LOCAL AND GENERAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 29 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Butter Marketing Committee has reduced the prices of butter as from Monday next. Superfine will be retailed at Is 6d, first grade at Is 5d, and second grade Is 4d. Replying to the toast of the "Army, Navy and Air Forc.e," at the complimentary dinner t^j the Gover-nor-General last evening, Mr M. K. McCulloch suggested that as the British Empire observed Anzac Day as a day of sorrow, they should also set asxdie a day for rejoicing. He thought it would be a good subjeet for d'iseussion at a conference of Dominion Premiers. This evening after the conference of wheat-growers at. Timaru, a delegation comprising Messrs E. P. Lee, M.P.. J. Bitchener, M.P., J. M. Forrester (Chairman of the Waitaki Powcr Board). W. IT. Frith (Oamaru Chambcr of Commerce and Waitaki Power Board and I. Dalmer (Engineer-Manager of the Waitaki Power Board), will wait on the M'pister of Puhlic NYorks (tlie ITon. *K. S. Wiiliams) and the Chief Elec | irical Enginecr to the Government I (Air F, T. Kissel) in conneclion with tlie (levelop^:en, • T clpetrieily for South C'vipfrl'iirv anu Norlh Otagou

i "I was talking rot to a rotten ' man," stated Mr J. J, Langridge, at a recent meeting of the Napier Harhour Board. The member io whom the remark applied askcd for i: withdrawal. "Very well, I'll withdraw it," said Mr Langridge, "hui upon my v^ord, you fellows get on my nerves. You're just like a Io' of children." Colonci Symonds, D.S.O., has bee" aslced by the Ministcr of Mines {• advisc the Mines Department on i!r matters of the organisation am' Iraining of rescue brigades in eoniiection with the coalfields of the Dominion. He has had considerable , expermnee in this work having j organised a group of rescue stations | in Greai Britain. He will leave j Wellington for Huntly next Tues- | day. Jusi makc up your minds to settle d'own on your farms," said J. 0. Coop retiring president of Ihe Canterbury A. and P. Association, at the annual meeting. Ile was delivering a little homily which met with smiles. "It's no use running round spending double the money you've got," he said. "Just settle down/ Professor Wallace, Commonwealth Film Censor, predicts that when the" Victorian Film Acfi which : was passed last year, comes into force in July, children between thc ages of six and sixteen will - be hanned from seeing 55 per cent. of the picture shows, if pictures of i the type now heing shown are then | ;:creeSM«i | At the Justices of the Peace Cdn- 1 tV-rence, Mr Salek moved a Welling- ■ ion remit which had for its objeci ! ihe automatic" suppression of names i of persons convicted on a first j ofTence, and admitted to probation. i The mover urged that the spirit of | the First Offenders' Probation Act | was not heing carried out ifi proba- : tion was granted and the name pub- j lished. After a long discussion the i motion was lost by nine votes to i seyen. j The old and the new methods of transport, the bullock team and the | motor, came into sharp contrasl j near Ltitle River recently, and residents saw the unusual sight of a motor-car being drawn by a span of eight bullocks, owned by Mr John Coop. The magneto of the car had I Mled, and1 the motorists had expend- j ed much energy pushing the vehicle | some distance. They were nearly | at the stage of giving it best when ■ the bullock team, drawing a heavy ; Ipad hove in sight, and the car was • hitched to the rear* of the* waggon. ; The unusual combination* 'naiuralh i attracted widespread atterHo:i and j not a little amusement. j i Much nonsense has been talked J about the posiiion of the farmers in j general (says the Auckland "Her- j ald"). This province is sound at heart. The raajority of the farmers are in a safe position, and although the aftermath of the sluinp has not ibeen reached in every case, the trouble that remains is more of individual than of national moment. "Walking off" is no longer the catch phrase of the countr.yside. Case after case has occurred where men who had followed the fashion of walking off their farms have been glad to walk on again. Several local exhihitors were successful at the Young Bird Specialists Club, Dunedin, last week. The following is a list of awards : — E. H. Braggins first and special, silver spangled Hamburg cockerel, first pullet, first and special A.O.V. cockerel, second pullet, Jas A. Mitchell, second black rosecomb cockerel, first pullet. E. Vernor, game banthms, first and second, black red cockerels, first and second and special, black red pullefs, first pile ■cockerel, first duckwing cockerel, first pair game bantams and secured Otago championship for game bantams and runner up to champ ion? At its last meeting the ManawatuOroua branch of the New Zealand Pig Breeders5 Association decided to approach the Hon. A. D. McLeod, through Mr G. Elliott, M.P., in an endeavour to secure a reduction in shipping freight on grain from the South Island. The folowing reply has been received: "The shipping companies have recently been hurdened with an increase in wages and rates which involve then in an extra expenditure of between £45,000 and £50,000 per annum. It has only been the present depressed state of the ti'ade of the Dominion that has caused the direetors of the shipping companies to refrain from actually advancing freight charges. Under the circumstances nothing can be done at the moment to lighten thc heavy burden that is on the should. j ers of the primary producers." In reference to repres-entations made for an improved wireless news service from New Zealand to trans-Pacilic passenger vessels. ihe Postmaster-G»encral writes as under to Mr W. B. Steel, secretary of the Otago Expansion League: — "I beg to inform you that the wireless telegram of approximateiy 20 wcrds sent out daily from radio Awanui to ships and island stations within rarige is a ^ummary of the political, social, commercial, sporting, and general news of the dominion. Items of important news concerning the hranches of sport mentioned by you are includcd in the message whenever they are available. ' The message is hroadcasted free of1 charge h'y the department, and no restriction is placed on its reception and subsequent use, hut it must be remembered that the department has 110 control over the matter of its publication — -this is a question for the Amalgamated Wireless Company, which controls the wireless work on board most of the ships trading around Ncw Zealand. I am, howevcr, cxpecting to he able to make definite arrangements for publication early next month, and will then consider the question of supplementing the news now hroacl- ; easlnr1 " I -