THE OTAIKI MAIL. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 3 September 1923, Page 2

THE OTAIKI MAIL. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Til/3 monthly meeting of the S.M. Court takes place on Thursday, while the meeting of the Chamber Q'f Commerce will take place in the evening. . "The dairy farmer is selling butterfat below cost of production. Howdoes he do it?" said a speaker at a meeting at Masterton. "He does il by wording long hours, seven days a week, and by ilia wife and children working for nothing.'.'

While Mr. Harold Small ivna driving from the Te Horo factory this morning a rein broke and he was thrown heavliy to the road, receiving a severe shaking. The horse bolted half-way to Gfaki before stopped by Mr. Skerman, jvui.

A meeting of rJie i'Oumiittee in corinection with the Bowlers' ball tvsß held on Friday night. Mr. G. Brantley presiding. Arrangements were made for uusic, catering, decorating, etc., and by reports the function is likely to prove a great success, Bjowlers are to be requested to ai>pcur in uniform. Visitors are expected from various parts.

A wealth gf attractive pictures is contained in this week's :-.><\<- of the "New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review" making it the strongest illustrated journal of the day. The concluding day of the Grand National meeting at' Ricca-rton is represented in an interesting set. Football enthusiasts will find an appeal in the depiction of the Auckland-Wellington League match and the City-Athletic League Cup final, and group photographs of the North and South Island jockeys. Representative Rugby football teams are comprised in this section. The centre pages are devoted to a discriminating assortment showing the start of the balloon race in Paris; paying homage to France's great scientist, Pasteur. Australian Children's gift to French Village ami ».h ; ; baptism of the heir to Monaco. The Royal Henley Regatta is covered in an attractive set giving glimpses of the brilliant and nmuiMeil scene* at this noteable function on the Thames. American creations revealing the latest modes will appeal to the feminine eye. Amongst other illustrations are the fatal railway smash at JJudderslieid' giving a general view <jf the Tr.reckage; ' the recent ' coaching marathon, the famous annual rifle meeting at B'islev and the delegates from Japan and" the Philippines at the Science Congress. The "Review" is now on sale at all books.-iil.ers and stationers.

Has anyone seen Fred Barreti? He left Otaki Railway a few weeks back. Reward on taking your boots and shoes to his new premises, Otaki township.— For Bronchial Coughs, tako A man is advertised for. A push-cart is advertised for. A house is advertised to let.

A pair of spectacles and case are ad vertised as lost.

A rubber-tyred dog-cart and harness are advertised for sale. The Otaki State School committee will meet to-night. "We have hosts of bargains in ladies' and gents' footwear. Bluchers, nailed and plated, all sizes 12/9; shooters, nails and plates, 18/9, 22/6; greenhide shooters 29/6, 30/-. Jusj landed—MarJow's English Derby boots, three lines, ladies' TTaid shoes 7/6 to 11/9; carpet slippers from 2/11; ladies' lace shoes, no caps, 19/-, all sizes; lace shoe, patent cap, medium heels, 13/0 to clear. Polish/ 4 tins i/-.—At mrraj's; Shoe Store, Otaki.—Advt. s ' \ When a girl looks ni.ee and knows it j Pride impels her to display. ' And she swanks arxiuii-1 and shows it

In a most flamboyant way. But when ioilueijza scars her She looks mournful and demure; And the only thing that cheers her Is Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

•' W7 A Mr Norman Dey, of Tatuanui, |m on l>is farm ia herd,of about 3(> Jei[i|fyf cows, from \vhichjj|« of butter-fat actually (U'lnt'ia.?|yo itp& factory during last season 1 w||l34ojl&|i —The "Aroha News. v-j ! *§§ j ||| j Amusing- stories, ofklotes e by school teachers;\expliinu]g : senee of pupiis, told. Here (says the Uisboriie I'iiuosJ is biie text of a note that came to the Gisborne main school lust week: "Please excuse John tor being away halt a day; his mother is in hospital with a little baby. 1 will see it doesn't hap pen again

"A celebrated K.C. gave instructions to bis vvue to always drive onher left side, and it her ear was going to- be- run -into, to keep on her proper aide and pull up," said Mr ; Hunt, S.M., during the hearing ot a : motor collision case In Masterion recently. "Very sound advice," conti mented appearing counsel, -Mr H. E. Hart.

"Though we ate one of the stnallGst boroughs in -Now Zealand,'' deciaieu Mr H. F. Mather, Mayor of liastbourne (Wellington), "we iliave an exceedingly big responsibility." lie stated that last year soiue 'JOo.OOO peopie had been carried across the harbour in the municipal lerry service, while in the future he believed the total would appruxnuuie 1,000,000 persons.

The Uev. W. A. .Sinclair, who passed through Panuersioii iNoiui on a recent morning, received, states the local Sianuaiu, a wireless message from the Hev. J: F. Goldie in aie Solomon Islands, wliicli is the firs. received from uns station. Ihe plant, which was installed by the Methodist Church Foreign .Missions society is, we understaiKi, the hist to be installed in any mission station in the Pacific,

According to a statement made to a reporter by a lieelton mining man, the present winter lias been one ol the severest experienced in the lieelton district during l , the past forty years. About a lormigbl ago, with a small party ol workmen, he was engaged blasting ice—some Of it over one loot in thickness—in the Snowy river m order to allow a flow Oi water into the intake that supplies a battery.

Another heavy [all ol snow occurred over the whole Taihape district, and sheep stations in the high country are covered to a depth of 12 inches. The snowfall was general and caused stoppage ol all farm and bush work over a large urea in the Main ■frunk district. Dairymen whose cows were coining in received a set-back, and it is feared there wii) be a serious loss of lambs and ewes in the district where the fall lias occurred-

liven in the far-off days of IS'.Ki some correspondence was carried on in the columns of the 1-lawera Star relative to the vields of dairy cows. It was interesting, while delving for otitier information, to road some of the correspondence and to find an Elbam writer boasting :.oout having secured the large amount of £5 4s per cow from the Elthnm Co-operative Uairv Company. The company, he added had been enabled to pay out to suppliers id per for milk.

"A tiling that struck me as very strange doling my visit to New Zealand was the habit of serving! drymustard on the tables of many restaurants, and even in some of the smaller hotels. Any mustard eater will tell you what a horrible practise this is from their point of view for there is not the slightest flavour n mustard until the 'essential oil' has been 'liberated I)-,- flu? action of cold water." This statement was made to a New Zealand Times reporter by Mr Ulan Colrnan, a. director ol Messrs .1. and -I. Colrnan, Ltd., of London and Norwich, known world-wide as the manufacturers of mustard. There is at, leas; one merchant in Auckland who in regard to German trade belongs to the ''never again' brigade. Asked last, week lor Ms opinion upon tJ ic till) belore Parliament dealing with the imposition oi special mines upon goodg from Germany and Austria, he said he had not the slightest interest in Hie- legislation, and had not even read the precis o. ii, e rji.ll. "As long, as 1 am controlling tiiis'hoiise," '/""• said, "we shall never buv anything'thai com.c s trow Germany. * 1 receive quite a lot' o.i correspondence, from Germany, but I never answer it. You see, I am not interested in the slightest degree."

In Seymour Avenue, Nelson, stands the oldest oak tree m me' town. It was grown from an acorn that was brought from England by Mr. Henry Seymour in the Martha llidgeway, in IS'ii. Jt was plantgfj on me banks oi the brook not far trbih his home, Presbury Cottage. Alter a tune a flood washed it away. -So greatly was this young oak tree valued that report has if all the inhabitants of Nelson turned on; to search, and eventually bore it back triumphantly, To ensure its safety it was replanted in the .middle of the Sunnvside Held, then owned by his son _j u —Jaw, Allied Fell. There it has stood for 80 years, though villas surround it now instead of fields. Has the Meat Producers" Hoard been premature in urging people 10 "Eat, More Bee)":- The Fanners' Cooperative Auctioneering ' Company, Hamilton, reports that;"beef supplies are laot .diminishing, arid some difficulty may "be experienced shortly' in filling requirements'. Naturally, prices are advancing rapidly." The same conditions prevail in the mutton market; good wethers are particularly scarce. The company also _ reports: '•'We are now approaching tha! however, .which tlis wholesale slaughter of calves forecasted, a;id it seems iiUeiv that a frantic demand for male cattle will shortly be witnessed without being satisfied. A pen of good steers is becoming rather a rare sight :r; Waikato yards, and it looks as if a lot of back-country that has been brought into pasture* at a heavy cost must fall into a sorry state of decay, as indeed is happening at the present time."

By thoughtlessly drawing some galvanised iron from one roof to another across an alleyway between two New Plymouth street buildings recent lv, a plumber let big fellow workmen in for a lively few minutes. The sihsfp edge of the corrugated iron cut through the insulation of an electric connection between the buildings and shon-eircuited the current between the . two iron roofs and the man holding the iron found himsei. suddenly deposited on his back on the roof, whilst his compahlftris. -were dancing a Variation of a Russian 'mazurka on the electrically charged roofs. On the pavement near me water-pipe on to which the ground wire, which, is the safety valve op occasions such as this, "was earthed, there was a brilliant display of electric sparks which caused some consternation to pedestrians who, oi course, were mostly unaware ot what was happening up above untu the 01fending sheets of iron had been moved by. the aid of a friendly piece of wo6d * Cerialnry the plumbers fell j more comfortable'bur the occupants of -premises on the connection were very wraiii as all their fuses bad been blown but. otherwise little damage was done except.where the charge had burnt through the spouting around ; one tafidlngj and Jeff ih roar* on the wood.

Pm GfiijcllSß'* Backing Conp;Ji.

the president (Mr E. Haran 'overwhelming ma- I joritj|'p Bowling Club, •■ at its:;a>.muai;-iiK.>eting, agreed to bowls , being'- piayexi', between certain hours on! Sundays'.§ /■ ! ' [ 4 S i *«*? t . ! '-, Fines mjttifted ou Wauganui motor- ■ ists lor th& quarter enued June ao > iOtalied-£?~b is, which, comments the ' •Mataum Ensign." sliows that- otfenU- I nig motorists contributed abom 16s t per day w the borough funds, and incidentally- t/hat a-good" inspector is a profitable investment. . . (

In the whole of the 50 years thai the British firm of Bnraner, JMond and Co. has been hi existence there nas never been a strike except one which lasted a quarter of an hour, and .then the men who lelt then work hurried back. Over 11U0 men of the 6000 in the service ol the rirm have been with the concern lor -> years.

Tlie negligent maimer in wlgch a Urge number ol youths pilot tiit" push bicycles around the mam tburoughlares ol the town was tamer riKielv impressed upon a I'nlnierston North citizen ai midday yesterday. He w;ts standing beside one oi the taxi stands in the Square, when an irrepressible youth—apparently overanxious to make bis dinner hour a* fruitful as possible—dashed in on h's wrung side between a travelling bus and the group ol mien, striking one of the latter in the legs and knockin" him down on to the road. A startled exclamation, an apology, the impromptu renovation of a dusty suit, and a hasty exit, and the participants in tbe incident were last in nhe noon-hour bustle.