LOCAL AND GENERAL

Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 31 December 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In order io allow the stair to participate in the New Year holidays, the ‘‘Otaki Mail” will not be published on Monday next, January 3rd. A red bull, impounded at the Mana ,km ipound, will be sold within fourteen I days unless claimed and expenses paid! 'vl e are in receipt of a pictorial almuiiiAe for 1921, entitled "Gee-up,” front jMr Howard Andrew, of Manakuu and ?)hau. T¥ie workmen, now engaged on improving the track across the Tararua ranges, are making good progress, and ha l - e passed Tiro- Tiro point. Xii Frank Penn elsewhere inserts an ad\ ortisement re accounts, and requests a prompt settlement of same, in order.to facilitate closing his business ailaijfs in Otaki.

Gotod progress is being made with the alterations to the Manakuu school, and ],vhen completed the work should be ah innovation that will be fully appreciated.

"At Happy New Year to All” is the sincere wish of Howard Andrew, Ltd., and if.c trusts to see till friends again in th ? near future. Ask for his new art calendar for 1921. Howard Andrew, Ohau (also at Manakuu).

During the year just ended 32 deaths, "Firths, and 37 marriages were; recorded in Otaki, as against 32, <l3, 2g respectively for 1919. There were'l2 Native births and If deaths in I92U,;as against three and twelve the previous year.

A' motorist, who does a deal of tra veiling, suggests that the local body interested should provide a water Dough hail-way up each side of the J’ackakariki hill for the convenience

of motorists. A supply of water a: stated would be u big g to tra tellers.

The freezing works dispute is settled, an agreement having been reached between the Federation of Freezing Works Employees and the Freezing Companies on the basis ot payment of a bonus of 25 per cent to hourly and weekly workers, and of 2u per cent to piece workers on the 1919

award rate on all time, including over time, the bonus to be retrospective a. l rom November Ist last

Instances (says the "Chronicle' might bo recorded every day of t] advantages of testing. An Ob :• tanner tested for the first time Ja season, ami as a result, culled live fro lu~ herd of 20 cows. This season !

milking the remaining 1

assisted by the excellent supply of feed this year is getting more iiutb rfat than he did twelve months a go. The 15 cows gave him a return of £N* in har'd cash last month.

The New South Wales Lab Party’s agenda for the Luster con

once contains a motion seeking expo sion from the movement of any men her accepting a title from the Brills Government; and also seeking th abolition of the wage system and th substitution of universal service to 1h State in which all giving four hourservice shall have delivered U necessities of life to their homes. On league advocates a ps-operative Cor; monweultb, and suggests that the >V South Wales Government, commenc by *backing co-operative stores in a the municipalities. A number o branches; are seeking the re-admissio of members expelled over the coaecri: tion qaestioHj while Bathurst propose that no man be allowed to accnmolt-.: more than 510,000.

A testimony to • the powers oi " Katana, the Maori miracle man, as curative medium i> afforded by Mr C D. Robertson, taxi-driver, of Easting.' ,nud formerly oi Maaterton, who took Maori woman resident of Pahi i’al. over to Battuta *s camp, near Manor last Friday week, for the purpose o submitting her to the influences of th Maori seer. Mr Robertson says tba she woman had been ailing for a ion, time with some internal disorder, an that she had to be carried to his car Wilst on the journey the sic; womanmeal- had to be brought bet, and on her arrival at her destine, lion she had to be lifted out, she waso utterly helpless. After one day hsaw her walking unassisted about the grounds, and she returned to Pan: Paki on Wednesday last, apparently quite recovered. A remarkable story of a man who fell in love with his wife’s daughter and eloped with her. was told at Airdrie. Mrs JaEet King, of Motherwell, sought a separation order from her husband. George King, mining contractor. whom she married is July. } o lp. .qte was then a widow with five children. King being a widower. Within three months of tba .marriage {said Mrs King, an intimacy sprang up between her husband and her daughter Rachael, and m May of this year they disappeared, dobeeqaectiy she found that they were living together- Signing himself, •'‘Your unfaithful BSsbaad. ’ ’ King wrote to her making a full admission of hi.-, love for Kac-hael, and asking her to" divorce him. Evidence was given that King and the girl were sow living together in Ayr, and the order asked for.was granted. Ship early and have a good lock at Cur steer cf soots and shoes. The —hole stock wiff b-e sold at r ease-sable prices. Mas- lines are reduced. Fall ..took. «i white and suede cleaners; also brashes for cleaning suede

The penny newspapers in England are advancing their price dry n halfpenny at the end of January.

"My experience is that New Zealand is the cheapest place in the world to-day to live in, and this can be borne out by people who have travelled through the countries 1 have visited” (states Mr Phil Myers, of Wellington, after making a world tour). "If the people of this Dominion would only travel and find out more about, what is going on in other countries, they would be more than satisfied with New Zealand and the- conditions obtaining here. ” A visitor to Rotorua' states that it was a happy idea of the authorities to establish a ward at King George’s Hospital for children suffering from infantile paralysis. There were 25 children under treatment, and they were the life and sou! of the institution. Their gaiety—for it could be called nothing else —was liaviug an excellent effect on the spirits of the soldier patients with whom they were established favourites. The little siferers were undergoing massage and electric treatment, a nil the required splints for their use were being manufactured at the local workshop. Tho children were accommodated in the Lowry Ward at the hospital. Fred Barratt\till lenffs the way with boot and shoo repairs. He uses no inferior leather asfi\puts in only firstclass workmanship. \Prices right; try him. Oncp'med, a Ivroye tried.—Advt, Advt. x