GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 22 September 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

"I made about £3500 the first two years of ray stock-dealing, and then lost about £6OOO in the. third year," said a bankrupt while applying for a discharge afc : the Supreme Court at Masterton. Bankrupt said he attributed his loss iu the third year to a big drop in the price of sheep.

Instead of calling a cook just a cook, a suggestion was made at the meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board that the woman who presides over the kitchen of a hospital should have her status raised, and should be known as "culinary sister." It is hoped by this means to make the occupation more attractive. *' * *

A Loudon correspondent states that a letter appeared in the "Times" over the signature of Mr W. J. Poison, the well-known member of the directorate of the Feilding Farmers' Freezing Co. The writer deals with the situation of the frozen meat industry in the Dominion, and goes fully into the difficulties of the future. He states that many people in New Zealanc think that the best prospect of relief lies in the, discovery and exploitation of new markets. "We know in New Zealand," says Mr l'olson. "that you have every desire to assist. us, and in , the opinion of many of US the best i form of assistance wouitl be the pro- I | vision of still further shipping to j | enable us to substitute other markets j i for those, temporarily lost to us in ; Great Britain." The writer finally , upholds the loyalty of the people ot the Dominion, but maintains that for the present at any rate they must go outside the Empire to seek a market Cor their produce. ! A matter which has exercised the minds of the Foxton Chamber of Com- j! mere.', and through them the Palmer- | stun Chamber of Commerce, for about ,j two years, is the question of the time- (j tabic on the Foxtou-Palmerston North': railway. Three factions interested j have each sought to induce the Rail- \ wnv Department to alter, the time- « tabic to their requirements. The I Prime Minister has now arranged the ■ matter in the way he believes Willi suit, the requirements of the Foxton I people, whose interests he regards as | the most important. In a letter to I the Foxton Chamber of Commerce through Mr E. Newman, M.P., he -tates it. is proposed to drop the early I running of the train on Monday mornings and the late train on Satur- j day nights. Both will run at the same j times as on ordinary week days. The j I Foxton Chamber of Commerce have vet to consider the matter, j

The pastures of South Auckland have been seriously affected by the recent frosts, and there has not been such a shortage of grass for very mtiQV years at this period (says the

"Waikato Times"). Dairymen every--where' are complaining, as the stocks of winter food—turnips and hay—are done, and sustenance for stock is now ..o short as to be approaching the ,-., nlim , s tage. The country everywhere looks fresh enough and the

grass a few weeks ago was coming away well, bill was cut sharply hark by the subsequent frosts, until the cattle in some places can now scarcely S ct a bite. The stocks of new seasou's dairy produce iu the freezing stores had. up till a mouth ago. been ahead id' last year, but they are now falling away again.

A rather good story is told in eon nection with aviation and one of tin machines in New Zealand which i.

taking up passengers., A gentleman provided the requisite £5 and was taken up. Everything went with a Hide and most uneventful. On reaching the ground he was heard by tIH aviator to grunt and remark, "Is that all one gets for a fiver.'" He was promptly invited to jump into the passenger seat again, if he was not satislied.' and did so. But this time ther» was no simple glide. He was treated to an exhibition of most of the stunt" eonimon in the profession, ending with a rather terrifying spiral nose dive. When the passenger alighted this time he was ..ot It, a condition to expres." himself inteilig'bly. He --- in the throes of a violent attack of nial de mer. and this in front of a large crowd of spectators. ■