LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 December 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

In order to conform to the conditions of the typographical award, the <( \\ai rarapa Daily Times” will not be published on Monday, .lanuary 2 next. Advertisers please note.

There are now 205 unemployed in Christchurch, an increase of 25 during the past week. More than 20,000 Hungarians have settled in Saskatchewan, according to the Consul-General for Hungary, after a trip of inspection in the West, of Canada. More than 7000 Hungarians have been distributed throughout Canada this year, and more are coming, he stated, lie declared that they make ideal agriculturists.

Edmonton (England) celebrated Guy J awke's Day in a manner which appealed to all the small boys. It seems that 25 years ago a wooden hospital was erected during a small-pox epidemic. Happily, Edmonton has had no call to use tin 1 building since. Fearful of lurking germs, and tired, it may be, by memories of imyhood, the council notified the lire brigade to carry out the burning on November sth.

“'This has been as good as entertainment as Wirtli’s Circus,” declared a member at the conclusion of, a heated and irrelevant argument across the table at the South Otago Hospital Board’s meeting. “We ought to let the public in and charge live shillings for admission. .It's well ■worth it. ’ ’

The position of players at the end of round four in the chess congress, states a Press Association message from Christchurch, is as follows: Davies, four wins, no losses; E. Rolling. 3 wins, no losses, one to play; Severne, 21, 1,1; Xepille 21, 11, d; 'Friberg 2,1, 1; McDermid 2,2, 0;‘ Fairburn 1,3, 0; Bummers 1,3, 0; Fisher 0, 3, 1; -Joyce 0,4, 0.

A policeman in Cleveland (United States) was shocked to see a man sitting in a motor car with the lightj extinguished and a young woman on his lap, whom he was kissing vigorously. The policeman arrested the couple for disorderly conduct, despite their protest that they were newly married, and saw no crime in demonstrate ing their affection. The magistrate discharged them, and they promptly sued the policeman, _and were awarded £7OO damages.

Mysterious and sinister noises in the dining room awakened a Blenheim resident at an early hour the other morning, says the Express. Leaping to the conclusion that burglars were in the house, he glided downstairs with greatest stealth. (Reaching the door of the room, he listened breathlessly a moment. and, as the sounds continued, felt for the switch and flooded the room with light to surprise a modern Bill Bikes in the form of an opossum which was perched on the table eating jam with considerable relish. A grand chase worthy of a movie comedy, followed, and finally the furred marauder was caged.

Losses caused by fire in Masterton during 1927 amounted to £13,633, by far the most destructive outbreak in the borough being at the Masterton Spinning and Hosiery 'lNlills in dune last, when damage estimated at £9900 was caused. All told, thirty-four calls were received by the local brigade during the past year. Six of these were! ealls to chimney fires, one was a false' alarm, two were to motor-cars, fourteen were to actual outljreaks In buildinps, and eleven were to gorsc and grass fires which were very prevalent during the dry weather last season. Buildings involved in outbreaks of fire were valued at £24,390, while the insurances on them amounted to £19,110. The actual losses of £13,633 represent an increase when compared with those for the previous year.

The popularity of the borough motor camp at .Rotorua is shown by the fact that over 500 people are camped there at present. Over 150 cars are on The ground. 'Many other motorists are camping on private property. America is undoubtedly the wealthiest, and is all-hailed as the most privileged,- country in the world. Nowhere else are physical comforts so widely diffused: no where else, it might be supposed, should the joy of life be so iirmly entrenched. Yet in Ireland, where poverty stalks everywhere, the suicide rate is 2.5 per 100,000, against America’s 17. What is to be said about it? If the severity of the game and the length of time taken to play it counts for pleasure Air N. E. Barkmau and Air O’Brien, of Wanganui, must havo been very happy on Wednesday, says the 4 *' Chronicle? ’’ Playing in the Ilawera tennis championships they played live sets which lasted from 1.30 p.m. till 4.30 p.m. —three hours over one game. ‘/Pall and Paint” pedestrians bid fair to become the banc of Siam. Their method is to pick out a slowlymoving motor-ear, start out from the side-walk, stumble against the car, and fall in a faint by its side. A policeman appears, puts himself and the half-con-scious victim in the motor-ear 1 , and proceeds to a police station. Rather than go to Court on a charge of reckless driving, the motorist will usually pay the damages asked.

‘•Next to British India, Canada ranks as the foremost tobacco-produc-ing country in the British Empire, ' says a bulletin, just issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Washington, U.S.A. In this report an extensive survey is made of the Canadian tobacco-growing industry and its growth is traced. -Stimulated by the preference granted Empire-grown tobaccos in the British market, the report says, the production of tobacco in Canada has increased from 14,232,0001 b in 19IS to 28,800,0001 bin 1920.

An unusual accident occurred at Itangiriri one evening this week, a passenger in a service car driven by Air B. Hampton being thrown out and seriously injured. The passenger was Aliss Peggy Ryan, telephone supervisor at Hamilton, who was sitting in the front seat. The door near the scat Hew open and Aliss Ryan was thrown out. Her head was severely cut and she was severely bruised. After receiving medical attention, Aliss Ryan was admitted to a private hospital in Hamilton.

The New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board recently took a poll in the various provincial districts on question of provincial pools for the apple shipment. The poll closed on December 24 and the following result is announced by the board. —Nelson: For provincial pooling, .76; against, 119. Auckland:. For, 47; against, 19. Hastings: For, 26; against, 25. Poverty Bay: Against, 1. Canterbury: For, 4, against, 6. AVairarapa: For, 1, against, 1. 'Marlborough For, 2; against, 3 ; . The secretary of the board (Air 11. T. Napier) stated yesterday that the board would further consider the question at its meeting in .January.

A committee lias been formed under the patronage of the President of the French Republic for the purpose, of perpetuating the memory of Fernand Forest, mho is credited with the invention of the motor-car. For many years attributed to Daimler, the honour, following recent research, now goes to one whose claim has always been advanced by many in France. At a recent meeting of the committee, which comprises representatives of the leading motor-car manufacturers in France, with the Marquis de Dion at their head, it was decided to raise a monument to Forest, and create a competition for a prize bearing his name. Warnings to bathers are being issued throughout Xew Zealand to beware of sharks, which are apparently more numerous this year than at any other time. Awanui harbour (Auckland) is said to be teeming with them this season, and every week-end fishing parties obtain large numbers. As a result of one day’s fishing last week, a launch party landed 42 of the preying fish, and a week previously a record catch of 73 sharks was established. A warning to Sounds picnic and camping parties to beware of sharks was conveyed to a Blenheim Express representative. It is stated that there were more sharks in the Sounds this year than had ever been known, and it was common to sec them 14 to 16 feet in length. Hack, also dogs, for sale. Lost purse is advertised for; reward. Lost grey silk glove is advertised for; reward. Reward offered for recovery of P.O. Savings Bank box. Air J. Bolton’s extra ear leaves Alasterton 3.30 p.m. Saturday and Wellington 7 p.m. Air A. T. Robinson's Beauty Parlour will be closed from 12..'J0 p.m. to-mor-row until Wednesday. The urgent night dispensary advertise elsewhete of the hours of attendance during the New Year holidays. Alessrs Fly and Young’s chars-a-banc and ears arc advertised for Tauherenikau races on Saturday. _Ring 1126 for seats. lira ham and Co. notify in the wanted columns that their premises will be open to-night to 9 o’clock, and closed to-morrow (Saturday) from 12.30. Air W. 11. Saunders, Kodak specialist, Queen Street, notifies that he will close his shop to-morrow at 12..'50 p.m., and recpiests clients to be sure and purchase, their holiday films before that time. In a special New Year advertisement, Air J. Bradbury, jeweller, ex-/ tends the compliments of the season to his numerous customers and invites a continuation of their patronage. The easiest and quickest way to shine furniture, floors and linoleums is to use liquid “TAN-OL.” Gives brilliant gloss. All grocers. *

The • 4 Westminster Gazette’s ’ ’ Paris correspondent says that because she was too modest to appear undressed in a Paris music hall, Alme. Morangys broke her contract with the management -and successfully sued for £3O damages. Alme. Morangys gave evidence that she also felt cold and that her husband objected. The three judges considered that modesty ought" to have prevented her from signing the contract. They thought that her husband must have known that nowadays only the most scanty clothing was worn in the ]\ris music halls.

William Hill Woodruff, the young marine who met his death through falling from the gangway of his ship, H.AI.y. Diomede, on Sunday, on to a log fender, was the last of a family which served its country well during the Great War. His father and brothers were all killed and he was the only living son of his mother, who lives in England. Air Woodruff was engaged to be married to a girl in England as soon as his service in the New Zealand Division was completed. A young woman who saw tlie accident on Sunday was not Air Woodruff’s fiancee, as has been stated. She was visiting a friend on the warship and she did not know Air AVoodruff.

A message from Sydney, Nova Scotia, states as follows: —“A new food and a new fishing industry that has developed on Cape Breton Island in the last four years is attracting great attention. The swordfish, previously looked upon in the same way as the shark, or the dolphin, or the dogfish, has been recognised as a table delicacy, This season almost half a million pounds of swordfish were shipped from Cape Breton to Boston. Altogether 1693 of the big fish were landed this year. Some of them weighed over SOOlb, and on the average dressed about 30011), the total catch of Cape Breton Island fishermen weighing 496,896lb. ‘‘The fishermen realised about £IO,OOO for three weeks exciting sport in harpooning the swordfish. Over two hundred small boats were engaged in the game, and as a side line after the herring and mackerel run they all did fairly well. The fish brought an average. of about £6.”

Puny and irritable children are often afflicted with worms. The safest and most pleasant remedy is AVADE’S AVORM FIGS. Absolutely effective. *