Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2381, 19 January 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will he held to-morrow night.

Advertisers will please note that the Heraid will be published at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. Sharks are reported-Px.be plentiful in Wellington and a warning has been issued to bathers'. The Shannon Dairy Co. intend advancing l()d per lb for butterfat_oii Friday next for December supply. So far this season no have been seen along the local coast. Last year and the previous year they were very plentiful.

Thomas Hope has been- fined £2OO and costs at Auckland on each of two charges of loitering in the street for the purpose of betting. The Rev. W. and Mrs Styeh, of Banks Peninsula, are visitors to Foxton, and are the guests of Miami Mrs Poole. .J. IV. Duffin, son of Mr and Mrs Duffin, and a pupil of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, passed his matriculation examination in the reeet examinations.

The weather promises fine for the week end holiday and local race meeting. It is anticipated that Monday’s attendance will constitute a record.

States last Monday’s Carterton •‘Times”: It was reported to the Carterton police this morning that a parly of Gladstone natives on the bank of a creek at Parkvale had found the body of a newly-born infant hidden in a hollow tree. The matter was reported to the Carterton police, who are now investigating.

At to-morrow afternoon’s mart sale the Foxton Auctioneering Co. will sell a consignment of fruit, including apricots, apples, pears, etc. The Mayor of Shannon denies the press report that there is plenty of work offering at Shannon. He states that he has had to appeal for aid to forward people elsewhere in search of employment. An old resident informs us that he. has not seen such a growth of green feed at this time of the year in any previous season. In January :]*s a j rule vegetation is very parched locally.

Everyone has a. sure tip for the Foxton Cup. We can give you a certainty without fear of disappointment. Buy at The C. M. Ross Coy.’s Rebuilding Sale, and you are a sure winner. This week we are, offering the whole of our remnants at lowest prices on record. —Advt.

The Horowhenua Show was opened at Levin yesterday, in beautiful weather. All classes are well filled, but Jersey and dairy cattle are exceptionally good, and the competitions and the horses are strong features. To-day is People’s Day, and the attendance is ve*ry large.

The Minister for Agriculture insists that there is plenty of work for capable and willing hands in the country. That statement may be true—provided the unemployed are prepared to accept work at a price that will justify their employment. Unskilled labour that turns up its nose at 12s per day will have to continue to pad the hoof.

Although the measure system has been approved by the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, for the sale of spirits over the counter, its use in Christchurch is by no means general. -While some hotelkeepers use it to measure the nips, others prefer to carry on under the old system, leaving it to the customer’s sense of fairness in pouring out a drink from l he bottle which is handed to him. The name of the Masonic donor of £IOO,OOO for education has been disclosed as Charles Kolling, a Sydney business man, and Past Master of Lodge Mount Morgan, Scotland, Queensland. He is also a subscribing member of Charity Lodge, Pennsylvania, of which State Air Kolling is a native. The scheme provides for a Masonic boys’ college at Boural as part of an extensive education scheme.

If the public would take the same keen interest in seeking out the elusive rat for destruction as they do in picking winners-at race meetings, they would participate in a dividend of health that would be of incalculable benefit to the State. The germs of plague and other disease thrive upon rats, which latter, in turn, increase! and multiply per medium of garbage and rubbish accumulations. Local authorities are instructed to vigorously prosecute persons failing to remove rubbish from their premises. The French Rugby Union has accepted the New Zealand Rugby Union’s terms and a team will tour New Zealand this year. It will consist of 29 men, who will leave Southampton by the Ruahine in the middle of April, arriving at the beginning of June. They will be under the charge of Mr Rutherford, an Englishman, who is secretary of the French Union. The tour will be under the sole direction of the New Zealand Union.

“Our country is in a bad way just now, especially Kimberley, with all the mines closed down,” writes Mr 11. C. Bennett, manager of’the Springbok footballers, in a letter to the secretary of the Hawke.? Bay Rugby Union. “Half the town are on relief works at present, and things are getting worse Still we smile and try to take our pleasures as usual. I wish I was back again in your part of the world,” he adds.

About town just now is an ex.sailorman who has had much practice as a pedestrian (says Wednesday’s Southland Times). Indeed, it is stated that he has walked round the world. Just now he is walking in search of employment. The other morning he walked in from Riverton to find that there were no positions suitable in Invercargill, but he heard or read of one in Milton. When he reached that spot he found that the job had been filled, so he turned about and trudged back.

The Bill dealing with retrenchments was introduced in the House of Representatives by the Prime Minister. The Bill proposes to make three reductinos in all civil service salaries, at- intervals of three months, the first reduction dating from January Ist, 1922. The effect of the reductions will be to extinguish, or almost extinguish, the special addition of £SO made to the salaries last year. The earlier bonuses will remain intact for the present. The savings that had been effected, added to the savings proposed in the Bill, would amount to over £4,000,000 a year.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland on Tuesday, Mr Wilson, S. M., delivered judgement for the defendant, the jockey George Young, in the claim by the Jockeys’ Association for £4l 3/9 for the annual fee and percentage of the earnings by l-iding winners, a plea of infancy being upheld. The Magistrate held that though the defendant was benefited by his membership of the association, he could not find that such membership was necessary to defendant for earning his livelihood.

The only contracts to which art infant could be held were such contracts as were for necessaries, like food, clothing, lodging and apprenticeships of-service. Security for appeal was fixed at £ls.

A further batch of immigrant.'-; numbering, 89, arrived in Wellington on Tuesday by the Rimutaka from Southampton. They are all nominated pasengers, and have come to friends in New Zealand. They appear to be a healthy lot, and all passed medical inspection yesterday. The numbers for the various parts of New Zealand are: Wellington 21, Auckland 23, Hawke’s Bay 5, Gisborne 5, New Plymouth 3, Canterbury 1, and Westland 1. The North Island immigrants came ashore at Wellington yesterday but those for the South Island went down by the Rimutaka in the evening to Lyttelton. A visitor to Foxton is Mr T. G. Rowley, father of Dr. Rowley, dentist. Mr Rowley carries his 81 summers with ease and his physical and mental activity is wonderful for an octogenarian, who has lived a strenuous professional life. Mr. Rowley arrived in New Zealand in 1859 and followed his profession as a dentist in Timaru up to the time of his retirement.