LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3328, 28 July 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Accounts amounting to £7 17s 6d were,, passed for payment at last Saturday’s meeting of the Te Awamutu branch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union.

With dances at Pokuru to-night, and at Tokanui Crossroads to-morrow evening, lovers of Terpsichore are afforded opportunity this week of pleasant social assemblies.

The noxious weeds inspector was called upon at the Borough Council meeting last evening to require the owners of an Alexandra Street property to clear it of blackberry and other noxious weeds.

Attention is directed to an important notice in our advertising columns in connection with the payment of the unemployment levy and the emergency wages tax under the Unemployment Act.

A large party of friends assembled at the home of Mr and Mrs M. Glass last evening to accord them a welcome home from their honeymoon. A happy evening was spent, and opportunity was taken to wish them long years of happiness in their new sphere. The well-known aviator, Mr J. A. Mollison, left Sydney at 8 a.m. on Saturday last to-day hopping off for Wyndham, North-l West Australia. Mollison will leave Wyndham at midnight on Wednesday next with 140 gallons of Plume spirit in his second attempt to create a new record from Australia to England and return.

How easily a farmer’s financial position can be made insecure by a narrow margin in the price of wool was mentioned at a bankruptcy meeting at Ashburton. It was explained on behalf of the bankrupt that had he received Ud per lb more for his wool and a fraction more for lambs the whole' of the creditors would have been paid in full.

Mrs W. Mandeno, of Te Awamutu, leaves this week to join her son, Mr Lloyd Mandeno, of Auckland, on a six weeks’ trip through the Pacific Islands. The trip is being made for Mr Mandeno’s health, which has been indifferent for some time past, but it is interesting also by the fact that it is Mrs Mandeno’s first sea voyage, she having lived in the Dominion all her life.

ISome of the feats of endurance performed by early colonists are surprising in these days (says a Christchurch newspaper). Mr Ebernezer Hay, the first settler in Pigeon Bay, used to carry 40 lbs to 60 lbs of- butter on his back every week over- rough bush tracks and return the same day, the distance covered being 30 rAiles.

Te Awamutu Football Club’s “ hardup ” dance at the Town Hall last Friday evening was not as well patronised as the promoters hoped for,/ but those who did attend thoroughly enjoyed themselves, for everything had been done to ensure their pleasure. Delightful music was supplied by Te Awamutu Orchestra, and extras were contributed by the Misses L. Murrell and B. Bowden. A “ novelty ” supper was served, and this occasioned much fun and appreciation.

In regard to the vagaries of addresses and the mystifying manner in which letters reach their destinations, Messrs Lerew Motors, Ltd., Napier, showed a representative of the Daily Telegraph a communication received by their firm from Turin, Italy, which was addressed to Lorew Motors, Hastings Street, Hamilton, Australasia. The packet duly reached Hamilton in Victoria, but a wise post office official marked it “Try New Zealand,” and it duly reached its correct destination.

In late July and August the dairy companies in the Auckland province usually pay out large sums in bonuses to their suppliers. Some of the payments have already begun, particularly in the North Auckland districts. By the end of. August almost all the companies will have held their annual meetings and distributed the year’s bonus. It would be impossible at the moment to hazard a guess as to how much these payments will be, as the output for the latter half of March, and also for April, May, and June, still has to be sold in London. In North Taranaki, it is stated, the bonus represents an average payment of £6O to. eac,h supplier in one case, and, in another case, £I7OO is to be distributed among 40 suppliers.

“ There are at the moment thousands of business men who have given up trying,” said Mr W. Calder Mackay in his address to the Canterbury Advertising Club. “They are saying* ‘ What’s the use ? ’ There are possible customers on all sides of them; there are plenty of people wno could be persuaded to buy their goods. But they have made several failures, and lost their nerve; they are sitting down listening to their arteries hardening. They don’t advertise, they have no sales campaign, and no action—they have given up trying. On the other hand, a friend, speaking of a very able business man, said to me: ‘He has a self-starter, and a self-stopper. He dares to start things and he dares to stop them if they don’t pay.’ ”

Since the War ended over 12 years ago, the average citizen may be forgiven for wondering what motive has prompted Mr McCombs at this late date to introduce his War Minister’s Profits Bill. This gentleman was a member of Parliament throughout the War and has sat there ever since. Why, if. the matter needed attention, did he not take action at the time or as soon-after as possible. How would any of us like to be taxed on wages or profits that we received eleven years ago or more ? Obviously Mr McCombs could not expect such an unfair proposition to be taken seriously, and it seems just as obvious that he has been using the forms of Parliament and wasting the country’s tirne and money to cast reflections on some one. He does not even out , into the open with his allegations so that the person attacked can defend himself. Altogether the Bill seems to be a back-door production, as belated as it is shabby, sand it is surprising that the Honse of Representatives should demean itself by even tolerating such an abuse of its its hospitality.—Dominion.