LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 609, 18 February 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

During the year about 9000 motor cars were imported into New Zealand, the majority from Canada, but a great portion of the remainder from the United States.

The Health Board reported at Wednesday’s meeting of the Borough Council that there had been an outbreak of scarlet fever in Queen Street, also a case of measles in West Road.

A meeting of the executive of the Franklin Racing Club will be held in the A. and P. Society’s office on Wednesday next, February 23, at 8 p.m. As much important business is to be transacted, a full attendance is requested.

The Pom Poms, who are playing at the Strand Theatre to-night, come with a very fine reputation as entertainers. In every town they have visited the audiences have encored every item and asked for a return visit. Smithson, the three-voice artist, is claimed to be alone worth the price of admission.

At a sitting of the Police Court on Tuesday last, before Messrs C. K. Lawrie and F. Perkins, J’s.P., William Lewis, a seaman, was charged with committing a grossly indecent act in George Street, Tuakau, on February 14th. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five days’ free board at the expense of the State.

“The bottom has fallen completely out of the land boom,” said a Pahiatua resident, who has just returned from an extensive tour of the Noi’th Island (reports the Herald). “During all my journey I never saw one sale of land take place. You had only to start and peruse a list of farms for sale and you were immediately pounced upon a gentleman eager to get a sale.”

On Sunday next harvest thanksgiving services will be celebrated in the Pukekohe and Bombay Methodist Churches. At each place, the choir will sing appropriate anthems. The social and sale of gifts at Pukekohe will take place on Monday evening. At Bombay a special concert will be held in the hall on Wednesday!. February 23, when the programme will be provided by the Papakura Orchestral Society. Friends are requested to send gifts of fruit or produce on Saturday.

Miss Constance Talmadge and Miss Dorothy Gish, the well-known picture actresses, were two of the principals in a double wedding in New York recently. Miss Talmadge married Mr. John Tialaglo, a tobacco importer, and Miss Gish’s husband was Mr. James Rennie, formerly a captain in the R.A.F., and now on the stage. The two brides are said to have entered into a compact in their girlhood tint when they wyere married it shnvid be a double wedding.

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Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following undefended civil cases at the Police Court on Thursday, before Messrs C. K. Lawrie and H. Wilcox, J’s. P.: —J. T. Stembridge v. John Kane, claim £2 17s 6d, costs 25s 6d; E. W. Tabor v. W. H. Guest,, £l7 19s, costs £2 14s ; C. A. Kidd v. W. Guest, £7 10s 3d, costs £1 5s 6d; Commissioner of Taxes v. Jane Auckram, £1 13s hOd; same v. Oswald G. Avery, £l4 12s lid; same v. Flora M. Davey, £2 10s 3d.

It seems extraordinary, and is certainly puzzling to the smoker, that whilst the retail price of tobacco is steadily increasing there are no buyers for this season’s Southern Canadian tobacco crop. A special despatch cf November 21 from Leamington (Essex County) to the Toronto Globe says: “Although South Essex growers raised the largest crop this year in the history of the industry, they are now facing a most serious situation owing to the failure of the buyers to appear, and unless some relief is afforded promptly, many of them will experience heavy losses. There are between twenty and thirty million pounds of tobacco in this district, for which buyers have offered prices less than the cost of production, yet even at the reduced figures they are willing to buy only a small fraction of the crop. So far the Imperial Tobacco Company is the only one that has sent buyers into the South Essex field and it is offering prices ranging from 41 to 48 cents a pound, a big decrease from last year’s figures. Many farmers have made financial commitments, and depended upon the turnover of their tobacco crop with which to meet them, and the failure of the big tobacco companies to come into the field may make it necessary for these growers to appeal to the banks for assistance”