LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2172, 4 September 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Like a good detective story? See Libel Clayton in “Vicky Van,’' at the Town Hall to-night.

d. -Warren Kerrigan is undoubtedly one of the most popular actors on the screen. lie appears, after a, long absence, at the Koval to-night.

“Ali Barba and the Forty Thieves” Ims been published in eightynine languages, all over the world. The pantomime will appear at the Koval shortly.

There 1 is at present on view in Mr Patterson's window a very line bowl, which has been presented by .Mrs Ronton as a points prize tor the Cookery Classes in next week’s Horticultural Show,

Miss Harding, daughter of the Kev, and Mrs Harding, who spent her ’Varsity vacation on the sick list, is, we are pleased to report, almost convalescent, and hopes to he lit to return and resunfc her studies at the end of next week.

The ratepayers of the Manaia Town Board District on Wednesday carried a loan of £30,000 for water and drainage. The voting was: For 145, against 111. It is a. coincidence that Foxton’s loan proposal for the same purpose is for exactly the same amount, and the voting at Mainiin on Wednesday should settle the argument raised by some of the opponents of the Foxton scheme that the town could not afford it.’ Manaia at the last census had a papula I ion of 000, against Foxton’s 1,772, and the rateable value of the property in Manaia is much less than half that of the Foxton borough. It a small village like Manaia can afford a £36,000 loan for water and drainage, there is no question that a borough the size of Foxton can do likewise. The poll takes place next Wednesday, and the polling hours are from 0 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The -ana of To has been forwarded as “conscience money” to the Defence Department (War Expenses) by sonic person unknown.

II is understood that the increase in postage and.telegram charges Isas made no d;fferenee in (ho numbor of loiters mid telegrams passing through the Post Olhee. Yesterday morning a “working bee’ of Sixth Standard boys from the local State School, in charge of the headmaster, was busily engaged on (he East bn Park grounds, and some very good work was done. The local Stale School broke np for the term holidays yesterday. Tli e school will re-open next Monday week. Despite the epidemic of measles and mumps, the attendance lias kept np very well. The school was examined during the week by Inspectors Milne, Adams and Crawford.

A parly of Auckland business men have jusi. made an experiment in bringing oranges, kumeras, mandarins, bananas, and limejuiee from Norfolk Island, which is only (>OO miles from the Queen City, as against Hie 1,000 mile voyage to Rarotonga, whence most of (he Island fruit comes. The Norfolk orange was found lo excel in task? the sunkist fruil imported all the way from California.

His (rip through America convinced Sir Joseph Ward that (hat country is making a very determined effori to compete with the trade, of Great Britain'and to supersede it. There is no doubt, he said, of the (jitality of British workmanship, but many of (lie old methods of production will have to be entirely done away with if England is to hold her supremacy in the markets of the world.- Production needs speeding up, and the workers need to realise, as they do in America, that they are working for themselves as well as for their employers.

The following’ is taken from an Australian exchange as how to remove the wood borer: Put 2oz. copper sulphate (or hluestone) and 12 oz. water into an earthen or crockeiy jar, and then add very slowly 1 oz. sulphuric acid. Do not pour the waleiyiulo the acid, or you will have an accident; pour the acid into the water; stir it with a wooden stick until all solution has taken place. Saturate the wood with it, and it will destroy the borers. More than one application may be necessary to make the mixture penetrate the wood. Do not let the mixluVe get on (he oilcloth, or it will discolour it.

During the year .191!) the number of motor cars registered in (he Dominion was 8,880, and the number of motor cycles 8,918. In the mailer of motor cars, the Auckland districl, which includes Dovcrty Day, came lirst with 2.821, Wellington making a good second with 1,828 Canterbury coming' after with 1,195, Hawke’s Bay numbering .1,010, and Dunedin and Southland 902. Of (lie lolal number of ears, close upon 5.000 were of American origin, 3.000 mid being: of Canadian make, and oniv 58.1 were British cars.

Good progress is being made in the restoration of the devastated Somme area of France. Of a total of 100,000 acres that were rendered completely useless, nearly <rne half has been pul hack into eulivation, and is expected to yield over 3,000,-

900 bushels oF cereals this year; *27,000,000' oi‘ (lie. 1 (i(Mi(H),(»00 square yards of trenches and shall holes have heen lilled'- in, and 11,00(1,000 square yards of barbed wire entanglements (deaned up.

Will in;:’ to a Palmers!on resident, a business man in Sydney says; “The New Zealand footballers have come, conquered, and gone, and have lefl behind a name that their country may well be proud of. They did splendidly on the Held, and even better socially, being spoken of everywhere as (he finest and best behaved crowd of men we have had in our midst. No' wonder New Zealanders are so loyal to their country. How can they help feeling that way when they a,re able to send such line msn to Australia.”

The sensational growth of Los Angeles (U.S.A.), as shown by the new census, is more than matched by the growth of Detroit, which has acquired more new inhabitants during the past 10 years than even Chicago, and now lacks only of a population off a million. The automobile induslry, with its subsidiaries, has been the chief factor in lids phenomenal 'development, hut (hat fad points to the favourable geographical ami industrial location of the pity, and to the genius and enterprise of its industrial captains. Detroit has even outstripped New York, having more than doubled her population in 10 years. It now stands at 993,709, being an increase of 527,975 in the decade. She has thus displaced St. Louis for fourth place, and has outranked Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Pittsburg—all of which were larger than the Michigan city 10 years ago. Cleveland is now fifth city, having a population of 790,830, or an increase of 230,173 in the decade. Cleveland leads St. Louis by 23,000, and Boston by nearly 50,000, Los .Angeles, which has also had a phenomenal, growth has advanced from seventeenth rank to tenth, displacing Buffalo, as well as attaining the honour of being the largest city west of St. Louis. San Francisco retains eleventh place; Buffalo has gome hack to twelfth, and Milwaukee to ' thirteenth. Washington, D.C. (The capital), has advanced from sixteenth to fourteenth position; while Cineinatti has. dropped back to sixteenth. Xew York, Chicago, and Philadelphia are respectively the first, second and third largest populated cities of the Union.

A meeting of a 11. interested in the formation of a- cricket club wiil.be held in All Saints’ schoolroom on Thursday evening’, at 7.30 o'clock.

The monthly meeting of the School Commit tec, to have bc«i held on Monday evening, has been postponed for a week.

.Mr and Mrs A. S. Easton yesterday morning planted the first two trees in East on Park, chestmils, one each on either side of the entrance gales.

Major Macaulay, representing Headquarters of the Salvation Army, visited Foxton yesterday in connection with the winding np of the Red Shield Club.

Whitebait was being retailed locally this week at -Is per lb. There was a fair run of the little tish with the tide on Thursday morning, when some good ealehes were recorded.

A Dunedin firm of timber merchants expect to receive next month a shipment of 250.000 ft. of Tasmanian hardwood. It will 11 ml a ready market.

Before the Chief .Justice, a! Wellington yesterday, Mrs C. E. Machay, of Wanganui, was granted a divorce from her husband, on the ground of adultery, The ease was heard in camera. [Maekay is undergoing a sentence of 15 years in gaol for the attempted murder of Mr Cresswell, at Wanganui. \

1 Complaint is made at (he inferior qualit y of hut ter being retailed locally. ft may be mentioned that retailers have he satisfied with what they can get, and no doubt some of the butter that was lost in storage four or five years ago, and reported missing, has been discovered, and is making itself known.

The number of eases of infectious diseases in the Palmerston Hospital District notified during the month of August wore as follows: —PaU merslon North: Diphtheria 4, measles 58, influenza 1, pneumonia 2, chicken-pox 8. Fcihling; Measles 1. pneumonia 2, chicken-pox ]. Paxton: Diphtheria 1. Kairauga County; ■iSearlel fever 2, Manawatn County.: Lethargic encephalitis, 1, pneumonia .1. Horowhenna County: Measles 2, inllnenza f. imoumonia 1. Oroua: Diphtheria f, measles 2. Measles cease to lie a notifiable disease as from August 23rd.

\Vellingt'm is still afflicted with much sickncsse in I lie form of colds, congestion of the lungs, influenza, dud mumps. There is scarcely a i-hop, office, warehouse, or factory whose staff at the present time is not seriously curtailed by the effects of the various ailments which are having such a prolonged innings this winter. Tnliuenza, taking tjie form of a deep-seated cold on the chest, with accompanying body aches, is perhaps in the ascendant, n.cccssila.iing on the part of sufferers a slay of three or four days at home. There are also mnmn-, measles, and diphtheria to reckon with among the children, with whooping cough a.s a depressing variant. The prevailing sickness has been favoured by very cold weather and a deprivation 1, of the usual comforts of the home by the coal ami gas shortages.

A Business Talk with Business Men.—“ There is a vast difference between wishing and winning'. Many a good man lias failed because he h.ad his wishbone where-Ids 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.”*

This year's Horticultural Spring Show again promises lo he a success. The recent frosts have checked the growth in a lot of gardens, hut during the last few days llowors have come on well, and a good exhibition is expected. The Secretary informs us that many of the members have not yet paid their subscriptions. As this will only lead to contusion at the'door, members arcasked lo forward their subscriptions at once. Entries (dose at 9 p.m.'on Tuesday, September 7lh, a! the Secretary's office. Late entries to 10 o’clock on Thursday, September 9lh. - Each late entry Is.. This year's-catalogue shows a substantia! increase in many of the prizes. Entries have been promised from Marlon, Wanganui, Levin, and other surrounding towns. This year's judges are Mrs Imrie and Messrs A. .1. Shailer and A. E. Whitehead.