LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2151, 17 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Monday evening, the fifteenth and last episode of the “Silent Mystery” serial will be screened at the Town Hall, together, with an Enid Bennett feature, “Law of Men.”

The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the Council of the Wellington branch of the Trained Nurses' Association, and forwarded to the Mayor and councillors of the AVcllinfjlon City Council; “That we protest against the high cost of living, and urge upon the‘City Council the necessity of supplying depots where the necessities of life can be procured direct from the suppliers to the consumers at a reasonable cost.” f

The late Dr. Ernest G. Morrison (Official Adveser to the Chinese Government) left estate valued tor English prolmte purposes at £27,545 gross, pie bequeathed all his Chinese property to his wife, and his oilier property in trust for his children, whbm lie directed to be educated at English public schools, and thence at Oxford, afterwards completing their education at Harvard or McGill Universities, with a further course at some European universit y.

The Prime Minister was asked by Mr L. M. Isitt whether steps were being taken to secure from assisted immigrants a pledge of loyalty and a promise to assist, if the necessity arose, in the defence of the country. “The question,” replied Mr Massey, “is a very important one. The mat,ter has been overlooked in the past, but it is not going to be overlooked m the future.” (Hear, hear.) He believed there was sufficient provision on the Statute Book under an old law passed about twenty years ago, and, if so, it’ would be brought into operation again, with any modification that plight be necessary. Ml Isitt: “We wijj support you.” The portfolio of Defence at last has found a safe resting place in the hands of Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, the member for Ellesmere, and for the first time foi|many a long year Canterbury has two' representatives in the Cabinet. Sir Heaton, as the new Minister will be known, i«T one of the most delightful personalities in the House, and his return to the Cabinet after his retirement to facilitate the formation of the National Government will be viewed with general satisfaction. He is an enthusiastic soldier,' though by no means a militarist, and a most careful and .conscientious administrator, •

Messrs Buglass and Brewer, late of Foxton, have commenced'Sbusiness in Palmerston N. as automobile engineers.

'■Mr A. S. Malcolm (Clutha) has been elected Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives.

A youth named Robert Goodatl, 20 years of age, was fined £l2 and costs at Greymouth recently for using indecent language on a railway platform. Mr J. W. Stevenson, late of Foxton, has started a motor garage at Hastings. Mr Stevenson’s many Foxton friends will wish him success in bis venture. '

A meeting of Marton residents decided to lake steps to erect a public hospital. Three hundred pounds have already been subscribed towards the project. «

By a large majority the ratepayers of Te Awamutu Borough sanctioned a loan of £40,000 for sewerage. The money is available, and plans approved by the health authorities.

Walter Edward Cook (for whom Mr„J. A. Scott appeared), for theft at Featherston of camp stores, was sentenced by Mr Justice Chapman at the Wellington Supreme Court on Thursday to imprisonment for a term of six months.

“As long as passport restrictions continue in other countries it will he necessary for any person leaving New Zealand to have a passport, otherwise he would not be permitted to enter such countries,” stated the Minister of Internal Affairsi “It is impossible at. present to say how long the restrictions arc likely to continue.”

The time for'receiving nominations of New Zealand soldiers’ wives or fiancees for the granting of passages from Grgat Britain to New Zealand has been extended until 31st December, 1920. This date is to be final. Soldiers concerned, therefore, should communicate with the Un-der-Secretary, Department of Immigration, Wellington, prior to 31st December next.

A rumour was current locally that an exorbitant price was being (-barged by storekeepers for sugar. On submitting the rumour to Mr Bauckham, president of the local shopkeepers’ Association, we were informed that (here is no truth in the rumour. He added the only sugar obtainable locally af present is brown, which is being retailed at 4d per lb. How much does the average man spend in satisfying his cravings for tobacco? In a judgment summons case just'heard in Masterton, it was complained by the plaintiffs that the defendant, a single man, since the judgment was obtained against him, he had gone on spending no less than 10s per week in cigarettes. Ten shillings for cigarettes —only 25s for his board! The Magistrate’s decision was that the man must tfony himself the little cigarette voluntarily till the debt was paid or lose his smoke compulsorily —by going to gaol. The Levin Chronicle says that the iKuku Daily Company has received an offer of Is Old per lb, for its output of cheese during the coming season, but the offer was not accepted. The price quoted is equal to 2s (id per lb. for bufterfat.* A local dairyman informed a Chronicle representative that there were good prospects for ehjae.se this season, as the output would be uncontrolled, and moreover would go on a bare market. From present prospects he thought suppliers to cheese factories wouhjj receive over 2s per lb. for bufterfat this year, which would be a good one for cheese, though the demand might not extend extent into the following year.

Apparently competition was fairly keen among local business people forty years ago, a Foxton butcher in those days advertising as follows; —■“ has to inform the public that he does not keep m cagmag shop, neither does lie kill beef fed on ti-tree, but only meat of (he primes!: quality, lie also begs to state that having a boiling down plant he is able to dispose of all his stale meat and such like, therefore he has not got; to convert it into small goods —he only makes them out of all fresh meat.” In the same issue of the “Herald” a publiegn advertises that “working men can have a pint of the very best colonial beer for Od, no matter what duly has to be paid by me.” A meeting of the members,of Parliament who have banded together to advance the interests of the Wellington Province, and the northern the South Island, was held at Wellington on Thursday. The meeting was not open to the press. Fourteen members of Parliament were present. Policy questions were discussed, and it was decided to place matters to be dealt: with in the following sequence of importance: Housing, schools,' hydro-electricity, roads, railways, and better coastal shipping services tor the provinces concerned. Various sub-committees were set up, which will go into the requirements of each district, and report to a meeting to be held next Thursday, when the whole of the requirements will be arranged in order of their importance. Mr G. Hunter, M.P., was elected chairman of the comihittee.

‘‘Hello, Central! Get a move on! Put me on to nine-O-three. Thank you, girlie! Who’s that speaking? : Alright, Night Dispensary. That you, Druggo? D’ye get me? Much obliged, Old Top, I’m sure. Send it now, yes, send it quickly! Good old Woods’ Great Pepper- — mint Cure. —Advt. 17

Sir George Clifford was unanimously 're-elected President of the N.Z. Racing Conference yesterday. A sharp shock of. earthquake was experienced locally at about 2.23 yesterday, morning.

, Mrs Captain Gpffin will give a special address in the Army Hall to-morrow night on "Voices from Poston Cemetery.” '

The-frocks Dorothy Dalton wears in “Extravagance” arc a revelation, and the thrilling air scenes in "Shadows of Suspicion” are a wonder, See.both at the Towlv Hall tonight. Among the successful candidates who passed the recent nurses’ examination was Miss Florence Bright, of the Palmerston District Hospital, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bright, of Foxton.

Messrs Jones, monumental mas-' ons, of Feilding, completed the Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial to-day, by erecting an ornamental urn on the top of the monument,lwhieh gives it an imposing finish. Alfred George Mills, aged 33, a single man and a carpenter, who was a returned soldier, shut himself in the head with a pea-rifle while mbit-shooting at ’ Renwick. The rifle, apparently, was disc-barged when the deceased was through a wire fence.

We are asked to notify parents who desire their children to take part in All Saints’ Children’s Ball to be hold at the end of August, that classes of instruction will be held in All Saints’ schoolroom every Saturday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Influenza was responsible for the death of 24 people in the four chief centres during the month of June, # 25 died from pulmonary tuberculosis, and 31 succumbed lo eimeer. Ccrebro-spinal meningitis was the cause in four eases, Bright’s disease in sixteen cases.

The picturesque life of the gipsies —the charm with whitii popular sentiment invests their free-and-easy existence —is vividly reflected in “The Sneak,” a William Fox photoplay due at the Royal Theatre on Monday. In this, Gladys Brockwoll, Hie -noted screen star, enacts the role of a gipsy princess.

The Hawera Star warns business people to lie careful in dealing with banknotes, for there are some split notes in circulation. A sample was shown to a representative of this paper consisting of two backs pasted together. Evidently two notes had been split, and the face of each one passed off as one note, and the hacks as another, thus making three out of two.

In connection with the proposed transfers of. licenses in. the Manawatu Licensing District, Magistrate’s certificates of fitness have been issued in the following cases: John S. Sims (Criterion Hotel, Bulls), Charles W. England (Manawatu Hotel, Eoxton), Nicholas McCarthy (Endymion Hotel, Awahuri), Walter Kirkland (Whyte’s Hotel, Foxton), and W. (Shepherd (Family Hotel, Foxton).

A flight by aeroplane from Auckland to Wellington is contemplated by Messrs "Walsh Bros., of the former city, and Mr Vivian Walsh has been visiting towns en route, with a view to selecting suitable landingplaces. It is intended to. ■, stop at various places on-the way, and give short passenger flights. Captain Bussell is the pilpt in charge of the machine. . .

At yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court, Keri Carter, charged with allowing stock to wander on the borough roads was lined 20s, with costs 7s, andlMrs E. Robinson, charged similarly, was lined 10s and costs 7s, Charles Simmons, on a charge of allowing a horse to wander on the roads, stated that the reason for the horse being on the road on this particular occasion was because it had broken away vyhilst being led the 'previous evening. Corroborative .evidence being given to this effect, the Magistrate dismissed the ease.

There were about GO people present at the demonstration of fruit tree pruning given by Air Whelan, Government Orchard Instructor, at Mr K. J, Thompson's orchard on Wednesday ‘ afternoon. In apple trees -the Instructor chose some rather neglected trees for the purpose of demonstrating the proper method of pruning, which he explained at length, the object of which was to keep a tree healthy and increasing the fruit production. He also demonstrated on peach trees, pruning on the lateral system, which prevented die-buck, Mr Whelan also explained the proper method of spraying, and gave a number of useful hints in connection with fruitgrowing.

Speaking on the teachers’ grading scheme at a teachers’ conference at Ma.stertoa recently, Mr F. L. Combs pointed to what he considered two specially weak points in the new scheme. The teaching profession was very ill educated at present* It should be the best educated of all callings. Why, then, reduce marks for academic attainment from an inadequate 10 per cent, to a derisory 2 per cent? The minimum certificate at present set a low standard, yet nearly one-third of the teachers did not possess even this. The new scheme made it worthless to get more than the minimum. The other point was the quota. A quota of 30 per cent, being considered 100 large, was the least liked feature of the old scheme. Why, then, a quota of over (JO percent. in the new? The scheme placed a double obstacle in the path of the most aspiring and moat promising of the young teachers. _

Mr Vigor Brown’s candid opinion of enemy aliens during the war; "When they were sober they were discreet; in company; but fill them up wit'll whisky and out it all came! That was the way to catch ’em!” (Laughter.) I

Mr Massey said that he hoped to be able to make his Budget speech next Tuesday week; but he could not fix that as quite definite, as during the past few days other business laid interfered with the preparation of the Financial Statement. He was not quite sure whether *he could manage to have it ready for Tuesday week, hut he would do his best.