LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 7 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Headers of the "Mail” are notified that subscriptions in advance for the current quarter are due. By paying in advance Is on the quarter's subscription may be saved, and all who wish to take advantage of this concession should do so before the end of this !Q °ath.

It is probable that at least two more Otaki hotels will change hands at an early date. Notice relative to striking a rate in connection with the Horowhenua Electric Power Board is advertised.

Messrs Archie Smith and H. Cockrell have each donated £1 to the funds of the Otaki Amateur Athletic Club.

The rainfall in Inglewood for March was 15.92 in. Bain fell on 25 of the 31 days of the month. The Riverdale factory has made the last of its cheese for the season, the plant having turned over to buttermaking.

It is estimated that the ironbark poles required for the Wairarapa Electric Power Board’s reticulation scheme will cost in the vicinity of £20,000.

A large number of Otaki and district Natives leave here to-morrow for Katana for the purpose of taking part in a hui which is to be held during Easter.

Mr George Siddells has on hand a number of horse and cow covers which he is offering at lowest priees. The quality is first-class and owners of slock should call on him before the winter sets in.

No less than 269 entries have been received for the athletic sports to be held at Otaki on Easter Saturday, while the individual competitors number 86. This is most gratifying, and the Club is to be congratulated.

The Otaki Choral Society’s concert, to be held on May 4th, should be very successful, and a bumper house is expected. There will be a fall meeting of the Society to-night to arrange details.

Local storekeepers of late have been inundated with overripe eggs, due probably to the high price offered, and complaints have been fairly numerous. In fairness to the business people and their customers it is hoped that the practice will be discontinued.

A poll of ratepayers at Foxton on Wednesday, by 145 votes to 6, favored the constitution of a fire district and a fire board for the borough. Very littl* interest was evinced in the poll, but the result indicates public feeling in the matter,

Messrs Bose (N.Z. mile champion), W. Hall (champion walker) and Harvey (Australasian champion pole-vault-er) have entered for the sports to he held at Otaki on Easter Saturday. Such performers alone should be well worth seeing. Besides these champions Wellington, Wanganui, Manawatu and other districts will be well represented.

Many people have expressed a wish I to hear Miss Averil Hope sing again before she returns to Christchurch. The proprietor of the Otaki theatre has much pleasure in announcing that he has secured her services for to-mor--1 row night, when sh© will sing J and the Roses, M and “A May Morning.”

Among the civil business transacted at the Otaki S.M. Court on Wednesday the following cases were awarded by default: —Bills and Moore v. Geo. Wells, claim £2O 14s Id, costs £3 ss; McDougall Bros. v. G. Winterburn, claim £1 Is sd, costs 13s; same v. Teone Pohio, claim £5 16's sd, costs 38a 6d; Mary Gollop v. Hema Whata, claim £3 16s, costs £2 2s. We have received two copies of magazine? from Messrs Gordon and Gotch, one entitled "The Yellow” and the other “The Wide World.” The former is full of interesting tales, with illustrations, while the latter is a magazine for men. Like "The Yellow” it is brimful of fine stories, which make interesting reading. Mr L. G. Lowry is the local agent.

A picture show run by the municipality is one of Wanganui's innovations, and a balanee-sheet presented last week of the year'* operations showed a profit of £Bop. The difference between private and municipal management in earning dividends is indicated by the fact that sa offer of £*3 a week was received from an opposition picture proprietor to rent the plaee. The offer was declined.

During the year ended Marek 31 last, Mr Joliffe, New Zealand’s cinema censor, says the biggest number of feet ’ put through in any year was 5,761,570, !in 1918. During the past year he had | turned down altogether 41 films and j made 19S cuts in others. "On the 1 whole” continued Mr Joliffe, "1 think ' we are getting a better class of Sim through-now. There is more film coming from England now, of course, thin during the war. But it i* mainly topieals and scenies, and th&t sort of thing small stuff; not much in the way of dramas. November' last was an average month, and in that month vre had five British dramas, three comedies, and 34 topkals. totalling 50,000 feet in ali out of the 430,000 put through tea* month. The topic a: s were nearly naif of the 50,000 feet.

Football boots at 16s Sd, a good line, all leather. Our stocktaking i* fiaiefc*dj but we itill have «. few lines to clear at 30* a pair, also plenty of sizes i* boot* to clear at job pri***. Gum boots just in; guaranteed new stack. Buy your Easter footwear at Irvine's Shea Store, Otaki.—Advt.

Tender* dost on Saturday, for cleaning drains on the Otaki race-course.

Captain Bax is sow making a pleasing display of genti' underclothing, hats, etc., at prices that defy 1 competition. T3j* quality of the goods is fijft-cki*. • ‘ .

The Maori Church Committee accepts with thanks a donation of 10s from Mr T. King.

Owing to'the Easter holidays the next sitting of the Otaki Borough Council will be held on the 20th instead of the 13th.

The tar-boiler, to the order of the Otaki Borough Council, has arrived, and has been placed in position in Waerenga. road for the purpose of footpath improvement.

At a meeting of the Masterton Amateur Athletic Club, at which representatives of tho Albion A.A. Club were present, it was decided to pay secondelass train fares of the team representing Wairarapa at the country clubs’ championship meeting at Otaki on Easter Saturday. Mr H. Brown was appointed manager Of the team. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great. Peppermint Cure.—Advt.