LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2546, 22 February 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

See the teaching staff as salesmen and saleswomen at the school shop day on Saturday. Quick sales and a pleasant smile for all. The Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. paid out 1/7 per lb to suppliers for butter fat last month. Eightyfour tons of butter was manufactured by the company last month. Speaking of the benefits of electricity, Mr A. Seifert stated at the Horowhenua Power Boai’d meeting on Tuesday, that he recently visited a dairy district where electric power was in use, and after their experience with it the dairymen said it was a vast improvement over oil engines for driving milking machines and was clean and cheap. They did not wish to go back to the old order of things.

“It is always nice to know that we are giving local manufacturers a chance,” said Mr A. Seifert at the meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board on Tuesday when Mr OverTon, the engineer, stated that he was purchasing some of the electrical supplies from a New Zaland company, the goods being manufactured in the Dominion. “We are get-, ting value for our money,” the engineer added.

A correspondent of a London paper draws attention to an interesting comparison between prices in London and Petrograd as an example of “home life” under the Soviet Government. For a Singer sewing machine costing £7 l‘2s in London, the price in Petrograd is 737,200,000 roubles. An English pound can secure credit for 97,000,000 roubles in Russia. An effort is being made by the Soviet Government to meet the situation by issuing a new rouble on .January 20, when 10,000 of the old roubles will be exchanged for one of the new series, but this will make the position no better for the people of: Russia except that they will not need a wheelharrow to tote their money round when they go on a shopping cxpedit ion.

The following “wanted” advertisement appeared some time ago in an English provincial newspaper: —“A lady in delicate health wishes to meet a useful companion. She must be domesticated, musical, an early riser, amiable, of good appearance, and have experience in nursing. A total abstainer preferred. Comfortable home. Mo salary.” A few days afterwards the advertiser received by post a basket labelled “This side up with care —perishable.” On opening it, she found a tabby cat, with a letter tied to its tail. It read thus: —“Madame, —In response to your advertisement, I am happy to furnish you with a very useful companion, which you will find exactly suited to your requirements. She is domesticated, a good vocalist, an early riser, possesses an amiable disposition, and is considered handsome. She has had great experience as a nurse, having brought up a large family. I need scarcely add that she is a total abstainer. A salary is no object to her; she will serve yon faithfully in return for a comfortable home.”

School shop day on Saturday. Help the kiddies by patronising the shop. Gifts thankfully received. The police desire us to state that a bicycle awaits an owner at the local police station. The Wakatipu Mail is responsible for the following story: At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Queenstown, counsel in a case to be heard said: “I have two witnesses, one is a gentleman in Queenstown, and the other is ” Here a slight hesitation on the part of counsel caused Mr G. Cruickshank, the presiding magistrate, to interpose: “O, is the other not a gentleman?” Counsel at on ye retorted: “I don’t know, but he is an ex-magistrate!” A Palmerston North professional man was recently surprised on opening his small office safe by a large rat jumping out and across his arm. From its almost blue black colour, he is convinced that the animal is the native Ivioi'e, which was supposed to be extinct. Since 1863 when a plague of these rats infested the camps of the Imperial Troops in Taranaki and Waikato, they have seldom been seen. The success that lias attended the working of the R.imu dredge at Hokitika has aroused the residents to a. sense of the possibilities of the gold mining industry in their immediate locality, says the “Inangalma Times,” and a prospecting association has been formed with the view of exploring the district for the discovery of other leads of the precious metal. This association, having been strongly supported by citizens, has now under consideration the most important one of locality to be prospected.