LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 704, 3 February 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The C-levedon A. & P. Society's annual show will be held to-morrow (Saturday).

Frank Crothall, of Merer, announces h is deliveing orders for meat to any address. Only the primest in stock.

Messrs Patullo Bros., of Tuakau, have an advt. in this issue detailing heir time-able for their Onewherb mail service.

Visitors to the Wairararpa state that the district has a wonderful showing of feed at the present time and that stock are in splendid condition.

A final reminder is given the general public that the second anual race meeting under the auspices of the Franklin Racing Club will be held jtomorrow, Saturday, February 4th.

/ The Loyal Pukekohe Lodge’s M.U.i picnic was held at Clarke’s beach,' Wa:iau Pa, on Monday, About 130 attended the event, which was highly enjoyable from every point of view. f NdQa Monaghan and Beryl Ivey, pupilsnf the Convent, were successful in the Public Serive examination -held in November.. December 15tli. fifteen pupils obtained Std. VI profficiency certificates —one competency.

There is need for a rat exterminating campaign in Pukekohe. Rats have, been seen running about King Streef late at nights lately, and it is time' eor.eerted action was taken. The Borvuirh Council n«s.s rat poison to distribute, and so far the number who have availed thmocri/es is very few.

Once again we take the opportunity to remind readers and the public generally that entries close for the Franklin Show on Monday next, the 6j:h of February. This has been a record year for shows in the Auckland province, so we trust that the residents of Franklin will not fall behind, but that they will come forward and support their own show. A show is a district advertisement, send in your entries at once. Support your own show .

Racing finds a favoured portion in the current issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review among the events represented pictorially being the Wellington Racing and Trotting Club’s recent meetigns. Interesting subjects abroad, include, the Itenrtional Ladies’ Athletic Championships at Paris, Armistice Day in London and France and America’s tribute to the Nation’s Unknown Warrior. The miscellaneous sections covers stage and varied forms of sport, making* the issue of exceptional merit.

A Wairarapa man sold his farm and stock at a price that elevated him to the list of those who retired to seaport towns. The deposit (says an exchange was small in comparison with the deal, and t e mortgage was big. The first half year’s interest was big, but the second was slow in arriving. Then it occurred to the retired man to journey down and see if the grass was still growing on the farm. He found°the place over-run with grass, the settler missing and not a hoof on the property. He is back on the farm. ■ An elderly lady of very prim and severe aspect was seated next a young couple who were discussing tne merits of their motor cars. She uegan io -'listen in" to the talk at the point where the young man asked , f the girl : “What colour is your body ?” “Oh, mine is pink. What *s yours.” “Mine,” repield the young man “is brown with wide yellow stripes.' This was too much for the old lady. Rising from (the table she exclaimed to her hostess I really must be excused. When youngpeople come to asking each other the colour of their bodies at a dinner party is time I left the room.”

xne question of amateur' status in regard o rowing is raised by a correspondent, who asks :—“ Is a man who earns his living by manual labour eligible for an amateur rowingchampionship in England ? Is the position the same in New Zealand ?” It is understood that the question is at present being taken up in England, where the position, owing to an objection to the Olympic conditions admitting the definition of any country, is more or less in doubt. In New Zealand aa man ear ning his living by manual labour is entitled to compote as an amateur, but such has not been the case at Home.

Included in this week’s Jazeitte are amended regulations governing teachers’ salaries under the Education Act. The regulations, which are set out in much detail deal with payments to education boards, salaries of teachers at public schools, separate infants’ schools, district high schools, grades of salaries payable to head teachers and assistants, the grading and staffing of public schools, leave cf absence and o. details.

The lineal descendant of the old Hauliau religion is the Ringa-tu, which numbers many hundreds of adherents to-day along the Bay of Plenty coast and in and around the Urewrea Country, writes “Tupara” in “Quick March.” The name comes from the gesture of the “uplifted hand,” the sign of the faithful in the fanatic years, and the chants and prayers are those given forth by Tee Ivooti half a cetunry ago. They are mosty from the Psalms of David, ncl there is much beauty in a Ringatu service, wiith its long-drawn chantings and its responses like the Church of England ritual. The priest of the service places the tips of his fingers together as he recites the prayeer and /the people in responding hold up the right hand on a level with the fac6. One of the centres of the Ringa-tu disciples is Waioeka, a settlement a few miles inland from Opotiki. s The big carved meeting house there is highl/y tapu, and no paleface is allowed to sqt foot in lit. Saturday is the holy day of the Ringa-tu, and there is a kind of Special festival once a mon,th. Up jn Taranaki the adherents of Te Whi-ti-ism—quite a different brand of old-time religion fi?om the Ringa-tu —have their monhly meetings for prayers and exhoration at Manu-Ko-rihi, on the Wai/tara. The followers of the late Te Ua, Te Whiti’i fellow prophet, hold similar gatherings on the 17th and 18th of each month at Ketemarae, near) the township of Normanby.