LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2294, 25 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Measured by population, Pal merston is our eighth largest town,

All boys who reach the age of 14 are now required to register for training irTthe Senior Cadets. A hoy of 11 years, Nonnan Hall, had.two lingers and a thumb blown oil while investigating a detonator with a pen-knife, at Hamilton. In the opinion of the IL n. J.-G. Coates (Minister of Public Works) the total cost of the Mangahao hy-dro-electric scheme, when completed. will be £2,000,0.00.

We are informed that an evening

wedding is to be celebrated in the Shannon Methodist Church at an early date.

Numerous Birthday congratulation.- from all parts of the Empire have reached the Prince of Wales, including many from Australian, .New Zealand, Canadian and South Africap children.

The front portion ol the building known as “Manchester House,” opposite the Town Hall, is being converted into a billiard saloon.- The partitions have been removed, and Ihe saloon will accommodate four tables.

The North Canterbury Hospital Board this week passed a motion protesting “against the action of the Bank of New Zealand in arbitrarily raising the rate of interest on the board’s current account to 7 per cent.,, a- in view of the large profitmade by the Bank of New Zealand I he increase was unjustifiable." Through a petrol lamp exploding, Eolande McLay, aged 15, years, and ■ iov McLay, aged H, daughters oi a railway ganger at Arthurs Pass, and Clarence George Davis, aged 20. a truck baud, were severely burned about the face and hands on 'Thursday night. They were conveyed to Christchurch by special train, and admitted to the hospital.

Archbishop O’Shea, speaking at the Hibernian Society breakfast at Wellington, said that Archbishop Redwood was the longest-conse-crated bishop in the world. One other bishop, still living in France, was consecrated in the same month, hut Archbishop Redwood was consecrated two days earlier, so he is, therefore, although not the oldest, the longest-consecrated, bishop in I he world at the present time. Sir Waited’ Buchanan says a Wairnrapa settler informed him that he had been compelled to expend more than £I,OOO on a netting fence to protect himself from rabbits, and other settlers were similarly situated. He'could not imagine a more scandalous slate of attuirs than was permitted to exist in the Wairarapa. They had had rabbits for over 50 years, and if they did not know how io deal efficiently with them now they never would. lie was satisfied the only way to keep rabbits in check was !>v the introduction of their natural enemies. Many seiners resorted to trapping in order to make money out of the skins, and not with the object of exterminating rabbits. No temptation such as this should be allowed to stand in the way of the general welfare. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M.. delivered his reserved judgment this week in the case in which Motinsev and Co., Palmerston, auctioneers, were proceeded against by the Inspector of Factories for selling meat at a time when butchers’ shops were required to he closed. The Magistrate pointed out that under the Auctioneers’ Act an auctioneer was entitled to sell any foods by auction between the hours of (i a.m. and (J p.m.. and the whole question was whether this expressed authority was curtailed by the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908. The. Magistrate dealt fully with, other cases cited by counsel at the hearing, and the law on the subject, and arrived at the conclusion that the defendant company had not committed a breach of the Shops and Offices Vet. The information was accordingly dismissed.

In another column Collinson and Son, of Palmerston X., ask you to send for to-day’s quote on roofing iron, wire, baths, ranges, or any other lines the price of which is fluctuating.