The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 686, 22 November 1921, Page 4

The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Rev. S. Nixon, who has been staving at Killinchy, near Leeston. for some weeks, conducted divine service in Leeston Presbyterian Church last Sunday morning.

“We nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice.”

The team of Te Aroha bowlers which competed in last week’s tournament at Pukekohe are very appreciative of the treatment accorded them by the residents of Pukekohe, whose hospitality exceeded all bounds. The few players from the Thames Valley and Waikato who attended are now busy convincing their club mates that it was a mistake not to take part.—Te Aroha News.

The executive of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association has dispatched the following telegram to the Prime Minister and local members of Parliament : “Strong indignation among returned soldiers at the temporary stoppage of loans without due warning. Many have completed negotiations for the purchase of seditions and prepared plans with a view to building. Urge strongly the continuation of advances for erection of new buildings, and (that due notice be given of the cessation. The stoppage will make unemployment more acute. Please place our views before the Government with a view of immediate resumption of the loan.

There were 4189 more births 'than deaths in the Dominion in the September quarter. * .

“I have a farm of 1300 acres, and have been farming 1 for 13 years,” stated a witness at the Arbitration Court at Wellington. “That’s unlucky,” said Mr Justice Fraser,. “Yes, very,,’’ was jthe laconic response _ of the witness, who then plunged into an account of his losses.

There has not been an inebriate lodged in the Masterton police cells for over a month, a record that possibly could not be eclipsed by any other town of similar size in the Dominion (spates the Wairarapa Age). Pukekohe has a good .record, which would just about beat that established by Masterton.

The perfect witness has been discovered at last (says the Manawatu Times). “I may tell you my evidence is absolutely reliable,” remarked a witness in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court on Monday. • I have a reputation for remembering facts, ram known as ‘Pedigree Jim, the memory marvel.’ ”

It is estimated that an area of 9000 acres will be sown in wheat m .the North Island during the 1921-22 season, and 354,000 in the South. In regard to oats, the figures are 64,000 and 406,000 respectively. The grand totals foil the previous season were less for wheat and greater for oats, being 222,843 acres and 574,729 acres. Tuscan or Longberry is to be sown chiefly.

“Women do not like any distinction being made between *them and men nowadays)” Mr E, D. Mosley, S.M,. smilingly remarked at Ashburton on Thursday last; “I will therefore fine this young lady the same as mere men charged with riding without “lights. The Court's approval of this interpretation of women’s rights was evidenced by the broad smile which wertt round.

Elastic concrete ties of greaj: strength holding nails and bolts "better than wood. are claimed as a new German railway product. Ties of iron and steel have been used to some extent for many sears, but are much more' rigid than woo.d and otherwise less satisfactory, and the ireinforced concrete ties hitherto tried have been disappointing. The new concrete is madle from a mixture of asbestos fibres and cement.

The latest report of the London markets, as given by the High Commissioner, show £hat N.Z. free butter, is being sold at from 200 s to 202 s per cWt-, equivalent to Is 9%d to IS 934<} per lb. There is little demand for cheese. White is selling at from 86s to 96s per cwt., and coloured at ffom 78s to 88s. The mar-, keit for casein is a little firmer, British selling at £6O per ton and Argentine at £SO. The meat market is generally dull.

Spring flowers aways delight the eye, but that is no reason why persons should steal them, but apparently some people cahno/t resist the temptation (says the Daily Telegraph). A well-known Napier gardening en. thusiast recently had a valuable lot of shrubs broken by persons who entered his property /to steal flowers. Several residents in Napier South have also suffered in the same direction, and! some have decided to make an example of fhe offenders if they get the chance.

Mil)k so clean and free from bacteria that it kept fresh in a warm room for 20 days has resulted from an Essex faimers’ clean milk competition. The milk was seven times purer than tha/t in last year’s competition. and kept fresh twice as long in a waitm room On an average the milk lasted seven or eight days before curdling; some of the samples kept sweet for 11 days ; and one lasted 20 days It is estimated that there are 300,000 Londoners who daily drink milk from Essex farms.

•In a confidential little chat to a group of medical students, a wellknown surgeon talked about the fees which might be charged. “The best rewards,” he said, “come, of course, to the established specialist. I charge £5 for a call at a patient’s private residence, £2 10s if they consult me at my office in office hours _ and £1 Is for a telephone consultation.” There was an appreciative and envious silence, and then a voice from the back of the room inquired: “I say, what do you charge a fellow for passing you in the street?” —Wan ganui Chronicle.

liustrations in last week’s issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review cover a wide variety of subjects of genertal interest. The Canterbury Jockey Club’s Spring Carnival is represented in striking series of snapshots depicting principal events on the firs(t day, while jumping contests at the Auckland Racing Club s recent meeting form the special features. Long-distance swimming in England, and other phases of athletic activity comprise the centre pages, while other interesting photographs show scenes from “The Lilac Domino,” Dame Gatfa But|t singing to thousands of wounded soldiers, looping the loop at the Berlin Stadium, snaps at 'the races, etc.

Arterial roads are likely to seriously engage the attention of the forthcoming Chambers of Commerce Conference, if only theoretically. The first two remits on the agenda paper in this connection are an indication that the routes of the arterial roads are likeiy'to be the moalt thorny problem. Waganui’s remit reads : Chat •nnugurating v. system of national highways due regard should bo had to the present railway system, and that the two systems of road anu railway should as far as possible De complementary and not compe/fii ive.” Hamilton suggests that the route follow roughly the present main trunk railway. The diversity of these claims will be reflected in ether towns, and it is noteworthy that Dunedin asks for a main highways road board in each island, instead of one board as proposed in the Main Highways Bill.

At last night’s Council meeting the question of cycling on the footpaths was brought forward, and it was decided to take transgressors to Court in future.

At the Borough Council meeting last evening the Council assured a deputation of business men that elee(tric light would be assured for Xmas eve. On that night the current will be supplied only to King Street.

The report of the Borough Council meeting which was held last evening, is held over until Friday. Some important decisions were come to regarding light and water, which should interest ratepayers.

A witness in a case heard at Thames said that the defendant had not done a single day’s work for the past three years. Defendant (indignantly) : “I have dtone three days’ work,' your Worship.”

Mr Tom Maxwell will have an announcement in next issue stating that he has opened a high-class ladies’ and gent’s tailoring establishment in connection wijth his business, ancli has secured the services of a capable si aff.

A semi-final meeting of the Pukekohe War Memorial Committee was held last evening. Several accounts were passed for paymnt, and the thanks of the committee were tendered to the ex-Mayor (C. K. Lawrie), the Mayor (J. Routly),( and Town Clerk (J. F. Deane). The three gentlemen named suitably returned thanks.

Owing to the number of other attractions, and acting upon the advice of the gentlemen, the ladies have decided to postpone the function to raise funds for the Band uniforms until February 10th and 11th, 1922. when a much larger effort than was at first thought of will be undertaken. Most of the stall-holders have already been appointed, and' will start work at once.

Speaking at Levin, S!ir Thomas Mackenzie said that he had the authoiity of one of the largest wa,rehousemen in the Old Country for saying that he could purchase Woollen goods in the Dominion,, value for value, 25 per cent, cheaper than he could in the .Did Country. The same thing applied- to harness, furniture and many other things. “You may thank God every dav that you live in such an excellent country,” said Sir Thomas, “a country giving you so much comfort and so much safety.” Evidence of how little New Zealand is known in many parts of the United States;,of America was given by Mr P, Y. Peters in the course of an address ,at the Napier Thirty Thousand Club meeting last Week, when he said that during his recent tour of the States questions in : regard to this country were put 1 to him as follows.:A-“Tell me what part of Siberia New Zealand is in.” “What train dSd you arrive by ?” “Is it Anywhere near Natal?” “Are notrNfew Zealanders and Zulus the same ?’’ A Boston lady informed him that she had been arranging for a holiday trip to New Zealand, but had been told that there Was not enough food there for the islanders. “We are one of the great unknown parts of the world,” added Mr Peters.

There is a unique character about the name of the cruiser Chatham, the flagship of the New Zealand naval division, in that it is the only British warship bearing the name of a grest naval port. The question has often been asked' why warships should not be named after the great naval ports, says the Naval, and Military Record. The answer is comparatively simple. This has been done in the past, but has. been found to result in such a degree of confusion that the Admiralty decided to abandon ‘-the practice. Notwithstanding, however, this rule was broken when the name Chatham was given to the light cruiser, afterwards presented to New Zealand. As for Plymouth and Portsmouth, neither name has appeared in our naval recoi’ds for 120 years past. Prior to the opening of the nineteenth century Plymouth was a name which figured in many fights. „