LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Fookes is adevrtising for a girl for general housework.

Tho gate takings for the three days at the Manawatu Winter Show totalled £lO6l 6s.

The Awarua Gun Club will hold its second shoot for the McLennan Cup, on Beban's Hill, on next Thursday, June 27th.

The annual meeting of the Awarua Gun Cluib is advertised to take place in the Fire Brigade Hall, at 8 p.m., on Thursday, 27th inst.

The latest hospital report issued by the Defence Department contains the name of Private J. McKenzie, of Ohutu, who is still seriously ill.

Three large offices opposite the Town Hall, also a large storeroom, are advertised to let. Applicants should ring up Mr. A. Nathan, telephone No. 10.

Admiral Lord Jellicoe, writing to a friend in Sydney, says he did not leave the Admiralty by his own wish, but because of the agitation of tho Northcliffe press against him,

The depth of humiliation, according to an American motor paper, is the experience of a man who went through Messines and Passchendaele unscratehed and then broke his arm cranking a motor car.

Ladies who are disposed to assist the Returned '-soldiers, are asked to attend a meeting in the Town Hall supper room, at 8 o'clock next Wednesday evening. The chief business is to make arrangements for catering at the forthcoming Returned Soldiers' Association Ball.

Mrs. Drew, who has succeeded Miss Bear in the proprietory., and management of the highly-popular Hautapu Tea Rooms, in Station Street, notifies that it will be her endeavour to maintain the dainty and efficient service these rooms are noted for. More attention will in future be paid to provide a liberal daily luncheon.

In his address at the Bank of New Zealand meeting on Friday, "■ Mr H. Beauchamp stated the number of women cl.erks employed .by the. institution totalled 326. Though in most cases the area of this work is circumscribed, they fare 'doing useful and efficient work in their , sephcres. , . ~;• .. -,

An Auckland importer ; was ■ asked a few days ago to state how the cost of builders' materials' and hardware generally at the present, time etompared with their cost of pre-war times. "You will be within the mark, 1 ' he replied, •" in saying that there has been an all-round rise of 500 per cent. In some instances, the increase has been even greater."

At a fire in a second-hand clothingshop in Sydney on Friday last four persons were suffiocated. After the fire £2600, including £SOO in gold, and £719 in silver was found in various parts of the building. At the outbreak of the war the owner, Himmelferb, withdrew his savings from the bank, fearing for its safety, and hoarded it under the floor-boards, inside mattresses and other curious places.

Mr H. Beauchamp is of opinion that margarine, the manufacture of which which has been vastly improved during the war period, will be a serious competition with butter tin the British market in the future. Thousands of erstwhile consumers of butter through force of circumstances have been accustomed to margarine, and these are not likely to revert to butter if the price of the latter is fixed too high.

Mr T. H. Lowry has definitely decided to send a team to Australia in the spring, and the star performer, of course, will bo the champion Desert Gold. Mr. Lowry, has again decided to give the net cash winnings of his great mare to the various patriotic funds. The disposal of such will be left entirely in the hands of Mrs. Lowry, and will be used by her as she thinks fit, either in New Zealand or at the front.

It is the intention of the Borough Council to take legal proceedings against all persons whose cows and horses are found straying or at large in any street or public place within fho borough. The practice of some people making use of the public streets as a grazing paddock, especially at night, has become a public nuisance and a danger to pedestrians, and the Council has decided to put a stop to it .

Excellent values in ladies' raincoats, 19/11, 29/6, 35/, 39/6, 45/6 to £6 19s 6d.—The Big Value. House, Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.