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Southland Times, Issue 18859, 26 June 1920, Page 4

there are more than 90,000 trained nursers in the United Kingdom. In one night recently 46 fishing boats caught 1,200,000 mackerel off (he Cornish coast, breaking all records. It is understood that a number of players have resigned from the Dominion Band lately. In 1014 Brazil grew no maize at all. Now she is the second largest producer of maize in the world. A first, offender for drunkenness appeared before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday morning and Was convicted and discharged. The Palmerston North Amateur Operatic Society intends to produce “Our Miss Gibbs” in November next. The society has a credit balance, on previous performances of £203 15s Id. Influenza has seriously affected the attendance of pupils at the Ashburton Borough School. At the monthly meeting of the committee, the headmaster reported that 112 pupils were absent on Monday and 115 on Tuesday. The nominations for the Education Board elections close on Wednesday, June 30. It is understood that two candidates are Messrs Butterfield and C. 8. Ixmguet. All the present members, excluding Mr D. Gilchrist and probably Mr F. W. Gresham, will be standing again. from July 1 next the War Expenses Branch and Base Records Office will be amalgamated and designated N.Z.E.F. War Accounts and Record Office. This office will bo under the control of Colonel J. Hutchen, who is at present holding the appointment of officcr-m-charge war expenses. The relative worth of the sovereign as measured by the retail prices of groceries, dairy produce and meat is shown by the Monthly Abstract of Statistics as having been as low as 11s BJd during the March quarter, compared with 1909-13 in regard to these food groups. The relative value during the March quarter of 1919 was 13s Lid. The conference of wool and meat producers held in Wellington recently, decided to submit, propositions to the Government regarding shipping, finance and other questions which arise in connection with the termination of the Imperial purchase contract. That committee has been appointed, including representatives of (he. Government and the producers and will hold its first meeting on June 29, The monthly meeting of the directors of the Southland A. and P. Association was held in the secretary's office yesterday morning, when Mr Angus Campbell presided over a well attended meeting. The New Zealand Breeders’ Association wrote offering for competition at (he 1920 show two silver shields for the following classes;—Romney Marsh ram over 16 and under 28 months; Border Leicester ewe under 16 months. 'Die offer was accepted and the Association was thanked for its donation. A Royal Commission consisting of Chief Judge Jones of the Native Land Court, Mr John Slrauchon, 1.5.0., and Mr John Orrnsby, of Otorohanga, has been set up to inquire and report as to the various Native land grievances. These include complaints as to treatment in regard (n ancient purchases in the South Island, a claim to the Inner Harbour at Napier and various reserves, which the Natives claim were set aside for them and were then diverted to a different purpose, notably one one which the town of Stratford is built. Action was taken by (he Hull County Council, for which Mr T. Ilislop, jun., appeared, at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning to recover from Sister Mary Doyle, represented by Mr G. Watson, rates amounting to £BB 10s in respect: of a property at Nai Nai used as a playing area and garden for the growing of vegetables for the children at the school and home erected on the property by the Roman Catholic Church. Evidence was heard in the morning. When the Court resumed after the luncheon adjournment, counsel for for (he plaintiff board asked that tjie action should be withdrawn, as it was merely brought for the purpose of allaying any suspicions among (he residents- of the Hutt district that the institution was being wrongly allowed to escape taxation for which (he property might be liable. The parties asked that the Court should give a ruling upon the question. The Magistrate, Mr W. G. Riddell, held that the evidence called for the defence clearly established that the institution was conducted as a school and was not run “exclusively for profit,” but for the benefit of children whose parents were in poor circumstances. Judgment was given for the defendant. In the days before Gore began its prosperous growth Mat aura was looked on as the expanding centre of the Eastern district. But with time has come the fear that the town was not destined for great things in the near future, at least. However, this is not the opinion of all Mataura people us the remarks of Mr John McGibbon at the meeting of the Education Board yesterday show. When a deputation from the Mataura School Committee was being heard, Mr McGibbon asked (he Mayor (Mr Lowden) what he expected the population of Mataura would be in ten years. Sir Lowden hazarded an estimate of 3000. “I shall he very much surprised if it is not 10,000,” rejoined Mr McGibbon who then i went on to further interrogate Mr Lowden regarding the respective prospects of the east and west positions of the township. Mr Lowden, after remarking that the township’s population had not increased 200 in the past 15 years, expressed himself as having greater hopes for the west side of the town, as did all the members of the deputation. Mr McGibbon admitted that the west side had shown the greater portion of a very small development during the past few years, but, he declared, this would not always be. The engineer had reported that Mataura would be subject to floods as it had been during his 60 years’ residence, and the west side would suffer more severely. He was sure that the east side would be the residential quarter and he intended to build there himself. Mr Lowden, jrho hod 40 years’ residence in Mataura, said he had seen it under flood only , three times.

I Sunday trains from Wellington to Otahe J are still well patronised. | Clothes lines in Ashburton of late have ■ { been receiving the attention of thieves. ! j The question of the, time of opening the ) doors at. Sunday concerts will be considered 1 at the next meeting of the Council. ) 1 ' j j A moderate fall of snow occurred on the : I hills of the Wyndham district on Wednesday ! : night. ; j Boring operations in connection with the 1 new bridge over the estuary arc nearing ; j completion.—Western Star. i j _ “New Zealand (remarks the Yorkshire ' Bvening News) may, without anj r offence,! , be said to have been horn in Newgate Pri- 1 j son. It was while serving a term of impri- 1 j snnmenl there for illegally running away with an heiress that Edward Gibbon Wakefield thought out a new and scientific scheme of colonisation, which after his rej lease, he elaborated into a book that attracI ted considerable attention and resulted in i I an attempt to put his principles into practice i lin founding a colony in. New Zealand. The 1 j flan worked excellently, and Wakefield him- I • self emigrated to the new colony, and took j | a leading part in its public life.” i j A clause in the report of the Director pres- I enter! to the Technical College Board last ! evening stated that he had been advisd by the Railway Department, that no concession was now available for either free or paying students over twenty years of age to attend adult classes held during the day. The members of the Board expressed tile opinion that the removal of the concession was a manifest hardship on country pupils, and it wss decided to communicate with the Minister of Education, (he Minister of Infernal Affairs and the Southland members of Parliament, with a view to having the concession reinstated. In Tuesday’s issue the Dunedin Star had this paragraph:—-“ During the past fortnight there have been two death in Southland following on vaccination for American sn allpox.” Dr T. McKibbin, district health officer, who had been away at Daman, on business, said on his return in reference to the paragraph: “Upwards of GOOO persons in Invercargill have been vaccinated during the past three weeks. The lymph we used is bactcriologically tested in Wellington before being sent out. The deaths mentioned were (he result of complaints that were definitely diagnosed by the medical attendants as appendicitis in one case and spinal myelitis in the other. In the appendicitis case the cat licr symptoms were erroneously attributed to vaccination. In the spinal c ,-isc the attack which caused death was a relapse of a former attack in February last.” The London correspondent of the Christchurch Press writes that “New Zealand in Peace and War” is the title chosen by Mr Herbert- Garrison, F.R.G.S., the well-known lecturer, for a series of “talks” which he is going to give in various parts of England, with the object of raising funds for the proposed Cha]>cl of St. George, which is part of the proposed scheme in connection with the new Cathedral in Wellington. Mr Garrison described New Zealand as the bright est jewel on the background of the whole crown of England; as more British than Britain; as more Italian than Italy. Many soldiers from that beautiful land had, in the year just passed, been living on this side of the world, and it was a great and wonderful thing that they left behind, wherever they went, nothing but pleasant and grateful memories, with not the dimmest reflection on the New Zealand escutcheon. (Loud applause). “I have never heard a single word of reproach against New Zealanders as a body of men. They were gentlemen all (he way through, and they made New Zealand stand forth more brilliantly than ever before. They were regarded with the greatest admiration here, and (hey left with the best wishes of the whole-of the people of the United Kingdom.” (Applause). “I consider (he charge of 2s Gd for 4oz of Epsom salts a downright swindle,” declared the complainant in an allegation of profileering heard before the Westminster Profiteering Committee, London, a few weeks ago. It was stated on behalf of the respondents that the cost of the Epsom salts was Id, and that of the bottle Gd. As the salts were ordered on proscription, overhead establishment charges were added at the rate of 7s 9d per hour for a period of ten minutes. The chairman of the committee remarked (hat (he firm were thus exacting Is 3jd for putting a pennyworth of salts in a bottle. The committee ordered that Is 3d should he returned. A further complaint heard by the committee was that against a chemist for a charge of 9s for a pre-scription and a quantity of tabloids. The solicitor for the respondent said that the ingredients of the prescription cost about lid or Is and the bottle cost 6d, while the cost of the tabloids was 33d. The price, he submitted, was not excessive, as the respondent, who was an ex-president of the Pharmaceutical Society, employed highly-skilled labour. The respondent, who was ill, wrote stating that, although the price seemed high, it was not excessive, considering the great care and attention given to (he work. The chairman said the committee, considered it was a serious case of profiteering. They ordered a refund of os, and recommended a prosecution. A remembrance of New Zealand which Her Excellency (he. Countess of Liverpool will carry away with her when she leaves for England will be the autograph book which is to be presented to her from the Maori Women’s Committees of New Zealand who did so much to provide comforts for the Maori soldiers during the war. The book is really a beautiful thing (says the Dominand is thoroughly typical of this country. The covers are of kauri, on which are i carved characteristic Maori designs with an ova! shaped centrepiece, bearing the inscription upon a raised border of “ Te Koko Whitu a tu.” The frontispage is beautifully illuminated, and in each of the four corners are New Zealand flowers, in their natural colours —the clematis, the manuka, the rata and the kowhai. The address which it bears is as follows;—“ Presented to Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool, Wellington, New Zealand, as a small token of appreciation from your Maori Women’s Committees of New Zealand for the kindly help and interest you have taken in the welfare of their Maori soldiers during the war. “Kia Ora, March, 1920.” The book contains the photographs of the executive committees and the different Maori committees throughout the country', with the companion page opposite each photographic group set aside for the signatures of its | component members. Each page is bordered j with a Maori design. This organisation of Maori women was known, it is hardly' necessary to state, as the Lady Liverpool and Mrs Pomarc's Maori Women’s Committees, and it work during the war was wonderfully j line, j Distinctive Purs that appeal to smart j Dressers are featured in THOMSON & j BEATTIE’S Showroom to-day. Black Fox \ Tangoes so much sought after and two new j lines in Moleskin. Stoles and Muffs. Mole- j skin is going to be the fashionable Fur for the London Season, starting in September. See this special Show, There will be several lines on offer at special stocktaking prices. (Advt.) ENJOY YOUR SHAVE. j A few drops of “Q-toI” (I/O) rubbed well ! into the face before lathering rapidly softens 1 the beard and makes the skin smooth and supple. The razor does not drag.— (Advt.) In order to keep up the supply of Bar gain lines in each Department a daily supply of goods at “Red Ticket” rates is provided by Messrs PRICE & BULLEID, Ltd., for their Bargain Tables. The Millinery- Section is “out for clearance” and all goods arc offered at exceptionally low prices. The Corset and Underwear Section, the Mantle Department, Dress Department, Hosiery and Fancy Departments, Manchester and Clothing Departments are similarly “on the job.” There is no doubt that the prices are talking, judging by the business being transacted right through the house. Money may be well invested by patronising the firm’s Winter “Colossal” which is now in its second week. — (Advt.)

The ladies’ hockey carnival, which is at present being held in the Victoria Hall, will be open this afternoon, when no charge will be made for admission. People, who usually' do their shopping in town, will probably find it worth while to visit the carnival, where at very' reasonable prices all their wants can be supplied. News reached Auckland on Sunday by the Otarama that a small schooner, built and owned by' the inhabitants of the lonely island of Pitcairn, was lost in a gale early in June. The schooner was bound for one of the islands in the Pacific, and encountered very heavy weather, which caused her to spring a leak and founder. The crew took to the lifeboat and were picked up by an American steamer 20 miles off Pitcairn and landed at the island. —New Zealand Herald. Next Friday morning, at 11 o’clock, Wm. Todd and Co., Ltd., will offer by public auction that very desirable comer property, known as Strang’s, with frontages to Tay, Nith and Wood streets. Opportunities of acquiring freehold premises in the centre oV the business area arc few and far between, and in a town with the future of Invercargill such holdings at no distant date will be worth a small fortune. Uw646 TRACTOR TRIAL. A public trial of the Moline Universe Tractor will be held on the farm of Mr John Cullen, “Calderville,” Morton Mains, on Wednesday, 30th inst, A start will be made at 10 o’clock and work will be continued through the afternoon. All interested invited. JAMES MACALISTER, LTD., Sole Agents. 5Jv623 Buyers attending Mr T. Kearney’s sale at Mossburn on Monday will note that the departure of the Mossburn train has been delayed one hour.— (Advt.) Special Notice—4 small Nugget 1/1 i, largo tins Nugget 1/-, 1 dozen tin small Nugget for 3/3 at BAXTER’S Grocery. Fresh goods arriving weekly at BAXTER’S, (Advt.) If it’s good luck to pick up a pin, or to turn your money when you spot a new moon, it is better luck to be introduced to a good fountain pen. A dependable pen ia hke a chief mate to a captain—indispensable. Choose your mate from these—Waterman, Conklin, Parker, Ouoto, Waverley, Bankers, Capital, Didonne; all tried and proved writers and fitted with the latest self-filling devices. Priced from 10/- to 35/- at Hyndman’s, Dee street, Invercargill. "What muduie superfluous preparation makes.”—Stanus. Certainly be prepared, for wise preparation means also the battle half won; Put superfluous preparation is ill-advised. Always be prepared during winter time, which to the unprepared is chronic cough and cold time. Baxter’s Lung Preserver is ample preparation, for this sterling remedy is a sure, safe, and prompt remedy. It nips the trouble ia the bud and fortifies against the return visit. The home that knows “Baxter’s” is cough and cold proof. Get large bottle of this 54-year-old specific to-day. 2/6 at chemist and store.— (Advt.) Big Bargains await you in all Departments at our great Winter Sale. THE ECONOMIC, Ladies’ Outfitters, 60 Dee street.— (Advt. I Big Sale Values —Our huge Reliability Sale is in full swing. These supreme values we are confident will mean a speedy clearance. Embroidery Edgings in Muslin and Lougcloth, 1 to 4in wide, a special line to be cleared at 6Ad yard. Also a good selection of other widths and qualities. Edgings and Insertion all at special reduced Sale prices. Camisole Embroideries with or without beading in a variety of patterns, usual prices 2/3, 3/6, 3/11, 5/11, SMe prices 1/9, 1/11, 2/11, 3/6 to 5/6 yard. All our Chinese, Valenciennes, Fillet, and Torchon Laces and Insertions greatly reduced. Bargains in Veilings, Gloves, Hosiery, Bags, Umbrellas, Ribbons, Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Haberdashery, etc. A special bargain table of Ribbons suitable for hat bands, fancy work, etc., usual prices 1/3, 1/6, 1/11, 2/3. All going at 9Ad yard. See Fancy Department at H. & J. SMITH, Ltd., Progressive Stores, Tay street, Invercargill.—(Advt.) “There’s no place like home” when one can do the washing in half the time with “NO RUBBING HELP,” and have plenty of time left for enjoyable leisure.—(Advt.) MASTERS, LTD., were Ihs originators ol Ujb lU per cent, discount to returned soldiers. Other storekeepers have copied 114 and we now go one better. We now invite all discharged soldiers and those waiting discharge to have their military bats rehlocked, free of all cost, by the only hatteg La Southland. We still give a 10 per cent, reduction to all returned soldiers.—* MASTERS, LTD., Dee street.—(Advt.) PROPORTION OF WORKING DAYS. At Glasgow recently an authority stated that the ratio of working days to days in commission for motor lorries was electrm 96 per cent., petrol 90 per cent, steam 85 per cent. You save money on maintenance alone by using “ORWELL” Electric Lorry, THE NEW ZEALAND EXPRESS CO, Ltd,. Sole Agents.—(Advt), HATS for men, youths, and boys—a fine showing of all the popular styles and valug prices. UNDRILL’S, opp. P.O.—(Advt)