LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 12 February 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Messrs. Gardner and Co. require an apprentice for the showroom.

Sir James Allen stated emphatically yesterday that the present Parliament will not be continued until next year.

It is reported that close upon 100 people have left the Apiti district during the last 12 months, owing to aggregation of farms. And the aggregation is still going on.

A cable message fr;<m London says the War Office permits demobilised officers to conv -rf. their uniforms into civilian do .h s oy the removal of badges and buttons.

The time now occupied in the transit of letters between New Zealand and' the United Kingdom is about 45 days, and of parcels and papers about two mouths.

Before women could take reasonable exercise they would have to give up their absurd high-heeled boots, said Dr. Truby King to the National Health Society, in London, He added that in the mental hospital to which he was attached, the first thing done on the arrival of a new patient was to guillotine her heels.

At the Feilding Freezing Works a full board is occupied to the limit of its capacity. Storage at the w r orks is ample, and happy are those farmers who arc shareholders in the company. It is reported that while the lamb is not up to the quality of previous seasons, beef and mutton are very prime.

The opinion held by many people that now the war is over paper will soon become cheaper is not borne out by recent advices received from Britain and America. A prominent English firm states that an immediate drop in the price of paper is not to be looked for. This is emphasised by the fact that the pajter controller will remain in office probably for another year or more. Advices from America are to the same effect. It is not expected that European countries will bo able to export largely for some time, :ancJ~£hoir prices will probably be based on high costs. Many of the mills are still over-sold and are unable to accept new business.

Mr. Stan Peyton advertises four

Ford cars for sale. There are 2 fiveseaters and 2 two-seaters, and they are guaranteed in excellent condition.

,'A passenger motor lorry will leave the Taihape Motors Limited at one o’clock to-morrow for the Tiriraukawa picnic. It is important that seats be booked by 11 o’clock on Thursday morning.

The Now Zealand troops which reached Australia by the Nestor are expected' to arrive at Auckland on February 20 by the Mamari. The naval adviser notifies that no information has yet been received from the Admiralty as to the luobablc date of the return to the Dominion of New Zealanders who enrolled in November, 1916, for the motor-boat patrol.

A representative of Jackson and Cc., paint manufacturers, Wellington, stated before the Industries Committee that he was sure there was a prejudice against the local-made article. Many years ago a local man had made some very bad varnish, and no doubt the prejudice thus created still lingered. Mr. J. Craigie ,M.P.: “I saw a church varnished forty years ago, and it is not dry yet. (Laughter.) If you lean against it you will stick to it ('Laughter.) )

A London man now working in a Tyne shipyard has tattooed on either cheek a snake’s head, which, he says, was done by the order of a TJ-boat commander after his vessel had been torpedoed. The desigus tattooed, red and blue, are 9in. long, and extend down to each shoulder. When the man was taken in the submarine he refused to obey the commander’s order to go on his knees and curse England. Ho was afterwards tied to a bar and tattooed with an electric needle by two Germans. He and 19 others were them turned adrift in a boat without food.

“A big shipment of New Zealand butter was delivered on wholesale row from the Canadian-Australasian liner Niagara,” says a Vancouver paper under a big heading “New Zealand Butter. In.” “There were several hundred cases in the lot, which is selling at 53 cents. The cases consist of 561 b lots. This is butter of excellent quality. Business on the row was fair during the morning. There was quite a flurry towards closing hour. Japanese oranges were the other feature on the row, there being a good * demand for this fruit.” ’

At the Eed Cross Conference held in Christchurhc last week, a * resolution was passed: “That in. the event of the Government taking action to secure control of the Red Cross Funds, Eed Cross organisations throughout the Dominion should be requested to take measures to resist to the uttermost the control of funds passing from it. ” However, the Minister Internal Affairs, the Hon. G. W. Russell, who is Supervising Minister for War Funds asured Punts representatives yesterday that the Government had no intention of taking control of the Rod Cross funds.

Mr. Loipst, well sinker, Hastings, had in. unique experience recently in sinking ,ia well on Mr Thompson’s property, at Longlands On reaching a depth of about 70ft. a considerable quantity of gas was met -with. the force of which threw stones from a shingle bed to fully 30 ft. above the ground making it difficult to remove the tools from the well. A continuous roar was kept up the whole time, completely drowning the working of the machinery. Although gas has been met -with previously in different parts of the Heretaunga Plains, it has mover been discovered in such volume and with such violence

Recently a civil claim in Auckland which arouse'd some public interest, was heard in the Magistrate’s Court a returned soldier suing for moneys left in the care of his lady friend, who had married another returned man. Much was made on the side of the plaintiff as to the callous conduct of the woman, who, it was insinuated in addition to having failed to account for moneys left in her keeping, had unwarantedly broken off her engagement. In defence, she wholly denied the impeachment, and said the aggrieved one had given her authority to use the sums while she was il. Judgment was for plaintiff, wdio subsequently succumbed to an operation in hospital. The young woman referred to was amazed to receive the other day intimation from the Public Trustee advising her that tTie deceased had made her sole beneficiary under his will.