LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15028, 28 August 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In reference to a paragraph in Mr Goodfellow's speech at the meeting of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, on Tuesday last, as reported in our issue of 23rd insl., mention of a plot to bring about the disintegration of the New Zealand Go-operative Dairy Company, Limited, was made by Mr Goodfellow. Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., through their solicitors, Messrs. Bell, Gully, Myers and O'Leary, have wired us that the statement obviously refers to them, and that the said statement is wholly untrue and grossly defamatory. In publishing Mr Goodfellow's. remarks, we were unaware that they referred to Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., and their representative, Mr Sanderoock, and we . regret any annoyance that has been caused them by the publication of the statement, and we unreservedly withdraw any imputation made or implied against Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co. and tlicir London director.

A man arrested at New Brighton, on a Charge of robbing clothes lines, had in' his possession six sacks, containing almost every conceivable kind of garment.

"With the exception of the asphalt roads, it is the best road between here and Auckland," said the Mayor at Thursday's meeting of the Morrinsville Borough Council, when a letter, signed ,by six ratepayers, was read complaining about Hie condition of the road and footpaths in Lorno Street J^rlh.

A movement is on foot at Win lon to establish a woollen mill for the district. The mill is lo be a two-course mill, to cost approximately no.OOO. It was elicited at a large and enthusiastic meeting, presided uver by IhO Mayor of Winlon, that no mill in New Zealand had called up more than 4s (id in the £ in capital. "Have you an eye for beauty?" was a question put to a witness in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, in the course of some inquiry as lo what lie looked for when buying a farm, and witness replied: "I think of but-ter-fat before beauty." The Court Fniiled, as the witness added thai an attractive appearance might Influence a purchaser with not very much experience.

At I lie close of a concert given by local artists to Hie inmates of Dorchester Prison, England", a. touching incident occurred'. One of the prisoners asked permission of the .governor to speak,''and in cultured tones asked the artists to accept the thanks of the men incarcerated there. He said they wanted to forget the place! llicy were In, and such entertainment helped them to do it. "A snatch of song or a few words," lie said, " bring remembrances and prevent the bitterness which we (•annul help feeling when we think of the tilings that might have been and of the awful mess and trouble which seem to have, got in our way. The sympathy and kindness you have shown us will help us over many a difllr.ully when we got outside again." The man's j words were warmly applauded by Hie large number of prisoners present.

On Sunday afternoon next (weather permitting) the Hamilton Municipal Band, conducted by Mr Croxl'ord, will render a programme of music*

We can see nothing incongruous In houspwivi's singing ami dancing Tor Joy while "No-lUibbtng" Laundry llolii Is doing the woQlvly family washing. — ll, Oaiid, iuj

The secretary to .the Treasury acknowledges receipt of 5s conscience money, forwarded to the Defence Department by some person unknown.

A native's skill with a boomerang created some interest after the football match at Steele Park on Saturday afternoon.

Owing to unforeseen circumstances, the annual meeting of the Frankton Tennis Club will be held In the Frankton Methodist Church, instead of the Frankton School, as advertised.*

A copy of the summons served on Nicola for blocking the trafile, and a photograph showing the huge crowd which assembled in Auckland to see the magician "hung," are on exhibition outside the Theatre Royal, Hamilton, and are attracting much attention.

The proposal to hold a camp at.the lUiakura Agricultural Farm, for .the senior boys of district high schools this week, has been abandoned, owing to the Government declining to grant permission. Mr J. P. Kalaugher, supervisor of manual and technical education, stated that the Department of Agriculture had been agreeable to the scheme and that there was ample accommodation at Ruakura.

A territorial, A. C. Stewart, applied to Mr 11. A. Young, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, this morning for exemption from military training. He stated that he was employed at the Frankton Theatre, acting as caretaker In the day-time, and as operator in the evening. Exemption was granted on the condition that applicant fired the necessary musket course. Charged with not attending drill on three occasions Stanley Stewart Kelly, who had a fairly good excuse, was fined ss, and costs, on each of the three charges.

The straying stock nuisance is becoming so acute in Hamilton that the authorities have decided to take rigorous measures to put it down, and those people who allow their cattle and horses to use the "long acre" will in future have to pay in addition to the poundage fees a fine and court costs. Only one case was brought at the court this morning, however, and as the defendant, A. Campbell, slated that he had ten of a family, he was merely convicted, and ordered to pay costs amounting to £1 Os Od. An ex-New Zealander now domiciled in America, writing from Now York to a friend in Hamilton, says: "Many thanks for the paper. It was splendid to read about that little country of ours. It opens one's eyes to the New Zealandors' attitude to New Zealand, and how wrapped up that country is—in itself. It's amazing. I don't like it to be thought that New Zealand is too small for me. But it does strike me that people down there make a big fuss over a comparatively small thing. But if not —what could they fuss aver? The hub' of the universe it verily is—-.to themselves I"

The by-law list at the local court this morning was an exceptionally short one. Michael Corcoran, for driving his car along Main street, without a tail-light attached, was fined ss, and costs 7s, while W. R. Provis was forced to make a total contribution of £1 14s for permitting his car to stand unlighted in the street. A fine of £2 and costs £1 Is was the penalty paid by W. Crawford for not having a light on the front of a vehicle, Harry Woods being fined 10s, and costs 7s, for not having the registered number plate on his car in a distinguishable position. About 30 members and several business men were present at the meeting of the Hamilton Accountant Students' Society on Saturday evening, Mr G. H. Bindon being in the chair. Professor Grossman, president of the Faculty of Economics at the Auckland University College, delivered a lecture on "Rising and Falling Prices." Keen attention was given to the Professor who gave a very interesting history of the causes bringing about the present general high prices. He was also called upon to answer several questions' on the subject of his address. The Society was Indeed fortunate in having Professor Grossmon, who was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks at the close of the evening.

An opinion that the matriculation examination is available to students of too tender vears was expressed by the Director of Education (Mr J. Caugliley) in the course of a lecture in Dunedm. "Take a lad of sixteen years," said Mr Caugliley; "will anyone say that he is sufflicently matured, that his outlook is broad enough, that •he lias read sufficiently widely and deeply for him to avail himself of the facilities for education —old enough to ensure that He will be able to understand what h,s professor as a professor should teach? If the matriculation examination ceased to be a uMi.'ty examination, and bodame' the qualification for enU'.nce to the University, as was intended, the ago could be raiseu by one cr two scars with 31 oat advantage."

"At the present rale of cutting, timber supplies along the Main Trunk will be exhausted in about twelve years, with the exception of supplies in inaccessible areas," stated a Forestry Service official recently. Where five years or so ago the mills were cutting alongside railway sidings, they are now operating ten miles back, and hauling by traction engine. There arc nearly 100 sawmills in the district embracing "the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, and Taranaki provinces. Quito a number of them are cutting out, and obviously, if they have to go

another ten miles back for their supplies, timber cannot remain ut the present prices. By careful and selective cutting, the Forestry Service hopes to secure n limited supply of limner in perpetuity, but certain areas more suitable for farming purposes arc being cut right out. The poverty and distress that are being experienced in Sydney just now was referred to by Mr .1. 11. Shemmings, who was there Some four weeks ago, when chatting to an Ashburton Guardian representative. Hundreds of men were sleeping out in the parks and In rock caves on the foreshore (if Sydney Harbour. It was one phase of the existing need that had come into the limelight. Homeless, m the wintry rain, they were to be found wrapped 'ln newspapers and rugs, within sight of abundance. Amid the beauty and woallh of the city there were those who were, suffering extreme want. The Salvation Army liaa started a campaign to assist these poor unfortunates, and the morning Mr Slicnunlngs left Sydney he saw IS'.l such men being fed at an Army depot Willi soup and bread. "And I have seen almost as bad as that in Auckland," he said. "There the Army hud a marquee erected, and every night they housed some 150 men, l'eeding them well in the morning."

The opening display or ail spring and summer novelties, dress and fashion goods lakes place this week at Hooker and Kingston's. Some fascinating new styles in coat-frocks and costumes for spring wear are a special feature of the showroom, while the dress 'department is showing Hie latest creations in summer wash rahrics. Wo welcome your inspection this week to view these newest goods. Hooker and Kingston 1,1,1., Hamilton's Popular Drapery Store.*

•■'or Children's HacKtiiK cousrn, Wouoa' QMit rcßperaunt aura.

The weather in Hamilton during the week-end was delightfully springlike, and the brilliant sunshine was much enjoyed after the cold winter.

The current Gazette contains Orders-in-Council altering the boundaries of the Mangawara drainage district.

"I secured two men from the Immigration Department," said a speaker at a Farmers' Union executive meeting at Invercargill recently, "and one who came from Scotland was the best man I have ever employed," He recommended farmers who had a difficulty in securing competent men, that they should follow the same course. "During the war period, when business was easily gained and easily lost, many men and woman came in on the. wave of prosperity," said Mr Jas. Wylie in an address at New Plymouth (states the News). "But after a while their business grew too big for them and got beyond their control, so that to-day these temporarily successful people are being carried back on the ebb tide of adversity."

There was a large congregation at St. Andrew's Church, Hamilton, yesterday morning, when Mr A. G. Coombes was ordained an elder, and subsequently he and Mr .1. G. Pike were inducted as members of St. Andrew's session. The service was a. most impressive one, and was eonducted, by Rev. R. Mackie, who preached an appropriate sermon on "Fools for, Christ's Sake."

Testimonials are of varying degrees in value but an Invercargill returned soldier who was placed by the- Secretiry of the R.S.A. has one which he will, no doubt, be proud of. This man was i. r ;\ en several days gardening with a. private resident and the rate of wage agreed on was 14s per day. On llnishing up he was surprised, but undoubtedly pleased to receive pay at the rate of 16s per day, the employer stating that he had earned it. At a meeting of the Chalmers Presbyterian congregation at Timaru on Wednesday, the subject of the recent heresy charges against Rev. P. Gladstone Hughes were mentioned. The minister made a statement in relation to the whole question, and the congregation placed on record a resolution expressing continued and perfect confidence in the minister, appreciation of his services as an able and scholarly exponent of the Scriptures and a faithful preacher of the gospel and admiration of him as a devoted pastor.

A resident of Levin was making his way in the back country on the slopes of the Tararuas, when he came across a human skeleton on the second ridge of the range. It was at first thought that the remains had been there for a very considerable period, at least 20 years. Closer inspection brought to' light a mystery that promises somewhat remarkable features. Coins were found near the skeleton dating as late as 1916, which shows that the man must have wandered during the, war period, and died of exhaustion" and starvation.

Mr Liebmann, of Liebmann Bros., New York, large fur dealers, is at present in New Zealand. His company has up to the present purchased over li million rabbit skins, of about £70,000 in' value. He reckons that New York requires annually between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 skins, most of which of course, would have to be got from Australia. New Zealand could supply from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 skins. The output last year was about 4500 bales, fully 80 per cent.' of which were procured in Southland and Otago.

Marshal Pilsudski, head of the State of Poland, has inherited an enormous fortune. Many years ago, according to the Gazeta Poranna, a Warsaw paper, Ernest Pilsudski, relative of the marshal, emigrated to the United Slates, and in time became head of a very successful building concern. A few weeks ago he,died in Boston. By his will his whole fortune goes to Marshal Pilsudski. It amounts to about £10,000,000, which at the present rate of exchange is equal to about 60,000,000,000 Polish marks. The marshal, who lives in the most frugal style, becomes a Polish miblionalro 60,000 times over. At Okato, (Taranaki), on Friday night, a cyclone struck the corner of a pine plantation, and about nine trees, each at least four feet in diameter, were snapped off like carrots. The storm then tore through the plantation, stripping trees as it proceeded. A shed about a couple of chains from a house was demolished, the timbers being carried against the house where the chimney in a leanto and a portion of the verandah were torn down, while two four hundred gallon tanks, both full of water, were crumpled like paper.

"People in this country eat far too much," said Dr. E. H. "Wilkins, chief schools medical officer to the Hawke's Bay Education Board. Coming from Wellington in the train, lie said, he had noticed that the people at Paekakariki, after being deprived of food for nearly two hours, rushed the refreshment rooms to consume tea and sandwiches. They repeated the performance at Palmerston North, Woodvillo, and Waipukurau. He looked at them "guzzling" these things, and could not help thinking how wrong and contemptible it was.

To Mr G. T. Kemp, telegraph engi-

neer in the Nelson district, who is about to retire on superannuation, belongs the honour of being the first in New Zealand to experiment in wireless. In 1888, some seven ycaf's before Marconi began his experiments, Air Kemp conceived and put into effect the theory of transmitting electric currents between two distant stations without the aid of metallic conductors. His idea was that the earth or sea could be utilised as the conductor of currents between stations, and he eventually secured successful results between Wairoa and Gisborne, a distance of 74 miles. Lack of financial means, and the failure of the Government to recognise the value of'the discovery, prevented Mr Kemp from perfecting his system, and it was left to Marconi to give the precious boon of wireless lo the world. "Teaching is a noble service," said Mr E. Dixon, M.P., at the farewell to Mr F. Bennett; retiring headmaster of the Berhamporc School, "since it lavs the foundation of character and the foundation of the country's wellbeing." Continuing, he said that it should be treated as one of the highest and noblest professions, and steps were now being taken to increase the salaries x of school teachers so that they would be an inducement to the cleverest and most competent scholars. Speaking to the pupils, Mr Dixon counselled them not to despise a child who was poorly (dad, for un-

derneath a ragged garment might beat a heart of gold. Through life they

should always look for the person who was "down" and out," and give him a helping hand. Each citizen had three duties—first to God, then to King, and finally to country. The persons who fulfilled those three requirements would not have lived in vain.

It pays to preserve Eggs with Shavland's "Moa" Brand Egg Preservative. Last year £300,000 worth of eggs were preserved with it. You try it tnia year, &

When a young man made application at the Magistrate's Court, at Invercargill recently, for exemption from, drill to allow him to study for an examination the Magistrate (Mr G. Cruickshank), said that In cases Tike the one before him a monthly report on the studies of the student would have to be received from the teacher.

"The young fellow was granted exemption by me," said His Worship,

"and later a military officer inquired al the boy's home as to how he was progressing with his studies. 'Oh, replied the mother, 'he is not studying at all. That was only a gag. All his chums were doing it and he thought he- would do the same.' "

The cruelty'of making sjfort of tame animals and. birds was stressed by \__

the Hon. G. M. Thomson in the Legislative ' Council 1 in moving the second reading of the Animals' Protection and Game Amendment Bill. The nutter sought io be prohibited was the shooting of l.vc~pigeons from traps This, he said, was a survival of barbarous sports such as bull-baiting, ba'ling, cock-fighting, putting rat-i and terriers into pits. The hounding by dogs o? deer whose horns had been padded was another cruel Sport which the speaker had personally witnessed. S'jch spoils merely reflected the leanings of primitive man who. delighted in torturing animals, and all of them bad been suppressed. Cross-examined by the secretary of the. Seamen's Union as to whether he had ever been at sea, the manager of a large coastal shipping company, stated In evidence in the Arbitration Court, Wellington, recently that, he had. "In/what capacity?' asked the workers' representative. "Fireman," was the reply. "You mean to say you have risen from fireman to general manager?" "No," "How long were you fireman?" "For one trip." "When, was that " "In 1913," (the year of the big strike). "I thought so; did you enjoy it?" "Well, I did my duty to the entire satisfaction of the engineer. The ship did not lose any speed."