Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2346, 25 October 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large sawmill in the Apiti district lias been closed down until Christmas owing to the shortage of orders for timber.

The recent rise in the price of wool (states an exchange) has caused a better spirit to prevail among the settlers of (lie Wairarapa, and lhe “slump fever’ is showing signs of waning.

Mr Justice Ilerdman made an order on the application by the Auckland Society, suspending Francis Tipping from practice, pending the decision of the Court of Appeal, on the motion to strike Tipping off the roll.

There is little, if any, forward buying being done in lambs in this district this season, says the Levin Chronicle, owing to the condition of the market. This is in contract to former years, when very large forward contracts were entered into.

Recently the Marlon Borough Council claimed rates from the Wanganui Education Board on a property at Marlon, which was acquired for school purposes. The Education Department lias now advised the Board that a Council cannot claim for rales,' and that according to the Act the Board is not liable.

“The backbone of all business nowadays is advertising,” declared Mr Y. R. Meredith, when addressing Mr Justice Ilerdman at the Supreme Court at Auckland recently, in support of an application to alter the name of Lewis R. Eadv and Son, Ltd. It was stated by Mr Meredith that the object of the proposed change was to meet the modern growth of advertising, it being found that a long, cumbersome title, was very awkward to use and display effectively.

A good Maori story was told by Mr W. J. Poison, president of' the Farmers’ Union, at a meeting of farmers -at Ashburton. Mr Poison told of a storekeeper who received a cheque in payment on account from a Maori customer. The storekeeper dost'? the cheque, and wired to the Maori telling him to stop it at the bank. He received the telegraphed reply: “Never worry, cheque he stop himself.” Mr Poison said the present financial depression was helping to create a similar position for other people than Maoris—the cheques were stopping themselves.

A close holiday was observed yesterday in celebration of Labour Day. The weather marred outdoor amusements in this district. The united church service will lie held in the Methodist church (instead of the Presbyterian Church) at 7.30 this evening.. Those present at last night’s Council meeting were: —His Worship the Mayor (John Chrystall, and Councillors Bryant,. Whibley, Smith, Rand, Ross, Martin, Thompson, Walker and Coley. Mr Climie, water and drainage engineer, was also in. attendance.

A start has been made by tho Horowhenua County Council with tile metalling of the Kawiu-Eoxton Road, the work being commenced from the Heatherlea end. This route should divert a considerable portion of the traffic from the present main road when the surface has received the finishing touches. Referring to Labour Day, the M.D. Times says:—“Labour Day, Dominion Day, and several other half-pie holidays, could, with advantage, he wiped off the slate. They are of no value to anybody, and merely serve to dislocate trade and reduce production. The weekly half-holiday is sufficient to provide all Iho recreation that is required for the industrial worker. The late Lydia Hoskins, who passed away at her residence, Avenue Road, last Wednesday night, was the widow of Mr Edwin Hoskins, formerly of Wellington. She was the second daughter of Captain 11. Jackson, of Te Awaiti, Tory Channel, and she was born til Te Awaiti in 1848. It was Captain Jackson who brought the first whaling vessel to New Zealand, the barque Caroline The late Mrs Hoskins resided in Wanganui for many years, and went through some stirring times there during - the Maori War. She leaves two sons and three daughters, one son being Mr E. A. Hoskins, of Petone. “It is regarded as part of the barber’s stock-in-trade that he should be able to tell his customers all the latest sporting gossip,” said Mr T. Bloodworth, during the hearing of the hairdressers’ dispute in the Arbitration Court at Auckland (reports the Herald). He made this statement as an argument for the closing of hairdressers’ shops on Saturday afternoons, so that those engaged in the trade could attend sports and gather “tit-bits” of news for their customers. “There is something in that,” was the comment of Mr Justice Frazer.

“Millions of rabbits are. being bred (one might almost think being farmed),” write farmers from the Moawhango district to the Minister of Lands, “upon the pastoral lease country at Waionui Crown Land.

. . . Country that used to carry 28,000 sheep now carries none. No steps are being taken to cope with (lie rabbits, and the petitioners, as adjoining owners, have been put to expenditure amounting to £3,000 a year to protect their own properties.” Complaint is made that the pastoral lands are the subject of speculation, while the rabbits go on multiplying to the danger and detriment of adjoining properties. The Land Board is asked to exercise its statutory power to compel its tenants to fight the rabbit pest. “We are the only country in the world,” said Sir Francis Bell during the debate on the second reading of the Law of Libel Amendment Bill in the Upper House, “where a pack of old women talking scandal over a teapot can be prosecuted criminally, and sent to gaol by a magistrate. Moreover, we are tin? only country in the world where truth is not allowed to be proved in eases of slander until some person has been satisfied that the statement was in the public interest. Then, again, we are the only country in the world where libel or slander can be tried by a magistrate. Whatever the reasons were —and 1 don’t want to go into them —which induced the Legislature to agree to pass that law, the reasons have long since disappeared.” Palmerston is getting quite anxious about the proposed railway deviation. The Times says the town is losing “thousands of pounds” interest on gas plant and electrical machinery piled up all over the place, and deteriorating very rapidly because it cannot locate the site of the power works until the deviation is settled. The Times says the “machinations of log-rollers” (this means Levin, Foxton and Marton), and the “spinelessness of Cabinet Ministers,” has held the whole thing back. It is significant, however, that in the same issue the Times publishes the following copy of a telegram sent from Palmerston itself to every member of Parliament: “Trust you will use best endeavours to defer expenditure ro Palmerston North deviation, owing to economic conditions prevailing at present, as work is not urgent. Hope £500,000 now being raised by Government for special purpose will be used for more useful object. Prime Minister has promised that economy and retrenchment shall be order of day. Will you oppose this measure when brought forward. — Signed, Palmerston North Vigilance Association; W. W. Cook, Secretary.”

The monthly meeting of the Council of the local Chamber of Com-

merce will be held next Tuesday evening, instead of to-night. Intending visitors to the Show at Palmerston N. will find their wants well catered for at the C. M. Ross Coy’s., and the prices most reasonable. We excel in Costumes, Blouses, Skirts, One-piece Dresses, Corsets, Gloves, and Hosiery. How goods arriving daily.—Advt. There- was a large attendance at the Foxton Auctioneering Company’s mart sale on Saturday afternoon, and most of the articles submitted created keen competition. Fowls sold at from 2s fid to 3s 3d per head, and fruit and vegetables found a ready sale. Next Saturday the auctioneers will submit a freehold property (five-roomed house and acre of land) in Coley Street. Entries of pigs, fowls, furniture and sundries for next Saturday are invited.

A preliminary meeting was held at Mr Bock’s office yesterday to consider the. matter of providing a suitable building at the Beach for the periodical holidays of the children from All Saints’ Home, Palmerston North. The matron of the, home, Mrs Spensby, and Messrs Monrad, Tlolben, Lewis and A. Dawiclc, from Palmerston, and Messrs W. E. Barber, W. Bock, Rev. Walton, of Foxton, were present. A section opposite the Hall was approved, the rental of which is guaranteed by three persons. Mr Lewis undertook to prepare suitable plans of a building,- and submit them to a later meeting. Messrs Lewis, Dawiclc, Monrad and Holben were appointed a building committee to consult with the Matron, and upon full discussion it was decided to ask His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. Chrystall) to convene a meeting of all interested, at the Town Hall supper-room on Monday next, at 2.30 p.m., with a view of appointing local committees, and at which Messrs Monrad,. Lewis, Holben and Dawiclc will be present to explain the object, and it is expected plans will be submitted. The object is a good one, and it is hoped will meet with, whole-hearted support. Mr E. A. Oxley notifies the public that he has disposed of his general grocery business to Messrs Thorpe and Tongs. In thanking the public for the liberal patronage accorded him, he solicits a continuance of same for his successors.