LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A very unusual sight was witnessed on Sunday morning, when a school of some sixty whales was seen about a quarter of a. mile off Kai Iwi beach.

The tender of Mr H. .T. Byford has been accepted bv the Hospitals Committee for the addition of sterilising rooms to the fever and diphtheria Mfds at the Masterton Hospital. The amount of the tender was £205/ The other tenders received were £20(5,-£212 and £253 17s fid.

The Greytowri Borough Council last night considered a motion that it should contribute towards the cost of a Wairarapa court at'the Dunedin Exhibition. The opinion was expressed tUiat the matter was one for the A. and P. Associations, and the matter was defeated.

“Many clergymen suffer a life of grinding, soul-stifling poverty’’ the Ballarat Church Chronicle declares in urgin'* that bigger stipends should be paid. A C contrast is provided by Shelford, a village near Geelong,-where the Presbyterians have decided to pay*thc minister £SOO a year, give him a motor car, a manse, and an annuity on retirement.

A letter was received by the Masterton County Council yesterday from a Maori interpreter, who said that a demand*'for native rates in Maori would be more effective than one in English. He offered tojeollect outstanding native rates on commission. The clerk said that between £IOO and £l5O of native rates were outstanding; they wore always a difficulty. The matter was left iiffhis hands.

The Wairarapa Hospital Board has been considering.for'some time past the problem of 'a-water supply for the Par hiatua hospital, and the sinking of an artesian well was one medium suggested. This, however, has' now been abandoned, and it has been decided . to revert to the original . proposal to construct a water tower and to pump the water from the existing well. The architects are to submit tenders for the work to the next meeting of'the Board. On Saturday last, during the progress of football matches at Hastings, both Nelson Park and the racecourse were visited by thieves, and practically all the players at the Park, and the majority of those at the latter place, were considerable losers of money and personal effects. It appears,. states an exchange, that every pocket in the clothes hanging in the dressing shed at Nelson Park was thoroughly rilled, but at tho racecourse not only were pockets emptied, but boots, hats, coats and other articles of clothing were stolem

The committee of the Masterton Harrier Club met last, night, there being present:—Messrs 11. Orman (chairman), J. Kitchener, S. 'Carr, ,1. Hunter and W. Winhall. It was decided to elect a team manager on Saturday. The following are probables for the teams to go to Wellington; —R- A. Rose, E. J. Heifer. L. A. Keats, R. Campbell,‘ L. Smith,' S. Carr, B. Peters, S. Spicer, L. Trass, H. Orman, F. Winhall, N. Trass, C. Anderson, R. Gullv and N. Winhall. All members must be registered and must run in club colours. It was decided to hold a five-mile handicap from tee Park on Saturday. A practice run was hold last night, and another will be held to-morrow, at 6.30 p.m. ■*

This week’s report of the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co, says that in the Waikato there is a good enquiry for all classes of store sheep, ewes in lamb, hoggets and wethers finding a ready sale at high prices. In store cattle there is a big enquiry for all classes of stores, young steers and grown . steers being much sought after, with few offering;' also a good demand for store cows and empty heifers. Good dairy herds and well-grown forward springing heifers are in demand and finding a ready sale at good money with little demand for backward and inferior sorts. The market is very firm for both fat pigs and stores, -porkers and baeoners making lip to 74d, and a keen demand for wCaners, slips and good stores. Good heavy draught horses and useful farm sorts are making good money.

The Massey Memorial Fund in Carterton totals £SO.

The Masterton quota of Mounted Rifles paraded at;, the Drill Hall at S o’clock this morning, and later lejEt for camp at Dannevirke. A Berlin message jays the association of piano manufacturers has decided to advance prices 25 per cent. In May, 2500 pianos were sent to England, and in June 5000.

An Adelaide cable states that the South Australian Co-operative Union, as a result of a plebiscite of farmers, resolved to continue the voluntary wheat pool for a. further three years.

There is a. very polite man in Hastings, says the If.B. Herald. He was riding his bicycle near the corner of Karamu road and Queen street when he was knocked off his machine by a passing motorist. He did not seem to mind .a bit, and upon receiving the motorist’s assurance that ho had blown his horn, made the most profuse apologies for not having heard it and for having got in the way! “Did Pope Leo sell or authorise the sale of indulgences?’’ was the subject of a keen controversy in the columns of the Manawatu' Daily Times between Mr. A. Ernest Mander, lecturer for the W.E.A., and Father Lynch, of Palmerston N oi£b. As the result of a challenge by the latter that he would pay £IOO to the hospital if Mr. Mander could prove the sale, a committee consisting of Messrs F. J. Nathan, 11. L. Young and J. P. Innes heard the evidence. They have now given their verdict, which is that Mr. Mander has failed to prove his ease. The committee made a condition of the hearing that evidence should not be published. The new type of omnibus built in the Transvaal for travel by either rail or ordinary road is described as running over the road-rail with the front axle supported, by a rail bogie, the bogie being oil the rail and the driving wheels on wheelways. The 36 horsepower water-cooled engine can run on the South African motor spirit known as Natalite, or on producer gas/ The Parker gas produc r is used, with charcoal as the fuel, a charge of 401 b sufficing for the round trip on the experimental line of 40 miles. The rear wheels have twin giant pneumatic tyres, the front tyres being solid. The speed may vary from 18 to 20 miles an hour, and loads may be pulled up grades of 1 in 20. This novel vehicle can leave the track to deliver passengers, mails or freight, or can make .special trips beyond the railway to .any desired point.

Ga 9 cooker for sale. Dance Foresters’ Hall to-night. Tenders are invited for scrub-cutting. Advertiser wishes to lease about 25 to 30 acres of land.

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., advertise mangolds for sale. Air. C. Angwin inserts an advertisement. on page one re greyhound dog. Advertiser wishes to rent four or five-roomed house about middle of October.

Mr T. McNamara, 103 Lincoln road, is prepared to undertake carrying to and from any part of the district. Adjutant Graham, missionary officer, from China, will visit Masterton on Saturday and Sunday next, and will give interesting lectures on missionary work in China.

The R.J.A. lever watch has been officially selected as the best all round watch for the colonies by the Retail Jewellers’ Association > f Australia and New Zealand, and Air. J. Bradbury has just received a selection of these standard watches. Further details and prices are quoted'in an advertisement on the front page. To visit a bargain event' may. seem to you like treading over the beaten tracks, but there is an exception and it concern the unusual sale now being conducted at Murray’s. It’s the “Talk of the Town’’ Sale and everybody’s interested. Get interested yourself and you’ll soon know what it means to you.* Afessrs. Ly'ttle and Co., Ltd., agents in Wairarapa for Nash cai's, advertise on page eight some 'felling statistics on the world’s demand for these popular cars. While car sales generally show a decrease, Nash ears have em joyed a sweeping increase. The firm' are always ]deased to demonstrate Nash ears to interested people.