LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2155, 27 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cheque for £25 has been received by Mr E. Newman, M.P., from the Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., as a donation towards the N.Z. Sheepowuers’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund.

Captain and Mrs Coffin conducted farewell services at the local Salvation Army Hall on Sunday, to good congregations. Captain and Mrs Collin left for Invercargill today.

The All Blacks played their first match against New South Wales at Sydney on Saturday, and were victorious by 20 points to 15. The game was witnessed by 10,000 spectators.

The whitebait season promises to be unusually early this year. Already''several catches have been recorded. This season’s catches arc already being marketed in Auckland from the Lower Waikato.

This time Bill Hart goes to Chicago, and cleans up a gang of crooks in a Western style that; Will thrill you. Writ ten, directed and acted by Earl —that’s “The Money Corral.” See it at the Town Hall on Wednesda v.

In fabling the interim return of sheep in New Zealand, the Minister for Agriculture informed the House that although they showed a decrease of 1,871,354, this was only an interim report, and he was hopeful that when the final returns wore made up this deficiency would be reduced considerably. The report shows that the decrease in the North Island is 098,302, and in the South Island 873,052.

At last night’s Chamber of Commerce meeting, the president, Mr J. M. Barr, paid a compliment.to “The Herald” for the publicity it gave to the Chamber’s proceedings. We can assure the president “The Herald” appreciates his kindly reference, and that “The Herald” will ill; all times co-operate with the Clmmber in any policy Avhieh has for its object the prosperity of the town and district.

A huge party of Maoris from the Olmu and Kuku district visited Wellington last week to witness another demonstration of the occult powers possessed by Mrs Tleuheu Tukino. It will be remembered that Mrs Tukino unearthed some valuable meres at the Kuku a few weeks ago, and she was again successful at Wellington in locating some historic stone implements, says the Chronicle.

Mr C. J. Parr, Minister for Education, states that it has been definitely arranged that Dr. Truby King will, for the next few years, go from the Mental Hospital Department to the Public Health Department to take charge, as director of the new Department of Child Welfare. He probably will be assisted by Dr Blair, who is at present Dr. Truby King’s assistant at Seacliff, and by Nurse Patrick, who had extensive experience in connection with. Blanket Society activities. The school medical officers and the school dental department will be incorporated witli the new Department -of Child Welfare, under the general directorship of Dr. Truby King, who will also oversee the activities of the Blanket Society.

She’s slender and graceful, and tall and fair! The elegant lass with the delicate air: And despite her ' coquetry, whims and pride, 'She’s the girlie I’ve begged to he my bride, For she’s kind of heart and sweet to see, And, best of all, she’s so fond of me, For lover’s warm welcome in winter

assure, By gifts of Woods’ Great Bepperinint Cure, —Advt. 12

..Cherry plum trees ure in blossom in several local orchards.

This morning was the eleventh successive frost experienced locally. Something unusual for this district.

The Rev. Mr Walton, vicar of All Saints’, conducted his first services in Foxton on Sunday, There were good attendances at both the morning and evening services.

A local resident informs us that he has peas and beans several inches above the ground, and hopes to dig his first crop of early potatoes in October.

A meeting of ratepayers will be held in the Town Hall on Friday of next week, at 8 p.m., to discuss the proposed water and . drainage scheme. A full attendance of ratepayers is requested. Levi Jones, a labourer, 48 years of age, a married man, committed suicide at Waipawa (Hawkes Bay) yesterday, by discharging a shotgun into his mouth.

The Imperial Government has offered 240 s per ewt. for this season’s butter supply. New Zealand suppliers want a free market. The Prime Minister will make a statement on the matter at an early date.

'Thirty thousand people witnessed the League football match, Auckland v. England, played at Auckland on Saturday. Auckland defeated the visitors by 24 to IG.

- It is officially staled that the number of persons disabled in the war amounts to nearly one and ahalf millions. The cost of providing’ for them is estimated at 4,500,000,000 marks annually. Mr P. E. Daniell informs us that it was Mr William Mair (afterwards Judge of the Native Land Court), and not Mr Gilbert Mair, who delivered General Cameron’s message to Riwi at the engagement at Gate Pah, published in last Thursday’s issue.

The story of “Ginger Mick” is a cleverly woven combination of incidents from Dennis’ two famous hooks, “Ginger Mick” and “Doreen.” It is full of humour and pathos, and will stir the emotions of every Australasian heart by its beauty and realism. Don’t miss it at the Royal to-night only.

A tiaxmiller of many years experience informs the Palmerston Times that great devastation was made in the Moutoa swamp by a borer which cut the fibre in every leaf and depreciated the llax. This has now completely disappeared, and he attributes the improvement to the millions of starlings . which takd refuge in the patches of Willow planted at intervals through the swamp for them. Commissioner Dodder, of the Salvation Army, said at Dunedin last week: “I have confirmed what our people have already done in preparation for the scheme of bringing from the Old Country a number of boys to be educated and trained in New Zealand, and as soon as General Booth gets Home he will send us 200 orphans. We are going to make these boys colonials, and put them on our training farm at Put arum, near Rotorua.”

“We are in llnancial trouble, and soon I will be in the position of refusing to sign cheques,” said the Mayor of: Napier at' a recent meeting' of the Borough - Council, there. The Mayor estimates that on the year’s working they will come out £5,000 to the bad. There was a want of grip in connection with Council matters, and he expressed the opinion that they should follow I lie lead of New Plymouth and appoint a general manager. On Saturday, ‘ Hector D. Urquhart, a returned soldier, Avhile attempting to cross the railway line at Mamaku, in front of the incoming Rotorua express, was caught by the engine. His legs were severed, and he was brought to the Rotorua hospital, but died that evening. Deceased was about thirty. He had drawn a section at Rotorua, and had been at Rotorua on business, and was returning to Auckland by the afternoon train, which passes the express at Mamaku.

“I advocated the release of the conscientious objectors on the ground that their imprisonment serves no useful purpose,” said Sir Andrew Russell, to an interviewer. “The vindictive ‘eye for an eye, and tooth for a tooth’ policy is out of date, and as a reformative measure it was ineffective. During the war the necessity for preventive punishment is imperious, as a clear warning to others. On the restoration of peace such action in my opinion is no longer necessary. The conscientious objectors in question will not be prevented from similar action in a future war by further punishment now, for the future true prevention of this abnormal view of a citizen’s duly to his country is to he sought not bV the negative process of punishment, but by the positive process of inculcating and fostering a true national spirit.” A Business Talk with Business .Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*