LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19444, 2 November 1925, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Correspondence appears on page 14 as well as on page 8. The prices of all grades of raw and refined sugar have been reduced by 10s per ton as from to-day.

Mr A. G-. Bignell, the contractor for the erection of the Marton Post Office, intends to commence operations at the end of this week or the beginning of next week.

The Victorian police have been instructed to observe the law with respect to prohibiting women betting on racecourses, particularly in regard to Flemington.

The vacant section in Ridgway Street, adjoining the Post Office, has been purchased by the Postal Department. It is ascertained the price paid was £l6O per foot.

“While I admit that there are some departments that can be run by the State there is a good deal of private business that we don’t want the Government to interfere with,” remarked Mr. J. Coull when speaking oil St. John’s Hill on Saturday night.

At the Wellington Supreme Court, when Frederick Murray was found not guilty on a charge of being unlawfully in possession of housebreaking tools, Sir Robert Stout said that after what the jury had done breaking into people ’s houses would be encouraged.

What despicable opponent resorted to this? When the Primo Minister’s ear was being driven north to meet him as he came down through Taranaki from Auckland, it was ascertained in a "Wanganui garage that someone had interfered with the radiator. The damage, which was caused by soap, cost £3O.

“I am a believer in thrift. Thrift is the bridge over which labour passes to become capital. Every man and woman who has a bank account in the Post Office has by thrift saved labour, and all saved labour is capital. Thai is the way all people lay the foundation of independence. ’ ’ —Mr. A. B. Seiv wright at Berthanipore.

One of the big oil companies will erect a bulk store in Wanganui in the near future, representatives of the company having been in the city on Saturday to complete arrangements for securing a suitable site on the foreshore. The oil will be brought to Wanganui by tankers and delivered by pipe line into the store, whence it will be distributed by special motor tanks.

Up to the present there has been a total absence of activity in 'forward buying of fat stock in Poverty Bay, although at this time last year many thousands of sheep and Jambs had been bought for forward delivery by various firms. Those with a knowledge of general condition, says the “Poverty Bay Herald,” believe that prices for mutton will not be so high as they were last season. “He has represented us most ably and well in the last Parliament and if he is returned this time —as I am sure he will be —he will do equally well. Mr Glenn is a gentleman who is most easy to approach on public matters, and no greater compliment could have been paid to him than that by the Wanganui County Council, every member of which stood up and paid tribute to the way he had carried out. his duties,” said Mr D. Mackintosh at Kaitoke on Saturday, when moving a vote of thanks to and confidence in the Reform candidate. The motion was passed amid great applause. A Rangitikei elector who heard Mr W. S. Glenn when he delivered his first address six years ago, and who heard him again on Saturday night at Kaitoke, considers that if Parliament does nothing else for a man it at any rate develops his platform ability. Mr Glenn has improved out. of all recognition, and has no trouble now in delivering a two hours’ political address without the aid of notes. It was the opinion of the elector in question that Mr Glenn, who holds decided views and expresses them plainly and forcibly, without any “beating around the bush” in an effort to please anyone, is heading for a portfolio in a businesslike Government which believes more in deeds than in words.

Speaking at Mr Glenn’s meeting at Kaitoke on Saturday evening, the chairman, Mr E. A. Campbell, said he had known the father of Mr Gordon Coates, who had been on tho same sailing ship as he (Mr Campbell) for three months, and was the idol of everyone. Mr Campbell said he had known the Prime Minister since he was 17 years of age. The soldiers had worshipped him, and New Zealand would do the same. He predicted a great future for him. Mr Massey, who was a great man when he died, was u very ordinary man when he became Primo Minister, without the advantages of education such as Mr Coates had. In the course of some observations on the outlook of the farming industry in Hawke’s Bay, Sir George Hunter stated at the end of last week that shearing in a number of the coastal sheds has been completed. “The clip,” he added, “is turning out better than was anticipated. It is light in grease, and, with the exception that there arc a good many matted fleeces as a result of the continued wet weather in the winter and early spring, the prospects generally are that the clip will be of a good standard. Tho weather of late has been very favourable for shearing operations. There is a keen demand for both fat and store cattle. The number of fat cattle coining into the sales is very limited. The.spring generally has been very backward, and tho country now requires rain. ’ ’ Those who saw Mr. Allen Bell, member for Bay of Islands, the other night, say he is the coolest man in the North Island, also the most irrepressible (says an exchange). He was proceeding to Mangamuka in a launch piloted by Mr. James Gulloch, and accompanied by Mr. William Grayson. Arriving at the landing in inky darkness, the member tripped backwards over the. tiller, clad in oilcoat, breeches, and leggings. He soon found bottom, and the river was very deep. On rising to the surface he was grabbed by Mr. Grayson, who, with the assistance of Mr. Gulloch, landed the 18-stone M.P. on the launch. Mr. Bell immediately proceeded to Mangamuka by motor, and, without changing his clothes, delivered an address as if nothing had happened. At tho conclusion of the meeting he received rounds of applause, the audience evidently appreciating his coolness and courage.