LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 141002, 21 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails for the United Kingdom, Continent of Europe and America, via San Francisco, per Moana, close at Masterton on Monday, April 26th, at 6.30- a.m. The cost of the maintenance of the Solway Home during the past year was £826 i7s Bd.

Epidemic pensioners received a sum of £3243 10s 5d from the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid. Board last year.

Land agents’- tecs amounting .to £i9S 10s were received by the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board during the year ended March 31.st. 1020.

Mr F. W. Dunn informed a Daily Times’ representative that the petition of the Council to take the necessary steps to put a street through from Queen Street to Chapel Street was being largely signed. The amount expended by the W airarapa. Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in charitable aid during the last financial year was £2300 10s 4d. The administrative expenses of the Board amounted to £2177 13s Id. The sheep-guessing competition *in connection vvitlq the Martinborough collie dog trials resulted in a win for Mr A. T. Blake, of Masterton, who guessed within 4ozs of the correct weight. His guess was 1551bs 12ozs, and the correct weight loOibs. Iho guesses ranged from 1311bs, to 1761b5.

The administrative expenses m connection with the Wairarapa Hospital Board during the year ended March 31st last amounted to £217 < 1.3 s Id. The latter included interest on loans £044 11s lid, grant to Pongaroa Medical Association £llO, members’ travelling expenses £14(5, audit tecs for two years £59 13s 4d, upkeep of Martinborough ambulatec £2B 16s 9d, printing, advertising and stationery £67 16s od, telegrams, telephones and postages £B-> 13s 4d, and salaries £599. In answer to a question at [he Farmers’ Union meeting, held in Eketahuna on Sa'tu/day last, Mr A. T. Blake (Government Veterinary Surgeon) Mated that fo.v scalded feet in sheep about the best treatment was to pare, the foot and coat it with Stockholm tar and Little’s dip in equal quantities. The sheep should be taken .out of long grass and put on drv short pasture wherever possible. General treatment was more satisfactory than gomig on with individual cases indefinitely.

There were a few amenities in the earlier stages of the proceedings of the Busfi Rugby Union at Pahintvm last week. “ Would you mind addressing the chair,” said the chairman at one stage. “I beg your pardon,” was the icy reply of a delegate.. “ Would you mind addressing the chair more emphatically. The -delegate: “Oh, certainly Mr— —;• you seem to be quite high'up to-night!” At a little Inter stage the chairinTui's rulings were frequent and did not appeal* to find favour. \ delegate rose with “Mr Chairman, what are we . here for? Do you think we arc hero for a joke, or what?’ (Laughter.) The chairman: “We are here Jd./c< induct the meeting in proper order./’.

Tlie total receipts of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the year ending March 31st last amounted to £49,971 4s 3d. This sum included £16,664 7s 9d by _way of levies from local bodies, and £10,219 14s in Government subsidy. The patients’ fees from hospitals amounted to £5024 6s 2d, made up as follows: —Masterton, £2691 10s od; Greytown, £1446 16§ 7(1; Pahiatua, £BBS 19s. The total expenditure for the year was £45,797 6s -GtjL The expenditure at the various tals was as follows-^ f - tsterton ’ T ~ , . 905 TBs 6d; 'ey town, £5241. ,18s; 1 alualn«, £2305 17s od. At the end of the financial year there was a credit balance of £4173 17s 9d. At the Eketahuna Farmers’ Union meeting on Saturday, Mr T. Parsons mentioned the. £12,000,000 increase ip bank deposits as shown by the last returns, the total amounting to over £59,000,000. He predicted the banks would riinke a huge profit on this by investing the money in England, where the rate was 7 per cent. Mr Rutherford was of the opinion that very large sunis were being hung up for use in the lifting of the' moratorium. It. was not generally realised that there would be a, big strain in the lifting of the moratorium.

Colonel Malone, Coalition M.P.„ who recently visited Russia, in his book throws light, on many matters which have been obscure hitherto. He traces to its source the.report of the.so-called “nationalisation” of women. The suggestion, it appears, was made in the columns of a Bolshevik journal, but was never adopted. With regard to atrocities, Colonel Malone admits that “no open-minded observer who visits Soviet Russia cah shut'his eves to the,black side of affairs;” but it would be a mistake to suppose that the Bolsheviks alone are-responsible for them. He believes that the leaders of neither side desire atrocities, but these weremainly due to the liberation of hooligan and ana-chical elements during the transition’ stage, when government was in a flux.

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A proposal is afoot to start woollen mills at Palmerston Noyth. The Wellington Provincial Conference of the Farmers’ Union will be held at Feilding on May 25th. Immigrants to Canada last year numbered 317,(500, over 57,000 coming from the British Isles, and 52,000 from the United States. One of a housing deputation which has waited on Bermondsey Council said he had had to board out his family in •four separate, houses. The amount expended by the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in charitable aid during the last financial year was £2300 10s Id. Production of war medals, which are being struck at Woolwich Arsenal at the rate of 90,000 a week, will not be complete until August, 1921. From May* to December last year civil aeroplanes in the United Kingdom carried 64,416 passengers. The number of fatal accidents was four. An Auckland Press telegram states that Mr C. 11. Frankham’s joinery works at Newmarket, with its extensive plant, was destroyed by fire early this morning. A cablegram from-Sydney states that the Citv Council against the expenditure of £SOOO for the'decoration of the city during the 'Prince of Wales’ visit. , Tt is practically certain that the retail priced of butter and cheese will be fixed for the coming season in England, said Mr T. Parsons at the Eketahnna Farmers’ Union meeting on Saturday. The battleships Exmoutli and Jupiter have been sold for breaking up. A Glasgow man has bought the Exmouth fof £39.000, and the Jupiter has been bought bv ' a Middlesborough iirm for £36,000. “'The Farmers’ Union is like a bank. If you don’t, put anything in it you cannot expect to get anything out again,” was a remark passed by a member at the meeting of the Kketali una branch on Saturday. A speaker at the Eketahuaa Farmers’ Union meeting on Saturday mentioned that a disease in flax had made its appearance in the Alfredtoii'.district. It i s believed to be the same- disease that attacked flax in the .Manawatu district -some time back. Such is the scarcity of houses in Eltham that the postmaster and ins family are, obliged to sleep in touts at the .rear of the office, and the “Argus” 'states that there ii.s every prospect of their continuing to do so during the winter months. Last Thursday afternoon a team of four ladies from the Masterton Croquet Club visited Eketahuaa for a friendly match, the results being a draw. A team from Kkctalnma will play a return match at. Masterton to-morrow, weather permitting. At the Eketahuna S.M. Court-on Monday, P. C. Madsen was charged with failing to register .-under the Aliens Act, 1917. Defendant in evidence said he was not aware he had to register after the age of 60. The-Magistrate took the misunderstanding into consideration and also the fact that defendant has had three sons on active service. A conviction only was entered. Some excitement was created in Petone yesterday morning by a bullock which escaped from the Gear Company’s slaughterhouse and got into the main. street. The blow dealt it by the slaughterman merely stunned the animal, ami when it was tipped out on the floor it made a bolt for freedom. The animal got on. to'the Esplanade, and when chased took to the sea. Afver swimming about for a while N it t-ame asliorp and headed lor the centre of Iho town. It was pursued by a crowd consisting of horsemen and pedestrians. and was eventually, driven into a yard without having done any damage.

“Crass ignorance, ’' was t lie comment made by a member ot‘ the Waivarapa Hospital Board to a,Daily Times reporter to-day, wliet a statement was brought under his notice which suggested that the hospital estimates were not subntitted to the contributing authorities before being' dually adopted by the Board. “It waives one tired to see sncli statements nade,” he said. He pointed out that i full statement of the estimates, etc., was sent out to each contributing authority fourteen days before the estimates came up for final confirmation, and, further, .that the Act provides for the Board hearing objections and reconsidering any item to which exception is taken by the contributing body concerned.

A reply has been made by the. .Department to the statements recently made.criticising the Railway Department for rising trucks for the carriage of rfce passengers, when there were coal vessels unable to unload at the port of Wellington owing to shortage of trucks. The allegations, were brought under the notice of the officials of the Railway Department, who, after invest i<,a 1 ioiltrn't that on Thursday last jSty 'i'S coal trucks were used for the carriage of race passengers, but on Friday the seats were taken out <jf these and the trucks were immediately used for the- purpose for which they v had been built. No coal trucks were used for race traffic on Saturday. The Department's officials aided that there was an unusual influx of coal to New Zealand at the present time, and the coal-carrying trucks were insufficient to meet the emergency. ,

A half-beardy sheep-ilog is advertised as found. The Mastertm County Council invite tenders for w*rk on Dudding road. Mrs L. Pa'iie will conduct a meeting at No. I Bruce’ Bt._, on Thursday next at 7.:if o’clock. A memorial service will be held in the Tenui fall on Anzae Day (Sunday, 25th April... The Rev. J. H. Sykes will be the pracher. Mr F.P. Welch advertises for sale a lirst : clss. sheep ol! 3200 acres; also a. jiit of rooms to dental or oflic-/ i>u-[K*sos, ' Ladis! —Here’s the news yoh -m. been waiting for: We have just opened up, „,r ' winter “nighties.” They meludf'flanelette, Winceyette and woven niirWdiessCs —just the, think to keep vou'cdsv, and our usual good values imCaik throughout the new stock. Tfc Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative -Vssiu', Ltd., Queen St., Masterton. ■'Notice is given that the heavy traffic clauses- of the Masterton County traffic, by-laws will come into operation on May Ist ami will remain in force until Sept. 50. Owne-s of motor-lorries are reminded that “heavy traffic” includes anv motor-lorry which itself, oi, together with anv thing or things transported thereon, weighs more than three tons.

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In 1919 there were 1,750,000 allotment holders in the United Kingdom, and they raised about 1/270,000 tons oi crops.

A French airman, Casale, with two passengers has reached a height of 23,725tt, nearly 4} miles. The previous record with two passengers was made by another French airman in^ December, with an altitude of 19,674 ft. Without passengers the unofficial record is 34,610 ft.

The United States War Department announces irs intention to prosecute 179,000 ‘ ‘ draft dodgers, ’ ’ that is, young mffii who evaded service under the Military Service laws. The Department, having traced the men, will cause th»m to be'arrested simultaneously all over the country.

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