The Waipawa Mail. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 56, 29 January 1923, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the last meeting of the Eltham County Council it transpired that rates were outstanding to the tune of £17,000.

Mrs Swain will resume music tuition on Monday, February sth. “We should have compulsion but it should be . voluntary compulsion, ’ ’ stated a member at the Farmers’ Union Conference, amidst laughter. Thirty-five i domestic servants are travelling by the Corinthic-under the New Zealand Government’s immigration scheme.

The birth rate per 1000 of mean population at Napier during 1922 was 19.86, the lowest in the last five years, whilst the death rate was 9.00, also the lowest in five years. An Order-in-Council provides that a Customs clearing fee of 3d shall be collected on each post parcel received from beyond New Zealand that contains goods upon which duty is payable. Messrs J. Butler, D. Eddy and E. G. 11 a til (w) nr have been nominated for the.vacant seat on the Waipawa County Council created by the death of Mr L. McKay. The election will take place on Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 pjn. For the nine months ending December 31st last, the Auckland Electric Power Board generated 12,990,909 units and sold 9,844,001. The income was £117,214 12s Bd, working expenses £57,886 6s lid, interest and sinking funds £50,101 14s 6d, and credit balance £9547 18s 3d. “I had a great time in New Zealand,” said Mr W. Harris, the Honolulu champion swimmer, on his arrival in Sydney. “There is a coming boy over there, Adamson, of Napier. He is only 15 years old, but his (S2sec. for 100 yards in dead water stamps him as a coming champion.”

A reminder is given of the general meeting of the Progressive Association to be held in the Borough Chambers to-night at 8 o’clock. The principal business will be consideration of the committee’s report of the cost of completion of the War Memorial. All “interested are invited to attend.

Greatly improved prices were obtained for flack rams at the annual Ram Fair at Hastings. Where last year 31gns. was the biggest price for a Stud Romney, this year several realised from 40 to 50gus., the highest being a shearling ram of Mr J. E. Hewitt’s, Mangamaire, for which Mi' R. Matthews, Tikokiiio, gave 62gns.

In view of the fact that the Waipawa District High School will reopen on Monday, February sth, a number of inquiries for board have been received from settlers who desire to send their children to the school. The secretary of the committee, Canon Butterfield, will he pleased to hear from residents willing to take juvenile boarders. S. O. Garland, the Hastings practical watchmaker and jeweller, wishes to notify the Hawke’s Bay residents that he has a fully equipped workshop with all the latest appliances, and has on the premises two firstclass, highly skilled watchmakers and jewellers for all watchmaking and jewellery repairs, and any special orders such as making diamond rings set in platinum, special wedding rings to customers’ own designs, broaches, medals, etc., at shortest notice. Country orders promptly attended to. ’Phone 744, Box 2331, Hastings.*

Mi- W. A. Yeitch, M.P. for Wanganui, has written to the Minister for Railways strongly dissenting from the policy of spending large sums of public money outside the Dominion for the purchase of locomotives which could be manufactured in New Zealand at a cheap rate. He qrges the necessity of immediately establishing the necessary plant for that pqrpqse, and characterises as a grave public scandal the sending of large sums of money from New Zealand, while capable workmen are tramping- the roads in search of employment. * Included in the new postal and telegraph rates is a change in regard to the night-letter telegram. The minimum charge of ,1s 6d for 36 words will be reduced to one of 9d for 27 words. The telegrams may be handed in at any time qf the day. They will be sent during the “slack” hours at night, and delivered by a postman or /placed in the private box of the addressee next morning. The New Zealand rates for this class of telegram compare as follow with the rates ruling in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa:—New Zealand, 9d for 27 words, and Id for every three additional words; United Kingdom, Is for 36 words, and Id for every three additional words; Australia, Is 3d for 30 words, and Ad for each succeeding word; South Africa, Is 3d for 24 words, and 3d for every additional six words. The new rate comes into force at the beginning' of next month.

The matron of St. Hilda’s Children’s Home, Otane, acknowledges with many thanks the following gifts:—Fruit, Mr Turner Williams, Mrs Langridge, Mrs Ormond, Archdeacon Simkin, Mrs de Deane, Mr Bull, Mrs Waldron, Rev. H. Blathwayt, Mrs James Tod, Mrs Spargo, Mrs Langridge, Sir George Hunter, Mrs G. Clark, Mrs G. B. Beamish; jam, Mrs James Tod, Mrs G. Clark; milk, Mrs Ormond; cakes, Mr Alexander, “The Friends who came to St. Hilda’s Home,” Mr F. D. Waller; eggs, Mrs Talbot, the Archdeacon and Airs Simkin; party, Miss Willis; donations, Mr and Mrs S. £l, Mr Bourgeois £.l Is (to be spent on holiday fun), “Friends who came to St. Hilda’s”; sweets, Mr Ritchie, Mr Bull; picnic, Mr Bull; books for everyone, the Father Christmas who fills empty stockings, . __ _ t r

Plentiful supplies of ice are now available from Mr G. Martin, butcher, W aipawa. The annual show of the Central Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Association will be held on Wednesday, and if the present fine weather holds there should be a record attendance. The entries are well above those of last year, and there will be some interesting side-shows for the entertainment of the juveniles, as well as the elders. His Excellency the Governor, Viscount Jellicoe, has intimated that be will be present with Lady Jellicoe, and the Governor’s children will be exhibiting/the pony classes. Mr A. E. Jull, Who returned on Saturday night from a ten days’ motoring trip of the North Island had a varied experience of weather and roads. He found the road between Napier and Wairoa in excellent condition, with a good metalled surface the whole way, and Wairoa can no longer complain of being isolated Shortly after leaving Morere for Gisborne the party ran into rain, whirl: turned a. fair surface into a quagmire and progress was so slow that the journey occupied about double the ordinary time. As bad reports bad been received of the state of the road between Gisborne and Motu the ear was railed to the latter place, and e good run was made, to Opotiki and Whakatane, through some beautiful country. For some miles approaching Rotorua the party struck the worst piece of road encountered during the whole journey. Leaving Rotorua the Cambridge route was taken, owing to the Mamaku road being in bad order and Wjjitomo was reached that night. Here a terrific downpour was experienced, and as the Taihape road is not particularly good at the best of times it was decided to rail the ear from Te Kuiti to Taihape. The party took the road again at an early hour on Saturday morning, and arrived in Waipawa about 9 o’clock, after sheltering for a considerable time during a heavy thunderstorm at Ashhurst.