LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2567, 14 April 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The lutes! addition to the telephone list is Mr Charles Simmons, cycle, motor and general importer, No. 133. Mr W. lliuiier is converting portion of his block of buildings in Main Street now used as a billiard saloon, into two shops. Mr Free, of Palmerston .North, manager of the C. Al. lioss Co., is temporarily in charge of the firm's local business during the absence on holiday of Mr Christie. Mr Young, District Trallie Manager, accompanied by members of (he staff, visited Foxton on Thursday in connection with Departmental business. The s.s. Kennedy crossed the bar inwards on Monday with a general cargo from Wellington. There was plenty of water on the bar but the river is very low, the tides lately being the lowest experienced for some time past. As a result the vessel grounded opposite the jetty. Mr Signal and staff lightered, her yesterday which enabled her to unload at the wharf to-day and take up her usual running.

Plans have been prepared by a Wellington firm of architects for a Town Hall for Levin.

On Sunday night at the Salvation Army, the address will be given by Mrs Simon, who is a recent arrival from Scotland.

Cr. T. Hobson, of the Levin Borough Council, has been nominated for the Levin Mayoralty. The sitting Mayor, Mr Matheson, is not seeking re-election. Hitherto the annual Mayoral allowance in Levin has been £SO, but on the recommendation of the retiring Mayor, Mr D. W. Matheson, the Council has raised the honorarium to £IOO per year. There are 217,237 persons in the Dominion who have insurance policies on their lives, the approximate amount of insurance cover being £55,524,000. This sum represents £50,310,000 on male lives and £5,215,000 on female lives.

In answer to a question at a meeting he addressed at Brooklyn the other evening, Mr R. A. Wright, M.P., and sitting Mayor of Wellington, said he held that four years was quite a sufficient length of time for one man to occupy the position of Mayor.

Mr J. Linklater, M.P., has received an invitation from the Mayor of To Kuiti (Mr Hine) to accompany a Parliamentary party on a visit to the undeveloped portion of the King Country early next, month. Provided he can make it convenient, Air Linklater will make the trip.

At the Auckland Police Court yesterday, Cornelius McDevitt was fined £75 in default two months’ imprisonment, on a charge of keeping- a common gaming house. Security for appeal was fixed at £2O. George Thompson for the theft of chairs, valued at £2O, from two churches, was sentenced to one month’s hard labour, to he followed by three years’ reformative. Accused bad a bad record.

The final squaring up in connection with the Wanganui Carnival and Shopping Week, held immediately prior to Easter was made this week, when tiie revenue was shown lo he £I,OOO and the expenditure £750. Instead of (lie guarantors being called upon to make up a loss as was erroneously reported previously, there is a credit balance for distrihut ion.

An announcement of considerable importance to the country was made by the Prime Minister at Levin on Wednesday. Speaking at the luncheon following the opening of the peace memorial gates at Weraroa, Air Massey forecasted a surplus of £800,0(10 for the financial year just closed, at the same time referring to the remarkable financial recovery of the Dominion.

Air J. Linklater, M.P., lias accepted an invitation to be present at (lie opening of Bruce Park, Silverhope, on Tuesday next. The late Ah- Brace made the conservation of New Zealand forest one of his life’s objects and devoted a large part of his estate to this end. In futheranee of bis wishes, the Trustees have secured an area, of about 40 acres of beautiful typical bush at Silvevhope, which will serve both as a National scenic reserve and as a fitting memorial to one of New Zealand’s pioneers.

The arterial road on the Foxton side of the Whirokino Bridge is still in a. very unsatisfactory condition for heavy traffic and is a source of considerable expense to the Manawatu County Council. The road traverses low-lying and swampy ground which causes subsidence and deep ruts. The County Council applied lo the adjoining local authorities for financial assistance to divert the road to higher ground hut the response was not favourable. In the circumstances it is considered that this matter should he submitted L> a Commission in order to compel other local bodies to bear a fair share of such extraordinary work.

Reporting on a visit to the .Jubilee Institute for the Blind, a representative of I lie Auckland “Star” writes: —“In the office of the secretary is a young lady whose swift and sure movements give no sign of the lack of any faculty. WTith quick, nervous fingers she is tidying a desk, (Hitting things in their right places, and preparing for despatching correspondence. Sitting before a lit lie six-keyed machine, she taps away at a Braille shorthand machine lo the dictation of the secretary, at the vale of eighty words a minute, the writing coming out on a tape, in Ihe form of raised dots. 'l'lk'h she i-liang, - lo a seal in front of an ordinary typewriter, deftly secures paper and carbon, and inserts them in the machine, and rapidly types from the shorthand on tin' tape, reading by an occasional light brush of her lingers. The lot - tor is completed and handed to the secretary for perusal and signature -—a perfect production! This young lady took down and typed for the visitor a long extract from print, her work proving neat and accurate from start to finish. She has been blind from the age of eight, following on an operation to save her life when suffering from complications caused by meningitis. She is as cheerful and self-possessed as any (vpist who works by the blessing of sight.

Only a chill and a simple cold, Only a store where the cure is sold, Only neglect and unwise delay, Only a doctor called in next day. Only a week from your business lost, Only a groan when counting the cost Only one way with the wise, be sure Only Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 6

A sharp earthquake was felt at 3.30 a.in. oil Friday morning-.

Salt Lake City reports that Jack Dempsey, the famous boxer lias purchased a controlling interest and been chosen chairman of the board of directors of the Western Coal Alining Company, a three million dollar concern owning large tracts of ilo lands in Utah. Dempsey, who in his youth was a miner, declares that lie expects to make coal operating his life work.

The fact that butter fat production per cow was steadily improving all Hie time in the dairying country in the South Auckland district over which he recently travelled was emphasised by Sir Harold Beauchamp when interviewed at Wellington. It used to he 1801 b. per cow; but there were now many herds yielding averages of 200, 220 and 2401 b.; and isolated cases of herds turning out 30011). of fat. This, at Is (id per II). he said, meant something like £22 per cow per annum. The kindly elimate, of course, was in favour of high butter fat yields from wellbred cows, other things being equal. Tile Fox ton friends of the Rev. W. Ruine, Anglican vicar of Arartinborongli, will be pleased to hear that he has so far recovered from his recent serious indisposition ns to he able to resume his duties.