NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2096, 28 February 1920, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Government Statistician shows that the worth of the sover-' cign for December, 1919, is 13s I’d in respect to food only, ass compared with 20s in July, 1914. To purchase food in any of the four centres to-day that could be obtained for 20s Del in 1913 and 21s 73d in 1914, requires to-day 30s Hid, and clothing and boots, and rents are not taken into account. The .Palmers!on Times has been shown “The Koil of the Civil Establishment of New Zealand, 1875.” Among many interesting names with the date of .joining the service, are: F. Dillon Bell, 1839, Claims Commissioner, no salary; J. W. Gannaway, postmaster, £3O, and telegraphs, £l3O, Foxton, 1870; G. Lines, postmaster and linesman, Otaki, £lO5, 1880; C. Lemon,' telegraphs., £OSO, 1803; Donald McLean, chief purchase oflicefj no salary, 1844; G. M. Snelson, registrar of Palmerston, no salary, 1871; Joseph G. "Ward, telegraph cadet, Bluff, £9O, 1871; A. Garstin, general manager, Masterton railway, £250, 1874; A. R. Micholls, postmaster, Palmerston, £l5O, 1872; Edward Gorton, stores inspector, £SOO, 1803. In a recent letter to the Times (London)', the High' Commissioner, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, wrote: “The price paid to the New Zealand producer of bni 1 o!* was much below its Ipirlly value, the cause, undoubtedly, being that the Home Government! controlled the shipping. They paid our people Is'7 pi per lb., f.0.b., and for butter of no better quality they are paying Denmark 3s per lb. Although the Imperial Government pool our butler with (he 3s butter, and sell at an average price, the fact remains that il is the proiii. which they mala' from the Dominion produce which enables them to pay the very much higher price to the foreigner.” Colonel Porter, in his address to ike Palmerston North - Philosophical 'Society, mentioned a very interesting circumstance. When young, and adventurous, be secretly visited “Te ana o nga wairua,” the eave of departed spirits,- where he saw (lie gun which had been presented j),v 'Captain Cook to a Native chief. It had been deposited with the chief's tatooed head in this sarcopjmgus of (he dead. Years later when visiting London he saw and recognised this very head in. a private collection. The sacred cave had evidently been rifled and the relics sold to collcc-

How to mulct? money Avilhoul working, A mun bought :i dairy farm near Palmers! on North just one your ago, at £l4O per acre. lie lias now sold it at £lB0 —a £4O per aero inerease in a year. Better still, a loeal speculator bought a Kairanga block one morning last week, and before sundown had sold it at a clear profit of £1,200. These tire not isolated eases, similar instances occur .almost daily. However, there are still a few people working for a, living —perhaps, they prefer it — there’s no accounting for tastes. — Palmersl on Times. A speaker at the meeting of dairy farmers in Levin recently stated that it was anticipated by the authorities at Home that butter would roach unheard of prices next season, and as much as Gs per lb. had been mentioned. Personally, the speaker said, he did not anticipate that figure being reached, bnt.it bad to be remembered that there were many millions of people in Europe who had to be.fed in countries where product ion had been reduced to a minimum owing to the war. Their requirements had to he met, lienee the call on the resources of all producing countries at the present time. A fine sense of family honou? was evidenced in connection with n ease which came under the jurisdiction of the Christchurch Official Assignee. A man who was adjudged a, bankrupt in 190 G, died, having paid no dividend to creditors, to whom he owed some £2OO. This unpaid liability was a burden upon his son’s mind, and before going to the,Avar he insured his life for £I,OOO, and made provision in a will that £2OO odd OAving to his father’s creditors shoukhbe deducted from the amount due under the policy should he losehis life, and that the debt should b« Aviped out IheroAvith. The lad Avas killed in action on Gallipoli on May 2nd, 1915. The creditors received 20s in the £. “Senex,” Avriiing to a conlemporary re the cost of living, says; A philosopher Avho flourished'centuries ago Avrole the folloAving words: “The only avhv to get enough of everything is to produce more. More food, more coal, more machinery, more ships, more of the things by , Avhich men live, and by Avhich they enjoy life. Higher Avages are not much use if there are not enough tilings to buy. You merely pay more J for Avhat vou get,’.’ This is sound

loom. After a huge worldwide war, a great shortage has to he made up, and men and women must be prepared to work more than ever to add to the production of necessaries. The happy mean between hoarding and profiteering on the one hand and laziness oh the other appears to be the only solution which, with tin* help of time, can solve the problem. The farthest authenticated distance at which a moth has been captured at sea was recorded by a wellknown scientist eight years ago, who took specimen of a certain large moth 1,200 miles from the nearest possible land.