THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 13 June 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Otaki Borough Council takes place to-morrov, night. A practice of the members of the Otaki Fire Brigade will be held to-mor-row night at 7 o'clock, Visiting days at the Otaki hospital in .future will be Wednesdays and Sundays (2 p.m. to -i p.m.) A motor-«ar sunir axle deep \v, the f .-oft mud oppo-ite the Central Hotel <>n Monday and only with difficulty was extricated froru the drain. A pony aho sank up to it- flank--. At the Palnierston X. Court to-day Joseph Harvey Cornish will appear on a charge of having, on or about ilareh 9. W2S. at Levin, obtained from Jabe2 Bebbington, the sum of £5, by means of la certain false pretence. Accused ap-( I peared before Mr J. L. stout, S.M., yesterday, and on the application of Detective Holmes, was remanded until today, bail again being allowed. Last week's issue of the ">?.Z. sporting and .Dramatic Review '' i.- one of the be.t illustrated numbers ever published by the proprietors. Tii. pictures it: connection, with the Great Northern Racing Carnival at Auckland will (>•■ sure to attract attention. Footballer! will find keen interest it: the snapshots taken at the Boneke y. Alarist match at Athletic Park, Wellington, and groups of the leading Wanganui Rugby Sydney happenings cover rae-

ing at Randwick; N.Z. Varsity footbal match at the University Oval, am goods train wreck at Spring wood Wellington new ferry steamer has :

prominent pictorial position, also the Anglican Church conference at Christ - church, and there is a wealth of other well selected illustrations that should givs r< ready sale to this superlative

. magazine". Particulars will be found in this issue of a £2'V) Moves Puzzl.' | Competition, This fascinating puzzle I was reeently published in a London j daily, and the proprietors of the '' Rei view" have received the New Zealand j right?. The result* in connection with i the £SO Racing Skill Competition and j the £lO Football Competition, are ani nounced in this paper. The "Review - " I contains a magnificent two colour sup- ! plement of Miss Mai Bacon, the famous , London revue artist. The" paper is on sale at all booksellers and stationers. i A signet ring is adx'ertised for. ■ Cows are advertised for *ale. Lost gloves are advertised for. i A sum of money is advertised as lo=t.' m -, , . " lenders ror tne erection of a cottage fit the Otaki Sanatorium close on tke I 26th. j Mr B. H. Just, Palmerston North, ha, ) hedge and forest trees for sale. j The property at Otaki, known a, the I old race-course, will be sold on July ' 12th as advertised. I Try Bargoyne's Emulsion—caexaist's quality. Read Mr L. St. George's replace advertisement. This is the weather. It pays to keep j your feet warm and dry. You can do both by buying s peir of our gum boots, Red Ball Brand, or warm, slippers, from 2/11. We are cutting a line ' of Children-'a Goloshe-- to clear.—lrving'e Bh.ee Store, Otaki.—edTt,

The Matamata Town. Clerk (Mr B. Blennerhassett) has prepared an interesting set of statistics in connection with the town of Matamata. The town area was formed in 1917, when there was a population of about 500. To-day the population is estimated at about' 900. There are nine miles of roads in the area, with two miles of formed footways. The ■sfcreage is S3O, with a rate-able value of £407.000. There are 48 electric lights in the streets.

The real purport of the Bankruptcy Act. was defined by Mr Justice Herdman in the Bankruptcy Court at Auckland, when dealing with a motion for the discharge of a bankrupt. Both the official assignee and counsel for bankrupt had staled that ihe creditors were not opposing the discharge. To these observations His Honour said: "I am not interested in the creditors: I am interested in the public. The Bankruptcy Act is not administered in the interests of creditors, but in the interests of the public' On Thursday the oldest church in Taranaki celebrated its 78th anniversary— the Te Henui Anglican Church, which was completed so long ago as March, 1845. All that remains or the original building now is the nave of the Holv Trinity Church. There is something particularly historic about this old church, lor it is Intimately associated with the memory of that pioneer churchman and first Bishop of New Zealand, George Augustus Selwyn. It was he who selected the site 'and it was he who used his private means to erect a church for the needs of the 70 or 80 people then living in the "small hamlet on the east , bank of the river."

A Wanganui resident points out that growers of potatoes nowadays very seldom see the once familiar potato apples on their crops (says a Wanganui paper). In the resident's opinion this is a sign of deterioration in the crops. At one time he points out that many growers took the trouble to procure fresh stock per medium of the apples. Xow the growers in the majority of instances are too indifferent and 'are content to use the same tubers for seed over and over again. This method no doubt is Instrumental in weakening ihe stamina of many varieties, and make them more prone to the ravages of disease.