. Carroll represented the drowsy dog ; the Hon. J. A. Millar was the rat with the red eyes, looking for principles whioh he had lost, and wondering whether he would be able to make the railways pay three per cent; the Hon G Fowlds was tho pigeon that was losing its free trade and single-tax feathers; The Hon R. M’KeDzie was the owl—it saw better at night than during the day; the Hon D. Buddo was a cock sparrow, ohirpiug and wonderiog what would happen next; the Hon T. Mackenzie was the cat — sparriog when out of office, and purring now because it had its belly full. Finally, Sir Joseph Ward was in charge of the show. This strange deliverance was listened to io patience—only one person in the audience, becoming bored, ventured to ask, “ What about the land question 1” but Mr Hogg persisted to the bitter eud.