LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1926, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A cable states that the North German Lloyd is building two luxiuiouslyappointod Atlantic liners of 4(i,0U0 tons and -0 knots, each costing £-,000, 000. The company aims at capturing the wealthy American passengei tiallic. According to a London cable a. message from 'Heidelberg .states that the directors of the German Dyestuffs Trust considered the reports and tests by I iofesso’r Bergiuss of the new method of manufacturing oil from coal. Hit chairman announced that he was confident its commercial exploitation would bo successful.

'file holding of a farmers’ demonstration at Hamilton in March was discussed by the Auckland Fanners’ Union executive on Tuesday nighty when it was suggested that the function be on the lines of that held at Wanganui last, week. The Dominion organiser said that the idea was to get together representatives of the farmers todiscuss producers’ needs in regard to taxation, economy on the part of the Go\eminent, the development of second-class lands, and land settlement. The proposal was approved and authority was given to carry it out. Motor drivers, like commercial travellers,.are never at home, according to a union secretary in the Wellington Arbitration Court yesterday. “They work such long hours,” he said, “that it reminds me of a story of the father who gave his little daughter a smacking, with the result that she rushed inside and told her mother that that strange man who conies here every Sunday gave me a smacking.” An assessor: Are you sure it wasn’t the lodger’ (Laughter j. His Honour Mr Justice Frazer: At any rate, it is a variation of the old story of the commercial traveller. (Renewed laughter). Cecil Vincent Connolly was lined £2O in the 'Police Court at Auckland yesterday for drunkenness while in charge of a motor-car which struck the safety zone in Queen Street at half-past twelve yesterday. morning. llis driving license was also cancelled for six montrs. Accused’s solicitor said accused was a well-known business man. He bud been out for the evening playing billiards and just before leaving took two drinks. Alistv rain was lulling at the time of the accident. The Magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt) said that if the accident had happened earlier, he would have fined accused £IOO. If people wanted to take drink, they must keep out of motor-cars. The Waikato Fanners’ -Auctioneering Co., report this week that there is still :i fair demand for store ewes and lambs, and two and four tooth wethers, but. little' demand for dry ewes out of the wool. All classes of store cattle are ■easier, due no doubt to the prices offering for fat cattle, store cows being the class most affected. Heavy yardings of both fat and store pigs coming forward, Bacon Company buyers operating for baconers and porkers at prices equal to 5-LI, with still a keen demand for stores at good prices. There is a good demand for useful farm horses, with little enquiry for till other classes. To steal from a. prison is surely asking for trouble. But Eric Charles William Rose, a clerk, aged A!, attempted the impossible and paid the penalty. Upstanding and of neat appearance, Rose stood in the dock of the Wellington Police Court yesterday morning, pleading guilty to the theft of various sums of money totalling £99 4/9, the property of the New Zealand Government. That he has taken advantage of Ills position as a temporary clerk in the Terrace gaol to .misappropriate the money, was admitted bv Rose in his statement of guilt. He had first' helped himself to the money in order to aid a financially embarrassed friend and had every intention of repaying all stolen before the shortage was detected. Mr E. Page, 8.M., committed the young man to the ,Supreme Court for sentence. At a meeting of the Otago Motor Club, the chairman, Mr Ansell, stated that the. South Island 'Motor Union had decided against dimming with a provision that proper focusing of the light be attended to. A North Island magistrate had advised that lights should not be dimmed, the Motor Act stated that motorists must not. drive with dazzling headlights. Motorists were between the “devil and the deep blue sea.” Unfortunately the Government had given no assistance. The Californian rules provided that the rays must be thrown to the ground. Although plans on that system had been prepared the Government had taken no action, Mr Ansell said that he had to the- Minister, who had replied that the regulation would not be ready till the New Year. Happy children keep free from worms with WADE’S WORM FIGS. Pleasant to take, and certain.* Insist, on SHARLAND’S TABLE VINEGAR. Best for salads and pickles. Free from mineral acids. Bottle and bulk. All the best grocers.*

The Board of Trade at Brisbane has fixed the maximum profit allowed to be made on wearing apparel in common use by all classes of wage-cat neis at do per cent. The lad Owen Udy, who received head injuries through falling from a horse at Carrington on Sunday, is still in a semi-conscious condition in the •Greytown Hospital. As tl|e result of an accident at Ellis and Burnands mill at ALaiiunui (neai Taumaruuui) yesterday, a boy of sixteen, named Fred Martin, had his leg crushed, necessitating its amputation. .Reporting at yesterday’s meeting ol' the Wellington Education Board on the lack of accommodation at the Teachers’ Training College, the chairman stated that tire number of teachers now being turned out exceeded the demand, and the question had become acute. Positions could not be found for all. Professor .lames Shelley, Professor of Education,' Canterbury College, is to be the speaker at the annual Speech Day of the Wairarapa High School, which function is to be held in the Municipal Hall to-morrow night, at 8 o’clock. Parents of pupils and all others interested are invited to attend. At the Christchurch Supreme Court, William Alfred Meagher and Jack Sydney Valentine Bott, two youths, found guilty of various city burglaries, were sentenced, Bott to three years’ reformative treatment, and Meagher to two vchrs. ' Counsel said one of the boys had been reading detective books to excess, and some ,of the “DeadwoodDick” type. To the inroads made by motor bus competition may be attributed the loss of 14.1,000 in railway passenger revenue recorded during the first half of the current financial year, according to a review issued by the Railway Board of. Management yesterday. AVitli all revenue accounted for, a. net operating gain of £.">0,000 is revealed ,but this is offset bv a heavy increase in interest charges, leaving the accounts ‘‘down by £59,0.0.

The Boy Scouts will give a demonstart ion oil the Park Oval on Saturday afternoon, commencing at 2.30. The programme appears on page 1 of this issue. The attention of our readers is drawn to tlie fact that in the El Dorado Art Union advertisement which appeared in our issue, December 13th, the agent’s name was featured wrongly. The correct agent’s name is W. Mathesoii, P.O. Box 1042, Wellington. House to let. Room wanted. Girl wanted. Girl wanted to asSist in shop. Advertiser wants to .buy Leghorn pullets'. Lost spare rim and tyre’ advertised for. Messrs S. M. Baird, Ltd., advertise cars for sale in our wanted columns. Man wanted to do gardening work anil odd jobs. The W.F.C.A., Ltd., insert special advertisements ih our wanted columns. Orders may now be booked for raspberries with IT. L. Esau, Queen Street. The W.F.C.A., Ltd., have just opened up a “cabled” shipment of Raydechenc. This new fabric is most popular to-day for smart yet inexpensive frocks. A reminder is given of the auction sale of office furniture, etc., on account of Air Harvey, at Hardan’s Buildings, Perry Street, to-morrow afternoon. Just published December issue of “Aussie,” and in it we see the leading humorous writers and artists of Australia and X.Z. Raiding another big celebration of the glqd season. It is hard to individualise in any issue of “Aussie,” and still harder to do so in this December issue, for everything is so bright anil clever whether it be in picture, story, or verse. It. is equally hard to imagine how so many new jokes and stories could be built on the Christmas season, but “Aussie” does it in its characteristic spirit of freshness and originality. Xmas, seems to us brighter in the light of laughter in this December “Aussie.” LG6T.—Oregon extension plank, extends from Bft to 14ft, cast brass lititings. £1 reward on returning to C. X. Cole, 19 Wrigley Street.