THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 19 April 1919, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford is taking n poll on a proposal to borrow £7OOO l'or electric lighting extension. * Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., have been granted permission to erect sale yards in the borough of Foxton. The recent cold snap was responsible for a further mantle of snow on flic Tararuas. tl is, however, quickly disappearing'. A steamer has been chartered to tow piuus insignis logs, estimated at between three and four million feet of timber, from Cambridge to Mercer. It 'is considered that it will take three years to finish the contract. The half-holiday question is being freely discussed in Palmerston North just now, in view of a poll to be taken shortly. A strong effort is being made to change the present Wednesday halfholiday to Saturday, and a keen fight is anticipated.

Over SO soldier out-patients at the Palmerston North Hospital are receiving massage treatment at the hospital. The Hospital Board has made arrange-

ments for its masseur to visit Christchurch in order that he may become acquainted with the very latest methods of massage treatment.

Very considerable interest is being taken in the plain and fancy dress dance, with masks, to be held at tho Manakau Town Hall on Thursday next. The management is making elaborate arrangements, and the function pro-

mises to be a very successful and cn.iovable one. The proceeds are in aid of improvements to the Manakau tennis court.

Mr .J. K. Hornblow mentioned at the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board’s meeting on Thursday when speaking on the question of epidemic helpers, that thirty Foxton ladies met every Tuesday evening to study nursing under the vicar’s wife, who was an old hospital matron. They were being trained tkor-

-u Shly to got on the job in ease of nother outbreak of the epidemic.

At the Palmerston North Hospital Board meeting on Thursday it was resolved to write to the medical practitioners in the H'orovs-benua district, requesting that patients be. sent to the Palmerston North hospital where practicable. The Board took this action in consequence of a number of patients being sent to hospital, some of whom the Board thought might have been treated more economically at Palmerston North. The Te oHro picnic and sports, to be held on Easter Monday, is practically

the only attraction in this district on that day, and in consequence of this and the fact that an enjoyable day is promised, there should be a large crowd present. A long programme of sports items will bo the chief feature, and in these keen competition is expected. In the evening a dance will be held. Ladies are asked to help, both afternoon and evening, by taking a basket.

The detailed licensing figures show that iks jpwn of Masterton itself favoured prohibition by JC9 votes (1337 to 116 S). The town and suburbs favoured prohibition by 59 votes. The Masterton electorate, which embraces Eketa-

Uuna and many distant .country villages, favoured continuance by 53 votes. Tire Eketahuna figures were 262 for continuance and 215 for^rohifoitioii. Mr 3. Dawson, a returned soldier who has seen murk ftf the ups and downs of warfare, and who is not unknown to tliis district, has opened at- tea-rooms in Hannah's Buildings, Mill Boad, Otaki, and by strict "attention to busi* hopes to merit a deal of support. The rooms have been nicely fitted up and arranged, ua-j preparations mane for ike dispensing of teas, suppers, etc.. while a large stock of confeenoar.rj", cordials, small goods, etc., wii! be ou >talo at lowest rate*. Visitor* from the country "may rely upon attention, while a room has been set apart for ladies. We wish Mr QafM<m taacesss i£ his sets' .sphere.

\ All offertories on E;t»t-cr Day at the Otaki Anglican churches in this district . will bo handed to the vicar. The offices of Messrs Kirk and Bapley and Mr/ G. H. Harper, solicitors, will remain closed till 9 a.m. on the 28th inst. The auctioneering firms operating in this district have decided to hold no sale at Waikanae on the 23rd owing to tho Easter holidays. ' f A w.ell-lfliown Pahjatua me die a! man l publishes his views on the liquor proI bl.etn. He says that the true solution is I to wipe out spirits of all kinds, except j for medicinal purposes, and reduce all ] beer and homo-made wines and vine- ‘ yard wines to 4 per cent alcohol. I At.a meeting of tho Poston branch | of the New Zoaland Labour Party it I was decided t@ link up with tho Labour ! Eepresentatiqn Committee for the Manawatu electorate, and Messrs Bowlatt, Aitchison, and Parkin were ap- . pointed delegates, t Winter has set- in very early this seai son, and the frosts are already very | keen. Yesterday morning, and this : morning our linotype machinery 'would : not work freely until heated up by t means of a gas ring. The lubricating j oil was nearly frozen, and took mao time to liquify.—“Eltham Argus.” j Ones again an opportunity occurs for. the women of Levin and Oiaki to ) replenish the household linen chest. ‘ We refer to Stiles and Matheson V, re- ’ markable offer of calico at less than ) today’s wholesale prices. Their adi in this paper will explain i more fully. Bead it! I • i Easter is near, and tliero is need ox ! a new pair of beets and shoes. You ! cannot do better , than give me a call, i Prices are right. A new range now : showing. Late night Thursday, closed {Saturday. | Otaki.—Advt. j At the last meeting of the Foxton ! Borough Council a drainage and arj tesian water scheme was" submit!ed at j a cost of £35,754, the former to. cost I £13,605 and tho latter £22,089. . Tho j estimated annual cost to the borough would be £2780. It was, however, decided to leave the matter in abeyance, ■ pending further inquiries, j The returning soldiers by. the trans- ! jicirt Willochra, which berthed at Weii li/gton on Tuesday, expressed the opinion that 80 per eent of those on I board had voted at the licensing rcj ferendum in favour of continuance, j One man said that, of the 106 S soldiers on board only 12S voted for prohibition. Bootmaking. —F. Barrett wishes to notify tho public of Otaki and district that ho ha? resumed business as boot and shoemaker. Old and new customers pleaso take notice. Address: Dunstan j Street, Otaki.—Advt. , John Gordon Forbes, accton welding : expert lor Collelt and Son, collapsed under an anaesthetic in' a dental room ;at Dannevirkc on Wednesday while j having teeth extracted. Deceased was ’ the only son of the foreman of the

boiler department in the Addington Workshops. He was twenty-nine years j of age, and leaves a widow and one j child.

A branch of Ihe New Zealand Lobaur party has been formed at Beefton and 500 members enrolled. It is definitely announced that the party will contest the Motueka scat at the general elections, and that nominations be immediately invited from eligible persons to stand. Selection, if necessary by plebiscite, will be taken to select a Cabinet. Henry John Earle, aged 3-4, son of Mr. A. G. Earle, a well-known resident ox Otumootae, and formerly of "Wendon, Southland, was found dead on Wednesday evening. Deceased went' ;koot:ng about 3 o’clock, and not rei .urniaij to tea search was made and his body found. Apparently the trigger of the gun caught when decease.! was getting through a fence, and the charge lodged in his head. Deceased leaves a widow and two young children.

- Thirteen Maori soldiers belonging to the Main Body were charged on Wed-

nesday morning, before the Magistrate’s Court, at WhangaTei, with the theft of a ten-gallon barrel of beer from the Kaikohe railway station platform. They were on the way to Whangarei to get their discharge, locked themselves in, and drank from it out of a bucket. All were more or less intoxicated, and one locked himself in the lavatory, and the door had to be taken off to get him out. The Bench took a lenient view, of the case, and fined accused the cost of the beer and 3s each and 5s IGd railway fare.

Elsewhere, by advertisement, • the Xr.r Zealand Alliance tenders hearty thanks to all those who worked and voted for Prohibition on April 10th. It is also stated that if the final result disclosed a majority against Prohibition. as seems probable, a further campaign for the abolition of the liquor traffic, without compensation, at the General Election, will be immediately commenced. The Alliance appeals to

all electors to support this proposal, and specially requests all who are willing to assist in the campaign to send their once to the local organ-isation-or to the head office in Wellington.

Baling that male attire was not unbecoming to Mrs Mary Berths Schmidt, (*iia» ."Mister Schmidt,”. Judge Hogan, in the St. Louis police court. refused to line the voting uroa&n, who for two years posed as a man and who "married” her cousin. Anna Assad®, last, October. "I think yoa look very nice,” said the court- Mrs Schmidt was eia« in her neatly pressed trousersand pinchbaek eoaf. She Explained that -he bad adopted the garments because she could earn £lO a month a* a man, and 25s a week a« a woman, "it a woman can earn Ids a day by re.'r-cn ,!f wearing trouser-. I »ay. wear 'em.” said the eoarj. and "Mister Schmidt” walked out of court with t. sjtilrs on ‘ ’ Lis 5 ’ face. For Chronic Chert Cntypluints, Wood:- ’ Great Peppermint Cure.