THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 4 July 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Headers of the "Mail" an.- notified that subscriptions in advance lor the .current quarter are due. By in | advance a saving of Is may be made, ! and ull who wish to secure inis concession should do bo at once, Xh..» monthly sitting of the Otuki fj.M. Court take* place to-morrow. The monthly mei-ling of ihe Otafci Chamber »y Commerce will be held tomorrow night.

;* I "The Great Maßwen" appeared at] j,! the Otaki theatre las! night to n poor *« I audience. Hjs various "stunts," how-| {* ever, were appreciated. •* Penny postage to all parts of the I !* British Empire will be re-established on \ ;. Uetober .1, when the new telephone I ►* | charges will also come into force. !* | The special meeting of tie Utaki Bor- i >. ' ough Council, to have been held on Mon- j ,♦ . clay night, whs postponed on account of I ;* j the wet weather. >\ . J Ih» Mayor (Air J. P. Brandon), L'e- • puty-Mayor (Mr T. O'-Rourke), and ! I ■ the Town Clerk (Mr T. G. Davies) left | ► fox Wellington this morning to inter- I • , view the State Advances Office rela- j ' j tive to securing further money to com- j ' i plete the water-works.

t A cook-genera! is advertised for. I j A »ports coat is advertised as lost. A motorcar is Advertised for sale. A comfortable lions? i s advertised i Mr Cockroirs "JTridaj's special'-' is i advertised. " I

I Fountain pens of all makes are ad- I ' vertised for sale by Mr L. G. Lcurrv. J j A of timber will he held on Mr I .J. Mead 'a property, Waerenga Road, on Friday. j Members of the Otaii Maioaic Lodge j are asked to meet at the Lodge-room I at 1 p.m. sharp on Thursday. I The annual meeting of the Oiitki ! Bowling Club will be held ai 730 on ! Wednesday evening ncxti ; Tenders lor the ereclion of & rest] room and lavatories for the Otaki Re=t • Resort Memorial close on 20th inM. I l'iau>. etc., may be .seen at the "Mail"! Dilic,.. SALE OF BOOTS AXI> SHOES.— Our half-yearly sale is on and all the j •~d.i liriii io!u( !:••• cleared in ladies', I gents', ?.nd children's hoots and ihoes. I —-Irvine '» Shoe Stort, Otsbi.—Advr, j '

Tlie Land and income Tax Department is prosecuting a well-known \Vadra.rapa farmer for failing to furnish a retuiTi of the land owned by him. A Are at Kaetihi destroyed a twosterey building next the Waimiariuo Hotel, occupied by A. G. Laloli (tailor) and P. Curtis (confectioner). The building was inisuved for £1500; Mr Laloii's stock for £'1100; and Mr Curtis'; stock and fittings for £l5O. Mr A. C. Koss. of the Dairy Division,? said that last year 81,471 cows were tested in -New Zealand, lepresenting 7' per cent, of the cows. Denmtirk was Hie only country with a larger percentage, but he hoped" to see Denmark's proportion passed very soon. A facetious Tarana.ki correspondent writes: The latest rumour from Matiere is that rescue parties are at work dragging the Main street looking for a six-lioise wagon thai lias foundered somewhere. The most optimistic of the re/ddeuts. offer very little hope for its recovery. The extent, to which mutoi ticdiic .., competing with ana ueiuiiling tne ~iii«oyj w.is instanced m the iruie's Courl at New l J lyiuoulh recently, when ihe question ul arriving at uie expenses ol a witness who nad ...-..■n brought iioiii .Napier vca- being ul«eut=*tf. -WUai is Hn' taiiwas i,ue:-'' asked counsel in the etuiv and the witness replied; 'i doti'i know; I motored over; I never travel-by ran." i

••1 have, been ast-ojiistied -it my j\\i> ignorance of Hie ClHUeh in Now S.eu- ' land, and its mission activities ;;m"fig ' tne Maoris," said ttie L" t.: n I. shop I ui DoinaUaj at a gathering ai Auck-! land, "but my own ignorance was no j gilpaier than that ot sonic New Zen- ! flinders coLcerniny India.. A.I one school I visited recently a little girl ] lold me I came lrom America, anui at another school all the children were' surprised and disappointed because 1 di.l no! have my hear! ornamented with feathers!" When Hie Bishop oj Ooriiakai was in London recently lie was asked by Hie treasurer of a London church whether lie had a cathedral in his Indian diocese. "No,'' lie rplied, ''we arc nol thinking 0/ cathedrals Just now. We me concerned with the building of Christ's Church." He ihen inlorrned lie; Londoner i3is.il the churcli building being used at present liad cost only C2;">. "Bui you will have a: cathedral some day.'" urge<| Hie treasurer. "What will il cost?" Mueli t„ his amazement the Wshop replied. •'■AI : •C 2300." "Why." exclaimed the treasurer, "only liie oilier day 1 signed a cheque for C'2oo(i for repairs to our ( organ!" Thai was the pity of it. said , the missionary, for while money was plentiful for the Cliiireli-'.-s work in ! Christian land-. Ihe (io s pel had to he ] denied to thousands because the , Church in heathen countries lacked fluids. A eommission appointed by Ihe Pies bytory of fhuvkes Hay sit a few days nan in Pi. Andrew's Church, Ok- ' horn.', to consider a pelilion signed by j ',l members and adherents of the church, pra.yinir that the Presbytery , la.kn sfpps to preserve the historic faith of the church. II was alleged 'states Ihe dishornc Times'! that the ! IP v. .las. Ailken. M.A.. had in his learhinfrs departed from the fundamental doctrines of Ihe church. &i iietiee was hetird on both side-. The decision of ihe Presbytery will be i made known after due consideration. ] Party feeling is running high in the J Hou.se and anvlhing may happen ; '.ays the Tarannki 11.-n.M'- corres-, potident;. An example ol ihe.. compliments lhal are being passed among j noon when Mr Nash, member foi Pa! j mer Mon \orlb, asked lo.'ive io pul a I cpiesiion withojil notice n> the Minisj ter ol Justice regarding the strsi,. of j (he •_'.•!"; at Palnierston North "Have, I vonr been there?" asked a Labour . j me.mbr. "No. but von m nv h.'iv.; I been.'' replied Mr Nasi. ,

Ai Hie annual meeting m t.>... Taranaki r.ocaJ Bortie*' A&soeiaUon, Mr C. I .). ludoher referred to the f'\n--.,iv- ; railway freight? on hiuunrn. Flo saiij (lie lost account received by hi : - county (r>r hltiiiiicii showed that it cost Cl.'iO for 125 tons or i-)- f).i per ton, railed from New Plymouth to Rltham. :!jo had protested to lite company <elli inp <3ij bitumen, but bail been sdviseu , by them fh.nf the only ehane* of obtaining si reduction in freight was foi 'all the local bodies to take combined ; action. It was resolved to request the genera l , manager of railways tn place jbituriieni in the same category a? ord. I Inarv tai. and to remove ii from the t nla-,* D ra,le to the clasn N rote when ' it is to be used for local bodies. 'Hie Piilujer.s'vii .Standard -;iv, the ; ><i|[n.-wliiil unusual oi two | trains standing stationary while a Policeman w;i> engaged in the task ol removing an "inebriated lady'' from |>. hi;- at the xtation end of the Souaie une day last week. She wa= pfKsing over the crowing when n,,. lu-el of one of her shoes caugbi in a ■iotibir- rail rendering; further progress ('•ir the moment impossible. With much ceremony -tie removed her f r >ot from the shoe, "and calebin<r sight of a policeman who was bent on arresting her, she moved on to the permanent way between Ihc hedges that flank the line through ihe Square. Tn the mean. time 'in' north-bound New Plymouth mail train had left in* Motion and a ' goods 'rain from the Wairarapa was I »r.m(n» int.-. »!-.,. 4,..:,,. „. ~ ' .

eormnsr in.'.-, the .-tation on the down line. Both trains ha.'l '•'■ pull up until the offender was removed frorn *hr crossing an<l escorted, protesting, fo the police station. ?!>- failed to ap-rif-ar when ?■'!]'■*■>] before fh r - Police C'-ui< and in her absence a conviction wfi-i entered and sh.- airnouni of h fj r b.eil. ss, was esfreaM

I N«w Zealand dairymen are the r.nfv one«, in the worid feared bv Denmark so learned Mr W. Garrett, who has just returned to Auckland afier a seven months' visit in Europe During his tour iis visited Denmark. Norway and Sweden. inquiring into dairying matters in London, and also * j saw what wa= being d*ne iri the Unit- ' ied States. lie was convinced Iha* ' I New Zealand had nothing fo so ' far as she had gone. That, was fn I say, in the methods of manufacture. But. he was much struck with the need i (that existed for going in extensively} 'for research work. Denmark wa,= far!

ahead of us in Thai resrje'et. She had colleges and special professors, \vh were all the time making inves*i?f'<fions and doinc? research work. Netf! facts were beincr discovered, new me-i thods evolved, and if New Zealand ' did not tak» a leaf ''''if of Denma>•{"■* book in this. resoeet and ?et up research rollest?'; she would find herself, ':.:i:;p left, behind, because roffir.efiiiori; v l .';,.- 5,0 keen. I'- was vhile he <vns in Denmark thai Mr Garret; beard one ' of the leading professors say thai Nr-.'-; Zealand was the only country they I feared as a competitor. \sr Garo'ti found 'hat the r>arte« excelled the Npw Zealand dairv farmer in tha mait&rji of cleanliness. Thev nl*o '.v-nf in I ■ kepnlv 'r. r inten-ive r.ulMvi i i.i—jn ,' fart, "cultivated right or, :., ;/•=- -iji tracks." i I Mr Fred Barret! is here 88n |,i Hit; ' time in the h'sri of flv? fown. He ba? ! ' repairs to do but ttH! fir' l iim« to do ' - acre. <ss* hi* pricet. tar! sts hii liatV - r Jr. —Advr.*