Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 26 March 1915, Page 2

Local and General

Speeial trains for Easter holidays are advertised in this issue. Mrs J. Dixon, senr., left Huntly for Ogden, via Vancouver, on .Monday last.

A meeting of of members o f the- Huntly Rovers’ Football Club it called foi 1 Monday night.

D. Pretty, the ex-world’s champion axman, who competed at the Pukekawa sports meeting a few days ago, has won 62 championship events out of 60 starts.

It is rumoured that several of the local competitors in Saturday’s events are dark horses, having been very fast men in their day, and still retaining a very good dash of speed. They say, that, if the competitors in the Trademen’s Handicawere handicapped according tp age, or according to the scantir ness of their hair, the youngeo entrants would have no clxauce at all.

Housewives and the public generally are notified in another column that the places of busiwili remain open to-night (Friday, 26th), and close on Saturday, sports day at 1 p.m. and will not reopen again until Monday morning.

Describing his first experience of a sand-storm on the Egyptian desert, a gunner in the Expeditionary Force writing to his relatives in Collingwood waxe; sarcastic thus ; “ After breathing it; eating it ; drinking it, «nd absorbing it in every poro of the skin for two days a:i I two nights we are now (pita ready to go to the front —wc are “full of grit.”

The Waikato R : vor Board has arranged to make a trip of inspection of the works in progress on the River, on the 14th. of next month. Involutions have been issued to vari ms members of Local Bodies and the Editors of newspapers. Boats will leave Mercer at 1 I a.m. on the day of the trip, and on the same

evening td.-re will be, a banquet in the King Edward Memorial Hall at Mercer,

We wish to notify our readers that on account of the Eist9r Holidays, the next issue of the PRESS will be on Thursday, April Ist, instead of Friday 2nd.

Mr J. Elliot’s fortnightly auction sale will commence tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10 a.m., when a quantity of apples, hazel nuts, tomatoes, general furniture and sewing machines will be offered.

Speaking to a Wellington Post reporter at Wellington on Saturday, on the subject of the price of flour, the Prime Minister said : “ Speaking on behalf of the Government, if there are any further increases iu the price of bread the Government will establish bakeries in the four principles centres of the Dominion, regulating prices.”

A returned troopship from Suez arrived at Dunedin on Monday. She brought 21 patients suffering mostly from lung troubles, and twelve prisoners, including ten from Albany where they missed their passage, and two from Egypt charged with misconduct. The men were taken by an armed guard to the Defence Office where they will probably be court-martialled.

A good deal of interest is being evinced by the public in the Sports Meeting to be Held tomorrow afternoon. A good acceptance has been made, and with the amount of outside talent left in the various events things will be made decidedly interesting. We look to the local runners, however, to show that they are not to be despised on the race track and we confidently expect them to give a good account of themselves in the various races

As a result of experiments, the specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture have discovered that a small amount of ordinary borax sprinkled daily on manure will effectively prevent the breeding of typhoid or house-fly. Similarly, the same substance applied to garbage, refuse, open toilets, damp floors, and crevices in stables, cellars, or markets will prevent fly eggs from hatching. Borax will not kill the adult fly, nor prevent it from laying eggs, but its thorough use will prevent any further breeding.

All is not well with the Hamilton Branch of the Farmers Union in its financial relations in connection with the late strike. The work of mobilisation and sending men and horses to Auckland during that period entailed a great deal of expense, and a great many of the accounts have yet remained unpaid. The Hamilton branch is unable to liquidate the debts, and representation has been made to the Auckland Provincial executive, who repudiate the liability, and in the meantime the creditors remain unpaid. It was decided at a meeting of the branch to go fully into the matter, and a committee was appointed to wait- on the Auckland body at its next meeting.