LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5647, 20 June 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

All members of the Uhinemuri Mines and Batteries' Union are requested to attend the funeral of the late Charles Holmes to-morrow afternoon.

The members of the Pride of Waihi Lodge are requested to attend the funeral of the late Bro. 0, W, H. (J. Holmes at 2 30 p.m. to morrojy.

The president of the Thames School of Mines, in the course ot bis annua! report, says:—"ln connection with the question ot industries it behoves.the Thames people to take a front place in forwarding acd taking advantage of the large hydroelectric scheme that is being promoted by the General Government. Advantage fhould be taken to utilise the water power lying at our door tor generating electricity."

When the Pateena was arriving at Wellington oa Tuesday tram .Nelson and Picton, a woman passpngpr who bad two little children on board couid not be found. A search was male for the woman, but proved futile. The missing passenger, who travelled steerage, joined the vessel at The children remained on baard the vessel for the night in the care of a stewardess. It was considered possible that their mother tame ashore at Wellington in the crowd of passenger*, '

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand .National .Dairy Association, held at Palmerslon florin on Tuesday, the president, Mr A- Morton, said that from a climatic point of view the past year had been the worst New Zealand had ever experienced. This was another factor which was responsible for production ber.g poor. The season had been unusual and severe, and one which it was hoped the? wou'd not again experience for a very ioug time, .Notwithstanding the difficulties encountered, the quality of the products of the Dominion had been high, and had not deteriorated much. That was creditable lo the producers.

" Eyen 3s per doaen wholesale for eggs is not considered too high," is the opinion of a member of the Canterbury Egg Circle, who has been paid 8s for his firstgrade eggs. This is a record, and has never been achieved in the Dominion before, according to this authority, who hjlds that "the great shortogo is certainly 4u,° to lesser production occasioned by deare? poulty food." Poullymen have a very l.cpn for about three months in the year, when onij 2ve percent, of the hens and Tcrty per cent, of the pullets can bo expected to lay. The price has been a help to the man who knows bow to fiatcfr at the right: period, and can rear and feed hjs birds for egg production. The Canterbury egg purveyor complacently observes that •'the woild is getting uaed to paying high prices for its goods, and it is quite possible the standard set this winter may be reached for years to come."

The length? scries of burglaries and attempted burglaries reported from various centre# d#rfng t!ie past lew weeks suggest the existence p£ a gang of expert thieves who are carrying on ,uuir work in a systematic manner over a mapped out circuit. At Wanganui the prem : ses of three business places were ontcrpcj. then followed Kotorua with five, with six, Hamilton with seven, and not? Thames with five, though the hauls made on pho pbo}e must have been disappointing to til- enterprising burglars. It would almost appear that one of t|;p members of the gang has been acting as an adv&n/je agent for his fellow cracksmen, as in iho pocket of a C( *t left in Wanganui the police fo,und a pocket-book containing entries indicating by wlrcfi doors or windojys various places might ha most advantageously ap /i easily entered by the nocturnal visitors, Waiiii has not so far been favoured With a visit, but bu'ino-is people who are in the habit of leaving money in their shops would do well to protect themselves by | seeing to it that the day’s takings; a;e banked daijy, Woods’ Great Peppermint. Cprp. Fur Cpuglw »u»J CoJda fails

With the more favourable weather conditions of the past few weeVs the young grass put in by settlers on ihe Waini Plains has been coming a" ay splendidly, and indications now are thst the results will prove satisfactory. Evidently the warmer spoil has had the Sirae effect on the grass lands in other districts, including ihe Hauraki Plains and Thames Valley, as recent stock sales have shown a decided advance in t;tt!e prices.

A somewhat novel cas'o came beftre the district Warden, Mr Younsj, it Thames, in the shape of an application by W. J. Hosking (Mr Ulcndon) for a mineral license for land at Tararu to 1 • used as a stone quarry. Mr Ulend n contended tha' the definition of metal in the Mining Act was very wide aud might reasonably be held to include stono for road metal. He added that he understood similar applications had been granted at. Karangahake. Mr* Yen m said that quani-s were dealt wi;h under a sjparate Act an J he wis inclined to doubt that he had junsdicton to grant the I application. The case was adjourned Lv ! a fortnight,

A diverting dory of how a distinguished divinity student not unknown in Dunedin accomplished the tall of Jericho was recounted by Mr D. N. McDiarmid at a business men's luncheon in the southern city, The story, Mr McDiarmid, said, was current in British circles in Egypt, but unfortunately he could not vouch for its literal truth, The officer in question was in charge of a light car section, and when approaching Jericho he was able to turn his theological studies to excellent account. Remembering a previous occasion on which the city was captured, the officer instructed his drivers to encircle the city as noiselessly as possible. On the second day thoy repeated the manoeuvre, but having less time to spare than had Joshua at the earlier siege, the officer gave the word on the third day for the Ford cars to be driven round seven limes with tooting of horns and all possible noise. The device was effective, for in a short time the inhabitants rushed out crying, " Come in! We can stand this no longer 1"

An intcrcstfng feature at the 'Waihi T'-iijitis School is the valuable object lessons given in a series of cards hung V!])On tli ewalls, each oil' which deals with the chit!!':' industries of the world, illustrated in a practical form. Included in the scries are detail's of the manufacture of pins, buttons, and leather. Kadi stage irom the raw material to the finished article is shown on the cards. In the pin exhibit, for instance', the jengths of wire are shown ; then comes the ilh(st*at,ioii of the wire cut into the desired lengths; then the w'ro with a head on, and so on, till an array of pins in their completed form are. shown. The same information is applied to buttons and leather. Samples of different kinds of metal, coal, and glass, showing the results of the different processes, j.lso im»o their respective places on the walls. Our representative, through the courtesy of the headmaster, Mr Phillips, had an opportunity of seeing the injecting exhibits yesterday afternoon. Three Rood comijiojitiesx-prirne Sotit-h em potatoe*. selected and graded by fi Southern buyer, at 2s 6J per cwt; bananas, r'pened on up to date lines in a room specially fitted lor the purpose on the premises, at 4d per lb; and Hij-h----lander milk at 8d per tin—are available, at Mr W, K, frjseh/s two stpres.