Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2519, 16 December 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Salvation Army Band notify Hint they will commence Christmas Caroline- throughout the town as tmin Tuesday evening' next.

Mr J. Linklnler performed the opening' ceremony of the Methodist Bazaar at Oroun Downs on Wednesday afternoon last. The bazaar was very successful.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Kailanca County Council the members extended Mrd. Linklaler their liear1/ eongral ll lafions on his election to Die position of member of Parliament for Mauawalu.

The matron of the Palmerston X. Hospital desires to acknowledge thanks lor the following donations to help cheer up the children and patients at Christmas time. —Mrs Park (Levin) £lO 10s, Mrs Mnirooncv £2 12s. Brother Bill Ids. Anonymous .Cl, Rather McManus £2 2s, Mi's 11. Wilson Cl Is.

“Wlml do you mean by a lonetime.'" asked Mr S. L. P. Free, S.AI. of a witness in the Magistrate's Court at Maslerton recently. “ft may mean years or it may mean ■some day-. Five minutes would be a long lime if you were hanging at the end of a rope. Everythin# is comna ra I ive."

A tragic occurrence took place in Palmerston on Sunday. Mr (Jerald Meir, aged til, went out with a gun presumably to shoot birds. A little later he was found Ivin# dead with the upper part of ids head shattered. Mr Weir was for some time the Acclimatisation Society’s ranker at Palmerston North.

I he country now sees tlit* menace of extreme Labour and might weil be exepected to take a different view of the position in a month or two than it did on Thursday week. To carry on the (Jovernment of the country at the dictation of Labour is (dearly unthinkable.—Taranaki X ews.

The Levin Borough Council has been advised of a reduction of 3s ill 'he price of coal, making it 34/3 per ton on rail at Wellington. The Awahuri Dairy Company was titled £5 at Palmerston for selling butter with 17.10 per cent of watdr in it, contrary to the provisions of the Pure Food Act. The Universal Supplies Store was also lined £1 for retailing the butter. “Thank God,” said Father Cooney ul a jubilee social held in his honour at Lyttelton, “that there is no sectarian feeling in Lyttelton. I think that perhaps its people are more broad-minded than in some parts of l-he Dominion. I hope that the Government at some future date will pass a law by which mischiefmakers will be locked up and kept out of the way." The “Daily Chronicle's’’ Paris correspondent states that it is now very doubtful whether the Ski-Car-pentier match will be held. The .-portsmeii who offered £5,000 for the match now refuse to devote the proceeds to scientific laboratories unless they are lirst reimbursed from the mutch. Siki insists on the restoration of his license, and refuses to appear before the commission of inquiry.

“The Imy they call a •duffer' at school very often turns out the best, practical man later on,” said a technical school master recently in speaking at the Palmerston North Lunch Club, lie was referring to the objects of post-primary education, and related how sometimes a so-called “dull" hoy at ordinary subjects was exceptionally smart in the workshop, and the aim of the post-primary education was to find the ideal occupation for the boy so that be could be a utility to the country and would be satisfied himself.

Several Maoris were examined at llu* S.M. Court yesterday as to their earnings and ability to pay tradesmen's debts. They took counsel s examinations somewhat humourously. One man said he had had two wives but both were dead and he had to keep nine children. The S.M.: You mean that you have been keepng them at the storekeeper’s expense. “Oh yes, T spose so,” was the nonchalant reply. He further stated that he didn’t work he stopped at home. Another said that he had been compelled to adopt three children as the father had gone to gaol.

The effective roll for (lie Maim- i wain electorate contained 7.443 ' names. The votes of 3864 males and 3010 females were recorded. The number of those whose names were on the roll and who did not exercise the franchise were 569. When Mr Cray was speaking at. Ihe Fire Board meeting' yesterday I lie chairman interjected, “you are talking nonsense.’' Mr Cray said that was the lirst time in his experience, which included Mayoral as well as other public capacities, that >uch an interjection had been made to him. The remark was rude, undigidlied and uncalled for and he resented it and hoped the chairman would not so far forget himself in (lie ful it tv. The Alanawatu County Council wrote to the Levin Borough Council on Monday inquiring whether the Council would lie willing to assist in altering the route of the main road into Foxton from the Whirokino bridge on account, of the wet nature of tiie foundation. The Mayor said Ik, agreed with tin* Horowlienua County Chairman and Clerk that the request was an absolute washout. He remarked that this was the onlv piece of bad road he had seen in a recent motor trip of 400 mile-. The letter was received. —Chronicle. At one id' the polling booths in Devnnport on election day three voters who were over 90 years oi age recorded their votes very soon after the doors were opened, showing that the old people were vigorous (reports the “Auckland Star"). One of them at least refused the offer of a ride in a motor ear and ai< 1 that ever since she had had the privilege of voting she had always been able to walk to rhe booth, and she did not believe in the innovation of the motor ear, which often exerted an undue influence at elec-

tion time. An interesting point was elicited during the discussion ot the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce la.-t Monday concerning the practice <d the J elephone Depaitment of disconnect ing a subscriber's telephone for non-payment of bureau fees (says the “Mauawatn Times"D It was contended that as the half-yearly subscription was paid in advance and a contract (Inis ratified, there was no power to break it on account ot another service. The only penalty which should be imposed in such a ease would be to forfeit bureau privileges. The matter was left in the hands of the Postal Committee.

Bishop Liston, in a speech at the prize-giving at the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, on Tuesday, said there was a very distinguished man in New Zealand who did not quite know what had happened last Thursday (election day). He went on to remark upon the refusal of State aid to Roman Catholic schools, and concluded: “Perhaps some day oar people will wake up and do the right thing. We found thill out last week —(laughter) and no doubt some time they will do the night, thing by us. Thanks be to God. the Labour people, our friends, are coming into their own; and please God, we too a minority, will come into our own." (Applause.)