LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2508, 21 November 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j The friends of Mr McDonald, local stat ionmasler. w ill regrcl I" I bear that he is conlined to bis home I wit h an indisposilion. ; The Levin Dairy Company will |pav 1 ti per lb. Imlterfal for the , October supply. The company is manufacturing' four and a-half : tons.iif butler per day at the present ! t ime. : N'ital statistics gazetted show : i |,al births in lif teen, urban areas j during October totalled 1,0/ -1, and j deaths 49.'f (males 2112. females, j23i). The proport inn of births to ! 1.000 of population was 1.7(1, and j deaths were 0.87. Sixty-eight deaths were children under live i vcai's.

J At ihe local police court yesterday. before Messrs Horublow and ! Robert so u, •l.'sl’., a young man i named .John Summers pleaded guillv to commit ting a grossly indecent 1 act in Clyde Street. He was coiivicted and lined i's in default a : fortnight's imprisonment. -lames ' Afumly, charged with drunkenness was convicted and lined '<)/-.

The display of rose blooms in the C. M. Ross Co.’s centre window on Sat unlay at n uclei! a great deal of attention. Some beautiful blooms were exhibited and the public were divided in their choice. The tirst prize was voted to Mr K. Robinson's bloom, Mrs Seville ■- exhibit being second. Some ot the roses exhibited would do credit to any show and ii is hoped that those

"•rowers who were represented in Saturday's display, will forward exhibits m this week's local show.

Ai the bieal Police Court yesterday before Mr it. W. Robertson, .J.]’., .James Collins and \Ytn. Deo. Collins, arrested on Saturday night, were charged with disorderly- behaviour while drunk on the water front. Erom the police evidence it would appear that the two men were found oil the river hunk in a drunken condition and with their coats oil ready to commence hostilities mi cadi other when the police arrived on the scene and the proceedings were terminated by a visit to the lock-up, They were subsequently admitted to bail and the former, who failed to put in an appearance at the Court, was convicted and fined 20/- while the latter who appeared at the Court and pleaded guilty was lined 10/-,