LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2544, 17 February 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr M. R. Varnham, of Levin, has been appointed architect for the Foxton Borough Council Chambers. A special meeting of the local school committee will be held on Monday night to make final arrangements in connection with the school picnic to be held on Wednesday.

An old man named Jeremiah O’Reilly had his leg practically severed while attempting to hoard a moving tram ear at Auckland on Thursday.

The Queensland sugar cane crop for 1922 is expected to total 2,194,712 tons, which with the New South Wales yield, will total 305,000 tons of sugar for Australia which will provide a surplus over the consumption.

“Pay him (lie money and ask him to do it again,” said a member of the Christchurch Fire Board on Tuesday night when it was decided to pay a reward of £5 to Police Sergeant A. C. Quartermain for securing tlu> conviction of two youths recently who gave a" false lire alarm. At a meeting of the sub-commit-tee of t'he Borough Council, set up to arrange details in connection with the erection of council chambers last night, a ground plan of the building was decided on. It was aldecided to refer the question of using the insurance fund in band to (lie borough solicitors. Mr Austin Charles, has been transferred from Palmerston to the local post office staff as telegraphist and Mr Morrison has been transferred to Wellington. Mr Charles in an ex-Foxton State School scholar and joined the postal service some seven years ago at Palmerston.

While waiting in the corridor of Parliament on Thursday for an opportunity to get a sent in one of the galleries at Parliament, Airs E. S. Dick dropped dead. She was the widow of the late Air Thus. Dick, barrister and solicitor, who was a son of the lion. Thos. Dick, onetime Minister of Education and was on a visit from Dunedin. The triennial elections of licensing committees will take place on March 13, nominations closing on March .3. The Parliamentary rolls will be used for the elections, and t licse will be closed next Monday. Persons previously enrolled who did not vote at the recent general election will be reinstated on the roll on application, provided they are still residing in the district. The Public Health Department announced that investigations made by its bacteriologist in Christchurch into the cases of food poisoning at New Brighton, have been attended by a certain measure of success. Bacterial poisoning, which Dr.'Telford, Aledical Officer of Health for Canterbury, said in evidence, had been found had proved to be the typhoid germ. The research is continuing. The department is working hard to solve the mystery surrounding the poisoning and success may attend its efforts at any time. One of Messrs Clements’ motors, with seven passengers aboard, ran off the Otira Gorge road at the “Hairpin” bend on the zig-zag on Thursday afternoon while proceeding to Otira. The fall of 80 feet was broken by willows. A lady passenger grasped a tree in her fall, hanging suspended till lifted down. The only injuries were sustained by Constable Baird (Cobden); who was pinned beneath the ear and had his chest hurt. 'The car, after somersaulting, lay on the willows ten feet below the road.

In reference to the liy nuisance, a well-known Auckland doctor spoke strongly and to the point recently when he said: “The house lly is a lilt liyUnscH, and it would he an excellent idea, from the point of view of the public health, if a ‘lly-svvat-ting' campaign were organised in Auckland, similar to what is done in America. A campaign of, say, a week’s duration, during which everyone is honour bound to kill as many Hies as possible, would have a good result in diminishing the plague of Hies, these food-poisoneirs, which are so prevalent just now, more especially in the vicinity of stables.”

The old adage which says “man proposes but God disposes,” is being verified in connection with the Mangahao hydro-electric works. It has been stated over and over again that the “juice” would he turned on at the end of this year. It is now officially stated that owing to the recent storm, the completion of the work will be delayed for three months. The Horowhenua and Mana-watu-Oroua Power Boards have been and are working with a view to be in readiness to distribute the current to consumers in their respective districts by the end of this year and the delay will mean, a loss of revenue.

A man named Jfaek O’Connell,, aged 52 years, fell off a train near Marton yesterday and was returned to the Palmerston North hospital by the Wanganui train last night. His injuries are not serious. The Rev. Thompson, of the China Inland Mission is a visitor to Foxton, and wiU conduct the evening service in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow. He will also conduct the' afternoon service at Rangiotu.

Staff.-Vaptain Holmes will visit the local Coips of the Salvation Army here to-morrow in the interests of the young people. The StaffCaptain hails from Yorkshire, is a fluent speaker with much experience, having spent some years in England and other countries before coining to New Zealand. Mr J. Thompson, of the China Inland Mission was present at the Shannon Methodist Guild on Wednesday afternoon and gave a most interesting address upon his work in China. Mr Thompson has consented to preach at the Foxton Methodist Church on Sunday, March 4th, and at Oroua Downs on February 25th:

Attention is directed to an advertisement in this issue concerning a special missionary meeting to he held in the Town Hall to-morrow at 3 p.m. The speaker is Air ,J. Ward Wilson who has had a record of over 30 years Christian service in China. The public are cordially invited to hear this veteran missionary. In the evening Mr Wilson speaks in (lie Public Hall at the Beach.

Cyclists generally are keen sports and keen buyers, and appreciate a good article at a moderate price, ’file legitimate cycle trader realises this fact and endeavours to procure and supply only such goods as will give full value for the money, whether the price of the article is 5/- or £5. The bone fide trader with business premises also realises that the reputation of a business has to he maintained by rendering good service to the cycling public at a reasonajble charge. Mr C. Simmons, Alain Street Depot, is a hone fide business which is out to give you expert advice and attention, together with the keenest prices. Cycle covers are stocked at prices ranging from 9/6 (tubes from 4/3) and the depot specialises in the cycle trade, and are not experimenters*