LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Reminder is given of the social and euchre to-night, at the local Agricultural Hall, under the auspices of the A. and F. Association. All patrons may rely on spending a pleasant evening. The football benefit picture entertainment, held in the Lyric on Tuesday night, was fairly attended. \A good, varied programme pleased the audience. The announcement of a Christie comedy as the last item caused loud applause.' Messrs Gillan Bros., who take over the old-established butchery business of Mr Jas. Hand from to-morrow, are experienced tradesmen, hailing from Kaikohe. The new proprietors enter the local business with every intention of doing their best to cater for the public's requirements, and solicit a fair share of local patronage. The Auckland theatres are now too small to accommodate the crowds of patrons, and the resultjs that when any special attraction comes along there is a disgraceful scramble for tickets and seats. The, following is the tail end of a letter signed " Play-goer," which appeared in an Auckland p;iper:— "It is surely not just, to cater so much for the rich and treat the people of slender means like hogs, for the way one is shouted at and herded into line smacks more of cattleherding than of allowing ticket-holderf, who have already paid for their seats, to take their places."

Mr P. King, who accompanied Ratana as far as Batley, says the natives consider Ratana a "marvellous man." Mr King said, in effect, that the " healer" is quite unassuming, and he could not be picked out in a numbei^of ordinary Maori men. He saw Ratana cure the old Maori woman of blindness and make her walk after she had been unable to do so for years. There was no humbug about this. Ratana advises his people to " Throw; away.your tohunga and gods,and believe only in the True One." "Be moderate in all things" is another of his dictums. Ratana says that after he has cured all the Maoris he will attend to the Europeans. He receives a large number of letters every day; his secretary reads these, and draws the Wonder's attention to the most distressing cases.

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One of our most respected and energetic citizens called to say that there is an unrecorded death in Garfieia road.. He added : " It occurred many days ago, and the-callous city fathers seem to think that in winte.r the, dead cannot injure the living." Then he lett, byt two days later phoned: "That dead dog. is still there—it hasn't moved." The chairman and secretary of the Waitemata County Council, who recentlyvisited Wellington on business with Mr A. Harris, M.P., say that the State Advances Department has provisionally approved of a loan of £5000, the second instalment of the loan of £20,000 authorised by the ratepayers of the Waitakere riding. The rate of interest is to be 4^£jfc per cent. The firs^ instalment of £5000 was provided by the Auckland Savings Bank. For Bronchial Coughs, take \' Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. *V>"Printing," remarked Mr C Francisl' a big master printer of' New York, at a— ' civic reception tendered him in Welling* ton, "is a business in which a world-wide view of'important matters must come under observation. . .- We have an opportunity that no other business has. I am delighted to know that a printer (Mr R. A. Wright) is mayor of Wellington. Another printer is President of the United States, and yet another printer is going as Ambassador to England— Col. Harvey—a very fine man." Mr Francis' firm employs about 600 hands. Many years ago he was a printer in Dunedin* New Zealand. : The increase in railage charges for butter last season is the subject of a complaint by the Kaipara Dairy Co. to the provincial executive of the Farmers' Union. The secretary >-of the company states that during the 1913-20 season the., charge for sending butter from Helensville to Auckland was at the rate pi 3.71 d a box containing 561b. During the 1920----21 season the charge has been 7.39 d a box, an increase of nearly 100 percent. The present charge for sending a full truck containing eight tons of butter to Auckland is £8 7s Id. As this is over £1 / : a ton for a distance of 38 miles, the company contends that the charge is excessive. The matter will be considered by : the provincial executive at its next' meeting. . , Gentlemen! gentlemen! gentlemen, rise! Charge to the toast which we honor and prize! Rise to the anthem and make the hall ring, Drink to our King, who is truly a King 1 Drink it in whisky or drink it in wine ! Drink it in monopole vintage divine! All who, alas ! may have colds to endure ■ Drink it in Woods' Great Peppermint Cure