Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPTEMB. 25, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2181, 25 September 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, SEPTEMB. 25, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow is Dominion Day. The holiday will be observed by, all Government offices on Monday.

A start has been made by the contractor for the erection of Mr Perreau’s shop premises in Main Street.

“The Miracle Man” is no propaganda, no creed, no “ish,” but a vivid, vital story of human hearts. The Royal, Monday night.*

Butler can be obtained surreptitiously in Germany by the very rich at 60s per lb.

“Wagon Tracks,” with Bill Hart, will he shown at the Town Hall tonighl. Prices, Is Id and 6d, children 3d*

In reply lo Mr I). G. Sullivan (Avon) on Thursday, in the House of Representatives, the Minister-in charge of (lie Board of Trade said that the Board had mafic investigation into the prolils of the woollen manufacturing companies, and lhal the report would be laid on Ihe table of the House.

A Christchurch mercantile linn recently advertised for an office hoy just left school, and from one applicant received the following letter: —“in applying for the-position advertised, (he mailer of wages J am willing to leave in your hands, relying on a fair adjustment according to ability. At the same time, to remove the possibility of wrong impressions, i wish to point out that should your eonceplion of a fair wage 1 be anything under 30* weekly, jnsi save yourself lime and I rouble, and oblige me by considering Ihe mailer closed.'’

“Inside of a generation.” said Captain Fills. Director of Forestry, “we will be up against it in New /calami as far as limber supplies are concerned.” They had in New /calami about Ihirly-live years’ supply of limber, and they were replacing I bat by 1,1)00 acres a year. That meant Unit if Ihe Government did not adopt a definite policy the forests would very soon be denuded. To supply the requirements, they had to have twelve million acres of land under fore*t, and the land necessary for the purpose' should lie acquired before it was too late, because it look only a little while to destroy limber, but it took many years to grow limber.

The inquest on Ihe body of Robert Dudley Worsl'old, who died - in the Palmerston Hospital on September 61 h, following a collision with a motor car, was concluded at'Palmerston on Wednesday. The Coroner returned a verdict that (be deceased died as the result id shock, caused by being run over by a motor car driven by T. H. Davidson. The Coroner said he eontd not altogether absolve, Davidson from blame, bat, in view of the fact that further proceedings might he taken, be would not comment on the evidence.

Prospects of an early rcsnniplion of the oil-boring industry in Taranaki are provided by Hie ruport that a New Plymouth syndicate lias purchased the whole of the assets of the Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil Wells, Ltd., which went into liquidation some months ago. No official statement concerning the deal is available beyond the fact that the sale lias been arranged and that confirmation is awaited from London, a fuller announcement being postponed tor a week or two. W Idle the price involved is not slated, it is gathered that it will give a very small return, if any at all, to the shareholders of the company. A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because lie had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Arc yon wishing for -more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, hut 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 (lie year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisemeut in “The Manawatu Herald.”'*

“Australia, as far a* I could learn during the six weeks 1 spent there,'’ said Mr J. W. Beanland, Deputy-Mayor of Christchurch, “is on the top of the wave." Asked if anything in ihe nature of a slump Was expected, he said that he had no reason to believe that anybody held expectations in that direction. “Manufacturing industries, in spite of labour troubles, are making rapid progress,” lie continued. “Unless New Zealand furthers her manufacturing interests, she will he left far behind Australia. Australia lias more than twice as much labour trouble as we have, hut is pushing strenuously forward in spite of it. New Zealanders would he surprised to learn Ihe extent lo which Australian industries are under the control of unions; they hardly would credit it; but still capital is invested in Australian enterprises. It is realised that the only way is for investors to sink their spirit and work in with the unions.”

Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at' Perreau’s?*.

Darin" 1 the past season (ho ten cheese factories in the South Wairarapa manufactured a total of 2,825 lons of cheese, of a. gross value of £286,701. The Mamari, with 455 immigrants, arrived at Otagb Hoads on Thursday. The passengers include 32 domestics, farm labourers,* engineers, mechanics, farmers, carriers, farriers and 28 quartz miners for the West Coast under engagement. A woman was found wandering in GJumiee Hi reel, Wellington, on Wednesday, who had completely lost her memory. She was taken to the hospital for treatment. At a late hour the woman was still unidentified. “The Miracle Man” is intensely moving—it takes one by the heart, the mind, and the eye. It is not only an artistic and moral achievement, it is a miracle picture. Sec this picture at the Royal on Monday night.* Picture-goers who witnessed Elsie Ferguson’s recent success, “The Witness for the Defence,” will he pleased to hear that with the same cast she will appear in “The Avalanche,” Gertrude Atherton’s story, at Iho Town Hall on Monday. The prices will 'he 6d and Is Id.*

'flic sum 'of £27,048 was paid in componsa I ion by the Government for stock which had boon inspected and condemned by Government inspectors. The amount represent* half the value of the animals as fixed at the time of condemnation. The previous year £22,438 was paid in compensation.

In Ids lecture on the early days of Palmerston North, Rev, A, Doull staled that Mr Thomas Scott, of Scott’s Ferry, on the Lower Rangitikei, used to walk regularly along the beach between Wellington and Wanganui with the mails. For a long lime this road along the beach was (he regular and indeted the only read between Foxtail and Bulls.

Arrangements were made tor the Prime Minister to visit Morton today in connection with the proposed Levin-Morion railway route. The visit, however, lias been postponed on account of the arrival of (lie new Governor-General (Lord Jelicoe) in the Dominion. The Prime Minister will go over the railway route at 0.. later date.

The wide corridors at the local Plate school,-while occupying more space than a central hall, are a mistake, and an unnecessary expense. Portion of tin l corridor is used by the infant department, hut the draught at times is terrific. Application was made to the Board for screens lo prevent the draught, and yesterday the Board architect visited the school ami is taking steps to have the defect remedied.

The Gaming Act is now in operation. The police are reticent about what actions are being taken to ensure the observance of the latest regulations rewarding betting, but it can be anticipated (says the Christchurch Press) that the first action against Ihe bookmakers will be an “information” against some member of the public believed to have negotiated a horse-racing bet outside of the totalis;)tor.

Old residents of Iho Wangilikci will learn will) (loop regret of I lie. death of Mrs Christina Scull, roliot. of ilio late‘Mr David Scot), of ‘‘Willow Dank.” Dower Uahgilikei. T.lic doooasod lady passed away on Thursday, a, Wanganui, in her /.Ird year. The doooasod lady was a, da ill’ll tor oi’ Iho lalo Mr Higgle, a I;ioji<;oi■ colonist ol Wanganui. .Ihoir family included six sons and live girls. Airs MeKelvie, 01. ‘‘Flock House,'’ Dulls, is a daughter. One son married Miss Fraser, daughter of (he late Air Donald Fraser, of Dukehoc, Dulls.

A Fcildin” - farmer who has boon engaged in dairying- for upwards of 20 years, when discussing the increased price of butter fat with a Wanganui Herald reporter, remarked that all last year he made a substantial profit from his farm. The general running expenses this year had so far not greatly increased, and without ever receiving a fraction of the penny from the pending increase in butler fa 1, he could still carrv on and do well. Those who were talking about running their dairy farms at a loss were, in the majority of instances, persons who had rushed in blindfold fo buy laud at any price regardless of consequences. ‘Ju fact, he added, (here was a section of the farming community so easily gulled that it was a wonder they had sense enough to know a ‘cow from n bull.

Mr G. While, in concluding a report, lo the Industrial Association at Christchurch on the visit of the Canterbury delegation to the West Coast, reached almost poetic heights of eloquence. “The West Coast appears to me,” said Mr White, “to have been bolstered up, and then let down, by political influence*. To-day she is as a fish which swims with fins of lead. But the, day will come when the Otira tunnel will be worked to its fullest capacity, in conjunction with a fleet of steamer* handling its huge coal output; when the stampers will roar around Reefton as they roar from Johannesburg to Elandsfonlein; when.the saws will sing in those timber belts as they sing in the Canadian and Californian forests. Maybe over there some Rip Van Winkle tourist will wake up and say, as the Indian said to ihe burial place of his fathers: ‘The sheep are on the slopes around, the cattle in the meadows feed; the labourer ploughs the crumbing ground, and drops the yellow seed. I like it not; I would the plain lay in its tali old groves again.”

On ■ the butter-price question a correspondent to the Wellington Post points out that it is solely to the high prices now being obtained for milk products that the price of land is increasing l at such a rate, and not that the high price of land is making the products dearer. IE the proposed rise of 40 per cent, in dairy produce takes place, then up goes the price of land in proportion. This would assist the present landowners, but would be no good to the genuine dairy farmer.

Tilings arc financially and economically rotten in the stale of Denmark. The Danish treasury, in spite of the millions from (he sale of the Danish West Indies to the United Slates, and the flow of money to that country during the war, is at low ebb. The krone is badly depressed. In addition to the labour disturbances which have racked the country for months, there is a severe lack of housing and grave shortage of coal wherewith to keep industry going . Copenhagen prisons are full, not of criminals, hut of families unable to find other roofs. Schools and other public buildings have also had to he used to meet the housing crisis. Train service is drastically curtailed, principally because of the lack of coal. With the revival of .German industry, hopes of relief supplies of coal from that quarter are diminishing. Bolshevism seems lo lie on the decline, principally, it seems, because of the disclosure that the eight-hour day was not favoured by the Soviets. Socialists appear a disheartened lot since the .Danish elections. The workers are deserting the Socialist banners in shoals. The new Democratic majority in the Folketbing does not seem to need the weakened Socialist support.