LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A. boy is wanted ito deliver papers after school hours_

After a life of eight mouths as :1 jllo‘,wSpap©l‘ udlxbeél and \pcri.u‘te<l 'env~ tirely by Women, the Atlantic City Evening News has reverted to male control. Thc women I'eport'ers and editors, it is alleged, failed to develop a “news sense.”

A round-table ieoxgference bctztweem the Railway Department and the Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners’ Association is in session in Wellington. The proceedings are being conducted in private. The Minister for Railways (the Hon. W. H. Herries) presides.

“We are told that peaeemakers are blessed,” said Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., during the hearing of a case ‘in Wellington, in which two « men were charged with fighting won a street, “but my experience is that the peace-maker invariably gets hit with the thick and of the. stick.”

Messrs. H. D. Bennett, Ltd., are showing a iarge consignment of Down Quilts from 30/ upward_

‘A small brown leather bag that was found on the railway will be handed

to the owner on his applying at this Bfiice.

A London oable states that 400 gallons of oil are overflowing daily u-om the Hardstoft well, in Derbyshire, from a depth of 3075 feet.

Major J. B. Hine, M.P., states that the Devon Was to .ha.v,e brought 1600 troops back to New Zcaland, but owing to the Egypfian unrest these men were detained for duty in Egypt indefinitely.

There is great activity in the land business just now, and farms are changing hands pretty freely. In the Raetihi district lately quite a, number of improved farms have passed to new ownership.

The Board of Directors has announced that the Cunard Steamship Company lost forty-three ships, totalling 389,853 tons, during the war. The total assets of the company -aggregate fifteen millions sterling. The company c-ontmls 01' owns 568,389 gross tons of shipping.

Through ‘d. misprint yesterday in a local referring to the Huia. Ladies’ Hockey Club, the name of the secretary appeared as ‘Miss “Kelsxall.” the secretary is Miss Kilkolly, the ’phone numbers are 219 and 138, and any communications or donations will be immediatcly acknowledged.

“Things were lively here the day ‘-.he armistice was Signed,” Writes :1 New Zcaland soldier f:w\t')‘lll Cairo. “The soldiers ran amok, and one British regament looted hundred of pounds worth of stuff. Gold watches C0‘.11~3. be bought for a fgw shillings a w.o.ll':le of days aftol'\\'al'ds.”

A final reminder is given of the Retul'llod’Soldiel's Social and Dance, to be held in ‘the Town Hall to-night. All al'l'angelnents have been comploted, and it now only requires the liberal patronage of the public to make the functioii a. great. success. ,

“What I have said about the n’l-3'.--chants seems to apply to dairy farmers as well,” said Sir Robert Stout, during the heal'iilg of a. case at ' the Suprcme‘Coul't in Wellington. “It is clear that half the law suifs are caused by noglig'cncc- or st?l'pidity.” Mr P. J. O’Rogan suggested that perhaps the trouble was caused. by "The part.ies'trying to save legal expense in. the first inst:allco.

Prec::ultions of the most stringent ch:n'aefer are being observed at Page Page (Samoa), consequent. on the ren:w.'ed virulence of pneumonia plague in .-‘utstralia. }?~::ss'ollgel‘s by the mailhoufa are not" allowed ashore. Care is also taken as regm'ds. the labourers v.'orking on the wharf, who are required fig. we-.r I'-::sp.'ra‘rol's at their work. At the con.':l‘usion of each day’s labours fhey are '.n.~'pc-ct.ed by :1. medical office“, the rraouih I'eillg rinsed and the nose bc-’ng tic-uchc-d by an antiseptic fluid.

If the Stoi'i.e>t eul'i"ent now about the quality of milk sent to Welliiigtoii for S“:-l() as fl‘esll milk are correct, some of the t’arlners of Otaki are not playing the game. It is reported that some of the dairymen are separating the creavn froin a portion of the milk, and !'IIC_V just" leave sufficient fat in the milk to pass the I'equil'e(l test. The price -‘or fresli milk supplied in the City is Gd per gallon. and if the vendor can extract :1 gooc‘: percentage of fat. he is getting paid twice at the expense of the poor consumer.

Pl'osp'oet~s of reduction in the price of Sliofiiold c.utiel‘y are rcmoitc; in fact, the tendency is for prices to incrc-use. A Wellington ropl'es-entative of a. large Shieffield house whose goods are wellknown in this markci, is advised by mail that the u’rmo_s’r difficulty is ox_p~3:-i. oneod by manufacturers in obtaining skilled workers. Had he 500 pockét Ekuivcs, he could sell them at once. Fol'oign-niado pocket: knives were in this market. but in his opinion not for long, so soon as Shcffic-1d can f:_lli_x: supply the goods. Building iron-_ mong-ery,_of English make too, Wlls. still exceptionally dear, and ‘likely to I"cm:lin so for some time.

Discussing yesterday morning the position of the last. Victory war loan of ten Hilliolis, the Hon. Arthur Myers (Acting-Minister for Finance) st:l.te(l. that since his notification in November last that the Treasury wae prepared to accept volunif-ary <sul).33'-.'ip'ric.l2s, an iw--rage of £400,000 per ulo'l‘:n had boon I‘eceiVed_. so that up (.0 the present time nearly £2,500,000 had been subscribed. The Treasury Department is still prepared to accept amounts,” said the Minister, “but, of course the compulsory clauses will be brought into operation should it be found that taxpayers are not subscribing according to the amounts specified in the Fimzmce Act.”