LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2304, 19 July 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Chinese storekeeper at Raelihi has been declared bankrupt. His unsecured debts amount to £2,113. The Wairarapa Egg Circle is at preseni despatching 1,000 dozen eggs in Wellington every week.

A Maslerton resident advertised for it- man to do a few days’ digging. There were over thirty applicants for t lie job.

Recent advices show that the wire market has dropped about £3

per ton. Another 30 men will be sent to relief works from Napier and'Hastings to-day.

What's in a - name? A young man named Bottles wa- convicted at Auckland last week of being over-full, and smashing glass to the value of £4 IDs.

‘‘Advertising." says Lord Benverbrook, “is a tonic to industry, and is slowly but surely taking its place as one of the greatest industrial forces of the age.’’

ll is interesting to note that 23 out of the 29 South African footballers saw service in the Great War, mostly in France. Before .Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at Dannevirke on Thursday, A. N. Mathicson, a cordial manufacturer, was lined £2 10s. with costs and expense.- amounting to £1 13s. for using saccharin in Ihe manufacture of lemonade. The number of motor ears registered in Hamilton (over 2,000) means a motor ear for every six persons. Practically every means of transport in the Waikato is done by motor ear, truck, motor bike or pusb-bike. The horse has been put to one side.

In the New Zealand pack for the first test nujtch against the Springboks are two exceptional forwards —McLean and Richardson. Both are over six feet in height. McLean turns the scale at lost., while Richardson is lost. libs. The average weight of the Dominion pack is about list.

A Manawatu dairy company has received a cabled offer of Is 9d per lb. for all the butter it can ship in September next. This means that the companies can pay the same price to milk suppliers as they have been doing in the past. The price paid to local suppliers was Is lid per lb, of batter-fat during the commandeer of Ihe Imperial Government. The fad that the oiler of Is 9d is made on a free market is regarded by local authorities as a very hopeful sign for a firm market, and with the probability of a rise in price later on.

That more stringent action should be taken to deal with disloyalists is to lie urged by several provincial unions, at the annual conference of the Xew Zealand Farmers’ Union, to be held on July 20th. Remits on the matter have been drafted bv Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Poverty Bay. The Taranaki union is in favour of deporting to the lands of their nativity those persons who incite the public to acts of disloyalty and violence, and desires that the law should be amended so as to prevent seditious or disloyal persons from sitting in Parliament.

The spirit of goodwill towards a new settler in their midst, received practical demonstration on Thursday morning at the instigation of the neighbours along the Coal-pit Road, Menzies Ferry, and near about (says the Wymlhnm Farmer). Therecent arrival is Mr Robert Davis, _ returned soldier, who was the successful applicant at the ballot for the property until recently held by Mr William Aberdeen. Xo less than 17 teams —15 with ploughs and two with discs—paraded at the appointed hour, and soon'got to it with skill and will. At the close of the day’s work well on to 40 acres of land had been turned over, and also a good portion of it disced.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, Geo. Knowles, for interrupting a religious meeting in tho Street by blowing u noisy ‘instrument, was fined £1 and 7s costs, The Rev. J, A. Lochore, superintendent of the Auckland East Methodist Circuit, has received the promise. of £4,000 in order that an up-to-date church may be built in Reinucra.

At a meeting of the members of the Levin Bowling Club on Thursday evening, it was decided to purchase the green from the present owner. The club will now have its own grounds, which should be much more satisfactory in every way. In response to an urgent message, Dr. Mandl proceeded to Hokitika this morning, where his father is seriously ill. During Dr. Mandl’s absence from Fox ton, Dr. McDonald will act as his locum tenens.

A fire occurred at Rongotea during the early hours of Sunday morning, when the residence of Mrs M. A. Burgess was totally destroyed by fire. Beyond the saving of a piano, practically nothing else of value was rescued from the burning building by a few willing workers who were roused up. The building was owned by Mr W. J. Croucher, of Rongotea.

The “ruling passion” manifests itself in unexpected quarters, and in all sorts of circumstances, as was exemplified in the case of the chairman of a concert entertainment in Christchurch recently, who, after announcing tho last singer, remarked: “And then wc will sing, the Grand National!” It was not til! the burst of laughter that followed htft on his remark that he recognised that he had made a slip of the tongue. —Press.

Referring to (lie closing down of cement works, the Transport Worker has this to say: “The time lias come in New Zealand when the owners of important industries must realise that it is not for thorn to shut down works at their own will. If an industry is the main support

■f several people, then the workers in those industries should have some say whether they will shut down or otherwise, and the least tiling that can be done is that the owners of industries, before shutting down, should give the workers an opportunity of running them on co-opera-live lines.'’

Mr Massey lias attended every meeting of the Imperial Conference. His altitude has been to approach all questions from the point of view of Empire Unity, with full consideration for New. Zealand’s interests. He expressed himself as pleased with rite progress made, the frankness and candour of the discussions, and the willingness on the part of the British Goxvernment to place all its cards on the table and give iho overseas Prime Ministers the fullest information on every subject. An official report has been issued on defence, but rigid secrecy is preserved.

Womenkind think hard when questioned about ages, and (he answer given invariably suggests to the male “the adding of 10, subtracting four" process to arriving at the approximate number of summers or winters (says the Christchurch Sun). There appeared as a witness in the Supreme Court a woman looking decidedly less than her years, who did not pause lo think hard. Smartly die snapped out the number of : her years to opposing counsel. Still, the world was not tif know her secret in cold print. “But,' she hastened to add, amid laughter, •‘that must nut appear in the newspapers.” Ilis Honour, Mr Justice Ilerdman, smiled broadly at the reporters, as he said: “I know the reporters will respect the lady s wishes."

A day or two ago a pigeon, owned by a resident of South Dunedin, was sitting on one egg and a chick which had just been hatched out (says the Dunedin Star). The bird (lew out of its box and alighted on a stable roof some distance away, the owners, in its absence, looked into the box, and were surprised t<> see only one cbick and the egg not there. Before long a neighbour saw the male pigeon, which had been in the vicinity of the stable, fly back with something in its beak. The owners on again looking into the box saw two chicks there. The most likely explanation' of this curious happening is that, owing to the damp caused by the hatching of the first egg the other adhered to the bird’s feathers, and, on its alighting on the stable the egg homehow broke, and (he chick was hatched out in the iron gutter. The male pigeon, seeing what had happened, must then have carried the chick back to. the box.

Two young people, the young man 21. the girl 20 years of age, left their homes in Christchurch some three weeks ago, and came to Wellington, where, according to the story of the police, their money ran out, and, unable to obtain further aeeoiuiundation, they were compelled to go to the police station. They were charged before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., at Wellington yesterday, with having no visible means of .support. The police asked that the pair be remanded until next Friday to enable inquiries to be made in Christchurch. They could remain with the Salvation Army authorities in the meantime. The young man said he had a job to go to, and be was going to marry the girl as soon as possible, and they would get accommodation. The Magistrate decided it would be better to remand both accused to the care of the Salvation Army authorities until Friday.

“Big Bill” Hart’s celebrated pony, Pinto, plays a big and almost human part in “The Testing Block,” to be shown at the Royal to-night. —Advt. The gate takings at the TaranakiSpringbok match at New Plymouth on Saturday totalled £l,lOO. As a result of Saturday night’s gale and storm in Cook Strait, heavy seas broke along this coast, and the noise of the surf was heard many miles inland.

Any one who has read Ethel M. Dell’s great story, “The Rocks of Valpre,” should not miss the chance of seeing the picture at the Royal to-morrow (Wednesday).—Advt. A meeting of shareholders in the West- Coast S.S. and Trading Co. (in liquidation) will be held in the Town Hall Supper-room at 2.30 to-morrow afternoon.

The Government has censored moving pictures, and it should now take steps to protect people's eyesight against flickering and badly shown pictures. Mr Sidney Hall, dentist, of Levin, notifies that owing to pressure of business, his visits to Foxton will be restricted to Wednesdays only in each week, from 0 ,a.m. till o pan., commencing from to-morrow.

It is reported that a writ has been issued locally claiming damages for alleged malicious'slander. The ease will be heard at the next sittings of the Supreme Court in Palmerston North. We were shown yesterday a mammoth “hollow crown” parsnip, 35 inches in length, grown by Mr W. Xye, of Foxton. The crop from which the sample was taken was oi prolific size. While Mr Furfiie was in Palmerston yesterday he placed his ear, with other car-owners, at the disposal of the members of the Springbok team, who arrived there from New Plymouth in the afternoon. lie stales that the team as a whole are, a tine physical set of men.

During Dr. Mntidl’s temporary absence from Foxton, Dr. McDonald will act as bis locum tenens. Messages for attendance must be left either at I lie surgery or Mr Patterson's before TO a.m. daily. A fourteen-year-'.fid boy named Horace Brown fell into a tub of boiling water at Auckland on Friday. He is in the hospital now.

A man named Williams, who bad walked a long distance in a vain search for work, jumped into the Wanganui River from the Matapima ridge on Friday. He was rescued by a man who was in the neighbourhood, and is now in the Tnumarunui Hospital.

The attitude of a foreman in a particular instance was referred to in the Arbitration Court at Auckland during lbe hearing of a commission case. -"A JWrmnn has been defined,” smilingly replied’Mr Justice Frazer, “as a man who is always in a hurry and always in a bad temper.” The Full Court was engaged at Wellington yesterday morning in bearing the appeal of the Crown against the finding of Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the ease in which I*. 11. Hickey and J. Glover were charged with the printing and sale of a seditious pamphlet. The Court referred the case back to the Magistrate. The Anglican Church.authorities have ordered that no further copies of the I’nn'er-lwok be printed until the Prince of Wales marries. It is estimated that when the Prince marries ii will cost between £IO,OOO and £15,000 to insert hi- name and that of the Princess in four places in the prayers for the Royal Family. The Bishop of Ripon, in announcing the decision at the Church National Assembly, mentioned (bat ho did so because it was quite conceivable that the Prince of Wales would marry before long.

In the Maoriland Worker of 15th June, the following statement appeared:—“ln Palmerston North one girl we know has been repeatedly flogged at school because she refuses to Mng more than “Three

Cheers for the Red’ .... and they have not converted her to Jingoism yet.” The extract was brought under the notice of the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr), who ordered an investigation, and has now received the following report: —“An inquiry regarding the matter was addressed to the following schools —West End, Campbell Street, College Street, Terrace End, Xowintry, Longburn, Tiritea, Ivairanga, Whnkaronga, Fitzlierbert East, and Kelvin Grove. In each case the head teacher replied that no child had been punished in (he school because she refused to sing the song* ‘Three Cheers for the Red, While and Blue”; and, moreover, that the song referred to had not been sung this year. The editor of the Maoriland Worker was also asked to give the name of the school referred to in the extract. Xo reply lias been received.”