LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14174, 26 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An unruly patient makes a hprd physician.

The Rules Committee of the Royal Golf Club has refused to abolish, the stymie.

The revenue from the Betting Ticket Tax in Victoria was £69,132 for the past year. “Ashburton would be a better place with some people out of it,” was an incidental comment by a speaker at St. Stephen’s Church a few days ago.

Under the Peace Treaty, curtailing German shipping, the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company’s place is taken by the Stockholm-Japanese line, whose first steamer left Hamburg for South America with a cargo of 15,000. “Paris has over 00 bridges; so why should not Hamilton have at least two?” asked a speaker at yesterday's meeting to consider the erection of another traffic bridge at the Whiti-ora-end of the town. The analogy between Hamilton and Paris was not very apparent to the majority of the delegates. Mr D. Lindsey, a blacksmith, of Matangi, met'with a painful accident yesterday. Whilst employed in the local factory an iron plate fell on his foot, causing a compound fracture to one of bis toes, which will probably have to be amputated. Mr Lindsey is now an inmate of the Waikato Hospital. The new floor covering “Congoleum” is becoming increasingly /popular for every room in the home. It is superior to ordinary printed linoleum, and lies fiat on the floor without fastening or taekibg. It is waterproof, rot proof,

,■'>'(l ' sanitary, and comes to us in a range of Tile and Oriental patterns. Six fret wide and half the price of linoleum. See the beautiful patterns at Hooker and Kingston, Ltd., “The House of Satisfaction.” Our promises close at 5.30 every afternoon. This enables our employees to have more time for recreation, which means better service to our customers.*

No egg preservative approaches SHARLAND’S “MOA” BRAND EGG PRESERVATIVE for absolute reliability and economy in use. Thousands have proved it. (?)

.Messrs J. R. Scott and Co., The Land Agents. Hamilton, are offering several good propositions in our lor Sale columns to day. •

The New South Wales Assembly has approved of the proportional voting, system.

A wireless message has been received in Sydney stating that all the crew of the Tambo, which grounded on a reef in the Gilbert Group, are safe at Abamama.,

It is stated that the Honey Producers’ Association will turn over 1-000,0001 b of honey during the coming season.

We understand that firm measures are to be taken in connection with the stray dog nuisance in Hamilton. Dogs which make themselves a nuisance to passing traffic will be destroyed or action taken against their owners. The soldiers who returned to New Zealand by the transport Corinthicarrived at Hamilton Or- train from Auckland to-day, being met by Mr J. Varney, of the Patriotic Society. Twenty men, with fourteen English brides, detrained here.

An employee of the Hardware Metal Stores, Hamilton, named J. llyan, met with a painful accident yesterday, fallirg from a horse and dislocating his ankle. He was taken to the WaikatoHospital, where he is making good progress towards recovery. I‘Anti-Profiteer” writes: “Sometimeago the milk vendors of Hamilton raised their prices to 6gd per quart, the reason given being that supplies were short and the farmers had increased the price- to *he vendors. Spring has now come, and there is no lack of milk, hut the price to the consumer has not been reduced. Is this profiteering?'’ “It’s all right, sir, we don’t want you to make a speech; we only want to see you!” called out an elderly gentleman to Viscount Jellicoe, as he stood smiling to the crowd which greeted him at the Frankton Station to-day. The Admiral bowed acknowledgment of the compliment, and seemed somewhat relieved.

Tlie Public Works Department is losing no time in proceeding with the Hora Hora hydro-electric supply scheme, and is calling tenders for the supply of material for .reticulation, etc. It is stated that officers- of the Department are already interviewing farmers in the Te Awamutu district in- regard to their requirements. Investigations by Wanganui engineers hero have proved the possibility of generating six thousand horse-power by a hydro-electrical scheme on the Wangaehu River, close to Wanganui. The source of the river is near Mount Ruapehu, and, being snow-fed, the flow does not diminish in the summer months. Investigations are to be made by th’e Wanganui Borough Council with the yiew of harnessing the river. At the meeting of beekeepers in Hamilton yesterday, JMr Trythall said that during the season there would probably he a score of returned soldier cadets and from 12 to 16 ladies learning beekeeping at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction. He wanted to give them all the practical instruction possible, and would glad if apiarists in the locality would allow them to visit and work in their apiaries occasionally. Several of those present at the meeting • promised to take parties of cadets periodically.

A case will shortly come before the Magistrate’s Court (says the New Zealand Times) in which a man is charged with imitating the trade-mark of a well-known London firm, manufacturers of a sanitary compound. It is alleged that the defendant applied to certain goods a mark so nearly resembling the registered trade-mark as to be calculated to deceive and with intent to defraud.

The question of an area of suitable land, totalling 40,000 acres, between Ongarue and Lake Taupo, which has been advocated by Mr Jennings, M.P., to be thrown open for returned soldiers and other's, has advanced to this stage, that the Minister of Lands has informed the member that the surveyors have completed half the survey of a block of some 31,000 acres in 53 sections. Part of the block carries milling timber, which will require to be disposed of before that particular position can Ire opened for settlement.