LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2146, 1 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Robert Roland Kidson was fined £IOO at Gisborne on a second conviction for street betting. Over one hundred new land agents wore registered in the Dominion during April and May.

Three small farms at Longburn were sold by auction at Palmerston on Saturday afternoon, the prices received being £135, £l3O, and £lO5 per acre respectively, Tuesday night’s frost was the most severe experienced in this district for many years. Water taps were frozen in many households, and the frost remained in the shade throughout yesterday. Mr J. Penny, manager of the Rakaia branch of the Bank of New Zealand, who is retiring on superannuation this month, after 40 years’ service, was accidentally shot in the abdomen on Saturday. He was engaged in the residential portion of the bank in work connected with his vacating the premises, when an automatic pistol fell to the floor and exploded, the bullet lodging as stated. He was removed to a private hospital in Christchurch, and operated upon successfully.

Skating 1 will be held at the Town Hall on Friday evening.

We understand that there is every probability of a dentist commencing practice in Foxtou in the near future.

A reminder is given readers that A. X. Smith's Genuine Reduction Sale commences to-day. Reductions tire made in all lines carried.*

Mr Fume, head master of the local State school, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery, although it will he some weeks before he is able to resume dutv.

Cosmo Hamilton’s celebrated story, “Men, Women and Money,” also Viola Dana in “The Microbe,” will be (he attraction at the Town Hall on Saturday. Usual prices. The .'friends of Mrs F. Parkin, who has been an inmate of a hospital at Palmerston Forth for the past seven weeks, will he pleased to learn that site is making good progress towards recovery, and will probably be able to return to her home within the next week.

A trial of the lire syren was held on Tuesday evening, its location is alongside the Foxtou Motor Co.’s garage, Clyde Street, it is questionable whether its alarm will have l the same effect as the lire hell or railway engine whistle, with which latter it was compared at the trial.

A visitor to Pox ton informs ns flint in the centres an appreciable drop in the prices of drapery is very noticeable. He said certain goods ticketed in many houses show a reduction of from 25 to 50 per cent, over the retail cost pf nine

months ago

Mr Louis J. i’irani has assumed Ihe management of the Feilding Star, his father (Mr F. Pirani) having been appointed secretary and organiser of Die Wellington Master Printers’ Associiaiion. Mr Fred Pirani retains the position of managing director of the Star.

Owing to Die unsatisfactory state of Ins health, Mr A. W. Hogg lias tendered ids resignation as a member of the Wellington Education Board. Mr Hogg has occupied a seal on Die board for nearly thirty years, and has rendered valuable service to the district.

• The telephone has its uses and abnscs. A country subscriber says he was held up on a country parly hue for nearly half an hour while two females “discussed the latest scandal and gossip of a precious afternoon tea drinking bout.” His concluding remarks about ‘•afternoons” and female gossip is unprintable.

Owing to the indisposition of. Mr Lionel Walsh, the “Better 'Ole" Company had. to abandon the Foxton entertainment on Tuesday night. Mr Walsh was suffering from a severe a.ttack of quinsey. Much disappointment was expressed by a number of local people at the unavoidable abandonment of the play.

hi accordance with the provisions of the Industrial and Labour Disputes Act, the Labour Department has taken a secret ballot of members of the Jockeys’ Association. The question propounded was whether the jockeys, as a result of the abortive ■conference held on fOlh June, shall or shall not strike, the result of the ballot was an overwhelming majority against striking 1 . Nurse Roby, who has recently relinquished the work ol conducting a large private hospital at Palmerston, owing to ill health, was on Monday night entertained at a social gathering by the staff of the hospital and a number of townspeople. During the evening Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., presented Nurse Roby with a silver tea service and tray, on liehalf of her friends and her late staff.

The patients’ fees at the Wairarapa hospitals were recently reduced from 9s to Gs per day. This is a sure point with some ratepayers, who secra to think that the present charge rs insufficient. It is slated by a member of the M airarapa South County Council that it costs 12s per day to maintain a patient in hospital. ' A white-haired old man, 7.1 years of age, named Peter Herbert Hickson, appeared before Mr Stout. S.M., at Palmerston this week, (barged that on Tlth September, 1874, at Masterton, lie married Bridget Higgins, and on Glh August, 1919, went through the form of marriage with ‘Annie Laurenson, thus committing bigamy. Accused was remanded till Monday, on bail. There was a good and appreciative attendance at the Koval last night to witness the screening of “The Hoodlum,” featuring Mary Piekford. At an interval Mr Melvin, who accompanies the picture, sang “Kip Van Winkle,” and as an encore, “The Rose of No Man’s Land.” The singer is possessed of a rich baritone voice, and his interpretations of the songs was excel lent.

The Wellington School Commitfees Association have adopted the following remits, to be .submitted to the Federated School Committees Conference, to be held next month. —(1) That the Education Board be requested to provide a swimming instructor’ for school children when they are sent to the baths; (2) that the' Education Boards be abolished and the entire control of the Education Department be vested in three commissioners, one education, one commercial, and one organiser, (3) that all school grounds be fitted with appliances to encourage physical exercise.

Sixty doses of XAZOL cost only 1/6. Splendid for coughs, colds, throat and chest soreness. Get busy with XAZOL to-day.

Mr Poole, who succeeds-Mr Fred Symos ns manager of tlie local branch of the Bank of X.Z., entered into his official position to-day.

The following arc the vital statistics for Pox ton for (lie month of June: —Births 4, deaths 3, marriage certificates issued 7.

During the month of Juno rain fell locally on nine days, the maximum fall being on (he slh, when 1.0(1 inches was recorded. The total for the month was 4.70 inches.