LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2317, 18 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We are pleased to report flint Mr Furrie, headmaster of the local State school, is progressing satisfactorily.

A large number of local residenti proceeded to Palmerston N. yesterday to witness the Springboks-Mn-nawatu-Horowhenua match. The local school was closed, but only a small percentage of the scholars attended the match.

The auctioneers announced at the Levin sale on Tuesday that in future no animal will he offered in the dairy section under £5, the object being to eliminate cull entries. A cautious dairyman inquired: “Wlmi if butter-fat, goes down s" The auctioneer: “Well, if thal goes down, we’ll all go down.” ,

Mr Pienaar, captain of (lie Springboks, in reply to a civic, welcome at Palmerston on Tuesday, said that when they departed they would take with them an impression of good footballers and generous people, and lie wished also to leave behind them an impression of good footballers and good sportsmen.

Nelson is the only town in New Zealand that enjoys a holiday on the first Monday in August. It is a relie of the English Bank Holiday brought to the Colony by the early settlors, liul, owing to the fact that it is largely devoted to the planting of potatoes, it is know by the more homely designation of “Spud Monda v. !?

All unfortunate accident happened to a young man of Ohakune, "William Parkes, on Thursday of last week, at Kyme’s sawmill. He wn> working at the saw lieiieh, and while in the act of kicking some accumulated sawdust away, his foot came in contact with the -aw. Tlje result was that the outside of the foot, together with four toes, was cut off.

At the banquet of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, the Acting Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Cook) said that the saving to Germany by the smashing of the military tnacli:ne was £250,000,000 per annum. “Germany,” Sir Joseph continued, “used to spend £90,000,000 a year on her army, in addition to that there were 1,00(1,000 men in the •irm.v who are now in the industrial field, and if their economic value i> taken into account, the total would not be less than £250,000,000 a year. This, it will he seen, is a greater handicap to the Allies than the handicap we have placed upon Germany by reparations."

The Hon. J. W. G. Aitken died at Wellington yesterday, after a lon*,' illness. Deceased was an ex-Mayor of' Wellington, and member of Parliament for Wellington from 1902 to 1908, and was called to the Upper House in 1914. As a business man his activities covered many fields, being director of the Guardian Assuranee Company, the Australian Widows’ Fund, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Board of the Loan olid Mercantile Association, and director of Ccoullar and Co., the. Fresh Food and Ice Co., and the Consolidated Dental Company. He was a prominent Presbyterian, and at one time held the position of Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a founder of the Boys’ Institute, and a strong-supporter of the Y.M.C.A., the Bible in Schools, and of the prohibition movement.

Aviation appears to be gradually, but none the less surely, gaining popularity in New Zealand. A Tima ru business man had occasion to visit Christchurch, but had not the time nor the inclination to make the trip by rail, which would have en-. tailed the best part of two days and incidental expenses of train fares, hotel bills, etc. Consequently he decided to make the trip by air, leaving the Waslulyke aerodrome at the convenient hour of tell o'clock, and arriving in Christchurch (57 mil)lites later. He had ample time to transact a full day’s business, and reembarking at 4 o’clock, he was sef dowu at his starting point a few minutes after 5 o’clock, having transacted his business with a minimum of trouble and expense.

For Bronchial Coughs, tal Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

Whitebait is becoming more plentiful. It was sold yesterday at 2s Gd per lb., a drop of Is 6d on the previous price.

A Chilean mountain consists of an almost solid mass of more than 100,000,000 tons of high-grade iron ore averaging 08 percent, metal.

“There are some people who never get over the notion that they are dealing with children,” said Mr McCalium at the Wellington Education Board meeting yesterday. “After dealing with children for forty years, they seem to think that all others of their acquaintance can be treated in a similar manner. This is like the parson element in political life, and fully as vicious.”

"Do we as a nation devote too much attention to sport?” asked Dr. 11. J. M’Lean during a lecture at Wellington on Tuesday night. “The tendency of late years has been towards too many'competitions, and when one considers the number of teams touring the country all contesting for trophies presented by individual donors, the whole thing seems hardly commensurate with the benefit- received, Recreation is, after all, only a change of occupation, and when watching the Springboks match here I was struck by the tremendous amount of energy used in games. If that energy could be applied to something more useful things might be different. But then one could hardly picture our footballers working on the roads!”

A pleasing incident took place at the reception of the South African footballers at Palmerston on Tuesday afternoon, when Major Bosworth, president of the Palmerston North branch of the South African War Veterans’ Association, presented the team on behalf of his organisation with a small token of their good feeling, as the descendants of those who had laid the foundation of the South African Union. This was a miniature Maori mere, in greenstone suspended from a ribbon of the South African colours, with which the speaker invested the captain of the team (Mr T. W. Pienaar). Inn doing so, he said that the hitter was invested as a ’’leader of men." Mr Pienaar in reply said the emblem would be treasured by him as a sign of goodwill, not only on the part- of the people of Palmerston North, hut on the part of the people of New Zealand.

Interesting reference to the Japanese question in America was made by Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., in an interview upon his return. “The Jap. question looms very large in America to-day,” said Mr Wilford, “All the papers are full of arguments pro and eon; and the Disarmament Conference lias met with general approval everywhere. J can t help feeling that, like the sun in the sky, the Paeilio Ocean was made to be aworld asset, and not for any particular nation. Perhaps this Disarmament- Conference may clear the placid waters of pugilistic ships. ‘The motto of the world, -says Mr Hoover, Vliouhl be service, and not .-laughter.’ To the Western States of America the Japanese question id vitally important. Last- year George Sliima, a Jap., fixed the price of potatoes for the State of California. In the Imperial Valley, the Japs, have practically obtained complete domination; while in the fruit markets and in the production of vegetables they may be said to have cornered everything. Jhe week before T left the inhabitants at Turlock rose and expelled the Japs.; put them into motor ears, drove them out of the place, and shipped them by rail somewhere. The Federal Government got to work, arrested the offender.-, and most of the Japs, returned. But the tension is very high in the Vest, so far as the Japane-e are concerned.

At the Palmerston N. Magistrate s Court on Tuesday, Albert laylor, storekeeper, of Kongotea, and the Kongotea Co-operative Dairy Company were charged with selling short-weight butter. .1. W. Huggins, inspector, gave evidence of having purchased irom the defendant Taylor butter marked “Makino brand,” which weighed only .15;{oz. Five other pats were also weighed collectively and individually, and they were undef' lib. each. The manager and secretary of the Kongotea f'aclorv were sent for, and the butter weighed in their presence, and it was also taken to the factory and weighed, with the same result. The defendant Taylor stated that he had purchased the butter from the company, and that ho had not received any notification that it <jrs short weight. The evidence of the manager and secretary of the company was that the only amount of lightweight butter • sent out was 12 pounds, which Taylor received. Ihe error in weight was due to the butter being soft and not coining through accurately in the process of being cut up into pound pats. When the error was noticed, that day’s make of Imiter was pul a.-ide for remoulding. The company was lined £2O and co.-is 7s. while Taylor’was convicted and discharged.