LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16045, 9 February 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—-0-4SH" ‘ The following resolution was passed ...T-U* » f *• W."®! wc b dmd U a"'public toquiry’ into the ■*■ ,r» . • j. _f DOOCSSltufcfl Government point ot \ic , f Kj.: oU tbe dispatch of a military expalitio i to protest property.’ Next Thursday a sitting of the .■ i titration Court is to he c Wellington. Included m ih L Ictttanc.t '!">« *; * of applications for increased pay un(n +VI „ War Legislation and Statute Law tenant let of 1918. The following wards which arc m operation m WanT.imii arc down for amendment nndcr fhe above heading :-Wellington He toil Grovers’ Assistants (country award) Wellington Licensed Hotel Worker. (Wanganui, Palmerston N„ and Oroua) Wellington Country Districts Pi wale Hotel Wellington Country Districts lea Marble Bars, etc. There is no notification of any sitting fixed for A an*Z- November 12. at the Scotswood Works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., the trial took place of the first locomotive completed 'auder the firm’s reconstruction scheme. At er the trial, the guests were conducted round the new locomotive- works and boiler shops to sec for themselves the wonders worked, therein during the past few months.. In the evening, the guests were entertained by the directors to a banquets the Station Hotel, Newcastle, on Tyne to celebrate the occasion, liic chairman of Sir W G. Armstrong. Whitworth and Co., Ltd., in the course of some interesting remarks, stated that the new locomotive works were now the largest in the British Empire, and would shortly be the largest self-contain* I ed locomotive works in the world.

The Sydney Sun newspaper has opened a fund, and donated ,LTOO, to finance. an Olympic (.dunes team. Imports credited to Germany mad® during the last, quarter of 1919 into New Zealand were valued at £3t>. A Sydney eaiilo states that a fire destroyed the Netherby flourmills at Corowa. The damage is estimated at £.30,000. There arc 65 divorce, cases set down for hearing at the. civil sessions of the Supreme Court which opened at Auckland to-day. Exports from Wanganui for the week ended February 3rd were valued as under: Butter, £22.208; cheese, ,£51,014; tallow, £2071) ; wool, £5745. The value of exports from the Pert of Patea. for Hie quarter ended December 31st was .£1,027,-iso. of which goods to the. value of £.1,023,35 !• were, sent to Great Britain. A mooting of Timaru fanners on Saturday decided to accept the wheat prices fixed lor this year and to ask the Government to fix ilic price for next year at an average of a, shilling higher. The Christchurch warier butchers lastweek decided, to lodge a, Haim wifi, the Government tit reaped, lo the English, wool profits. it lias P-eu computed that on a fair estimate nm of the smal'er butchers would be eat;lied to about .£SO(J, while the amount involved in huger firms is very large. A commercial man. who is keenly interested in the boii/ine supply, has informed a. New Zealand Time*' reporter that there was every prospect of an immediate vise in the. local price of oil. Iso far as quantity was concerned, he said, i lie posiiion was much easier 1 ban it, had been, for some time 1 , a- tlu-re was enough in the local market to supply immediate requirements while there were largo shipments approaching. Postal and telegraph revenue collected in Wanganui postal district, during tho last quarter of hist year aggregated ,£21,231 7,s -Id, and was made up of—postal ,£1.2,1.52 Its, and telegraphic £8,778 ]Bs -Id. The chief items were: Postages ,£ 11,9118 7s K;d, telegrams £801(1 18,s Id. During the .same jK’riod the number of money orders issued was 10.798, for £79,010 Ids (id, and s(ii>3 were paid, the amount over Die respective counters being £15.772 !5s 2d. Imports through the port of Wanganui for the quarter ended December 31st were valued at £77.173. Prom Great Britain were, purchased goods valued at £31,080, Australia £24,023, Japan 400, U.S.A. £18,073. Bor lari, year Die total value of (he imports through Wanganui was £'3 i7,(107. 4ho port was the eight li port, in the Dominion, in order of value of im (torts, s being led by Wellington, Auckland, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Napier, Invercargill and Timaru, in that order. The birth rale in Wanganui for Hut year 19J9 was 24,05 per 1000. noil her til a highest nor lowest for the Dominion. New Plymouth had the distinction of having the highest birth rate, of the country, the rate there being 27.05. Dunedin had the reverse 1 distinction, for in that city the rate was '17.94 (xer 1000. The Dominion birth, rale was 2-0.53. Wanganui occupies a. mid-wise position so far as the death rale is concerned, (lie rate for 1919 being 10.9! per 1000. Gisborne, 9.00, had the lowest, rate, and Grey Valley, 11.58, the highest. Tim Dominion death rate was 10.7 J. Tiie official opening of the first choose factory in the West port district Look place at Bh'clilichl on Saturday, when there was u large and representative gathering of cii irons and fanners. over which Air Aiclnlyro. County chairman, presided. Speeches were made by the Mayor (Mr Leaver), tho • chairman 'of tho Harbour Board (Mr Sloe), the■ president of the farmers’ Union (Air Brunning), and oilier representative men. Speeches wen' of a congratulatory nature, and expressing the hope that this industry would he a steadily expanding one. as increasing . attention was being given to fanning.