LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2180, 23 September 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There fire ISO men employed fit Mangfihao hydro-electric works fit present. Apparently there is not a coal famine in Poxton. On Tuesday evening a targe piece of codl was tin-own through the window of a residence in Robinson Sired, causing damage to the extent of £l. A practical hushman recently visited a farm at Ikamaiua (says the Grcyinonlh Star), and informs us that lie saw’ growing on the properly a red pine tree which lie considers I lie largest in the South Island. IL‘ estimates the tree to produce (LOGO feel of milling timber. A ret urn presented to Parliament on Tuesday showed the approximate areas of the various cl,asses of lauds .-.till unset lied in New Zealand to he as follows: — Ist class, 155,072 acres; 2nd class, 1,280.048 acres; 3rd class, 1,7G9,4G3 acres; barren and worthless, 2.5G8.828 acres. Total, 5,774.011 acres. Arrangements have been made for (he practical testing of pulverised fuel id an early date (states the Railway Department report). A pulveriser Inis been obtained, and will he lilted up as soon ns sonic essential materials eome to hand find labour is available to assemble the appliance find erect the necessary buildings, etc.

A. lire at the Wailaki High Belaud this week caused damage to Hie extent of £IO,OOO. The part destroyed included the art room, with a comprehensive stock of models, etc., the home science rooms, with a big stock' of chemicals and elaborate paraphernalia, and several class rooms find music rooms. The school cups and trophies, and a great collection of valuable pictures, the property of the rector, with which I lie walls of (he rooms and corridor were adorned, were lost.

The British people are now buying a>, many-German toys as they bought before the war. This fact was disclosed at a meeting of Hie Incorporated Association of British Toy Manufacturers and 'Wholesalers. The figures of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade show that from .January to Hie end of May—four months —£457,000 worth of toys have been imported from Germany, as compared with about £900,000 worth from all other countries.

Messrs Barr and Tyer inform us that their lease of the premises in Moutoa Buildings terminates in three weeks’ time, and as they have very ii.Ulc available space for slocking furniture in their main establishment, they have decided to hold a cleaving sale of Hie slock in Moutoa Buildings. This should lie a welcome opportunity for thrifty people to secure good and useful furniture at most advantageous prices. -v.

At the inquest at Gisborne concerning the death of Harry Pritchard, in connection with which Alexander Rac Roderick Williamson’was remanded on. a charge of manslaughter, the Coroner found the fol-

lowing verdict: —Deceased, Harry Pritchard, died on September 18th from cerebal pressure, the result of hemorrhage on the brain, and this injury is traceable to a blow struck on the deceased’s head by Alexander Williamson during a quarrel at Niven's foundry, on Friday, September 3rd.

Lord JoiJjVoo, (he new GovernorGeneral, will be'invited to attend 1 lie Spring Show of the Mimawalu and West Coast A. and P. Association.

“Despite the high cost of living,” says a country paper, “Mr Frank Porter,- a well-known resident, has taken unto himself a wife.”

“These half-yearly, reports should be sent in quarterly,” remarked a minister at the Auckland Presbytery, and even the Scots laughed. Mainly owing to a lack of coal, the Board of Trade reports that the position with regard to cement supplies was never more acute than at the present time.

To see William S. Hart in the tremendously powerful picture, “Wagon Tracks,” yon will need to be at the Town Hall on Saturday. Prices Gd and Is Id.*

-As a result of the return from shipments of a pities sent to London, the Agricultural Department docs not anticipate that (lie Government will be called upon for the payment of the guarantee that was made to the growers. A parly of surveyors lias been engaged recently in surveying the route of the proposed deviation of (lie railwav line at Palmerston

North, and Ibis work is understood to have been completed in nnticipa{.lion of the authorisation of the line.

Herbert Oscar Amos, 43 years, a bool salesman, living in Ashburton, died in a Dunedin private hospital on Monday, following an operation for the removal of a cancerous growth in the mouth and throat. A verdict, was returned at the inquest (hat death was due to shock. A. Southern journal states: The drop in the price of Cadbury’s cocoa a few days ago caused great surprise to grocers. Cadbury’s was the first to jump up prices six months ago. Now ii is Iho (irsl: to cut down. The price of best loose cocoa, lias been reduced by (id per lb. It can be bought for 2s Gd. Investigations show that human beings are ill the point of lowest mortality rate at the age of 12 years. At. the age of 20 years the mortality rale has doubled. The years to 30 arc ones in which the proportionate increase in mortality is least. At 40 mortality is live limes ;is great as at 12, at 50 it is eight times as great, and at GO it is 10 times its groat. Feilding is starting a “clean up” week, and the Star comments sis follows,: —If lids paper had its way, Feilding would from now on reek .daily with the smell of the germdestroying disinfectant. Residents would he supplied with the microbechasing fluid at the cheapest possible rale, the schools would he thoroughly treated within find without, and every person would he encouraged to leave no place at fill for the pestilence Unit walkclh in darkness to use as a breeding ground. .Prevention is hetteNThaii cure —absolutely, A Business Talk with Business Mum. —“There is a- vast difference between wishing and winning. Many ;t good man lias failed because ho had his wishbone where his hackhone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, hut 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, hut the pressure is constant, and increasing .nil the time. The open season for limiting business busts all the year round, hut just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The host ammunition is fin anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*

Tourists from America and England, who possess currency in the form of Tcrasnry notes of Hie £5 find £1 denominations, are finding (hilt they suffer a substantial' loss in converting their wealth into Bunk of New Zealand notes and the vouchers of other hanks operating in the Dominion. Several firms in Wellington fire buying these British notes. giving £-1 17s Gd for I lie £o, and 19s for (lie £1 notes. Generally, business people in the city will not accept British notes. The fail in the relative value of the £ sterling to the dollar was demonstrated recently by a resident obtaining £2 5s for a ten dollar American hill, Cook’s estimating Hie dollar value at 4s Gd.

From remarks made by Hie Chairman of the District Hospital Board at a recent Board meeting, in connection will) the Ofnki Collage Hospital, we were under the impression (hat the cottage hospital was primarily Dr. Mason’s private hospital. The Otaki Mail says: “Dr. Mason never had a private hospital in Otaki. and had little to do with the establishment of the Otaki Hospital. A meeting of Otaki ladies, convened by Hie late Airs McWilliam, called on the chairman of the Ilorowhenua County Council to convene a public meeting to consider the urgent need of a hospital in Otaki. The meeting was called, the matter was taken up enthusiastically, and on representations being made to them, the Wellington Hospital Board erected the hospital, which was,duly opened by His Excellency Lord Eanfuvly in August, 1899. We may add that the people of Otaki and district contributed a handsome sum towards the initial cost of Hie institution.” 'When 1 grow up to he a man

I’ll smoke cigars! like Uncle Dan, And ilirt with girls, and own a car, And wear long pants! like my papa. And when the winter days are damp, I’ll have goloshes and a gamp;

But coughs and colds I’ll not en-

dure — 711 just take “Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt. 19

The Manawatu A. and P. Association have unanimously refused a request, for the shpw grounds to he used, for the playing of a football match on Sunday.

A contract has been Jet for the erection of a boys’ hostel at Palmerston Korth High Schbol, the cost to be about £IO,OOO, The dormitories will accommodate 34 bovs.

The Marlborough Patriotic Society has classified the. eases under which soldiers and their dependents shall receive relief, and has disbursed £IB,OOO. For contingencies £O,OOO has been held in reserve. On Saturday afternoon the Koval will screen a special programme, “The Lesson,”, featuring Constance Talmadge and Tom Moore. This programme will not be shown at any other lime.*

“The Miracle Man” s all that is line, all that is sorrowful, all that allures in the act of living —it is one- screen entertainment you’ll never forget. Come! live a life in an hour. Showing at the Koval shortly*

Mi 1 Latham, giving evidence be-

fore the Butter Prices Inquiry Committee, said that to-day (here was not one fanner farming properly at all, because lie bad not money to do it. Mr McCombs: ‘‘Owing to having paid too much for the land, lie has not the money to work it. Therefore, high prices l for land do not me'an increased production.” 1

An aftermath of the recent Wanganui sensation, in which the late Mayor figured so unfortunately, will he heard on Tuesday next in Wellington. The Full Court will be asked to consider an application to have Chas. Ewing Mackay removed from the roll of barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court.

A reward of £SOO is being offered by the Colonial Sugar Company to anyone who will furnish information hading to the detection of any ('/arson guilty of taking sugar from the Chelsea relinery, or from any vessels carrying sugar from the works for transhpment to other centres. This reward is offered owing to heavy losses by theft during the past year, amounting in value to several thousand pounds.

Before Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, Frank Lawton appeared on a charge of theft of 22 cases of gasoline, valued at £33 11s, the properly of Levin and Co., Wellington. Chief-Detective “Ward asked for a remand until September 20th, in order to make further inquiries. It was stated that the accused was the mate of the. vessel from which the benzine was alleged to have been taken. The remand was granted, and bail was allowed in one surety of £IOO ami two of £SO.

The New York Times’ Washington correspondent stales that it is understood the United Slates Mail Steamship Company, and the North German Lloyd interests have submitted to the Shipping Board for its consideration and approval a contract providing tor joint operation of the vessels of," both lines in the passenger and freight: service between Germany and American Atlantic ports. It is believed that (he contract will, in many respects, he'similar to (he recent arrangement between the Hamhurg-America line and the American Ship and Commerce Corporation. It is expect ed that the new deal will include services between Bremen and New York, and Boston and Baltimore. Mr Arthur Latham, dairy farmer, Kanwhala, in evidence before the Butter Prices Inquiry Committee, said he had 70 acres of land bought six years ago at £O4 per acre, and his statement based on that value showed a cost of production of 2s 3d per pound for hutter-fal. At (he present value (£l4O per acre) he estimated that the cost of production, allowing 2s an hour for his labour, would he 2s 10 Id per pound. Some said that higher wages, and some that the higher price: of land, was the. cause of the increased cost of production; hut he would point to another factor. If the hind had changed hands live or six times — and sometimes it had changed hands ten or eleven I lines—-the, land agent got 15 per cent., (lie Government G per eeiii.. and the lawyer 4 per cent., making 25 per cent, in all. Mr Nash: Then; are a Jot of parasites living cm (he farmer. I Saturday was (he SOIh anniversary of the ceremony of taking possession, in the name of Groat Britain, of the site of the city of Auckland. Captain Hobson, New Zealand’s tirst Governor, decided shortly after his arrival at the Bay of islands in January, 1840, that the then capital, Russell, was iin--1 suitable as a permanent seat of government. Investigations in regard to a new capital resulted in the selection of the present site of the northern city. A Government party, which arrived in Waitemata barhour on September 15th, 1840, in the barque Anna Watson, landed on September ISllt, when the British flag w;ts hoisted on the promontory afterwards crowned with Fort Britomart. Salutes were fired from (he barques Anna Watson and Rlalina, ;md the health of the I’eigning sovereign, Queen Victoria, was drunk at the foot of the flagstaff. The event, which marks the actual birthday of Auckland city, was further signalised at a luncheon on the Anna Watson, and the holding of the first regatta on the waters of the Waitemata. Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s?*

A locally-owned donkey was sold io a circus company which visited Foxton. This morning it refused t.o rt > follow the eavaleade, but was drag-' , ge-d into submission. The animal . bad many lilfie friends in the community who will regret its departure. m A case to which a lot of public interest is attached is listed to come before the Fall Court shortly. It is iii the form of a motion brought under the “Medical Practitioners Act, 1008,” to have two members of the Wellington medical profession .-(ruck off the register, the allegation against them being that they have been guilty of professional misconduct (says the Wellington Times). An instance of a prophet being without honour in his own country was mentioned by the director of (lie Meteorological .Department, Mr D. C. Bates, at Auckland on Tuesday. He said the famous inventor of ,an anemometer, or wind gauge, Mr .1. S. Dines, F.K.S., lived at Benson, a village in Oxfordshire. During a recent visit to Kngland Mr Bales was on his way to Benson to call on Mr Dines, and in the train lie met a lady on her way to the same village. In conversation she stated Unit she knew everybody in Benson. Mr Bates inquired of her the locality of Mr Dines’ residence, and she replied that she bad novel 1 hoard of such a person.