Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, DECEMB. 8, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2365, 8 December 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, DECEMB. 8, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr and Mrs Furrie left Foxton yesterday for Seatonn, where Mr Furrie hopes to recuperate his health.

A deputation from the Manawah Flaxmillors’ Association will wai upon Ministers at Wellington to-da; in regard to the disease that i: working I .havoc in the flax areas.

A shocking accident was reported from To lloro yesterday. The three-year-old son of Mr AY. Jamieson, of To. flora, had both legs cut off by a mowing machine while playing unnoticed in an oat field.

A crop of the dreaded noxious weed goalsrue is coining .up through the metal spread on 'Whvtc Street extension. Steps should be taken to eradicate the weed to prevent ils spreading throughout the borough. The Wanganui Herald savs: —A local retailer is providing his customers with some cheap hams for Christmas, and has now booked some hundreds of orders at Is 2d per lh. This is a substantial reduction on I lie correHionding period last year.

While a man named Woodson was sharpening a lead pencil in the presence of his little daughter, at Napier, a detonator cap whieh he had in his hand exploded, and the girl was badly injured, her sight being affected. The father lost the top of one.finger and a thumb.

News has been received at Taumarunni that on Friday evening, at Kawantahi, the shearing shed owned by 0. AYriglit was totally destroyed by fire, two hundred sheep which had been mustered for shearing were incinerated, and thirty hales of wool destroyed. The insurance-. are not available.

Al the last Council meeting Cr. Martin was reported as having said that the gas work's retorts had been mishandled. Cr. Martin said that he look exception to Cr. Ross’ statement that the retorts had been mishandled. In his opinion they had not been mishandled, The fault was due to the wrong construction of the bed.

The removal from the seaside and re-erection of the church building on the Methodist Church site, has been completed, and is now being painted. The building will be used as a Sunday school and social hall. A raised stage and large ante-room has been added to the building. The Ladies’ (fuild used the building yesterday for (lie first time.

Arrangements in connect ion with the world’s sculling championship face between R. Arn.-t and D’Arcy liadlield, to lie rowed at Wanganui, are practically completed. Invitations have been extended by the committee to the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and Sir Joseph AVard. The race will be rowed on Thursday, sth January.

The Licensed Victimllers Association at a meeting held in Wellington on Tuesday, decided that in future the measure system should be universally adopted in regard to whisky, and other spirits, while there will also he a limitation upon the amount of beer per glass. A nip of whisky or oilier spirits will measure about one-twentieth of a bottle, and will he served by the bar tender, the bottle not being placed upon (he counler. The measure in regard to beer will he fixed by the various local Licensed Victuallers’ Associations.

An employer in the flax industry, in conversation with a Levin Chronicle representative on Monday, said that the present stringent times were having their effect on a certain class of employee who formerly thought nothing of striking if there was anything about the mill, swamp or cookhouse that did not suit him. “Instead of throwing his job up now,” the employer stated, “he has become a fixture, and will have to be dug out if he is to he got rid of.” It was satisfactory, however, to say that the men on the whole were sticking solidly to their work, iincl cutters and scutchers were still capable of making £1 per day.

Among the visitors to the local State School yesterday was Mrs Wright, a member of the AA T ellington South School Committee, who spoke appreeiatingly of the school building and environment. * The Foxton Auctioneering Coy. will hold a monster auction sale at the Mart, Avenue Road, on Saturday afternoon. Full particulars are advertised to-day. The goods will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. Ah G. G. Aitken, of the Victoria College, has been selected as the Rhodes Scholar. Hs was born in 1898 at AA’estport, and was trained at the District High School, Westport, and at A’ietoria College, where he passed for tlm B.A. He has a notable alliletic record, having captained New Zealand against the Springboks in the first and second tests. lie was also captain of the University team that visited Sydney.

A deputation consisting of Messrs Linklater (chairman), J. A. Nash, ALP., and Chrystall, .representing the Foxton Harbour Board, left for AYcllinglon to-day, to wait on the Prime Minister and the Hon. Downie Stewart (Minister of Afarine), to urge that legislation be introduced to enable the Harbour Board to purchase a suitable steamer for trading between Wellington and Foxton.

A number of parents visited (lie school yesterday afternoon, and evinced keen interest in the class work. Exhibits of school work were tastefully displayed in the spacious corridors. The classrooms were decorated with flowers and looked very neat and attractive. Particular interest was taken by parents in the class work, and the scholars looked quite happy after their recent strenuous examinations.-

An alleged nuisance in the Afnnawatu County was reported on by the Health Department at this week's meeting of the council. The report staled that a pig farm was in a disgraceful state, and the county and other by-laws were being broken. The council had power under the Health Act to take steps to have the nuisance abated. It was decided to serve notice on the owner in question, calling on him to remedy matters, and failing compliance (lie inspector to prosecute.

The question of selecting presents is always a source of worry at this time of the year. To see a varied selection of goods, however, is often to receive an inspiration, and in this connection A. N. Smith has imported a most varied and appropriate selection of goods, which lie invites the general public to inspect. A perusal of his advertisement to-day will indicate the comprehensive slock of goods lie is carrying to meet Christmas requirements.

Amusing mistakes sometimes occur in reports when a line of type is misplaced. A southern paper had a real howler recently, in the report of a wedding. A line which read “very daintily attired" was accidentally left mil, and another line from a police court report inserted in its place. Imagine the consternation of all concerned when the published report read: “The bride and bridesmaid were very strongly under the influence of liquor!” Il may be assumed that copies of the paper previously ordered by relatives and friends of the bridegroom were not called for, but the editor was called many hard names instead.