LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 772, 3 October 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Manawatui resident has sold £450 worth of cabbages'-off 3*4 acres as the result of six months’ occupation of the ground, Mr Robt. McLeod has taken over Mr J. Rea’s fruit shop at Papakura, and hopes by strict attention to business to meet old and new customers. A super-tank,, capable of carrying 50 troops at a speed of 20 miles an hour riding as comfortably as in a taxi," has been constructed for the British War Office. Emigrants from the United Kingdom during the first half of the year totalled 75.234 cf whom 18.337 went to Australia and 6330 to New Zealand. Mo M. Morison has taken over the auctioneering business recently con--cinvteu by' Mr J. Barton. Papakura. announces in t'i.'s issue the date of his opening sale as Friday. Oeto-

“Ons of the. cunses qf this country is that too much credit Ts given, both puhlicly and privately,” said Mr E. H. Williams at Napier. “This world would be bette'r to live in if everybody paid their debts,” At last night’s meeting of the Borough Council it was decided) to hold the big meeting of ratepayers on Saturday next at 8 p.m. in the Oddfellows’ Hall. instead off Monday night as previously advertised, - At the recent Trinity College of Music (London) examinations, Miss Kate Butcher, pupil of Miss Mary Pulman, of Buckland, was successful in passing '.the jireparatory examination,

The deputation which waited upon the Valuer-General at Pukekohe Courthouse in connection with il he valuations of the Borough has received no reply ’up to the present. Ratepayers are stilt anxiously waiting a reply. “I do not say that all on our side are saints, but I d : o say that all the saints are on our side. Neither do I say that all on the other side are rascals,, but I d,'o declare that all the rascals are on the other side,” —Dr Armor, in an addiress recently. For smoking within 30 feet of a benzine depot a. man was fined £1 and costs at Hamilton. The magistrate said that defendant was liable to a penalty of £100.,.- As there are several benzine depots in Pukekohe local smokers should take the hint. s

Advice has been .received that the price of hams is firming and they will be dearer for Christmas than anticipated. This has evidently been brought about by a demand in Australia ow'jng to the tariff adjustment. It is stat<V() that some 5000 hams will be shipped to Australia this month

'MJTss P. 4V Webster,., on behalf of the Wryvffen’s Patriotic League, has hancbfd to the secretary of the .Puketohe Returned Soldiers’ Ball com'mittee £l3 16s Bd, being proceeds of Welcome Home Socials held by .the Pukekohe Women’s Patriotic League. The R.'S. Ball committee in an advt. in this issue. acknowledges receipt of the amount with thanks, Flower lovers are advised that if they wish to enter for the Beautifying Association’s competitions all entries must be in Mr Pattle’s hands by the end of the week at latest. A very good start was made last year with 14 entries and as the conditions have now been altered to s/uit the small men with a quarter acre it is hoped that the. entries will double themselves.

At a recent sitting of the Folice Cogrt before Justices elf the Peace, John Keane was charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse in King Street, Pukekohe. He was convicted and fined £5 and ordered &o pay 5s costs in default one month’s imprisonment. Fourteen days were allowed in which to pay. A prohibition order was also issued.

In a lecfluire in Wellington upon “Milk and its Importance to the said he wondered that oue butter merchants in English markets did not make more of the fact that the butter was made from cows fed on green grass all the year round. This meant that the butter contained more disease-resisting constituents than did butter from cows that’ we're stall fed, Their milk and butter were a more perfect foodl

Artificial ivory, which enters so largely into many of our subsidiary industries., can be ! made from sheep’s bones The method isto soak them iin lime water for 15 days until softened, The bones are then washed and dried, and placed in a closed boiler, heated by steam. The material "becomes liquid;, and 2 per cent, of alum is then added. Contact with the atmosphere thickens the sjtuff, and, by dipping it intp a bath of formalin, it becomes hard. The material thus obtained in the shape of plates is white. It takes a good polish, - and can be used (for all the purposes for which ivory is used.

People who have lately come to this country from the Homeland say that thi£ summer a great change has taken place in men’s head-gear. For many seasons past the soft-felt or velour hat was easily the most popular, but on account of !the long continual use by the King, the bowier hat is being most extensively used, and after quite a long period of eclipse if) is coming into its own again. The King, who brings com-mon-sense to bear on most questions, has also given many hints that the top-hat will on many important occasions in the future, have to give place to the bowler hat, which from every point of view is one of the mos,t serviceable hats ever worn, because of its hard brim and easiness with which gallantry can be shown to the gentler sex. With the coming of the bowler hat, it is also expected that short pointed) beards will again come into vogue, because the bearded face suß-s a bowler’s better than the clean shaved one which usually give a racy touch to even the most staid of men when crowned by a bowlefr,

“Quite corirect ” said a defendant at the S.M. Court on Thursday, when charged with leaving a horse and gig unattended) 'in a public place for more than 15 minutes. He' added that it had been the practice for the past 40 or 50 years for people to leave their vehicles in a side street, He had never seen a by-law prohibiting the practice, and; pleaded' extenuating circumstances. Between one market day and another a notice had been put up too high for people to see it. As soon as he was aware he had committed an offence he had his vehicle [removed!. The Magistrate’s -reply was. “Fined 10s and costs.” The old proverb “Ignorance is bliss, etc., did not apply—“lgnorance of the law does not excuse.” — Mr E. W. Button, S.M,, at the Coiirt on Thursday. From Olalmlm lo lluntly. from ’Wuiuku lo Glevedon and the coast, Hi,-. Times will search hundreds of pomes for liial article you want, or find a customer for trial commodity vmh wish to sell. Get busy,.advertise! x

Notification that rthe. regulations relating to the issue of permits to leave New Zealand have been revoked appears in the latest Gazette. Jfhe regulations. which came into force in November. 1915, provided that no person over the age of 15 years could leave New Zealand for any place beyond the seas without a written permit from the Department of Internal Affairs A regulation contained in the Waif Regulation Continuance Act. 1920> to the effect that in the event of revocation the permits were to be returned! to the Minister or Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs.

A young married man_ residing not 100 miles from Pukekohe, who had, it is alleged, been paying undue attention to another woman, posing as a single man. was unmasked by an anonymous letter,, with the result that -the' two women compared notes. A .telephone message brought him to a place appointed by the single lady and in the hearting of his wife. who was hidden in a cupboard, he admitted that he was married but asserted that he and his wife had been separated for years. Then the wife, who up till then had believed, that she had all his affections, <md ,”Y>n had heard all that haul passed, stepped out of the cupboard and confronted him. Before he left the house he bad received a pretty severe handling. When playing hide-and-seek, many are the curious places into which children cram their settle bodies in order to evake the seeker, The parents of a little girl received a 'violent shock a few days ago when, during a game of hide-and-seek, the little child disappeared, arid, the assistance of the parents was called to help find the missing one. A diligent search was being made when the mother heard the sound of faint scratching which came from inside a tin trunk. On looking therein, the child w r as found in a state of collapse, almost suffocated. The little one had got into the trunk, and in letting the lid down; the catch had caught in 'the lock, holding her prisoner. The child had been in the trunk for over two hours before being relased. A Wellington gentleman., the winner of one of the men’s r\ nmpionships in the Wellington Competition (says the Times) experienced! an extraordinary run on the figure 13. He entered 13 items in the competition, gained 13 places, won the particular championship by 13 points. Still the nun does not finish, for, on going to book a seat at the demonstration concent on the last everting for a member of his family, he found he had!,No. 13 in rowl3, anc. to crown all, on the last day of the competition his fowl farm produced 13 eggs. When the story was being related! one of his pals remarked : “It’s to be hoped he will remain single !” The recognised axiom “Foresight as thq weapon of the wise.” never fails and he is a w;?sei man who acts on such sound advice. The person who ignores such, often lands into trouble, an instance of which came, before the Magistrate’s Court on [Thursday last. A dispute over a paltry sum —19s 3d was the amount —arose between Mr Henry E. R, L. Wily., of Mauku, plaintiff, and Mr R, J. Dooley, of Te Kuiti, defendant with the result that litigation was the only means of coming to a settlement. The defendant, who gave notice of his intension to defend, subsequently paid the amount involved into Court plus 5s costs, and therefore abandoned his defence. However, the plaintiff was unaware of the defendant’s action, and he appeared at the Court on Thursday with his witnesses prepared to proceed with the case, but on being advised that the amount hac! been paid into Court, applied for costs for unnecessary attendance of witnesses. The request was granted, the costs amounting to £2 Bs. Altogether the defendant will eventually have to find £3 12s 3d. rather a largq amount when only 19s 3d was was involved at the outset, It goes to show how careful people have to be when litigation arises. Foresight would have undoubtedly saved t)he defendant £2 13s.