LOCAL AND GENERAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 14 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cheque for £5 5s has been handed over to the R'sgimental Band's Carxiival fund bv Mr Robert Milh'g'an In one of the senior finals for the Irvine Cup .played during the weekcnd, Miss Romans beat Miss Manchester, 9 — 6. Mrs Edward Dawson, who was repox-ted missing since Febx-uary 21, has been located at , Wellington, staying wxth her sistex\ The motor vehicles registered m the Dominion at the >end of last month totalled 159,972 (North Islancl 98,984, South Island 60,988). Fourteen children attending the Papatoetoe (Auckland) primary s.chool have been attacked with diplitheria. The Health Department howevex*-, does not consxder the situation sex'ious. In order to improve the make-up of New Zealand produce, Sir James Parr, Hihg Commissioner, has requested the Institute of Industxual Art to collect artistic designs for packing goods. A young married woman, wiio was arrested at Dunback, appeared before Mr J. Gerri»e J. P.. on Fx-iday night, charged with the theft of £60, the property of the Postmaster-Gen-eral. A remand till Friday was granted. There is a well-known xxxilitary xnan in Christchurch who has the rexnax'kable record of having been a member of guards of honour to three reigning sovereigns of Great Brita/n and atso the prescnt Prinee ■ of Wales. He is Captain F. Farthing. Iic had been in a Guard of Honour lo Queen Victoria, King Edward. King Gcorge, and the Prince of Wales. His great x'egret is that the Dixke and Duches of York did not bring the little Princess Elizabeth with thexxi;^ie woidd then have seen 'l,*e gep'-rrx'-ns of Royalty. Prohably there is no[ ano^her w New Zealand who has sueh a rc- j orcl, ... J

The Blacks Gold Mining Company Limited has just received the following report from the mixxe xnan- ■ ager: "Withdrawn all casing num- | ber eiglit bore ,shifted plant and j drilled to thirty feet in number j nine bore in brown sand." I "Sister, have you any objections ! to the hrethx*en smoking?" asked ; thc District Grand Master of the fxnaxi'cial secretary of the Paeroa Lodge, the only woman delegate at the axinual conferencc of Manchester Unity Oddfellows, which opened at Auckland last weelc. The representative of the Paeroa Lodge had 110 objections. "God bless you," exclaimed one delegate, who already had his heloved pipe half fil- ! led, and soon nearly all the delegates wei*e puffing 'away contentediy. Close examination of' th-e buyings at the Dunedin wool saies this season lcads to thc statexnent. unofficial but reliable, that the px-ices at the March series showed an advance of from 2d to 3cl per lb. as compared with those of the December sei'ies, and from lld to 2d per lb. as compared with the January series. Roughly put (says the "Star") about half of the total bought at the last sale was for the Continent. The results of the Invercargill saies were about on a parity with those at Dunedin, the dtemand heing keen and the saies pretty well effecting a clearance at maintained rates. The question is sometimes asked as to what wool should net to be profitable to the grower. Any responsible answer thereto must, of course, be guarded and hedged about with conditions, but it may be stated in a very general kind of way that there ax-e unencumbered sheep farmers who can make cross-hred' pay at ls and half-bred at ls 3d. Much depends upon lpcation and also upon the value that a man's lancj stands at in his books. «