LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2339, 8 October 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dr. Young is a visitor to Foxton. Good soaking rain fell throughout this district last night.

Mr Vincent Pantin, representative for the Great McEwen, was in Foxton yesterday, making arrangements' for a short season in Foxton .at the Town Hull.

A civic reception is to be accorded to the Prime Minister (Rig-lit Hon. W. F. Massey) at Wellington on Monday next. The same evening Sir Francis Bell will give a dinner to members of the Reform Party, at which Mr Massey will be the chief guest.

A consignment of 7,000 of a certain species of ladybird has been received in Taranaki from California by Dr. Tillyard, biologist to the C’awthron Institute, for liberation”in aphis-infected districts. Some have been set free in the neighbourhood of New Plymouth.

“Good roads cheapen production,” remarked Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., when speaking at the municipal luncheon at Wellington. Mr Wilford spoke of the good roads he had motored over in California, and said the cheapness in production effected by the cost of constructing good roads could not be over-estimated.

All those requiring l anything in the furniture line should not miss

the special furniture sale to be conducted by the Foxton Auctioneering Company, at the mart, Avenue Road, on Monday, commen'cing at 2 p.m. Replying to Mr E. Newman, the Hon. C. J. Parr said the Board of Health report on maternity mortality in the Dominion would be completed in the course of a few days, when he would lay it before the House.

On Monday, at 1 p.m., the Foxton Auctioneering Company will sell at the Mart, Avenue Road, the whole of the buildings (for removal) in connection with the Atiki flaxmill, comprising mill building, scutching shed, tow shed, cookhouse, and men’s quarters and whare.

Two matters of general interest throughout the Dominion, the new tariff and the report of the Racing. Commission, are expected to be brought before the House early in the week after next. It is generally understood that a definite announcement as to the date when the report of the Racing Commission is to be discussed will be made a few days in advance.

“Many people say that times in New Zealand now are worse than ever they were before,” said Mr J. Maynard, at the Canterbury Builders’ Association’s function (reports Ihe Lyttelton Times). “That's all rot. The fact is that times have been so good that people seem to think when matters sink a'little below the level, they are awful. I remember the old days when I was on (he Ashburton plains, when best wheat sold at half-a-crown a bushel, best oats for (enpence, and potatoes were carted in and sold at a shilling a sack; (lie days when one used to wonder who would be Ihe next farmer to be sold up. T say, go and fight Ihe bailie, and things will come out. all right. The money is Mill in the country, and in one of the liesl countries in the world.”

After the lapse of nearly two years, Foxton is again to have Ihe professional services of a resident dentist, in the person of Dr. T. J. Rowley, who will commence Ihe practice of his profession in Ihe premises al the corner of Main and Clyde Si reels. Dr. Rowley (whose father was in practice as a dentist for many years in Timarn), on obtaining his New Zealand diploma, proceeded to Chicago for three years to prosecute his studies, where he obtained his university degree of Doctor of Denial Surgery. Returning to New Zealand, he was attached to the X.Z. Denial Corps, with Ihe rank of Captain, and served in the military camps in New Zealand and England for a period of two and nhnlf years. Tie subsequently accepted a position with Ihe Public Health Department in Christchurch in connection with Ihe Government Child Welfare scheme, which he recently decided to relinquish to engage in private practice. Foxton and district is fortunate in obtaining Ihe services of such a well-qualified and experienced man. Feverish attempts are being made by German firms to re-establish their trade connections with New Zealand, and Wellington business people (according to the Post) are receiving circulars which suggest that Ihe Germans are looking forward to the Dominion lifting the embargo on (lie importation of German goods. One linn, “which formerly had an extensive connection with Ihe Commonwealth and New Zealand,” states that its showrooms in London have recently been visited by a number of people from this part of the world, who “were greatly impressed with Ihe qualify and variety

of the goods displayed. . . . and even went to far as to place provisional orders which will lie confirmed immediately the trade embargo on German goods has boon removed. All goods are supplied at original factory prices, as in former years, and no extra profits are put on. . .

P.S. —Above refers to German goods only, but, of course, I am also holding agencies for British and ot her European makers.”

The Mercantile Gazette says: — “It is only 100 true that no country can prosper which is heavily taxed, for although the burden can be carried for a time, unfair and grinding taxation eats like cancer into the body politic, and the end is just the same as when that dread disease intrudes itself into the body physical. Mr Ma ssey, as Finance Minister, is no more able to maintain an expenditure which is in excess of the revenues he should fairly extract from the country, without facing disaster, than can an ordinary individual who spends a thousand pounds per y, '* more than his legitimate income. Bankruptcy stands in the path of both. Everyone wants to assist the Minister in his attempt to rehabilitate the country’s finance.” Referring to the effect of mastication on the formation of the .jaw, Dr. Truby King, during the course of a lecture in Wellington, said that the Maoris of a few years ago were very well devoloped in this direction. This was brought about by the large amount of fern root eaten, which rerpiires a great deal of mastication. Fern root was collected and stored for some months, and then chewed as a form of diet, the debris being thrown out. It was said to be possible to tell the number and class of visitor to a Maori pa by the amount of this debris after the guests had departed. If the visitors were people of note the mos't tender parts of the fern root were given them,' and the debris was accordingly small, but if slaves or people of little consequence the coarser part of the root was their portion, and the portion rejected was accordingly greater in quantity.

Replying to a question by Mr R. McCallum, member for Wairau, in the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr Massey stated that, according to promise, he would this session set up a committee to consider the question of the revision of the licensing laws of the Dominion. He was not prepared to say what the new licensing policy of the Government would be, but he felt bound to say that if Dominion no-license was not carried at the next poll it would be the duty of the Government to make very considerable amendments in the existing law.

A representative of the wellknown firm of Shepherd’s, professional horsebreakers, with headquarters at Dannevirke, is at present on a visit to this district, with headquarters on the Barber Estate, at Himatangi. This firm undertakes the breaking-in of blood stock and draughts for some of the biggest breeders in New Zealand. The firm’s methods are scientific, and all practices of brutality and intimidation arc discarded. Horse owners who require the services of the firm’s representative should communicate with Mr Renton, at Himatangi, ’phone 10(» The breaking-in will take place on the Barber Estate.

To many people, observes the monthly “Newsletter” of the Forest Service, Ihe matter of chopping down a tree or two is of no importance, a few blows of the axe and the growth of years comes crashing to earth. The one thing most needed in our towns and cities is the foliage of trees to relieve the bareness and unsightliness of many of our buildings, and yet one constantly hears complaints about the nuisance created by trees growing in the streets. In Auckland a few years ago quite a healed controversy raged as to whether a fine avenue of English trees should be allowed to remain, as Ihe drifting leaves were voted a nuisance by some people. An echo of the same nature comes from Carterton, where-, two bluegnms have been cut down; one of the trees was a. fine, well-grown tree over thirty years of age. Whatever the rights of the case were, the act has caused quite a lot of feeling among local residents over the destruction of what was a well-known landmark. There is ho question but that the judicious planting of trees will transform what may have originally been quite a mean looking street into a locality pleasant to dwell in, besides providing grateful shade in summer, and shelter from the cold winds of winter. —Exchange.