Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2410, 28 March 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Reward is offered to finder of grey suede glove.

Robertson's, Universal Providers, insert a list of grocery prices for cash, on page 1 of this issue.

A meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board will be held at one o’clock on Thursday, at Palmerston North. A meeting of the Beautifying Society was held last night. Report held over.

Millar and Giorgi, the Great Outlitters, Palmerston announce in their space on page 4 of this issue, that their Sale of Sales closes on Saturday, April Sth.

The Borough Council last evening decided, on the recommendation of the engineer, to undertake laying the water pipes in Main Street by day labour.

It is rumoured that the sequel to a sanguinary battle which took place in Union Street, between two men, hist evening, will be ventilated in the local Court at an early date.

Colonel J. .1. Esson (Secretary to the Treasury) acknowledges the receipt of £IOO forwarded anonymously to the Land and Income 'fax Department as conscience money to the New Zealand Government.

The monthly meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Town Hall sup-per-room at 7..'10 this evening. A full attendance is requested. Uric Malcolm Biel and Percy Martin Carmichael were sentenced for the burglary of the Pneknknriki railway station to live years' imprisonment, at Mnslerlon Supreme Court on Salurdny.

At last night’s Council meeting the rates for the years ended 31st March, 1021, and 3.lst March, 1022, amounting to £l4 Os 4d, and £l3 14s Id, respectively, due on section 978 and Duncan Street, were written off as unrecoverable.

Those present at last night’s Council meeting were: His Worship the Mayor (John Chrystall, Esq.), and Crs. Whibley, Smith, Rand, Ross, Martin, Coley, Bryant and Thompson. An apology was received from Cr. Walker.

Mr McEwon mot wiiii :i rather painful accident while engaged in line work on Saturday. He was using a hammer, when a splinter of steel from it Hew off. and entered his leg. Mr McEwen is able to get about with a. stick, but it will be some time before he is back at work again. ‘‘ls August the last month of winter in New Zealand, or the first month of spring ” inquires a Post correspondent. On the matter being referred to the Dominion Meteorologist (Mr D. C. Bates), he stated: —“Great differences of opinion have arisen as to the actual dates of the commencement of the seasons, mainly through astronomical conditions. Of hoarse, the sun is llie ruler of climate, but meteorological effects follow the (what may be called) astronomical seasons. Thus, the warmest part of the year follows Midsummer Day) and some people would make the midsummer, mid-winter; and equinoxes only the commencement of' the seasons, while others make them the middle of the seasons. But neither would lie correct in a meteorological sense, and the division adopted by meteorologists is (in this hemisphere) t< divide the seasons as follows: — Winter: June, July, August; spring, September, October, November; summer: December, January, February; autumn: March, April, May. As all meteorological records are kept in months, the coming of winter and spring is different in different years, and there are differencem the harvest in" the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The seasons also differ in length in different countries, but as a general rule _the seasons, divided as I have given you, on this side of the world and their corresponding months in the Old, answer all practical purposes.”