Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2435, 30 May 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

~\ A lire’dost roved a dwelling house and bake house at Longburu early yesterday morning, owned and occupied by Mr Birch. Mr Reginald Foss, formerly of Eketahuna but latterly headmaster of i lie Carterton District High School, lias been appointed headmaster of the Levin District High School.

A London cable stales that from a gift of £IO,OOO for cancer research from Mr Todman, of Sydney, has been allocated £4OO to the Imperial cancer research fund, Bloomsbury; £I,OOO eacli for the hospitals in the United Kingdom; another £I,OOO to the Maeßobert endowment, Aberdeen University; and £SOO each to two radium institutes in London and Manchester.

Frederick Christopher Wolstenliolme, a married man, aged 31, committed suicide in a bedroom of liis home at Napier on Saturday night by shooting himself in the head with an automatic pistol. Xo reason is assigned for the action, deceased .just previously, having talked with his wife on general matters in a cheerful way. He was a returned soldier, and had been gassed.

Most modestly Jellicoc professed his “colossal ignorance of art” in the course of his speech at the Auckland Art Society's conversazione. But he assumed the ability to criticise at least two pictures —one of the Iron Duke. Then Tlis Excellency was brought face to face with the “Iron Duke,” when, much to his amusement and others, he discovered it to be no Jess than a clever caricature of himself. The Order-in-Couneil constituting the Borough of Foxton a lire district has been gazetted and the Borough Council will, at its next meeting on the 12th .June appoint three representatives to represent the ratepayers on the board. Arrangements are being made by the Department of Internal Affairs to elect Eire Insurance Co.’s representatives and the question of the appointment of a Government representative is now under consideration.

A striking tribute (says the Dominion, to the stability of New Zealand is paid by Mr F. Ilium, who recently toured the Dominion as Agricultural Advisor to the British Empire Exhibition in 1914. “You have been passing through troublesome times,” he wrote to a Government official, “but soon the corner is turned, and you will soon be in the sunshine again. It may be slow for a time, but nothing can hold New Zealand back. This slump will prove a blessing in the end.”

It was stated last week that Sir ■Joseph Ward had received a requisition from Rotorua electors asking him to stand for Rotorua at the General Election. Speaking to a Post press man, Sir Joseph said that he had received communications from some fourteen electorates, leading men of all classes asking him to contest seats. He had replied to all these requests that so far, he had not decided to stand at all. I first took Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure A croup-stressed child of three, Tho’ two decades have passed since then,

It still tastes good to me. ft needs no special praifee of mine, It’s fame spreads wide and sure, And ev’ry home now holds a shrine For Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt. 1

The men at the Waingawa freezing's works, who went on strike last week, have resumed work. The Prime Minister will deliver a policy speech at Invercargill on Thursday night.

Quite a number of people sealed the ladders of the water tower on Sunday to the top to get a view of the surrounding country. The toWer will be completed in about a fortnight’s time. A motoring accident occurred near Shannon on Thursday evening when the car in which Messrs A. de Luen and D. West, of Palmerston North, were driving caught fire and was completely destroyed.

“The use of schools and scholars for raising money is growing, and unless the practice is checked it will lead to exploiting the schools,” the executive reported to the annual meeting of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association. It wastes time in school work and it encourages all classes to make appeals to the shools. There is sufficient 'drain on the scholars and their parents in regard to improving the school grounds without their being asked to support outside bodies.”

“What do you want with a new policy when everything is going so well"?” smilingly asked Mr Massey when an inquiry was made on the subject of the railways by a pressman yesterday (states a Press Association message from Christchurch). The Prime Minister said lie thought that later on an officer or it representative would be appointed in each island to keep moving it 11 the time, and to let Wellington know of any grievances and their remedies. Such officer could get into direct touch with the people who used the railways. The appointment might he made when Mr M’Villy and his officers got back to Wellington.

It is not often that the same birthday—and that an important one in the Empire's history,can be claimed by four generations in the same family group. This unique record belongs to Mrs James Ballanline, of Hepburn Street, Auckland, and three of her descendants —Mrs H. M’Kiney. of Warkworth, Mr Robert B. Steele, at present studying forestry in Edinburgh, and her greatgrandson, Graham P>. Steele, of Epsom. Ail four birthdays (states the New Zealand Herald) fell on the 24th May, Empire Day. Mrs Ballantine who is in her 82nd year, is still hale and hearty, while the great grandson celebrated his first birthday on Wednesdh v.

After the service at All Saints Church on Sunday night, the Vicar, the Rev. W. H. Walton, presented' Mr and Mrs Moorhouse with small tokens of esteem from the members ot the Vestry and the Ladies’ Guild. In a few words Mr Walton referred to the work they had done for the f’hurch and expressed his conviction that they would be greatly missed by their fellow workers. He referred Iso to the active part taken in .public affairs by Mr Moorhouse, expressing his opinion that good citizenship was part of the duty of a good Christian. He concluded by wishing Mr and Mrs Moorhouse every success in their new sphere. A nugget of gold weighing about 4ozs. was brought to town by a miner, who says that he found it in Otago, south of Dunedin, but refuses p. give any other clue to the locality (says the Otago Daily Times). There are a few small fragments of quartz attached to it which have the appearance of coming from near the surface. In quality the g dd appears to be similar to that which is found in the Province.. The person who applied to Captain Baldwin for a reward of .£3,000 on making known the locality of a new Gold Field is in town and has renewed his application to the Superintendent, but in a very vague form.

Asked by a constituent at Carterton on Friday night what he thought of the proposal to tax bachelors. .Mr A. D. McLeod, M.P., staled that there was a lot to he said in favour of it. If they examined the matter closely they would find that there was already a fairly good bachelor's tax in the exemptions which were provided by the income tax for married men with families. They were allowed an exemption of £SO each for children under the age of 18, which permitted a man to get as high its £(500 a year without paying any tax at all, whereas a bachelor had to pay on all income over £3OO. “A man with no responsibility further than his hat covers can afford to pay more than a married man with a family.”

“Everyone expects that the boys of this school will faithfully carry on the traditions of the parent school,” said Lord Jellicoe, when opening the new Mount Albert Grammar School. “Tradition is one of the greatest things in a school. Such a great deal depends on those who lay the foundation of a school —a great responsibility is theirs. T would like you boys to start this school with the very best traditions of the old Grammar School—emulate them and fry and beat them if possible. They will have a great influence on your lives as citizens, and on the future life of the community. Build up character, for it is of the greatest importance, and one of the most important functions of a school to develop. T do not think that New Zealand boys are lacking in character. It is essential for good citizenship and Empire building. The good work of the pioneers of this country must be an incentive to you. Well did they do their work. You have a grand little country, and it is up to' you to develop it in the way they started it.” (Applause.)

This morning’s frost was the severest experienced so far this winter. Miss Wyatt, of Wellington, who is visiting Foxton with her mother, has consented to sing “Abide With Me,” at the farewell social to be tendered to the Rev. and Mrs Halliday this evening. Miss Wyatt is a talented vocalist. Another visitor to Foxton, Mrs Daniell, will also contribute a vocal item. A general invitation is extended to the friends of the Rev. and Mrs llalliday to attend the farewell social to be tendered them by the Presbyterian congregation in the schoolroom this evening. A lengthy programme of vocal and instrumental items will be submitted.

A simple calculation shows that the more milk a cow gives the cheaper becomes the cost of food per gallon, because a four-gallon cow does not require twice as much fodder as a two-gallon cow—a double allowance of cakes and meals will usually suffice. The most economical herds are those that yield well on a normal ration. This is a matter mainly of breeding and selection and one of the main objects of a milk-recording society is to show the members which of their cows produce the most milk, so these cows may be used as foundation cows, put to a bull of good milking strain, and the heifer calves reared. —G. 11. Garrad in the Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, London.