LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1948, 6 March 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape, ratepayers are to be asked to sanction a loan of £17,000 for various borough improvements.

Bonald Laird, aged 12, died in the Auckland hospital while under an anaesthetic for the removal of his tonsils. The evidence at the impiest showed that he suffered from weakness aftet; influenza.

A motor car driven by a .Masterton resident, and containing a number of passengers, went over an embankment. near Lower Taueru. One of the passengers is now in hospital in a bad avuv.

Kenneth Wilson and Raymond Pntehier, both aged six years, sons of soldiers killed in (he war, died at Kawakawa from gastro-enteritis. following 'convulsions from eating green fruit.

The Commission which is (o make inquiry into the working conditions of (he Police* Force and to obtain information on questions of status, will sit in Auckland, Wellington, Palmerston North, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The .Minister states tha 1 the inquiry will begin during the first week of April. The members of (he Commission will be Superintendent Kiely, of Auckland, Superintendent Wright, of Dunedin, Inspector M’flralh, of Napier, and Sub-Inspector Proberg, of Wellington. All these officers are in (he uniformed branch id' the service, but two of them, Mr M.’Cralh and Mr Pro berg, have had long sendee In the. detective branch.

Land is changing hands rapidly everywhere, and in some districts there is quite an (dement of excitement in the land speculation (writes the Farmers 1 Union Advocate’s Canterbury correspondent). Price.are advancing, too. and there is evidently a feeding abroad that times tire going (o be good. The (lovcrnmenl lias had a great many farmoffered to it, most of them situated some way in from the railway line, T am afraid that in most cases the values placed on these biddings are on the high side. The (lovernmenl will, quite properly, exercise a good deal of caution in buying land for returned soldiers, and it may be (hat private enterprise will befit it when it comes to the purchase of land. On most of the soldiers' settlements building and fencing has to be done, and this adds to the rent maleriallv.

“An* there any undue profits being made between the farmer and the consumer?" asked Mr AV. A. A r eiich of Mr Richard Evans, who was tendering evidence regarding wheat-growing to the Parliamentary Industries Committee in Christchurch. “Do yon want me in tell yon straight ?" inquired Air Evan-; “well, it goes in labour; every penny of it." Expanding that statement, lie explained that the cost of distribution was a big factor in determining the linni price of bread. “I don't know where you live." thalo Mr Veit(di, “Inti you likely wouldn't carry a loaf of bread home in a Maori kit-hag." “No, he wouldn't," put in Ah’ (i. \\. Eorhcs. “Then," concluded Air Evans, “it’s costing, under present conditions, 2Ad to deliver every -HI) loaf. That's what puls I lie price up.”

Says the Ml (ham Argus:—At n stage in the proceedings of (he Eltiiam Borough Council meeting tlie extraordinary course was taken of requesting the representative of (lie Press to retire from the chamber while a certain' mailer was under discussion, ll is quite a common thing for public bodies-to discuss matters “in committee," and roly upon |he honour of the newspaper representatives who may bo present: not to make the discussion public, lull to request them to absolutely leave 1 lie room is a most unusual procedure. 'We know of an instance where His Honour the Chief dust ice declined to accept a suggestion tlja’l the Press should he asked to retire, saying that, he had always relied upon the honour of the p.ressmen, and laid not been disappointed. And on that occasion a much graver matter was being considered (lain anything that came, before the Council last night.

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Rear-Admiral Halsey has declined fhe Federal Government’s offer of a position on the Australian Naval Board, He will not visit Australia.

There is an agitation afoot in Feilding to erect a collage hospital there, as a inennvrial to soldiers from that district who have made the supreme sacrifice in (he great wa r. .

.Messrs J. A. Nash, M.P., and J. K. ITornhlow have been appointed the Manawatn School Committee.-’ Association delegates to the Dominion conference of school committees, to he held in Wellington at the end of April.

The quarterly meeting of (he Manawatu School Committees’ Association was held in the Palmerston N. Borough Council Chambers last night. Delegates were present from all parts of the district. Messrs llornhlow and Signal represented the local committee.

The Methodist Conference report showed an increase of -Rid members.

14(5 junior members. 21 (i active members of the Wesley Guilds, and 305 junior members of the guilds, but a decrease of 1,5(12 in attendants at public worship and a decrease of 213 communicants.

There was a good and appreciative audience at the Dolores song recital in the Town Hall on Tuesday night. This famous singer was heard to advantage in a wide range of songs, which were received with prolonged applause. The concert was a real musical treat. The pianoforte accompaniments and selections by Mr Harold Smith added to Ihe brilliance of the entertainment.

The followin'? figures showing Ihe value of exports from (lit 1 ])ominion for (he week ended February 25th are published iu the Gazelle: —Butler £24,9511, cheese £54,387, mutton £54,221), lamb £28,1)32, oilier meal £27,241, grain and pulse £81)1), hides and skins £28,277. kauri yum £lO5, (lax and low £34-, 18(1, (allow £47,581, limber £4,778, woo] £20(i,082. Toial, £512,1311.

At ihe local police court this morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P., a returned soldier and a stranger to the district, was charged by the police with drunkenness. Constable Woods, In evidence, said (he man had arrived in town with money, which he had spent in drink. Yesterday he was iu a bad way, and threatened to drown himself. Accused pleaded guilty, and was convicted and discharged, and ordered to leave the town.

‘‘A politician is a man'who wails round nni(l he finds out what the street gang wants, and he goes for it —just as long as that gang commands a majority. What this world wants is not the politician, but the patriot —the man who will do the right thing courageously, undaunted, though not a single man may follow him, just because he knows it to be the right thing. That, is Ihe irue patriot. What this and every other country wauls is good government, not Ihe government of politicians, but (he government of patriots.’' —Chancellor George 11. Bradford, Wellington.

T!io largest consignment of wool taken froin Wanganui in one bottom will l)i* lined e.irly (his month by the overseas freighter Farnsworth, which is due there in uhoul a week’s time. She will lift .1 (5,000 hales of wool, this quantity being’ distributed among both freezing companies and all the local brokers. At an average of £23 per bale, this consignment will be worth £308,000. Another large consignment of frozen meat is to be lifted from Wanganui by the Aiatatua, which is due there at present. She is to lift 25,000 freight carcases, as well as a quantity of tallow, pelts, casein, and preserved meats. The following is I lie tirst reading of stations for the Hawke’s BayManawalu District decided by the Methodist Conference : Napier, Rev. T. Richardson; Hastings, Rev. A. Mcß.ean; (lisborne. Rev. W. 11. F. Abbey, and one wanted; Waipawa, ‘Rev. (’. A. Foxton; Dannevirke, Rev. :]. Richards; Woodville, Rev. R, P. Keale; Pahialna, Rev, A. d. D. Minilie; Palmerston North (Broad Street), Revs, (I. B. Cook - , W. (fatman; Palmerston North (Cuba Street), Rev. A. Ashcroft; Feilding, Revs. (!. F. Btockwell, W. J. Fnticolt; Sanson and Rongotea, Rev. J. D. McArthur; Foxton, Rev. A. Harding.

The armistice 11 i”It( proceedings at Cairo and Kanlara have (says llie Sydney Bulletin) effectively cleared up ihe illusion 1 lia 1 Bilijim and Ihe Maorilander are Ihe had hoys of ihe family. ' Several ihonsand Tommies look Cairo hy storm, and there was looting far and wide. Many shrewd attempts were made to entire the Anssies into joining the mol), hut they were not Idling. Not content with stuffing - hags wilii spoil, the malfiekers passed on to. the Anzae Hostel, making a wreck of that institution, though -it has hern almost entirely a Tommy concern since the Australian infantry’s departure, and has provided them with the only lodging within their means, together with the cheapest good-quality meals. A descent w.as also made on the Australian and Maorilander Soldiers’ Club, the one small patch of Aussie left us, hut a few willing “diggers” quickly settled that argument. Since certain st-ill-not-to-he-mentioned proceedings at Wazzir, in retaliation for numerous murders and fatal doping, (he Australians have Intel mud thrown at them on every possible oeeasiop. Just as frequently they have been told to take an example from the disciplined Tommy. Now these dabblers in pitch are floundering in their own defilement.

Richard Martin, of Wellington, charged with sending threatening letters to Alexander Collins, also a. hox of chocolates soaked in nitric acid, has been committed for trial. There is a scarcity of water in a , number of households, and unless rain replenishes the house tanks , soon serious inconvenience will be 9 ' caused to residents. A practical sawrniiler estimates the pinus insignus timber in the Cambridge district to be worth anything over £1.00,000 as it stands, says the Waikato Independent. A number of brethren of the local .Masonic Lodge intend to be present at the installation ceremony of Lodge Tilda, Palmerston N., this evening. Chautauqua Chancellor Bradford, iu a a address in the Umpire Theatre, Wellington, last Sunday evening, said: —"Charlie Chaplin gets more money than your Prime Minister and his Cabinet, more than Mr Lloyd George and his Cabinet, more than President W ilsou and his Cabinet, And when more money is paid to one man for playing (he fool than is paid to (he rulers of the world, it makes thinking men feel around for (lie foundation of our civilisation.” The Defence Department's scheme for the vocational (raining of soldiers before their discharge i< said to be progressing well. The Minister (Sir .James Allen) states that (he following ollieers have been appointed to lake charge of the work in (he four military areas; Auckland, Captain Penlinglon; Wellington, Lieutenant. Wray; Canterbury, Lieutenant Moore; Otago, Lieutenant Zeisler.

When (he mailer of concrete roads was brought up at Ihe Palmerston Borough Council meeting', the engineer (Mr S. Jickell) said that (he mailer had been fully discussed a I the lale conference of engineers held in Auckland, and a valuable report bad been brought up. At Ihe following meeting he proposed to present this report to the Council, together with a report lie was preparing, which would deal with the question of road making iu (Ids district.

During the week ended at noon on Monday, seven influenza eases were notified to the Health Department throughout the Dominion. Of these, four were in the Auckland health district-one at Whangarei, and two at Auckland, all of which were mild; one fatal ease, that of a Native woman at Ilelensville, displayed epidemic type. In Ihe Wellington Health District there, was one mild ease, at Wanganui, and in the Canterbury district two mild cases. N'o deaths from the disease were reported in eilher (he Wellington or Canterbury districts, and in the Otago health district (here were no s notification or deaths.

The Medical Corps-Mission that went to Baden did not find any New Zealand prisoners of war in the part of Germany they (ravelled through, except Nimol, who in June, 11)10, was declared a deserter by a ■> Court of Enquiry. Steps were taken with a view to the return of (ho latter, but it is understood that a ruling: has been given to the effect that prisoners of war who decline repatriation cannot be compelled to return. Burt her correspondence is, however, taking place in regard to Nimol‘s position. The mission also failed to find any record of New Zealand prisoners who had died iu the places visited.