Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2310, 2 August 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is a poocl deal of sickness in the Woodville district, eases of scarlet fever being prevalent. A young man who has been •‘wanted” by the police for nine years, was arrested at Napier on Thursday.

Alice Parkinson, who in June, 1015, was sentenced to imprisonment for life for shooting a young man, is now an inmate of Addington Reformatory. Despite the increased cost and difficulty of getting coal supplies, the Hamilton gasworks during the past twelve months showed a profit of £5,005 from the working account. At the Invercargill Police Court on Saturday, William Dallas Stevens, bank clerk, of Riverton, was charged with stealing .£3O, the property of the Bank of New Zealand. He was remanded until Friday. The Manawatu School Committees’ Association has decided to write to the Minister of Education, congratulating him on the attitude he has taken up on the question of school books. The Shannon Dairy Company manufactured 455 tons Ocwt. lqr. 241bs. of butter during last season, an increase of 25 tons on the previous year, and paid out to suppliers £113,097 18s 9d. There are at present 89 patients in the Palmerston North Hospital. During July, 119 patients were admitted and 110 discharged. The month commenced with a total of 91 patients in the institution. Six died during the month. “Some people say ‘don't look for trouble,’ but this is maxim as far as the rearing of chickens is concerned,” said Mr L. Cocker during his address on chicken raising recently. The Pukeha, which arrived at Wellington on Sunday from Home, called at Pitcairn Island eu route. She steamed slowly for about an hour off the land, while the islanders came out and exchanged greetings and picked up mails. Eight more whales were captured by the Perano party last week, making a tally of thirty for the season (states the Marlborough Express). One whale, which was caught after a lively chase, had evidently had previous experience with whalers, for a strange bomb was found well embedded in its carcase.

The Mercantile Gazette says: “It will be some time before the easing of credit will be felt in New Zealand. In any case, our banks are not likely to help the situation until the liquidation of stocks is more advanced.” The French Health authoritieshave decided that the use of Chinese eggs in making cakes and pastry is dangerous in hot weather. An analysis' showed that twenty-four hours after thawing the eggs, which are imported shelled and frozen, a teaspoonful of tho mixture contains thousands of hamful microbes.

An Auckland employer advertised for a lad for his office. To him entered one morning a youth, hat on head and cigarette butt behind the ear. “Say,” ho said, “what about that 'ad’ o’ yours in the paper last night?” “Oh,” said the employer, “we’ve tilled tho place,” “Have you?” replied the youth. “That’s hard cheese, ain’t it?” The flaxmills in the Auckland district are all closed down for the season, and at present it is uncertain when operations will be resumed. The representative of a firm that deals largely in llax stated that there was very little demand for fibre just now. lulcss the market improved within the next few weeks there was little prospect of the mills resuming in September, which was usual time for starting the season.

As the result of a “Children’s Day” effort at Wanganui on Friday, on behalf of the funds for the improvement of school grounds, the sum of £OSO was raised. A procession, which was over a mile long, outclassed the Peace celebrations. Only a few weeks ago, in an effort on behalf of another school, conducted over a period of several months, £2,000 was raised for swimming baths.

At Oamaru on Saturday morning, railwavmen on going into the goods shed found two men warmly ensconced in a tarpaulined truck in the goods shed yard ready for a trip to Dunedin. The police,, on arrival, found in another part of the truck a miscellany of goods, stolen the previous day from Burton’s fancy goods shop; also a bowie knife, revolver, and cartridges, numerous burglar’s tools, and jewellery. The men, who were arrested, came originally from Dunedin.

The Southland County Council finds itself in difficulties owing to the financial stringency. The bank having refused a further increase of overdraft, the Council has insufficient money to pay its salaries at the end of the month. It has been unable to strike rates, owing to the numerous objections to the Government valuation. The finance committee last week telegraphed asking for Government permission to place a short dated loan of £25,000 at 7 per cent, on tlie market.

Medical science is at last in possession of a method for the treatment of cancer, from which mucl. > hoped. An X-ray tube has been constructed capable of directing 1 intensely powerful rays at the affect - cd parts of the body. The medical view is that it is too early to say whether the tissues will sufficiently absorb the rays to effect a complete cure, but the matter wjj.s secrelaly discussed at length by a conference of the British Medical Association. A prominent doctor said that in a year’s time we would know much mom

At the Palmerston Police Court last- week, Percy Bussell Roberts was charged with having set fire to a motor car at Koputaroa, on 4th July, knowing that the carriageshod in which the ear was stored was likely to catch fire therefrom. Detective-Sergeant Quirke, who conducted the prosecution, said that the accused had stored a ear belonging lo himself in a shed on the premises of Mr George -Jones, at Koputaroa, in February, 19140. On •1 lli July last the car caught fire. It was insured by accused s wife for £350, and damaged to the extent of £75. When spoken to by the police, accused at first declared that he had not been near Jones’ premises on 4tli July, but later be said he had accidentaly set fire to the car. Accused, Who pleaded not guilty, was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, hail being allowed in one surety of £IOO and accused’s own bond of £IOO. The return of the Post Office Savings Bank for the quarter ended Juno 30th last show an excess of deposits over withdrawals of £275,085, as against £1,100,037 for tho corresponding quarter of last year. The figures for the month of Juno published recently, showed an excess of withdrawals over deposits of £85,000, but this month has been balanced by the excesses of deposits in April and May. The figures show that- the heaviest excesses of withdrawals have been in the districts of Auckland (£104,280), New Plymouth (£21,969), Blenheim (£l7040), and Napier (£15,699), The heaviest excess of deposits in the quarter was in the district of Hamilton (£143,9491, Other excesses of deposits were: Christchurch £121,088, Wellington £26,813, Timaru £44,140, Greymouth £23,163.

The Beach road requires attention by the County authorities.

An electrical storm passed over this district last night and this morning, accompanied by heavy rain.

A baby girl who was born in Masterton on the day on which the Springboks met Wairarapa at Masterton, is to have “Springbok” as one of her Christian names. Mr E. Newman, M.P., informed a Chronicle reporter on Saturday that the next session of Parliament would open on September 15th or 22nd. He expected that it would be a Jong and strenuous session. During the evening service at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday, some person turned off the gas at the meter. This is not the first time that this foolish prank has been played, and the matter ' has been placed in the hands of the police for investigation.

Preparations are complete for the Ride Club Ball, to be held in the Town Hall to-night. The interior of the hall has been tastefully decorated, and the catering is in the hands of a committee of ladies. The ball promises to be the most successful social function of the year.

Yesterday a casual employee in the Palmerston North railway goods shed, Mr Frank Lee, received painful injuries to the body as the result of a ease falling upon him. He was* removed to the hospital in a critical condition. The full extent of his injuries has not yet been ascertained. The Shannon Dairy Company manufactured 455 tons 9cwt. 241 b. of butter during last season, an in j crease of 25 tons on the previous year, and paid out to suppliers £113,097 18s 9d. Such figures givesome idea of the importance of this industry to the prosperity of Shannon,

There were four bankruptcies filed at the D.O.A.’s oil ice in Palmerston North during the month of July. Last year, during the corresponding month, there was none. The total number of bankruptcies for 1921 is 15. In the same period last year there were eight. Sir W. Mitehell-Thompson (Parliamentary Secretary to the London Board <»f Trade), replying to questions in the House of Commons, gave the following comparisons of current prices in Germany and Britain respectively: —Coal, 22s and 32s 2d per ton; bar steel, £6 4s 3d and £lO per ton: sugar, 3jd and 8d per lb.j milk, 2jd and 8d per quart; stewing beef, Is and Is s.}d per lb.

At Tiinaru, in a divorce case of a peculiar nature, a decree nisi was granted tom husband on the ground of desertion. The parties belonged to Tiinaru, and, both being on a holiday visit to Christchurch, they got married at the Registry Office. The husband bad to return to Timaru the same afternoon, and the wife followed a day or two later, but she went to her parents and refused to join her husband. She said she realised she had made a mistake, and it was better to part at once than later.

The committee that has been appointed to raise funds for the purpose of establishing a St. Helens Home in Palmerston North has as ils objective tlie sum of £IO,OOO. The money, when raised, is (o he handed over to the Government on the understanding that the establishment of the hospital is gone on with immediately. The Palmerston North hospital district has been divided into ten areas for the purpose of raising the money aimed at. The object of the Hospital is to train maternity nurses for service throughout the district. No fewer than five applications were received at last week’s meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union for special trains to run from the provincial centres to the city on ihe occasion of the test match. New Zealand v. South Africa, at Wellington. The applications were from New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Palmerston North, and Masterton, and they were all referred to Mr S. S. Dean, who undertook to interview tlie general manager of railways on the subject.

The- offer of a reward of £250 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer of the youth Jew at Auckland indicates (says the Star) the difficulty encountered in the investigation of what is believed to be a foul crime. Dozens of persons with knowledge of the deceased and of the locality have been interviewed, or have volunteered statements, but the prospect of the information obtained leading to anything helpful is not convincing. Closest scrutiny of the home, shop, and social life of the young man has failed to reveal anything that: looks like giving an effective direction to the search. The movements of the young man on Saturday night still remain unknown.

Mr T. S. Hickey, proprietor of the Opunake Times, was the victim of an assault on Friday that was as unwarranted as it was unexpected, b\ a resident of the district to whom Mr Hickey has shown a good deal of friendly consideration. 'Without any warning, and with no tion, the man entered Mr Hickey’s office and attacked him, the latter at once closing with his assailant and calling for help. Fortunately assistance was elpse at hand, and the aggressor was secured until tile arrival of the police constable, who had been telephoned for by others in the office when the assault was made. When Constable Clouston arrived he at once placed the mad under arrest. The man was subsequently taken to New Plymouth, and after being examined by two medical men, was committed to a mental hospital.