LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5880, 7 April 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A social will be held by the Spiritualists at the Minors’ Union Hall on Saturday evening. Under instructions from Mr C. A, Hille, who recently disposed of his farm at Katikati, the Farmers' Auctioneering Company are selling to-day his live and dead stock Included in the live stock are over 1000 sheep and woolly lambs. Two fine pictures entitled “ Wives cf Men" and “The Midnight Kora a nee ” will be shown at the Academy Theatre to night. The first picture was screened last night, and it is well worth seeing a second time. “The Midnight Romance '* features Miss Anita Stewart, and is said to be a film ol very high merit.

A Napier manufacturer who has been advertising for girls for his factory for some months with practically no success, decided on the bright idea, for so it has proved, of abolishing Saturday work, j His factory has since become popular, and is fully staffed, whi ! e the manufuc-' turer ia cons : dering the mailer ot increasing his premises. ? When a defendant charged in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court with using obscene language was asked it he had anything to say, he replied: “I admit I was a bit over the odds and bad taken too much liquor. It is not a habit of mine to use bad language—unless maybe when I am in the cowshed.” The accused’s record was not a good one and he was seat to prison for a month.

With the object ot attending the Avondale races at Auckland to day, a party of Waihi men left yesterday afternoon to catch the boat at Paeroa leaving tor Auckland at 8.30. Unfortunately for those on racing bent the boat missed the tide at Turua owing to being obliged to ship a large consignment of cheese, somewhere about 300 crates having been handled. Owing to the delay at Turua, the boat was not expected to reach Auckland till past noon to-day. The latest figures prepared by the Government Statistician show that the amount of food which would have cost 20s on the average of the four leading centres of the Dominion Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin —between the years 1909-13, had advanced to upwards of 32s fer the quarter ended December 31st, 1919, The actual figures were : Auckland 32s [Wellington 32s 6 ; [d, Christchurch 32s iOd, Dunedin 33s 3£d, with an ayerage for the four towns of 32s B£d. According to a Canadian exchange, one of the notable decorations in honour ot tho visit of the Prince of Wales in the city of Toronto was an immense arch over the entrance to the principal cemetery, inscribed: “Welcome to H.R.H. ihe Prince of Wales.’’ This evidently was one of the invitations H.K.H. did not accept. The story recalls the fact that when the American fleet visited Auckland some years ago, the Mount Eden Gaol sported aloud “Welcome” picked out in electric lights.

The team from Waihi which competed at. the Fire Brigades’ demonstration at Thames on Saturday returned with the Auckland district shield, which by virtue of its former success becomes its own property. The sheild, which is handsomely designed, contains nine silver plates, each bearing the name and date of the successful brigade. Of the nine inscribed plates Waihi has four annual wins. The shield will in future have a permanent place on one of the walls at the Waihi Fire Station. A shortage of milk at the Waihi Beach, where there are still a good many campers, is providing an unusual scene at the popular resort. Two milking cows, where formerly there used to be seven or eight, are all that are left to supply tho needs of the community, consequently the demand for milk is greater than the supply. The other day a visitor was surprised at the spectacle of a fairly lengthy queue of campers in front ot the milk depot. It transpired that only about half of the seekers for milk could be supplied.

The Government Abstract of Statistics for March month indicates that groceries ih Waihi had up to February increased by 6516 per cent, over the pre-war figures of 1914, dairy produce 54.60 per cent, and meat 50.40 per sent, the average increase tor the three foodstuffs mentioned being 67.51 p.r cent. The highest average increase daring* the period under review in any of the twenty-five leading towns dealt with by the statistician was in Invercargill, with an advance of 69.08 per cent., while the town to suffer least was Greymoutb, with an increase of 47.30 per cent. A Court case was tried in a bakehouse at Lyltellon on Thursday last. A man had been arrested on a charge of putty theft, and only one Justice of the Peace was available. Since the police did not desire to keep the accused in custody over the holiday, the whole Coun proceeded to a bakehouse, where another J.P. was hard at work making Faster buns. Hero the Court was held in a corner of the bakehouse, the Court orderly first proclaiming in front of the confectionery shop, that " the Magistrate's Court is now open." The clerk, with his book on a sa' k of flour, road the charge, and the Bench, one member of which was in the usual baker’s dress, including apron, retired a few paces to consider the case. The decision was soon arrived at, and the whole party filed out into the street again, leaving the baker, who had not been taken from his work more than three minutes, to carry on. ,

In our report of the Fire Brigades’ demonstration at Thames it was erroneously stated that Onehunga gained second place in the ladder event. It should have been stated that Waihi came second. The places of the teams were; Te Kuiti 1, Waihi 2, .Newmarket 3.

“I was amazed yrhon I discovered hoyv many millions of pounds New Zealand has sent cut of her own country for the manufacture of her own primary produets.” Mr T. K. Sedgwick, of London, said in a lecture at Christchurch. -“She first pays for tfie production, pays the freight to other countries, pays tor the manufacture, pays for the freight back, and finally, pays her own Customs duties on the goods. The position is amazing. New Zea ! and makes blankets—they are very comfortable ones, and I wish W'o could get them in England—and boots and other goods, but she could do much more by bringing people out from the Old Country to settle here. A South Island woollen mill had an offer from Canada for the whole of its output at 50 per cent, above present prices. Why could it not bring out 15,0 woikers from Old Country and increase its output ? ’ —Lyttelton Tinjes.

For Bronchial Coughs, lalje Woods Croat Peppermint Cure, Is 9d, 2s 9d,