NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3883, 13 December 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The pay-out for butterfat supplied to the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., for the month of November will be 1/6 per lb. iSeveral good offers for buildings in Rangitikei Street, Palmerston N., have recently been rejected, there being no anxiety on the part of holders to dispose of their interests. The returning officer for the Stratford electorate was called upon to make an exhaustive investigation in 12 cases of what appeared to be dual voting at the recent election. One prosecution will follow. A firm conducting its business on the northern side of the Square in Palmerston North recently acquired the freehold at a price of £SOO per foot, of premises with an 18 feet of frontage. There are hardly a score of bigger ships afloat than the Oxford which recently reached Sydney on her maiden voyage, and the New Zealand Shipping’ Company’s Rangitikei, to be completed next year, will be almost in the same class. The Mayor of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer) was talking of rival businesses to the city abattoir at a council, meeting (says the “Sun”). “Wouldn’t you like to be without a rival for the Mayoralty ?” asked Councillor E. H. Andrews. “I would like to have you for a rival,” returned the Mayo l ’- “History might repeat itself,” said Councillor Andrews, warningly. “I would hand over the credentials of office without ill-feeling—if you beat me,” said the Mayor.

The Byrd expedition to the Antarctic took a variety of New Zealand products, such as wax matches from Dunedin and Wellington, cheese and heavy footwear from Christchurch, toheroa soup from Auckland, woollen goods from Dunedin, besides rugs, presented to Commander Byrd and Mr. Brophy, chocolates from Dunedin, and also many other New Zealand including tallow, wax candles, hemp, timber, coal and many individual gifts, of equipment and fruit Over £3OOO was paid out in Dunedin for services rendered. Special biscuit food was also prepared in Dunedin for the dogs.

Replying* to a toast at the annual dinner given to the Miranui Football Club at Shannon last Saturday, Mr. A. Seifert referred to the fact that it would be 39 years next September since he first worked in a fiaxmill. The conditions under which the men worked now were much improved since those times, he said, and, added that it was in the interests of the industry that this should be so. No industry could be run without good men and Miranui had always been fortunate in this respect. “We have gone through hard times,” added Mr. Seifert, “but there is every prospect of a rise in the markets.”