THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 6 October 1922, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Reader* of the "Mail" are notified that subscriptions in advance for the current quarter arc due. By paying in advance a saving of Is may be mad*, and all who wish to secure this concession should do so at or.ce. Teuders air invited, closing on October I-t}:. .'or <-nn inir pipe- tor the Otaki Borough Count:!,', The International Star-, a company with "some food artists, gave an entertainment at Otaki last night, but. unfortunately, iinly a very few persons were pr?sf-r:r. Mi J. .). Rodgers. who been Ucadmaster at the Waikanae State School for some considerable time, has been appointed first assistant at the Island Bay school. 5 sUP! Mi Lowry (im> donated a trophy for three spikes antirrhinums (snapdragons) at the Horticultural Society's Autumn shon. Intending competitor? should plant now. Sehedufcs may be obtained at the "Mail" Office.

Mr w. Voughan, who ha* interested] hirn>. If in seat? for the Otaki rf- f r resort, recently waited on the teachers ' of The Ot.-.ki State. Convent, and Xs- I tire school*. with a request that child- i r«i) l.r- a-k.-.l tr, give a penny each to- j «v:rd the pureha.-e 0 f seat.". Mr : VBUgiiaii iiNt- now reeeired a cheque for! £2 !'"•> from the Convent Kebool. a gift I which i.- fully appreciated. He expect.- ! to Jiea? iVi.'" 1 the other school* within 1 a week or so. - -.. Mr T. Rikiharia. at PTidnesday ' night's meeting, asked Mr Morfatt; J "In the event of your setting into the I House could you guarantee to do away with tohungaism or prophet *vork I amongst the Maoris through your tree ' hospital scheme for Maoris?" Mr j Moffatt replied: " Xo. but by _a sound) educational policy it wjuld no doubt I help to do away wu-h a lot of it. Even O'lT Pakeba irierd.-: far all their education ha--e q-jack doctors ard prcpieri a-d sspernifious belief." Another was: •"W£oss eo you represent *" '"The people:" '•'What do you mean by the people''' "The Liberals:'' "J «ce —the rppsii::or. sh! j oh. well, it will be the sirs* old game— j no better.

Siy Jas. Wilson, speaking at the Manawatu County Council meeting on silver pine poles, said Mr Waters, engineer for the Jlanawatu-Oroua Power Board, had been in Canterbury inspecting lines there. He had found that iron-bark poles put in only eight years ago were rotting and had to be replaced. This decay was owing to the fact that saplings had been used instead of ' mature timber. Mr Waters was of opinion that silver pine poles would be quite suitable for short lines to pri- : vate houses, etc. .

"A teacher arrives at the height of hip teaching powers at 40 years of ago,

and at 30 years he is beginning to lose his powers," said Mr E. C. Banks (Auckland) at the conference of education boards at Wellington. This statement the Minister for Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) denied absolutely and with emphasis. He thought thai a man of the age mentioned last was as good physically, mentally and morally as ever he was. To suggest that a man at 50 years of age was played out was wrong. "Experience counts for much," the Minister said, "and I consider that a man between 50 and 60 is often at his best." Very strong remarks on the luck of interest in New Zealand by New Zealanders were made by Mr .Tames Tooniath at (he annua! meeting of" the New Zealand Natives' Association at Wellington recently. lie was advocating the extension of the organisation throughout the Dominion, and in doing so deeply deplored the fact that New Zealanders were allowing strangers to come in and steal their birthright. He referred more particularly to the Chinese influx, and spoke generally on the failure of young New Zealanders to recognise their sacred duty to the land of their birth. It only required the

force of public opinion—and here was the organisation to do it—to ensure thai New Zealand was kept for New Zealanders.

The Wanganui Borough -Council is '' making efforts to obtain a loan for ;i £3OllO in order to provide work for '• those men in the borough who are out of work. The work proposed by the council will have an important beating on the future development of the borough, several street extensions being included in the proposal. At a recent meeting of the council the town clerk staled that tlie borough engineer had informed him that 37 men were dispensed with a month or two ago who had _ been employed on relief works and that 11 members Of the labouring staff had also been dismissed, He estimated , ']]-,'[ there were between •!<> and 50 men \ out of work in the borough. The pro po'-ed extensions would provide work for about -'ln men. Many operations for appeudicitis are unnecessary, says Dr. Yeisnku Matsuyka. One hundred and twenty -i.x appendixes were dissected—loo had been. removed by operation, the others were from post-mortems. About one-half of the lir-t group showed that the patients

had bcun infected »i'h uuruis, The large number ot from a certain Continental elinie showed that nearly half of the operations had been unnecessary —~ :; T pei cent, of the :, i»peudixes were normal. Many of the norma! organs contained worms, and the presence of the worms, is »u]>posed to have produced the pain diagnosed 'as chronic appendicitis. In such cases , inedL'iual treatment would have disposed of the parasites without re-sort to surgery. The mistakes were chiefly in'. the can',- of women patients. \

"I don't caie il it takes me a month and 1 havft to call every member of the family: I nm determined to get to the , bottom of this matter," remarked Mr J. L. Stout. S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court at Paltuerston N., when two bro- . thcrs named Ernest Turner and Joseph I Tumi'! were before the Court on a | : charge of having driven a horse which , ; ivas riot in a fit condition to be worked i ! and with ill-treating the animal. His Worship'* remarks arose during an at- . j tempt to ascertain who was the owner of the animal, it having i>e=n asserted for the 1 defendants that the horse, ' which had been purchased at a 'ale for ' | the sum of ss, had been sold to the defendant's father. Hi- Worship strongI !;- commented on the fact that the fa- ; ther —wnoti the defendant- maintained ; to be the owner—was to the j Court to clear up the question ul oirpjjr--1 ship. ".Surely the Court is entitled to 1 some explanation and your clients I eh/jul.i jive some,'-' said the magis- I i trate to the deifadants' counsel. Mr J. | j Grant : The magistrate decided T o ad-j Mourn the case lor one week ui .vr.der j i that the matter be further gone into. I I A woman desires work by the day or : halt day. An advertiser wishes to buy a rub- , i ber-tyred crig. i A modern 7-roomM bouse i- adver- I | ti-ed for sate. j i A sale oi meat will take place at '

} the Oiaki mart to-morrow. Mr Howard Andrew, Ltd., has a rci pine*' advertisement in this issue. l Mr Ralph Thomson advertises sit- ' tinffs of White Leghorn eggs for sale. I | Messrs Moffatt and Co.. Otaki, are j buyers of hide.-, tallow, etc. Highest i prices are given. I Particulars of the Anglican bazaar. i to be held on Thursday next, are adI vertLse,'!We remind our readers or the clearin" sale of furniture, etc., f«s fo« held 1 on behalf of Mrs J. Knox to-morrow at Attention is called to the visit of Father G. Zurcher. who will speak ia tee ;S£itr« r >- Monday cvesisg. Full particular; &r«- ad-verxisfcd. The Hauler* Deiesc* Fife Ciuh -ijl rfc* public hall, Te Koro, on Wedr.e:<cav. October i» T h Readers &aoaH keep this ca:e is. vie* Tor lE9n=!!Zfc. taia SPoodi' Otftat Cttr*-- A.lvt