Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2170, 31 August 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Air L. E. Grace, "Native Lands Purchase Oflicer, is at - present on a visit to Foxlon on Departmental business. < At last Friday’s sit I mg’ of the Magistrate's Court at Bulls, seven motorists were each lined £5 and costs for driving through the township at an excessive speed. .Everybody likes ‘big stories of snow-bound regions. “The Daughter of the ’Wolf,” screening at the Town Hall on Wednesday, is one of these. •

A telegram* from Christchurch re<iords the death of Air Thomas William 'Winter* aged 102. He arrived in New Zealand in the sixties, and was well-known in musical circles fur many years. His last public appearance was at the 1000 Christ - church Jubilee Exhibition.

The Levin School Committee, which recently resigned as a pro-, test ’against the failure to remedy the overcrowding at the school, has now been advised by the Minister of Education (lion. C. J. Parr) that a grant of £1,078, for additional accommodation, bus been approved of. ■ Captain C. H. -Larsen has been appointed pilot by the Foxlon Harbour Board, viee Captain Miller resigned, and takes up the duties this week. Captain Larsen lias had considerable experience of the Manawulu bar and river, as an officer on the “Gertie’’ and “Himitangi” for many years.

There was an attendance of 30 members at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce bold last night, and those present evinced a very been interest in the business brought forward, particularly in the (pieslioii of water and drainage, which received the unanimous support of those present.

During last night, Mr J. N. Rider's hoolshop was entered, and men’s and hoys’ footwear to the value of about £2o stolen. An .entrance was effected through a window at the hack of the premises, in which there was a broken pane ol g!as>. It appears that the intruder removed the broken pane, and was aide to unlatch the window through the hole. The police arc investigating the mailer.

Tin l Minister of F.ducation stales that in aeeordanee with a recent am rangemcnl for the exehange of. two teachers in the service of the Auckland Fducation Hoard ami .two tea-, idno’s from JFanada, two.ladies engaged in one of the largest \anconver schools arc coming to Auckland, and two Auckland lady teachers will he sent to Vancouver. The Fdncation Department at (he present time, under instructions from the Minister ,was preparing regulations which would give iiuancial assistance to a. limited number of teachers going overseas for the purpose of study ami' experience in oilier countries. Applications are likely to be invited from teachers, and a selection will he made by the inspectors .if those most likely to profit from a course abroad. The selection will be limited to two from each island. The Minister has given direct ions "that llte fignl.alions are to bo issued with as little delay as possible.

A parly of Canterbury business men arc at present inspecting the coal mines on the West* Coast. On Monday of lasi week, Mr floury Holland, c.x-Mayor of Christchurch, rolled up his sleeves in the Morgan seam of the Liverpool colleries, and taking a pick, worked for some lime alongside Air P. C. Wehli, ex-ALP., president of the Stale Aliners' Lnion. To mark the occasion a M olsh nyner sang a couple of verses id: the “Led dag," and Air W. K. AlcAlpine, vice-president of the Canterbury Progress League, fired off a shot that sent a dull, reverberating roar through tin* galleries. One mine manager staled that since Mr Webb's return to the mine from his imprisonment for sedition, he had given the officials a straight deal.

In pointing out that the general testimony of the world was that the standard of intelligence and power of ada(liability of New Zealandborn men was quite better than that of their peers in other countries, the Assistant-Director of Education in Wellington (AH’ J. Caughloy, ALA.) stated in his Wellington address that in all the 10,000 .boys and girls in New Zealand who passed the sixth standard last year no fewer than 75 per cent, are now receiving full-time secondary education in either public or private schools po per cent, in The former institutions. The average length of slay of free-pla.ee pupils in our secondary schools was 2 years 10A mouths. If the school age was raised to 15 years only some 2,000 children would be gathered in—the others were already receiving secondary education.

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 back-, bone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring-results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, hut 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.”*

The weekly meetings of the"'local Fire Brigade ■■'have been altered from Tuesday to Friday evenings, commencing next■■ Friday.

Hesidehts are warned that they are liable to prosecution for lighting fires in the open unless a permit is first obtained from the Town Clerk. - ~

There at present on view in the classroom, at Manchester House, a good collection of woodwork constructed at the senior technical class, under the instruction of Mr A. Harding.

There are about 170 dairy factories throughout Taranaki, and at Jhe present time only 14 are making butter. The rest are making cheese, with a prospect of others deciding to do so.

No privilege railway tickets issued to a soldier will ho available after November 30th next. Owing to (lie very heavy demand that will bo made upon the lime of the railway si all’s, in all parts of the Dominion from November onwards, soldiers entitled to claim the privilege tickets are requested to make application Cor them as-early as possible, or else they will lose the privilege completely.

Mr Appo Hocton, of Nelson, celebra led his lOOlh birthday on-Wed-nesday last. Bora in China, Mr Hoc lon went to London at the age .of 14, and afterwards went to sea as a cabin boy, ami later as a steward, finally arriving in New Zealand in February, 1842, by the ship Thomas' Harrison. When he arrived at Nelson he gave up the sea. Throughout his life Mr Hocton has never suffered any illness, and is still hale and hearty.

The dimming of the gloss windscreen on motor cars during misty or frosty weather has proved dangerous on occasions on aceouiijt of the driver not being ‘able to obtain a (dear view of what is ahead. An Ashburton motorist recommends a sovereign remedy which he claims is both simple and effective. To keep the windscreen comparatively clear all that need be done is to cut an onion in half and rub on the glass.

Konuvmonths ago, thirteen discharged soldiers from Hokitika,, all with experience in the sawmilling industry, banded together, and, with advances from the b’epatriation Department, purchased a sawmill and (wo sections of good hush at Inaugahna. Although the bush is within 24 miles of Westport, (he gap in the railway necessitates carting live mile-, to Inangahua, thence by fail ?(! miles to Oreymonlh. Five directors govern the venture, which is run on a business basis, and with the economical methods adopted the limiter will cost 12s (id per hundred feet. Tin; output is (i,0()() feel daily.

Several ;ipplica 1 ions have been received at Washington Post Cilice in recent months for the transportation of children throygh the mails. One of the applicants was a n'me-year-old girl, who asked that she should he sent to Kentucky. r l he postmaster has now issued an order. says the Central News correspondent, that children cannot lie accepted for parcel post, as Vlhey do not come within the classification of harmless live animals which do not require food or water while in transit."

A large plate-ohms window in a shop in Princess Street, Dunedin, was shattered to pieces on Wednesday morning, as the result of an unusual accident. A taxi-driver had driven a lady to a dentist at the corner id' .Manse and Princess Street, and had left .Ids ear standing outside while lie helped the lady up the stairs. Aided liy the wind and the slight incline of Princess Street,.the car moved across the road, crossed the kirhing, and ran head on into the window of the Dunedin Drapery Supply Company. The front and side portions of the window wereshattered into small pieces, the damage being between Al2O and £l5O. The ear escaped almost intact, only I lie" front mudguards being bent.

At a public meeting in Oreymouih in connection with the visit of; the Canterbury Progress League delegation, Mr F. E. Jones, of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, said a sample of West Coast timber sent to Canada was found to produce first-class news-print. New Zealand requirements were sufficient to warrant a paper mill, capable of producing 5U tons daily. With paper worth .COO to £BO per ton, it should be for tiie Westland league to a seer tain whether there was suitable timber, in sufficiently large quantities to warrant the manufacture of paper. Only the smaller trees were suitable; large trees were of no use.

A new iiml profitable class of Fare is. swelling: the incomes of taxi-cub proprietors. One morning last week a’ grim faced man approached an Auckland city taxi stand, called for a car, and gave an address in Mount Eden as the first stop. “Drive to Ponsonby” was the next order, and when he entered the car for the third time the driver looked at his watch. About an hour had by this been consumed, and he had in mind another engagement due in five minutes. “I say, how are you engaging me, by the hour or the day?” he queried. “ThatVall right,” snapped back the fare, with a hard look in his eye*. “I’m engaging you by the year. I’m hunting for a house.” The sun was westering low' before the drive ended, but the driver returned to the stand quite consoled for the loss of his second fare. House-hunting is, on reliable authority, becoming one of the most reckless and expensive pursuits in the local field of sport,