Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOV, 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2506, 14 November 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOV, 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At last night's Council meeting iiceouni.-' .'.mounting to £4,809 15s (id were passed lor payment. Sir Joseph Word has declined In stand for Wellington North. Owing lo the s(alc of his health he will not enter polities al present.

During the month of October, four head of slock were impounded by the ranger and driving fees to the amount of 4/- were collected.

.Messrs Uinklater and IV. 11. Field, M.P., will address a combined meeting' of supporters til Levin on Thursday night.

The management of the Co-op-erative Store notify in this issue that there is no strike at their Store and that they tire still able to supply your orders in full.

A.I last night's Borough Council meeting a motion was passed that ten per cent, be added to all rates unpaid by noon of Saturday. 9th December. 1922.

Mr .Massey reached Napier by car from Wellington at 9.110 last night, (hi being asked' regarding the seamen’s strike, he did not desire to express any opinion as to the probable outcome of the trouble uiid staled that lie laid no information.

The Napier express crashed into a motor lorry til Monrad street crossing, Palmerston, this afternoon and killed the driver of the lorry, a man named Olsen and a hoy who accompanied him had his thigh broken.

Mr Clement \\ ragge will visit Fox t in about t lie end of November. ()n this occasion lie will deni with tin recent enrllupinkes at Taupo and he has prepared a new leetur; which will lie illustrated with photographs including the latest eclipse of the -nil taken in Australia recent I v.

Those present at last night’s Council meeting were: His Worship the Mayor (.John Chryslall Esq.), I Councillors Bryant, Smith, Kami, Ross. Marlin. Thompson. Walker, and Coley. .Mr R. Clime, borough engineer, was also in attendance. An apology for absence was received from Cr. Wbibley.

“But for the identification op the signatures it hears, the manifesto of th(> Labour Parly might lie mis taken for an essay on political e etononiv by a village shoemaker. It is visionary and impractical, but withal so amiable that none might take offence or even lake it seriousIv,”—Aueklanil Herald.

In connection with the shipping crisis, the matter of mails is receiving the attention of the head olliee al Wellington and they can he, relied upon to make satisfactory arrangements.. There is a possibility —indeed a large probability, that aeroplanes will lie employed to couvcv mails between the North and South Islands.

In connection with the Schedules for the Horticultural Society’s Summer Show, we are asked to notify intending exhibitors that classes No. 25 and 2(> should have been bracketed with the words “To tie grown oulsideclasses No. 120, 12(i and 127 should have been bracketed with “Mrs dames Robinson’s Special, 5. •: and a similar prize by tlie same donor is given for classes No. 128 and 129, together.

A man named Russell Charles Berry was arrested by the local police yesterday mi a charge of failing to maintain his wife and two children a! Napier. He was later brought, before .Mr D. W. Robertson. •1.P.. at the police court, in asking for a remand to Napier. Constable Owen stated that Berry had left his wife ami two children unprovided for at Napier some months ago since then had travelled about various parts of the North island until he was arrested on the outskirts of Pox toll.

Messrs R. W. MVYilly. general manager of railways, H, Buxton, chief tralfic manager. P. W. McLean, chief engineer, and E. C. (tilion, chief mechanical engineer, are on a visit of inspection of the railways in this district. They visited Foxlon yesterday but the local Harbour Board was not notified of the visit, although the Minister had informed the Board that this would be done. A deputation from the Board was io have interviewed the General Manager in reference to the railway crossing rights to the wharf, which has been held up pending' All' .MeVilley’s visit. The depart - partmenta! officers came flown and returned by special train.

The annual meeting of the Poxton branch of the Blanket Society will be held in the Blanket Room on Friday afternoon nexl at 3.30 o'clock. All interested in the work of the society are cordially invited to lie present.

This little trouble," is one of Air

Massey’s jocular ways of referring t i the general election campaign. “As soon as we get this little trouble mil of tin* way and the Government is returned by a thumping majority," he said to a deputation in Auckland, “I hope to be able to comply with your request !"

A working bee i< to be held on Easton Bark to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, to clean up the grounds in preparation for the first sports meeting to he held there at an early date. All interested in furthering the sports gathering are invited to assist. The workers will be provided with refreshmenls.

An electoral canvasser. Ivy floodver pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court al Wellington recently lo signing enrolment applications- as witness without seeing the applicant sign. The forms were left with the wives of the applicants and collected later, when the defendant signed them. Defendant was lined £5 end costs on each of I wo charges.

There was a large and appreciative audience in the Sanson Hall on Saturday night lo hear a musical Meilal by the pupils of Miss Ransom, of Bulls. The pupils rendered pianoforte solos, trios and quartettes with credit to themselves and to their talented instructress. The recital was interspersed with items by Messrs Judd and Sutcliffe (Marlon) and ITornhlow (Poxton), and Muni* clam*mg: hv Mis* Eliott and two of her pupils.

A suggestion was advanced to Mr Linkhiter, Reform candidate for Manawatu at his Bunny thorpe meet - ing on Friday, that, should another war eventuate, a referendum of the people should be taken as to whether they should participate in it or not. Mr Linklater replied: “The people have a say in tlinl matter inasmuch as they elect to Parliament the men who will look after their interests. These men -hoiild be capable of working out (lie destiny of the country and can well frame its laws.”

At last night’s Council meet ing, in connection will) consent to the transfer of the lease of sections 477 from Mrs A. A. lxinley to .1. R. Allei'hy ami another, it was stipulated that the conditions of the lease shall he adhered to, sand drifts requiring L. he fnscined and noxious weeds requiring to he cut. must be attended to immediately, payment by the purchaser of the month's rent due by him be advanced each month, month by month, until Ist November, 1923, when a full six months' lent (CliO) shall be paid in advance ami maintained until ihc expiry of the lea sc is agreed to.

“I can hardly express an opinion, having just got hack to Wellington to-day," staled the Prime Minister when approached regarding the --trike on Saturday. “I can only hope that it will not last long. We have already made arrangements for the carriage of mails and will endeavour to avoid any inconvenience to the public as much as we can." “They are saying that the (iovernmenl should own and control the Lyttelton ferry steamers," said the pressman. “It C a far bigger thing than that,” replied the Premier. “It is a very difficult question and it is no good discussing it

Asked during his address at Bun1, ytliorpe on Friday evening if he would support a policy of taxing the whole of the people with a levy for the maintenance of hospitals in preference to placing the burden on -ratepayers alone as at present, Mr J. Linklater, Reform candidate for Manawatu. said it was desirable that a system should be instituted whereby the liability would be more pvenly distributed over those who Used the hospitals. He pointed oul that, whereas the country ratepayer paid the bulk of hospital rates ni the present time, the patients using the institution were mainly from tin- towns.

Reference was made to the newspaper known as the Maoriland Worker at Mr John Farrell's meeting in the Wesi End Theatre. ' Auckland, last week. “Are you a Maoriland worker?" called out a member of the audience. “Yes," replied the candidate. "and Maoriland born, 100. It is a pity there were not a few more Maoriland workers among you," he added. “There would not lie so much industrial trouble." The point was not lost on the audience, which throughout the speech had been listening to The interjections of men whose accents made if quite clear they were not native born. — Auckland Herald.

(>nc outstanding instance of Mr Massey’s right to lead might be given (said Mr T. D. Burnett, Reform candidate for Tenmkn, in the course of bis opening campaign speech). The -Main Body of the Expeditionary Force bad embarked in transports lying in Wellington Harbour when word came through that Herman cruisers bad appeared north of New Zealand, off Tahiti, and in the absence of a proper escort the I’riiue Minister refused to permit the Main Body men to proceed. (Hear, hear.) Lord Liverpool, as Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's forces in New Zealand, insisted that they should go; strong influential pressure was brought to bear from Home, and Mr Massey was called hurriedly to Government House, when' Lord Liverpool insisted on his prerogative as Comman-der-in-chief. The Rrirne Minister asked for one hour. Why? To write out his resignation. The upshot of it was that the transports were not allowed to sail, and the Main Body embarked until an adequate number of cruisers had been provided as escort. (Applause.)