LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2427, 11 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Entries for Saturday's Mart safe are advertised to-dav. The sale will commence at 1.30 p.ni., and further entries are solicited, and will he accepted up to midday on Saturday.

/The winning' numbers in .connection with the AY era ro a Mnrdi Gras art union are: —024, steel engraving and suit: 042, oil painting and bicycle; 4323 table centre and dinner set; 853, oil painting mid £5 note.

The Town Clerk notifies the levying of a special rate of eleven-six t.vfourths of a penny in the pound for the purpose of paying interest charges on a loan of £l,lOO for purpose of repaying antecedent liabilitv.

Messrs Buck and Barnicoat, who will assist Mr Delaney, Registrar of Electors for the Manawatu Electorate, a ret now in -Foxton, and established in offices in the C. M. Ross C’oy's. buildings.

A verdict of manslaughter was returned at Auckland yesterday in (he case in which William Page was charged, with the murder of Gladys McGregor Hutchinson, at Pipiroa on February 7th. The Foxton Auctioneering Company reports a good sale of farm implements, etc., on Tuesday. Competition for all lines was keen, some of the prices realised being as fidlows :—Cambridge roller £29, set discs £lO, saddle and bridle £B, Planet Jr., £6, one-horse cultivator £4 ss. Every line submitted was disposed of.

The old insanitary method of kissing the book by witnesses in Court proceedings lias long been abandoned in favour of the witness holding the Bible and saying “1 do.” Still custom clings tenaciously. At Palmerston Supreme Court on Tuesday a-witness from Foxton (says the Times) took tlie Bible and imprinted on its pages a kiss. Sav “I do,” said the Court official. * The witness made a )jow bow. “Say 1 do,” persisted t.bh official, backed up by the same command from His Honour. “I do,” said the witness.

Probably the most important part of tin* Arbitration Court’s recent pronouncement on the wages reduction decision reads: —“If pre-war efficiency cannot be reached and maintained, a greater reduction in wages will bo required in order to in-event foreign competition • from overwhelming our local industries and running employers and workers alike. In our opinion, the need, for improved efficiency in production is most to be stressed. The truth must lie grasped that the interests of (he employer and worker are identical in the matter of meeting competition, fiir not only is the employer’s business at stake, but the worker’s employment is also in jeopardy. Inefficiency in production in one set of trades increases the cost of living to all workers in all trades, for the workers in each trade tire the purchasers of the products of other trades, and every worker who does not give his heart to his work is holding hack a reduction' in his own cost of living and in that of other workers.” For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*