LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1994, 24 June 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Private M. Conolly, of Foxlon, is among the returnin'’' troops on (lie Tahiti, due to arrive in Auckland about July 2nd.

The receipts al the National Dairy Show, Palmerston North, totalled £1,195, against £l,OOl 4s (id last year. On people’s day the takings were £498 Is lid —a record.

Al the Napier Park races on Friday and Saturday, Foeman, owned and trained by Mr A. M. Wright, of Foxlon, won the open steeplechase on both davs.

The local JlaxniilSs have commenced work under the wages scale offered by the Flaxmillers Association, which appears in detail in another column in a letter signed by the Secretary of the Association.

Mr W. F. Massey, speaking in England, said that for a century enemy aliens would not be allowed to settle in New Zealand, if Britain did not act similarly the war sacrifices would largely be in vain. Tin* death took place at the District Hospital on Sunday evening, of Lena, the six-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lankin, of Coley Street, Foxlon, after a brief illness. The funeral look place to-day.

The Scouts and Guards, with the Trumpet Band, will welcome the Belunicd men wlio arc arriving by tonight's train, and will march from (lie supper-room of the Town Hall at 7 prompt.

.Mr Hewitt, the Wanganui S.M., has hit upon a novel form of “punishment.” On Saturday he ordered six juvenile offenders to he birched for various delinquencies, “and to he deprived of attendance at the picture shows for three months.”

The Scouts and Guards are elated at the prospect of a hamper house to-night at the Town Hall. The programme will be just “it,” and Padre Bladin is in great form. Brigadier Hoare is (mining from Wellington on purpose to inspect the troop. He is Ihe head of the young people’s work of the Salvation Army in New Zealand.

Good progress lias boon made with the improvements being earned out on the local howling green, but there is yet a lot to he done. There will he a working bee on the green to-morrow afternoon, and all members able to do so are requested to roll up as soon after 2 o'clock as possible and assist with the work.

The Maori Pioneer football team' concluded the New Zealand tour with a. match against Poverty Bay on Saturday. The first spell was fairly oven, but the second was noticeable for frequent brilliant passing rushes. The game resulted in a win for the Pioneers by 24 to 12. For the visitors, tries were scored by Gardiner, Wilkinson, Teurnpn, Atihana, and Boko. Three were converted by Jacobs, who also kicked a penalty. Miller (2), Smiler, and Devery scored tries for Poverty Bav.

A special meeting of; the Manawalu Flaxworkers’ Union was held on Saturday, when the scale of wages offered by the Flaxmillers’ Association was rejected, and the secretary was directed to draw up a statement for publication on the inconsistent attitude taken up by he Flaxmillers’ Association towards one of the Union representatives and one of their own members; and further, to advise the llaxworkers not to engage under 14s per day. While the broad principles of road-construction may be briefly stated, their application—in the presence of varying factors of situation and cost —is a matter of most careful calculation. The day of the permanent thoroughfare has arrived: hut its proper application, and the success of road-construction generally, still depend on the genius of local body engineers, whose qua-’ li/ieations and rewards should he, in a badly-roaded country like New Zealand, an affair of much keener public interest than the subject has yet received. —Post.

Kapoe at 1/3 per lb., at Bauckham’s, 4

Yesterday the Prince of Wales attained the age of 25 years. The occasion, however, was not observed as a holiday by the Government Departments or banks. Mr W. Murdoch, Mayor of Shannon, intends contesting the Manawatn seat at the forthcoming general election as an Independent Labour candidate.

A number of changes in the public schools-inspectorate have Jbceu made by the Department of Education. Mr N. T. Lambourne, of Auckland, is being transferred (o Nelson, and Mr A. Crawford, of Nelson, has been appointed to Wanganui. Mr A. N. Burns, who for some time has been acting inspector in Wellington, lias been transferred to Auckland, and is expected to take up his new duties early next month. Mr T. F. Warren, who was an inspector at Auckland prior to going on active service, will be transferred to Wellington on his return to the Dominion.

The Kt. Hon. 11. 11. Asquith has opened (lie free trade campaign at Leeds. He declared that the free, trade system triumphantly bore the supreme test of the greatest war in history. The Chancellor’s minute and pettifogging proposals regards ing Imperial preference were the first instalment of protection, which was stealthily crossing the threshold of the liseal citadel. Wo needed (lie utmost economy in administration, and the greatest possible development of production. It would lie a mistake to meet such nrr emergency by hampering British trade with tariffs. He appealed to the country to reaffirm its allegiance to free trade principles. Dealing with the question of the world’s (lax supply, at the Royal Society of Arts, Mr W. N. Buasc, chairman of (lie Elax Committee of Scotland, mentioned (hat “we were faced with probably a world shortage of flax. It was (o he fervently hoped that troubles in Russia, the largest llax-produeing country, would soon cease, so that there might he a.chance of procuring the liax, which was certainly still there. Encouragement of the growth of (lax in our own Empire, now engaging the attention of the Government, might enable us materially, if indent i rely, to supply the fibre needs of the fax industry.