LATE LOCALS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 672, 25 August 1917, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The ambulance stretcher ordered by Mr De Malmanche for public use in Waimate arrived to-day, a.id is in the Waimate Motor Garage. It will be- handiy placed in case of accidents. A little girl's savings in some hundred coins of variou.s denominations Lay on the Waimate Post Office counter 'this morning for a few moments while the busy clerkattended to others. It looked like a patriotic investment in the \\ ar Loan. "And a little child shall lead them!" Guinness and LoCren's public auction of the Seaview Settlement sections this afternoon was crowded. Rids were forthcoming for 'every lot, 'but only in one case—(hat of section o—did'a sjal.e eventuate under the hammer. Tire price was £65 an -acre. Private treaty is expected to account for the disposal of other sections in the cours-e of a day or two. Air Stevenson was the auctioneer, A Christchurch paper says that the fact (bat indications point- to the Government practically controlling meat prices by selling io the butcher* from the ireezing works has conduced to the feeling that prices are not likely to soar for local consumption. It should be understood that on prices ruling lately in the .store sections at Addiugtoiii it was obvious that particularly sanguine expectations of inflated values during next year bad been entertained. The limiting {actor mentioned has therefore helped to a sobering effect.