THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 9 August 1922, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i The public meeting to be held in the Druids’ Haii oa Friday rt'lati*ve to the suggested closing of the reading-room .should attract a crowd, Considerable , interest is being erinced. "1 he Levin Dairy Company intends to pay out a bonus of twopence per lb on the buueriai received between December 1, 18-21, and May 31, 1922. Tills will absorb approximately £7OOO and will be payable on August 20. The addition of this bonus wild bring the season's payment to approximately 1/5 per lb butterfat. The ianc-y dress ball on Monday Bight was very successful, there being a good attendance. The dc-oorations were very effective, the dresses were pretty, while other arrangement? were- complete. The Tahiwi orchestra supplied good music. The following were the prize winders: Miss Thorpe (' (Folly ’ •') first; Mias Edna Cotterell ("Salon:#'’) second; Mr Bartholomew (Hindu) first, and Mr Phil .Jauncey ’steward) second. The P.A.O.D. euchre tournament held last night was most enjoyable, ail present spending a pleasant rime. The teuruament caused considerable * interest. Mr H. Adsett won the gents’ prize after a play off with Mis? Woolmer and Mr Bay Bult. Miss H. Jones won the men ’? booby. Ms* J. Fielding : heat Miss Baker in a play-off ior the- • ladies ’ prize, while Mir: Ennly M"hire- ; man secured the consolation. L dance ' followed, Mis: ‘‘Dot” Webby and Mr Herbert Tews supplying good music, r For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Coro.—Advt

A fine of £J and costs was imposed ! on a defendant at Napier for selling a ■ packet of tea that was net of the weight slated on the covering. la view of repeated offences it was decided, at to-day ’a Borough Council meeting to warn an offender against allowing a cow to wander. Failing notice being taken he is to be prosecuted. Says the Mast anon A’ge: All of the soldiers’ homes in Upper Kenan Street are now complete} and occupied, and this part of the street presents a ‘very prosperous appearance. Mr A. I>. Whatman lias recently made a gift to each householder of a dozen ioa Is of gravel-

m order to meet damage to roads, the Uanneviiko County Council is levying charges on lorry owners us iollows: 1/ par JiKM'i of sawn timber, '.id per lOuit of measurement, C/6 per cord of firewood, and its per ton on benzine. Tliere will be no levy on general' goods.

The question of a grant for the Ota!;i library being hold in abeyance was brielly touched t*i by the members of the Borough Council this morning, when, it was stated that tin* gram had not been übsalutely turned down. in view of the public meeting to be held on Friday it was decided to take no action. A sad fatality look place some distance out Horn Xgarua.wuhia kuto) on Sunday aliernopn. It appears that u lour-year-old boy was out shooting with a number ol adults when In* picked up u loaded gun which was lying on the gioimd, and in childish mood pointed it at a littlegirl, the daughter of Mr Henry Carr, me gun, discharged, mortally wounding Die girl. 1 am concerned about die country boy’s education. 'fine country boy doesn't get mucii chance, largely because he is a country buy,” said thelion. C. I. Barr at the School Comuntteu conievencu at Wellington. ' But 1 ■hope that this will be remedied by a consolidated country school, la Canada, country children are brought by motor up to ten miles over good roads to a school where excellent conditions prevail. The weakness in our system is the ons-teaeher school. And I hope, next year, if 1 remain in office, tp start some of these consolidated country schools, where the schooling can be centralised under the best surroundings and conditions.”

As a large bluegum in the Ouvcrn-mc-nt gardens at p.oturua appeared te be dangei "ijsly unsteady, and too ' close to electric wires, Mr Wilcox head gardener, instructed his man lo ! fell it. On examining tlre tree t-o dis- ' cover tire cause oi Us dying appearance. i-j flie yscu-t astonishment ol Mr Wnicox and his men, n was found that tiic tree had been attacked by some insect. Th« pest hud riddled she trunk and branches like the borer, that the UK was really dangerous, ami might have [alien at any time. Mr WiUcox is submitting specimens of the branches to the lorestry t authorities, to sec it they recognise • the cause ol the tree’s decay, or U a new pest has be*n discovered. Meanwin';-:, Mr W'lil-.ox is taking precaution by burning every panicle o) the tree. ’ The appreciation shown ol die work done by Mr and Mrs Mclntyre white resident ,n Levin is evinced I%' the following list ol tlie many presentattoas uiMl'i them on tiic occasion ol their re- «nt departure. Cheques were received irons the Old Pupils. Masonic L*dge, Levin Club and from the Druids, Bowling Club, school Comnut- ■ tee and town combined!. The staff gave a Prince's travelling rug, the scholars a suitcase in solid leather, a Uouitoh teasel, a siJvei-mouuted gam's umbrella, a Shelley-ware liot water jug. a lady's handbag, and a silver lruit knife, tine Druids' Lodge a goldmounted fountain pgn, the old pupils an illuminated address and a lady's solid ica’her dressing case, and die Itugby Union a lantatus and a lady's >ijvei manirnre see. In addition a Ma-ai mat was presented to Mr and Mis Mclntyre by little Miss Tukapua. \ young man named Charles Wrtiiuin Woolston. is years oi age, who resides with his parents. Mr and Mrs w. .!. Woolsi-^n. on whose farm a' Mangapiko he is employed, met with a- serious accident while pig-hunting on Sunday last (say's the Waipa Post;. It appears that he left the homestead early in the day, going on horseback, accompanied by some clogs, *• Pirongia Hills. 'Die dogs had got on to the .pigs, and he had shot one and was m tiit* act of dressing it when the dogs secured another pig further down the hill. He was running down to this pig. whan he slipped and fell, the impact thus occasioned canting ’begun to go Off. With tile result Iha. the bullet entered his chin, breaking tke jawbone, dislodging lour, of his teeth, and lodging at the back »f his throat. Woolston was able *o get on Lis ho lie and ride home, a distance of seven miles, only to find on arrival there the- all his people were ah~e*t. ne then returned to Pironga, wher* he met his father, who brought aim into Te Awamutu, and subsequently took him to the Waikato Hospital, where the bullet was located and re moved. A six-roomed house is advertised for sale. Particular.- ci a clearfcg sale a-. Te Horo are advertised. Mrs Darn, oi HAutere, has for sale the- rest laying strains of hens, ducks, ets. An auction sale of meat, fowls, and pigs will be held at the mart on Saturday morningThe clearing sale on "c-ehaif- or Mr S. j. Weggery takes plane at Te Horo sale vards on Friday Mr J. W. Gibson’s lantern lecture at Waitanae this evening should he largely attended. A splendid evening’s entertemmeni it promised. Dr sharp may be consulted at Nurre Osgley's rooms, Paruparaomu, each Tuesday from i to o p.m. For Inf! penza. take Woods’ Great Peppermint Care.