THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Otaki Mail, 22 February 1922, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Voting g :'ri' II pens nlid iiist-clnss onions advertised for side by lb M, HiU. Kangiuru rnad. Messrs -lopliu aud Co. have buyers l'or' prime bacon pigs at highest prices. An unreserved snip of timber will be held on the section adjacent to I.h< Otaki Dairy Company’s factory tomorrow (Thursday), commencing at 1 l>.m. The sale will be conducted b\ : .Messrs Joplin and Co. Mr •}. Sievers. t!ie local funiiiuM i j'ia imi'acturer. has just fullilled an orj dor for a supply of chairs for the Otak I Borough Council. The chairs are sub ) stantially constructed and the. excel- | lenee of the workmanship and iinish j make them ornamental as well as use- " in] pieces of furniture. Mr Sievoiw work also emphasises that if is unne eessary to 140 outside the town for h'gh giade work of this class. Barniti for everything in the boo! ' line. Only the best leather and best workmanship, no delay, lowest prices. ;i Otree tried, always tried. —F. Barratt. 'i Dunston Street, Otaki Bailway.—Aavb In tile lhakara. district, darlymet are using soil turnips as a suppienien , tary fodder with most advamageou; 1 results to the ipiik yield in this dr. 7 weather, in laet, one lesideni in ; fonned a "Chronicle'’ lepiftsentaiivyesterdat that- his milk yield had. a generous use ol suit turnips, no been affected by the arid pastures There had been a decrease, certainly but not more tiiau the normal reduc lion ai this time ol the year. His ex perience was ihat iiie best method <■ feeding was 10 turn the cows into tie turnip paddock lor two hotus or mor every morning. "In the words of D: Cockayne at Huakura last year." m said, "•lucky is the district that cat grow solt turnips. If anybody still haihours a doub aho,;*. the wisdom oi spending over ; nnlfion pun...us on tne Oura tminej t he is ad• ist.fi .: " :uuo in . n , X-Z- Herald’ to'go to Canie.bury a~s 1 listen to the story ol nov; the tunne ► has Justified itself. The road over :n * Otiia Gorge y-'as bio tried the othe ’ dag." and a purebred Terser calf na< •< n c . j.-*Uen froiiT Agii.ut's Pass n inehbonnie". ‘ ,v 'f , JJ > mere was the tunneT 7l a “ , railed through. -Some sceptic H'-n doubt whether this is good value lor t million pounds, but in Canterbury tliere is no doubt. A Ciirisicliurd newspaper records the incident tri umpliantly. and says: "The usefuines.o! the tunnel .is being demonstrated o vei anti A'-'er again and this instance is a further example u the good purroses to be served by ready means m •'i -iitiit east and west." Perhaps when ~4 have spent another half million we may hear ol a second can going tnr&- " u gh.

Two pedigree Berkshire sows, to furrow, and a Berkshire boar are offered for sale. The annual meeting of the Otaki Brass Band will be held in the Druids 9 Hall to-morrow night. Members and * officials are requested to attend. At the annual meeting of the North Island Brass Bands' Association at Wellington on Monday it was decided to hold the next contest at New Ply- ' mouth. Two sharks were caught at the wharf at. Mapu. Nelson, last week. One, on being opened, was found to contain a bottle that, had been thrown overhead in Cook Strait from the steamer Niknu 1 about a month previously. I 1 1 Potato blight in a very severe form • j is prevalent f)i the Eketaliuna district some patches of potatoes being entirely destroyed. The blight is said in cases to be ns severe as the visitations soon after it appeared ia New Zealand. A young man named Arthur Andrews, son of Mr and Mrs J. W. Andrews, of Palmerston North, was killed at a railway crossing at Bunnvthorpc ‘ on Wednesday, by being struck by a railway engine. An infant daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Gunter, of .Main Street, had the misfortune to slip and fall on the floor on Monday and broke a leg. Medical assistance was called in and the little sufferer is now progressing well. Messrs Rove Nicholson and Hone McMillan leave for Wanganui on Friday to attend a meeting of the "West Coast Maori Patriotic Society which is arranging for the erection of a" memorial to Maori soldiers of the WVst Coast districts. i At Ahnriri Flat (South Otago) Mrs Edith Cook, the wife of a returned soldier, has invented a milking machine ; which, it is claimed, will obviate the necessity of stripping by hand. The , patent has been applied for in America and Australia, and Mrs O.ook is now negotiating to place the appliance on the New Zealand market. , A well-known resident is in a IVI- - merston North hospital, and has undergone a very serious operation, which had been postponed for several months, pending the arrival from France of a special anaesthetic suitable to a weak heart. It is stilted that under its influence he calmly watched the operation with painless interest. A Gazette notice states that any person who allows ashes, sweepings, dust, rubbish, bones. waste food or other rubbish to remain on a properly which , ho occupies, except in suitable rccepta- , vies, will be liable on conviction to a line of £f. The regulation applies to boroughs ami town districts where pro--1 vision is made by local authorities for the collection and disposal of rubbish and waste matter. No settlement, has vet been reached | vn the trouble ai the Mangahao hydroelectric tunnel works. It is untieri stood that, failing an early settlement, the Public Works Department will call for tenders for the tunelling' work, on the co-operative contract system, the contractors finding the labour and the • Department suppling the plant and material. The Inglewood County Council in accordance with the telegram from the " Minister of Intern:,l A flairs regarding ' a distinctive wedding gilt front the ! ladies of New Zealand for Her Royal s Highness Princess Mary, forwarded lists for shilling subscriptions to the e various dairy factories in the district, e ft 0 far only one list lias been returned, viz.. Maketawa. with a footnote as fol--1 lows:—“Unsupported; butterfat only y 7d pound.” Considerable disappointment, will be •- in musical circles in Devin and district at. ihe postponement of the :i Otaki Choral Society’s concert until aft- ter Easter. The date originally chosen, February 2»tli, was a suitable One for t all members of the choir, but the Levin School Committee ffor whose benefit ’ the concert was to be given) asked that '- the date be altered to March 14, owing - to other efforts they have in hand. Unfortunately many members of the choir are unable to take part in the t concert on that date, hence the post- ; ponement till after Easter. ;. Among those who attended the meeta ing at the Council Chambers on Mpnl, duv evening in connection with the t* beach earival were Mr and Mrs A. J. Clark, who received a warm welcome, v The -Mavor expressed his pleasure at i- seeing Mr and Mrs Clark present. Mr -- Bvron Brown added that Mr and Mrs >" Clark, who came front Ohistchurch. had » ! ] a teU" returned from a tour through -- America. They had been greatly attracted by a recent visit to the Otaki beach, and had now purchased a block 0 f ] a nd there and intended to make Otaki their future home. (Applause). iti >? Mr John Murphy and party left Kru- ... toko on Friday. February 17th. about t~- mid-dav. tor Dobson’s Mistake camp, a n -m.-tl! resting place erected by the Tararua Tramping Club or: a foothill of ~ Mr. Merchant. On Saturday. Febru--3 ary lSth. they resumed their journey 1. front Dobson’s Mistake, ascending Metis client, crossing its burned summit, arc a intersecting the Woodside track to Ai- -■ t.hr. at a point below Hell-'3 Gate. That te evening they arrived at the Alpha hut. :T where they passed the night. On Suua day they went on to Otaki Forks, 0 where they arrived about 5 p.ifl. The F party numbered six. and comprised Air John Murphy, Ofiity goad, Wellington; ' ■ tp: Murphy, Devon .St,, Wei.a- ‘ r " M ■■ Jnmes Murphy; Miss v- lmgton; Mr.- - - . _ .f M F p jj Maty Stubbing?. Kikiora... 1 —* Luce Vivian Sr., Wellington: and Mr g E. V. Hail, Wellington. 1 Boots and shoes will be much cheap- j “ . f . r in Otaki this year at Irvine’s. We j M -il! he able to give you a better selec- j tior., and manv lines at 2£3S tnan f j prices. Try our sandals, cheapest and ■ best. Polish, two large tins Is, at Irvine'* Shoe Store, Otaki. —Advt.