LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of the Taihapo Daily Times next Wednesday 22ud January (Anniversary Day.) Advertisers will please not the fact, and make arrangements accordingly.

Still another candidate is .announced for the Rangitikei electorate. Mr. F. B. Brady will contest the seat in the Labour interests.

A New Zealander, who was assistant paymaster on a man-of-war the King visited one day during wartime, overheard George V alluding to the Kaiser as “My wretched cousin!”

The expenditure in connection with the influenza epidemic in the whole of the Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board disTricl totalled £2766 14s Sd, exclusive of a few small charges that may yet have to come in^

At the Napier Supreme Court, on Thursday, Norton Thompson, solicitor, of Hastings, was found guilty of having received £l7B 17s -Id on terms requiring him to account for it to Gotfriod Petrovvski, lanff of fraudulently converting it, or part of it, to his own use. Sentence was deferred.

A poll of the ratepayers was taken on Thursday by the Ohakune Borough Council, r.e decide the question of raising loans aggregating £(5,700, and as to the re-establishment of Ohakune as a fire board district. The poll, which evoked ••considerable interest, resulted ia.s follows: Electric light extension loan, of £4700: For, 111; against, 15. Now Council Chambers loan, £2000; For 53,; against, 41. Re-establishment of fire board: For, S 3; against 45. informal IS.

Witt the stoppage of the urgent military demands, Wellington boot manufacturers have been able to turn their attention to manufacturing for the public according to standardised patterns approved of by the Board of Trade. Boot manufacturers notv complain that Die price of leather has been advanced since the standardisation 'scheme was first considered and the Minister has instructed the Board of Trade to inquire whether the increase is fair.

Something in the nature of a rarity —a white kiwi—has been discovered at Tahora. The bird was run down and killed by dogs at the rear of Mr J. Robson’s mill. At first it was thought to be a fowl, but investigation proved it to be a kiwi. The skin wlas removed and .-drown to several Maoris in Hawera, and all stated it was the first white kiwi they had seen. The specimen will be forwarded to Professor Drummond, Wellington. The Hawera natives were very enthusiastic over the find, and offered £lO for the skin, which was declined. —Stratford Post.

Engine-driver, blacksmith, sawmill hands, navvies, station cooks and others are advertised for by Shute’s Labour Exchange, Station Street.

The Rev. \V. H. Hocking will conduct the service to-morrow evening in the Methodist Church. His subject will be “The Divinity of Man.” A very cordial invitation is extended to all.

It is announced that owing to circumstances connected with shipping over which’ the Kew Zealand Government has no control, the departure of the German prisoners being repatriated, who were to have sailed from ellington this week, has been indefinitely postponed.

To celebrate the opening of their now shop in Tui Street, (next the Kings’ Theatre) and to introduce the range and quality of their goods, the Otaihape Farmers’ Meat and Produce Company will present every cash customer at the shop on Monday with a parcel of small goods.

At the annual meeting of the members of the "Methodist Church the following officers were elected for the present stewards, Messrs G. Darvill, J. StrudwicE" and E. Harvey; congregational representative, Mrs. J. R. McKenzie; sacramental stewards, Mesdames W. J.'Simpson and R. Lovell; “Methodist Times” agent, Mr. W. J. Simpson; envelope steward, Mrs. L Joll.

Speaking at a meeting of farmers at Otaki Mr F. J. Ryder said they were being exploited and rooked on every hand. He instanced wool, for which he said the grower received only from Is to 2s per lb. but when woven was sold at 20s per lb. B'oots were sold at 27s 6d, but hides only realised 2s 6d. Who, he asked, got the money? Certainly not the farmer. Veijy lititle of the {profit went. To labour and the grower was being exploited by the capitalist.

At the conclusion of the Hospital Inquiry on Thursday, the Matron of the hospital (Miss Eellings) said she would like to reply to statements made by Miss Fleming, the late cook, that the nursing staff got the cream of the milk. The matron said it was her custom to have some portion of the milk set aside and skimmed for the staff and not the patients— the cream was If or ttho patients, Milss Fleming said the skimmed milk was given to the patients. This was absolutely incorrect She had herself asked Miss Fleming for the egg s to put into the puddings. The patients were allowed to get eggs if they desired. There was a short period last winter when it was difficult to get eggs. An illustration of commercial integrity has been given to several Auckland merchants recently by the receipt of remittances from a former customer who is now resident in Australia. In cacti case a letter has been received containing ian account bearing a date in 18SS, a cheque, and a brief note to the following effect: "When I left Auckland in ISBS I was unable to pay the enclosed account. This I now enclose, with 5 per cent, interest. ’ ’ The Original accounts had been carefully preserved, apparently with a conscientious intention to discharge ' the obligation when improved circumstances permitted. Thus amounts which have long ■since boon written off as bad debts, have been paid in two and a half times the original sum, the cheque in one ease being for £4O.