LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The charges for the hall at Rinni tonight "ill he gentlemen 2/-; ladies 1/-. A meeting of the Diggers Football Club will be held on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock at the Overseas Clirbroom. Business important. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr Orr Walker S.M. on the application of the wife of a local resident, an order was made for a separation order, the wife to have the guardianship of the three children, and an order for payment of £2 per week maintenance was made with costs £2 2s. Air Sellers appeared for plaintiff.

A short time back the Westland Hospitals Bound called tenders for a laundry to plans prepared by the Government Department. Tlu> cost at lowest tender was over £181(3, ail expenditure which the local Board did not feel justified in incurring. Fresh plans were prepared locally tor a building to cost about half the amount and Air G. Davidson was asked to interview the Departmental head when he was-pass-ing through Wellington to the kite Brigade conference at- Napier. Mr Davidson telegraphed to-day as follows: “Modified plans accepted with slight alteration.”

Air John Eraser, a well-known Southland farmer, who has just returned from a trip to Great Britain and the United States, referred, in the course of an interview with the Invercargill correspondent of the “Otago Daily Times” to the high prices that stock is bringing in the Old Country. AllEraser states that British farmers are on an exceptionally good wicket, those with leasehold tenures finding that their rents have not been raised to an extent in any why’ commensurate with the inflated prices at which they sell their produce. Although a number of fanners were buying in their properties under the rent purchase system, this was not looked on generally with favour, owing to the heavy tax on freeholds. Land, he savs, is much cheaper in England than in New Zealand.. Fat cattle were bringing £OO and £/0-per head, while ordinary two-tooth wethers change hands at £6 and £7. Worms won’t worry your children if you give them WADE’S WORM FIGS.. This valuable .remedy expels the worms quickly, surely and safely. Pleasant to take. From all chemists.