(Established 1898). The Waimate Advertiser. (Published every evening since 1914). MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1922. GENERAL NEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 7 August 1922, Page 4

(Established 1898). The Waimate Advertiser. (Published every evening since 1914). MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1922. GENERAL NEWS.

Rev. Bates’ Weather Forecast. — Southerly winds, moderate to strong, backing by W. to N., then freshening. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The barometer has a rising tendency soon.

The advent of a new business man in a town naturally causes remark and the question is, what will he do? This may be a matter of conjecture in some cases but it is certain that J. H. Beattie (who has taken over Mr C. Manchester’s stationery and fancy goods business) will sell good goods at reasonable prices...

Children’s Tan and Black ankle bar shoes, English, 2,3, 4,5, and 6 sizes. All one price, 3/11. At J. W. Fisher’s. Cash Boot Shop...

The fund for injured footballers will benefit to the extent of about £5 as the result of the dance organised by Mr W. Allan.

“The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks—the third of the Big Four specials, Arcadia, To-night.

Eleven men were charged at C hristehurch with taking part in an illegal strike of slaughtermen in the North Canterbury Freezing Works, says a P.A. telegram, and were each fined £5. The twelfth was fined £2.

Douglas Fairbanks in “Mark of Zorro,” Arcadia, To-night.

Judgment was given by Mr Justice Adams for the Banks Peninsula Power Board with £337 8s damages in an action for specific performance to compel the Akaroa Boruogh Council to complete a contract for the sale of the Borough’s power plant to the Board, says a Christchurch Press message to-day. Costs were allowed on the claim for £lOOO.

Southern Juniors will be picked from the following for their match against the High School on Thurs(J,ay2~S - Smith ’ M> B °y d > A - Slade, P. Ellis, G. Stewart, T. O’Brien, B. Wills, N. Fennessey, O. Rudd, E Hayton, W. Cottee, G. Bremner, W Willetts, W. Wilson, W. Cummings, r. Creba, G. Hunt, D. Arbuckle, The tP’oand and time of playing will be notified later.

Way Down East,” “Pollyanna,” and now Douglas Fairbanks in ‘Mark of Zorro,” Arcadia, to-night.

- That the Waimate Ambulance Brigade and their new motor van is a great boon to the district was made apparent to the public at the recent race meeting of the Waimate Hunt, when several falls occurred. Mr Studholme brought up the matter of the amount to be donated to the funds of the Ambulance at the meeting of the Hunt Committee on Saturday afternoon. He said that the squad had done very excellent work and with their motor van were very quickly on the spot whenever a fall occurred. The work had compared more than favourably with any he had seen at other meetings and the new van had certainly been an improvement in the method of transport than that in vogue at the recent Timaru meeting. Mr T. Twomey endorsed Mr Studholme’s remarks, stating that the members of the Brigade had been very . attentive to their work at the races. Eulogistic remarks were also expressed by other members, and finally, on the motion of Mr Twomey, seconded by Mr J. R. Cochrane, the sum of £5 5s was donated to the funds of the ambulance.

Damp feet usually result in a cold. Get “NAZOL.” No cold is Nazol-proof. 60 doses 1/6. Chemists and stores.

Quite a firm tone prevails in the building trade in Dunedin. There is not a boom, but work of all sorts is being planned and ordered.

Try Benhar Coal; 3s per sack, cash price. H. T. HUNT.

Letters received in Dunedin recent ly front the southern part of Ireland bear the new stamp of the Irish Free State. The stamp itself is the ordinary stamp of the United Kingdom, with the King’s head, but has a superscription which only those who understand the ancient Irish tongue can read. The postmark, too, is in Irish.

Almost every day John Bull’s afterwar junk pile furnishes a .good salvage story. There were 27,000,000 poundof smokeless cannon powder, for in-stance-stuff that looks something like macaroni. Nobody seemed to be able to suggest a use for it. Cannon powder is unsuitable for blasting because its force is exerted upward, whereas blasting powder should exert a downward force'; An appeal was made to chemists and engineers through their publications. “Discover a useful purpose for this , powder and reap a rich reward!” said John Bull. The lot was taken off his hands by a chemical company, which is converting it into a porous black blasting powder. And as explosives contain ecllulose, which is the basis of celluloid, artificial leather and like things, other uses may be found for it. Thus £20.000 was realised by the Government on something that appeared not only worthless but likely to cost money to dump.

It is reported that on Saturday night, when the nor’-wester was at its highest, a fire which might have resulted much more seriously occurred on the farm of Mr Fred Moore “Crouch.” A heap of rubbish which had been set on fire earlier in the day had practically burnt out and was left smouldering at night. When the wind sprang up this was fanned into flame, burning embers being carried into an adjacent haystack. The flames from this set fire to a neighbouring gorse fence, and from this the fire spread out over a paddock of clover stubble, consuming another haystack in its course. The road fence against “Pinewood” was the next food for the flames. Had the fir e crossed the rdad at this point much damage must inevitably have resulted. On one occasion a tongue of flame did take hold in a dry grass paddock in Pinewood, but was speed ily extinguished by Mr C. Hollandj a teamster in Mr Moore’s employ. This young man had seen the fire from Waimate in its early stages and had rushed to the scene and done much to prevent a further spread of the fire, labouring with the flames for over an hour before Mr Moore, with his brother, arrived. Everything at present is so very dry that a fire, driven by a nor’-wester, is capable of far-reaching consequences.

After an interval of four months the Australian Wheat Board, which controlled the Government Wheat Pools from 1915 to 1921, inclusive (six harvests), has issued another statement, giving the receipts to May 29, 1922. That statement shows that the Australian poo] is in debit £795,000, due wholly to the operations of the New South Wales section, which is in debit £953,000. The Victorian section is in credit £62,000, the South Australian in credit £83,000, and Western Australia in credit £13,000. But these accounts throw little light on the deficit of the New South Wales 1920-21 pool. In March last we stated that the accounts published under the Wheat Marketing Act of 1920, showed on that pool a deficiency of about two and flhalf million. The accounts published under the Act do not form a balancesheet, but are merely statements of cash receipts and disbursements. It was stated 1 officially that there were still some realisations to be received, and that, these would reduce that deficit. The latest account published by the old State Wheat Board of cash receipts and disbursements is for the period ended March 31st. That account showed receipts amounting to £18,663,158, and disbursements £21,351,953, leaving a deficiency of £2.688,795. That deficiency was met by a cash advance of £855,065 from the old pool, a net cash advance from other States of £775:000, and a bank overdraft of £1,122,851, less £64,121 ships’ charges to be recovered. The public accounts of the State show that the bank overdraft had been reduced on May 31 to £962,751, so that the wheat accounts so far as they have been published, show a deficit of £2,528,695, on account of the 1920-21 harvest.

. .New Books at Walker’s. Stationer and Tobacconist.—Casey. Ryan, by B. M. Bower; Dpag Harlan, by Chas. Seltzer; The man in the Twilight, by Ridgwell Cullum;. The. Everlasting Whisper; Rory O’Moore, by A. G. Hales; To the Last Man, by Zane Grey..,

Tlie latest threshing returns, according to the July Abstract of Statistics show that so far, 9,383,844 bushels of wheat and 5,490,099 bushels of oats have been threshed. The average yields per acre in eases where particulars of areas were fur. nished (covering 99 per cent, of the total threshings) are 30.73 bushels for wheat and" 41.32 bushels for oats. The quantity of wheat threshed in Otago is estimated at 1,692,162 bushels with an average yield per acre of 34.78, the figures for oats being 1,522,946 bushels with an average yield of 48.49 per acre. Reporting to the meeting of the Waimate Hunt Club Committee on Saturday afternoon. Mr A. J. Hoskins Secretary) spoke in very complimentary terms o the way the Railway Department and the local stationmaster had treated them in connexion with the train service for the recent race meeting. Mr Hoskins stated that all requests made by the Club had been met by the Railway Department and this had been most helpful. The local stationmaster had been obliging and courteous, and. had done all in Ips power to assist the Club. It was resolved by the meeting that the Secretary write to the Department and the local stationmaster expressing the thanks of the Club for the way in which the requests of the Hunt had been responded to. “Ta Memoriam notices, in the Daily Advertise' are r_ead by all. I volume of appro wiate ve:’s<»s t elect from O. ne at least of the grain stores in Invercargill (saiys the Tunes) is stocked practically to its full capacity with part of the fruits of the Southland oat harvest. Tiers of bags each holding from 1501 b to 1801 b, and in rare cases. 2001 b, are stacked up to the roof, and there are about 18,000 of these well-filled bags in the store, almost half” of them being he property of different firms who have them stored there. “This is the largest quantity of oats we ever had in the store,!’ said the owner. “Once, during the war, we put 10,000 bags on one steamer, but wer e not then so fully loaded as we are now.” Refuse substitutes. Insist on

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