LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1972, 3 May 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is understood that some forged Bank of New Zealand 10s notes have been circulated in Dunedin.

The proposal to hold the halfholiday on Saturday was carried at Napier by 2,444 votes to 877. . Master Allen Walls, son of Mr and Mrs ,1. "Walls, had the misfortune to break Ids arm.Avhile skating in the Town 'frail on Thursday evening.

On page one of this issue appears the Vicar's annual report, as presented to the meeting of-parishion-ers of All Saints’ Church on Monday evening last.

Members of the local nursing reserve are-reminded (hat the weekly meeting av i 11 be held in the Council Chamber at the usual time on Monday evening. Dr. H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who Avas last week in a critical condition, is now reported to show marked improvement.

There ,is abundant evidence (<? prove that the householders’ meeting hold on Tuesday night last was commenced between five and six minutes before 8 o’clock —(he timeset out in the advertisement convening the meeting. The number of patients in the Palmerston District Hospital on April Ist was 73. During the month 104 patients were admitted and 0(i were discharged, while live died, the number of patients remaining in the institution at the end of the monthbeing 70.

11l this week’s Gazette is published an Order-in-Council consenting to (he raising of loans by Ihe following local bodies: —Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, £0,500; Jolmsonville Town Board, £10,000; Manawalu County Council, £1,000; .Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, £50,000.

The results for the Shannon Mayoral election were: —Murdoch 211, Spencer 82. Councillors: .]. McMillan 211), T. Gardner 203, A. Hillier 192, (1. G. Kelly 189, J. H. I'argher 18(1, ,1. Richardson 100, A. Spencer 150, C. Scott 151, J. Curran 112, G. Mercer 110, (I. Quarrie 131, T. Wood 130, D. Gustofsen 122, informal 0.

Writing in the Timaru Post, Mr C. H. Mason says: “Present solar ami planetary conditions favour abnormally heavy rains during the com-, ing winter, especially during -Inly and August. The rain-fed livers of South Otago and Southland may cause heavy loss by Hooding, and new records in rainfall are-prob-able possibilities in many districts throughout the Dominion. . Tht sheep-owners of South Canterbury may experience much inconvenience from snow-storms, but after their last winter's experience this warning will be almost superfluous, and when we get back to normal winter weather, probably in 1820, their losses from over-precautions maybe greater than from customary risks taken in 1918 and previous years,’''

A loiter urging the necessity of dealing with sand drills along 1 lie (‘oast was manual by I lie Levin Borough Council at last jueotim> from Buxton Chamber of: Commerce, The Chamber urged that Messrs Field, Newman, and Veiteh, id’s.P., be asked to bring’ under the notice of the Minister lor Lands the desirability of coping with the menace between Baeknkariki and Wanganui, and that the Crown acquire such waste lands for afforestation nr oilier purposes of utility, The Mayor said tree-planting would be ideal work for soldiers, Crs Lam-aster and Ryder considered Unit it was of the greatest importance that sand drifts should be taken in hand. Cr. Mat boson said he had seen areas dealt with by growing lupins with great success. It was unanimously decided to support the overtures from the Fox ton Chamber.

Complaints of land aggregation arc coming in from all parts of the ■country —some of them, no doubt, with a certain measure of foundation. One of the Manawnlu newspapers remarks upon the fact, that between Wanganui and Feilding there are guile n number of farmhouses “standing empty and desolate, the surroundings suggesting that until recently these houses were the centre of prosperous husbandry.’’ Several of the local bodies in adjoining; districts have taken tin., mutter up, and are making representations to the Government. The Taihape Times waxes eloquent in its indignation over the operations of the “land aggregator,” who in most instances apepars to have had to pay pretty dearly for the gratiJiya(ion of his hankering' after bre-ad acres. “There can lie no denying the fact,” it says, “that the land laws are being treated with scorn and contempt, disobeyed, broken and flouted, and that disaster must overtake the producing industry if a better and saner regime does not replace it. 'While huge, illegal areas of land are held by one man. who employs one man to .250 acres, and depastures one sheep to every 37 acres, it is not to be wondered at that competition for land has resulted in over £IOO per acre being paid at the other end of the district.” Leaving political bias aside, there is plenty of other evidence to show that a considerable amount of aggregation, rightly or wrongly, is going on.

A boon to public speakers, singers, ami reciters isNAZOL. • Keeps the throat clear as a bell. Can 1)0 taken anywhere.

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great. Peppermint Cure,

' One of the many, tasks performed by Base Records, Wellington, is the checking' of all accounts in connection- with the four weeks free railway travelling and free meals at the railway refreshment rooms which comprise one of the returned soldiers’ privileges. The payments under 1 this heading to the Railway Department during a recent month amounted to .€41,0(50.

The official recount of the votes recorded at Wednesday's municipal election make a slight difference in the totals of (he various candidates, hut (lie result of the poll is unaltered. The official 'figures arc:— Parkin 355, Thompson 351,- Coley 286, Pearson 28(1, Rand 283, Hannah 274, Bryant 246, Walker 241, Me Murray 234 (elected), Henderson 212, Stevenson 192, MeColl 191, Dawson 18,7, Kempster 167, Admore 150, Read 103. '

We are asked to state that the attendances of school committeemen at meetings of school committee for the past year as shown in (ho report presented to the householders’ meeting, did not explain that Messrs Baildon and Woods only took office after the resignations of Messrs Kellow and McMurray. These two gentlemen attended every meeting of committee from (he time of their appointment.Mr MeMnrray was only credited with attending three meetings, whereas the secretary stales that his at-f tendances were live.

William Craig was charged al the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, with printing leaflets without giving his imprint and address thereon. The charges arose out of a recent case in which Wm. Parker was sentenced for circulating seditious lea filets. DeVendaiu' was lined £5 on each of three charges. The Magistrate remarked that in view of the circumstance that the leaflets were printed in Craig’s works without his knowledge, he would be prepared to remit part, of "the line if the matter was referred back to him by the Minister for Justice.

It is popularly supposed that the New Zealand envoys, .Mr Massey and Sir Joseph 'Ward, have made some sort of an impression on the British public, and have contrived to let; the people‘of Britain know.at least that they come from New Zealand . In the Daily Graphic of February 10th, a pictorial paper in London, (here is published a photo-.' graph of a wedding group. Underneath the picture appeared the following description ;• “New Zealand Premier’s son married.’’ “Captain Cook, son of the Premier of New Zealand, was married at Golder’s Green on Saturday to Miss C. M. Watson, of Holders > Green. Sir Joseph Cook is on the bridegroom’s right, and Mr and Mrs Watson on the left of the bride.”

A(• the Magistrate's Court, Levin, on Thursday, before Mr E. Page, S.M., Joseph Williams was charged wilh having', on 2Js| April, hy negligently driving a motor ear, Tilled one Richard Frelchliug. DetectiveSergeant Quirko, who eondueted the ease Tor the poliee, read a signed statement, in which accused admitted he had collided with something at the place where Erctchling was found suffering from injuries, from which lie subsequently died. A number of witnesses also gave evidence. Accused, who was not represented by counsel, reserved his defence, and rvas committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court in Palmerston North, bail being allowed in sell' .C2OO and one sure! v in a similar amount.

One often hears in terms of derision a sentence to the effect that some people have queer children. At the same lime, is il not equally true that some children are„ handicapped hy the eccentricities of their parents?. Registrars of births, deaths and marriages in various places could throrv some light on the subject, referring particularly to the names bestowed on unfortunate children in their extreme youth. The registrar wilh a feeling heart ofteil feels compelled to register a protest: against the nomenclature inflicted on innocent infants. Some people like to perpetuate in- (he names of their children various little incidents in their oavh careers, to say nothing of dragging in the handles of different relations of whom they have reasonable expectations. Imagine, for instance, the callous, unlhinkin;% mind which‘would saddle a child for life with an appellation like this: Gertrude, Caroline, Victoria, Eliza, Orange Blossom! Yet such things have been done and arc still being done.

In no instance since the beginning of 1910 lias (lie Base Reeords casually .stall: left the oJliee until all work on any casually list received up till 8 p.m. been completed, and the telegrams notifying next.of kin lodged in the post office. This is one of the features of the war work performed by Base Records, the first director of which,'Major Norton Francis, is about to retire. He explains in a report on the office that the casualty section has had to deal with as many as 2,000 names in a single dayy and when the cables were received in the late afternoon or evening, the" work had to continue until long after midnight. In abnormal times volunteers were drawn from the whole of Base Records staff for overtime assistance, and thus the next-of-kin of our soldiers were relieved of anxiety at the earliest possible moment. No casualty report was sent out until the .cabled information had been carefully checked with the information on the Base Records historysheets regarding the soldier's initials, unit and number, 1

Among the local returned boys are Pts. V. Betty and G. Edwards. Both lads look none the worse for their trying experiences abroad, v