LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of the "Taihape Daily Times' 7 on Good Friday or Easter Monday. In answer to a question in Masterton, the H-on. J. A. Hanan, Minister for Education, stated it wfas proposed that after a certain number of years' service on th e part of teachers, they should receive a minimum salary in excess of what they were |at. present receiving. The amount of the. minimum has not yet been fixed.

The official returns of the Special

Licensing Poll taken in the Waimarino Electorate, are published in another column.

Among those returning by the transport Tainui, which is due at Wellington on the 28th are; j. J. Doran, Horopito; J. K. EUcry. Raetihi; A. E. Kraiger, Mangaweka; C. H. Olsen, Mangaweka.

Wellington's Central Chamber of Commerce has decided to congratulate Premier Massey on having secured a third interest for the Dominion in the phosphate deposits of Nauru Island.

The Kaikcnni. from Egypt, with 1112 troops, is due at Wellington tomorrow, and the Maheno is expected at Auckland on Sunday with 406 returning invalids from the United Kingdom.

In the recent Parliamentary election in the Nuneaton pivision Mr. Willie Dyson (not the Australian cartoonist) the British Workers' League candidate, polled 1101 votes. His election expenses being returned at £ll3l 4s 4d each vote ciost a trifle over £l.

Taranaki, at the last census, had 5 per cent of the population of the Dominion; it had 1 per cent of the occupied area of the Dominion; land in the 12 months ended February, 1919 .it furnished 11 per cent of the Dominion's exprots of produce.

"There should be State doctors to whom parents could send children and have them seen to for no payment at all; and the same respecting dentists," observes Mr. C. Bary, headmaster of the Mount Cook Boys' School. This would get over a great deal of trouble.

The Medical Consultative Council has advised the Commonwealth Government to withdraw the regulation compelling the use of inhalation chambers, as evidence of their value in preventing infection with influenza is kicking. The inhalations hav e been found to produce injurious effects in some persons. The Government may entirely prohibit the use of Sulphate of zine as an inhalant.

A youthful defendant in a bj'-law Case at the Christehurch Court asked the Magistrate: "Did you ever ride a motor bike with two other bikes on your shoulder?" The Court admitted that it had not) performed this feat, but reminiseently added that it had gone as far ]as carrying a stepladder and a swarm of bees while riding a push-bike. The defendant subsided before the laughter did.-

It may not bo generally known among juveniles that boys under 15 years of age smoking arc committing a breach of the law, and were subject to a heavy penalty. Three boys at Ohakune were charged with committing offences, of which smoking was one. and the Magistrate said, lie was empowered to administer a birching to each of the defendants, but after severely admonishing the delinquents MiHewitt said they had better not come before him again.

The Taihape District High School team of cricketers journeyed to Ohakune last week end to play a match with the Ohakune school boys. The Taihape team scored 50 in the first innings, and 19 in the second; Ohakune secured 78 in their first innings, thus winning by an innings and 9 runs. The Taihape lads speak in terms of great appreciation at the royal treatment they received at the hands of the Ohakune people, and are looking forward to a return match at an early date.

A rather peculiar domestic arrangement was mentioned in a maintenance case at Napier. A wife desired maintenance from her husband, who iv|as living at her house as a boarder, and paying £1 a week for board, and £3 for maintenance. "Then you're not on such la bad wicket after all," remarked the magistrate. "If I make the order £2 a week Vaaintenance, will he continue as your boarder at £1 a week." "Oh, he can please himself about thjat," replied complainant, and the case was adjourned to enable the husband to give his version.