GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2367, 13 December 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

“By korry,” said the Waihawairrepressible, criticising the new tariff, “the cow he go down, the cheese go down, te Terby and te waipiro he go up. How te way that? I tink te world he go bankrupt. I tink Bill Massey he hard case, too.” —-Marlborough Press.

Some idea was gathered (if the prices are accepted as comet) in a ease heard in . the Supreme Court, Wellington, as to the cost of a young lady’s trousseau. A witness, who, before marriage, followed the occupation of a cook, said that within two years she had purchased personal apparel and household goods to a value of considerably over £SOO. The personal apparel included dozens of articles averaging between £4 and £5 each, sports coats at £ls each, dozens of pairs of stockings, a dozen blouses at £3 15s each. The articles were so varied and the quantities so large that there were sufficient to stock a small shop. The Mercantile Gazette says:— “We think it 1 very desirable that sugar control, wheat control, coal control, coment control, and many other controls hampering business should be terminated as speedily as possible. The closing of the wheat control in New South Wales has brought about a substantial cheapening of bread stuffs to the great advantage of the people, .and it is desirable that the same conditions should rule in New Zealand. Let the markets take their course, and prices will stabilise speedily. This has happened in respect to wool, and to many other commodities, including the industrial metals. Government interference is a detriment, and should be ended as quickly as possible.” le

Messrs Bryant and May are about to erect a new match factory on Te Aro Flat, Wellington. The area, to be occupied by the works includes the whole of Argyle Street, and portions of Lorne Street and Tory Street. In all, 37 houses, inhabited by 147 men, women and children, ai - c involved in the scheme. A New Zealand Times reporter was informed that on Wednesday morning the firm’s agent went round and informed the tenants that he was to issue formal notices to quit in about a. month’s time. The tenants approached Mr P. Fraser, M.P., and lie discussed with them ways and means either of preventing people being ejected or of endeavouring to get the Government to provide homes for them. Accompanied by one of the tenants (Mr S. Jones, a waterside worker), Mr Fraser visited all the houses, and took a census of the people concerned. The results were as follows: Lome Street, 41 men, women and children; Argyle Street, 77; Tory Street, 29; total, 147.

Inflated automobile inner tubes, dropped from a low-flying aeroplane, saved the lives of three young women who were struggling in the heaviest summer surf on record at Hampton Beach, New Haven, recently. Miss Mnrsella Moxelev, of North Andover, Mass., was drowned. A number of bathers were caught well off shore, and unable to swim back. Life guards were beaten back in their first efforts to rescue them, and Miss (Moxeley sank. Aviator J. F. Blake, of Wellesley, Mass., who was making a flight near the beach, saw the predicament of the bathers, and bringing his plane down close to the water, he and his mechanic, Clifton Ivemp, of Concord, dropped the tubes close to the lliree girls. They clung to The tubes until the life guards were able' to reach them, but were unconscious when .brought ashore. They were soon revived.