LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14775, 14 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears. The past winter was a record one so far as the Wanganui River was concerned, the water being at the lowest level, for the winter, experienced for many years. Lord Northcliffe, speaking in Melbourne, said he was amazed at the size of the Australians. He felt as if he was amongst a race of giants and he himself was quite a pigmy. Elsie Maud Hammond, alias Harvey, a married woman and a recent arrival from England, was charged at the Cambridge Police Court with importuning. She was sentenced to one month's hard labour in Mt. Eden gaol. Under the new regulations, any hairdresser or barber applying petroleum spirit to the hair of any customer or person commits an offence, and is liable to a fine of £loo.—The above is a clause in the new regulations in connection with the Explosives and Dangerous Goods Act. Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., of Palmerston North, has perpetrated a “hull.” He declared in the House of Representatives, amidst roars of laughter, that “they didn’t go walking about the streets on soap-boxes, condemning the Government for what they were doing.” “Thirty-five years ago a self-denial week, which brought in £SOOO, saved the Salvation Army,” said Lord Jcllicoc in a speech at Wellington. “That first self-denial week might well be taken as an example to the world today, for if ever self-denial was required to carry on, it is needed from civilisation at the present moment.”

"Education is almost a fetish in India,” said Rev. A. W. Brough, of the London Missionary Society, to a Manawalu Standard reporter recently. He mentioned the fact that this year no less than 63,000 native candidates would sit for the B.A. degree. The Indian People held persons of education and culture in great respect and a missionary without a first-class education did not get very far and seldom gained the confidence of the natives. “Southland is from year to year becoming more Intensely cultivated,” said Mr J. E. Winsloe, organiser of the 'Southland Progress League, states the Press, “as may be gauged from the fact that this year no fewer than 40 cheese and butter factories were in full swing, all producing a high-grade article. These factories have proved a godsend, and it is due to them alone that Southland has felt the financial stringency less than any other province in New Zealand.” o It is stated that the Mormon community at Hastings have entered into negotiations for 4000 acres of land for the purpose of establishing a Mormon settlement, which will form the New Zealand headquarters of the craft. Whatever objection many people may entertain towards the Mormons on the ground of religion or otherwise, their industry and sobriety usually results in the acquirement of comfort and the world’s goods.

Writing lo a friend in Gisborne, a big breeder of cattle in the Argentine, who owns several square miles of country, makes some telling statements in regard to the meat trust- "Owing lo the operations of the meat trust,” he says, "1 am giving up cattle breeding, as the (rust has such a hold, and has eliminated' competition to such an extent that 1 intend breeding horses lo supply the demand on the Continent. Though we have -the advantage over New Zealand it is not a Paying proposition. Only one firm is buying, which is totally different to what it used to be, as they have killed all competition.”

Inquiries regarding the identity of (he man who was killed in Morrinsvillc on Saturday night by falling off the Studiiolmo Sired railway bridge show that his name was Patrick Janies O’Neill. He cnlisied with the X./.E-F., and had served for nearly four years with the Mounted Rifles in Egypt- He had relatives in Paeroa. The funeral took place in Morrinsvillc on Tuesday. Father Carroll read the burial service. A firing parly of Te Aroha returned soldiers fired a volley over the grave, and the “Last Post” was sounded. Every year the public appreciate the jubilee and birthday celebrations that lake place at Hooker and Kingston's— Hamilton’s progressive drapery store. It, means Jti days of savings in all your wants, for every article is marked down at special prices. This is the way this store lias of showing their appreciation to the many loyal and faithful customers. For instance, there are ladies’ crcpe-do-chene blouses honestly worth It's Cd, but Jubilee price Os ‘.HI; 3fiin. spero calico worth Is lid, jubilee price Is bid: ladies’ pretty crepe dresses, usually 39s Od, but. jubilee price 29s fid, and all-wool cashmere hose usually 6s lid, jubilee price as fid. We welcome you to our store during Jubilee Week. Honker and Kingston’s, Ltd., the drapers where you can really save.* The ?!nllcrl Chiropractor adjusts his patients without pain. Sep Mr r>. C. Biarkif. Everybody’s Building, Victoria Street (opp. House and Dakingj.* The direct action of “.NO nrpntNO” I anndrv Help is always praised wherever women'meet. 1/- a packet, all grocers, 10

The Waikato Hospital Board is to immediately submit plans of the Bailey Ward extension at the Hamilton hospital to the Minister. Once approval is obtained the work can be commenced. An unusual freak, Jn the shape of a two-headed calf, has been born on the property of Mr Ivan Cameron at Mauriceville (says the Wairarapa Daily Times). The calf has two distinct heads, otherwise it is quite normal.

Tickets for the benefit concert to be given by the Hamilton Orphans’ Club in the Theatre Royal, on Tuesday next, on behalf of the Hospital Extension Fund, are soiling freely, and everything points to a very large audience. A splendid programme lias been arranged. The cause is one ttiat will make a strong appeal to all. Times arc changing. A South Taranaki farmer told a reporter recently that last year he had difficulty in engaging labour at £1 a day. This year he had been inundated with requests for jobs, and is paying 12s a day, and getting 10 per cent more work done than he got last year for 20s.

At the Hospital Board meeting, yesterday, Mr G. Dickinson handed over a cheipie for £2O towards the Bailey Ward Extension Fund. The sum, donated by Mr L. M. Morrin, of Cambridge. was the gross•proceeds of a picture entertainment, Mr Morrin desiring to acknowledge in such a way his thanks for the treatment received while an inmate of the hospital. The Board passed a resolution expressing its heartfelt appreciation of the splendid spirit shown by the donor. On Tuesday night, on the Pirongia Road, a short distance from the railway crossing at To Awamutu, a flve-scatcr Rio car, for some unaccountable reason, suddenly became ablaze, and the driver, who, it is understood, was travelling from Hamilton to To Kuiti, was powerless to stop the flames. It is thought the engine back-fired. The accident is an unfortunate one, as the car was a valuable one, and the cause so far remains a mystery. The driver left by train for Te Kuiti. “It is the worst period I have struck," was the opinion expressed by a prominent railway official at Auckland on Saturday, when referring to traffic on tho railways at the present time. He attributes the decrease in volume to the influences of the money market. It was very noticeable because ordinarily New Zealanders were great travellers. “The wool carried on the railways was also down to a minimum, the growers preferring to store their clips in anticipation of better prices than send them forward to the sales.”

A man named Arthur Doyle was arrested yesterday at Cambridge (.a two charges of indecent exposure. This morning he was charged with the offence at the Cambridge Police Court. The Bench, in sentencing Doyle tq six months’ hard labour, at Mt. Eden gaol, with a recommendation that lie be kept under medical supervision, said that the matter was a very grave one, end it was necessary in the interests of the community that prisoner should go to gaol. The fact that Doyle had been under the influence of liquor was no excuse. The Bench thanked several lady witnesses for giving evidence the way they had, as it was sometimes hard to get witnesses.

It is evident that New Zealand is considered for its poultry industry, even by Vancouver, the greatest poultry centre of the world. This *is demonstrated by the fact that a gentleman, who was once in the Vancouver Government service, is at present in the Dominion inspecting the numerous poultry farms. Last week he was in Palmerston North, looking over the local farmers’ flocks. In the course of his remarks to one well-known Palmerston North poultry breeder, he slated that he was inspecting the farms with the intention of procuring a suitable one, and settling in the Dominion.

According to a statement made to a Wellington reporter by Mr Niall, secretary of the New Zealand Slaughtermen's Federation, between 30 and 40 slaughtermen left for Australia by last week’s Sydney boat. He said that some 300 New Zealand slaughtermen had left for Australia within the past five weeks, and a further batch were leaving next week. The men were, he said, dissatisfied with their prospects in the Dominion, and were being offered more remunerative employment in the Australian meat works. In Victoria, for instance, the rate for sheep was £2 2s per 100, and in New Soutli Wales £2 3s. Beef rates were in the vicinity of 3s per head. The Mercantile Gazette says:—“lf the price of butter falls to Is per lb, or even Is 6d, there will be a great crisis in the dairying districts. It seems inevitable that the valuations placed on dairy farms must be greatly reduced, and this reduction must fall heavily on many. The reduction in the prices of butter and cheese will affect the incomes of dairy farmers, and this will react on the exchange situation. Dairy produce has been the mainstay of the country at a critical time, and if it is to follow meat the consequences must be serious. On the other hand, the reduction of prices locally will speedily justify a general reduction in wages, and that is of considerable importance to the country at the present time.”

Cakes, jam tarts, cream puffs, and the other concomitants of afternoon tea arc among the latest articles to join the ranks of cheaper goods in Auckland. While the best qualities of cake, the “three-decker” for instance, still maintain their prices, several kinds of block sake, such as Madeira, seed and sultana, show a reduction of 3d Per pound. In “small goods" a trade term which covers a largo variety of the delicacies found on afternoon tea tables, Hi ere has been a drop of 2d per dozen. Jam sandwiches and jam rolls arc now cheaper by 2d each. While currants and other fruits have advanced in price lately, eggs arc decidedly cheaper, Hour is cheaper, and no doubt the forthcoming reduction in sugar next month has been a factor in making a revised list necessary for bakers’ goods. To earn one pound sterling last year the dairy farmer was required to produce only some 71b of butter-fat. To earn the same one pound this year he will have to produce at least 101 b of butter-fat, and might possibly need to produce twelve. This means that if hi' wishes to receive the same amount of cash for his exertions, more butler-fat must be produced. Increased production can only be secured by milking cows being fed to their maximum. Supplementary crops designed to maintain the flow- of milk through the dry months are now a necessity in the Waikato, and large areas arc being put down t>his year in soft turnips, maize, millet and lucerne. The seed and manure for.ail these croPs arc procurable from Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Go., Ltd. (Box 16, Auckland, or Box 147, Hamilton), who are in a position to give absolutely prompt delivery of all requirements. The Cornpany’.s new grinding plant, and fertiliser store at Otalnihu is now in full working order and clients are assured of ready despatch of orders. Special attention is directed to the value of Garten’s Hardy Green Globe ns the beM while, turnips and the Garten's Superlative as the best swede.*

“vn Himni.NG’ - Laundry Help never rails lo egret a quick divorce of grease or paint from mechanics’ wear. 2

There is a movement on foot to divide the Hamilton Methodist circuit into two. At present the scattered circuit is found to be rather unwieldy.

The official opening, of the Whitiora Bowling Club’s green, which was to have taken place to-morrow, has been Postponed, owing to the heavy rain of the past few days. The opening of the croquet lawns will take place as announced.

A ’bus service for Hamilton East will be commenced next Monday. The termini arc the corner of Grey and Naylor Streets and the Times Office. Five trips will be run in each direction each day. The time-table appears elsewhere. ’Buses will also be run from the Frankton school corner to town. “You say that thieving is rife in Palmerston!’’ exclaimed one of Palmerston’s oldest inhabitants to a Manawatu Times’ representative, “but you ought to go to Wellington. I went to one of tlic best hotels there, and, feeling tired, went to bed early, leaving my good new boots outside tho door to be cleaned. Following morning they were gone. Another man a few doors away left his gold watch on the dressing-table while he went to his bath. That went too. Served him right ,of course, for being such a fool. But (confidentially) next time I go to Wellington I’ll keep my boots on when I go to bed!" Within the next few months the parts of 2500 12-ton four-wheeled steel waggons, class LA, to augment the Dominion’s railway rolling-stock, will have arrived in the Dominion. Already the parts of 150 are at the Newmarket workshops, and it is anticipated that the'work of assembling them will be commenced next week, by which • time it is hoped to have erected an air compressing plant for pneumatic riveters. The waggons are put together at Home, but knocked down for packing; consequently they have to be riveted at this end. It is expected that the vehicles wall be turned out ready for the road at the rate of 15 per week. One thousand of the waggons will be allocated to the Auckland railway district. ’ The quarterly meeting of the Morrrnsviile Methodist Church was held on Monday, the Rev. H. Gottorn in the chair. Mr G. D. Dealcy, who had taken a special course of study, was examined, received as a fully accredited local preacher, and was welcomed and congratulated by the chairman. Various reports were considered and the posi-. tion and prospects of the church deemed highly satisfactory. The balance sheet showed a very large income for Morrinsville, but owning to small returns from the country due to weather and road conditions, there was a small addition to the circuit deficiency, An attempt to clear off the debt is to be made by a special gift day in December. Rev. H. Gottorn,' stated he would .g. be leaving dn April next, and a committee was appointed to secure a successor. Mr W. Johnstone was appointed agent for Centenary Book and Messrs G. F. Oates and J. B, Thomas delegates to the Synod at Thames.

The sending of letters or postal packets to the Queensland Golden Casket Art Union Committee has been prohibited by the (says a Wellington Press Association telegram). The prohibition also applies to the issue of money orders in favour of the Golden Casket, or its secretary, Arthur Lucas, of Brisbane. The reason given is that the Post-master-General has reasonable ground for supposing that the committee and the person named are engaged in carrying out a lottery game of chance. The Golden Casket Art Union was established by the citizens of Brisbane under the chairmanship of Alderman Maurice Baldwin at the end of 1917 to raise funds for the erection of houses, mainly in the suburbs of Brisbane, as a free gift to the widows of fallen soldiers. Prizes ranged from £SOOO to £5.