The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1664, 20 January 1917, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Miss H. Pearson lias been appointed probationer on the staff of the local State school.

Michael Ansley, baker, Wanganui, was lined £lO and costs for selling shortweight bread.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Thursday, 25th inst., at 7.30 p.m., to consider plans and specifications re gas works.

Mr Edward Tingey, aged sixtysix, of the well-known firm of R. and G. Tingey, of Wanganui, was killed as the result of a motor car accident at Rapanui, near Wanganui, on Thursday.

Mrs Philip King, of Waiuku, has just celebrated her 101st birthday. She came to the colony in 18-10, before the arrival of Captain Hobson. Her late husband arrived in 1814, when he was sixteen months old, his father being a member of the Rev. Samuel Marsden’s party.

The death is announced from Dannevirke of Mr Henry Gaisford, aged 75 years. Deceased, who was a large landowner at Oringi, and a well-known sportsman, was one of the earliest residents of Hawke’s Bay.

A few days ago (states the Christchurch Press) two young Germans, who have uncles in the Waimate district, but whose parents reside in Germany, were arrested in Christchurch for failing to report themselves to the authorities, and were taken for internment to Somes Island, Wellington Harbour.

A railway official at Hornsby, becoming suspicious of a. well-dressed couple purchasing tickets to travel by the Brisbane mail train, called the police, and the supposed husband and wife were discovered to be the t wo men who recently escaped from a detention camp. The “husband” indignantly protested against their treatment. The “wife” was dressed in the latest fashion, and painted and powdered. The following appointments of pupil teachers have been made by the Education Board: — College street, Miss E. Espiner; Marlon, Miss D. Boyd; Eeilding D.H., Miss M. Bussell; Campbell street, Miss F, M. Desmond; Lytton street, Miss F, Fowles; Queen’s Park Miss Sewell; Wanganui East, Miss Field ; Central, lifants, Miss V. Smith; Bulls, Mr McNab: Patea, Miss D. White; Waverier, Mr Oliver; Castlecliff, Mr L. W. Britton.

At the local S.M. Court yesterday morning, before Mr J. A\. Boynton, S.M., judgment for plaintiff's were given in the following civil cases: — Thos. Rimmer (Mr Moore) v. W. C. Smith and W. Knevvstub, claim £l2 15s lid, costs £1 18s (id; Walker and Furrie v. F. Charles, £7 Is 3d, costs 8s; Mrs J. Hooker v. Mollie Brown, claim for board £8 3s, ordered to pay amount due, in default nine days’ imprisonment in Wellington gaol, warrant suspended if amount be paid by instalments of £2 per month. First payment to be made on or before 20th February, 1917.

Constable Satherley made a smart arrest at Waikanae on Monday, when he took into custody a deserter named Henry Carlson, says the Mail. It appears that the man escaped from the Trentham military camp in October, went to Palmerston, where it is said he threw his uniform into the Manawatu river, visited Otaki, and then found his way to Waikanae, where he sought safety by working in the swamp lands carrying flax. Although the description given was meagre, the constable quickly recognised his man, and brought him to Otaki. Yesterday he was handed over to the military police, and in due course will he dealt with by the authorities.

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s ?*

We acknowledge receipt of a handy wall calendar from the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., per Mr Preston, local agent.

It has been decided to put a bridge over the Wanganui River at Taumarunuij at a cost of about £6,000.

A Council employee at Christchurch, engaged in clearing work in the Barbadoes street cemetery, found the body of a newly-born infant, much decomposed, wrapped in a newspaper dated September 23rd.

A son of Mr Thos. Hendenson, of Poxton, a member of the 22nd Reinforcements, underwent an operation for appendicitis in the district hospital this week. He is making' a satisfactory recovery.

Ohura, Taranaki, seems to be a particularly deadly kind of place. Dr Dunck has just committed suicide there by taking an overdose of chloral. This is the third medical practitioner within five years who has died by bis own hand at Ohura.

A young Liverpool (lying man who fell with his machine 3,000 feet on a house in London, writes that the first thing the lady of the house said was: “What on earth are you doing here?” 1 said, “I’ve come to tea.” She said, “You’ve killed one of my chickens.” That was all the impression it made on her.

A very large proportion of the visitors to Stewart Island this year are young ladies? A Wanganuito who hits just returned from a visit to the Island states that the attendance at meal times at one boardinghouse was 170 ladies and four men. At it recent launch picnic there were two men and 40 ladies.

Ernest Hughes, a Pongaroa baker, was fined £5 for selling shortweight bread. Thomas Hopcroft, manager of the Pongaroa dairy factory, was fined £2 for selling light-weight butter, and Percy Kent, storekeeper, on a similar charge, was fined £l. Harry Naylor, for keeping liquor for sale in the nolicense area of Pongaroa, was lined £5.

Tenders have been accepted by the Government for the supply for the current year of all material required in equipping the soldiers of the Expeditionary Forces. Owing; to the accumulation of a fair amount of reserve stocks the orders placed arc not so large as last year, but, nevertheless, the cost of.military requirements in the way of (doth, shirting, blankets, socks, puttees, etc., will amount to close on £300,000. Most of the woollen mills in the Dominion are interested in the contract.

Writing editorially, the Dannevirke News says: —The Military Board, while in Dannevirke, properly dealt with some of those families whose sons, through parental and other influences, have denied their able-bodied services to their country, but we are astounded to find that the Board has gone out of the town without dealing with the most glaring cases of family shirking.

There are well-to-do families in this district with five, six, and seven sons enriching themselves while men with not a tenth of their property at stake sacrifice all their private prospects and life itself. These shirking families were the bugbear of voluntary recruiting, and each successive casualty list intensified the feeling against them.

Eggs are at present almost a burden on the Sydney market (says the Sydney Sun)-. They are selling at from !td to Is per dozen, and heavy stocks are held. South Australia is the only State in the Commonwealth doing business in the exportation of eggs in pulp and in shell. Sydney is not lacking in expert packers and testers, who could handle the trade. The eggs for pulp are tested by candle, and each egg is broken separately. The pulp is then placed in tins and frozen solid, and is sent away in a frozen state. In London eggs in flic shell are selling at 4s Od a dozen, and egg pulp is quoted at Is 4d per lb. These figures should show a profit sufficient for someone to venture info the trade, especially in a season like the present, when the market is glutted.

Reports received by the Horticultural Division from its officers state that the fruit crop in the Palmerston North district is, on the whole, rather disappointing, the disease known as “brown rot’’ being very prevalent in plums, peaches, and nectarines. Apples and pears are very patchy, some districts carrying very light crops. Cherries arc all done, the crop being light, but prices very high. Raspberries promise well, and with a good rain a heavy crop will be gathered. Tomatoes are looking well, being so far free from Irish blight. In Marlborough there is a good but variable crop of apples. Cherries did not turn out as well as anticipated, but gooseberries are good. Nectarines, peaches, pears, plums are all fair, raspberries poor,, house and outdoor tomatoes promise well, while walnuts are good, although bacteriosis will take a. heavy toll. In Nelson an average crop of apricots is now being gathered. The gooseberry and cherry crops are just about finished. A heavy crop of Japanese plums is expected. Fair average crops of inside tomatoes are being gathered, while the prospects in regard to outside tomatoes have much improved. No need to burn your hands while ironing if you use one of our Asbestos Sad Irons. Price 13/6. —’Walker and Furrie, Foxton.

Just lauded, a supply of BradesMills hooks. Only a limited quantity—'Walker and Forrie.*

The Minister of Defence has received a cablegram from the Officer Commanding the 19th Reinforcements. The health o‘f the troops is reported to be excellent. The following rink from the local Bowling Club journeyed to Palmerston North this afternoon to play the holders of the Dixon Cup: Large, D. Whibley, Nye, Rimmer (s). At the inquest on Christopher Higgins, horse trainer, at Palmerston on Thursday, a verdict was returned of death from shock following an accident caused by falling from the balcony of the-Central Hotel, following on an •attack of delirium tremens.

Hon. W. H. Herries addressed the waterside workers at Wellington yesterday on the question of unloading a collier which had coal for the Admiralty, pointing out the necessity for avoiding delay if possible. The union will hold a meeting to-day.

George Edward Hanson, charged at Palmerston yesterday with illegally wearing the King’s uniform when not a member of His Majesty’s Forces, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment without the option of a tine. Accused had a list of previous convictions, including one of a similar nature at Dannevirke.

The Kairanga County Council has decided to lest the value of surface tarring on its roads, and the engineer, Mr A. H. M. Wright, has been authorised to carry out the experiment. Mr Wright has selected a mile of Rangilikei line for treatment, commencing probably at the end of the Borough Council’s asphalting in the vicinity of Feathersi on street. The work will be put in hand before the winter approaches.

The peace strength of Greece in 1915 was ()(),(>()() men, and the war strength was estimated to be about 300,000. During the recent Balkan wars, Greece put ten divisions of 12,000 men in Ihe field. Most of the artillery came from France, but the rifles used were of Austrian make. Of course, these figures have been consilerably affected by the breaking away of the Yenizelists, who are in camp under the aegis of the Allies at Salonika.

A complaint having been made to the Government that the wife of a railway employee at Paekakariki was competing with a local dairyman in supplying milk to various customers in that township, the Hon. W. Herries has caused inquiry to be made into the matter, and has written upholding the officer’s freedom of action. The Minister states: “It appears abundantly evident that a considerable number of the residents of Paekakariki are not in sympathy with the attempt that is being made to curtail the liberty of Mrs Foley by implying that her husband is neglecting his duties as a railwayman, and competing in railway time with outsiders. I have already made it quite clear in another similar case that the railway department cannot interfere in the domestic arrangements of its employees, and so long as railwaymen devote themselves to their duties in railway time there is no reason why (hey should not supplement their earnings in their own time. Where, as in this instance, the wife and family of a man in the lower ranks of the service has the energy and ability to assist the breadwinner, I am of opinion that they should be left to do so, even if not encouraged.”

The country round about WakeHold (says the Nelson livening Mail) is at present in a rather bad way, owing lo the continued dry spell. Although rain has fallen in different parts of the. district, Wakefield has had next to none since November last. Farmers, fruit-growers, and hop-growers are having an anxious time. Many of the root crops have turned out failures. The harvest has been got in well, but the crops still standing appear to be badly blighted, and hardly worth cutting. Many farmers are still hopeful of getting a good strike of late turnips, and are preparing the land in readiness for when rain comes. The hops appear to be suffering severely, and unless rain comes at once many gardens can be said to be absolute failures. Bush and grass fires are beginning to be common owing to the dry state of the country generally.