LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 May 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thlo local miller? have decided to reduce the price of flour from £ls to £l4 10/ per ton. It is understood that the reduction is due to cutting tactics by one or two millers.

Members of the various Peace Celebration Committees are reminded that a meeting is to be held to-night,, in Messrs. Arrowsmith and Lougnhanj's Office, at 8 o'clock.

A boy, Edward Walter Crockett, nine nears of age, fell from a tree at. Spreydon, near Christchurch, yesterday. On striking the ground he hit a piece of broken glass which severed a main artery, causing him to hleed to death.

Messrs Blandford end Cook, tanners end furriers, of Palmerstcn North, ira prepared to give go >& prices for any quantity of rabbit skins. Trappois find others are thereby given a ready market with ready money for thel* skins.

The Thames town water supply is shorter than for many years'. The engineer reported yesterday that some consumers using water-power would have to be cut off. The County Council,, whose crusher is driven by water, will be unable to crush any road metal.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., insert to-day a preliminary notice of their Gireat Autumn Cattle Pair to ' bo hold in Taihape on Tuesday, 20th May. There ae already 800 entries to hand, arid further particulars will be published later,

Roslyn goods hae gained a reputation all their own, for quality and durability they have no equal. Buyers for Winter Wear should read the adversement from H. D. Bennett Ltd., on page one. Bennetts carry a splen did new stock of highest quality Roslyns. «

Notice has "been received .by the local offiee of the Auckland Electric Tramways Company that an interim divident (ordinary shares) of sixpence per share, less English income tax of 3/6 in the pound, has been declared. The share register of the company will be closed from the 13th to the 20th May. 1919. both days inclusive.

A Thames correspondent telegraphs: Sportsmen are very much disappointed with the shooting, large bags were very much the exception. They report that pheasants are scarce and shy, and ducks are very hard to get at. Owing to the long dry spell, all the rivers and drains are lower than for many years. It is expected when the rains commence there will be good duck shooting, as there are plenty of birds about.

A number of teachbrs interested in improved conditions of the service, and the status of asistants in secondary schools, interviewed Mr. W. Jennings, M.P., and Mr. S. Smith, Plymouth, Thie deputation pointed out that, being professional men with long training and expense, 'they should be ranked and paid as professional men. The deputation represented the high schools, and said the matter "was a Dominion question.

The patience of the English people under their existing social conditions is remarkable. All over London there arc many beautiful squares planted with shady trees and flowers, intersected with broad walks, provided with an occasional tennis court and . enclosed by a forbidding looking fence j Sloane Square, situated in the midst! of a densely populated area is one or" these squares, I have never seen a single person promenading in Sloane Square, (writes a soldier), or in any of the other squares I passed, and, desiring to inspect the former, I found i to my astonishment that the ?ates were locked. It seems that these beautful open spaces—the lungs of the ; city—are "for subscribers only," and a taxi driver on the Sloane Square rank told me that only a few old ladies ever entered the Square. It is quite likely that these ancient and exclusive ladles or the occasional tennis player vLo patronise the squares may have Httle love for joyous and perhaps rowuv youngsters (whose fathers and 'brothers are at the front) who would and should make the Square their playground; or for the tired workman who would and should promenade the Square during his lunch hour. But that the community should tolerate the exclusion of .the masses for a moment is a handsome tribute to their docile acceptance of social customs and tbolr sacred regard for existing social conditions."

Form the good habit of inhaling NAZOL and you'll keer) froo from coughs and colds. Jfiif itCMipence boys sixty doses. i»