THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 19 September 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Frank Penn, late of Otaki, was among the prize-takers at the Cam- I bridge daffodil show. I Messrs W. H. Reynolds and A. W. Bills will be among the exhibitors of bulbs at the Halcombe flower show on the 26th. Messrs Jickell and Giluiour arrived in Otaki yesterday and commenced on ' their work in connection with the drainage scheme. Kipc strawberries at this time of the yeur'aro scarce, but Mr. Len Kilmister, of Otaki Kuilway, has a line lot growing. "We can't always get a Government as liberal as the present one to county councils," said the chairman at last week's meeting of the l'atea County ■ Council. Mr. P. West.bury, of Taita, Dower Hutt, who was a successful exhibitor at the Otaki bulb show, did well at the l'eildiug show, where lie secured six lirsts and la second prizes, On one day lust week (stales a southern exchange,) no fewer man sixt\ letters and packets which were intended for Paime-rstou rvortli reached Palmerston (Houlh), having been merely addressed '' Puluicrston.'' Rapid growth as an exporter of butter to the world's markets is shown by returns of Canada's experts for the last liscal year. During the 1- mouth.-- Cun ada exported S,4l'o,oßi'lbs of butter, this being a little over 2,000,0U01bs niorc than she imported iu the same year. The points prize for bulbs (classes A, H, C, D, D, k', inclusive; at the Paliuejslon AortU spring show was v. on b\ Mr. A. \N. Broadway, of Otaki, witu no less than lid points. Mr. Broadway's blooms were magniiieeiit ories, and the honour was well deserved. It was considered at the uioeung u: the Wairarapu. Automobile Association tnat ail eilort shouid be made to complete the lust mile of fencing on tne liimutaka Mill road, ir was decide"i to ask the i'ubiic Works Department it it would erect the fence if iht; Association stipxdied the material. A "long-night" dance was held at the Empire Hall on Monday when quite a crowd danced to spirited mu.d-; supplied by Miss P. Bevan. Supper was" enjoyed, while a waltzing competition. won* by Mr. \V. Kikihuna and Miss Plyger, caused great interest. The Department of Public Health has recommended a first-aid outlit for use in schools. The contents include bandages, sal-volatile (for use in fainting), loijiue (for bruises), boracic acid, eucalyptus and vaseline ointment (for burns";, and oil of cloves (for toothache).. A most humorous incident happened at a meeting recently (states the Auckland ytarj. A workman was explaining his misfortunes, when the chairman told him that those around him were sympathetic for they had been through ''the mill" themselves, and knew his experiences. "'Oh, I'm not as unfortunate as you gentlemen yet," he replied. "I've never been through 'the mill,' and I have always managed so far to pay 20s in the £l." The -chairman .joined heartily in the laughter at the misconstruction of his words.

Scientists in Chicago, according to the New York Herald, are hastening to Echo Lake, near Hay (Jity, in Nebraska Slate, to investigate an apparently genuine account of the presence or a prehistoric animal in the wilds of the Vicinity.' George Locke and Kob'ert Cooke,' two' ranchers pf .Central • Nebraska, got into ilifljeulties withtheir motor ear while passing the lake, itr'l were forced to spend the night on the spot? In" the mi4<H£ 9*',the JMglr. they heard a tremendous gpiasu£2£ *B_ the" lake, and were amazed to see a huge animal, described as having a neck as long as a giraffe, and a horn in the middle of its forehead. farmers in the neighbourhood have been losing calves in a mysterious manner, and they" are coniident that the strange beast is responsible. I- Barrett is now firmly established in his new' premises, ilUl goad, and boots, shoes, ere, left with him will be repaired at shortest notice with the best of leather. Workmanship unsurpassed!—Advt. , ; ■;-,',—

'.., Police constable (at Thames Police Court): There was a general melody. Magistrate: A what? Police constable : A melody—a general scuffle. It was stated at the Arbitration Court at Wellington, that New Zealand has now a protective tariff of approximately '3BJ per cent.' in connection with the boot industry, also shipping and incidental charges against Australia. In conversation with a reporter a Wellington business man stated that during the past month or so there has been quite an influx of German printing matter into New Zealand, especially export catalogues covering almost every phase of manufacture. A concrete tower 600 feet high is to be erected at Wembley, near London, England, to give visitors a view of the surrounding country. A searchlight powerful enough to be seen from the coast of France wilt he installed in the tower. A cage will make the trip to the top of the tower spirally. "Don't invest your money until you !have been working a yearT~ Don't expect to be given something for nothing. Use your head When you work with your hands, and be prepared to u.se vout hands when you worn witn your head.''—iihits to ?*;ti.lers contained in the new handbook oi Hie Dominion sent to England lor the guidance of immigrants. The following incident is authentic, and can be vouched lor.- Two Auckland provincial travellers recently met; and one asked the other how it was they had not met at a certain hotel the' previous evening. "You may think me funny," he replied, "but 1 left that hotel because they would persist in putting 'dry' mustard on the table." The loss on milk bottles used in connection with the Wellington municipal supply is £l9O per mouth. Most of title loss occurs in pint in g Hie bottles through the washing machine at the depot. It is hoped that, English bottles, which will shortly replace American, will be better annealed

than those in use. ; County councillors in the Cambridge district lire getting quite a reputation as pugilists, says the Independent. The latest to figure in this respect is a member of the Waipa County Council, who will shortly appear in court to answer to a charge of striking one of the Council's workmen. The hearing of the case will probably be very interesting. - .Speaking at. a reception at Cuinbridfep, Mr Bosworth, manager of .the New Soutli Wales footballers, said there was something wrong with his team's play. If they were only enabled to play the game i» their own way tjiev" would undoubtedly do better, but the fact was that their opponents were too strong for them, and they were a little overshadowed, 'two of those injured in the Ongarue train disaster of July G, Mr \V, Campbell, the fireman on-the express. and Mr C. MrFarlane, a passenger, have been admitted to the Auckland hospital. Mr McFarhuie is suffering from fractures of all his limbs, while Mr Campbell has not yet, recovered torn" injuries to his face, his sight being somewhat affected. A raft, about 12 feet long by six feet wide, was recently washed upside down on the rocks skirting the bunch at Opunake. Empty tar bat- ! rels encased in strong wooden supI poits securely fastened by .long tie I bolts give buoyancy to the structure ; which, judging by the manner of Us I construction, was evidently built to enable workmen to work at soinie obIject from the surface of the water. 'One end of the rait has been severely battered by the waves, hut there an: no marks! bowe\?er. either on the barrels or on the wooden framework to indicate the origin of the structure. I The .New PlymOßlli Chamber oi Commerce is inviting applications I from larmeis who ate desirous ol ootamuig youths, lrom England id 'farm work. It is proposed to bring I out lads Horn 17 to 20 years oi age, 'fresh trom the secondary schools, aim 1 selected bv the Chamber's representative at home. The lads would requite to receive training in lann work lor a, minimum oi two years, and treated as members ol ttie family, the re-muneraitioii lor the first _ *ix months to he nominal, and afterwards such as the improvement in ! the work warranted, with a minimum joi las pea - week, in spontaneous generosity, the Maou .-ets "ii example wincu max weil oe ioiiowed by >us wnne oretn- • reii : = >ate= tne "Muuaffatu i ,. Capt-ain Preece, oi f-u!n:e: = iOii .vol.:!, lias received a note lrom ins OJU mend and Maori wa.i associate. Captain OHbert .Mau, wno ;s now well over so veais oi aye, and m hospital, i-n which he says lie has received the following telegram Horn Die Ngatiwhakaue tribe-.— '•Unanimously, and Willi love and gratitude in our hearts remembering your inestimable 'services to our Tribe, we beg your acceptance ol an annuity ol £IOO to commence forthwith." in order to lay down permanent roads under modern methods, the Egmout County Council piopose to borrow £05.000. The matter lias been occupving the attention of the Council a good deal lately, and finally, at Tuesdays meeting, ins'.uctions were o-iven to the clerk to take the necessary uteris to submit the proposals to ,V ratepayers' vote. Their decision will determine whether the county wif have g'ood roads similar to other countries or whether they will remain 'as at. present. \mong the hints given to settlers coming lrom England to the Dominion in the latest handbook issued by The Immigration Department are the following: "Make sure thai you ha\e enousm monev in your pocket wnen you land overseas to cover any travelling and othnsr expenses, and to keep you going until you can- get Vvork " "Don't let strangers- know how much money you have brougn. with you. Don't trust strangers, however triendly they may seem, but apply to Government agents, who Win always do their best to help you, -

Mr H. W. Walker speaks highly of the excellent work being performed by the Methodist missionaries in tiiFiii "-roup in the education oi the natives! On the Rewa river near Suva, splendid schools and colleges «*«•*- uated where several hundred scholais arVteUght by teachers, mostly drawn Horn Throughout the KHnds Mr Walker 1 was greatly naSSvsa »-£* The proof oi this is §&fifr tf the' natives is yery high. To' lose the aJgbt oi his rijgifc aye and tl\e„ have &.*«# ggg*£ with its contents, including i.-*J in •-ft ■ received from *" Ui surar,ce notes racfi'iei compensation w company b> wa > >ia ' i 11 - as befallen Mr the misfortune th*u M^^q^Wlß {# waTbuSit jSTrt AwaWno ■resentiv He was'struck in .The eye hv a flving staple whilst fwrong, anu toe loss of sight of that eye eventually resulted" Last week, as reported, L housl in which living, tpoether with his workmates, was bunt. Se ground and besides much vLTIr. £250 in notes was destroy-edthe-money »P ha <* Te "empenaation for the jo«- of _eio«.

The contract for laying water-mains to Otaki beach will be completed in the course of a week or tea days, lifter which a start will be made on the Eangiuru Road. ~ For the month of August the Municipal Electricity Department showed a nett profit of £l6l 2s lid, as compared with £124 7s Id for the corresponding month /.' last year. The revenue from lighting was £5532s Sd, heating £sl 4s 2d, power £143l!) s 10d, and street lighting £SO 15s (id. Salaries and wages for the month totalled £IOO 7s lid, fuel, lubricating oil, etc., £199 His, water, rent, insurance, etc.,"£32 Os lid, repairs and renewals £24 Ids, capital charges £22",. There are now 11.12 connections with the system, one having been added during the mouth. j A peculiar incident resulted from i tne sharp shock of earthquake felt in j Pahiart.ua, on. Wednesday morning, j On the mantelpiece of 'the county • clerk's oliice stands a clock, wbieii \ for over a year has refused to tick, despite the frequent attentions ol a ! certain clock repairer. Imagine the surprise of the clerk when, hail-an-hour after the shock, this instrument commenced'a fresh career by striking twelve. —Herald. AluW.rniun Bridge, Of the Sydney City council, na= returned to AusWana alter a twelve months' tour oj Europe, bemg lnieresietl in the worn trade tie maue enquiries while abroad us to the position oi tne wool market. He lniormed a Sydney Sun,, reporter that as soon as the i.uhr qtiesuon is settled gieai things soulu be expected in woof between Australia anu oermany. "The smallest people in uernniny speak and think in millions. To *gu on a thorough tour oi inspection it is necessary to lure a ■ motor car to carry your money," declared Alderman Bridge. Tne alleged refusal of the matron or the Paimersion Aortn Hospital to ' sign the noising certiaoate oi .uis.-, 1 a. K. fiuliy lormed the subject ui a i letter lrom a solicitor wnicu was received by Uie Hospital Board at. yes-

terday's meeting of una uouy. me letter stated thai apparently tne mo ruii's refusal ;o sign was due to a oi each 0.1 discipline on Miss Daily's part, and the only breach that tnat iauy could think of was that she bad worn a black sports coat over her umloim instead of a grey one. The \v,iier further stated tnat Miss Daily was absent at the tune the regulation was made, and when the offence was committed she was ignorant of the regulation. the following paragraph evidently originated in ouicial sources, has been puoiisueu in Wellington: "The treelums nnd palms required for the Briusii Empire Exhibition cannot be sent from New Zealand, as they would no; stand the journey, and so the authorities are laced with the purcnase of New Zealand pungas in England a:, prices that seem unbelievable hero. Flax is l>cing obtained from Torquay, where a considerable quantity is available, but a number ol tree leids aiie being boujjit at from £3 3s for 'Jit stems to £2 lor 41t stems. They are of the variety known as "Dtcksouia." The statement that pungas will not stand the journey to England ean be controverted as In pre-war davs, a Palmerston nurseryman regularly exported large consignments of tree ferns to the Continent with complete success. An exhibit uicluded among the many articles brought back from tne land" ol the Esquimaux by the Kev. W. S. Tremaine, ol Palmerston, is a. pair of coloured glasses. The wearer was a man name StalkesOn, navigation officer in the Canadian Arctic party under Steiansson. For ' two year's he bad drifted on the ice solely dependent on his gun to supply him with loud and the wearing of I lie glasses had saved hhn from the torture of snow blindness. The natives wear for this purpose a piece of wood across the eye with a narrowsi it cut therein. i'uu Education Department has notified tne U.S.A. tii-Ji tne EuUieran scnooi ai tiongotea is not a uerman school Keugiuus instruction, m conrornuiy wu-u tne beiiels o! me Lutlieian oilmen, was to DC given, out tne i,i ; i;iiuii language was not to ue useu. it uiij quite oiea.r that tne school C"U.d not be a "Uerman school'' hut only a school that was to bo uuiiideo ny me ciuluren ol adherents -o tne Lutheran Cburch. 'the teacher bad taken the oath oi allegiance, ano a guarantee Uad been given in Uia ioiiowuiy terms: —-coyai British seu'.-unen«s and patriotism will be taught a = a matter oi religion and consciences.'' A problem which tlie auiburities oi Samoa win nave to lace belore mug, says Mr 11. Yv. Walker, wno has jusi ; corned Horn the Islands, is that ol ti,e Indians who were mdeiiturea as iauour lpr tne plantations, and alter their icnii oi service had expired, permitted 'to remain in the country, iii-ere are no* tia.OOO suck Indians iri the country -as against So,two natives. I'bysicaliy-tliey are or a poor type as a i u.i«, u lib no inclination for 'tiu.ru work, and are drifting into the towns in increusing numbers, where they loaf around in unsavoury quarters. 't'tie only redeeming feature is that the contempt in which they are held by the natives prevents any intercourse between "-be two races.

Keporiing 10 the Manawatu-Oroua fower Jboara on the Teceni dismissal of a pole-eieetion gang, the Engineer (Mr Waters; said: The total wages paid lor the lour and a-haif days previous to dismissal were £45 5s ci|.d. The average number ol men employed was li, the number or poles erected 40, the number of spare holes dug 10, and the cost per pole £1 2s 7£u. The cost per pole for the last day was over £1 6s. As to the work done by the new gang lor the first, five days of its operations, the report stated* that the total way's paid lor that period were £49 13s WJd. The average number of men employed'' was'li.4 {tkis average figure being due to several being paid off and others taken on), the number of poles erected was 76, the number of spare holes dug 10, and'cost per pole 13s u|d. "After the first two days," stated the report, "the gang got used to the work and for the last day (Friday), when 14 men were engaged (same &s the paidofl gang), they erected 20 poles at a cost of under fOs Hid each. The conditions of work and the tools were identical. Ah the above costs include digging holes and putting up poles, cases."

"lb even- hundred boys there are absut Six ■ brilliant ones, about six rather dull a»sd the others are average/' remarked Mr George Lancaster, headmaster' of the Ghristchurch Boys' High School. "Weil; I like to" leok after the "average boy, riot only in the class work but in the sports'"' He made it clear that his policy v. - as f*? improve the average rather* than to seek special limelight for the school by giving more than a fair share of attention to the exceptionally clever lads. Some years ago Mr J. P. Fir*.h (formerly headmaster of Wellington C.olle?*e)~ expressed similar opinions, when it was complained that the college t a- Rot winning as many scholarships -'as- some" of the other secondary school?. Mr Firth explained that others ichools' had a habit-of "pusuing on ; ' the brighter boys. -He merely =tated his policy—and his record showed that he acted on it. to -trie advantage of the pupils in the aggregate.

In writing from Germany to a friend in Palmerston Xorth, a gentleman states that the occupation of the Ruhr by the French has aroused feelings of the deepest resentment in the breasts of the German people. At the conclusion of the war, he declared, U.u people were quite contented at having lost, so long as the military section had been destroyed. However, the lucent occupation had stirred the fountains of bitternes.. against their neighbours, and the guneral_ieeling in tiiat country now was a desire for revenge. A man desires work of any description. Sittings of eggs are advertised for sale . Mr. Uockrcll offers a discount of 2/in the £ on crockery. Christmas cards, for the Homeland, are always most acceptable. See specimen book at "Mail" Oiiiee. Repairs are to.be made to the Otaki police station, and tenderers may receive particulars from '"ustabie Cole. Messrs Taylor Eros., Otaki Railway, have on hand Ingii-grnde ljicycics, which they arc selling on easy terms. Lames' cycles may now be secured at £lO, gents machines at £9. 'the children's paper and fancy dress j bail, to be held on luursday, is causing I considerable interest, and many pretty I and novel dresses wnl be worn, t-pleu- | 'hd prizes are ottered, and for mo | dancing competition entries aie numerj oils. A grand ball is to he tendered to the memoers of the Otaki Brass Band at Matiakau on Wednesday next, in reeugii lion oi services rcuuereu, and it i> expected that there will oe a large giiihcriug of local and district residents, ihe l'ahiwi orcnestra will supply the music, while other arrangements .ue iu very capable hands. Race time is coming and there is now showing in Otaki a line range of ladies' and gent's footwear at Irvine'a shoo store." U'c are lilting rubbers nee on ladies' shoes, bought mis week. A good selection and tne prices arc right. —Advt.