The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, May 9, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1548, 9 May 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, May 9, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Aeeonnts amounting to £350 15s (id were passed for payment at last night’s Couneil meeting. A meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board will be held on Thursday, 11th inst., at 7.45 p.m. Business ; Genera 1.

The Inspeelor (if Nuisances reported at, last night’s Council meeting : “The .Boxton borough is in its usual healthy condition/'’

There were present at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council ; The Mayor (Mr A. Fraser) and Crs Freeman, Bryant, Stevenson, McColl, Henderson, Simmons and Thompson.

The average daily cost per head of'palienls at the various hospitals under the jurisdiction of (ho Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board is as follows ; Masterton 7s 4 : ;d, Greytown 5s Id, Bahiatua 7s 2d.

We omitted to stale in our report of the Alexandria. Band entertainment on Friday night (hat the absence of the Mayor was due to his being in Wellington to hid farewell to his son, who is a member of the Twelfth Reinforcements.

The returns from the output of butter and cheese, from the Taranaki Province this season will probably approach £2,0(10,0(10. Meat wool, skins, and hides will account for another £1,000,000. The province contains less than 00,000 inhabitants.

At last night’s Couneil meeting the Mayor welcomed the new Town Clerk, Mr K. 11. Irwin, and expressed the hope (hat the same cordial relations would exist between the Couneil and the Town Clerk as in the past. Mr Irwin thanked the Council for his appointment, and hoped that in the future they would lind that their confidence in him had not been misplaced.

A bread deliverer in Napier recently discovered a, way of adding materially to his income. The bakers have a. custom of selling coujums, a. doezn on a card. The person under review, however, conceived the idea of re-selling detached tickets, which he had collected from customers. The practice was discovered, but the person concerned got clear away . The police are now looking for him.

South Africa will require to import more wheat, and Hour in 1016 than last year, according to the latest estimates, as the yield there is 10 per cent. less. The requirements of the Union are roughly 10,000, 000 bushels of wheat, white the crop will barely reach 7,000,000. About 6,000,000 bushels of wheat, or the equivalent in Hour, are therefore required to lie imported. The Nelson Freezing Company has secured space for 5,000 freight carcases by the Few Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Waimate, which is due to load at Nelson in about three weeks’ time. The despatch of tills consignment will materially relieve the congestion at the works, which have so far had an exceptionally busy season, 82,000 carcases of mutton and lambs and 600 head of cattle having been killed for freezing up to the present. A point for gooif housewives. jjl>vu,Y* WS« SHAR LAND'S Baking Powder, Costs least ; goes farthest ; gives best results. A hint for the housewife. Make washing a pleasure by jfUrchasing one of our splendid little washing machines. Price 7/6. “Hard work made easy.” Walker and Fume, Provision Merchants, Foxtou.

Tho contractors for the supply and delivery of metal on the Shan-non-Foxt on road have made a start with the work.

Louisa White, the young woman who was shot in the hank by Ernest Devoin in Wellington some little lime ago, is reported to ho in a very critical condition.

The levy for Hospital and Charitable Aid purposes to be paid this year by the Borough Council is .€(5/3 15s Bd, in addition to which there is a payment of £11) 3s (id to he made in connection with the proposed installation of an electric lift and electric light system. Last year Eoxion’s levy totalled £SB 7s lid.

Some 40,000 young bluegums are being planted out for mining timber in the future for the Kaitangala mine. The company at present pays £2,000 a year for mining timber, and as timber becomes scarcer will pay more. 1( is in order to meet this contingency that it is planting (his strong and rapid-growing timber. During the month of April, 40 dead of cattle were taken in charge by the ranger, 17 head were impounded, and 23 released by the owners. —Councillors expressed the opinion that the ranging was not carried out as well as it might be — there was far too much stock on the roads. —It was decided to refer the question to the Finance Committee for consideration.

For the live veers ended (March 31st, 1015, (he area planted in timber (roes under I lie Stale afforeslalion selieine was 10,7(JO acres. Ijast year Hie area planted was 2,(did acres, and in these limes it is impossible for the Government to launch out in a big way in afforestation, but a good deal is yet being: done. Some of (he work is done by prison labour, but there are also (-amps at which work is provided for married men.

One reason why some boys leave the farm is because a false idea of the importance and success of men in the professions or in business is obtained by farm boys. If boys only knew (hat the average farmer is more useful, happy, and possesses a larger income than the usual run of men in professions and in business, the glamour would soon lose itself and they would remain on the farm and lead contented and useful lives. North Auckland Times.

The proprietors of the cool mines in Otago are finding a great difficulty in securing miners, consequenton the large number who have gone to the war (says the Otago Daily 'fimes). The Waronui mine is working short-handed, and the Kai(angata proprietary estimates that no fewer than 100 miners from that district have enlisted. As a result of the shortage of miners, the output of the local mines has been seriously restricted, and orders for coal have to he cut down or delayed in execut ion.

In (he ordinary course «»J.‘ events the bPennial conference of the Municipal Association would he held this year ; hut in view of the circumstances at present obtaining’, it lias been decided that it is not advisable to hold the •fathering. The most important business of the conference is usually in .relation to legislation, but this year the session of Parliament will be short, and the business dealt with of a restricted nature, in place of the conference, the executive* of the association will meet in Wellington on l!)th of May to deal with such remits as have come to hand, and to consider other questions relating to the legislation of the session as if concerns municipalities.

An exchange hrielly records the following : “A Tapanui girl was attacked by an eel and bitten in the Tapanui river." As we don’t understand tin* Tapanui river to be part of the girl’s anatomy, we should like to know where she really was bitten; if she was bathing and treacherously, Oerman-like, and without warning, suddenly sat upon the eel, which, m the excitement of the moment and in the heat of the passion. immediately bit her upon the most accessible portion of her anatomy, then we don't, think (he eel should be very severely blamed. (Since writing the above we have come across another exchange which says that (he girl who was in the Tapanui river was bitten by an eel. Now we understand.

Some lime ago the residents of Thyime Street petitioned the Council for a footpath along the north side, and the petition was referred to the Works Committee for consideration. At last night's Council meeting that Committee reported that, it could not recommend the proposed footpath at present. — The .Mayor .'.aid that the Committee inspected the street, and alter estimating the cost of levelling the ground, formation and kerbing, considered that it was beyond the Council's power to take on the work at present. The residents there had a good road, and there was also a footpath along the south side, and he considered they were better served in this respect than the residents in many of the other streets. —The Works Committee’s report was adopted. Don’t go home to-night without NAZOL —that wonderful remedy for coughs and colds. Thousands praise it—so will you. Is (id buys 60 doses. For Chronic Chest Complaints, W oods’ Great Peppermint Cure. See cheap rates, front pages Laidlaw Leeds’ Wholesale Catalog. Tested in thousands of kitchens, SHARLAND’S Baking Powder has never failed to rise. Costs less than others—worth more. Buy wholesale from Laidlaw Leeds’ Catalog ; it’s free.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., of Marlon, has been gazetted 2nd lieutenant during the period of the war. Mr .Herbert .Fletcher Gabites, of Foxton, lias been appointed 2nd lieutenant (unattached). A very slight shock of earthquake was fell locally at 8.30 o’clock last night. A special service will be held in the Salvation Army Hall on Thursday evening, and will be conducted by Brigadier Glover, of Wellington. At the annual meeting of the. Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the following were elected a Hemp Committee : Messrs G. Shirtclifl'e (convenor), G. Johnston, J. Macintosh, A. E. Mabin, and R. \V. Waterhouse.

A dance, organised by Messrs Morris and Longney, in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund,' will be held in the Masonic Hall on Friday evening next. Admission, gentlemen Is (id, ladies Is.

it is feared in some quarters that there will be a shortage of coal in New Zealand before the winter is over, and in view of this the local Borough Council has decided to instruct the gas manager to keep a reserve of 100 tons over and above the month’s requirements.

At last night’s Council meeting it was decided, on the motion of Cr Bryant, seconded by Cr Thompson, that necessary repairs be made in How,an Street and No (i Line, and that the attention of the Noxious Weeds Inspector he drawn to the amount of noxious weeds in the vicinit v.

The wholesale price of standard brands of butler in Auckland ha,s been advanced by one penny, to Is 5d per lb. The retail price will now be Is 7d for the lirst time for several weeks. And this notwithstanding the fact that the quantity of butter in store in New Zealand is larger at present than for some years past. At the monthly meet in" 1 of the Iforowhenua County Council to be held on Saturday next, Cr Catley will move : “That the member for the district, Air W. 11. Field, be asked to present a bill to Parliament praying for separation from the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board district, and that it petition be prepared for presentation to Parliament in support of such measure.”

A writer in a contemporary says : “When conscription comes it is going to get many a shirker, but it is going to hit the worker the hardest. If we are going to compel the poor man with a family to light, well then if will be time to have conscription •of wealth. What right has the ‘rich old man’ to compel a married man to tight the Germans for him without giving assistance ! How can we expect a family man to light with all |jiis mind, body and soul, when he is worrying about his wife who has to put up the biggest light battling to keep the children on sixpence a day f Oh, for a ‘master mind to arise who could compel or induce every individual of our Empire to ‘equality of sacrifice.' ’’

At hist night’s Council meeting a, letter was read from the secretary of the Borough Band, asking' the Council to appoint two representatives on the Band Commit lee. The secretary expressed the hope that the members appointed this year would attend a little more regularly and take a little more interest in the Band than the previous representatives. —Crs Henderson and Simmons were re-appointed. Cr Henderson said that he had attended every meeting that he had been notilied of when same did not clash with a Council meeting. Cr Simmons complained that the meetings were not held punctually, and that on two occasions he was the only person that turned up for the meeting.

At last night's Council meeting the Gas Manager reported that two residents in Whittaker street had asked to have gas installed. There was no main along this street, and the supply would have to come from the Hall Street main, which would have* to be enlarged if any new services were installed. The Mayor pointed out that Whittaker Street was a private street, and had never been taken over by the Council, and it was decided on his motion, seconded by Cr Henderson, that the Council cannot undertake to lav

any main in any private street until same has been formed, metalled, kerbed, etc., and taken over by the Council.

A special train arrived at Oamaru :i lew days ago, bearing the unusual

freight of 2,000 cases of rabbits from Central Otago. Owing to the waul of ships to bear away frozen meal, all the refrigerating works are becoming so full of carcases awaiting shipment that it has been found impossible to receive rabbits found impossible to receive rabbits. Under the circumstances, the only course available has been to utilise the freezing chambers of the dairy factories. The Taieri and Peninsula Company’s freezing chamber at Dunedin has already been tilled, and the large shipment that reached Oamaru has gone into the company’s local factory’s freezingchamber. Use HAZOL and you won’t keejj a bad cold or sore throat above a day or two. Acts like a charm. Get a bottle to-day. Housewives will have Ho trouble with drying their clothes this winter if they have a “Little Wonder”indoor clothes line. Procurable at Walker and Purrie’s, Provi sion Merchants, Poxton. Por children’s coughs and colds the most reliable remedy is “NAZOL.” Heady for use when bought. Affords quick relief. GO doses costs Is Gd.

A letter from Mr R. McMurray on the subject “Closing Down the Mills,” will appear next issue. Lieutenant-Colonel MacDonald, Chief of the General Staff, Palmerstn N., was a visitor to Foxton today. At the Magistrate’s Court, Otaki, on Friday, Wilfred Gregor Gibson McKinnon was charged with committing bigamy. He pleaded, guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday decided to support the Marton Chamber’s request in connection with the advocacy of a Levin-Marton deviation in the Main Trunk railway. A widow named Annie Bradbury, aged forty-one years, committed suicide by taking poison, at Auckland on Sunday night. Evidence at the inquest showed that deceased was in great pain owing to illheallh. A single man named James Tobin, employed on the railway construction at Oakleigh, Whangarei, jumped overboard from a launch at 1* o’clock on Sunday morning, and was dead before a rescue could be effected. No reason has been assigned for the act. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Buy wholesale from Laidlaw Leeds’ Catalog ; it’s free. As sure as water quenches tire, so will NAZOL afford relief from heavy colds, troublesome coughs, sore throats and influenza. ' Test