Second Edition LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 17 May 1916, Page 6

Second Edition LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Payne (Grey Lynne lias given h&lice to ask the Minister of Finance fsF'A*' return showing the number of persons having incomes in various grades from £IOOO a year upwards, the rettii-n ’to’ cover also banks and com-. panib’A 1 •W.U-V -i- v Ai '-- ‘

Giving to steel* which formerly cost £8 o,r £9 a ton, having risen to £97 or fl^fopeftton,landed in New Zealand, tlWsi- ;l Mirtister of- Public Works Stated in the House of Representatives last wfeok- -in reply to 4 Mr. Webb, that ho had been compelled to suspend the erection of those bridges which required,the itse. of . steel, o

vV petition presented to the House of Representatives on Wednesday by the Prime Minister contained the names or the Mayor of .the odty, councillors, and some 15,000 citizens of Auckland. It prayed for the introduction of regulation &.i(| .checks the practice of “shoutini’Uiir “treating” ip connection with the diquon trade of the Dominion duringatim war period.

The fetojiy.iis told (says* an exchange*) nieiriibers of • the Maistenoii who were doing the voijiids hi.connection with tha-lleenut-ing}'i4ioavd’.& ’6cheshe )( hit upon a family in were five hoys of mih-tareyr.-Slgetf ‘iWhyf 'do mot some of your son® volunteer to - 'fight, for their co.un-, try#?*, asked one councillor, of the mother/' who appeared tdControl the fai'm. “I‘! would sooner see my boys shot :n thjp: back-yard,.than leaving for the frijtoll*' w as her reply-/

. Probably the \ypvft case of sheep worrying that has oyer occurred in the Orara; Gorge district took place on Sunday morning, a line of ewes, the property of Mr J. M„ Lyons, being badly worried by dogs. In the paddock Ipppr-ts. j the Temuka Leader) qbqndant evidence of what had occurred. The sheep were scattq£ed..iatP.Ajm^jaLd..,.JAb.ue!?E- .Some .were forced into adjacent paddocks, and two^v - ei waiter holes. One was' found casern its back, but olifebii jwafiiwiife JEto. tllfe mediately l| estimated that probably'3o cvvo.s. out of the flock by the

■ee^,tra'ordinary ( J coincidence , ( qpp British front (says the, Glasgow hveping Hews). A young lieutenant < f the Rov^l^ /JJppse -Artillery,, sitting on tlfe.top^df '.a-; hp.y-sfaciy,. acconiparned by two of .his men, a ml.engaged in n aking observations for lus battery. Pre-. io.#«s«sa te, fitaa him, together. Chat ting™: the two were amazed to 4hntr|hey were bothJSievr Zealanders, but that . each was bV 'compa/i- - Tffithdiigil they had never before met, their respective homes were within a few yards of each other at Mou|.fc. one eft tho suburbs of A|n|t^t-lfi^|

Up- till |ast'V ft *eell#tte record; chest measurement' among fhe lecruits 5 examined by Dr. Delatour at the Wellington Towrij Hall ws held: by a Russian, who, though only sft B}in in height, and’ 12st 61b in weighty had an expanded clxest measurement of 42|in —the biggest “tape” out of over 800 recruits examined. This record, however, was eclipsed a day or two ago (says the Dominion) by a native of the. [file of Man who has been brought up from boyhood in Ho-nwas sftipihl in height, 13 stone in weight, and stretched the tape to 43) inches when his chest was-expanded. vl}ty Delatour referred to this record as “getting the ashes back,” though he states that tiie several Russians whom he has examined have all jbeeit * splendidly-built men.

The Eltham Argus states: Mr Basham, Engineer to the Eltham County Connershj%v wtei-estihg himself in a proposition to save the tar distillates at the Council's, tar boiling works. He has arranged to market them, and considers that even if the Council gets 3d or 4c} i> er gallon foi them it would pay to do so. At the County Council meeting on Saturday Mr Basham tentatively suggested that the Council might consider saving the distillates' and procuring a plant to utilise the products ,of the .tar. He bad not gone fully 'into the matter, but could purchase a still for about £IBO. 'She councillors showed, interest in thcj proposal, but thought that the piice of the plant would be prohibitive; however, they gave the Engineer authority to make inquiries and’ to make a. report on the subject at the next meeting of the Council.