LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2187, 9 October 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A plain and fancy dress ball will tic held in the Town Hal on Thursdav evening next.

((dirge Mac.Morron, lorinerly headmaster of the Terrace School, Wellington, and ex-president of the N.Z. Educational Institute, is dead.

The Town Clerk informs us that the sale of coke lias been slopped as it is being used at the works in connection wilh Taupiri coat for the manufacture of gas.

The greatest screen character of the year —Henry Walthall as, the “Lone Wolf in False Faces at the Town Hall to-night. Prices .1/1 and .1 /7.

The family of the late Mr Edward Murphy, of Osborne, have donated £50(10 to the Salvation Army, the gift to be used for the purpose of establishing a nursing home in Mr Murphy's 'memory.

“ According to the Hospital Board's valuation Manawalu County is the most valuable in the district,’’ said Sir dames Wilson at Hie meciing of the Manawalu County Council.

ir lf may be of interest to sports and others in tin's district to know timl the bones of I lie racehorse Stevens, which is liguring in certain court proceedings at the present time, lie bleaching on a farm at Kopiilaroa.-—Levin Chronicle.

Mr R. B, Ryder, headmaster of Hie Campbell Street school, for the past 2] years, and one of the most brilliant teachers under the jurisdiction of the Wanganui Education Board has been promoted to an inspectorship. Air L. de Berry of the Alarton school will lie his successor.

The resignation of the Rev. A. C. W'heeldon from the Shannon charge was accepted by the Wanganui Presbytery, to lake effect on January 3Jst, 192.1, and the Rev. T. Halliday was appointed interim .Moderator of Shannon from that date.

Air W. I). Stewart (Dunedin West) has been appointed chairman of the committee set up by the House of Representatives to consider the new clause added by the Legislative Council to the Alarriage Amendment Bill, making it an offence to deny or impugn tilt l validity of a lawful marriage.

“While factories ean produce butter for export to Britain at 2/0 per lb. Lodi., they are charging 2s 7Ad wholesale in Christchurch and the retailers, who formerly inyi a

margin of 2d per lb., have raised their share to per lb., a modest little increase in margin of 75 per cent, making a gross pro lit of 11 per ceu t. —Lyt tel ton Times.

In common with most local households and business firms our staff has been depleted by the epidemic of mumps and measels. The epidemic has been prevalent for the past six mouths and shows no signs of diminution. It appears to be in keeping with the phenomenal weather conditions during the period mentioned.

The London Central Profiteering Committee! is co-operating with traders with a view to reducing the cost of living. It is expected as an outcome that there will be large supplies of guaranteed food and clothing placed on the market, also standard buildings at fixed prices. It is suggested that the standard price of men’s suits should be £5, West End tailors are at present charging from 15 to IS guineas.

The birlhral e of children is falling lamentably in this district, and is now almost on a par with deaths, states the Tapaimi Courier. Only a third (if (he infants come into the world compared wilh 40 years ago. Marriages are few and far between since the war, and young men continue to drift away to the North Island and cities, leaving the girls behind, with little chance of fill(illing (heir natural place in the world.

Shareholders in the Uniied Fa fillers ’ Co-op. Associaioln Ld. wore summoned to attend the final windup meeting at Palmerston North this week'. The balance sheet showed that the assets had realised £50,887, which meant a return to the shareholders of 20s in the £, and a credit balance of £2OO. It was decided to divide the lallor epually between the Willard Home, Children's Home, and- the Salvation Armv.

.Mrs .1. Patterson, 1 sister of Mrs F. Healey, of Foxton, met with a painful accident at Wanganui on Dnrie Hill, a runaway bakery cart collided with the gig in which Mrs Patterson, her infant (laughter and a Fl-year-old girl were seated. All were thrown to the ground. The baby, fortunately, escaped scatheless, but the other (wo were unconscious and were taken to the hospital, Mrs Patterson suffering from shock and bruises in addition to an injured shoulder. The girl sustained several (nils on the head, but otherwise was unhurt.

Says the Auckland Star: —We are all in the extraordinary position of living in one of the richest places in the world, whose immense resources cry out for development —a land that has suffered least of where daily existence is hedged round by a widenng circle of inconvenience, discomfort, and loss. Industrial troubles, shortage of necessares, rising cost of living, finance soaring land values—-all these and other difficulties are wilh us; but of statesmanlike resolution and ability to grapple with them there are scarcely any signs.

A petition from Syrians resident. in the Dominion that the Jaw should be altered so that they should not hi classed us Asiatics was yesterday reported on by the M to Z petlit.ns Committee of the House of Representatives, which recommended that it be referred to the Ci.vernment for consideraton. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr T. }■!. Wilford) strongly supported the petition, emphasising that the Syrians had always struggled to be free from Turkish rule, and during (lie war had served with the Allied

"It is nothing but slow murder—it's torture," said Mr L. Hardie. i 1 ic Christchurch City Council’s chief s;miiary inspector, in" the coarse of his address lasi week to (lie School Committees’ Association on heating’ systems. Mr Hardie was referring to a system of hot water heating used in certain buildings in the city. The deadliness of this particular system was due, he said, to the dead hot air produced. One evening in winter in a building so heated he had several ladies who had fainted taken out. There was no power given under the law to condemn such a heating system.

Ancieni amt modern blended on he Wangauu water front the other lay. There was an old native canoe ml equipped with a very up-to-date at engine, Ihe freight was a numicr of Maoris in attire which ranged from native to European, and the •argo was an elaborately lilted coilin, on route to an up-river tangi. flm arrival of a lost passenger was aeing awaited, and soon a handsome motor car came on the scene and deposited a rotund waliine. adorned n a silk skirt and a cardinal tinted douse, her brow ringed wilh a wreath of leaves, and as a head covering a lady's boudoir cap. —Chronicle.

An unobtrusive but protitable and useful local industry is carried on at Ashhnrst (says the Alanawatu Times), where a skilled boat-build-er is constantly engaged in his trade. A steamer trading to Foxton had difticully in replacing one of her boats, and placed the order at Ashhurst, where it was completed in good time, and to the satisfaction ot the shipping company, 1) was built of while pine, which, when soaked in hot oil, is said to be superior to kauri for the purpose. Several pleasure boats have also been built there for use at Heads.

“There is a lot of petty thieving going on,''' said Hie chairman at the meeting of the Batca Harbour Board. He added that not even a spanner could be left on the dredge and he had a suspicion that their coal was walking away too. Somebody went to a certain house and saw a. piece of coal weighing about a cwt. which he believed came from the Board’s coal heap. One of the members suggested whitewashing the coal as they might see it going away then. The chairman said that he was afraid it would go, whitewash and all. It was decided to advertise that legal proceedings would follow any interference with the Board's property.

If sufficient inducement offers "Messrs Petrie and Thomson will run a motor lorry to Palmerston North on Thursday evening next for the IJolland-Cook boxing match. Seals must be booked by Wednesday evening- next. Fare 7/(5 return.

The local corps of the Salvation Army will hold a sale of work in connection with their annual Self Denial Appeal in the Town Hall on. Tuesday, October 191.1 i. Gifts for same wll he greatly appreciated.

The secretary of the local Fire Brigade acknowledges with thanks donations of two guineas from the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., and ten shillings from Mr \Y. G. Nyc.

Al Ihe Royal Academy musical examination at Palmerston North Miss Fjvolvii Shepherd (Foxton Convent ) secured .114 points in the primary division. AI the recent Trinity College examination Mis-. Doris Whihley (preparatory) secured 74 points, not 71 as previously stated.

ft. is reported that a few deals have been made in lambs in the Wanganui district for forward delivery in February next, the price being up (o PC- for while face and ill/- for black face lambs. Apparently farmers in this district do not speculate so much in forward delivery sales for their lambs as is the case in Canterbury. It is reported that a farmer at Winslow, South Canterbury, has sold 'his lambs for delivery in February for 27/!), and about 1500 lambs are involved in the deal. —Herald.

■Sir Arlluii' Conan Doyle. who is visiting 1 Australia on a lecturing lour, responding to a toast of liis health at a. reception hy the British Empire League, reviewed the result of the war. lie said it; was (he outcome of the fact that (lernmny had lost her soul and crushed it out for the sake of power. The British Empire, which to some extent had saved its soul, had been victorious. We had Bolshevism and other things now, but we could not have a great cyclone without a ground swell afterwards.

The total insurances on the .Municipal buildings and contents is now ascertained to be £1750, not. £1025 as previously slated. In conversation with the Mayor we were informed ilia! a loan would be required for the erection of new municipal buildings and (hat in the meantime it was proposed 10 remove and (it up the band room as a temporary ollice for the conduct of public business. The Mayor added that he, in common with other councillors, keenly felt (lie destruction of the building and its associations. The enlarged photographs of pas! mayors which adorned the walls of the Council Chamber were lost, and he hoped that these might he replaced at a later dale.

Speaking al the ;mniiiil mccliiiL’,' nd dinner of 1 lit* Feihling (.'lianiber nl' Commerce. President W. !•’. Brumwell said railway mallei'.-- had largely necupiod 1 lie allenliim of the Chamher during I lie yeai'. The local station was not adequately proed for dealing with stock and merchandise, The slalionmasler and staff had done excellent work with the facilities al their disposal, hut ids' improvements were needed. The danger of having Feihling sidetracked by the railway department in regard to the Main Trunk service had engaged the constant and watchful attention of the Chamher, and they would need to continue that vigilance.