The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, December 18, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1487, 18 December 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, December 18, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest in Christmas and New Year greetings is your own message neatly printed on handmade paper. Printed complete with envelopes 7/6 for 25. This is the last word in season’s greetings. Order early at Herald Printery.* Christmas Hams at J. M. Kelly’s for rid per lb. :|: Each lady soloist at last night’s concert was made the recipient of a handsome bouquet. “The best concert ever staged in Foxton,” was the verdict accorded last night’s performance. A letter from “ Caleb-Chaw Bacon” will be found on our fourth page. Howlett and White’s famous English white shoes are now in stock at R. T. Betty’s. The best selection yet offered locally.* Father Christmas arrived in Foxton per motor car this afternoon and is having a good time with the kiddies at Fuller’s picture entertainment. Preparations are well forward for the opening of the patriotic shop on Christmas Eve. Gifts of any description will be welcomed. The ladies who took part in last night’s concert provided their own costumes and they looked charming. To have hired the costumes would have run into several pounds, It was decided at Wednesday’s Education Board meeting to apply to the Department for a grant tor the removal of the Moutoa school to Marotiri, and for a year rent for Bainesse. Members of the Education Board and press representatives at the last meeting subscribed sufficient to purchase a present for regular attendance lor Nellie Farmer, who had not missed a single attendance for nine years. The Mayor desires us to make it clear to the public, that those who are making regular monthly contributions to the various patriotic funds, will not be included in the collection box scheme. During next week the local Borough Band will play selections every evening in different parts of the borough. This is to take the place of the usual Christmas carolling in the early hours of Christmas morning as it is found that they will thus be better able to cover almost the whole of the borough, Mr R. T. Betty notifies the public that comfortable footwear is essential to enjoyment during the festive season and invites inspection of his stock of boots and shoes to suit all tastes. He I is also agent for the celebrated : “His Master’s Voice” Gramaphones. Call and hear the latest 1 records.* Why give your children cold unches when they can get a hot steak and kidney pie at Parrea&’s for threepence.

Christmas Puddings, large size, 2S each at J. M. Kelly’s.* It is stated that 30 men who recently passed their local doctors and went to the Awapuni camp have been returned “medically unfit.” At Wednesday’s meeting of the Education Board, Mr Fraser was authorised to arrange with Mr Hickford in reference to stopping sand drift at Oroua Downs. The local State school children, although receiving only one day’s notice, contributed the sum of £2 is towards providing Christmas Cheer for the poor children of Belguim and England. Miss Hazel Rockell has been appointed by the Education Board to the position of acting 6th assistant on the staff of the local State school during the absence of Mr Burgess, and will take up her duties on Tuesday, February Ist. It is probable that Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, will be appointed Commissioner to deal with the settlement of the local wharf between the Harbour Board and Railway Department. The enquiry will commence probably in February next, after the summer vacation. The acceptance by Sir Robert Stout should give the utmost satisfaction to all parties. The Moutoa School garden plots have been judged by Mr G. N. Stephenson, of Shannon, for prizes awarded by the Foxton Horticultural Society and the following are the results; Girls — Bessie Pigott and Phyllis Morgan i, Rita Prior and Mary Duggan 2. Boys —Jack Newth and Bert Mohekey 1, Walter Dudson and Tom Jeffreys 2.

At yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court held before Mr J. W. Poyuton, S.M., judgment for plaintiff was entered up in the following undefended civil cases : J. E. Gillespie v. W. G. Trask, claim 13s costs ss; H. Parkes v. W. G. Trask, £2 9s, costs 10s; W. Nye v. J. Groom, £2 10s, costs x6s; same v. E. Anderson, £$ 4s, costs 14s. In the judgment summons case Foxton Cordage Co. v. J. Puti, an order was made by consent tor the payment of the amount due £l ys 3d, by instalments of £1 per month, first payment to be made on or before January 17, 1916.

Foxton presented quite a military appearance yesterday. About a thousand men from the camp were engaged' in movements in the neighbourhood. On Thursday they spent the night at Himatangi, coming on to Foxton yesterday. They presented a cheerful but travel-stained appearance as they marched through the town. Both nights they spent in the open, on Thursday in Messrs Barber’s and Coley’s property and last night on the race course. No general leave was granted and the men Indulged in solid work. They left on the return tramp to Rangiotu this morning. To-day the men will be granted final leave.

Crops throughout the Wairarapa this year are exceptionally heavy, the season having been most favourable for all classes of larming. The dry weather experienced during the past week has had the effect of ripening the grain crops rather rapidly, and harvesting has now commenced in earnest. The crops are good generally In both growth and weight of ear, and most satisfactory returns are anticipated. It is a little disquieting to find that some areas have been rather badly attacked by caterpillar, but this pest has not shown itself to any great extent so far. The hay crop is very good, and the continuance of such weather as the present will result in the primest winter fodder.

Speaking at Dunedin Captain Sirason said: “Recruiting has failed, and you cannot expect anything else until you realise there, is a war. Some people realise there’s a war on —those who are making money out of it, and are wondering whether they should hold on or sell out before peace is declared. (Laughter.) If I were one of you young men who stay at home, aud were asked why I was not at the front, I should reply by asking why racing aud everyday pleasures are going on, why the hours of drinking are not curtailed, why are not members of Parliament aud Cabinet Ministers stumping the country, advising the people of the seriousness of the position. Have you ever beard of a Judge summing up with a band playing in the next room? Have you ever heard of a doctor performing a serious operation with dancing on overhead ? If you realise there’s war on you would think nothing but war for the, next six months.”

One effect of the proximity the military camp to Featherston and Greytown is found in the demand for residences. Previous to the establishment of this camp, empty dwellings in either town were fairly plentiful, but at the present time keen competition exists for all classes of houses. In the town of Featherston 20s per week is freely offered for cottages of four rooms, and it is stated that one such dwelling, situated near the camp, and partly furnished, is let at a rental of per week. Private board and residence is also hard to obtain, and single rooms are returning as much in rent now as the entire house previoussy. A typical case may be mentioned, in which a room is let at the present time by the lessee at a rental of 12s 6d per week —6d more than the amount paid by the lessee for the entire dwelling. Perreau’s 6d cakes are in great demand now eggs and butter are dear

The Tadics’ Guild acknowledge with thanks the sum of 15s from Mrs Saunders, being the prize money won by her at the recent horticultural show, also a donation of from the Poplar Flaxmilling Coy. Elsewhere in this issue is published the programme for the Convent school concert to be held next Thursday night, in the Town Hall. The programme will be carried out entirely by the pupils, and will include a pretty cantata, “ The Magic Wood ” and a farce entitled “The Turned Head.” The concert should attract a bumper house. The term “whey” butter as applied to the commodity manufactured from the whey produced in the process ot cheese making is likely at first to suggest to the average mind something inferior to good factory butter, but such, however, is not really the case. Our representative had the opportunity recently of sampling some whey butter made at the South Featherston factory, and in this case the article was so near In quality to the average butter made from lull cream that no appreciable difference could be detected. This butter is firm, of good colour and excellent flavour and would be accepted at any time as genuine “factory” butter. It is interesting to note that for many years attention was drawn from time to time, principally by Mr Coleman Phillips in the Wairarapa, to the fact that most of the butterfat present in the milk was not retained in the production of cheese, but was discharged along with the whey into the whey tanks, and then utilised by farmers as calf and pig food, thereby wasting a valuable by-product. But after experiment it was established beyond dispute that a source of added profit had been long neglected and steps were taken by various companies to instal butter-making plants in their cheese factories. The whey is treated in similar manner to fresh milk and butter produced from the whey cream.