LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1712, 15 May 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accounts amounting to £O3B Os lid were passed for payment at last night’s Borough Council meeting.

There were present at the monthly meeting of the Borough Council held last night: The Mayor (Mr .John Chrystall) and Crs Coley, Walker, McMurray, Hurley, Bryant, McColl, Stevenson and Henderson.

Daring the month of April, 20 cows and 14 horses were impounded hy the ranger, and one horse and nine cows were “arrested” and afterwards released to owners. The driving fees totalled £1 His ()d. “Did you have any liquor that day ?” a seaman was asked in (he Wellington Magistrate’s Court during the hearing of a case. A broad smile overspread the witness’ face as he replied’: “Well, not on me, hut in me.”

The average number of (min miles run in New Zealand per day is 2i),8!)3, uinl '78,05(1 passengers and 20,3(14 tuns of goods urn curried daily. For the military authorilies the Department had run since the war 5,51!) special (rains in (he North Island, and about 500 in the South Island.

A small sensation was created a! .the saleyards at Waihtta , North Auckland, the other day, says the Herald, when' a young lady equipped with all the requisites of a drove) —stockwhip, dogs, etc. — drove a mob of 50 bullocks from the yards. The lady drover handled the mob of: cattle in as an experienced and confident fashion as I lie most seasoned male ealtle drover.

A Christchurch paper publishes a list of II men drawn in the latest ballot who have no right to be there. One of them is on active service in Egypt, another is at Home in the air service, a doctor has been out and back again, it youth who registered is not of age and was turned out of camp, a young man has been twice rejected, and the other six are actually in France, several of them having been wounded and returned to dutv!

Horse-breeders in New Zealand may be interested to hear what Corporal W. H. F. Creed, D.C.M., has to say about New Zealand horses in Egypt. In letters received, he advises Ids father (a resident of Waiau), who Inis a number of horses engaged in the carrying business, not to be in a hurry to sell them, as he considers in the future New Zealand horses wifi lead the world. In Egypt, he says, they are the only ones to stand the (dimate, and they perform the work in the sands of the desert much better than any others.

Lieut. Ila iris is a recruiting oflicer now doing 1 good work in Sydney, and only just recently from Hie West front. An Anzac had just run mil of hoots —(hat is to say, tin; soh‘s were worn out. One day he saw a really line pair of hoots slicking out of a heap of mud. He decided to have them. He pulled for all he was worlh. and brought Lieut. Harris out a tier them. “Thanks, old man,” said Harris. “Woden luck," .said the Anzac. There are no heroics in war.

Asked hy a Christchurch reporter as to whether he had received any hint as to the probability of the Second Division being called up, Sir dames Allen said he had always held that the First Pivision would last until (he end of the year. Jt depends entirely on how the war went whether the Second Division would be called upon. It was certainly a fact that the Allies were going to try and end it this year, but it would be ipiite impossible to s.iv if thev would succeed.

Speaking on the subject of (he “War and Social Questions” at Onehtmga, the Wev. A, 15. Chappell, registrar of the Auckland University College, said that as a result of (he war (he world had got saner social views. “The war,” he said, “has not only defined and raised the ideal of the soldier, but it has dignified th(‘ most sordid toil, judged the ‘slacker,’ and given life such a practical guise, that men will be judged hereafter in terms of ellicieney, and not by his trappings. In the sphere of government, nothing is more striking than the current acceptance of more thorough-going though about the .functions of governments. War has done in a month what advocacy could not have achi- 1 eved in a century, and cabinets which were concerned academically with economic questions have now got into economic practice.’’

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The death oeeurred on Sunday of Mr William Fa weed, of Oroua Downs, at (he age of (53 years. A dance will lie held in the Masonic Hail on Friday evening next. The music will he supplied by Mr P. Enoka. Dancing commences at 8 o’clock. Tht 1 local Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Cnild spent an enjoyable afternoon at the residence of Mrs John Ross, Thymic Street, on Wednesday afternoon last. The annual general meeting of members of the Foxlon Horticultural Society will he held in Ihu Town Hall supper-room on Thar--day evening, at S o’clock. On Sunday afternoon a motor car belonging to a country resident went over the side of the Paekakariki Hill road, and fell a distance of about 200 feet on lo a clump of hush, which arrested its progress. Hut for this it would have crashed (o the bottom of the valley, a considerable distance below. There were four or five persons in the ear. It is reported that one of (hem (a lady) hail a leg broken and was otherwise badly injured. The others were more or less injured. Considerable euriostiy was aroused amongst those who happened to be in'lbe vicinity of (he Wanganui wharf recently, at (he speelaele of two young women who were in charge of a well-known carrier’s earl, lilling (he vehicle with bags of Hour al the goods shed ami taking it to u lot-iil business place, where they assisted in unloading operations. The work was undertaken more in the spirit of fun than anything' else, in answer to a challenge thiit women could not replace men, but the way they handled the Hour and the horse and cart was further proof of what yoimg women can do in ease of emergency. The question of the maintenance of the arterial roads of the Dominion Inis for Jong caused concern to members of local bodies and others. One proposal that hits been made for their upkeep is that it lax should he placed upon motor tyres. Silling as a commission in Dunedin, Mr W. S. Short (Fmler-Secretary of the Public Works Department) said a calculation bad been made which showed (hal it big tax of litis kind would return .€50,000 a year. The sum annually required to keep (he main roads suitable for motor Ira Hie was between £500,000 and £OOO,OOO. The impression that exists among ;t huge proportion of the public that eerehro-spinal meningitis is it highly contagious disease is an erroneous one. The disease is contracted through close contact with it patient or eerehro-spinal meningitis carrier. Medical science Ims discovered tlmt the breath of a patient suffering' from the disease is not in ordinary circumstances germ-laden, hut ihitl the cough of a patient is. Experiments have proved that a colony of the germ can he cultivated from jt patient’- cough, hut not from his breath, A danger of contagion exists in cases of influenza and measles where the eerehro-spinal meningitis hug may be present.

The Horowhenna ('minty Council hits agreed to ]>ay up to £3O towards the cost of the enquiry coneoniing the uses of u Main Trunk Railway deviation via FoxtonGreatford. The expenses of the Coinmission due to legal advisers have exceeded anticipations, and the responsible county councils are asking for further aid. The Manawalu Comity Council wrote to the Uorowhenua County Council, and the letter was read at Saturday’s meeting. asking that £45 he contributed by the Horowhenua County Council. The total cost to the local bodies runs out at £3<S(i 12s (id, being £21.4 14s -Id for .Mr C. I*. Skerrett. £l3l ISs 2d for Mr Marlin Luckie, and £lO for sundry expenses.

indications point to the fact, (says the Christchurch Sun) that the potato harvest in Canterbury is a particularly heavy one. Fifteen tons to the acre have been recorded from the K’angiora district, whilst (lie fact is vouchsafed for that at Hornby, in an area of a little over two acres, 45 lons of tubers were lifted. Some districts, as is always the ease, have produced much heavier crops than others, but one cannot generally help being si ruck with the large number of full sucks standing in the paddocks. Men wanted for potato digging arc demanding high wages. Some arc being paid £1 2s per ton for their labour.

In consequence of flic heavy min during I Ik; Inst few days the Maimwalu river rose very quickly yesterday, ; 1 11 < 1 ihe low-lying- country isloiiy its hanks was inundated. The road from the bridge to Shannon is covered to a depth of three feet for some distance, and the water is also running across the road near Dr. Wall’s properly at Moutoa. The river at Shannon bridge continued to rise very steadily up till midnight last night, and from that time, until daylight this morning there was a small rise, hut from daylight until midday to-day the volume of water seems to have remained about the same. Advice was received from Woodville at 8 o’clock last: night that the river there was falling, and this morning a fall of three feet was reported. The rain, also, had ceased in that locality. If there is no further rain there during the next twelve hours the rivet; will steadily fall, although the heavy downpour last night may keep it fairly high with the water from the Oroua and Pohangina. For Influenza take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cage. Never fails. 1/6 and 2/6,

Through receiving a kick whilst playing tool ha 11 at the local State school yesterday, a pupil, named Wallbutton got rather a nasty gash in his loot, necessitating several stitches being put in. A considerable fall in the price of -lock oeeurred in the Wairarapa la.-t week, owing to a report that only a limited quantity oil shipping would be available for frozen meat m the immediate future. Tim for the erectioif of ihe concrete tank’at the gas work-; applied at last night’s Council meeting for an extension of the time limit on the contract to the :Hith in-fan), on account, of the difficulty they had experienced in obtaining labour. —The extension asked for wa.~ granted. When doctor- differ, who is to decide.’ wa- a (pterion prominently before the Third .Military Service Hoard, An appellant passed as "lit" by a Medical Hoard produced certificate- from two doctors tiedaring him to be unlit for active service. The board, bound by (be ded-ion of the Medical Heard, stmt (be man to camp, recommending a specially careful examination when he gets (here. Mr Fred. K’oliinson hail a miraculous escape from death recently while clipping a vicious draught: hor.-e. While clipping the front of the animal, it attacked Mr Robin-" son, kicking viciously. Mr Robinson was severely bruised about the hotly, and one of his lingers was badly lacerated. His lit lit l hoy, who was present, also had a narrow escape, the horse's front fool just grazing the lad's head anil shoulder. for Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Croat Peppermint Cure. I/O and 2/0. Wanted: Housewives to realise that it pays to purchase groceries and household requisites at Walker and Fume's.