LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 22 March 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Final arrangements for (lie hockey tournament, to lie held on Easter Monday. will be made, on Wednesday night by members of the Otaki Hockey Club. An extraordinary experience hefei a motor cyclist recently. Ho was on his way to Belfast (Christchurch) on his machine when a bee stung him on the neck, just by Hie Adam’s apple. After striving at his destination he collapsed, and was unconscious for three hours. The Egrnont County Council at a meeting recently decided to make up. plication to the Minister of Internal Affairs for permission to erect tollkales on Ihc main South Road at Hnnilio, on the Klthnm Road, the Skrot Bond, and the Main South Road near <.)oo.

The Wellington ii<luc;>iion Board invites tender.- for the erection of an infants’ school at Shannon. Plans and spce-iticafions may In? seen at (he "‘Otaki Mail” office, tin; ‘‘Chronicle” office. Levin, the school. Shannon, and the Board’s office. Wellington. Tenders close on March Prize winner- it: connection with last week’s flower slio-.v at Oraki tiro notified l.v advertisement that cl! prize money will ho paid at the -•'•<■ rotary fit residence on Wednesday, 21th iast. Country prize winners’ amounts will he posted to them. Any prize- not claimed within fourteen cfctys will he for-

feited. A movement is afoot among producers in the Manawutu and other districts to launch a scheme for the improved marketing of their produce in Cse-Oid Country hy the elimination of the people in between, and having th<-

preduce handled at both ends—in the Dominion and the OH Country—by direct representatives of the farmers, j: i.- expected that the scheme w ill take concrete form at a meeting to he held at Palmer-don North at an early date. I: 5- understood 'hat the Prince of Wales is only to deliver one speech throughout the whole of the New Zealand tour, and that will he made at the luncheon or dinner to tie tendered him at I dlsmy’s by 'he Ministry on the Tue lay of his stay in Wellington. Thti will mean that his acknowledgemen of receptions, addresses, etc., v til be purely ' formal, acknowledged by 3 .---elf er one of his staff, by read-

ing printed acknowledgment jn set ton: . This rirrargemc-at f which is, of cour ?. dictated by the Imperial authorities), is made in order to relieve the Prince or the burden of having to deliver sis or eight speeches jn a day. There sees'.- every probility that Chautauqua, will not visit Levin nest year, owing to 'he difficulty in —'.-curing the necessary guarantee. At a meeting held at Levin on Friday night, it was explained that .-in effort had been made to secure 300 guarantees of Si each, but only 167 had responded. As

no one seemed inclined to canvass for the balance of the guarantee, the meeting terminated with nothing further done in the matter. The general opinion at Levin is that the last visit of Chautauqua w- - great -o-'cc-and an inspiration to the resident?, but tie .rantor- hod to put their hr.to- in th*-ir pocket-. ar,d feci that they shoald not do this again <■:::>! allow the | r*b!ic 'o reap the berotst.

tVarsie-i-— TV' ' ‘ the: w * ire sellar. r - r at Use oW anises, tkt te while oar pre on: stock Tfe Have just j«rekased a large ra=?,£ or la-lies’ and gear? ’ hoots and siofes. which" are to arrive thcrily. Irvise’s Shoe'Store, OtskL—Ad~.

Tenders for clearing the Mangapouri creek close with, the Otaki Town Board on April Ist. Notice is given by the Otaki Town Board of the appointment of sanitary and building inspectors. A tine lot of .fruit, vegetables, etc., the harvest offerings at the Methodist Church harvest festival, will be sold by auction at the Druids’ Hall tonight. at S o’clock.

The matron of the Otaki Hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a handsome donation of £5 from Mr Young Joe, a local market gardener.

The ICebbell Shield, open for competition to the Pe.toue, Jolinsonville, Otaki, Levin, and Weraroa Cadets, was tired for at Trentham on Friday, and nos by the Weraroa boys. Mr A. T. Mumi, whose boy was killed by the fall of a telegraph post at the south end of Greytown, some months ago. has decided to sue the Government for £SOO damages for alleged carelessness.— 11 Standard. ’ ’

It is staled that, a large land owner in the Otaki district, who had SOO acres of bush felled, paid nearly £3OOO for grass seed, most of which has failed to take root. The total expenditure involved was in the region of £SOOO.

The final in the Men’s Handicap Singles tennis match was commenced at the Otaki courts on .Saturday. When the score stood at Hi —14, in favour ot Atrnorc, heavy rain set iu, and the match had to be abandoned.

An abnormal rainfall was experienced iu Eltham on Thursday uighr Haiti commenced to fall about 5 p.m.

and from 10 o’clock onwards was very heavy. The gauge next, morning registerer 2 iuclies of rain—the most ot which fell in approximately eight hours. t

Mr Clark MeConachy, tlic champion billiard player, met C. Ross til Levin on Friday evening, conceding him <IOO in a game of 700. The champion ran out when his opponent was s<>S, his best break being 17S. At snooker MeOonacby defeated W. Broughton, after giving away three blacks.

A first offender, within ilie meaning of the Act, was arrested by fonstalde Satlterley on Saturday night, and on Sunday bailed out. The constable stated that the man was helplessly drunk and was found in the doorway of Mr Bax’s business premises. Mr C. H. Williams, who was on Hie bench, inflicted a fine of His.

At the last meeting of the Greytown Tourist Club a plan for the proposed new hut. tit Mount Hector was submitted, and with minor alterations adopted. It teas hoped that the engineering party, set up to define a route, etc... over the Tararuas, would leave Greytown to-day, and connect with parties from Otaki and Wellington.

Some of those closely connected with the business of procuring houses say that, the position is becoming more baffling than ever. One gives an instance in which a five-roomed house

recently changed hands for £IBOO. lhi ivas regarded by the agent who (, f ‘ ct _.«l tin: -ale ns a tremendous price, hu o his surprise the owner quickly re -old the house for £2UK).

Fashion exports- say that the extrav:iguilt charge- of the l.,oudou dres--niakcrs urn beginning to irighten “veil wealthy clients. .‘Spring gowns arc selling at 1 • •«* guinea-, and various ordinary creations at 5o guineas. Some, society women, resenting the over-charges, are beginning to learn to simple hat'd looms atjd to weave their own material-. Tb‘" fir-t -peci-ojC-n- exhibited in the We.-t land ini iude lovely silk and linen fabric-, reproducing choice old design-. At a sitting of the Levin S.M. Court last Thursday a Native named Koniki Mail)) ’’.as lined lbs, costs; 17.-, for «Iriv--ing a vehicle at night without lights; Thomas Hilliard was fined ho, cost- 7s, for allowing cattle to stray on the railwav line at Oban; while in the judgment case, iforowheuua County Council v. Kungihutu Hem,a, debtor was ordered To.pay £6 -s lid forthwith. Richard Maddock was also ordered to pay £l!> 13s (id to J. C. Milne- at the rate of Si per month, in default It days’ imprisonment. What the fur cloak was to the women during the war —an unnecessary extravagance —porcelain baths; for teachers and others seem to be likely to become the fashionable cult after the war. The mode, not so much the cost, of living has; become high. A zinc bath is good enough for anyone, bat the fastidious can add a coat of paint at the cost of a tin of enamel and a paint brush—pins a little exertion. All this fas* about porcelain baths and teachers is “much ado about nothin".” —Exchange. The harvest thanksgiving services in

connection with the Otuki Methodist Church, held yesterday, were successful and well attended. There v.as a very big collection of fruit, vegetables, ere..

admirably arranged, while the church

decorations had been tastefully carried out, the church making a very pretty picture. The Rev. H. Haniel occupied the pulpit both morning and evening, and preached capital, appropriate sermon-. To-night, at the "braids’ Hail, the harvest offering? will bo disposed of by auction. There is a splendid kit of fruit and vegetables to be disposed of.

A pessimistic Pari* hair expert prophesies of a bald fotnra for young men who brash their hair back from the forehead, using oils and potaade- to make it .-tick to the -kail. For the*e smooth and glossy heads an vr.pleasant penalty is in -tore. He say- that the inevitable re-wilt of this fashion will be that threw- who adopt it will have r.o hair in fifteen rears-' l f :..c As the style is almost cniverta!, a generation of bald-head* ■> man j envisaged. Bn-hiug the hair ',-rk he say-., is absolutely contrary to the dirpo*it-sos of ; it. ‘‘You are offending the hair,” he j odd:, ‘‘causing it to go on strike, to • C£3hC growing—in ahort, to fall cat.”

-V Hastings land agent claims that, during the last four weeks, he disposed of property to the value of £50,00P.

Messrs Ford and Shand, representatives of the Wizard Light Co., arc iu Otaki this week, and orders left will be promptly attended to.

The Public Trustee gives notice that claims against the estate of the late Stanley Gooding should be sent iu (o the Public Trust Office, Wellington, before the 17th May next.

An early visit to Stiles and Matlie<ou’s will bring heaps of satisfaction, riie new blouses in a great variety of styles and materials have arrived—they are really beautiful.

A complaint somewhat similar in form to acute rheumatism is (says the “Express”) somewhat prevalent in Ekctahuua. In some eases it is practically crippling iu its effects. Other cases are lighter but very- painful.

The Foxton School Committee has decided to ask the Prime Minister to formally open (lie new school, and if he is uuable to do so, the Minister for Education, or Director of Education. A sub-eoinmittoo has been set up .to arrange details.

“Fourteen shillings a day is low money for a good man, but some are terribly dear at half of it,” commented the Raglan County Chairman when wages were being informally discussed.

A boot and shoo trade journal published iu Loudon states that the introduction of the taek-on rubber sole for men’s boots has reduced the work of boot repairers in London by Of) per cent.

In illustrating Ihe safety of aerial flight, a Sydney paper mentions that the Avro Company lias flown with flu.nun passengers a total distance of £50,000 miles iu four mouths without accident,

It is stated that a commercial traveller is louring llawke’s Bay as the representative of a Gcrmau hardware lirtn. The prices are said to bo moderate and the quality right. The beginning. no doubt, of a deluge of such gentry!

Mr Iluggius, health officer, of Palmerston, on Saturday paid it visit, of inspection to various places ill Otaki, on which he adversely reports. Dr. Farrisb, of the Health Department, Wellington, also inspected various places, and as a result, will probably put. in a report to the Otaki Town Board.

Attention of dairy farmers and others interested is called to tin important sale of dairy cows, etc., (o he held l>v the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-op. Association, Ltd., on account of Mr 11. .1. Cooper, Ellesmere, Opaki, on Thursday, 25th insl. The cows have been heavily culled for years, and arc thoroughly recoin mended.

An aeroplane which can be run single-handed and housed in an ordinary motor garage, is on flic market, states the bulletin of the British Department of Overseas Trade. The machine is (lie Au-.tin whippet, which - lftff, long, Hff: wide, with folded

■ •ing-. and 580 pound- in weight. Its •it horse power motor gives a flying -peed of 00 mile- per hour, and the machine can make a two-hours’ (light with its. pilot and fio pounds of luggage. A self-starting device make? it itnrioee-vary for (he pilot to have assistance in starting his motor. The ‘‘whipped” has undergone trials eucfully. A small lake, tv.o miles (rout Kurioi and eight mile* from Ojiauue. in (he direction of Ruapehu, has developed ihcruiat activity during the last few month"-. Formerly it was an exceptionally cold lake, but it has now become v.arm. and the water, formerly quite char, ha- become cloudy, evidently as, a re-ult of thermal activity below. Angler- who have been in the habit of L-hiug for trout apparently were tho first to discover the change. The lake, v hie!) is a few miles from the last, of the crater lakes, is oval in shape, with n width of about a quarter of a rnih-, and is exceedingly beautiful, being

wooded to the edges. The principle.! subject of comment among dairy produce merchant'.' is the absence of any further indications a- to the proposals for next season, .Since the Imperial Government inquired for producers.’ ideas of value in the event of an extension of the purchase there ha- been no farther messages from that quarter. London maximum wholesale and retail prices for butter now stand at 2s 5d and 2s M

respectively, on the ground that the increase was necessary, owing to the falling-off in shipment-; from other cheaper sources' of supply (including

New Zealand), in order to enable the Food Ministry’* operation.- in butter to be conducted on a self-supporting basis.

The annual meeting of the Levin Golf Club was held on Friday night last, when there was a good attendance and much enthusiasm wa a shown. The balance-sheet showed a credit of £o on the year’s working. The following officers were elected: —President, Mr W. M. Clark; vice-presidents, Messrs W. ri. Park and V. Higgins; committee, Mrs Clark, Mrs Mackenzie, Mrs. Porter, Mi« Beckett, and-Messrs W. 0. Clark, 'D. g. Mackenzie, K. Bis* and H- F. Porter; handicappers, Mrs V 7. M. Clark and Air Biss; captain, Mr Porter; treasurer, Mr IT. E. Adam*. The subscription fees were fixed at XI Is. for ladles and £1 It 5d for men. A large ntimber of new members were elected, and the opening of the season was fixed for April 10th. The secretary was instructed to write to Mr Clemente, professional golf coach. with e view to Erie engagement.

The price of sew boots is prohibitive In many families, and in eoaswjsesce if I? advisable to U« old boot* repaired. Take them to F Bsrrstt, who stakes them a* new with the c*;-. of (•: -L : and —vrkr.fec»lilp Len t d*!»v, yon- font? and «Loei at csce—F. Barra": Pun.: tan -freer. Otaki Had w&y.-—Advt.

A novel application is set down for hearing at the next sitting of the Gisborne. Supreme Court.. A girl, under the age of 21, who has failed to obtain the consent of botli her parents for her to marry, is applying to-the Supreme Court to give the necessary permission.