Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2444, 22 June 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Twenty-nine degrees of frost were registered locally this morning. Eggs are reported to be selling in Wellington at 2/2 per dozen this week.

Some Hawke’s Bay visitors to Foxton this week expressed surprise at the severity of the frosts so near the coast.

The Shannon Dairy Company’s payment for May is 1/7 per lb, and the company will pay a bonus of 2d per lb for the December, January and February supplies.

Owing to the firming of butter prices on the Home market, the local prices have been raised, the retail prices being advanced from 1/8 to 1/10. There is a prospect of a further rise. It understood that there is every likelihood of Mr J. B. Hine again contesting the Stratford seat against Mr R. Masters, M.P., at this year’s general election (says the Elthani Argus). “It is admitted that during the last two years the bank, from several causes, earned large profits, but these will be non-recurring,” said the chairman at the annual meeting of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington last jveek. As living costs are not yet back to normal, the Bank of New Zealand has granted bonuses to all members of the staff, except those young and single men whose salaries are on the “scale” which was adopted about two years ago, and which is based upon the higher costs which then prevailed.

At the Gisborne Supreme Court yesterday Alfred Monte For and Thomas Bennett, two natives appeared on separate charges of alleged criminal assault on a Maori girl under the age of sixteen years. The offences were alleged to have been committed at Opotiki in each case. A verdict of not guilty was returned and both accused discharged.

The death took place at Wellington this week of Mr Robert Lee, aged 85, formerly Chief Inspector for the Wellington Education Board, and afterwards chairman. He was the author of the “standard system” of class division and promotion in schools, which was first instituted in the Nelson district. He arrived in the Dominion in 1864.

The death occurred at Wellington yesterday afternoon of Mr S. H. Underwood, well-known in Wellington as a member of the City Council and as the popular secretary of the Wellington Bowling Centre. The late Mi 1 Underwood was a son of the late Mr Harry Underwood, who was drowned in the wreck of the illfated Penguin off Terawhiti. He was about 44 years of age. He leaves a widow, three sons and one daughter. All the children are young.

A young man called at the Hamilton police station on Saturday night and left a letter, which read as follows: —“By the time you read this 1 will be out of the way. T am homeless and nowhere to go. I have looked everywhere for work, but cannot find any, so have decided to do a despa rate thing and get out of the way, as I cannot go on any longer. —Yours truly -I. Anderson." The police immediately searched but nothing was seen of the man, who is said to he about twenty-two years of age, well dressed, was carrying a suit case, and was thought to have come from Marton.

The recent statement of the Government that it cannot afford to give further help to the starving peasants of Russia makes it more than ever imperative that an urgent appeal should he made to the humanity of private individuals. In a region larger than the whole of France there is no food left : and pestilence has followed on the heels of famine. Death is taking daily toll of the children; daily the rubbish carts go round and collect their little bodies. Unless timely succor is sent many millions must perish of starvation. —Punch. [Foxton's contribution to the Fund was £2 10s, contributed by the teachers and scholars of the Methodist Sunday School.]

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.*

At the period when the planet Mars approached nearest the earth Signor Marconi, aboard a yacht in the Hudson Rver, listened with radio instruments steadily for nearly a fortnight, but failed to hear anything which would lead to the belief that Martians were endeavouring to communicate with the earth.

A southern lawyer in a letter to a Wanganui friend states that professional men, as well ns other members of the community, will soon have to prepare to accept less remuneration for their services. He has already made a start in this direction, and has brought back his fees to pre-war level for all clients who pay up promptly, the remainder of course, paying according to scale.

“I am grateful and thankful for the honour which has been bestowed upon me,” stated Sir Maui Pomarc, who was recently knighted, at the farewell to Maori footballers in Wellington on Wednesday. “But,” he said, “I acknowledge the fact that I wear a distinction which some of you w r on for me on the battlefields of Europe. I regard the distinction in the light of an ornament, not only to myself, but to the race to which T am proud to belong.” The great success which is generally the lot of those farmers who have their holdings extensively farmed is more than evident by the record put up by Mr John Ward, of Manawaru, near To Aroha, says the Star. For the 1921-22 season Mr Ward’s dairy herd produced 12,475 lbs- of butterfat from 80 acres of land. The herd comprises of 39 cows; thus the average yield per cow for the season is just about 3201 b butterfat. Over 1551 bof butterfat was produced for each of the SO acres of land. The erection of a new fire station for the Northeote Fire Brigade Auckland, is to be commenced this week says the Auckland Herald, a tender having been aecepted'for the work. The lower portion of the structure is to be in brick, with rough-cast outer walls. Provision on the upper floor is made for a gymnasium and sleeping quarters for the drivers of the motor fire-en-gine. The lowest tender was that if Mr 11. Wrightson, at £413, but t lie Borough Council subsequently decided to eliminate certaih work specified, with the result that the contract price was reduced to £3BB.

It has been reported that the emergency rations placed in the Tararun huts for the use of trampers in distress are frequently used by thoughtless people and not replaced. The young man Bollons in his dire need could find no matches and only a little tinned fish in one of the huts though supplies of meal, bovril, tinned foods and matches in a sealed bottle were left there by the Tararun Tramping Club. Mr Yosseler on Saturday made the following statement to the press: “I would kko you to make it known that the person who uses either of the huts and takes stores without replenishing th- tn, and who does not renew the dry wood supply, is a potential murderer.”

The following story is neither parable or fable, it is fjiet. A certain officer of the Crown who had made 1 bm-elf peculiarly unpopular with t' e public was. in the interests of the public and himself, transferred t‘> another district. To him came, while in the execution of his duties, an elderly and somewhat untidy g'uileman to have certain official work done. The uncivil and unpopular official in good, round's el terms ; tod him in the most truculent and abusive manner. When he paused for breath the elderly gentleman asked him if he had finished, and said: “Now I will introduce myself,” and produced his card, the Hon. —, Minister for the Department of the unpopular official. The collapse was spontaneous and complete.—Rotorua Chronicle.

It. is questionable whether the observance of a local school holiday for the Palmerston winter show is justified hv the number of children who attend. A tally taken in years past indicated that not 10 per cent, of the children visit the show. However, the holiday is looked upon as an established custom. The subject was discussed with the head master and Friday (peoples day) was tentatively agreed upon. Owing to applications for immediate leave of absence by two teachers Wednesday was suggested and the holiday given. The unfortunate part was that the children could not he notified until they had assembled yesterday morning—too late for those who desired to accompany their parents by train which caused a certain amount of disappointment. We are of the opinion that a holiday for the winter show should he discontinued and one day given for the Peoples Day of the Summer Show.

A telegram from Rotorua states Iha l Oruanui is almost, deserted and the whole of the working Maori mill hands have left for Mokai. The earth in Oruanui Valley is full of small vertical fissures, and though the country formation is friable pumice glomerate, the impounding dam has not been affected. The shocks in the valley have been very severe and have been accompanied by alarming sounds. Though much apprehension is felt,, no damage has been done, save a few bottles and crockery having been broken. The seat of the trouble s felt to he on the Wairakei-Oruanui line. The lake is low through the lack of rain and no snow water. r lhe net result, save hurt to nerves, is merely negligible. Small, unimportant subsidences are reported in the western arm of the lake, hut nothing of magnitude that would justify the word earthquake.

The United States Senate has approved an expenditure of £25,000 for improving the American Embassy offices in London.

Without any trouble or expense, the Wellington City Council has raised a second local loan of £53,000. This loan was offered to subscribers immediately after the big loan of £125,000 was subscribed, and the money came in freely. As a matter of fact, more money is offering than the City Council requires, and the Mayor (Mr It. A. Wright, M.P.,) is gratified at the *ueeess which has attended the appeal to local investors.

The manner in which land values have fluctuated is well illustrated by the history'of a property of 1,500 acres some distance south of Hamilton. Three years ago it. wan bought for £45 an acre, the price when it was bought from the Government 12 years before being £1 an acre, but it was then quite mi-, improved. Three months ago the owner offered the mortgagee £lO,000 to “let him out.” He replied hv offering to reduce the mortgage by £13,000 to “stay in.” “Man has survived through the ages because of his sheer timidity—not because of any inherent qualities of courage and fearlessness,” said Mr A, E. Mender, during the course of a lecture to W.E.A. students recently. “In the "Very earliest days,” added the lecturer, “primitive man was a poor trembling wretch, dreading- lest he be stamped out of existence by some natural enemy or element —always sniffing the air for scent of possible danger, and ready to flee to safety beneath a pile of rocks. Fear was an omnipresent feature of his life, and timidity saved the race, for to have offered battle when the race was young would ultimately have meant extermination.” “Of all the British dominions Xew Zealand's credit ranks the highest on the London money market,” said Sir Arthur Worley, of London, general manager of a large insurance company and who is at present in Auckland. “It is only necessary to recall the result of the last loan of £5,000,000 floated in London, which was over-subscribed in a few hours, to show that Xew Zealand is always looked upon as a safe investment by financial people. Applications for loans by this country are always welcome. The cost of the Christchurch Eire Board caused by the brigade turning out to false alarms during the year was referred to by the chairman, Mr AvWilliams, at the annual meeting of the board this week. Mr Williams said that of the 253 calls received no fewer than 57 were for malicious false alarms, against 42 for the previous year, representing a distinct loss to the board of approximately £SOO. Such acts of vandalism were to be deprecated, and the action of the magistrate at Wanganui, who sent an offender to gaol with six months’ imprisonment, deserved to be commended.

What must be nearly a local record in Supreme Court pleading, of n case referred from the Magistrate's Court was accomplished before Their Honours ihe Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) and ?dr Justice Hosting in connection with the alleged pak-a-poo gamin''- house case, in which a Chinaman (Young Suey) was lined £IOO by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. Mr Jellicoe’s pleading for the defence commenced after luncheon on Monday, occupied the whole of Tuesday, and continued yesterday from 10.30 a.m. until noon. Mr Macassey answered : lie two-days’ speech in one of half an hour. — X.Z. Times.

There are too many people nowadays who believe in getting something for nothing (says the "Wanganui Herald.'’). Some of them achieve their end. A local draper is at present scanning the faces of those who pass his shop, endeavouring to discover a woman who seems to lie an expert in carrying out the above principle—or lack of it—into effect. She came into the -hop ;i few days ago and found her fancy attracted by a nice “marabout’’ made of feathers. She haggled over the price, was uncertain if “he” would like it. and finally, picking it up said she would go out to the door and show it to “him.” She did and site is showing it to him vet. /-

Professor E. Marsden, who recently investigated the disturbances at Taupo, and on whose advice the Government acted in authorising the postal officers to leave the district if they wished, stated to a reporter that it was quite impossible to forecast what would happen. But there were undoubtedly serious possibilities; and in view of the danger, it was not right to keep people in the distriit. He regarded the chances of a blow-up as one in six. Still, what would happen in the next fortnight nobody could say. Japan had over 200 observers, but their forecasts were only approximate; and what could two observers do in Xew Zealand, working without proper instruments.

“Live wisely and well.” —Britton

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