LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 537, 4 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

< y J* A social and dance, under the pices of the Pukekohe Kast Tennis C'iubj vviJl be hold next Tuesday. T , to the indifferent tQleph'onf transmission an^erroiv Vfcvin'red -inatlie advertised daf' "Vind particulars' of Messrs. Daluetv's Tuak'au ''sale.' held on the 4th insf. The position ii;, to the sup 1 ply of newsprint* paper is so p recti - ; ious that daily newspapers have decided not "to accent contract advertisements' for longer j>eriods than three months. Two sticks-of oat sheaves, the pi.Vpeity of Mr. C. P. Ludvvitf, and' efetimated to contain .sufficient iVu' 20 tons of chaff, were bnrn(id-down <j|i Monday niyht. It. is .presumed that the lire was started by spontaneous combustion.

The Labour correspondent of the i/mdon Times hit on rather a happy expression in the following: "The demands of miners and fhe railway locomotive staff for larger increases 'in lares mark the beginning of another cycle of wage claims. \Vages :.nd prices pursue one another like riders oir a round-about.". Human vanity is one of the most potent causes of proliteerii.g (says tlu- Melbourne Argus). If people would buy lower-priced goods instead of expensive, showy ones they would frequently obtain better value for their money, and would do 'something towards lowering -prices. It is i:i the vanity, market taat exorbitant prices arc charged and paii A highly sensational advertisement appears in our advertising columns to-day nothing less than that there is a house for- lease. The dwelling was until lately Ihe residence of Mr 1). R. Hamilton, and now the properly of the Franklin Racing Club. Messrs. Mi (lough and Hav ke have the handling of Ihe matter but don't all rush at once.

IF tiro Prime Minister lias not a Maori .linguist, am run; his ■ stall' lie will rociiiire one now. The following is a copy of a telegram sent to him hy a" native who was apparently u'realy in the butter market uuestioftte."P> i ll Massty, Weliiiiuton I'i L'orry, Hill. No £ood yon control price butter. Hire i>'et moi. Kapai lenny the free market. Nooke Nooki Mai." This is genuine, the.copy of the wir: beinu before lib as we w.'itc.

Newspapers tl<l'ovtiinofit Ibe world are faced with a real shortage "I paper. savs the Weekly Despatch, London. of March 14. and Ihere is little prospect of relief for scar; years. American demands i;a\e en iblcJ the Scandinavians to raise priies enormously. Mechanical pulp, which in pre-war days used to sell at* It's to is now costing per ton. This material forms 7> per cent, of the newspaper. Sulphite pulp, which forms the other 2r> per cent., is dearer still. and has advanced cmrvspondinelv.