LOCAL & GENERAL

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIIII, Issue 32, 6 December 1940, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Small Farms Amendment Bill was passed by the Legislative Council after a debate which lasted until 10 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, announced yesterday that a caucus of the Labor Party will be held on Monday, December 16th, to consider general matters and the personnel of Cabinet in particular. We are the sole agents for delicious Beacon bacon. —Bryant’s.*

Mr E. D. Savidge, representative of Azzopardi and Holland, opticians, will pay his periodical visit to Waipawn on Thursday, December 19th. Appointments may be made with Mr McCulloch, hairdresser.*

For men’s evening wear.—The latest in dress and dinner suits, £7 10s to fifteen guineas; dress shirts, 12s 6d; link suites, 3s lid; silk sox, 4s lid; silk scarves, 4s lid. Everything for dress wear at D. H. Edwards, T.,ld.* Following are the results of competitions run in connection with the Anglican shop:—Cigarettes: Miss S. Moody 1, Mrs H. W. White 2. Mrs Pellow’s cake: Mrs Robb, senr. Mrs Hininan’s cake: Mr A. R. King. Mrs Kittow’s cake: Mrs W. Moore. Half lamb: Mr N. L. Larsen (re-donated).

Order your Xmas ham now and procure the small sizes.—Bryant’s.* Pupils of Mrs and Miss Swain will give a pianoforte recital in the Concert Hall on Monday evening, and R.S.M. certificates awarded for the year’s work will be presented. Admission will be free, but a collection will be made for the Health Camp Fund,

On Friday, December 13th, Gordon Walker, Ltd., will conduct a sale of the furniture and effects of Mi’s S. E. Bond, Ruataniwha street. Particulars will be published in the “Mail” next week.

Mr E. A. Shattky, F. 1.0., F.S.M.C. (Lond.), of Messrs Shattky and Webber, Opticians, of Hastings, visits Waipawa each Tuesday morning. Appointments at Murray’s Pharmacy.* In an urgent question in the House of Representatives to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr D. G. Sullivan, Mr A. S. Richards (Government, Roskill) drew attention to the reduced number of leaves in school exercise books while the price remained unchanged. The increased price represented a 200 per cent, advance on what was justified in order to recoup increased paper eosts, he said. He asked if the Minister would undertake to introduce a standard specification of the pages of exercise books and establish a price for such books. Mr Sullivan, in reply, said that the matter was being investigated at the present time. Order your Xmas ham now and procure the small sizes.—Bryant’s.* If there is to be any price-raising in Australia, Professor Copland has to know about it and to say what the advance (if any) shall be. He has just fixed the prices of potatoes for New South Wales and Queensland, and they range from £l6 to £l2 a ton, according to variety. This is wholesale; retailers must sell at around five pounds for a shilling. The Professor, too, has sanctioned an advance of 2d a bottle on beer and Id extra for a drink of beer, pint or half-pint. As for spirits, the Professor permits an advance of Id a nip. The new duty on beer is 9d per gallon, but the rise by the drink is Is 4d a gallon. However, the size of the glass is to be discussed by the Professor with licensed victuallers. “The elusive teetotaller,” as Mr Lloyd George described him, does not wholly escape, for he has to pay more for his matches, and, if he smokes, he will have more to pay for that pleasure. Poultry keepers! We have ample stocks of pollard and bran. — Bryant’s.* The nonchalance with which the young idea at Home has come to regard enemy bombing is amusingly exemplified in a letter received by a Wellington resident from a friend in England. After explaining how one has to go out of one’s way to see the shattered houses, the writer says that outwardly nothing appears altered. “All this indiscriminate bombing of homes seems futile, and cannot be the means of defeat,” continues the letter. “People are very wonderful and the kiddies of to-day take most things so casually—even bombing. This is quite true of two small Brighton boys, who were one Saturday afternoon in a cinema that was hit and badly shattered. They were not to be found anywhere. The mother was distracted, when towards evening the two mites turned up. ‘Well,’ said mother, ‘and what does this mean? I thought you two had been in the ‘Odeon’?’ (the bombed cinema. ‘Oh, yes,’ said the pair of them, ‘we were. But when that was bombed we went to the ‘Princess’ to finish out!’ ” The latest arrivals in men’s hats! The light crusher weight, smart snappy brim, low bands, braids, or self felt bands. Shades of green, blue, grey and brown, 25s 6d to 39s fid at D. H. Edwards, Ltd.*