THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 7 July 1920, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a decided shortage of ; cement in this district, and several j works are held up in consequence, i At a meeting of the Levin Borough ■ Council it was decided to agitate for i legislation that will severely deal with i motorists who drive at excessive speed. Owing to both Mr Archie Smith's I motor 'buses being overhauled, a big i horse coach is being used temporarily j on the run between the town aed ‘ station. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., will hold a sale, on account of Mr P. Bartholomew, t Larin, on Wednesday next, 14th inst. | This sale offers a good opportunity for j buying really first-class dairy stock. I An eleven-year-old boy named Tom Abel fell from a motor lorry at ShanI non on Monday. The wheel of the vehicle posse! averLiut and broke both thig r ~ the lad was taken to the Palmerston North Hospital for treatment. On Friday night nest the first of a series of *'Horticultural Evenings’-' will be held at the reauing-room, under ike auspices of the local horticultural societies. Several interesting papers will be delivered, including papers and I a practical demonstration of bottling . and preserving fruit, by Messrs Harold Small and Harold Cockrell- All innter-e-ited are heartily invited to attend, and a large gathering is hoped for. A charge of Cd will be made for admisisoc. i

The Allan Wilkie Co. will probably appear at Otaki on the 2Sth inst.

The Oroua County Council’s poll taken to raise a loan of £SOOO for the purchase of road-making machinery was carried by 260-votes to IS.

The first lamb of the season—as far as this district is concerned—may be seen on Messrs Stax>les Bros.’ farm at Manuka u. The N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co. have lauded a large shipment of wire-netting, rabbit traps, etc. See advertisement. In the winners of competitions at the bazaar at Te Horo on Friday we stated Mrs Eli Allen had won a cushion. It was Mrs E. H. E. Allen who was the winner of the trophy. During the quarter ended June 30th 27 births, 9 deaths, and 13 marriages were registered at Levin. Last year 62 births wero registered, while for the six months of this year 59 have been registered. An important clearing sale of dairy cow's will be held at the homestead of Mr L. Dickson, Muhunoa West, Ohau, on Thursday, loth inst., when sixty good dairy cows and heifers w r ill be sold.

At tko Police Court at Masterlon on Saturday the licensee of a billiard room was fined £2 for allowing his premises to remain open after the time fixed for closing, while six young mou were fined £1 each for being on the premises after hours.

Messrs McDougall Bros, intend holding a sale, to commence on Thursday (to-morrow), when blouses, costumes, coats, skirts, etc., will be sold at lowest prices. The quality of the goods is the best, and with low prices should entice residents to get in early and secure the pick.

Ladies are - urged to write for patterns of the fine range of Bradford dress tweeds, shown by Messrs Stiles and Matheson, Ltd., the well-known Leviu mail order house. The prices arc very reasonable, as the advertisement in this issue will show.

Writing to his brother in Kketahuna, an ex-resident of that township, who is resident in America, states that things arc very hard there at present. Thousands of people are out of employment aud walkiug the streets. The exchange rate has had the effect of a 6i) to 70 per cent reduction iu exports, had manufactories are consequently very slack.

An important sale of pedigree Jerseys will be held at Wuikanae on Friday, on behalf of the trustees of the late Mr Frederick Price, while two lots of first-class dairying land will also be submitted. The sale affords a line opportunity for those iu search of highgrade stock and first-class land. Particulars are advertised.

A demonstration of fruit tree pruning will be given in the orchard of Mr J. W. Miller, “Kohatu,” Otaki ltailway, to-morrow, at 2 p.m.; at Mr Port’s orchard, Waikanae, on Tuesday at lu a.m., at Mr fj. Colson’s, Te Boro, on the same day at 2 o’clock, and at Mr It. J. Thompson’s (Poxton) on Wednesday next at 2 p.m. All interested are invited to attend.

A marked increase has been shown in departures this year, 7307 people having sailed from Auckland during the first sin months of 1020, against 3331 for a corresponding period last year. The arrivals, on the other hand, have fallen in number- January to July, 1920, being able to show only 10,103 persons arriving, against 13,457 fer the same period last year.

The Minister of Internal Affairs advises that he has received a cablegram from the High Commissioner stating that the first and second class accommodation on boats for New Zealand is fully booked up to the end of December next, and that steamship companies have long waiting lists. The High Commissioner asks that the travelling public be advised of the present acute conditions and the uncertainty of securing passages for return to New Zealand.

The Prime Minister said that the subscriptions to the two million loan are coming in satisfactorily. No time limit has been placed on the loan, which was offered principally because at the time there was money in the country available for investment. There might have been a ri.;k of some of that money finding an outlet overseas, and the local loan was therefore put on the market. The Minister hinted that if he chose to do so he could fill the loan at little notice.

Through the motor car and other ac- ideats that occurred all over the Dominion, we were killing a mas, a wt an, or a child every day in the ye ~ declared Dr. Thacker in the H< ise of Representatives. Each of tb< a was valued at £SOOO capitalised; go iat if 350 were killed in the year, th: meant an annua! loss of £1,750,000. Tl- re was a lot talked the previoas day about saving money through the Customs, but It was, surely, of still greater importance to save that million and thiee-quarters a year by saving human lives.

Mr J. J. Dougall, a Christchurch citizen, who has taken much interest in war works, returned from a visit to Victoria recently, and said he was much struck there by one of the forms of war memorial the planting of great avenues of trees. In Ballarat the Prince of Wales was to unveil a memorial arch. Stretching from this in a continuous line of fifteen miles is air avenue of tree*, each tree planted in honour of a soldier who served, and bears a porcelain plate with the man *s name, number and regiment. Memorial avenues had also been planted in Hobart, but the lines are not continuous. Now the winter is here yon will want a pair of slippers, goloshes, or gain boots. Ladies’ slippers from Ss fid; gents ', with leather soles, 4s fid, all sizes; heavy gum boots, 245; children’s goloshes in all sizes from s’s. Irvine Shoe Store, OiakL —Advt.

Particulars of the next Otaki malt *a!o axe advertised.

It is highly probable that another motor bus service will bo started at O.taki shortly.

The Wellington Anglican Synod commenced its session at Wellington yesterday, when Bishop Sprott delivered the opening address, of a most interesting nature.

Au uureserved clearing sale of highgrade Jersey cows, etc., will be held, on account of Messrs Taylor and Hagan, Otaki, on Thursday, loth inst., as advertised. Full details will be advertised in our next issue.

The lebby of the otaki Post Office was reuovated this week. Already there are marks on the walls that disfigure the new work. It is a pity that the offenders cannot bo traced and punished.

Two thousand fat sliuep were bought at Buruside, Duuediu, on behalf of a Christchurch firm. They were exported to Australia, and are going straight to tho Melbourne market for butchering, the demand being caused, doubtless, by tho recent severe drought in Jvew South Wales.

Headers are reminded of the clearing sale, on account of Mr J. W. Pepper, Rangiuru, Otaki, to be held on the lith inst. A splendid lot of household furniture will be offered together with vehicles etc., full particulars of which are set forth iu our advertising columns.

A Mothveu (Canterbury) farmer recently ordered some stakes from a Southland milling firm. The stakes were trucked at a station beyond Invercargill, aud took 23 days to reach Methven. This, according to the farmer, accounts lor a good deal of the shortage of rolling slock.

Bpcakiug in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, Mr J. P. Luko (Wellington North) said there were hundreds of houses in the city of Wellington that ought to be pulled down, and ihc City Council would do that il’ the houses could be replaced immediately. The biggest blet was at Te Are flat.

Messrs Millar and Giorgi are holding a nine days’ cash sale, commencing to morrow (Thursday). During this sale they will make genuine reductions on all men’s and boys’ clothing and .mercery aud men’s, boys’ and women’s boots and shoss. This opportunity of securing goods at reduced prices should be freely availed of.

Tickets for the bowlers’ ball, which takes place on 21st inst., are selling like the proverbial hot cakes, aud it is estimated that a. largo gathering will be seen at the function. The management is iu capable hands, and therefore the floor, music, and supper arrangements will be complete. Particulars arc advertised.

An old Wairarapa identity states that the main roads were in a better condition fifty years ago than they are to-day. In those days the individual settlers assisted in constructing and maintaining the roads to their gates, and he suggested reverting to this system again if other labour was unavailable. In bis opinion, the mam Wairarapa road was a disgrace to tincontrolling authorities.

Mr A. J. Sinclair, speaking at a dairy company’s meeting at Waikato, said: Economists stated that two tutors Axed the value of Had, feat- ho was afraid that in the Waikato three factors determined the price—the fertility, of the soil, the convenience of its location, and the number of land agents operating within fifty miles. The Induction of butter had decreased by 13 per cent daring the war period, and his advice to farmers for next season was to go in for production and quality.

It was announced by the Bishop oi Wellington at the opening of the Anglican Diocesan Synod that the finance committee was in a position to raise all stipends to £3OO, and through the efforts of the Rev. li. Franklin, organising secretary, the sum of £IO,OOO had been raised. It was realised, concluded his Lordship, that with the depreciation on the value of the sovereign, the increa.e of stipend did not place the clergy in as good a financial position as they were in before the war. The announcement of the success of the organising secretary was received with applause.— 1 ‘ Times. ’ ’

The following somewhat remarkable notification appears in the Wanganui •"‘Chronicle”; —“May I, through your columns, make it quite clear that I am the newly-appointed vicar of Aramoho, Many people, I believe, aro confusing rne with my predecessor. His name is Ogden, and mine is Masted. And he left Aramoho some time before 1 arrived here from England. I have been here just over two month;, ho now, ii people will realise that I am not my predecessor, but a different person altogether, I shall be glad. I am, etc., Edward G. Maxted, vicar of Aramoho.”

A packed house is expected for the grand concert to be held at Te Hero on Friday night next, is aid of the- Anglican church room. The promoter, have

spared no pains to secure a splendid ■programme, which should provide a really lip-top entertainment for all. Among those who will contribute to tho programme are the Misses Sesrle and Wright (2) from Wellington, three very clever dancers, who have rC-eured prizes for their performances in the city; Mrs E. M. D’Ato and Miss £. -Jones, favourite Otaki v odists; Misses Broderick and Oldham, from Taranaki- vocalist*; Mr; Smith. Manakaa; Mrs Barber, Misses Young. Muir, Mav Windiey, Messrs Signal, Mather and” Penn. The play will be a special , attraction, while two songs, is costume,

from “Chti Chin Chow,” and “The Quaker Girl,” will be pleasing items. With such a programme, there should not be an empty seat on Friday night. The concert will be followed by a dance.

. Mr H. E. Holland (Buffer) in tho Houso of Representatives yesterday asked the Minister for External Affairs whether tho official report of tho Parliamentary visit to Samoa and the Islands would be available in amplo time so thatTuombcrs would be able to study it before the debate camo on iu connection with Samoan legislation. The Hon. E. B. Lee said that on a previous occasion he had informed tho House that ample opportunity would he given to members to peruse the papor. He could not say, however, when the report would bo ready.