THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 14 November 1919, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We remind readers of the grand concert to be held at Paraparaumu tomorrow night in aid of the Tennis Club. Captain Ross-Smith started on his J flight to Australia in a Vickers-Vimy J aeroplane at 9.15 yesterday morning, j The domestic help problem has j reached a limit in an Auckland boarding house. Where several maids were at one time kept at the establishment, only one now remains, and all efforts to engage others have proved fruitless. The male boarders, however, have risen to the occasion, and now take it in turns to wait at the tables. It is said that these amateur butlers are by no means inefficient in their work. The Boyal Commissioners’ report on the coalmining industry in New South Wales shows big increases in owners’ profits in 2918, as compared with 1914, in one instance from 43 to 154; per cent. There were a few cases in which profits were lower. The Department of Public Health has informed the Palmerston North Hospital Board that a second health officer ic to be appointed for the Palmerston North Hospital district. The announcement of this decision, at yesterday’s meeting of the Board, was received with applause. It has long been felt that one health officer could not possibly cover the extensive ground effectively.

' i At yesterday’s meeting of the Pal- ! »merstpn North Hospital Hoard the mai(ter of the need of a St. Helens hospital ‘ i was again discussed at length. A letter ‘ I was read, signed by a number of pro- t ’ j minuet ladies of Palmerston North. I urging the Board to acquire a certain I 1 private residence in as a j maternity home, while the proprietor of j a private nursing home offered her pro- ■ perty for the same purpose. It was eventually decided, unanimously, that a committee l;e set up to inspec? .and report as to the suitability and price jjf thjj properties tinder offer, and 10 request ihe*h£inister for Public Health to meet the Board and discuss the !prjjple matrer of the establishment of a - Si- Helens hospital in Palmerston . (** jggvt. id sandals in 1 IVe have a ~ —•* offerfei ! , black and tan, just arrived, a— J at less than town prices. Also ladies * '■ i glace strap and court shoes from 22- F { 63; strap or court in patent leather. *' j 2xs, 29*, 30*; gents' tan Derby boors 6 ; ; from 335, also a line of fine military * boots in stock. Irvine’s Shoe Store, s Ottii,—ASsfc a

There is a great scarcity of potatoes in New South Wales. Old potatoes are selling at £34 per ton, and new at £36 per ton. “A Woman of Impulse” will be the leading film at to-morrow night's picture display. The supports wik be above the ordinary. , Refugees from Petrograd declare that the Bolsheviks executed five hundred wives of officers who deserted from the Red forces. “I do not believe in State control for anything,”'said Mr McLeod at his political meeting at Carterton. “It generally means a lot of soft jobs.” Some fine trout fishing has been experienced in the Otaki river at Wailroanga, and recently some splendid specimens, weighing well over four pounds each, were secured. A property in the Martinborough district has changed hands three times in the last few months. It was first sold at £65 per acre, then at £9O, and now at £IOO. Captain Bax notifies that he has retained the services of Mr T. Harwood, a very reliable man with few equals with the razor, and invites old or new customers to call at the saloon. During the past few days the road to the kiosk has been improved, and early next week the Council’s 'Toller will bo put on it. - When finished" it is) expected that the road will b'c one of. the best in the district. v > The London “Daily Mail”- states) that-a prominent sportsman has offered 1 £333 if five others will subscribe the rest of the £2OOO necessary to provido, the stake and expenses to enable Barry*, to row Felton on the Parramatta. 4 There’s nothing like good leather? ! If you want the best of repairs call on F. Barrett, Dun3tan Street,..Otaki. way. Prices low, workmanship and 1 , material guaranteed.—-Advt. Reference was made by Mr W- Hi Field, M.P., at the Upper Hutt on Wednesday evening to the old scheme for a* railway between Upper Hutt and\Wai> kanae, via Akatarawa. It might havebeen superseded by the later plan of a coastal route, but lie was not quitesatisfied the - proposed line was not, feasible, as reported by the engineers. In any case a loop line was not inadvisable in view of the danger to the coast-, line of attack from the sea.

Speaking on tkc subjcct.of wages at his political meeting at Carterton, Mr A. D. McLeod declared emphatically that he did not believe in the “goslow” policy. He had no objection to a man selling his asset at the highest price. A working man’s asset was his labour, and having sold it he had no right to “go slow.” “The working man who does that is on a par with the milkman who waters his milk and sells it as pure.” (Laughter.)

The names of about 200 soldiers who died in Feathcrston camp during the epidemic of 1918 have been, added t* the obelisk previously erected in the l-’eatherston cemetery as a memorial to all men who died while in the training camps at Feathcrston and Tauberenikau. The recent addition was made at a cost of about £l4O, the major portion of which was paid from the funds of the “Feathcrston Camp Weekly,” a periodical conducted in the camp as a news medium for the soldiers.

The Mount Hector Track Committee (Wairarapa) met on Wednesday with a view of appointing delegates to consider the best way of expending the £SOO voted by Parliament for the track —Greytown to Otaki. The Otaki Committee, the Tourist Department and the ramping Club have now been asked to appoint representatives so that all might confer on the matter. The Otaki Committee will probably meet next week.

The New South Wales wheat acreage has this year dwindled to 2,996,000 acres, as compared with the maximum of 3,122,000 acres four years ago. These figures (soys the “Sydney Daily Telegraph”) make a staggering contrast. and one that no producing country can look upon with equanimity. A worse feature is that there is no compensating increase of production in any other direction.

At tho sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Levin yesterday George Watson (county ranger) proceeded against a number of persons for allowing stock to wander. The following convictions were entered:—Ben Winera, 20s, costs 7s; John Hanson, 20s, costs 7s (on each ot two informations); B. V. Brown, ss, costs 7s; J. Rolio. ss, costs 7s; Bishop Karcpa, ss, costs 7s; A. V. Hornig, 10s, costs 7s. In the case J. C. Milnes v. h. Maddock. claim £l7 ss, judgment was given for plaintiff, costs 30s 6d.

Mr M. O ’Brien (district health officer) reported to yesterday’s meeting of the Hospital Board that during the month of October 25 cases of infectious diseases were notified and dealt with. The distribution was as follows:—Palmerston North, diphtheria 10, pneumonia 3, influenza 1, erysipelas 1; Levin, diphtheria 1. pneumonia 1; Kail ranga, diphtheria and pneumonia 3, one case proving fatal; Oroua, pneumonia 1; Manavatu, scarlet fever 1, measles 1; Horowhenua, scarlet fever 1. All other parts not mentioned were entirely free. -There wp.; a reduction of cases compared with the previous months. Disinfection was carried out and general sanitary matters received attention.

? At yesterday's meeting of the Paii n-erston North Hospitei Board, Mr W, i Murdoch referred to the Board 's ambulance as “a disgrace to a civilised tcujußiunify” declaring that there was 'sot a bit .of veptiiation ia it, and that it was like a Jtearse. He said 1 he /.‘lyonld not sit in the ambulance ffitb r person was a- infectious disease for. •u i&j *2 Chian- -■-* He Hint jam-* *y "* *** lh£ gSibuplaiaed of the charge - lance, saying that only the bare cost • should be- charged. The secretary &d& that the charge was only Is per mile, and that it east the'Board fully "that amount to run the ambulance. I

A Levin syndicate has purchased an oil launch which it is proposed to put on. the Horowhenua Lake for pleasure purposes." Stiles and Majheson, Ltd., are offering a special, line of Panama hats of exceptional value at oas cach. See advertisement in this issue.

The Sum of £2 2s has been donated to the Foxton Horticultural Society by Mr B. C. Gower for collection of blackbirds, thrushes, and sparrows’ eggs. Tho Foxton Borough Council has decided to purchase from Mrs Collins, at £260, a section as an entrance ro the land donated by Mr A. S. Easton as a public park. ■

An accident occurred on Monday to Airs Gregory, of Foxton, who was thrown from a trap. Mrs Gregory was considerably bruised and shaken, and was obliged to seek medical aid. Hupmobile motor cars, if ordered now, can be guaranteed to be delivered in January, while intending purchasers should remember that increased duty comes into operation on February Ist.

Electric apparatus has been invented by a Swiss that employs magnetism to pack nails in boxes in regular layers and thus have about half tho space required when they are placed loosely in kegs. The Official Assignee in Dunedin City has' just closed an estate which showed a deficiency of £2OO, in which the,creditors now receive 20s in tho £, ‘and, instead-of the above deficiency there.is a surplus of £4OO to go to the bankrupt.'

0 .? Particulars of tho nest sale to be held at the Otaki tnart are advertised elsewhere. K will bo seen from the f't advertisement, that many useful lines a are to be submitted, including crockery, If ;otC., on behalf of Mrs Dawson, who has 3s given up her tea-rooms. ' A settler in the Uruti (Taranaki) if district with a small herd of twentyeight pedigree and grade Jerseys, inaJ -eluding six two-year-old heifers, aver.aged for the past month 9001 b of milk b . per head. The test was 4.8, an average i of 461 b of batter-fat per.cow. B ‘ Mr Massey, visited Hamilton on Wednesday and opened the new Glaxo facl,; tory at Matangi. This factory handles ' the largest quantity Of milk under ono V roof in tho world. Tho building, with the employees’ cottages, etc., cost t £40,000, and the machinery £45,000. r Now is the time to replenish bedding f. and we hold a complete range of kapoc " and flock mattresses and pillows, also 0 wire mattresses and stretchers. Hou:e----t wives should investigate our low prices. 3 Howard Andrew, universal provider 3 and money saver { Manakau (also at ? Ohau). g In his opening remarks at Mr Isherwood’s political meeting at To Horo, Mr F. Coley said that there was any 3 amount of unoccupied country in New 0 Zealand quite equal to land fetching * £BO to £IOO per acre, if it was only 0 accessible. It only wanted roadiug and 1 railway facilities, and there would bo ’ no shortage of good land. g Answoring an interjector at his r meeting at Wellington recently, Lieut.Colonel Mitchell said hs believed he started life lower down on the ladder g than perhaps his interrupter. "My _ father brought up seven children on wages,” was the retort. "Well,” replied tho candidate, amid loud applause, e "my father brought up fourteen!” 1 A very plucky act by a child was ■* witnessed on New Plymouth beach, e Some children were playing among the it rocks when a little boy of four or five i* years was caught by a wave and washed o off. The bigger children raised a scream, 3 but a little girl about eight years old 4 without any hesitation jumped*into the ■i sea, and though the water was over her t shoulders she safely brought tho littlo lad ashore. Bat for the prompt action of the little girl the boy would have q. bees drowned before help could havo „ reached him. —* 4 Taranaki Herald. ” 3 >. At Cheltenham on Sunday afternoon y the ceremony took place of unveiling a [. memorial stone to the men who had [. fallen in the war. Memorial medals i. were presented to the nest-of-kin of i- soldiers whose memory were thus y honoured. Among the names on the memorial stone is that of Corpora! Sidney Uadgio, brother of lira Lcn Free--5 man, late of Waikanae, who enlisted ' from Cheltenham on August oth, ISI4, 1 and died of gas poisoning on May 24th, 1 3915. Mrs Freeman received a neaor--5 ia! medaL These medals depict Britan--5 nia succouring and crowning with a 1 wreath of laurel a dying hero who still >, eling3 to the flag for which he has 3 given his all. In the background can > be seen tho "setting sun,” indicative • of departing life, the whole being surmounted by the simple yet touching words, “Lest we forget,” The artist, by his masterly conception and modelling, hae portayed death for one's cotrn- , try as more beautiful even than birth — and more noble than life—the whole penetrating to the very depth of one’s soul, stirs only proud admiration, while grief is drowned in righteous glory. The beautiful reverse represents our gallant Army and Navy—a member of both services stands solemnly with bowed heads and reversed arms—reverently keeping for ever guard over the honoured name of their fallen comrade Inscribed on the laurel-strewn pancL In the distance cai be seen warships at sea stately and powerfully indicative of our mighty Empire —to die for which there is so tontparable saeriStee,' ~ - * With the advent of Summer most mothers -arc concerning themselves , with suitable wear for eiuldcea, which , prompts us to tell you of a Special line , of boys’ Panama. Hats whia> are sell- 1 -ing at the tematkebty low-Wire of 4s , Cd each, because they are r» sizes C|, , iih and (if only. When the range , [ was-complete-these hats sold .for 7« 64, = j so they are real bargains at-ls (JcL With ( Itis- bits* tarned down srfd' a wider , aaitaJJa silk *ko. « oend they a.-. - -A Don't miss this bargain. If ail >v.** * order to-day. 11 GEO. FOW-JLDh. LTD., J o SJaaaert Street; Wellington. * c

The local State school children will be granted a holiday on Wednesday next (flower show day).

The New South Wales Government is establishing 1500 soldier farms along the Murrumbidgee irrigation area, and of these 500 have already been occupied by returned men.

A soldier who arrived in Wellington by tho transport Paparoa told a "Post” reporter that at the American ports of call they received only four dollars (approximately 16s) for a pound note.

Tho coal situation in Paris is critical. Tram services are seriously curtailed, and three thousand eight hundred factories in the western quarter of the city have stopped in tho absence of electric power and lighting, and many of the suburbs are receiving only a restricted supply.

One of the speakers at a meeting held in Palmerston North for the purpose of forming an Expansion League, urged that members of Parliament should bo paid a much larger honorarium, and that the number should bo reduced. He advocated that the number be reduced to about 30, with an hororarium of £IOOO a year each. In support of this contention, he stated that he had been informed by many members that each session they spent much more than they received, one member going so far os to say that his sojourn in the House of representatives had cost him many thousands of pounds. Other members of the conference considered, however, that the matter was rather a large one for them to tackle, and that in any case it was outside the province of tho proposed league.

A strong point made by Mr H. P. Mourant in his address at n meeting of Christchurch bank officers recently was tho necessity, in the present state of affairs in the Dominion, for the highest intelligence in banking. "We have a big responsibility, and wc don’t realise it,” said Mr Mourant. "A good number realise that thin Dominion is in a difficult financial position. With inflation of credit, and with great extravagance, wo are in a very difficult position. We are like a boy who blows a bladder and blows, and blows, until it bursts! That is what inflation of credit is going to land ns in—a great mess. We know that many say that wc have never had such prosperous times, that there is plenty of money about and, look at land v: luCs! But it is pseudo-prosperity, and it is the banker who should be advising people at this time of financial peril.”