THE OTAKI MAIL. Publishes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 30 June 1919, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Publishes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The cost of printing the Board of Trade report on the coal industry was

£220. The monthly stock sales at Otaki take place on Wednesday next. See our advertising columns for details. Those large and ugly handbags so favoured some years ago are now out of date. In their place come small, neat suede purse affairs which arc decidedly better and more dainty. A 5 (line array of New Zealand made suede handbags is now on view at .Stiles and I Matheson’s, Levin.

Commenting on the light railways used and laid down at Ypres by New Zealand Engineers and Pioneers, Mr l'irani in the course of his lecture at Palmerston said there were numbers of places in New Zealand where such railways could be used to enormous advantage to the people living in them. 1 The children of the Mastcrtou District High School were given a halfholiday yesterday in honour of the an- , nouncement that Germany had accepted I the terms of peace unconditionally, jMr Jackson addressed the children upon the significance of the announcement.

At the second day's Napier Park meeting a trainer was found to have obtained an owner’s ticket, and handed it to a private individual, v.ho gained admittance on it. This was reported by a stipendiary steward. The trainer was summoned before the judicial cornj mittee and fined the full penalty ot ■ £2O.

| Mr P. Fraser. M.P., and Mr R. J Semple. M.P.. have been nominated tin- ; opposed as the Labour candidates for ■ Wellington Centra! and Wellington j South respectively, and will go to the ’ poli at the general election as the official Labour candidates. For the other city seats preliminary polls will be accessary, Mr W. M. Clark, the Levin draper, .'is now preparing for his annual big ! winter sale. A few typical bargains I ruling are advertised in Mr Clark’s advertisement in to-day’s issue on our first page, to which we invite readers’ - attention. Residents of the district i will find it to their advantage to attend this sale, and they would do well to call at Clark’s without delay. The sale commences on Thursday neat, July 3rd. The social held in the Otaki Town Hall on Friday night to raise funds for the Tainui meeting house was one of the best held in the district for some i time. There was a satisfactory attendance. the door was in perfect order, the music- ox the best, and an abundance of choice edibles. Great credit is | due to the management tor the successor' the function, and especially to Mr ' \V. King {secretary). An elderly mat:. Patrick Cava no | - dairyman, of Kniwarra. v.a- fined £4O I by Sir I-’. V, Frazer. S.M.. at Welling- : ton on Friday 'last for .selling milk other thru; that produced from a regis-(tc-red dairy. The magistrate, described i the state of affairs as' most revolting, s and added there was direct evidence* ! that a .number of eases of-enteric had been infeeted frpig the daily, riuch a isms!- be nD plague spo.. ' '-"MBBRjr J£m; V Woods’ Great Pe^ r ' > For Chronic Chest Complaictag

Tenders for the supply #f 225 yards of metal for the Otaki Town Board close on Thursday with the Town Clerk

(Mr M. H. Ayre). The monthly meeting of the committee of the Horowhehua Patriotic Association will be held at Levin on Wednesday afternoon next. Mr A. H. Cockayne, Government. Biologist, has consented to give an address in Levin on “The Economies of ( Grass Farming compared with those of ; Intensive Cropping. ”

I The ratepayers of Kangiora borough have decided, by 151 votes to 115, to ! abolish the* present system of rating upon the unimproved value and to revert to rating on the capital value. The children attending the Otaki Native College and the Otaki Convent School arc at present enjoying their . winter vacation. The State school will j not “break-up” for some time yet. ■ The progressive euchre party, Druids v. Bowlers, which takes pl&e iu the Druids ’ Hall on Wednesday night, promises to'be a keen contest. It is hoped that a large muster will participate, j The formation of a croquet club for i Otaki should be hailed with pleasure, j and; wo expect to see a largo gathering of ladies at Thursday’s meeting, I which takes place in the Druids’ Hall

• at 3 o’clock. J There is a good deal of diphtheria . about Fcilding and district- just now, 1 and there is something of an epidemic of it in the Rongotea and Carnarvon . districts, although tho cases arc not

I serious. I Mr Balsillio’s land, comprising 410 I acres of rich Kairanga land, lias been ! sold to Mr Gray, of Maiigawcka, at I £IOO per acre, says the “Palmerston I Daily Times.” A section of 30 acres near town, -without' buildings, was rcI cently sold at £llO per acre. ■ The proprietors. of seven continuous picture theatres in Auckland were'lined ' £5 and costs each for keeping open at j other than the prescribed hours. Dcj fendants urged that their business • would suffer greatly. The magistrate j remarked that they] eould increase the I prices, and it is understood that this

course will bo adoped. If you are wanting a pair of slippers or goloshes for the winter, give us a trial. New stock just in. Also to clear, ladies’ and gents’ blue fcit-lincd slippers, with leather soles, 3s lid.— Irvine’s .Shoe Store, Otaki.—Advt. Speaking at (he Soldiers’ Club at Palmerston Mr F. Pirani, in commenting on politics in other countries, said that from his observation in other countries (America, England, France, and Canada), New Zealand was the cleanest place politically of any country he had seen. He did not; say that New Zealand politicians were more competent—they were not—but for hoßesty and straight dealing they could not be beaten in the world.

“When do fruit trees begin to wear outi”' was a question asked of a witness by ilr Justice Hosking in the Supreme Court at Nelson last week. The witness, a Itiwaka resident, replied that he knew of an orchard in his district 43 years' old which was bearing as well as ever it did. TJe believed some apple trees in the district were sixfy years old. Peaches ran out, in 10 or 12 years, but pears were long-livers. Souvenir hunters who would like to decorate their gardens with IS-poondcr guns may soon be able to do so, says the “Loudon Daily Mail.” The Surplus Government Property Disposal Board of the Ministry of Munitions arc offering 2000 and 3000 guns ranging from 18-pounders to luin howitzers. Application from public bodies and factories are invited, and the question of disposing of some of the guns to private individuals for momentous is to be considered. The prices to be asked have not been fixed, but they will be based on the scrap value of the gun, plus the cost of transport from Prance and expense of dismantling the gun so as to render it harmless. On this basis it is estimated that an S-poundcr will be offered at well under £SO. Golf clubs are regarded as likely applicants. The owner of a dog found straying at Katihiku is advertised for. If not claimed and cos.t of advertisement defrayed the animal will be destroyed. Speaking of the treatment of limbless men in the course of his lecture at Palmerston Mr P. Pi rani said that what had happened with regard to these men was to the everlasting disgrace of the Government. He pointed out that originally men were fitted out in England with two artificial limbs before coming back to New Zealand. The Government bad given orders that only one limb was to be supplied before the men .left. England, and that the other was to be made for them in the factory established at Wellington. : This factory had been so badly martaged that the workmen had left it. The Government had insisted os the limbs being supplied by them and the men had to wait till they .were supplied. There were as many a. 600 men waiting lor these limbs in New Zealand at the present time. “Every member of the Government should havca limb cut off and go through the same experience themselves,” said the j speaker.

•Since the commencement of the football season there has been. a marked gTcnetli of interest everxtrhere in the national game. This is probably <iue to the fact that so many “sports ” are back front “oyer there.".and those in a position to jndge • predict that such

sports as foot ball gn<} hotkey trill very soon come into their own again, after the years of war. The alert, keen young men who play these garnet liht, to study their personal appearance both i on aad off the field, taking a laudable I pride in their ftfaes:-. They dr.-.- well, and many of then* wear out srtvlUlr' Velour Hats, which are seat tree for -7~ <>j. Arc you one of ibessi - GSO. TOvVLBS, LTD., 2£stazers Street. Wellington. .For jC2sildren*VHacking Conga, v - 4 , •

Ifc is stated that a new and up-to-date garage will- be erected in Levin at no distant date. The German mine, discovered near Ohau last week, was exploded on Friday. Tho noise was plainly heard in Otaki. .The snow on the Cashmere Hills iu Christchurch is lying a foot deep, and from three feet to six feet in the drifts. j. y. Messrs Begg and Co.’s expert tuner (Mr Marriott) will bo in Otaki for the ■next few days, and notifies elsewhere that any orders left at Mr Cockrell’s will receive prompt attention. Door takings at the Tainui dance at the Otaki Town Hall on Friday totalled, with the sale of tickets, £S 12s lid. Expenses amounted to £3, thus leaving a balance of £5 12s lid to be handed

over. Air J. Staples, of Manakau-, is again to the fore with early lambs, he having a few fine sturdy lambs sporting in his paddocks. Mr Staples is nearly always the first in the district with early lambs. Fishermen in the Paraparauwu district have done well of recent date, despite unfavourable weather. Several have made their camping ground on a small island at-.tho south-east cud of Kupiti. A. public meeting will be held at

Manakau on Friday night next, as advertised, to consider the advisability . of establishing a branch of the Y.M.C.A. at Manakau. All interested in the welfare of tho young men of the district arc urged to attend. A dance, to celebrate the signing of pence, wi!l be held in the Otaki .Town Hall this evening, when prices, to cover bare expenses, will be charged. It is hoped there will bo a full muster and tho occasion made a festive one. Mr W. H. Field has sent a lengthy letter to Sir James Allen, in reply to the Wellington Labour Committee’s protest against Mr Field’s recent speech at Palmerston North., Mr Field states that the main object of the address under discussion was to urge the organisation of farmers throughout New Zealand to maintain their rights, and particularly to check the spread of , Bolshevism in the country. Farm properties still continue to change hands at an alarming rate in this district, and it is stated that an Ohau property, some years ago bought by an Otaki resident at £7 10s, changed hands last week at £l2O. Another property at Levin sold at £OS, and a few _ acres of farm land at Otaki at £IOO. : An Auckland buyer is now searching ; the Otaki district with a view of securing a suitable area on which to j

grow citrous fruits. Mr C. Billings, of Itikiorungi, met with a nasty accident under rather peculiar circumstances a few days ago. He was cutting the head from a tree for milling purposes when the head snapped and Air Billings was precipitated into a deep gully, striking the keen blade of his axe—which had fallen from his hands and was lying edge' upwards—with his face. The axe almost severed Mr Billings’ nose, inflicting a fearful wound. However, the injury was skilfully attended to by Dr. Hutlnvaite, am) Air Billings is now doing nicely.

Owing to restricted train services, which will come into fofee ou AVcdsesday next, the mail service for Otaki will be as tinder:—Mails for AVeilingion close at 9 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., for Palmerston N. at 10.30 a.m. and 4.25 p.m. The time of clearance of receipt boxes will not be interfered with. All registered letters and parcels must he posted half an hour before mails close. An endeavour is to be made to form a branch of the Returned Soldiers ’ Association at Otaki, and for this purpose a meeting will be held iu the Druids’ Hall on Friday night, when it is hoped all returned soldiers will make a j’oint of attending. Captain T. B. Bax i 3 convener. Bootmaking.— V. Barrett wishes to notify tho public of Otaki and district that he has resumed business as boot and shoemaker. Old and new customers please take notice. Address: Dunsfan Street, Otaki.—Advt. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cora,