LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1947, 4 March 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Constable Woods is engaged in collecling the agricultural statistics 1 lii'ouglnuit Ibis dislriel.

Most of Ihe tomato crop- in Him dislriel have suffered from blight. Potatoes, however,- were almost free and good crops are recorded.

While in 'Wanganui last week, several of Hie local Senior Cadets happened across Mr Jackson, (heir ex-schoolmaster. Mr Jackson expressed his pleasure at seeing his ex-pupils, amt entertained them right rovallv.

The ordinary monthly meeting of (he Borough Council will be held in (he Borough Coimeil Chambers on Momhiy, 1 Oiit ins!., ;it 7.30 p.it>. Business, ordinary. Finance Comniiltee nioels on Friday, 7th ins), at 7 ]».m. Library Cuminillee meets on Monday, 10th in.-1., at 7 p.m.

Mr A. K. Adamre, painter and paperhanger, has entered into po>>e‘ft,ioii of the premises lately occupied by (he Co-operative Trading Society. Full slocks of paints, papers, etc., will he carried, and all work entrusted to him will he prompt ly executed.

The Defence Depart merit's help to soldiers’ wives and dependents, through the Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board, include the payment of grants in eases of confinements and surgical operations. During January, under this head, .(.‘337 was expended, so that the Board distributed a large number of baby bonuses to soldiers’ wives. The, amount of the grant in these cases is £5, and the Board lias not refused a single application. Lodge fees paid for the soldier often run into several hundreds of pounds in one month. January was a light month for these payments, but tjae life insurances premiums totalled £3,232.

The friends of Mrs J. F. Koay, of Marotiri, who is at ])i'osent an ininafe of a private hospital in Palmerston North, will he pleased to learn that her condition continues to improve.

The following services will he held, in All Saints’ Church to-mor-row, Ash Wednesday: —10. 30 a.im, Litany and Holy Communion; 7.30 p.m., Evensong.

The name of Cr. Kempster was inadvertently omitted from the list of those who were present at tin; complimentary banquet tendered to the Hon, Sir W. Fraser, at Shannon last Friday night. The lease of the Target Reserve of 232 acres was submitted by auction yesterday afternoon, hut the host hid received was Os Id per acre, and as this did not come up to (he reserve, the property was passed in. It will now he sold hy public lender.

The number of patients in the Palmerston 'Hospital on February Ist was GO. During the month 05 were admitted, and 79 discharged, leaving 7(5 patients in the institution at the end of the month. There were no deaths at the hospital during February.

The officers of the Salvation Army, Adjutant Herring and Lieut. Smith, were given a farewell entertainment in the Salvation Army Hall last night. Lieut. Smith loft this morning for Brnnnerlon. Adjutant Herring leaves on Thursday for Dunedin, They will he succeeded here hy Captain and Mrs Griffin, from Wellington, who will arrive here on Thursday. The Captain is a good musician, and he and his wife possess abilities that should make them very acceptable to the townspeople of Foxton.

A. correspondent, ’’Rosemary,’’ writes as follows to the Dominion: —“As so many people arc suffering from loss of hair after influenza, il might he worth while to publish the following oldfashioned remedy: — Put about a dozen sprigs of rosemary in a basin with a pint of cold water, cover with a plate, and stand in a warm oven for about two hours to draw. When cold, pour off (he liquid, and bottle for use. Moisten a sponge or flannel with the infective, and rub lightly the roots of the hair once or twiee daily. The treatment if continued for a few weeks will, judging hy my own experienee, he found satisfactory, and the cost is little or nothing.’’

Tlie pillaging of cargo was mentioned at a recent meeting; of the Wellington Harbour Board, members urging that magistrates should lie induced to be more severe in sentencing convicted offenders. Importers know (hat an enormous amount of goods is stolen every year from ships .aul harbour stores. The pillaging seems to begin in the docks In England, or elsewhere, alid to continue at every stage until the goods reach the consignee. Some of the pillagers evidently are experts who can open a ease, abstract, goods, and-close the case again so that no external trace of their work remains. Manufacturers, shipping; companies, harbour boards and consignee:: ((ua.rrel daily owing to the dillicully of determining in Ihe majority of cases just where the loss occurred. The Wellington liarhour Board, which pays hundreds of pounds every year for pillaged cargo, recently lost live hundredweight of copper and a ease of silk, to mention two articles that could not possibly have been concealed in pockets or even in bags.