Manawatu Herald TUESDAY. JANUARY 11. 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL
Accounts amounting to £1,935 7s <S(l"were passed for payment at lasi night’s Council meeting. A trades union official visited Box ton yesterday in connection with employees under the Shop of Offices Act and Waitresses Union award.
At last night’s Borough Council meeting leave of absence was granted Cr MeMurray for three months, to avoid tin extraordinary election. Cr. MeMurray informed the Council that he was leaving the district. The borough nuisance 'inspector reported at last night's Council meeting that during the month of December he inspected premises in Main Street. Avenue Road. Rifsscll and Whittaker Street, and “found things satisfactory."
During the past month nine head of stock were impounded in the borough pound, fees collected (is. 'I he borough ranger reported also to last night’s Council meeting that he had “arrested” one horse and four cows, which were released on payment of driving fees 2s.
The ladies connected with the plain and fancy si all in connection with the Beautifying Society’s Gain Day will hold a social and gift evening in the Town Hall supper-room on Friday evening next. A good social programme has been arranged, to be followed by refreshments. Admission by gift.
Fox ton experienced a heal wave yesterday. Between noon and 2 p.m. in the sun the thermometer registered almost 122. The official readings in the shade were: 9.30 a.m. fiti, .1 p.m, 83. At 5.30 p.m. 104 degrees were registered in the sun. It was the hottest day experienced locally for many years, and many people were prostrated by the* heat.
Several persons had narrow esea ties from drowning while bathing at tho'Carstlecliff beach, Wanganui, on Sunday afternoon. The first bather to get into trolmle was Mr -1. Stowe, but almost immediately*a lady ia the vicinity got into difficulties, and her daughter pluckily went to her aid. Mr Mayes went to the rescue of Mr Stowe, and brought the latter ashore in such an exhausted state' that he had to receive first aid. Mr P. Howe brought one of the ladies in, and the other —the daughter —managed to swim back to shallow water, Several other bathers got into trouble, but not of a serious nature,
Mis W; Cossey, of Drury, yvas 100 years old on Thursday, December 23rd.
. The Education Board has aeccpled the tender of Mr Hunt for the erection of shelter sheds at the local Stale School.
Peter B, Kynes’ famous lumber camp story, “The Valley of the Giants,” with Wallace Reid in the big* role, will be the leading picture at the Town Hall, Saturday next.*.
For some time past' determined efforts have been made by the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce to inaugurate a regular steamship service from English ports to New Plymouth. A merchant in that town stales that London advices indicate that there are no prospects wlmt-. ever of such direct' service being inaugurated until importers are prepared to guarantee that sufficient cargo will be forthcoming, the tonnage required being approximately 1,000 tons per ship.
A shortage in (lie supply of labour for the carrying out of public works has resulted in a party of university students being engaged to widen and improve the Otaki Forks to Mount Hector section of the Tararua mountains track. When the opportunity was given them, six students accepted this means of tilling in part of their summer vacation. Four of (ho original six have now left the work, but the number has been made up by students from the Olago Medical School. They are engaged on day labour basis, and are guaranteed lf>s a day.
The Wanganui Herald reports a peculiar accident that took place during the holidays. Two ladies were spending ihe day at a farm in the i minin', when I hoy were atlaoked by a. ram. The incident took place on the brow of a hill, and Ihe elderly hidv was knocked down and rolled lo the bottom oi a gully. I lit* ran/ .next attacked her companion, wli # was also knocked down, and received a fractured arm. 'flic older lady, apart from shock and a sliglil bruising, was no.l injured.
Great writers have been guilty ol funny blunders. In “-Julius Caesar,’ Shakespeare refers to clocks about 14 centuries before they were invented, makes cannon boom in “King Jolm." and talks of pistols in “Henry Y." In "I’ippa Basses" Browning apparently mistook the word “slugliorn” for a musical instrument. .In “The Antiquary,-" Sir Walter Scott causes Ihe sun to set in the eastern heavens. Trollope makes his Andy Scott go whistling up the street with a cigar in his mouth; and Defoe assures us that Robinson Crusoe, bet ore taking oli his clothes to swim to Ihe wreck, tilled his pockets with biscuits!
The undesirable element that Usually visits racecourses with the object of prosecuting their illegal operations were conspicuous by their absence a I the recent Tauherenikau races, which was no doubt due to die special precaution taken by the Wairarapa Racing Club to protect the safely of its patrons, While these gentry gave Tauherenikau a wide berth, they were apparently operating in other centres, says the Wairarapa News, for it is reported that a Carterton resident, who was visiting Napier during IJic holidays, was relieved of over £4O from his hip pocket.
A Wanganui Herald representative was shown a letter from a Wangnaui lady, now in England, which staled that men's two-garment suits were selling at 3(is, and boots in large quantities from 17s (id to 20s per pair. By the same mail a copy of the Export Mail was forwarded. A perusal of this showed that two large London firms were prepared to forward through their New Zealand agent* goods at the following retail prices:—Men's suits, 50s to 80s; men's d.b. overcoats, (iOs: juvenile suits, 32s (id to 455: men's latest style suits in grey and brown, 70s. Another firm offers its boots as follows:- —Men’s glace kid derby shoes, patent caps, 3(is; women s glace kid lace boots, 22s 3d to 25s (id; glace goat Gibson shoes, 17s sd.
Some idea of the great advances that have been made in advertising abroad to meet the increased costs of production may be obtained by a glance at Ihe rates published recentlv bv the London Daily Mail. Ihe Mail announces iis rates for publicity as follows: Whole front page, £I,OOO for one day. Whole front page (financial), £I2OO for one day; per inch, single column, i 5: double column, £10; triple column, £ls. Leader page, position specified, £0 per inch. Back page, single column space alongside pictures,* £7 per inch. Main news page, 5 A in. double column solus, £IOO. Facing home news page solus, halt £440. No dis** count allowed on a serial order. Financial. —Prospectuses, new issues, financial announcements, etc., at £l5O per single column and pro rata. Balance-sheets and company meetings at £llO per single column and pro rata. AN IDEAL REMEDY. The persistent cough which so often follows influenza is usually due to roughness and irritation of the mucous membrane of the air passages. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is an ideal remedy for allaying this irritation and cheeking the cough. Not only does if relieve the cough, but it leaves the throat iu a healthy condition. For sale everywhere. —Advt.
Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s?* • 1 - ' •
Some good catches of mullet have been made by local fishermen lately.
Mr H. Baker, of Hastings, and an erstwhile local resident, is renewing old acquaintances in Foxton. The friends of Mr Hillier, manager of the local Co.-op. Stores, will regret to hear that he was compelled to undergo a serious operation in a Palmerston private hospital on Sunday. His conditions is serious, but every hope is held out for his recovery.
Sunday night’s Auckland express train from Wellington ran into a horse, which was on the line near Koputaroa, with the result that the horse had to be destroyed. The steam pipes on the engine were damaged, and it was with difficulty that the train was got to Longburn. where temporary repairs were effected. Palmerston North was reached an hour late, and here another engine was substituted for the damaged one.
The outcome of information concerning a number of thefts from dwellings in New Plymouth was the arrest of a Imy mimed Tut re Collins, aged 13 years. The accused’s activities, it is alleged, embrace visits to four dwellings during the past week. When questioned, tin* boy admitted having absconded from the Wernroa Training Farm on Boxing Day. He walked to Marlon, and then went on by train lo New Plymouth.
Says the Bulletin: —Claude Tozer, the victim of the Lindtield (Sydney) tragedy of hist week, had had more narrow escapes from death in ihe last live years than most men. Early in his A.I.F. career he got enteric, and was one of Ihe last half-dozen patients in No. 1 General Heliopolis. when the vast million-pound hotel was evacuated. In those days all typhoid cases were automatically returned to Australia —this was by urgent request of ihe French, who feared infection. But Tozer worked the oracle, rejoined his unit, and went to Flanders. Brilliant and solid, at the same time a sportsman, a brave man and a delightful companion, he was the sort of M.O. that every battalion wanted. For some mouths he saw till the front-line service any man might want. He won his D.S.O. for a specific act of gallantry in a disaster from, which few lull himself emerged alive. He was hit by shrapnel on this occasion, and it went so near I lie brain that it had to be left there. When Ihe influenza arrived lie had two had doses in succession—both acquired while attending to other sullorcrs —and shortly alter being invalided home he was operated on for appendicitis. Tozer had a wonderful ear for a. hard-luck story, and lie could slam! up effectively lo the most despotic nf. brass-hai.s. He was six fee*, three, with a handsome, dolicalcfcalured face, the readiest of smiles end the cheeriest of dispositions —asplendidly vital young giant.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2225, 11 January 1921, Page 2
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