LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2336, 1 October 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“If a tenant puts fixtures on to a residence be may take them down when he vacates. If he should leave without taking them away, then they become part of the freehold, and he cannot return later and claim them.” —Air S. L. P. Free, SAL, at Pahiatua.

A special meeting of all church ladies is called by All Saints’ Ladies’ Guild, to be held in the schoolroom on Tuesday afternoon next, at 2.30 p.ni., for the purpose of making arrangements for the forthcoming bazaar, and the Governor’s reception.

A Cambridge telegram states that a married woman named Ellen Louise Stewart, wife of “Dick” Stewart, residing at Ilautapu, committed suicide yesterday morning by cutting her throat with a razor. Deceased, who was aged 33 years, leaves a six-months-old baby.

The parents of children attending a school not a hundred miles from Napier recently received the term reports. One parent discovered that his son had gained very poor marks in spelling. He is now thinking hard, for in the next column under the heading “Remarks” the teacher referred to the result as “Very week.” A local farmer (says the Taranaki News) sent a bale of wool to Wanganui, and on Saturday afternoon received his statement. The wool realised 2ld per lb., or £3 4s 4d, and the expenses of railage and commission amounted to 11s 3d, giving him a net return of £2 13,s Id, as against £2O last year for a similar bale. A Maori was the defendant in a judgment summons case in the Levin Court on Thursday. In answer to a query as to why he had not paid the account, he said he had been out of work for live months. Counsel: Have you been trying to get work? Defendant: Yes, but it’s hard to get in this town. He couldn’t promise to pay anything. His Worship: Well, you will have to. I will make an order against you. Defendant: If you will keep my wife and family. His Worship: You go to work and keep them yourself.—Chronicle.

There passed away aPthe Palmerston N. Hospital yesterday afternoon, after a lengthy illness, Mr Alexander Christie, husband of Mrs Agnes Christie, of Avenue Road, Foxton. The late Mr Christie, who was a brother-in-law off Air Thus. Henderson, took up his residence in Foxton a little over a year ago, arriving from Gisborne. Deceased had lived many years in the Otago district prior to coming to the North Island. The interrment will lake place at Palmerston ML tomorrow.

"When a woman before the Hamilton Court said it took nearly all her wages (30s weekly) to keep her in dress, the Magistrate looked perplexedly over at Senior-Sergeant Matthews, and asked: “Is that reasonable, sergeant?” The sergeant scratched his head as he replied with some hesitation: “Well, I don’t know, sir; a man told me last week that he had just paid a bill for his wife for a pair of boots (£4), and six pairs of hose at 31s per pair. Wages dont’ go far at that rate, sir.”

The people of Rangitikei Street were entertained on a dull day on Monday wa telling: a Borough Council gang tarring the thoroughfare after a fashion prevalent in the days when Noah was a little hoy (says the Manawatu Times). One man provided the tar in a receptacle a little larger than a picnic kettle, four men swabbed the surface with the liquid, and one man threw sand on the deposit. There is one consolation, that ns long as things arc done in this way there will be no necessity to complain about finding work for the unemployed! The desirability of women Justices of the Peace was urged by Miss N. E. Coad, in the course of an address to the W.C.T.U. Convention, at Wellington on Wednesday. “It is a strange tiling” she said, “that women J’s.P. have never been appointed, for the work is unpaid, and iliere is plenty of it for a woman to do. In (be children’s Courts they would lie very useful—and in all cases where women and children are involved.” The speaker pointed out that there were 400 women Justices of the Peace in England, 30 in South Australia, and 01 in New South Wales.

“It pays to tell the truth in this Court,” was the concluding remark of Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Levin S.M. Court on Thursday morning, when imposing a fine of £5 on L. Broughton, and £1 each on a number of other young men convicted of playing two-up in the Levin Domain on Sunday, August 28th. Broughton had denied that two-up was played and betting indulged in, but another member of the party respected his oath, and -counsel for the defence said after such admission it was useless to go on. His Worship agreed, and said that the evidence of one witness was. tantamount to perjury, which he could not overlook.

The schools in the Wanganui education district are to be closed for the Christmas holidays from December 20th to February Ist. A young fanner at Stirling, Otago, was lined £1 and costs for putting through the nose of a bull a ring to which a heavy batten was attached. A line of aged ewes and lambs, the first offered this season, realised 8s lOd per head at the Carterton stock sale on Friday last.

A native was fined in all £2O at Wairoa last week for killing deer out of season, and having the same in his possession. The vital statistics for Foxton for the month of September are: — Birth 7, deaths 1, marriage certificates issued nil.

Rain fell locally on nine days during the month of September, the maximum fall, .60 inch, occurring on 15th. The total for the month was 2.32 inches.

At about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon the town was roused by the alarm of the fire siren. This time, however, (lie “blaze” was nothing more serious than a hedge fire in Robinson Street.

A young woman liamed Lilian Ethel Buckley, aged twenty years, left the house in which she was Having in Petonc after tea on Saturday last, and has not since been seen.

Ivaiapoi Flannels, 7/11; Working Shirts, 7/11 and 8/6; and Ivaiapoi Tweed Trousers at 19/6, are three unbeatable lines on sale at The C. M. Ross Coy., Ltd., Foxton. —Advt.

Discussing the proposed Highways Bill at the Counties’ Conference in Wellington, an old county councillor told how a certain, scheme for the improvement of roads in the Waikato had been turned down. .He did not think there was any chance of the scheme materialising now. Times had changed. When [lie scheme was first formula led farmers in the district had their cars, and used lo buzz off to sales in the nearest (own like boys on a holiday. “But now,” he said, sadly, “when they go to sales, it is more like going to afnngi.” (Laughter.)

“Poultry-keeping in New Zealand can yet hardly be classed as an industry, simply because producers do not go in for it in a large way,” said Mr J. B. Mcrrett, secretary" of the New Zealand Poultry Association, to a. Manawatu Times reporter this week. “In California, no one is regarded as a poultry farmer who does not keep at lease 3,000 birds. In New Zealand we have not one producer who lias got 2,000 layers. Every morning the Californian poultry farmer can be seen going into I lie city with his loaded (ruck of eggs. There the eggs are marketed every morning from the previous days’ laying. In New Zealand you are lucky if you can got them into I lie market within two weeks after they are laid.”

One-piece Rohes are very much in evidence just now. These and Silk Jumpers now showing at The C. AI. Ross Coy’s., are the last word in smart goods. See them early— Advt.

1 was sorry lo hear the mover of I lie A (Idress- in - R eply advocating a reduction of wages by (lie Government,’’said Mr Masters (Stratford), in the House of Representatives on Thursday. He argued that it was bad business to reduce wages when (here were other directions in which economies could lie effected. There were many ways in which the Government could reduce expenditure without cutting wages. “The farmers of this country are struggling under a huge burden of taxation to maintain an army of Civil servants in "Wellington. One has only to go to the big building down there to see that they are simply tumbling over each other with nothing to do, and the time lias come when the Government should deal with this question.”