NEWS AND NOTES.
The shortage of benzine is being severely felt by Wairarapa motorists.
A local poultry fancier (says the Timaru Herald) has sent to America'for five birds, tin? price of which totals £OO
A Wanganui architect states that seven years ago an ordinary wooden house could he built for 6s per square foot lloor area ; to-day the cost is anything np to 10s and 12s.
There ha N hen a slight reeurrenee of the diptheria epidemic and there arc at present about 20 patients in --- isolation ward at the Gisborne Hospital.
The finishing touches are being put' to the Anzac Club; a eonorete building of two stories which lias been erected in Palmerston North for the use of soldier* for social purposes. The cost of tli(> building wa s £6.500.
The first ballot for the Second Division lias bit Woodville hard (says the Examiner). The bank manager, the secretary of two dairy companies, the manager of one of the cheese factories, one of the business men, and quite a little bunch of farmers were all drawn.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1917, Page 4
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177NEWS AND NOTES. Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1917, Page 4
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