MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i lUSTKAIAAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, ( '%i CJSNSES KEDrCTJOX. SYDNEY. Sept. 29. The Licensing Reduction Hoard has ,|,■cided to dose thirty-two hotels and I'niir wine shops in the Sturt electorate, which includes Broken Hill, where twenty of the hotels and wine shops are -ituaied. ORP’rXGTOXS AND BLACK-LEAD AIELBOCItNE. Sept. 29. g-.t. the prize takers at the I So.vji l Show wore two hhick Orpingtons belonging to a Tasmanian exhibitor. Other exhibitors raised objections, resulting in the ollitial; adopting methods which dl 'dosed v.h.ite feathers, ill their tails. The owner ol the birds admitted tiial he col,oiled these '■ lt!l black-lead. The practice was allowed at Tasmanian shows and he had no in leiition of deceiving. I lie jude.es di'pualificd the birds, hut stated thut if the birds had been left without hlaekliail, they would bare secured prizes. FRENCH FAMILIES. PATHS, Sept. 28. Families are a#!ilist Ijocomitig the fashion in social circles, declared August Isaac (Deputy of Rhone Department! presiding at the National Congress on natality at Marseilles. A outig couples belonging to the middle classes arc also becoming less opposed to tin' idea of having children. He urged a heavier liatchelor tax, pointing out the surtax was applicable to only about three per cent, of the total. 'J he surtax on childless couples was also too small.

1 OY ER-SEBSO! I I’TION I XKY IT ! ABLE.

OTTAWA. Sept. 28

Over a hundred million dollars have been subscribed in one week to the Canadian (lovernnient’s refunding loan. An oversubscription of the objective by tme hundred and seventy-two million dollars is inevitable.