THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 29 September 1922, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fur selling milk to whkli, it was stuteil, 1" per • ■ e lll of water hud been a'To at?, a dairyman IF Wellington was lined £lO and costs. -Situated about a mile Irom the Mataniata post office, an amateur wireless station hist week was able to get into touch with the steamship Niagara, which at that time was midway be- ; tweeft Auckland and Vancouver. Credit was given to the Rev. Petrie • for the limerick on Realisation at the : children’s evening, whereas it should ! have been given to Evelyn Flu toy. In the drawing (junior section) Willie Roach was the second prize winner. At the next sitting of the Levin Court, the Horowhenua County Council ! will proceed against twelve motor-lorry j drivers for carrying excessive loads. • Those to be summoned are drivers liv- . it?g outside the County boundaries. A lamp, to warn travellers of tin? dangerous state of the Waitohu bridge. | "as stolen during Wednesday night or in the early hours of the following

' morning. Such a theft deserves a severe punishment. There is a big possibility of the Oliau bridge, which is in a bad state, j being closed to traffic, unless help is j forthcoming from the Government. | j Like the Waitohu it is unsafe for the ! heavy loads that pass over it. A statement that is made on good j j authority is calculated to cheer the j : hen rts of the farming community (says i the Poverty Bay Herald). The announcement is to the effect that the opening price for lamb, for the new ex- j port season will be unprecedentedly high. 9d per lb having been mentioned , in one quarter as the likely figure. J The .Tunior Mission Giutd. thanks to Mrs W. Best and Miss Neilands. has ' had a most successful year, which was j brought to a close yesterday afternoon, when an afternoon tea was given the members at Mr? Best’s residence. Durtag -the -day Mrs Best, who has a. •

most faithful worker, was presented with a lovely hand-worked Chinese tray-cloth, while Miss Neilands. a mo3t able ana energetic member, was presented with a valuable box made of Mew Zealand woods (inlaid! with her initials, also inlaid. Complimentary references were made to both ladies. Although the Guild now practically disbands summer teas will occasionally be held on the beach. During the past seven months there has been an average attendance of fifteen members at meetings, which is very gratifying. The Otaki race* are over, but if you require a pair of boots or shoes for the summer why Eot buy now? We have a good selection now showing, and you save yopr train fare by buying in Otaki ar Trvine’s Sho* store, —

The Shannon Dairy Co. are now turning out an average of between 120 and 130 boxes of butter daily, and there is every indication of a record season as regards output. A “send-off” was aeeorded Mr Meharry at Manakau on Wednesday night, when there was a large gathering, and a very pleasant time spent. Mr and Mrs Meharry left for Woodville yesterday. The following, pupils of Miss It. Johnston, of Wnikanae, were successful in passing their musical examinations, held at Levin: —Preparatory division, Duleie Reeves, 76 marks; junior division, Daphne Redward, 77 marks; intermediate division. Evelyn Fortune (honours), 51 marks. Attention has been directed to Hie spread of heath or heather on the Picton hills (says a Blenheim message). This shrub, or weed, is coming in from the sand hills and spreading very rapidly. Unless it was curbed, it was going to he a very serious thing for the district. It was far worse than blackberry or gorse. because stuck would not eat it, nor would anything grow under it.

“Horticulturist” writes: A Palmerston North gardener visited the Marlon flower show last week. His observations were highly favourable, and these are borne out bv the fact that a nett profit of £2OO resulted from the bulb show. It seems that the whole community take an interest in these functions, three of which are held every year—the bulb show by the Anglicans, the rose show by the Presbyterians', | and the chrysanthemum show by the l Methodists. I i As illustrative ot the high values ot I land in tlie suburbs of Wellington, no less than in the country, a property lias just changed hands at Seatoun at the rate of well over £2OOO per acre. The former owner has bought a place at Otaki, consisting of 16 acres of good land, and carrying a four-roomed cottage and scullery, for less than the price at which he sold his property at Seatoun. which was 1) acres and had a five-roomed cottage on it. It mis situated, however, a few yards from the tram terminus, Mr Justice Chapman says lie has been engaged for the greater part of this year in hearing cases concerning disputes over farms, and he could not help feeling that they were the outcome of sales and successive sales, at a profit. of land in this province and in others, and the position in many cases was that the men on the farms were men of insufficient or limited means, and they were unable to do justice to the land or themselves Or to the reputation of the province. They had been the victims of the spirit of speculation which had overwhelmed this province particularly in the boom years 1920-21.

A feature of the eclipse observations at the Hector Observatory. Kclburn was an incident that might not repeat itself in a thousand years. For convenience iii watching the eclipse, and to the great benefit of the thirty or forty people who were able to crowd into the room, the image of the sun was thrown by means of the telescope upon a white screen, where it showed

ns u disc of about six inch es in diameter. As tlie sun set. it passed behind n ft*nee on the intervening hilltop, and to everybody’s surprise, a man and woman, busily engaged with glasses in watching the eclipse, were sharply silhouetted on the screen. The apparition caused a good deal of excitement among some of the spectators, who thought at first that they were seeing tin* man in tbe moon and his wife.

Hays an exchange: —" ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnston related many humorous stories during the course of iiis address at Xi'tv Plymouth. In emphasising ,iust how dry America was since prohibition came, he said one place was so dry that people did not have enough moisture to lick the postage stamps, which therefore had to be pinned on to the letters, lit another place it was so dry that fish moving up streams left a trail of dust behind them.” tVe were asked the other day if Prohibition was carried would it increase taxation? It looks like it—for the Postal Department cannot be expected to supply pins free of

cost. Besides an official might injure his lingers when sorting the mails! As to the fish yarn—we know a few. but the Yankee take- the cake. For the fishes’ sakes we had better keep Xew I Zealand wet. anyway! ' A vice is advertised for. j Messrs -Joplin and Co. will hold a I meat sale to-morrow at Id n.m. An advertiser wishes to buy an Ota- ' ki beach section. Applications close to-morrow for a . junior assistant for the Otaki Borough I Council. I Mr J. Buick will supply milk at the ■ Otaki beach from October 3rd at 3fd I per quart. I Notice is given that the Waitohu j . bridge on the main road has been elos- , ed for traffic. ' The monthly meeting of the Otaki ; State School committee will be held on . Monday VYe remind our T- Horo leader t or Mr C. I. Harkrtess’s address which will be given in the Public Hail to-night at 3. A meeting of members of the Otaki Football Club will be held to-morrow night to arrange a social as a wind-up to a successful season. .Members of the Otaki Bowling and Croquet Clubs are reminded that the season opens to-morrow. Ladies are reminded that it is a general tea day. The annual meeting of the Otaki Tennis Club will be held in the Druids’ Eall on Tuesday night at 7.30. A full attendance of members and intending members is requested. For Children'* Hacking Cough, Wood*' Great Peppermint Cure.