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Southland Times, Issue 18830, 25 May 1920, Page 4

The clearing sale of Mr F. L. Patterson’s stock and implements to be held at. Orawia has been postponed from Wednesday next to Monday, May 31.

In Wellington, where the schools are closed owing to the influenza epidemic, children under Id are not allowed to attend the picture theatres after G p.m.

The shooting of a white heron near Lake Ellesmere a few days ago was referred to indignantly by members at a meeting of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society.

It is said that a coal seam has been brok. en out at Raumai (near the mouth of the Rangitikei River) and that certain Palmerston North capitalists are “keeping the matter dark.”

Mr William R. Albright, a Pennsylvania railroad man, has become a grandfather at 3G. Flis daughter, Mrs Thelma Wilkins, 1G years old, has given birth to a baby hoy weighing 91b.

A man connected with many cheese factories in the Wairarapa states that the lifting of the Imperial commandeer on cheese will certainly be responsible for a rise in the price of butter-fat next season.

The Hon. Mr Coates states that the Public Trust Office profits for the ye fir ended March 31 were £78,000, an increase of £15,000 over last 3’ear. With the opening of new branches a still greater inctv<3-ie is expected next year.

“I have never tasted liquor in my life, except under a doctor’s order,” said His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout ) at the Supreme Court in Palmerston North, adding that he had not had a doctor’s order for 50 years.

A general increase in crime in the Wellington police district, which includes Marlborough, Nelson, the Wairarapa and Wellington city, is disclosed in the offences return for the vear ended December 31 last.

The Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) has been considering further facilities aranged by his departmental officers for the education of deaf childr D n. Steps are now being taken to establish special day classes in each of the four centres.

Giving evidence before the Pastoral Lands Commission in Timaru, a Mackenzie Country runholder said he knew a man who had 400 acres of land, and who, after putting up wire-netting and going out with dogs and traps, took 7000 rabbits off his place.

A New Plymouth land agent has confessed (says the Taranaki Herald) that he has fallen into one of (he many housing traps and is now homeless. He sold his house having another in view to rent, and thou he found ho could not obtain possession of the other house.

During the hearing of a case at the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North recently counsel slated that his client, had to pay £26 a week for hotel accommodation tor himself, his wife and eight children.

"A ruinous proposition for him,” commented counsel. "Ruinous for anyone, I should say,” replied the magistrate.

The irregular running of coastal shipping is declared by the chairman of the Board of Trade to be responsible for the temporary shortage of supplies of sugar in different localities, and but for vessels failing to keep to time-table the task of controlling the distribution of sugar would ho simple.

At a meeting of the Wellington Education Board recently the following recommendation was adopted:—"That the Government Insurance Department be requested to issue a policy for £SOO, covering the board’s liability in regard to accidents to school children occurring within the precincts of the sciiool or during conveyance to and from their homes.”

The humour of life is a vastly more amusing thing than the humour of books (says the Otago Daily Times). As the Salvation Army Band moved off from the Fountain on its way to the barracks on Sunday evening a baby in a perambulator commenced to cry' boisterously, whereupon an elderly man who was passing commenced to heat time with his hands and to express himself as delighted with the music of youthful lungs in full blast. Pausing for a moment he injudiciously ventured the customary query': "Is it a boy or a girl;' 1 The mother, who was possibly annoyed because the child’s noisy outbreak had prevented her from attending the service in the citadel, replied in the brusque accents of the Celt: ‘‘A boy, of course; a girl wouldn’t make that noise,” and rapidly pushing her perambulator away, she left her interrogator looking decidedly discomfited.

Sydney’s morning newspapers now are about to cost their readers twopence (says the Sydney Mail). The clay of the penny paper is gone —for some time, at least. With paper uncertain in supply, and costing nearly £IOO per ton, in place of the pre-war price of about £ll, it is no longer possible to produce them at the former price. Australia has been strangely fortunate, nevertheless. Newspapers elsewhere all went up in price long ago; yet the Australian press, in spite of its great distance from the source of the supplies, continued to carry- on without an increase. The average reader has little idea of the critical situation that has at time threatened the owners, the country press included, for not only paper, but all other material has been affected by the freights, and increased costs. So far there is but little sign of relief. The one factor that may count is perhaps that the high rates now being obtained may stimulate production, and when the nations get back to full production a great many of our troubles will be eased.

Owing to the shortage of coal, the Christchurch Gas Company is appealing to consumers to avoid waste of gas. ,

At the Police Court yesterday morning, William Page, who was on remand for medical treatment, appeared before Mr W. Barrett, J.P., and was convicted and ordered to pay 7/6 medical expenses on a charge of drunkenness.

The Christchurch correspondent of the Dunedin Star telegraphs .-—The Mayor (Dr Thacker, M.P.) says he has instructed his solicitors to ask the Sun newspaper to apologise for an article in connection with the children's ball, published on Saturday, and to pay £SOO to the war memorial fund. Failing their doing so, Dr Thacker will sue for £SOOO for alleged libel.

A meeting of the St. John Ambulance Association was held in the brigade headquarters last night, Mr T. Hide presiding. It was decided to open the evening classes as soon as possible, and that a special effort be made to increase the membership. Miss Fcatherston and Mr Petrie being appointed class secretaries. The evenings for classes were fixed; Friday for ladies, and Monday for men.

Tiie Deputy-Mayor of Patea, in welcoming the delegates to the Taranaki Provincial Confeieuce of Farmers, referred to the importance of farming in, Taranaki. He remarked that 195,000 crates of cheese had been put through the Patea port during the season, the value being £1,350,000. Including frozen meat, the total produce exported through the port would be £2,230,951, and it was quite reasonable to suppose that New Plymouth, with the meat works at Waitara and the dairy produce from Moturoa, would exceed that amount.

“If the ultimate prospects in secondary school teaching were made sufficiently attractive,’’ said Mr J. Drummond, M.A., while addressing delegates to the annual conference of tne Secondary School Assistants’ Association in Wellington on Saturday, “a beginner would accept a comparatively low salary and remain permanently in the profession. At present the tendency is in the opposite direction. The beginner can earn more in the first few years of teaching in a secondary school than he can in any other profession. In a few years the position is reversed. The higher the pay at the beginning the sooner he leaves the profession, and this accounts for the frequent, changes in staff so injurious to the working of a school.”

The total estimated population of the dominion on March 31, 1920,-was 1,236,712. This included 1,174,139 white population. The estimated increase since December 31 was; By excess of births over deaths, 5057; by excess of immigration over emigration, 4677. The Acting-Government Statistician (Mr J. W. Butcher) appends to the figures the following note regarding births; “In the Gazette of February sth, 1920, it was pointed out that it was reasonable to expect that the improvement in the birih rate disclosed by the figures for the quarter ended December 31, 1919, would be at least maintained in 1920. This anticipation has been more than realised during the quarter ended March 31, 1920, when the number of births registered was 7531, an increase of 1470 over the corresponding quarter of 1919. The birth rate for the quarter is equal to an annual rate of 25.85 per 1000 of mean population, us compared with a rate of only 21.55 for the vear 1919.”

About 400 immigrants arrived in Auckland by the steamer lonic on Thursday (reports the New Zealand Herald.) Of this number 165 were men and women who hud been nominated by friends or relatives in the Dominion. The remaining 240 were sent out under the Imperial Government’s overseas settlement scheme. There was a large percentage of fanners and farm-la-bourers among them. They, for the most part, are married men and are keen to get on to the land in New Zealand. They numbered 55, and are destined for different parts of the Dominion, some going to the South Island. Among the others were engineers, surveyors, motor mechanics and engineers, fitters, an electrical engineer, bakers, gardeners, two solicitors, a dentist, nine miners, a builder, a wool merchant and importer, a dentist, five teachers, two commercial travellers and a medical practitioner. Fourteen young women came to be married to New Zealanders, and, in addition, there were many domestic helps.

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Basket ball! Full stocks of hide balls for this splendid outdoor game may be had at Hyndman’s, Dee street, Invercargill. Three sizes are here at 12/G, 14/6, and 21/-; postage, 4d extra. Rugby footballs, whether for the small bairn or the hefty player are here in best qualities. Prices from 5/-.

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Good News. —Prime Factory Butter reduced in price —only 1/7 per lb. All finest Dairies, 1/7 per lb, in quantities to suit purchaser?. Cost of living reduced at Baxter’s Grocery, Dee street. — (Advt.)

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