The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2211, 4 December 1920, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A report of (he meeting of Die Beautifying Society, held yesterday afternoon, will appear next issue. To-night will see the (ipal episode of “The House of Hale," at the Royal theatre. A most exciting linish is promised. This will be followed on Saturday next with “Smashing Barriers, ’’ featuring William Duncan. Mr J. A. Nash. M.P.. expressed Die opinion reeenDy Dial we shall all be dead before flic Levin-Marton railway is constructed. The Prime Minister (Mr Massey) is, however, optimistic, for he slated al Rongotea Dull he hoped he would have the pleasure of opening Du* line. “We are all liortieultiiralists by instinct, because we are descendants of Adam. But Adam aid no! manage his garden properly, and ho got turned out in consequence/'’ said Mr Massey in opening Die Rongotea Horticultural Show. The following boys shared,.Mr P>. G. Gower's two guineas for collection, of birds’ eggs .collected within a radius of three miles of the Eoxton post office, and deposited with the loeal Horticultural Society: —Dongles Satherley 000. Stanley Johansen 550, Willie Thompson 300, V. Withers 200. ’ Parents of children attending the local State School will be afforded an opportunity of seeing the school at work next "Wednesday afternoon. The head teacher has made arrangements in this connection, and it is hoped that parents will avail themselves of the opportunity to see the'scholars at their studies. They will also be shown the work of scholars which was exhibited at the Manawatu Show. The following are the winners of points prizes at the Horticultural Society's Summer Show; Pol • plants, Mrs Me Murray; cut blooms, Mrs Galland; roses, Mr Penn (Otaki): sweet peas, Mrs Renton; vegetables, Mrs U. H. Symons: cookery,“Mis* H. Skellen; children’s cookery, Miss Phyllis Robinson; home industries, Miss Nye; fancy work, Mrs Daniell; decorative, Mrs Galland; novice -class, Mrs J. Andrews.

The loeal vital statistics foii November were: Births (i, deaths 'nil, marriage certificates issued 2.

Ear taking Sd worth of eoal from the wharf, a Wellington resident got seven days’ ini|»risoiiinenr.

Frank Gold, vandevillian, entertainer, is a great success all along the line 5 . Ik* with him at the Town Hall on Wednesday next. Watch for the l>ig bill that night.*

The attendances at the local Show oh Thursday and Friday was a record. The public interest evinced in the Show is very encouraging to to the Society.

Rain fell locally on 13 days during November, (he maximum fall, 1 inch, was recorded on the 20th. Total for month, 3.-12 ineh.es. Average fall for November for the last 7 years is 3.47 inches.

A serial romance that is artistic as well as thrilling. See “Tih riinh," the big French serial, commencing at the Town Hall on .Monday next. Also William Russell in “The Midifight Trail.” Usual prices.

Hamm ami Fogwell have signed artieles -for a sculling match for £2OO a side and the championship of New Zealand, to lake place on the Wairau river on Saturday, December 181 It. The Horticultural Society desire to thank the Rev. Mr Walton for providing locomotion tor the visiting judges in connection with (his week’s Show.

The reeejpis in connection with the loeal Show totalled £35 3s (id, made up as follow^Door receipts £B. Ids !)d, competitions £4 18s od, entries £l2 14s 3d, lea rooms £8 4s (id, sale of produce 10s.

A meeting was held al Rongotea. this week to consider the creel ion of a soldiers’ monument. Mr R. A. Callender presided over a gathering of twenty settlers, 'll was decided to honour the districts' soldiers who fell ia the war by placing a monument in Douglas Square, and to raise £50(1 for the purpose. As showing how the revenue of the Westport Harbour Board Ims suffered through difficulties in (he coal mining industry, if is interesting to mention that before the war (he Board’s revenue was £1)4,000 annually, ami now it was reduced to £37,000. The Board’s annual interest charges totalled £IO.OOO per annum.

The Prime Minister slates that the latest cable, though not delinite. has indicated a slight improvement in (lie prices of the coarser wools. A large shipment of dairy product* i- already on the way to England, ami 1 his month the first shipment of free meat will In* despatched. Mr Massey says that we can look forward to Die value of our exports again, exceeding Die value ot the imports. and Die linaneial position will he relieved to that exleal.

Perhaps Die celebrated American Bishop Potter gives Sir Henry Lucy (he lies! (ale in his diary. Afler preaching in the Adriondaeks, this unconventional bishop was eagerly approached by a gaunt backwoodsman. “As usual." he .-aid. “1 lamed somethin' to-night." “And what was that?" asked Die pleased bishop, warmly shaking Die horny hand. “Whv. Bishop," said the backwoods man, “1 found out for (he fust time that Sodom and Gomorrah wa/n’, twins."

in Du* Magist rate’s Court at Carterton on Thursday, before Mr Free, S.M., Frederick Thompson was charged wiDi the. murder of Antony Rzoska. Evidence throughout xvas similar lo that given al the coroner's enquiry. Constable Mill.er gave additional evidence Dial accused had been drinking heavily. He bad been arrested for Du* first lime on November Blb on a charge of drunkenness. At Die close of Die evidence, Mr Hogg, for the accused, entered a plea of not guilty, and reserved his defence. Accused was committed for trial at Die Wellington Supreme Court in February next.

The Imperial requisition, said the Premier al Palmerston on Wednesday, had brought £15(1,000,000 into the country, and they had thus been able lo pay their war expenses as far as they had been asked to. Thai requisition was now at an end, and we were passing through a transition period. For various reasons, imports this (inaneial year had so far exceeded exports, and money had tightened, but there was still plenty in the country. They-were now on the turn, and the now season’s-pro-ducts had just been sent away, and Du* first shipment of “free’ meat would he at the end of the year. The price of wool was a question that was of vital effect ia Du* whole eoinmuitily. This year there would he a difference of .C(>,000.0()() against them, as compared with last year. That was a serious• matter, but they hoped partly to make up that deficit on their dairy products, which were calculated to show an increase of £3,000,000.