LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2335, 29 September 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The diite of the opening of the Junicipal Association Conference it. Wellington has been lixed detililely for October 4th.

The death is reported from Levin of Mr James Malcolm, aged 70 years. Deceased was for many years engineer to the Horowhenua County Council.

After only a week’s illness, the lev. Father John Curran, in charge 4' the Roman Catholic parish of Mahuliu, died on Thursday evening, t the age of 48 years.

A football match has been aranged for Saturday between Foxon and Oroua Downs, the proceeds o go to the “United to Assist” und. The game will be played on he race course, and will commence t 2 o’clock.

The body of the woman found in he Tlealhcote River at Christchurch n Mondav has been identified as

that of Jane Bryenton, a nnfrried woman, who had been living apart from her husband for the last three years. She had worked as a cook in various hotels in Christchurch. Mr Scollay, resident local Government hemp grader, has been notilled of his transfer to another centre, and will leave Foxton at the end

of the week. In future there will not he a resident grader at Foxton which will be worked from Wellington.

Norman Rule Williams, secretary of the Nelson Educatioif Board, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court, Nelson, with the theft of £SO, the property of the Board. The police

oplied for a remand till Thursday

I her charges involving £3OB 12s, re pending. A remand was granted.

bail being allowed in a sum o. £4OO.

The carriage of mails by aeroplane, in the gout'll Island proved a very expensive business. An experimental service was conducted between Christchurch and Timaru in the early part of this year, and a return placed before the House of Representatives shows that the service cost. £2lO a week, while the number of letters carried fell as low as 45 a trip.

Another increase has taken place the price of potatoes in the south,

due mainly to the fact that farmers are holding their potatoes, evidently in expectation of a further improvement in price. Merchants are therefore finding it difficult to secure sufficient to till orders, and they have increased their offers to farmers to £2 5s per ton. . The total area comprised in the national endowment on 31st March, 1921, was approximately 9,070,094 acres. Of this, an area of 7,082,033 acres was held on lease or lic-

ense, subdivided into 4,404 holdings and producing an annual rental of £130,452. The total revenue derived from the endowment during the year was £144,520. The local Salvation Army Corps will tender a farewell to Mr Scollay at the Army Hall this evening, on the eve of his departure for Auck-

rid. Mr Scollay has officiated as

ndmaster to the local corps for me time past, and in other ways

s rendered efficient service to the

Vi’iLiy. Apart from this, he has endered willing service in conneeion with local musical functions. A leartv invitation is accorded the mblic to attend the function.

The cultivation of linseed was •ongly advocated at a meeting of

tlie Feilding branch of the Farmers’, Union (reports an exchange). Linseed, it was .pointed out, was easy to grow, and was a splendid food for pigs and calves. Some farmers in

the Ashburton County a few years ago tried the experiment, and were so pleased with the results that they are now devoting all their attention to linseed growing.

“Sickness is a result —so is health.” —Modern Philosophy. A cold is the cesult of a run-down condition. Nature is warning you to build up your health and vitality. Take Baxter’s Lung Preserver- —a most valuable remedy for colds and bronchial complaints. It tones up the system and fortifies the lungs —stops the cough, allays the soreness and inflammation, improves the breathing, doing good to old and young alike. Your chemist or grocer sells Baxter’s Lung Preserver in large 2s 6d bottles. —Advt.

A framed group photograph of the local school teaching staff token about 16 years ago, has been presented to the school by Mr E. Ho wan.

,A batsman on fire at the wicket was an unusual incident witnessed in a match at Bath (England), between Bathampton and Combe Down. A fast ball struck one'of the batsmen on the thigh, and exploded a box of matches which he was carrying in his pocket. He was. able to extinguish the fire before suffering any personal injury, but his flannels were ruined.

All the Presbyterian Churches throughout the Dominion are now entering on the recommendation of last General Assembly to increase the stipends of their ministers to at least £3OO per annum. It is confidently expected that at the next meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery no church in the presbytery will have failed to raise its minister’s stipend to the minimum of £3OO per annum.

The Prime Minister, Mr AY. F. Massey, is due to arrive by the Niagara at Auckland to-morrow morning, and he will be welcomed at a public reception there in the Town Hall at noon. Mr Massey has been away just over five months, having left Auckland by the Niagara cn route to England on April lfitli. Sir Francis Bell, Acting-Prime Minister, will be in Auckland to meet Mr Massey.

A printed reply was given by the Minister for Justice (the Hon. E. P. Lee) yesterday, to the question given notice of by Mr E. Newman (Manawalu), as to whether the Government would consider the advisability of issuing a badge or medal to members of the New Zealand Police Force who had displayed exceptional bravery in the discharge of jlieir duties. —“It has been the practice (stated the Minister) to recognise such acts by records of merit and monetary rewards. The suggestion now made by the honourable member will receive careful consideration.”

Says the AYaimate AA’itness: — There are now only two classes of youths who are able to pulsue their studies beyond the domain of a district high school —those whose parents are Wealthy,’ and those whose parents work hard and make the most extreme sacrifices in order to pay necessary fees, cost of boarding, etc. Many a pi’omising boy does not come under either of these divisions, and the bare thought of college and degrees never enters his head. AVe should like, notwithstanding the magnitude of the financial requirements, to see the gates open for every boy in New Zealand to pass through freely.

AVe have been asked (o contradict a statemenl circulated by some misinformed individual that the Hospital Board is refusing relief in certain local cases of distress. What the Board has done, and is doing is not blazoned from the house-tops, but we can assure the local public, with a full knowledge off till the facts, that no deserving ease lias been, or will he, neglected. So soon as cases are reported, temporary relief is granted, arid each case subsequently investigated by an experienced officer, and treated on its merits. The public can rest assured that the Board’s relief work locally has not been neglected, and any statements to the contrary are without foundation in fact. A word to the wise should be sufficient.