LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2059, 25 November 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Symes, manager of Ihe local Bank of Now Zealand, will proceed to lake liis month's leave next week.

Saturday night's frost played havoc with local vegetable gardens, ft is not anticipated, however, that much damage will be done to potatoes, as they are 100 far advanced.

A Home beauty doctor told the secret of her family’* splendid skins recently. They save the water (hat greens have been boiled in and drink a wineglass each morning. This is a bit of an effort at first, but the results amply repay one apparently for one's martyrdom.

Mr 0. H. Elliott, of Palmerston X., who has just completed the judging of (lie school work to be exhibited at the forthcoming Horticultural Society's Summer Show, writes: —"I must congral ulate Ihe Society oti the big increase in the number of entries since ! previously judged the work - , and on tbe general improvement shown. 1 I nisi the verv worthy objects of your Society will be achieved, and to 1 In* end you will have a successful exhibition."

Tin* competitions at Wellington concluded lust week, when the choir contest created very great interest. The choirs competing were; Wesley Church (Taranaki St red), Wellington Scottish Choir, Lower Hut! Methodist Church, St. Mary of (lie Angels, and Si. .lolin’s Presbyterian Church. The Wellington Wesley Church choir won Cue coldest with .".15 point*. St. Mary of the Angels *econd with dJ'k Lower Hull .Methodist choir Ihird.

Tlk* repealed sL.iiemoiiis of I lie.* Commissioner of (In' .North Auckland Landjßoard, Air K. I’. CreviDc, ninl olhers (ii,; it mmiy properties were Ikmi)” - offered to soldiers :it exeessive priee- have tiol deterred so,’tie owners from adopting the smne course. For inslaiice. a properly of ioO ,•lores was submitted to {he North .Auckland Land Foard for purchase on liehalf of a returned soldier al a price of over £2,000. One of the hoard’s expert valuers put the priee at TBOS, and'the application was therefore refused on the ground that the priee was excessive. A. keen Palmerston gardener Inis had a peculiar and painful experience. He was sorting out his seeds, and came upon an assortment of: primulas. These ho rubbed thoroughly with his hands, and becoming hot in (he exertion, wiped his forehead with his palm. That evening his hands and head swelled to abnormal proportions, .and ho suffered violent pain. A duet or who was called in at once diagnosed primulas as the cause and blood-poison-ing as the trouble. The result was that the gardener spent several days in, bod.

t’nforlunaieiy, says Mr Massey, the general public of the Dominion does not appreciate the enormous present and potential resources of the fertile Samoan islands, and does iiot realise what groat opportunities they will afford for New Zealand settlers, traders and^industrialists. Copra, rubber, cocoa, coffee, kapok, in fact all tropical products, can be grown to perfection. But all development is contingent absolutely and without question on an adequate supply of labour. At the moment, and for some time to come, this labour will not be available from the Native Samoans. They will have to be educated up to the necessity to work. That education will be underiakeu, but in the meantime the necessary workers must be imported. While men can direct, control and supervise, but they cannot do agricultural work in the lields, as this b,rings their bdoiets into direct contact with the soil, and leads inevitably to tropical ailments. Any of the 2,000 New Zealand soldiers who have served in Samoa will satisfy any elector on this point.

Thoughts in absence ever vender Where fond recoiled ions cling; Making loyal hearts grow loader 01! a person, place or thing. Tender thoughts ot dear ones vanished In our hearts for age endure— Gratitude for bad colds banished, And for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The Denbigh Hotel, at Feilding, was seriously damaged by lire on Sunday afternoon. A' mat eh was lived on the local ritie range on Saturday between teams from the Linton and Fox ton Ritle Clubs. The aggregate scores were; Linton, 502; Foxton, 531. The full scores will-appear next issue. The Mayor (Mr John Chrystall) stated at last night’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce that the lowest valued land in New Zealand was in Hawkes Bay. Land there worth anything from £l4 to £25 per acre was only valued at from £4 to £0 pci- acre for taxation purposes.

At last night’s Chamber of Commerce meeting Mr Horn blow stressed the necessity for a larger playing area at the local State school. He said that there was an educational reserve of about: one and a-balf acres at the junction of Robinson and Russell Streets, the revenue from which was not allocated locally. He thought an attempt-should'be made to sell this and acquire at least two acres at the roar of the school as a play ground. Mr Hornblow said he would bring this matter forward at the next meeting of the School Committee.

At last night's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a great variety of subjects were discussed, including goatsrue, settling returned .soldiers on (lie land, assistance to the lishing industry, water and drainage, the installation of (ire-light-ing appliances for the borough, shipping, the establishment of a rest room in the town, etc. A Chamber of Commerce in a town no doubt serves a very useful purpose, and <‘an accomplish good work by concentrating on one or two matters at a time, but to try and deal with such a multitude of subjects as was the case last night is only a waste of time.

Into !!u' bnslle of the streets of Christchurch on Saturday morning there came wit); whimsical irresponsibility n swarm of bees seeking a new lionm. It settled at tlie* eurnor of Colom'oo and Cashel Streets, one of tlie busiest parts of tile, city. Stints were banded round with amazing impartiality and generosi(y. Two men, “under the influence,” drifted into the zone of activity, when one with a hurt expression began (o pluck the air. Ills companion ' in distress inspected the area with splendid gravity, and suddenly spoke; “Yer ain't got the dingbat.s, Bill; them's bees!” -A sigh of blessed relief came baric, and the words; “Well, we'll have another lil ? drink.'’

Mr T. Rimmer, of Kali Kali, writes to Hie Palmerston Standard slatin”- that the paragraph which appeared in a recent issue of that journal announcing the engagement of his son, Mr A. R. Rimmer, and Miss Jean Williams, of Knti Kali, is ineorrect. Air Rimmer senr. says no family of the name of Williams resides at Kali Kali, and further, that his sou lias only just turned nineteen years of age. The paragraph was forwarded hy a person at Kali Kali as an advertisement, ami Mr Rimmer jnnr.'s name was used as the authority for insertion. -V person has a very perverted sense of humour to indulge in a hoax of this description, and if it is possible lo sheet the matter home there will be a speedy prosecution.