LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18256, 15 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two areas, of 600 and 1400 acres, respectively, in the Waitaha survey district, Westland, were gazetted as set apart as provision State forests. It is stated that Mr. C. J. Powell, late proprietor of the “Waimate Witness,” has practically completed arrangements to re-start the “Hunterville Express” in a few weeks’ time.

Members of the Chamber of Commerce are notified of a special general meeting to be held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday evening next, when letters that have passed between the Chamber and the Council will be discussed. A full attendance of members is requested. Some 598 acres of Crown land in the Auckland land district were ga-' zetted this week as set apart for soldier settlement, also one acre of land in the Te Aroha township. Some 6816 acres of land in the Pamotamotu block, 11,584 in the Rangihau block, and 360 in the Matamata block, all in the Auckland land district, were gazetted' as set apart for selection.

Satisfaction is expressed by the directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen, Manufacturing Co., Ltd., at its exoneration by the Board of Trade of the charge of making undue profits. The annual report of the company refers in full to the matter, describing the criticism as unfair, and the directors add: "The report of the Board of Trade completely exonerated the industry from any charges of profiteering, and it showed that all through the war period the industry was conducted on clean lines, and the goods were sold to the distributors at reasonable and fair prices.”.

A fool who may find himself charged with knavery, ’phoned the Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon that a fire was in progress at Church Place. The Brigade turned out promptly only to find that the alarm was a hoax. Regarding the report of Harbour Board loan expenditure which we published on Saturday morning, as covering tile period of six months ended 30th Juno. 1921, the period of expenditure should have been 18 months, viz., from January Ist, 1920, to June 30th, 1921, .being from the date of the raising of ■the loan. AU ladies and gentlemen interested in the Scout movement in our Dominion are reminded of the civic reception to be tendered by his Worship the Mayor in the Council Chambers to Captain D. W. Cossgrove, Chief Scout Commissioner for New Zealand. The function is timed to commence at 12.45 p.m. to-day, and to the general public a cordial invitation is also extended. There has just been completed at St. Paul’s Church a very fine example of ornery in the shape of a pulpit canopy. The canopy is of Gothic design, in kepir.g with the rest of the church. A striking feature is the introduction of Oregon pine panels, which has the effect of enriching the design very considerably. The canopy was executed in the factory of Messrs Russell and Bignell, Ltd., who are to be congratulated on their workmanship. “Admission by silver coin'.’ seems to be a wonderful boon to young men who wish to stand their lady friends a treat in the shape of a band recital. One stalwart fellow, who certainly was well dressed, put a threepenny piece in the plate at the Opera House, and calmly escorted three girls to the dress circle. It is believed that the party—and they are typical of many other mean people who attend band recitals —were quite satisfied that they had contributed handsomely to the funds of the band. In the waterside workers’ meeting house on the wharf last evening, Mr L. Glover addressed a public meeting on the subect of the Alliance of Labour. Mr Glover was introduced by Mr W. J. Rogeis as the “Lenin of the Industrial Movement in New Zealand.” This mayhave been intended as a compliment, owing to Mr Glover’s personal appearance, but Mr Rogers did not refer to the cable news of late concerning the famine in Lenin’s fatherland. For which omission Mr Glover, as the Lenin of the industrial movement in New Zealand was no doubt thankful. “If I can’t get a house in a month, what am I to do —go up to the Park?” queried a defendant in an action brought at the Magistrate’s Court in Auckland by a landlord to obtain possession of a house on the ground of non-payment of rent. The defendant pleaded that he had been out of -work for some time and had a wife and seven children. He could not get another house easily. The magistrate remarked that the law did not take that into consideration when rent was not paid, and made an order for possession forthwith, the warrant to be suspended for one month. Companies which deal with insurance against sickness are paying much more attention than formerly to the teeth of their clients. The manager of one company told a “Daily Mail” reporter that many diseases are traced to bad teeth, and that pyorrhea appears to be steadily increasing. Pyorrhea begins with poison collecting round the gums and later spreads through the system. "Pyorrhea starts in such a mild way and often has such far-reaching consequences that from the point of view of insurance the greatest care has to be taken in accepting people at the ordinary insurance rates who show any traces of it," said the manager. During the hearing of a diviorce case in Christchurch, in whicty the petitioner had been separated from bis wife for three years on his wife’s application, Judge Herdman said: What makes me hestitate about these cases is whether a wrongdoer has a right to come into the court and ask for relief. A wife is helpless. She is a good and innocent woman, for Instance, she does her duty attending to the home and the children. Her husband wants to bregk off. She does not. He says, “I'm going to leave you,” He leaves, against her will. She is forced to take out a maintenance order against him. It the order is in force for three years' he can petition for dissolution of the marriage. His Honour said he would consider his judgment in the case. ‘‘There are two big dangers to contend with in the drapery trade,” said Mr. R. D. Martin at the Arbitration Court at Christchurch, speaking on behalf of the Retail Shop Assistants’ Union. A large proportion of the big positions in the drapery trade was held, he said, by women, whose husbands were drawing good salaries. Then, again, there was the danger of unfair competition by the married woman, who, perhaps, on account of housing congestion or other causes, desired to be out during the day, and who found shop work a good means of getting pocket money. Such women were prepared to take pobs at from 12/6 to 15/- a week. He had received several application by women who were prepared to work at such rates. This, of course, operated very unfairly toward the single young woman, who had to earn her living and was entitled to reasonable prospects of advancement. / A pathetic example of an unfort unate habit was presented at the Auckland Police Court last week, w|ien a good-looking, well.dressed woman, whose age was given as 39. and who spoke in ladylike accents, was charged with drunkenness foi the third lime within a few weeks. She was said to be the former wite of a wealthy merchant in a Southern town who divorced her some 14 years ago. The woman admitted numerous previous convictions lor drunkenness, and thqt she had spent 12 months at Rotoroa Island with out resultant good, but she pleaded bard for another chance, saying she intended going to Napier and would try and improve In the future. "I will promise never to come here again, if you let me go;” she said. The magistrate was moved by the appeal. “Against my better judgment, I will give you another chance;" said Mr Bundle. “You are convicted and ordered to come up for sentence in seven days. If you go to Napier, it will be all right; if you don't you will be brought here for sentence.”

The advantages of running pigs on fern country is shown on Mr J. W. Todd’s farm, at Ibakara, near Levin. Sections of rough land were fenced off twelve months ago, and the ifcf-. turned on. In a few weeks thgfyigs had all the fern rooted out and the land cleared. The pigs were then moved to the next lot, and so on. The S ground was then harrowed and sown 1 in grass, and is now in splendid con- * dition. Fern root forms excellent feedings, and except for this the animals had no other fodder, yet they are in condition at present.—" Levin Chronicle.”