LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 602, 25 January 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Twelve head of cattle from Tuki Tuki were impounded at the local pound yesterday. The New Zealand Bacon and Meat Packing Company will not receive pgs until further notice. Primary schools in this district will reopen after the summer vacation on Tuesday next, February 1, A one-day bowling tournament will be held under the auspices of the Pukekohe Bowling Club on Saturday next, January 29th. Masters Cecil Clarkson and Bruce Laird, Pukekohe, scholars attending Auckland schools, recently passed the Matriculation Examination. Miss C. M. Webb announces that she resumes teaching on February Ist. Pupils and intending pupils should communicate with her to arrange limes. See advt. Toncle.s will he received by the soli citors for the trustees in the estate of the late 11. George for the purchase of a Republic motor truck and remainder of contract with the New Zealand Co-op. Dairy Co. Sec advt.

At, the Manurewa Town Hoard meeting last nighf a letter was received from the Prime Minister in reply to a communication from tije Board asking for a revaluation of the town district, stating that a valuator would be went and ;i new valuation made during tho year.

The town is not improved in appearance by permitting tiled Maori to sit about on doorsteps throwing banana skins about the footpath. Wire baskets placed at convenient corners for i uhbish ac not heeded as they should be. T|?e legend "Keep your town clean'' needs to be placer! ' conspicuously about the jiiajn street. The Manurewa Tojvn Board ja.st night cxpicssecl approval at the fact that the new post office is now under course of erection, hut desired to point out to Liie Department that no provision has hern made for the inclusion of a postma©tt.T S room. It io assumed that this would be the Lime to make provision for this lie--I'ore the foundations are completed. The Minister has replied that careful consideration would be given to the matter.

Convert flic articles you have no use for into ready money by advertising in the casual columns of the “Times" Ucmeniber, Jb words for Is cash or Js «d booked. Three in, sertions cost 2s lid cash 01 4s (id booked. The word cash means during 1 1 M . currency of the advertisement. An advertisement received over the telephone will be considered cash until it has -appeared in the paper. After that booking ise will he charged.

One of iho most unsatisfactory ; things of this world is a sensiblelove letter. People of the United Slates spend 1 about £50,000,000 for ice cream an-1 nually. A shearer got through 2000 sheep, in a fortnight at Masterton. At I :Jos pe;r 100 tins, represents £3O. i In England, if a woman occupies, a house with 15 windows, she is eli-, gible for jury duty. The Prince’s motto (said to ho on tlie wall of his cabin): “Do right and fear no man. Don’t write, and fear no woman. ’ —Smith's Weekly. “My husband is such a handy man, you know. He can bang nails into wood like lightning.” “How splen- ! did!” ’“Yes, lightning seldom strikes [ in the same place twjr-e.” Jones: “If prohibitions comes in force, 1 know of one thing that would happen.” Smith; “ What s that?” Jones: “My wife would not continue

to take the trouble to kiss me when I come homo iate at night.’’ Justice Horrid (to his eldest daughter): “Didn’t I. issue an injunction; against that young man coming hero; again?” His Daughter: “Yes, father. ’ you did; but we appealed to a higher authority, and mother reversed your | decision. Wc are engaged. ’• j Immigrants to the number of 1-58‘J arc due to arrive in the Dominion 1 from England up to the middle of, February. They consist of mechanics, farmers,* farm labourers, artisans, miners, shop assistants and domestic servants. The latter aic on the Pakeha, and arc coming out under the control of a matron. One of the wreaths laid at the cenotaph during the accent funeral of the Great Unknown in London is motioned as follows hy a London correspondent; One wreath bore sacred memory of my dead brothers, Tom, Harry, 'Tod, Jesse, and Jim. God make us worthy of so great a sacifico.”

Fowl wheat is sorely needed in New Zealand, but none is permitted at present to come over from Australia. It is believed that the Federal Government will not allow) fowl wheat (of which there is plenty) to come to New Zealand unless there is a certain proportion of flour taken at the same titme.

'• It is a scandalous shame,” said a To Awamutu builder recently, when recalling bis holiday visit to Auckland. ‘T saw two ships laden with limber—not the pi mis and rubbish we have to use in this country, but the best of our rimu-cu route to Australia. Here wo are hindered at every turn for timber, and the best of it is going away overseas. It is a shame and a disgrace to any Government which enables such tiring.' to happen.” -Waipa Post.

The dairy cows of New Zealand now number nearly 900,000. Tire contribution of the cow to the national wealth of New Zealand in butter and cheese alone represented tnc repractable export value of £10,851,200 for tlie twelve months ended October 31st lust; besides which the requirements of the local population of over 1,000,000 were satisfied. For tiie present season the value should be nearly £.14,000,000, the value of our total exports but a few years ago. “ Deep Sea," the London prophet (who has many correct predictions to his credit).' issues the following bulletin for home and workshop consumption:—A great engineering and railway strike will take place betwccn'January Ist and March Ist which wiinurVlie world deeply, Avail take place in London early in December. Politicians in particular will be affected by it. The earthquake of the century will occur to the west of America on or about 28th July nc.it year, Damage to the extent of forty millions will be caused, and very great loss of life, too. Great trade slump, in the Midlands of England partial-

laply, beginning about ILho end of December next. Watch cotton and leather then.

One million weddings were celebrated in the United States in 1010, bn t only 70,000 new homes were erected, F. Roger Miller, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Macon, Gn., told the National Association of Commercial Organisation Societies in Chicago, in an address on “The Solution of the Housing Problem.” “The United States is the only great nation in the civilised world that has ignored the housing situation as a national problem,” he said. He added that the housing situation was not an outcome of the world war, but had been developing for years. “Our normal increase in demand this year calls for the construction of 1,250,000 dwellings,” lie said.

The importance of (he school teaching profession was stressed several times during discussions at the Ilavvera Bible Class summer conference, and in considering a calling for life, it was pointed out by various speakers that school life presented a great opportunity, especially in the country districts, for those teachers who hud deep-rooted Christian convictions exerted a healthy influence over those children who came under their care. It Was felt that, if the school teachers of the future were inspired by Christian motives, so far as their own lives were conccned, it could not fail to show itself in and through their leaching experience, not in the way of forcing their in dividual creeds upon the children under their charge, hut even by their Christian conduct silently influencing for good the citizens of the future.

A Wanganui Herald representative was shown a letter from a Wanganui lady, now in England, which stated that men’s two-garment suits were selling at 365, and boots in large quantities from 17s (Id to 20s per pa'll'. By the same mail a copy of the Export Mail was forwarded. A perusal of this showed that two large London linns yere prepared to forward though their New Zealand agents goods at the following retail prices: -Men’s suits, 50s to 80s; men’s d.h. overcoats, 60s; juvenile suits, 32s (id to 455; men’s latest stylo’ suits, in grey and brown, 70s. Another linn offers is boots as follows:—Men’s glace kid derby shoes, patent caps, 365: women’s glace kid lace bools. 22s 6d to 25s 6cl; glace goat Gibson shoes, IJs .5(1,

Modern Japan has got into the wa of tackling her problems .scientific aliv. It is proposed to establish b the country a National Food Sebsti lute Laboratory. In that part of tin world, as well as in Europe, there i: a prospect of a considerable foot shortage, from which rice, the staph article in the national dietary, is nol likely to be exempt. Hitherto Uk Japanese have not taken at all readih to’such rice substitutes as have beer introduced- which the Westerner ear well pelieve, for he docs not find rice itself a very exhilarating food, and hg can easily ipiagihe that pseudo rice must be even less attractive. The laboratory which is to investigate the possibility of a satisfactory subr siiCute is to he erected on (ho site of a former lunatic asylum, and the Japan Chronicle is unkind enough to suggest that this selection “will seem peculiarly appropriate to those with an old-fashioned prejudice in favour of rice.”