LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1920, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The s.s. Paeroa leaves Wellington for Hokitika on Tuesday next.

A fine display of articles to be disposed of at the St. .Mary's Church Bazaar to lie held .on June 3rd. and following days is now being made in the windows of Mrs 'J'. Heennn, Miss Burke, and\Mr A. H. Keller.

A remarkable potato-growing record, duly certified by vouchers was disclosed as the result of a competition at the Franklin Winter Show. Mr C. M. Mason. on bis Pukekohe Hill property, produced from an area of land slightly under one acre, 18 tons 3cwt. 1 qr 21b. of potatoes of a. market value of £273 11s 7d.

Human vanity is one of the most potent causes of profiteering (says the Melbourne "Argus”). If people would buy lower-priced goods instead of expensive showy ones they would frequently obtain better value for their money and would do something towards lowering prices. Tt- is in the vanity market that exorbitant prices arc charged and paid.

To many of those who recklessly acquired high-priced land with little or no cash the day of reckoning is commencing (says the “AVairarapa __ Age”). It is stated that quite a number of summoneses have been issued against dairymen along the Wanganui coast who are unable to meet their interest, and in one case a foreclosure was made. One authority says that lie blamed those responsible for financing these fictitious sales more than the misguided purchasers, who thought fortunes could he made quickly out of dairying, That tlie course of true love does not always run smoothly was exemplified on the arrival of the lonic at Auckland, says the “Star.” A gentleman who went to the saloon to seek out his lady love who left the- Old Country with the intention of coming to New Zealand to marry him. found that she had changed her affection on the way out to a fellow-passenger and assur- , ed her former sweetheart that she wished to say good-bye to him there and then as she wished to link up her futur career with the man whom she had met on the boat. The decision was not a surprise to the other passengers, but it was 'ii severe .shock to the man who had waited so long and patiently on the wharf only to be thrust aside in favour of another.