LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2476, 5 September 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The main roll for the Otaki electorate contains 5,337 names. The main roll in 11119 had a total of -1,681 names.

The improvements made on the Paekakariki hill road are of a substantial character, and make for a greater measure of safety than has ever been experienced in the past. The new main roll for Palmerston contains 8,118 names. The main roll for 1919 contained 9,550 names, and the supplement 2,075 — together 11,025. Presumably, therefore, the new supplement will he very bulky.

A social afternoon in connect ton with the Plunkett society will be held in the Town Hall supper-room to-morrow (Wednesday). A special feature of the gathering will he a sponge sandwich competition. The exhibits will he judged at 3.30, -and will he the property of the Society, and will he offered for sale. Competitions and musical items will he submitted.

Provision has been made l>v the Government for the erection of the fence required to separate the remaining Maori sections on Ivapiti Island from the rest of the island. A sum of £4OO is to he voted for the fencing and other improvements. When the fence is erected, the Mauri owners will lie directed to keep lheir sheep on their own ground, mid the Department of Lands will undertake the destruction of the remaining wild sheep and goats.

The police have been advised from Balcullha that Thomas Hawke Barrett, aged 22, was found dead at Riverside with a rifle bullet through his head.

There passed away at his residence, Brightwater Terrace, on Saturday, an old and respected resident of Palmerston North, in the person of Mr It, W. P. Horn, at the advanced age of 80 years. The deceased gentleman was horn in Nelson and came to Palmerston North in the early days of his life. Daring his lengthy residence in Palmerston the late Mr Horn followed various pursuits, and by his untiring industry and faithfulness to duty won the goodwill and esteem of all with whom he came in contact.

At a private hospital near Ashburton a patient had just come out of th(> chloroform. He was surprised (relates the “Guardian”) to find the room in darkness, and asked the reason from the nurse. “Well, it was done on your account really,” she told him. “You see there was a lire on the other side of the road so we pulled down the blinds.” “But why?" “We thought if you came out of the operation and saw fire through the windows you might think you had died during the operation.” The patient is still wondering how much of his dreadful past he revealed while under chloroform.

“No wonder some of you men go bankrupt trying to farm on land valued at £.IOO an acre, and involving a rental of £5 per aero,” said the Official Assignee at Hamilton recently, at the first meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of a dairy farmer. To the unsecured creditors £440 was owing. There was no real estate, arid the only asset was £l2O, a, Imtler-fat bonus due to the bankrupt. A sympathetic creditor said he himself at the present time \va- paying £0 an acre for land. Mr Fisher: “Oh, hut that is different. You are out at Man gore, rpiite near the city, and the bankrupt was a wav in the ThameValiev.”

“Why don't the railways pay/" (says the ‘Otago Daily Times’). The Dunedin staff is doing its best, anyway. A local firm decided recently to change one of its horses with another firm up-country, to give the city horse a spell. The business was duly arranged and the city horse was trucked and the railage paid. A while later the firm received a 'phone message to send down 1- (id for railage on the collar which was on the horse; it may be added that as collar- are made to lit individual horse-, they are usually exchanged along with horse.-, but suppo-e the ollieials should stall to object to. . .” But it seems mer-

ciful to cany tlie -apposition no I'nel her.

“An inefficient fire brigade is an abomination to (loti and man,” said Sup: ' "nteiident Rogers at a bauijuc: at Wanganui, Onstleeliff, recent;;.. flic speaker went on to

sa\ that emtinnons n'ertness and vigilance bad to In observed 24 hours it day, and 3(55 days a year. “Competitions cut no ice.” He believed in brigndesinen being taught to do. what they would be called upon to perform at a lire, whereas at competitions all sorts of tricks were ri.-orled to, which were of very little avail in a case of emergency. The most important thing for a brigade to acquire was accuracy of drill, which at competitions was often sacrificed for maximum speed.

Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvo lien Army, who left for Canada last week, in a farewell interview, -aid: “1 consider New Zealand the most hopeful of all the Dominions. I; is so richly endowed h.v nature, so readily productive, so temperate in climate, that it must grow to greatness. 1 would like to see a substantial increase in population —another million would do no harm —and I would like to see the Government raise a big loan for development work: railways and roads, the tiling- that will open up the country, a- 1 am sure the present depression is only a passing phase. With a population of from two to three million, New Zealand would become highly prosperous, and at the same time the influx of people would prove a relief to the overpopulated parts of Great Britain. '

In the hope of being able to effect a saving of well over £5,000 in one item of expenditure alone — that of digging pole holes —the Ma-nawatn-Oroua.Power Board has instructed its engineer, Mr Waters, to proceed to Invercargill to inspect a post hole-digging and erecting machine, and investigate its possibilities on the spot. According to information already in possession of the Board, the machine will dig n. 6ft. post hole, hoist up a 35ft. iron hark pole, drop it into the hole, move 2-1 chains, and commence digging the next hole, all in I lie space of eight minute*. The Board has estimated the cost for hand labour at 11s 6d per hole, whereas it is claimed that the machine cuts the cost down to 3s (id per hole. As fully 20,099 poles are to he erected in the Maim watu-Oroua district, the extent of the prospective saving —even after allowing for the cost of the machine —is very considerable. We were married in haste in the morning. We were sorry and sad by noon, But it all came right by seven that night When we started our honeymoon. Tho’ Matilda is somewhat officious, Her intentions are good and pure. And her treatment for colds is delicious— 'Tis Woods 7 Great Peppermint Cure. 25.

The death is announced at Milton of Mr Donald Reid, solicitor, a former mayor and member of Parliament. The death is announced of Mr Samuel Paul, a well-known resident of Palmerston X., at the age of 83 years. Mr W. 11. Jackson opened the political campaign in the Mas ter ton electorate last night. He declared himself to be a straight-out supporter of Mr Massey.

A large number of people were out whitebaiting on Sunday, but the elusive little fish had a day elsewhere, and very little bait was netted.

The largest and most entlmsiasaslic Liberal meeting ever held in Feilding assembled in the Drill Hall last evening to hear addresses by Messrs Forbes and Masters, M’s.P., and Mr R. Cobbe, liberal candidate for Oroua. The Mayor, Mr J. S. Tingey, presided.

Tenders are being invited for the performance of certain inland mail services which are proposed to be re-let to contract for the ensuing two years. The time for receiving lenders,'which should be addressed to the Chief Postmaster, Wellington, expires at noon on Monday, lltli instant.

A special meeing of the Fox ton Harbour Board was held in the Board’s office on Saturday. There were present:—Messrs Linklater (chairman), Chrystall and Hoiben. Business of a routine nature was attended to. The Chairman and Mr Chrystall were deputed to proceed to ’Wellington and interview the Minister in connection with Messrs Levin and Co.’s lease and other matters.

During the course of a politics! meeting at Feilding hist night, M Ma-ler-. M. P. for Stratford, sai the farmer- were not satisfied wit tin- rnli- iif Jv i- 1 m in. “Why dim' they join you C* a-ked a voice.

Mi.der-iaiiil your name’s Bellow,” -aid the speaker. amid broad -mile,. "No. Fellow!” “Well. I wa- not far off. If you keep bellowing until after the election they might join you."—M.D. Times.

At a special meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board on Saturday, Mr 1!. Rangiheuea was appointed secretary. There were live applicants for the position. The new official i- secretary of a number of local institutions, and among other things i- a lir-l -grade interpreter. Mr Rangiheuea was educated and mill rieulated at Te Ante College, and I- a Europeani-cd Native. While the new secretary does not possess the inner knowledge of the Board's post affairs as possessed by the late Mr Bock, yet bis training in other institutions justifies his a ppoint meat.

His Majesty the King, who is shooting in Scotland, personally assisted the victims of two accidents, states a cable from London. In the first, Grunt, the veteran Balmoral keeper, endeavoured to quieten an excited dog. which bit him. The King helped to drag off the dog. and then ran and telephoned to the doetoi and summoned the Queen, who sent the injured mail home in her ear. Later. ITquhart. a gillie, was cycling towards the Royal party, when he was thrown down from his machine and injured. The King, who was nearest, helped to lift tip tile injured man and carry him'to a ear. personally accompanying him home.

“1 am -atislied that the workerin the towns do not know when they are well oft." said a Taranaki farmer to a press representative. He had just returned from a visit to Auckland, and there got into close touch with the workers, attending and -peaking at their meetings, and generally nmking himself acquainted with the conditions of work there. He found that the workers were drawing big money, and still were disappointed. He saw some ■>f tlu‘ inimwii.niien, and elicited the interesting information that many of them were drawing, with overtime, up to £8 per week. Other workers were commanding 2s 6d an hour, and were talking of going for higher pay -til!. They were able to buy tickets to boxing shows at 19s and buy thing- beyond the means of tlie average farmer. "Why, 77 he told them, "you are infinitely better off than tin l farmer. The latter has to toil from morning to dark, and his pay would not. work out at more Ilian 4id per hour. The farmer has to sell his labour (i.e., his products) in the world’s markets, and has to pay you fellows the high wages which you in combination, hacked b.v an arbitration system, fix, also to pay big duties on all the goods hi uses. Where does the fairness come in?" The Taranaki man confessed that he had been a “mug 77 all his life. He should have left farming, and gone into the cities, and there enjoyed the short hours and big pay, instead of suffering the long horn’s of sweating, and small pay that had been his lot and is the lot of the average small farmer of New Zealand.