LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 21 January 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I The funds for the Foxton memorial I scheme now total £2lO. At a meeting of citizens of Foxton it was decided to form a volunteer lire brigade arid to secure a chemical engine. The New South Wales State Orchestra, which has won golden opinions from all who have heard it. opens its Wellington season to-morrow night. Hoslyn underwear has earned a Dominion-wide reputation, and the | fact that the best qualities can tie had j past free at prices ranging from 12s (id * to IPs 6d from Stiles and Mathe-on. Ltd., Levin, is good news for men. During last week the War Expenses Department paid out; £315,180 in response to 5822 claims for gratuities. The total amount disbursed in gratuities up to Saturday. January 17, was £5,(>40.551. which represented the settlement of (il,*J<3(i claim-;.

A Waikato visitor to Lcvjn states that (he high prices being received for butter-fat at the dried milk factories up North are enhancing the price of good cows, and that dairymen expect values to go up to £SO and £»'*•> in a year or two. One effect i- to improve the milking breeds, wbii-t anything below standard is promptly called. — ‘ ‘ Chronicle. ” V; r J. Meads has convened a meeting of ratepayers, to bo held at the Druids’ Hall. Otaki. or Wednesday evening of next week, 2S:b inst.. for the purpose of discussing the agreement made between the Otaki Town Board and Mr D. J. Reardon, engineer, with respect to the proposed electric lighting scheme for Otaki. All ratepayers are cordially invited to attend the meeting. The dance held at To Horo on Friday night was an unqualified success, ail present .spending 1 most enjoyable time. Miss Rikihaua supplied firxtcj .« dance mush-, while Mr H. Grand!a -,v,.s an efficien* US'. Credit is due to ti. latter for providing -a. h a. fund of .mu-cine; - L for To Horo:*- -, and it is

• p! u.-iiig to know his effort s on each a: ! . every occasion have been crowned w . ;i success. •a reply to an inquiry by the Chri-t----ci ;r?.u “Press,” the Minister, or F. .ance < Sir J-a.es Alien) .stated that the compulsory provisions were iii operation in connection with stibscripj Lons to the ten-million loan. Notices had been sent out, and the effect so far Lad been quite satisfactory. As has liitc stated previously, the Government is assured of obtaining the full amount of the loan. Some of the material needed for extension of the Otaki telephone exenauge is now to hand, and it is hoped that the-,, who have been waiting for a long time for telephone connections will be linked up before long. The S:iprovemenrs to be made include the -a - Muii.stion of a new and up-to-date j ,-wiifiihoael- When the new connections arc Gtsute there; will be ample aufapriberx to secure an jrjU*».-*ioa of -ixci.c. aph/iu/i, which will then ?"■ from* „ The cried o£ tew f 5 piohlbitr?? in many families, and in consequence it is advisable to have old boots repaired. Take them to F. Baristt, who Stakes ahem as new with the best of leather and warkmam-hit-. Don '* delay, send your besots a&a sjcatf "t once —FBarra::. Duns tan Street, Oiaifi Bail-way.—A-ivt. •

f \ successful clearing sale, on behalf olf Mr J. Killiek, of Paraparaumu, was h>J hi yesterday, Mr G. Anderson vfielding the hammer. j Last month Dl Chinese arrived in /sew Zealand, of whom four wore i 'emaJ ?s. The departures numbered 12. aud i vo of these were females. The Tc Horo Dairy Co. yesterday , paid out Is lid for December butter- 1 , at, which, with a bonus, will amount i to a substantial cheque for the farmers. , Mr \V. W. Westaway, of To Horo, has bought a farm at Tcmuka (South Canterbury), and leaves to-day to take ; up residence thereon. An ex-soldier, charged at Bristol ! with deserting his wife, said that a girl • took him out and married him without Inis knowledge. He was sulferiug from shell-shock. Nominations arc invited for the [nisi- , • tion of Commissioner for the Otaki i I’own Board, a vacancy having oci ,-urred through the resignation of Mr 1 Byron Brown, who shortly leaves tor an extended trip to England and else- ; where. Nominations close on (Saturday, 31st inst. ! A party of motorists recently made Sthc trip between 'Wellington and /Auckland in a three-seater car in oxI cellent time, although no! attempting (I to put up a record. The distance bcaj tween Auckland auil Wellington; via (\Napier, is over 51'0 miles, and this was It covered in 22 hours, it The annual meeting of subscribers to the Otaki Public. Library is advertised to be held at the reading-room on Friday night next. 23rd inst., to receive the annual bnlance-shcei, elect officers, etc. It is to be hoped that members will show their interest in the institution by attending this meeting, which is tin important one. } A writer in the Waihi paper notes that no loss than 10,-120 gallons c>( spirituous liquor had been recorded in ; the Waihi Courthouse during the past j twelve months. He thinks that if the I Court had a true record of all the overproof ‘‘home brews” and the stray bottles that coine through other channels there would be enough liquor to float our great battleship and a dinghy besides.

The coal shortage is being keenly -It in Otaki, ill common \vith other

'.parts of the province. Our local coal (dealers only manage to secure one )truck of coal at a consignment, and 'then have a groat difficulty in parcelling out; small lots among the many hungry householders. Most people now' have to be content with 2ewt of coal at a time —not by any means first-class coal at that, at the rate of 7s per bag

Speaking on the high price of bacon, u gcntlcmaa who is an ituthority on health (says the Waikato ‘‘Times”) said he would make pork such a price that people would not buy it. “Mince ?he pork famine of the last six months or so.” he says, ‘‘there has be«*n a marked falling off of disease (espeeiatly on?-), and-for the benefit of health, j( would be better to prohibit the eating of pork than the drinking of

Three lads, absconders iron) * o Wcraroa Training Farm, named Pri-e, Stanley, and Baker, were charged at Palmerston North wit!) the theft of a clock value Ids, two blankets value £l- - cartridges value ss. and a man’s bicycle value £l2, and a lady’s hike valu** £5. ail from Shannon on the Uk . and sth of January. The manager oi the training farm wax present, nod !fc‘ boys were convicted and ordered to l-< returned to Wcraroa and to receiv* punishment. At (he executive meeting of tin Munawatii Flaxmills Employees’ In dust rial Union of Workers, lodd on Snturdav lax?, January l?th. j( ?>•• decided to forward the following re~o lotion, unanimously carried, to th?. Prime M i sis ter: That this cxecu five emphatically protests against th? deportation of Mo.-e- Bari’z under the Undesirable Immigrants Act. The executive consider- hi-- condemnation arid deportation without the seiubfancof a trial to be arbitrary and unjust and tts far as New Zealand i- con corned fobo an unpreoedenffd e/.um'-b fit" Kaiscrisrn and Uzari-in.” An innovation was tried with great success on the occasion of the concert by the New South Wales State Orchestra at Hamilton on Thursday night. A well-known local xnmficfti enthusiast has been laid a-id?' through illness tor three or four years, and it was- suggested that his residence should •be connect?" 1 by telephon?- with th?: theatre, so that he could listen to tb»music. This nP done, ami the invalid -rites: that he heard everything quite •distinctly, and enjoyed the concert immensely. Mr Henri VerhntEgheo, .the conductor of the visiting orchestra. Van keenly' interested in the experiment, and expressed pleasure at the satisfactory trexul*. • It is stated that this is the first time such an innovation has been tried in Australia or New Zealand. A problem which is common to all local bodies along thi* coast the obtaining of ar; adequate supply of cheap good road metal. At the recent meeting of the We.itofara County Council. Cr. Bu met suggested that ail local bods - on the iV*--; Coast should combine to erect a crashing plant at

Kapiti. where there was *r< abundant supply of excellent rock. A scow could be obtained to carry the metal across, and ho considered that a much better and cheaper supply cool?! be obtaine-l. He was sure tin- Govern meat would not object to local bodies obtaining metal from the Lias-tL It was. pointed oat by some of i he cosaiiliors that such a scheme wcr-ihi mean fig* the ctocal would be bar-died j&ors ■ekt-n »£ gT£;gat. and probably the coat would cor. }** timd at grewuu. We are cow -btwlsjf ft rungc oi bull- - : tan Sc> otwesr at less :?•» ?f tosT.n prices, in court, strap and lace fiyle*. Is stqe Tc, white cleaners in Bowoek. Nugget and Pacific, abo a line of gent’s- greenhide ~ working laces. hyi coi? Shoe Ctaki.—Advt.

Mrs Green has disposed of her farm, South Munakau, to Mr Ross, of Wellington. A bay hack gelding is impounded at the Ota'ki pound. If not claimed and expenses paid will be sold as advertised. It is estimated that, the £IO,OOO which is to be spent immediately by the Kai--rauga County will make tarred macadam roads as far as the dairy factories at Whakaronga, Avvahuri, and Lungburn. An ex-Otaki resident, who now lives in Wellington, says Otaki should push “u its electric light scheme. Ho states ihai his account for a month’s electric Sighting and ironing came to 4s 3d. and they had been rather extravagant with t'.u> light for a fair-sized house.. 1 . The Fresh Food Cup. won by-the I Levin Ritlc Club, is now <Ol cI,• ,v in Levin. It. has been shot for on six i 'occasions, and has travelled the rounds ' ■ - 1" the district, being won by Ngetinwa. . Kikioiangi), Ilautere, and ri'ixu- '-«qL -■ hile Shannon once tied wJjjt ''■j’.u :nv:f for if, ‘ At a meeting of the Indies’ commitice which managed the recent Leap Vein- hat! at To Horo, it was decided to hand over the proceeds of (ho dance to the To Horo Hull Fund. The takings ■ ( T the dance totalled over £ll, and the net amount to handed to the Hull Committee is .EG. A mooting of the Manawatu Sabprovincial Executive of the N.Z. Farmers’ be held at Levin "a Saturday, 3lst inst., when a notice * or motion b Mr Evelyn Macdonald, as follows, will be brought forward, viz.: “That the resolution passed at the November meeting of the executive re farmers’ political party be rescinded.” Mr (1. Hurley will address the meeting ;o milk tables for suppliers. Members of Parliament, it is under>(ood, will probably leave Wellington for Samoa by tho Mokoia on the 14lh of next month. The following is to be the itinerary of the party: Raroloriga (two days), Mangaia (12 hours), A in ta hi (12 liours), Niue (32 hours), \pia, including Savau (seven days), Vavau (20 hours). Nukalofa (12 hour.-), Suva (,‘t days). The tour thus lakes in the Cook, Samoan, Tongan, and Fijian groups. At the S.M. Court, Palmerston North, yesterday, Messrs Collinson and Cumiinghamc, Lt?l., were charged, ender the Gaming Act, with having established a scheme by which goods ere gained by a mode of chance, and also that they agreed or promised to dispose of certain property, such as • I-?! Is. carts, sunshades, etc., to certain persons by means of a dev ice whereby -icb property was lo be allotted by chance. The t-i.M. reserved his ?leeiThe need for expediting the bringing into use of the hydro-electric power •corks at. Mangahao was voiced at the meeting of the General Chamber of 1 uuimeree. Wellington, when the folboviiig motion was :r?iopted:—“That ’his chamber cordially supports the ; :'<{??>-1 to place all hydro electric construction works under the jurisdiction of a board of commercial men, acting under tin: Minister, with power to curry out. 1 )t«» construction of such a. -uk- as rapidly as possible and on --luiid I-a- : nc--- lines; aud that thi'j comhinc with the HydroI i> , tri” v/ith a view to urging . (DAurrimfiit to adopt thin course.' * 'Mr W. \V. Wu-taway, of Tc Horo, ho } “ jy'rit xeturaed front a vmt to ' ;ir:t« ri'cry, v. hero he has purchased a dairy farm, info rrnefj an “Otaki Mail” ■ <-;ir-- eni-ji j v?i that land is very much -hcapf-r in Canterbury than in the Wi-llingtoii I’r ovince. He declares that he saw farm land in Canterbury—- -■ very bit as-good as tic average good hind along this coast —selling at from , £Pi to £*>» per acre. This laud was not in the backblocks, but near good towns, with <:very advantage of jail* • ays. co-op. dairy factories, etc. Mr West a way instanced a farm of 'JO odd acres, within two miles of Tcmuka — : U perfectly Sat, beautifully grassed, tortile soil, highly improved, with > o, several acres of oats, prAatoea, root crops, bay ?;rori*, <:tc., ail in—just ■-'?ld at £SB Tier acre. This farm, he would bring at least £lO9 up this Mr L. Birky, chief Government elecro’rl engineer, was n Wood villi; cm -aturdny, and while there imparted a g'>od deal of useful information for the guidance of local bodies and dairy com-t-rinie- in reference to electrical energy. As to the amount of power that v. ouid be available f roin Mangahao, Air Kirks would not commit himself, neither could he say definitely when the scheme would be completed, ife added, however, that he would not discourage the establishment of small plants la the district, ft oa the cot?u rotas tion of th?; hyt!r?j - electrical • her.-.e it was found that the steam plants could 1/0 displaced, the owners need have no fear that the plants would he left on -their bauds. There v,?,cM always be rlemaad for such in.--si iMiem.