GENERAL NEWS.

Shannon News, 24 February 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Two sharks were caught at the wharf at Mapu, Nelson, last week. One, on being opened, was found to contain a bottle that had been thrown overboad in Cook Strait from the steamer Nikau about a month previously. Potato blight in a very severe form is prevalent in the Eketahuna district some patches of potatoes being entirely destroyed. The blight ia said in cases to be as severe as the visitations soon after it appeared in New Zealand. Messrs Rere Nicholson and Hone McMillan leave for Wanganui on Friday to attend a meeting of the West Coast Maori Patriotic Society which is arranging for the erection of a memorial to Maori soldiers of the West Coast districts.

A Gazette notice states that any person who allows ashes, sweepings, dust, rubbish, bones, waste food or other rubbish to remain on a property which he occupies, except in suitable receptacles, will be liable on conviction to a fine of £4. The regulation applies to boroughs and town districts where provision is made by local authorities for the collection and disposal of rubbish and waste matter.

The Inglewood County Council in accordance with the telegram from the Minister of Internal Affairs regarding a distinctive wedding gift from .the ladies of New Zealand for Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, forwarded lists for shilling subscriptions to the various dairy factories in the district. So far only one list has been returned, viz., Maketawa, with a footnote as follows < Unsupported; butterfat only 7d pound.” It is not often a man with an estate worth £141,000 to leave dies in goal. That, however, was the fate of Mr Alan Henry Bradbury, coal factor, governing director of Bradbury, Son and Co., who died last year in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, while undergoing sentence for conspiracy to defraud the Imperial Government of income tax and excess profits duty. His estate was recently assessed for death duties at the amount mentioned.

A point made by Mr O. P. Lynch (Paraparaumu) at the meeting of the Manawatu sub-provincial executive of the Farmers ’ Union, in referring to the meat pool was that it would be risky to leave the London selling agency in the hands of one man. The matter, he said, should be delegated to a committee or board of three. He instanced the fact that the Danish producers disposed of their butter through a board nominated by them and sitting in London. The meeting carried a resolution recommending that farmers ’ unions generally should light for distract representation on the New Zealand Board of Control to be set up in-connection with the pool. “No nation has a right to liberty unless they earn it. Then the duty remains of looking after and preserving it. We are iii danger of losing this libcrly if we do not look after it,“ said General Sir Andrew Russell in a speech at Nelson.