LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2630, 8 September 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The schools in this district will resume next Monday.

Mrs P. L. nullings and her daughter, of Wellington, are visiting Eo.xlon on holiday.

The cost of maintaining the Shannon borough roads is £O2 10/- per mile per annum. There are 12 miles of roads in the borough.

A commit tee meeting of the local Tennis Club on Thursday night fixed the date for the holding of the annual hall, October Ist.

The New South Wales Board of Trade has announced that it has fixed the living, wage for male a<l nits at £4 2/- and for females at £2 1/0 a week.

“Don’t he satisfied with base metal when you know you have only to dig n little deeper for gold and find it,” —Mr Roland Foster at the Wellington competitions. A native in the witness box at the last sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Olmkuue said his boy was too weak to work. “But,” said the native, “he plenty strong for the football.”

“1 saw bullocks selling for £ls at Westfield on Wednesday that you could have bought for £(i 10s a month ago,” said a well-known local farmer to a Pukckohc Times reporter.

Owing to Thursday night's meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce conflicting with other meetings, there was only a small attendance and il was decided to postpone same until a later date.

Mr Sian Austin received a- cable yesterday from Japan to (lie effect that his mother and sister are both safe and well and are proceeding to Dong Kong. This welcome news will he read with pleasure hy Hie friends of Mrs and Miss Austin.

Mr T. Westwood, of Auckland, who was Mayor of Fox ton in 1002, is on a health rooruilng trip here and is slaving with his brother, Mr .1. West wood.

In the Auckland 'Magistrate’s Courl yesterday Robert Hutcheson Klruelmn (ID), a fireman, was sentenced to fourteen days’ hard labour IMr assaulting Hie second engineer of Ih<‘ steamer Waipori.

George Cawdran, who made bets with ,i plain clothes constable, was fined CIO in Hie Auckland Police Court for publishing a double chart, and ("20 for being in Hie street fo; I he purpose of bet ting.

Tim Waipukui'nu borough loan of r 14,0011, issued at par, interest 51 per cent., has been oversubscribed. The Telegraph says the success of the limitation of a 51 per edit, loan is a striking tribute to the coafidonee of investors in the solidity of the Central Hawke’s Bay centre.

The Rev. W. TI. Walton informs us that great interest is being evinced throughout the Wellington diocese in the forthcoming Hickson mission. He has the names of ahmil fifteen eases in Ibis parish who will he treated at the mission when tlie missionin' visits Palmerston N.

The United Intercession service on Tuesday next will he held in the Salvation Army hall and will he combined with the Methodist Home ami Maori Missionary Anniversary. The speaker will he the Rev. 11. N. Papakura, well known as an accomplished singer and h.v special arrangement a col loci ion will he taken up for the Methodist Home Missions. A large gathering may he nnticipa I ed.

At the Auckland Police Court a sentence of one month’s imprisonment was imposed on Frederick Wall on McClcnmm, aged t wenty, who posed as a bogus doctor at To Kauwhala, for a breach of his probation on a previous sentence for obtaining ten guineas hy false pretences. The Magistrate, Mr Poynton, said the next time prisoner would get six months.

In a return presented lo Parliament it was shown that there arc 554 owners of estates valued at between £20,000 and £30,000; 271 between £30,P00 and £40,000; 98 between £40,000 and £50,000; 53 between £50,000 and £0*0,000; 104 between £OO,OOO and over. There was granted by way of rebate under the provision of Hie Land Tax Amendment Act, 1921, £140,294 to persons and firms and £30,588 to companies.

“Oil no,” said the Sandon farmer to tlie Feilding Star. “We do not plough three and four inches deep now. Most of the farmers plough seven to eight inches deep. This skimming over the surface is out of date. When I took over my farm 20 years ago, I started to plough deep, and had great trouble with the pan about four inches down which had been left through the light ploughing. It is different now. Deep ploughing is always done early, so that the land may have time to sweeten. The deep ploughing is practiced for all branches of agricultural farming.

W. ('. MacGregor, Solicitor-Gen-eral, has been appointed Judge ox Hie Supreme Courl.

Dr. Elizabeth fliimi lias been appointed Hie representative of the Department of Health at (he third Australasian Conference School of Medical Officers of Health, to be held in Melbourne in November next.

'file Lion. T. M. Wilford, Leader of Ihe Opposition, accompanied by his wife and daughter, left for Sydney yesterday, on route to tlie FarEast, where they will spend some time in travelling. The Chief .Justice (Sir Robert Stout) is an inmate of a private hospital at Masterton. He is making good recovery hut will probably spend a few more days in Masterton before returning to Wellington.

The -quantity of cream received at the Shannon Dairy Co.’s factory last month was much greater than for the corresponding month last year when the factory was receiving tlie cream from the Tokomnrn factory. This increase has been brought about l>.v a larger number of cows being milked in the district.

A visitor to Bulls would think Htal the Town Board has had exemption granted for portion of its public cemetery in respect to the legislat ion governing noxious weeds. The gorse grows profusely, and appearances indicate that this part of the burial ground has little attention paid to il by (lie hoard. —-Wanganui Chronicle.

A young man who was a lawyer in Edinburgh, and who laid down the wig a few years ago in order to try his fortune in New Zealand, is now regarded as one of the most successful farmers in the Oamaru district (stales the North Otago Times). His advice is freely sought and readily given on farming mailers.

’Flic Auckland branch of the Educational Institute, with one dissentient, passed a resolution affirming the opposition to Hie resolution carried hy the Dominion Conference in favour of the introducing of Bible reading in schools during school hours, such resolution being- contrary to the votes of tho majority of the branches, and taken when a large number of delegates had left for their homos.

Tlie New Zealand Government intends to co-operate in the assistance of the Japanese people in their time of trouble. The Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. Sir Francis Belli announced after Hie meeting of Cabinet yesterday that New Zealand would he prepared to assist in any direction required and to that end a cablegram was to ho dispatched to the British Government to ascertain in wlmt way the Dominion could he.-l co-operate.

There were numerous mishaps in Hie Hack Steeplechase at the Marlon Races on Wednesday. Out of fen runners To Ton was the only one to finish outside the placed horses. Birkwiek broke a fetlock, Glenform came to grief at the obstacle at Ihe commencement of the back sfretch and broke her back. Both animals had to he destroyed. The local rider of Glenform, John Proctor, had a lucky escape.- W-hen liis mount fell he managed to push himself clear of the struggling horse lull in the fall his shoulder was disioeat ed.

Tlie Rev. J, 11. Bredin was inducted to the charge of St. David’s Pi-oshyloriaii Church, Terrace End, Palmerston North, on Wednesday evening. There was a large attendance al the service. The Rev. F. McDonald (Foxton) preached the sermon and the Rev. Millar (Feilding,) addressed the minister and congregation. Speeches of welcome were made by oilier church officials and at the conclusion the Rev. Mr Bredin returned thanks. A social was subsequently held and a dainty supper served by the ladies. An amusing incident occurred during the screening of “Robin Hood” at the Royal Theatre the other evening. In order to give a realistic touch to Robin’s blast on his horn, a local musician,'who is a

stickler for correct time, essayed to accompany Robin’s movement and sound the blast. A handerehief was seen lo lly from the bell of the cornet followed by a most weird sound, some seconds after Robin had completed his stunt. The youngsters in the audience fairly shrieked at the belated noise. Soon after a figure was seen to depart from the orchestral well. Another musician attempted to catch Robin, but his effort was even more belated than his skilled comrade, which created a furl her outburst of derisive hilarity from Hie juveniles.

“It is to me an appalling fact,” says the Hon. IV. H. Triggs, “that in this young country, naturally perhaps the healthiest in the world, where the conditions of life are easy and with a population of only a million and a quarter, there are about live thousand patients on tlie registers of the mental hospitals, and that there are upwards (if 800 fresh cases every year. Suppose you could see those eight hundred unfortunates in procession on their way to the hospital gates —little children with inherited insanity, poor girls, mental deficients unable to control themselves, epileptics, general paralytics, melancholics bent on suicide, maniacs, with the violent fit upon them, and, saddest of all, old men and women who have, many of them, done good service to the State in their day, but have lived too long and are now suffering from senile decay, and are mentally and physically helpless. If you could see this ghastly procession, would it not get on your nerves? Would you not cry out, ’ln God’s name is this to go on for ever? Can nothing he done to stop it?’”

“We are not having finy more I i nutile with our pole gangs,” remarked AH' W. A. Waters, engineer of t lie Ahum watu-Oroua Power Board to a “Standard” reporter. “Since the incident of last week we have keen obtaining twice the amonnt of work from the men,” added Air Waters.

“1 understand that a special hospital train conveying the sick will be dispatched from New Plymouth on the occasion of the visit to Pal-’ rnerston North next month of the Hickson faith-healing mission,” remarked the Rev. Ff. 0. Blackburne at All Saints’ parish social at Palmerston North.

Tn his forestry lecture at Auckland, Mr -T. W. Poynton, S.M., referred to the Taneknha, a New Zealand tree, wheli gave a most valuable red dye, used long ago by the Maoris. The Germans got a pink dye from it also, which they used for gloves. Pink dye from aniline did not stand perspiration like it, and the use of the dye from the taneknha gave the Germans almost a monopoly in the sale of pink glov-

A remarkable coincidence attaches to the deaths of All’s Elizabeth Barnes and Mr Andrew Jennings, a brother and sister —two well-known and esteemed Nelson colonist, in that they both passed away a short time after 7 o’clock on Friday evening last, their deaths being coincidental almost to the minute. The deceased were both members of a well-known Nelson family. Their parents came out. to Nelson in the ship Alary Ann, and the family have lived at Nelson for some 82 years.

The funeral of the late Airs W. C. Nation took place at Levin yesterday afternoon. The casket was covered with floral tributes. The service at the graveside was conducted by Air Burgess, president of (he Wellington Spiritualists’ Association and the husband of deceased, who delivered a most eloquent and impressive address on the transition into a larger life and the ministrations of angels and recalled the oft-quoted words of his late wife “’Tis better on before.” He concluded by strewing the casket with white flowers in place of the orthodox “dull clod of earth.”

She was a nice girl. She came to New Zealand to find a husband, and the fact was mentioned disparagingly against her in the Wellington Supreme Court, where it was suggested she was an “adventuress.” Thereupon her counsel retorted: “Surely il is not expected that every one of the two million surplus women in England to-day are going to remain home, sit liv the fire, and become old maids. This woman is a cultured English lady, formerly a school teacher. Naturally the logical comm a- on o de-

sire of every woman !. uhimately to marry.” That was her purpose in coming to New Zealand. < included counsel.

The annual meeting of the Royal Areli Chapter U.A.0.D., was held at Levin on Wednesday evening. Bro. Ball, R.A.P., presiding. The following officers were elected and duly installed: R.\.C. President, Bro. Ball (Foxton), R.A. Bro. B. Tippler (Shannon); R.V.A. Bro. Macintosh (Levin); treasurer, Bro. de Melmanehe (Levin); R.A.T., Bro. Svmonds (Otaki); R.A.B.’s, Bro.-,. Wilson (Otald), and Wilson (Levin) R.A.V.8., Bros, Port (Foxton) and Crowlher (Shannon); R.A.1.G., Bro. Rippin (Levin). The installation was carried out by Bro Ball, R.A.P. It was decided to hold circuit meetings at Shannon, Foxton, Levin and Otaki. The next ritual meeting is to he held at Foxton on the first W ednesday in December. It was also resolved to hold a ritual contest in Otaki early in April of next year. The Education Department lias notified the R.S.A. that the Lutheran school at Kongo tea is not a German school. Religious instruction, conformity with the beliefs of the Lutheran Church, was to be given, but the German language was not to be used. It was quite clear that the school could not be a “Ger- 1 man school” but only a school that was to be attended by the children of adherents to the Lutheran Church. The teacher had taken the oath of allegiance and a guarantee had been given in the following terms; — “Loyal British sentiments and patriotism will be taught as a mat ter of religion and consciences.” Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice) is notably lacking in ostentation, and is not at all averse to using the ordinary everyday street cars. Prior to the installation of the electrical trams in Wellington Sir Robert sat one day in a crowded horse car, cheek by jowl with the proletariat, but more particularly by a large labourer, who incinerated tobacco with great skill. A well-known Wellington business man, finding he had inadvertently come out without money, explained to the conductor his position, saying he would paynext day. The labourer with the pipe turned to Sir Robert and said: “There y.’are mate! If it had bin tin; likes o’ me or you he’d have called the police!”