LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1929, 21 January 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Gazelle notice announces that, the-meeting of Parliament has been prorogued until the 20th February. There are a large number of visitors in town for the races to be held to-morrow, and accommodation is taxed to its utmost. The 'Chief Postmaster notifies that the mails which left New Zealand for the United Kingdom on Ist of December arrived in London on the 10th instant. Our seaside correspondent writes, that a large number of; visitors arc expected at the beach to-morrow. In the evening a dance will lie held in (he hall, in aid of the beach improvement fund. 'At (>.30 on Saturday evening a train collided with a motor ear.on a level crossing at Ilnnterville. Tho car was badly smashed, and its occupant, Mr David Morrison, a wellknown farmer in the Hnntervillo district, received severe internal injuries. It appears that the (rain was running behind time, which is believed to have been a con tribal ary cause- of the accident, ns Mr Morrison was evidently under (lie impression (hat the line was clear when he- proceeded to cross the rails. A proposal by the Onebunga Borough Council to expend £35,000 to reconstruct tho main street in concrete is to be submitted to the ratepayers (his week. It waS staled at a public molding to discuss the scheme that the cost of the macadamised road was 0s per square yard. Such a road was in need of constant repair. The cost of a concrete road would be 0s persepmre yard, and the estimated cost of upkeep/ would be 2d per square yard tier annum for a length of 500 yards in a gradient, and about Id per yard for the balance. In sentencing Norton Thompson, solicitor, of Hastings,' to four months' imprisonment, Mr Justice Husking said ho was sorry he could not apply the Probation Act. He had the police report before liinu which showed that.for the last three or four years he had not been attending to his business, but had been drinking, gambling-, and following uj) races in tho North Island. This lias mi doubt caused the whole (rouble. Jl was sad (hat such a young man should damage Ins career in Ibis manner. A breach of (rust, especially in I lie case of a solicitor, was always regarded more seriously' than an ordinary case oft hell, and as a rule was severely dealt with, The jury, however, had strongly recommended in his favour, and he also look into consideration that Thompson had been before Ibo court since last July, had had two trials, and because of the court adjournment he had been for live or six weeks longer under(his charge than he otherwise might have been".

In his address on education al the Social Democrat ic Parly's meet in” 1 in llic Alexandra Hall. Wellington, on Sunday evening, Mr IV. I). Bay ley, of Winnipeg, said lie strongly deprecated llie policy that banished from the school everything that happened to he of controversial character in the political world. Teachers had to prepare their students for a life in (he atmosphere of 11)20, not of Julius Caesar or Oliver Cromwell. Therefore they must deal with society as it was now and as it should he tomorrow if they were to serve and. preserve the Stale, whose servants they were. He did not mean hy this that the schoolroom should he a place of propaganda for sectarian political views, -)mt there was a mass of almost unanimously accepted ideas that should become the working ci|uipmenl of every embryo citizen. For instance, he would spend more time on teaching the -yslem hy which land was held today and less on drilling-in the feudal system. The child would not have to live under feudal conditions,, hut he would have to face the hind questions. Speaking to a Lyttelton Times reporter, an Ashburton resident slated that'the harvest for HHI) would he the latest experienced for many years. Primarily this was due to the severe winter of HHS. and to (he unseasonable weather, which was responsible for the late sowing >1! cereals. In former years the harvesting of cereals was in full -wing al tliis period of (lie year, hut at present comparatively little grain had been reaped in the country, The crops cut were mainly earlysown oats in the lower-lying districts near the seaboard. It was -afe to assume that the average yields of both oats and wheat would exceed those of the preceding season. A good deal of hay was being harvested in the country, and several machines were already out threshing-grass seed. As far as •abour was concerned, there was no apparent shortage at present, but in the course of ten days or a fortnight, when the wheat crops were ripened, there would he a big demand for competent men to staff threshing mills and do general harvesting work. For hay-making and oilier harvesting labour, wages ranging (Tom,ls !)d to 2s and found were being paid. As demonstrating' the marked disparity in the seasons, he continued, it might he mentioned that in the back country stations the wool .obtained last year baled up on an average of twenty-two bales per thousand sheep, the bales averaging 3i ewt., while this season the approximate return did not exceed seventeen bales per thousand sheep, and at the same time the quality of the wool was much inferior.

The four-year-old son of ITorherf Goevos, farmer, of Hapara, wa-» caught in a reaper, one of his legs being badly mangled and almost severed. In Tallcrsall's No, 1 consultation on the November .Handicap, run at Rosehill on November 30th, the first pmo of £4,500 was won by the Archester syndicate, care of E. Burke, Opera House, Auckland. Mr P. Skillen has forwarded us some splendid specimens of locally grown potatoes of IheMrish Hock variety. If the tubers forwarded us are an average sample, the crop should lie prolilie and suitable to local conditions. One of the teachers speaking atthe Educational Conference referred to “mediocrities” getting on to a number of petty local bodies. Perhaps such is (ho ease, hut does the speaker not recognise that there are a fair number of mediocrities in his own profession? —Eltham Argus. As the resultof a standardisation scheme in the manufacture of hoots, it is probable that in a short time the public will he able to purchase these necessary articles at a reasonable price. The Hon. W . D. S. MacDonald, aeting-Presidcnl of the Board of Trade, has the matter in hand. “I want to fell you a story which I heard the other day,” said a judgment debtor in the Magistrate's Court at Hamilton, to examining counsel, says the Waikato Times, “A little boy asked his father, “What is a lawyer?' ‘A lawyer is a man who'causes two men to light, and iijen runs away with their clothes,’ was the reply.” The Secretary of the District Hospital and Charitable Aid Board wa-s in Foxlon yesterday for the purpose of investigating and settling claims on behalf of the Board and Department in connection with the recent epidemic. .Most ot the claims were paid subject to a turther scrutiny by the Department, end others were held over for further investigation. A Mastcrloii settler informed an Age reporter on Monday that he intended shutting down a thirtyfive acre paddock of white clover for seed purposes. He stale- that with the stock market on -uch an uncertain basis, and with clover seed selling' at 2s (hi per ib,, there was little doubt that cutting the seed was a more payable proposition that eating the clover off with stock. A serious accident occurred on the main road near the Glum post uliice on Thursday morning, whereby the 13-year-old son of Mr Albert ?\iorgan had both legs broken. He was driving his milk earl to the factory, when the horse shied, and the cart wen! over an embankment and overturned. The unfortunate hoy was pinned underneath, and when- he got clear it was found he had both legs broken, one in two places. The sufferer was brought to Levin for attention, being afterwards sent on to the Palmerston N. Hospital. In reply to enquiries as to the export of butler to America, the Hun. 11. D. Guthrie stales that it will not he possible to grant permits to export further quantities of butter to Vancouver beyond the amount already booked for shipment by the Makura. The position is that the Imperial Government was agreeable to allow a limited quantity of butter (u ho exported to Vancouver, and that quantity hud been tilled. Further inquiries made have resulted in a statement from the Imperial Government that (lie original quantity, for which the permission was given cannot be increased.

One of the German mines laid off the .coast of New Zealand was sighted on 'Thursday by Captain Brigden, oftieer in charge of the s.s. Waverier, some 10 miles oil Pateu, as the vessel was proceeding to the latter port from Wellington. Immediately the mine was sighted Captain Brigden look measures to sink i:, by means of gunfire, circling round it until its destruction was successfully accomplished. The mine was similar to those that have been washed up on this coast recently. Captain Brigden and his crew are to be congratulated on the look-out which was kept, which enabled the mine to be discovered in time to prevent a catastrophe to the Waverley or 'some other vessel (says an exchange). The mine was directly in the track of the steamer route between Wellington and Patea. The soldiers who left New Zealand as the moulded draft of the -list Reinforcements have had an unenviable experience, as is disclosed by a letter received in Wanganui. The draft of 50$ men left Wellington by the Mocraki for Sydney, where they were shipped on board a transport with 1,000 Australian Light Horse. At a South African port the transport was recalled. “We arrived at Port Adelaide on Saturday from Albany,” the writer states. “We were not allowed to land at Albany, and the lumpers refused to coal the ship without) -heavy sureties. About ten eases of influenza were pul off at Albany, and we left over 500 men at Freemantle. We were at Freeman tie' for eight days, lying about three miles out. Lp to the time we left there were 25 deaths. It was a sad sight to see the worst eases being put over the side into small tugboats, as the sea was choppy, and they were drenched before reaching the quarantine station. At present (time of writing) 400 men are in quarantine on Torrens Island, off Port Adelaide.”

The Education Board accepted the Icndenof Mr Ba nek ham for tho purchase and removal of the old iron from the 1 school site. A meeting of managers of the local Presbyterian Church was held lasi night, and routine business transacted. The district general meeting- will he held at Glen Oroua, on Friday next. Mr A. N. Smith, cash draper am|j| clothier, notifies that as fronSt Thursday his business.,will be ducted in his new premises, opposite the Bank of New Zealand, where he will he pleased to welcome old and new customers. At the Palmerston Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr E. Page, S. James diaries Speight, hotelkeeper, of Palmerston North, was JL charged with assaulting and Howland Waghorn, painter, of Pal- j merston North, on October 23rd, I 1918. Am-used was lined £5 and I costs £2. ■ The announcement is made lhatjfl under Admiralty instructions a!!' passenger steamers froip Australia 1 for Eugiaud have to proceed home- ■ ward via Bombay in order to cm- ' hark troops from India and Mesopotamia. As a result of this-order, the accommodation for passengers by vessels (o leave New Zealand for Home have become greatly restricted, and many bookings already made will have to be cancelled. The. marriage look place on January 15tb, at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs A. V. Collins, Otane, 11.8., of Miss T. Hincmoa McDonald, youngest, daughter of Mrs Hector McDonald, late of Horowhenua, Levin, to William Williamson, ot Omea, W’ansiead, H.B. The wedding would he of interest to the older residents of Levin, as the bride's paternal grandparents were the lir-t white settlers here. —Levin Chronicle.