LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A smart, intelligent girl as apprentice to the drapery business is wanted by Mr A, Spence. A meeting of Awarua Lodge, 1.0.0. F., is to be held in the Lodge Rooms on Friday, 28th March, at 8 p.m. The Main Trunk Express arrived in Auckland half an hour late on Saturday morning. The delay was due to one of the tablet porters being asleep. The Masterton Peace Celebration Committee has set out to collect £SOO by voluntary contributions in order to finance the celebrations, British statistics in New York show that in December last an average of 10 innocent babies w-ere being christened “Pershing’;’ every day. A youth who was charged at Acton (London) with being an absentee from the Army gave his age as 18 years and said that he had done four years’ service, Mr. J. J. Bryce’s hunter, Twilight, won the open jump at the Hunterville sports on Wednesday. Mr. J Brice’s Bill was placed second and Miss Manor’s Romeo third. A handbag lost in Taihape between Carver Street and Beiliss’ Hill, wLicn contained papers, small sum of money and a pair of gloves is advertised for. The finder is asked to return the bag as it is valued highly as a keepsake. Tn our report of the public meeting held in connection with the forthcoming peace celebrations, the name or Mr. W. J. Munro was inadvertently omitted from the committee havingcharge of the sports that are to nc held on the Monday. The committee consists of Messrs. W. McLennan, H. D Bond,, and W. J. Munro, wita power to add

The transport Ajana, bringing 748 or all ranks, is..-now in touch by wireless with the shore. She is expected to arrive at Auckland by daylight this morning, and will then undergo tnc usual 24 hours’ quarantine. So far as is known the Ajana is ‘a clean ship' so she will probably berth at the Queen’s wharf early on' Wednesday morning. The 748 returning men comprise draft No, 224. This ~pa son the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society has liberated 33,000 trout in the streams and lakes in its district—the largest consignment for many years. Becently 2000 trout yearlings wojvc liberated in the Mangawhero, anSd notwithstanding that the motor lorry conveying the fish took seyen hours on the journey, and that tlio day was very warm, a good supply of ice and constant attention enabled the whole consignment to be landed ■at its destination without the loss of a single fish. The Department of Agriculture has held its first sale of pedigree Ayrshire stock at the Moumahaki State Farm, and it is said that the display was the best of that bred of catele ever seen in the Dominion. In all, 48 head were sold. The highest price, 58gns., was paid by Mr. P, Mills, of Hawera, for Ayres 111., whilst Mr M, Lawton, of Waiuku, paid 56 gns. for Dominion Fenwick Maggie. The average for the 48 head, which included a large number of calves, was 20gns. It was stated in a sheep worrying case at Fcilding that during the summer months, when hording fat sheep, a local drover received in payment from £3O to £32 per month. Examined regarding the values of dogs, an export witness declared that a real good leading dog was worth £2O ana a good forcer (“a quiet worker behind the sheep?) from £l2 to £ls. Counsel retorted that a a sale of sheep dogs in Fcilding last Friday the animals brought from £1 10s to £3. "Then they wore not much good,” was the instant reply. A South Island visitor had offer d £2O for a Fcilding leading dog, was another statement by a witness. The “Wanganui Herald,” says; “The past season has been one of the best oii record for grass, and the settlers cannot recollect such a phenomena? yield. Pew people seemed to bother about harvesting the seed, but apparently a couple of men in the Taihape district “got busy” with great success It is recorded that in seven weeks’ time they filled 110 bags with cocksfoot seed. The estimated value of the saving is £450 in its present state, but when it has been put through the seed-cleaning machines, the value will be augmented by another £l5O, so teat the seven weeks ’ earnings will approximate £6OO.

Dr. A. G. Jones, D.D.S., L.D.S., Is practising his profession as dentist surgeon, with Mr. CTKccfe, Finch Buildings. Notice is given by advertisement that Mr Peter Fitzhc.rbqrt Toomey has been appointed Banger and Poundkeeper for tho Borough of Taihape, in place of Mr Eobert Savill, resigned. For employing a boy nine years of ago, and paying him less than tim award rate of wages (£3 per week). Hubert Nicholls, an Auckland mliK vendor, has been fined £3 and costs. and warned that if he repeats the offence ho will be mulcted in a £lO penalty. Complaints have recently been made to tho inspector of footwear, who is an officer of the Labour Department, that some New Zealand manufacturers age marketing a product that contains an excess of glucose. This substance is said to give inferior leather the appearance but not the quality of durability* The department is making investigations, and steps may be taken to proetet the public against possible deception. A cyclonic gale at Carterton early on Saturday morning stripped fruit trees and blew down sheds. A house was being removed from one stree? to another, and the contractor had on Friday shifted half the building to the new site, placing it on concrete piles. When t he gale began at two o’clock on Saturday morning the contractor had a look round the building, which was'then ntact. A few hours later the roof was two hundred yards away and the walls had collapsed. The strength of the gale is indicated by flic fact that the roof was lifted over telephone wires, some of which werr broken, and then deposited in cwo sections in different paddocks.

Groat interest was shotvn by those who welcomed the draft of returning soldiers a An ickland on Saturday in the 30 -war brides, who accompanied their husbands, and the .12 babies, whoso ages (range from a Ifew weeks to one year. One baby was born at sea on March 3, and was named after the captain of the ship. The wives, several of whom looked very young and shy, are of a goo/d type. A number of them spoke gratefully of the welcome New Zealand had given them. “Wc had hoard all kinds of rumours,” said one, “and I’ll admit some of us were a bit uneasy when we wore told you wou|d throw eggs at us, but cur reception at Wellington was so kind wo didn’t wqrry about Auckland.

Eleven little epidemic orphans came before the Auckland JuveuTe Con:* on Monday as children having no means of subsistence. There svero four families concerned, and the several children had been thrown suddenly on the goodwill of relatives by the breadwinners of the families being stricken down by influenza." The relatives*, having found the added burden too great, applied for relief to the authorities, with the result that these children formally came before the Court, and after the circumstances had been stated in evidence, the children wers formally committed to industrial schools, but permitted to board on? with their relatives, who thus bccam~ entitled to the State allowance for the keep of epidemic orphans.