LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2311, 4 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The vital statistics for Foxton for the month of July were: —Births 15, deaths J, marriage cerlilicates issued 1.

Constable O’Donoghue, who has been .away on leave, resumed duty yesterday.

“First Line,” the local representative in the Grand National Steeples, was sent south this morning. We desire to acknowledge complimentary tickets for the Rongotea Horticultural Society’s Bulb Show, to he held on September 14th. It is understood (says the Age) that a number of farms sold in tho Wairarapa during the period of high prices arc now back in the hands of their original owners. We desire to acknowledge complimentary tickets for the R.S.A. third annual hall, to be held in the A. and P. Hal!, Palmerston N.. on the 17th ins!.

Rain fell on 13 days during the month of July, the maximum fall. .94 inch, occurring on 3rd. The total rainfall for the month was 3.G4 inches.

Practically all the bakers at Perth have closed as a protest aguinst tho Government’s refusal to raise the price of the 21b. loaf to Old. The householders are doing their own baking.

A young Alnori *jirl who was suffering from tuberculosis, anti who had been treated by Katana, died suddenly a few days ago at Oranliu, Hawke’s Bay, after a lit of cough-

The population of the world at the present time is about 1,(150,000.1)00. It has been estimated that the earth can maintain a population of (•,000,000,000, a total which will be reached in the year ‘2IOOO at the present rate of increase. Members of the local Presbyterian Social Guild spent an enjoyable afternoon at the residence of Mrs Stevenson, Park Street, yesterday.

The Returned Soldiers' Association notify all members of the Association who are desirous of obtaining invitations to the Annual Ball, that they can procure same on application to the secretary. Air AL Seeker, a prominent Palmerston North footballer, sustained a rather serious injury whilst playing for Manawatu against Hawke’s Bay, at Hastings last Saturday. It is feared that, as the result of a kick, he may lose a kidney. Tuesday night’s thunderstorm, was one of the worst experienced in this district for many years. Intermittent flashes of lightning lit up the countryside for miles, and the vibration of the thunder caused dwellings to tremble. Torrents of rain and hail followed the thunder.

Unless the Council take some precautionary measure to blind the >and brought to the surface by the excavations in Duncan Street, the westerly winds will carry the dust into the school buildings, and cause a good deal of inconvenience during the dry weather. An offer has been received from England for the Dominion’s output of cheese at the price of Hid per lb., being an advance of -id per lb. the highest price paid by the Imperial Government. An offer has also been received for the butter output till the end of October at the price of 2s id per lb. Messrs Walsli and AlcColl’s patent hot-air brooders are in great demand by poultry farmers throughout the dominion. Owing to inability to procure suitable seasoned timber for the brooders, Air Walish informs us that the patentees were unable to complete the orders received last season, and the demand is as keen this season. One of the features of the patent is the expulsion of foul air, which causes such a high percentage of mortality i:i other brooders.

“Znmiel,” in “Random Shots,” in the Auckland Star: “I suggest that the first time a man rises to propose the toast of “Lady Footballers” he should give it as: “The Ladies—once our superiors, now our equals.” The public is reminded of the meeting convened by the Mayor, to be held in the Masonic Half to-mor-row (Friday) night, to discuss matters in connection with the establishment of a St. Helen’s Hospital at Palmerston N., for the hospital district. The meeting will be addressed by several members of the Committee.

Anyone requiring hedge trees and plants, shelter, forest and plantation trees, and flowering shrubs, should not miss the auction sale to be held by the Foxton Auctioneering Co. on Saturday afternoon, eomnnneiijg at 2 o’clock, when a large consignment of trees, shrubs,- etc., uni be submitted unc’er the hammer on behalf of a leading nurseryman.

The two Weraroa Farm boys responsible for the theft of £lB 7s Gd from Mr Keedwell's shop at Levin one evening last week, absconded from the institution on Sunday night. They were recaptured on Monday, and were each sentenced by Mr J. L. Stout to receive six strokes of the birch, and an order was made returning them to the farm. —Chronicle.

According to the following item, which appeared in a* Taranaki newspaper last week, there is a distinctly optimistic feeling in that district; respecting tlie butter-fat prices for (lie coming season: “Buyers for butter and cheese are on the warpath in Taranaki. It is reported that one offer for cheese would enable the factory concerned to pay out to suppliers 2s 3ld per lb. for Imtter-fat for the season. The factory did not close, believing that the price will further improve.”

The Central Executive of.' the “Help the Mothers” campaign, which is promoted for the establishment of a St. Helens Maternity Home in the Hospital Board's district, and for the purpose of training and equipping nurses who will attend mothers at their own homes, where practicable, are making excellent progress with the initial steps. Some twenty-two sub-centres will be formed, and means are being taken to obtain the sympathy and personal help of postal officers, school teachers,'and boy scouts in every part of the wide-spread district.

“Every man .should keep to his own business,” was the comment of Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court last week, during the bearing of a case in which a parent was charged with failing to send a child to the technical school. The comment was upon a medical certificate, which was as follows: —“I have kept a* way from school recently, as she is not. lit to go there, especially for a rather useless kind of training.” “J wish the doctor would mind his own business,” said Mr Mosley. “I will take no notice, in future of a certificate by him, unless he conies here to give evidence. I will refuse to accept certificates from him.”

The death of Airs James Wall, one of the last of Wellington’s old colonists, occurred at her residence, Porirua, on Sunday evening, at the age of 73 years. Mrs Wall was a daughter of Air and Airs Thomas Floyd, who arrived in AVellington by the Shine’s Castle on Anniversary Day. 1811. and she was horn in Wellington on ‘2Bth November, 1848, amid the ruins of the great earthquake. She married Air James AA T all, of Porirua, who, when only two years of age, arrived in AVellington with his parents by the ship Lord William Benfiek in 1841. Air Wall, who is still hale and hearty, is in his 83rd year. Deceased leaves a family of three sons and one daughter. “What it your opinion of ‘jazz’? Is it a foolish hut harmless craze that will pass away in its good time ? is it, through its sensuously persistent slow rhythm, having an insidious effect on the morals of our young people who are earned away with it? Is it, in plain English, an instrument of the devil, planned to corrupt and lead astray? Or is it foolish to get excited about it, since ‘youth will have its .fling,’ and on the whole ‘the ooys and girls of today' are just about what we were at their age?' ’’ was a, scries of questions put to Hamilton C. Alacclougall, a well-known musician in the

United States. Air Alacdougall replied : “For myself, I am inclined to believe that the view of ‘jazz’ as an instrument, of the devil is a shade nearer the truth than the view thas history merely repeats itself, and that to-day is neither better nor worse than vesterdav.”

There are motorists, and motorists! Some generous, some decidedly otherwise. An example of one of the latter class was brought under our notice this week. It was raining heavily, and a man, wet to the skin, was leading several draught horses, wheuite came to a motorist who had got off the road and was stuck iu the drain. The motorist appealed for assistance iu pulling his car out of the hole, but the man with the horses could not assist him, as he had no harness. However’, although his clothing was thoroughly soaked through, he said be would go and borrow some harness and return. This necessitated a trip of a mile or two, and the man returned with the harness, hitched his horses to the car, and pulled it on to the road, and the now smiling motorist went on his way rejoicing. All the man with the horses got for his trouble and loss of time, not to say anything of the risk to his health through remaining in wet clothes, was “Thank you!”