LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2323, 1 September 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Return motor trip to Wellington for Is. Apply at the Shop Day on Saturday, and bool; early.*

The vital statistics for Foxlon for the month of August are as follows;—Birts 9, deaths 1, marriage certiliea lo> is-ned •!.

The Wellington City Council’s relief funds are exhausted, and over 100 men (nearly all married) will be put off tlje relief works at the end of the week. «>

Rain fell on 13 days during the month of August, the maximum fall, T.lB inch, occurring on the 4th. The total rainfall for the month was 4.30 inches.

“A good many of the cows the farmers of Xew Zealand are at present milking would be far better in tin-,’' declared Air R: F. Bollard, M.P., at the South African veteran's dinner at Hamilton.

Two large pieces of stone, weighing about 46 and 10 pound- respectively, were exhibited to members at the last Harbour Board meeting as samples of what the new suction dredge was capable of lifting from the Manawatu river-bed.

“The Government has no more money available for unemployment relief works, and are relying upon local bodies with borrowing powers to find work for the unemployed.” said the Acting-Minister for Finance, Sir Francis Bell, in an interview at Auckland.

Madame Harris, who for some vears resided in Palmerston North, and who is now in England, writing t,o a friend here, states that houses in London are much cheaper than in New Zealand. Pine buildings, with all conveniences, could be bought for £OOO to £750, each of them possessing a garden. From to-day the Government subsidy of 2d per lb. on butter will be withdrawn. The difference will he borne equally by the public and the dairy companies, the former paying a penny more for its butter and the companies losing at penny per lb. on the present wholesale price.

Two thousand glorious years agone! When- King Milesius furled his sail, And gazed fair Erin’s Isle upon, He named that realm “Sweet Innisfail!” Alas, his ships I heir cables spring, ’Mid storm no craft could long endure. In vain Iris strength of limb and lung. He had no Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 21

Mr John T. Robson, whs has been headmaster of the Ashhurst School for eight years, .has* gained wellearned promotion. The Hawke’s Bay Education Board has secured his services as headmaster of tho Wairoa District High School. The Rev. William Drew, who passed away at Xew Plymouth this week in his 87th year, was the founder of the Gill Street Methodist Church in that town in 1893, and he held the position of minister there for six years. The deceased gentleman was a familia r figure, in the town, and was very highly respected.

A single man, giving evidence in the Masterton Court, said he earned .€4 a week with keep on a station. Replying to a question, lie admitted that he did not save any money, but! spent it practically all in hotels. When he handed a cheque over the bar, lie left it to the honesty of the hotelkeeper to say when it was “cut out.”

Owing to the collapse of the wooden bridge near Raugiotu, a certain amount of inconvenience lias been caused to traffic. Two employees of the Kairanga Council were working on the bridge at the time of it,- collapse, but they both escaped without injury. Arrangements are being made to at once erect a. new bridge, and in the meantime traffic to Palmer-ton is via Rongotea.

Speaking at the Wellington Competitions Society’s festival, the Mayor (Mr R. A. Wright) made reference (o Lord Jellicoe’s ability as a speaker. For one who believed in “Deeds, not words,” His Excellency was a marvel, for he was one of the most talkative of men. He had heard him deliver three speeches in one day, and all beautifully different. They knew that lie was a gallant gentleman, who had kept his head when lie had in the hollow of hi- hand the civilisation of the world.

At the Board of Trade inquiry in Sydney into the cost of living, a manager of a tailoring firm gave evidence to show the general decline in the prices of clothing. Suit- to order made by his firm from imported materials were selling at £0 6s, £7 7s, £S Bs, £9 9s, and £l4 7s fid. In each instance except (lie last tho prices were 21s higher last winter; in the last instance that suit cost £l6 16s. An Australian worsted -uit ready to wear, now £0 (is, cost £7 7s last year. The cost of manufacture bad not decreased, but the price of cloth had. The prices ruling now would last at least six months. Witness thought the prices had reached bottom.

Reporting to Monday night’s meeting of the Levin Chamber of Commerce, Mr J. TV. Rimmer said be bad attended each meeting of the Foxlon Harbour Board held since liis elect ion. He said the prospects of a revival of shipping at the port were good. The Manawatu Shipping Company would have a boat in Ihe near fit I ure, and judging by the amount of interest being taken, there would most likely be competition for freights, ft was quite probable that tHe port would again become as lively as in pre-war days, and the result would be beneficial to the whole of the Manawatu and Southern. Hawke’s Bay. Mr Rimmer mentioned that a big 1 oil corporation was negotiating for a sire for a -tore from which benzine and kerosene would be distributed. There was no question that railway freights were excessive, and if the arrival and departure of boats could be guaranteed there was no doubt that Fox toy would again become a flourishing port. —(-hronicle.

Writing to the Wellington Post, Mr E. M. B. Fisher says: “Apropos of Mr Wiitiord'- American reminiscence- and the shock lie experienced when reading a reference to himself in a Los Angelos journal, headed ‘And he speaks English, too,” I am reminded that "even people in England have very hazy ideas respecting the language spoken in Aoa-ten-14oa. In November, 1914, I went with a friend to see the Lord Mayor's Show, and took up a po.-i----tion on tlie London Embankment to watch the procession. Included in it were contingent- from the overseas Dominions, in which New Zealand was represented, and as our ‘Diggers’ passed along, 1 called out ‘He roa to waki Tipierere,’ io which our boy- smilingly responded. Standing alongside me were two ladies, one of whom a-ked me what language it was that I used when calling out to the New Zealanders. ‘Maori,’ madam, T replied. ‘Dear me,’ she -aid, ‘What a pity it is that such a fine looking Jot of young men do not understand English.' ”

• A correspondent, “Clean Sport,” writes as follows lo the Dunedin Star: —“There has been a lot of writing in the papers of late about keeping the game of football clean, and I think it is not before time. I know just as well as the next man that it is a hard thing to stop betting oil matches, lull surely the Rugby Union can stop bookmakers travelling with our teams. I had the pleasure of going to Invercargill to see Otago play Southland on Saturday, and I enjoyed the game very much. But I was disgusted on tlm train to see one of filmed in's leading bookmakers travelling with our team; no doubt he had permission, as I also noticed some of the Rugby Union in the same carriage. Now, sir, I don’t wish to make any more remarks than this; that it would ho a hmg way better for tire Rugby Union to stop this sort of thing at once, and not let the public think that he is there with (heir permission,*or for them to stop making remarks at their meetings that betting must be put down.”

For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,*

A correspondent forwards an advertisement to the N.Z. Times from an -English paper, of- July 16th, 1921, offering for sale ’'‘best New Zealand butter, from the rich pastures of the Dominion beyond the seas,” at 2s 2d per lb.

Nothing has transpired of late%i Auckland to afford the detectives any hope of getting nearer a solution of the Arch Hill murder mystery. Every possible avenue of investigation has been explored, and the affair remains an impenetrable puzzle.

There passed away at Palmerston on Tuesday an old identity of the Haleorube and Manawatu district in ilie person of'Mr Edward Child, at the ripe age of 93 years. Although advanced in years, the late Mr Child retained the'use of his faculties, and during the past year he was capable of playing his violin and reading the newspapers with ease. A few weeks ago his health began to fail, and early on Tuesday morning he passed peacefully away.

Included in the latest list of companies registered is the following: —New Zealand Cinema Enterprises, Ltd. (the), registered August 30th, 1921. Office, 28 Rangilikei Street, Palmerston North. Capital: £12,000 into 12,000 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Palmerston North —R. F. Bennett .100, F. Jackson 100, E. Needham 100, F. liolfe 190, A. E. Mansford 59. D. J. Lovelock 199; Foxton —AT. E. Barber 190. Objects: to acquire and take over from the Birth of New Zealand Picture Syndicate the copyright of a moving picture entitled “The Birth of New Zealand,” to carry on in the Dominion of New Zealand and elsewhere the business of moving picture photographers, feature film producers and general incidental.