THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 2 July 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Headers of the "MaU?.' era notified that subscriptions in advance for the current quarter aro due. By paying in advance a saving of Is mar be made, end all who wish to secure this conce»tioa should do so at once. • According to tin? ■'•'.Q.tago Daily Times" a frost-fisli was secure.} kt Ocean Beach, Dunediu, which weighed lOOlbs but onljr measured Bft. in length. A speeial nieefciug of the Otaki Borough Council will be held to-night at 7 o'clock. An assembly dance is to 1/e held in the Parish Hall at Alanakau do Friday. the Ladies' Guild having organised one which will be held fortnightly to enable the young folks to learn daucing. Mr Arthur Fjieoaian has just had erected a fine uj>-to-datn retidenoe opposite the jjost office, the structure be--1 £ng built by Messrs Gprdoa and Wl«sn? ..U-j; , «»ii | The dancing classes at the Otaki theatre for children are proving very successful, and Mrs JCnight is fo be commended on the pains she ia taking to teach all. The youngsters are making good progress. ♦"s» A christening took place at the Xu- ■> tive Church yesterday when the daugh- £ ter of Mr and Mr* H. C. E. Stahle was <& named Mahine Bangi. Tht Kev, Tcmu- £ era Tokoaitua was the officiating clergyX man while Mr Hema te Ao was godfather. The seremony was witnessed ♦ by quite a number of i«tor©*ted Sfiee- | . tators. ♦ A wide rang* of illuetraljona appears $ in this week's is«ae of the "N.Z. Spertfa ing and Dramatic Review," making 4> the number one v£ superlative oxcel•Y lence e-ad delightful variety. The c-en-trc .pages are partiaularly attractive, ♦- with their artistic -arrangement of phoT tographs d»voted to outdoor sports in a I Eagltnd, embjiaciqg foQt.ball and la- <►"; crosje in keenly fought out games. The ♦ British Amateur Golf Ohampionshijj £ contest is depicted in a coraprehensive j£ series of notable pietures, and the £ heavy-weight championship of Europe! Sis graphically brought to' lighti The Prince of Wales usveiling a memorial Jt to Belgium will aialra a. deep appeal, X aleo the King and Quean 'e visit to j& Borne. The frontispiece is specially $ 'attractive revealing Alarioa Davies in "When Knighthood was in Flower, 7 ' 2 I additional superb geocss of this film *l- --• so being a feature. Fashions at Aura-1 X j uil (Pari*}, Aucklixd University studJ ents and the stage and concert world {have a particular showing. Amongst the miscellstneeus set are the sheep dog trials a.Jfc Wairoa, Hawks'* Bayj English & ! billiards charflpJoaship; Taranaki B*p> £ ; football team; ladies' hockey, tourmi" # "and the Banks' tennis tournament at 9 j Wanganui. Given away with thi» isp of the"B6vi«rw"ia a splendid two- , a colour supplement of Steve Donoiiue, I fr the World 'a greatest jockey, who has < v"' -"«iftn jthe Derby three times in succes- ! k sjftß. 4s. competition on the win- ( ? ter cup at th*;Canterbury Jockey Club 'a < meeting is; aleo annouueed. The "Be- ' view''-Is on sale at nil booksellers and ' * ; _ stationers. j ( '\ .SALE OP BOOTS AND SHOES.— 1 -:;Oar half-yearly;.,sale is on and ail the K ■"' edd line. iQ'ist be cleawd in ladi*»', ■■, -ffants V *nd .^hiliren'» boots and'aipM. 1 —ir?in"#/i Shot. Siox*, '

A pig of cxtraordinai'y size" was on"; in a Masterten shop wi last. The animal turned .the seai« at 5411 b» dead-weight. There i 3 a keen, depiand tot tat sheep in the i&istrict at present, but : praetiealiy nothing efloring. All oyer the country the wet weather has been against fattening and a general shortage prevails. i- -yuicK March," the soldiers' journal, jius i>eeu puniisht'd far the JuH umo. It made its appearance on Anza.c Day, lyis, aud since ihen it had done much to advance tlie claims o. ex-service men. At tiie iMagiEtrate's Court recently, Mr Barton, *..m., said that it did no. appear to be widely enough known tnax a person who nad registered a trearm had to noui'y cliange oi aclares£ on transleniug to aiioUier' district. A. number el Masleiton taxi-driver, and canujeu were lioaxcu reocnuy i>? suiue pcisun who has a queer oi mmiuur, telephoning them io>ome 10 a certain place lor a lare. The urlversjgitid quae a lot oi tilings when wiey found tney had been yietuns oi an jil-conceiyea joke. •'ineie is one thing that this brings uriuer our nouce, yentlcnien," inr w. X. St'ranu, mayor oi Lowoi rtutt, at last meeting oi tlie nowei nun Boreugn Count.n, wlien U' nwtier wa» tn.entioiied wliereuy an oki man earning ij'i .i&s a week was calieu on to give £l' 10s as rent, "it is a tienienuous thing," declared His VVorsmp, in explaining the position. "1 can't see how it can be done." A New Plymouth resident recently discovered in* ins garden a weii-giown uocksloot stem with a hue seen head, owing to the excessively wet and warm autumn the seed had not lallen, but had germinated in the husks and thrown out growths up to three in length (says the Jsuw«j. The effect produced is quite remarkable. It olten happens in veiy moist anil humid seasons that wheat and oat* will germinate on the stalk-: it is more rare to find-grass seed. "How in the following for service?" wrote a London agent to his principal in Auckland. ' Cable received Wednesoday, 6th, and we got through u the twill by 'phone, giving details oi !,000,000 gpeciai envelopes, with customers - bands und" labels, that were rcijulred immediately, and in 'lB hour* these were on ttie way to the dock?. and if the boat leave's promptly the order will hove been received, manufactured specially, and left England in 100 hours. If the Yonks can best this they are welcome to it." A Northern Wairoa family has been greatly moved by a photograph published In the New Zealand "Herald.'.' The picture, which portrays Admiral Sir Roger Keys laying the foundation stone for the Zeebrugge monument on April 20, includes in the forefront n (ace which is said to be the living image of a, £ on who was reported during the war to have died of wounds. The possibility that the young Xew Zealaiider may be still alive, perhaps suffering from complete loss of memory, is keenly exercising the minds of his relatives', and steps have been taken to trace his idontity. The n»w and np-te-date pigsties at the Central Development Farm are now practically completed and contain some Innovations which make considerably toward* the easy working of (lie stie*.. Along the back of the building runs a race with doors Opening on to it from the pens, so that the inmates of any pen can be shifted easily from one"part of the building to another.' Troughs aye of course, lined with earthen-ware, a« the lactic acid" in the milk soon eats away the concrete. Pipes with screw plugs open from the troughs to facilitate cleaning. The drainage from the pens is towards the front, a slope leading both ways to the escape beneath the doorv so CJiaJ nothing can lie in corners. AU pens lace the north and fire open, .*o that the inmates can get the full benefit of the sun. arrangements having been made to lower wooden screens to provide shade in the summer if neeosiary. The National Dairy Association, it 'is claimed, has ankigonised a laegc number or producers who attend the annual Whiter 'Snow as delegate? to the .N'atipnal Dairy- Association meeting, Ti)i* 'jme ho free gate tickets were issued, entrance to the large meatieg r»oms being gained from the street instead of from the grounds as heretofore. Therefore it was significant that, when the question of holding the next "meeting was considered Auckland secured the verdict, this being tho first that the meeting will be held away from Palmerston, which has always been regarded as most central to' both Islands. The experiment will be interesting, aud it' remains to he seen if Auckland can secure the same representation from on the 'Jay of a match, these men both Islands as Pa!mer*£on has done in the paet. A South African paper, commenting on cattle dipping, mentions a story of the difficulty experienced in the early days of making native chiefs conform to the "dipping law" in regard to cattle. An official in an upcountry district charged with the duty of seeing this law carried out arranged a demonstration for the local chief. In his presence he ix«d half of his herd dipped, and then invited the cijief to return in 10 months' time and see the difference between the dipped and undipped cattle. On the appointed day the chief returned, and noticing the.gk>ssy skin and fatness of the treated' ceJtle against the miserable condition M the others, impoverished by the tick, turned to his chief induna, and. said decisively: "Fetch my three oldest wives." A curious instance of colour-blind-ness is reported in one Gf the American .Scientific a college student who wa= being tested Had ho difficulty in distinguishing red from green. "But. be found anything written in blue ink hard to read indeed, a blue-black writing fluid used on white paper was hardly visible to him, until it had turned" <ruite black. A blue pencil made ■& mark that seemed j to him scarcely different from that made in- white chalk. "When a blue j ribbon was used with a tvoewriter the effect wa s just as though the kevs had , hit the piper direct without z> ribbon, ; end tie writing could only be read, when tiie paper waa held o"r» a slant The subject of this experiment stH'M thai the first colour difficulty he could reJSember was in his childhood, when ! Sae was -puzzled to know what people Hi»BXit in talking oi the sky a« bine,. While it is, "oi course, impossible to ! predict with absolute certainty what !a the future before any new industry. foer* U every reason to believe there we big possibilities before the growing of fobacco in New Zealand, and • jf all part*. Nelson, it is stated, has he natural conditions that will proluce th* be*t leaf, and therefore yield he hfghesi returns' (says' .the Nelson ivening Mail). This "is important, j Hid it satisfactory to know that "a j lonsiderable number of people are now, urniuir tfieir attention *» tobacco-] jrowlng on a commercial basis. As t< natter of fact, the growing of tobac;o in N*eHf>n In sm'flll patches Tor lome use has been undertaken since lie .«*riy days of th? settlement, and bsre have fc*.»n <■*>#. r,r 1 fairly ler?* snturca ic msre Tecent years. ' But '-it il tl)».j«5l! two •rtkr«e v'car** jpeirtest. d*<'»ltT9-ss.cßt'.""h*»

The total rainfall in Leyin for June was 4.28 inches, while in Palmerston North. it wag 3.9 S inches. Tho vital statistics for Otaki for June were: Births 9, deaths 5, marriages nil. A test of the newly-laid water mains in Aotaki Street has been made and proved quite successful. While gathering iirowood on the Otaki Beach near the mouth ef the Waitoliu river last week Mr E. Ahern picked up tho hatch of a ship. The hatch, which does not.appear to have been very long in the water, is 7ft. din. long, by 2ft. din. wide, oin. thick, and is marked VIII above P VII. There is also strewn along the boaoh several broken pieces of dressed timber, which appears as if they were broken oil cabin fittings. An increase in insurance rates ul to per cent. wy& rumoured gat the nicer mg uf New Plymouth Hetaifers’ Association on Tuesday night, -one m@muor slating he understood it was to operate lrttm the beginning oi next month. General protest was .voiced at the proposal, 'and i'h» secretary was instructed to write tho insurance companies asking- lor particulars. At tho meeting ol the Aiastenoi, Chamber oi conunerce w c. b. Dnnieii was a,men u ne Knew where uit proposed deviation oi me J-umutaKa railway lino was to go. Mr Daniel; said Uiat lie liad learned that the proposed route went near cross creek around the lace of tne lull and than towards the east. A tunnel oi over 0 miles was suggested. Mr Darnell sun. that, it appeared to him that if the people did not keep hammering away at the’'‘deviation project they stood a chance of missing it altogether. A hint, which may be useful to farmers with plantations of young trees, comes from the Central Development Farm. For some time yomng orchard and other trees had suffered from the attacks of hares who stripped the bark from the trunks. As a preventive, the trunks were pairdejd with a mixture of half and hair Stockholm and coal tar, with conspicuous .success. Tlie trees have been painted to a height of about 13 inches, and whilst other untreated trees in fhc vincinity have patches of hark gnawed off. these are untouched. | Mr and Mrs E. Dixon, recently .Mayor and Mayoress (of liawera, were | entertained a,t. a social function at. flaw era on Wednesday night by a large and representative gathering of citizens, and they received handsome presentations as a recognition of their service to the town during Mr Dixon’s form of office as Mayor. Included in die was an illuminated address and a handsome gold watch. What i« a football?- The question was considered by the Salford. (England) magistrates iwhen a bay was summoned for playing football "in fhc street by kicking an empty condensed mill; can. The boy’s father coin tended that there was no offence, otherwise a person might, he summoned for kicking a banana, skin hi the street. The Magistrates, however,' held that there was an offence, and fined the boy dialf-a-crown. Hegarding the woolly aphis pest which is more prevalent this season in some of ike orchards in this district than for some years past, Mr A. G-. Holms, late of Te Horo, wrote to the Cawthron Institute of scientific research in Nelson for information as to (tie value of the parasite Aphelinus Mali, with which tests have been conducted in the Institute, with a, view to combating the aphis by natural means. The reply to hand speaks very highly of the result achieved up-to-date, and promises Air Holms a supply when the distributing sermon commences in November. The Aphelinus Mali i; a natural enemy of tihe aphis and it will lie interesting to note the effect of its introduction in the district. Mangolds are advertised for »ale. A roller-top desk is advertised for sale. The relatives pf (lie late Mr Joseph. Noble ino»rt a thanks notice ehiy hcrc. J A d*nc* wifi he held at the Empire I Hall, Otaki Kail way, on Thursday night ' i next. Messrs Taylor Bros, will a cll on Friday, as advertised, SO iff t. of riniu j boards and scantlings. A meeting of the Committee of the Otaki Athletic Blub will be held ».t, the theatre at. t> o’clock on Wednesday night. Mrs ."smith, who has o:i attractive display of goods in Main Street (opposite Best Resort), is prepared to do sewing, crochet, knitting, etc., at lowest- prices. Particulars of th,. estimated income end est hunted expeuditure in connection with the Utaki Borough Council for the year 1923-24 arc advertised. Boiler skating will si*.a be rib the rage In Otaki, Air Morse having decided to hold evening sessions at frequent intervals. Air l’red Barrett is here again—this time in (he heart of the town. He has repairs to do but will find time to do more. Get hie prices, and see his leather.—Advt.