THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 5 November 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tie Tainftill foil jFoxton (for tlasr month totalled 3.66 indies. Thr maximum full, .66, was recorded on the 21st, The property of Mr. Dunn, offeree by auction on Saturday, .failed to reach the reserve price, but is lihelv to be disposed ,of privately. A property having a frontage of -!■; feet S inches to Lain bto a Quav. UVI lington, pud containing three brief, shop's was Sold last week, realising be tween £14,000 and £15,060. The vital statistics for Fox ton for last month with the iigures for the corresponding month of last rear in parenthesis, are as follows: Birth, 5 deaths nil fail), marriages i (Xj. According to the Opotilci paper. fa mi or 'of that locality has been visiting the South island,'and this is wha: lie says of ouo of the stock sales he attended: —"The surroundings gave me the creeps. 1 really believe the yards were the same ones they had fifty years ago. and the cattle looked as if they had come out of the ark. and had been depasturing on sandhills ever since."

We once heard a man sav. ‘ < It's Very simple to drive a ear when vou know how! ’' dust so. but yesterdav a couple of Chinamen found ' it otherwise. From what we can gather they came to jGreytown in a car on business. an<j whilst ] here a fellow countryman borrowed tipi car to go and get some rhubarb, etc. All went well coming np the street, but when near the Court- • j house flic bland smile of the driver' I turned to one of disniav .as he landed :in the water-race. After getting the • J damage repaired ai Stan Stevens.’ he | started off again, bin. was fascinated by another water-race and promptly i lodged tiie car therein fjusr to cool i the engine a little). The visitors rescued the car, and set. c-V for FeathersI ton, lint near the cemetery "Lizzie” ! simply turned turtle, and the result was a big fall in rhubarb and radishes, also another job for one of the local garages. —Grey town ,Standard. A pig is advertised as lost. Two .Tprsey btiijs are advertised for sale. A good useful horse is advertised for sale. _ A tennis dance will b'e held at Te Horo on Wednesday, 14th November. Satana’s orchestra -will give an entertainment at Otaki on Thursday night nerct. - ‘ The public are warned against setting fireworks off within the Borough area. A notice to persons making statements u"aio--* -i local resident’s character appears iri this issue. Notice of i jip.Fcation at transfer in c«n»egtion with the Paekakariki 1 Hotel appears in this issue". Wo are fitting rubber heels free till Xmas ladies’ shoos from £2 upwards, i Call and see our -white" shoes—ladies’ t and children's are cheap this year. - H-1 Besfoek shoes to clear Sis lid. ; rv-F h 4 tins Is. We are agents for' f octal- shoe laces. —Irvine’s, shoe store, t Dtaki.—Advt. ' r

The growing ioual of unpaid fees is giving the Wellington Hospital Board some concern. The amount outstanding is now ovet £75,000.

In the Juvenile Court at- Masterton two boys were fined £~ and costs for catching trout in the Waipoua river with a wire snare, and for fishing without a license. A third boy, for having trout in his possession, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon.

A herd of about 70 cows arrived in Morrinsvillc on Thursday, after a two weeks’ journey from Taranaki, nil animals arriving in good condition. The drover who brought them through has this year brought 600 head of cattle from Taranaki to Morrinsville with the loss of only one ; animal. —Star.

Speaking at the farmers’ banquet at Cambridge. Mr A. .1. Sinclair (acting manager of the 5.7,. Co-op. Dairy Co., stated that his company had established quite a promising market for dairy produce in the Far East, and duungv the previous .six weeks had forwarded there some 6000 boxes ol butter.

The fctato Forest Service notify that the payment of a bonus of one shilling,per snout on wild pigs killed in the Taranaki district, will be discontinued after October 31. It is interesting to note that the payment of this bonus resulted in over 4000 pigs being killed during the last flv e months, and this has been a. very real help to those settlers, who live, in the pig-invested localities. The big hydro-electric scheme ol Somhlami, known as the Lake Monown i scheme, is expected to be hilly effective in .March of next yum 1 . There is a million of loan money, raised under Government guarantee, invested in the venture, but already the results are said to lie fully justifying ihe expense.

“My dear, 1 liad just gut the mirror,’’" was the nbneiivminded reply made by a well-dressed female witness to a solicitor in’ the Auckland Police' Court. “Oli, don’t please, call me ‘my dear,’ ’’ said counsel, who cui.Ud'iiot continue his cross-examina-tion for some moments owing to the laughter in which tile whole court joined.

One night this week Mr Mark Juinkovieli caught a hapuka at the Poor Knights which is the largest lie has seen during the past 15 years of fishing. and the biggest that bus been taken to Whaiigal'ei for a very long time. Cleaned, the fish, which was little under six feel in length, weighed ISO pounds, so that it was estimated that its lull weight must have approximated 180 pounds. A well-known Masterton building contractor, Mr W. J. Wise, had a very 'narrow escape from death while engaged in the work of demolishing the old Tinui Post Office. He was undermining the chimney with a crowbar when, without warning, it collapsed and the falling bricks struck Mr Wise on the back and head, causing severe injuries. Mr Wise was admitted to the hospital and is reported to he making satisfactory progress. One of Mr Wise’s sons had a miraculous escape, a large block of the falling chimney grazed the brim of his hat.

A Rapanui man who advertised for farm labour got one response—from a girl. It. was a genuine application as she was used to farm work in England. She is, however, at present in domestic service, and not yet available to show Hapanuians that a woman can do most tilings that, a man can, and just as well, if not better. There is a farmer in the Wanganui district who has a lady ploughman, and the furrows she ploughs tire straight enough to please the most fastidious . farmer.

For about six years past Archbishop Julius lias been giving half of his official income as Bishop of Christchurch to build up a. special fund for religious education. This fund now amounts to £1528. The Diocesan Synod requested the Archbishop to modijy the gift, and the latter in reply said it might, la: that, he would have to reduce the amount of his gift consul' "üblv for a little while, but he hoped Inter that tlm reduction would be ,i small one He very much desire i to b*av e behind him a fund which could be used for educational purposes in some way to be determined.

A few days ago J visited the headmaster of one of the largest public

schools in the city, and found him engaged in making up returns and in doing detail work which in a business office would be done by a junior clerk, ’’ said Mr 11. Amos. addressing (lie Chamber of Commerce in Wellington. "Although our headmasters are still receiving only a clerk’s salary, are not, their positions exactly similar to that of the manager of a business? Would a business manager waste bis time in doing a junior’s work to the neglect of the proper superintendence and control of the many departments anti ramifications of Ills business'/- Even if it costs the country a little more to free .3 headmaster from ari office boy’s work, would it not be worth while?’’

While returning from the races at Claudelands (Hamilton) a large motor bus reluring to Piako had a very narrow escape from a serious smash. In negotiating the sharp incline alongside the Claudelands public school, owing to a motor car in front, a halt was called. On starting, the motor bus reiused duty and its brakes apparently taiiing to hold, the bus started to go down hill. Its progress was stopped a little by the Cambridge motor bus, which was travelling immediately behind it. the driver of which promptly i reversed his engine to get out of danger. The Piako bus driver failed to keep his vehicle on the road, and in its continued, career backwards it crossed over the road and crashed into a wire fence, which, fortunately checked its. further progress and a drop down a steep gully of about 20 feet. Several of the” passengers were thrown down the gully, one of the party being injured slightly. It was indeed fortunate fihsjt 'the* fourwiite fence held; as it was discovered on investigation that the two Tear wheels were right through tire fence suspended in mid-air over the gully. Referring Tp g, insignis pine (radiate), CMr. A. H. Messenger writes in the New Zealand I-ife and Forest Magazine: “At Ik years this tree will supply 4300 cubic feet of timber, a rate of growth which stands well ahead of any other species' of pine introduce to New Zealand. Cut this period down by half, and you have the close-balk' willow attaining a height of 50ft., with & good solid trunk of 13* inches in diameter, clear of branches up to 30ft., and providing a timber keen in demand at the present time for food containers.” The above., figures refer to English experience truth the close-bark willow which experience, Mr. Messenger hopes, wifi be equalled or bettered in New Zealand. He adds: “The wood of this tree, white,.,tough, and odourless, is much used in the manufacture ’ of butter firkins for Continental trade and its cultivation is being widely taken up in Holland, Sweden and Norway ter this special purpose.” A lastgrowing tree' that “provides a beautiful clear, white timber.eminently suitable for butter .’containers, is one that is worth serious attention in these days when ’-he- visible sUppiy of our unrivalled white p-me, kahikaigg, .is dwindling rapidly to vanishing point.

What is probably a record for calving in New Zealand has just been established by a 5-year-old grade Shorthorn cow owned by Mr M. A. Devcieh, of Hikutaia (North Auckland). Last year, this -cow gave birth to three calves, all of them dying soon after. At the end of last week this cow produced no fewer than two bull and three heifer calves. Unfortunately four of the calves were very small and have subsequently died, but one bull calf was of normal size and is very much alive at the present time. The cow, it. is stated, is milking well, and is in a normal state of health. Another transmission victory l'or the radio. ,!. W. Phillips', of San Frauciso, told the police he was peacefully listening-in on a radio concert when a gentle knock came at the door of his hold room. "Come in,” he called She diil, a mOst winsome miss, and asked that she might listen-in with him. He consented. During the business of listening. Phillips maintained, the girl tuned in on his pocket hook and departed \vith£22. A German catalogue received in Levin last week wrestles hard with the English language. We are informed ‘‘that litis edition will grant to its receivers a special interest on being looked through page by page very carefully. When in need of anything, they may then be sure of the advantage they will have by inviting oitr advertisers to enter into competition with one another. . „ The insignificant .subscription, price will soon make itself paid, for many a stimulation and instruction will' he derived from their pages.”

On several occasions recently references have appeared in the Press to employees who have remained long terms with one firm. Probably Messrs E. Porter and Co., hardware merchants, Queen street, hold the record in this matter (states the Auckland Star). The total time of eleven employees of this firm is over 500 years. No less than five employees of E. Porter'and Co. have each been with the firm for over fifty years. Another five range over -Ml veal's each, and the eleventh man has touched 118 years’ service. Besides this team there are other employees who have been with the firm over 20 years.

We received by the last European mail a German printers’ trade magazine, the “Deutscher Buch-tind Steindruckdr,” which indicates (that the Germans are most anxious io do business with other countries (“territories especially preferred: India, Egypt, South Africa”). As showing tile collapse ol Ihe money market in Germany, and the fact that the cablegrams arc not exaggerating things in connection will the fall in value of the mark, the postage paid on the catalogue was no less than 18,000 marks. Seeing that the value of the mark in normal times was 11.717 (approximately a shilling), in ordinary times the value of the postage paid on this catalogue would have amounted to almost £2IOO. “Tile first Bngby football maloti to be played in New Zealand,” said Mi' F. Simpson at the Wanganui Football Association smoke concert on Saturday night. “was on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to New Zealand in 1869.” Mr Sampson went on to say that the New Zealand team consisted of university students, many of whom afterwards became prominent in public life. ¥le mentioned Douglas McLean, W. P. James. Allan McDonald, Peter Webb, and Captain Isherwood. The opposing team was formed from officers of H.M.S. Blanche and tile game was played ori the old barrack reserve at Th'omdon. The first “soccer” game of note to be played in New Zealand was also contested at Wellington, on Newtown Park in 1880, between teams representing Christchurch and the Empire city. Auckland is over-run with hawkers, house-to-house canvassers and people of that ilk, and long-suffering housewives, to say nothing of their husbands are becoming more impatient over the constant efforts made to make them purchase articles for which they have no need (says the local Heraldo In any street and any suburb on almost any day except Sunday pedlars may he found plying their business, and, on the principle under which dropping water wears away stone they apparently succeeded, In making a'living." As far as most householders are concerned, the reception these hawkers receive often depends upon the state of one’s liver and the state of the family exchequer. One should imagine tliat- a Monday is no good for the doorstep warehouse. and probably Friday afternoon finds most houses with very small reserves of coin of realm. The past couple of years has seen a wonderful development, of motor transit between Wanganui and adjacent districts, particularly in regard to the carriage of goods. Wool is now brought by motor lorries to Wanganui from all the inland districts, and places as far afield as Apiti and Kirnbolt on, while the carriage of goods even further afield. Last week a

motor lorry carrying pedigree stock passed through Wanganui, en route from Taranaki to Hawke 1 ?, Bay. All this traffic in former years was diverted to the railways, either loaded at the nearest railway station, or else conveyed there. The motor possesses the great advantage of not being bound to any particular route, and being able to tap the heart of all the farming districts. There has been something of a the last few months at the office of boom in matrimonial activities during the Auckland registar of births, deaths and marriages. Marriage by registrar has been steadily gaining in popularity for years., but during the last three veers, and particularly during the present vear. there has been a rapid in- j

crease. The total number of marriage notices issued for the nine months ended September 30 was 1467. and the number of marriage ceremonies per- j formed by the registrar, Mr F. Evans, was 380, an increase of 26 over last year’s figure during the same period. “A proprietary company is purely a business concern. To it the grower of sheep .or cattle is' simply an individual who produces something- out

of which a dividend may be squeezed. On the other hand, a farmers’ cooperative freezing company exists, above everything else, for the protection of the'man who grows the stock ahcl for the purpose of making cert tain that, he gets a fair deal. It is quite a common tiling to pear fanners criticise their own ‘freezing eon T terns, and find fault with nearly everything connected with them/’ This statement was made at the annual meeting of the Fending Farmers’ Freezing Company. A crop grown for green manuring in his nursery hy Mr J. Scobie, of Fairfield, is lupins, and is one worthy of wider application by farmers. A

crop of lupin3 four feet in heigh', ploughed in. is equal to 35 ton* Of soil will grow to this 'height in ten weeks. Mr Soobie sow 3 100 lbs of seed to the acre, the ;»eed costing £1 per 1001 bs. ?Efaa .advantage of such a crop will be readily appreciated: it can. be put in after' another crop has been taken out of the ground and 'grows so quickly %hat it merely fills in the dead period" gcnereTly existing between one cron and another, sb that it may he used to follow either oafs or iurrsip3 with equal profit. It is a nitrogenous manure supplying large quantities otj this invaluable plant food in suhighl soluble forpj and ‘ besides s4bs largely to humtts coataarJ g£ -t&sr afiii.

Lecturer: "Look at the ] i0) „ whisky has wrecked!” Festive J?! (from the back): “Yesh; but tush w at. the ships warrer hash wreekshed »

A Wanganui wallpaper m-er-w states that the British wail pm-', trade- lias recaptured the business Iv New Zealand which had gone t- j',‘ United States and Canada durum pi war. British manufactures hadV-'l unable to hold their connection owin'! to their factories being i rWq u munition work, but. by reason, of their better qualities, designs and colour, ings they had again asserted their superiority. The Dominion has been recognised as the heaviest purchaser of wallpaper, per capita, in the R,j. ti-h Empire, and one of the w a !i. paper representatives when visiting New Zealand, remarked upon the'hugstocks carried by the trade. Th» British custom was tor retailers j,J conduct business by samples onlv.Chronicle.

A comedy that might lmw ! w j serious consequences was enacted In Auckland. Heckled by some yotinl; men in the crowd standing arouQ,) him, a- well-known sheet-corner preacher, who was holding forth in front of the Ferry Buildings on the subject of physical Christianity, be. came excited, and. producing :i bottle fropi his hip-pocket, threw the con.

tents over those who were unlucky enough to he within range. This s': incensed the crowd in general, and the injured persons in particular, that the orator was promptly seized ami carried kicking to a neighbouring horse trough, into which he was tin. ceremoniously thrown, the police arriving a few minutes too late to pn-. vent. the unwelcome and uiicxpedeii immersion.

Striking records of interesting t ••j-’-.-i! events are characteristically illnstra’ci in this week’s issue of the paramount pictorial, the "New Zealand Sporting ami. Dramatic Review.” A startling two colour supplement of three fames' English actresses in bathing eostune, constitutes an attractive feature of this week’s number. The Wellington Ray ing Club’s fixture at Trentham is covered in a series of photographs ol lead ing events. Tint centre double papwill be found specially appealing r this time of the'year, with its entrancing array of fair bathers taken at the world’s most fashionable resorts. Tie opening of the JCelburn Bowling Club. Wellington, is interestingly dealt with and a 'lance recital at Tatirnnga is c subject of a elmriuing page of young pupils in various poses. Fashion i»cupies a page of delightful modes, air! stage and cinema comprise an outstanding section. The Otaki State School conmelti'i meet this evening. We remind our readers of the cricketers’ dance at the Empire Hall inmorrow night. The Fire Brigade’s euchre toiirnnient to-morrow night should draw crowd. Good prizes are to be awardr-L The well-known and progressive fire, of Stiles and Matheson. Ltd., liarr sta nrod premises in Hannah’s huiM ings, opposite the Otaki picture theatre, and will open with an up 10-date nr: well assorted stock of genera! drap-'P'. • lothingr mercery, millinery and room goods on Monday, the 11-'th Nav ember. An important and inleresm; announcement appears in the firm’; usual advertising space. Mr. W. •’ Ryder, who is already favourably known in Otaki. has been appoint' manager of the (inn’s Otaki busiie--. The races are over and the “oil grey” had n royal win. Tie is passing his profits on to his customers, so cr.li and got the best leather fof repairs Boots nor stocked—F. Barrett.— .Vlvt.