LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14972, 25 July 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A collision occurred on the PahiatuaMangatainoka main road on Saturday afternoon between a taxi driven by Mr D. Brabner (Pahiatua) and a small Swift, driven by Mr.-Alfred Trembath (Awahuri). The heavy taxi passed straight over the little Swift. No one was seriously hurt, although Mr. Trembath had picked up three local boys on their way to the fotball match. Charlie Davies, aged 11, appears to have been bruised and cut rather severely.

At the last meeting of the Tenui branch of the Farmers’ Union, a resolution was passed asking for a daily mail service to Tenui and intermediate offices. Teh request was forwarded to Mr A. D. McLeod, M.P., and the pestmaster at Masterton. Mr McLeod has replied toi Mr D. Hebenton, secretary of the Farmers’' Union, that the Postal Department has agreed to install a daily mail service to the Taueru, Whareama and Tenui Post Offices. The frequency of the private bag service between Masterton and Tenui will continue to be thrice weekly.

There was a large attendance at the Opera House last night, the occasion being the Harrier Club’s concert. The programme submitted was an excellent one in every respect,''and mtet With the lie-arty approval of those present. There was something ill it to'suit every taste. Encores were the order of the evening. Those who contributed to the programme were Newland 8r05.,. Miss D. Donnelly, Miss M. Rangi, Miss E. R. Aitchison, Mrs. W. G. Perry, pud Messrs. E. Graham, F. Foley, F. Histed, E J Heffer, A. W. Russell, W. J. Candy and T. Jordan. The accompaniments were played in Mrs. W. G. Perry’s, usual excellent manner.

Many folks are interested locally in the canvas “dwellings” now going up adjacent to the railway works (reports the Hokitika Guardian). This temporised method for residence seems to suggest a shortage of houses. Occupation of the canvas apartments, however, is not as cold as it looks, as faithfully erected very comfortable quarters can be secured. Those whose memories can go back to the early days will recall the long line of tents and similar temporary structures which first marked the route of Revell street. Indeed, in the locality of the present tents there was, in the early days, a considerable canvas block, and now history is repeating itself after sixty year’s. A considerable number of men are employed on the local railway works, and the number will be further increased shortly. A start has been made also wnth the erection of the new residence for the stationmaster.

In a letter to a Mastertonian, an ex-re-sident of this town, who is now in Germany, says:—“lt will soon be a year since we left New Zealand, and I must toll you we are very sorry that we came to Germany. Things are not what they used to be when I was here years ago, and Mrs finds the change very hard. We have had a lot of bad luck since we came here. We are still without a home through the shortage of flats, and the family is split up. One of our children is in Cologne, and we have not seen him since September. Our baby died in January, and Mrs ——.was very ill after, and so was I. Since January I have had a position as clc-rk in the export department of a big dveworks, and I can consider myself lucky. Although I earn thousands a month, it is not enough to live on, through the drop of the mark and the continued rise of the prices of foodstuffs, and it is impossible to buy meat or butter and milk, the staple food, especially for th e kiddies.” Your teeth are Ivory Castles; defend them with Gibb’s Dentifrice; 1/-. — At tha EL T. Wood Eharmaey.*

The Public Service; Association is to request the Government to pay all salaries twice monthly. The German stamps on a letter received in Masterton from Berlin shows that it cost 830 marks in postage for the one letter. *

It is expected that the entries for the Wellington Competitions will reach 3000, or about 500 in excess of the previous best record. A meeting of 150 suppliers .at Ilawera yesterday passed a unanimous resolution that tiie Hawera Dairy Co., and its suppliers are in favour of the Dairy Control Bill.

In New Zealand it is estimated that there is one motor car for exactly 43 inhabitants. This is a higher ratio than in almost any country of the world, except the United States and Canada. A Dunedin message states that the prospectus of the New Zealand and South Sea& Exhibition Company has been signed by the provincial directors, and the company will shortly be registered. An active canvass for financial support may bo made so that the company may proceed to allotment. According to recent returns, the value of the wool sold and shipped this year from New Zealand is estimated to have been worth £7,496,014. The Dominion was short two million sheep for this wo'ol year, but this was compensated for by the fact that the price averaged 10-jd per lb, as compared with 6|d the previous season. Therefore, although less wool was produced, the return has been greater. The outlook for prices next year should be good, seeing that in 1922 the total number of sheep in the world was given as 265,082,866, as compared with 349,212,742 in 1914.

In a case brought yesterday by the Crown against the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company, for £37 10s for taking delivery of certain sheep, part of the stock comprised in a. bill-of-sale given to th e Crown under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement thereby converting the sheep to. the defendant’s own use, the Magistrate (Mr J. S. Barton) gav e judgment for the plaintiff, and said that to prove such a bill of sale in the hands of an ordinary commercial holder to be a discredited security, can have no reference to; the Grown.

The concert and dance of the Bideford School was held on Friday evening. One of the features of the performance w T as the school band, consisting of trumpets, whistles and gazoos. Every scholar took part in the performance. There -were several recitations. A dialogue, "The Christmas Stocking” was well performed by two girls. The senior children enacted a short play entitled "Three Sundays in a Week.” Several solos and choruses were snug. The chairman, in a few words, expressed his pleasure with the performance, which appreciation was heartily endorsed by all present. The ladies provided an excellent supper. A most enjoyable evening was bi'ought to a close with dancing.

A little time back a Sydney shopkeeper, tired of having his place, burgled, and disgusted -svith what he regarded as the lethargy of the police, took the law into his own hands. He laid a whisky “bait” for the latest burglar he was expecting. The next morning the glass was empty, and the bird had down, but the shopkeeper told the police they would probably find the man in hospital. They did. H© was lying prostrate in bed. He went out to the “bait,” and now has two years in which to Tepent, behind the gaol walls. But what if he had died? Has a householder the right- thus to take the law into his own hands? Are* not even-bur-glars, like other human beings, members of society? The question of the rights of householders in this respect has given rise to an interesting controversy. The general view is that a civilian is treading on dangerous ground in such a case, and that a householder, on discovering a burglar on his premises, is not justified in shooting or taking other such extreme measures unless lie believes the intruder intends violence. His job, in short, is narrowed down to the feat of capturing -the burglar intact, leaving it to the police and the judge and jury to do the rest. The pioneer of this new way of catching burglars stoutly defended his action in court, on the ground that the police could not catch the'burglars for him.

Ford van fox sale. Gent’s scarf lost. Domestic 'help wanted. Boy wanted at Eton’s Pharmacy. Mr. E. H. Spademan’s bus will leave Post Office for dance at Kopuranga tonight. Mr L. G. Boyd, luggage and parcels delivery, announces that his t elephoue number has been changed to 1808 (automatic). During the slack season Nicol and Co., Ltd., are offering men blue serge tailored suits, made to measure, at cost price. See front page advertisement. Active members of the Wairarapa Soldiers’ Hostel are reminded of the annual general meeting, which will be held on Tuesday next, at 7.30 p.m. Messrs McLeod and Young have just received a further supply of ‘ ‘ The Middle of the Road,” by Philip Gibbs, 65,; also “The Breaking Point,” by Mary Roberts Rhinehart, at ,3s 6d. Do not miss the last few days of the great Key to Economy sale at J. L. Murray’s Limited. A special cut in prices is being made for the last days of the sale. If you require high grade outfitting for men or juveniles call and inspect the special lines offering. TP-;local picture patrohs will be pie-; ,od to know that the big super special production “Fascination,” starring Mae Murray, will commence a threenight season to-night in the Opera House. Seats may be reserved at Henderson’s.

To-morrow and the following days, Messrs Hugo and Shearer are making their opening display of millinery, dresses, jumpers, and latest novelties. Ladies are cordially invited to visit this showing of fashion’s latest creations. Spring will burst .upon us suddenly, so be ready with the new spring costume. Alex Donald’s are ready to show you the newest in materials and plates. —Alex. Donald, tailor, Queen street, Masterton.

As evidence that Nash cars are rapidly becoming much in demaud, the local agents, Messrs. Lyttle and Co., Ltd., have just received word that although the Nash Motor Company turned out over 6000 cars in May, more than 2000 dealersj orders had to be cancelled as they could not be supplied. These figures need no amplification, they tell their own story of the world-wide growth on a vigorously expanding scale of the popularity of the Nash ear. It is the definite conviction that Nash cars do actually “lead the world in motor car value.” The firm has just landed a closed top, six-cylinder Nash which they invite the public to see. Now showing!—A full range of Ladies’, Gent’s and Children’s Goloshes and Gum Boots, at Wairarapa’s Leading Footwear Store. —Carpenter and Evans.® 1

The sum 'of about £1260 is to be spent in building a library at the Ashburton High School.

Wanganui's tramways, including Gonville and Castlecliff, earned £9654 16s 6d in revenue for the quarter ended June 20th, as against £9262 for the corresponding period last year. A branch of the Commercial Bank o'f Australia, Limited, has been opened at No. So Princes Street, Hawera. This is the fifteenth branch opened by the bank in New Zealand.

“In the good old times I could get two loaves of bread for a mark in Germany, and now I need 950 of them to get one loaf, and that is only black bread, so you can see how nice it is here,” says an ex-Mastertonian inwriting from Germany.

An . Auckland message states that Daniel McGrath, aged 54, a single map, was found dead under the Swanson railway bridge last evening. It is thought he overbalanced while leaning on the rail of the bridge and fell intoi the gully, a distance of 50 feet. He was a resident of Swanson.

Bulgaria has a labour army of conscripted workers. Every man between the ages of 20 and 50 is liable to obligatory labour. They argue that tliis is the only way that Bulgaria can get back on her feet economically and restore the value of the currency. No man, no matter what his rank and wealth, is excused from eight months ’ compulsory l service. The law will apply to women soon. In a further letter to his father in Peilding, from Queensland, Jack Kitchen says he secured a farm over there. It is a bush farm, £7 per acre —really good land, the soil as black and loose as a coal heap, in places 3ft deep.” At the present time an acre of sugar cane is worth £45, and he is putting in at least three acres of canes, but hopes to have eight, worth £3OO at cutting time. A drought in his locality is no more likely than in New Zealand, “so that I am really lucky to get it at £7—the pick of the block at. that. I have seen only two snakes so far. One was in a log l split. ” —Star.

The rattle and rash of a riderless motor cycle and side-car, the crash of breaking glass, and the scream of a woman, attracted passers-by in a Christchurch street on Friday afternoon. The owner of the machine had been knocked off by the closing of a gate behind him, and the motor cycle shot across the street. Continuing its way it leaped the pavement and crashed "through the plate-glass window of a firm of land agents. A typiste, who was working inside, was pinned down under the machine, and sustained several injuries, chiefly flesh wounds from the broken glass.

By 9 votes to 7 the Christchurch City Council has decided to grant a bonus of 4s weekly from June 25th, to employees with five or more dependeflts. The question of retiring a number of aged and infirm employees was discussed by the City Council last night, and it was decided that notice of termination of employment 'be given fourteen men. Twelve men will receive three months’ notice and twd one month's notice, and men with over two years’ service receive retiring allowances varying from three to one month’s pay. The ages of the men affected range from 72 to 41. Six Labour councillors voted against the proposal. A large margarine plant just opened in Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, with a capacity of 30,000 pounds of margarine every eight hours, places the Frankfort industry among the largest of the kind in the country, Consul General F. T. F. Dumont informs the Department of Commerce. The factories are fitted up with the most modern machinery, and have immense cellars, fifty feet under ground, especially, adapted for cooling and storage. There isl a great demand for margarine, and this has become a staple food with the great mass of the population of Germany. The margarine industry of Frankfurt dates from 1872, when the first plant for the manufacture of this article in Germany was established.

“Someone,” says the Thames Star, ‘ ‘ should .say a word for the cows. The Liberals are saying that they invented the dairying industiy. In one of 'those journals which knows everything about "the Liberals except how to get them back into office, there is now being repeated the unalterable belief of the die-haxds that they are. directly responsible, through their legislation and administration, for the huge quantities of butter and cheese exported. The legislation produced the butter, it is claimed, and the administration the cheese. Once started off, th e cows have been unable to abandon the habit of giving milk. Anyone could have .started them into doing it, but the point v was to think of it, and it was the Liberals who thought of it.”

Dr. James W. Robertson, of Ottawa, speaking before the Canadian Club, declared that in the past four years Canada had made more real progress than any other nation along the lines of child welfare. Dr.' Robertson, who is chairman of the Canadian Red Cross Society and chief commissioner of the Boy Scouts’ Association in Canada, said that the source of a nation’s greatness depended on the care given babies and the early education of children. Dr. Robertson 'said that much of the progress in Canada in # the past four years was due to the campaign -begun by the Red Cross with the object 'of reducing the death rate for babies, and it was hoped to decrease the present rat e till it was at least as low as that of New England. If this were accomplished, he said. Canada would save 15,000 babies a year, and in a few years the saving would more than equal the total deaths among Canadian soldiers during the war. Six Canadian universities were giving courses to women to fit them for work in saving the lives of babies, he said.