MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 29 October 1919, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

‘‘We believe that the only true method of repatriation is w get a man happily married, and settled down,” remarked Mr W. Leadley, of Christchurch, in speaking at a deputation of returned soldiers, which waited on members of Cabinet anti Parliament. *‘l have had some experience. When I returned .1 was very unsettled, but I ultimately married, and since then I have been well settled.” (Loud laughter.)

The “Feilciing Star” says: "From a dairy farm of S2 acres, a farmer in this district last season received £IOGG worth of butter-fat. The price paid by the factory was Is Gd per lb. A little calculation shows that the dairyman’s return equalled £l2 per acre, and interest on the capital value, plus rates and taxes, would amount to £5 per uere. The money the farmer received for calves and pigs paid the cost of labour, so that the farmer made a clear profit of £S per acre for the season.”

Writiiyj from San Francisco, a Wanganui resident states: ‘‘l have had only one meal at our hotel. A dinner costs anything from Gs fid to 20s. In one of the three dining-rooms at the hotel people get up and dance between each course. You will see some pull out a cigar, and have a smoke before going on with the next course. After dinner they go on with supper till one o’clock in the morning. As soon ns the music starts people begin to dance —the fox trot, jazz and another dance. They arc dancing mad here. They dance in all the saloons and cafes, and one night I saw them dancing in the street, which they had - prepared and which was as slippery as u ballroom floor, ” The writer gives* some figures which show that New Zealand people have little, comparatively speaking, to complain of in regard to cost of living: “Butter is fin Sd per lb, bananas cost fid each. A suit to mcasunre costs from £l2 10s to £ls, and a pair of boots costs £2. They charge 21d to wash a pocket handkerchief, Is old for a soft shirt, od each for collars, i!ld for socks, pyjamas 2s Id, and undershirts Is.