LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 25 July 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A garnet bivaeelef, lost in Traihape on Peace Day, is advertised for. The finder is asked to kindly ring up this office, ' ”‘ Addressing ’the ,Arb=itl‘,a.tion Courlt Mr M. J. Reardon avowed that there were numerous instancesfo prove that there had been increases of rents by landlords in Wellington, in defiance of war regulation. As to grocery prices, Hwy had advanced recently from 300 to 4.00 per cent on pre-war rates,

In. accordance with a recommendation of thé local executive of the Taihape Hospital, the Wanganui HosDital and Charitable Aid Board, has supplied Mr. Ix‘_ Swindells, District Health Inspcctgr, with a motor-car. TllO 031‘ is 3. Ford two-seater, and was procured from Mess:-s_ Etevcneaux and Co., Taihape.

Ml‘ E- M. Charters, district repatriation officer at Christchurch, states that unenlploymen-t is steadily increzasing owing to the restriction of the railway service. He Said that very few men would accept work ‘in the coal -mines on the Wet-s Coast, rind that if the men would go to such employment he could place hundreds of them.

Bushfcllcrs are notified of 200 acres

to be felled ajt. Pukcokmhu. Particulars may be had at Dalgcty and Co.’s, Taihape, or from Mr A. K. Overton, Pukeokahu. ‘ -

A seven-rczamed house, four minufcs from Post. Office, having hot a,nd“cOld water, is offered for sale; also a five. roomed house, near centre of town, are advertised ‘for sale. Both are purchaseable on terms.

During the last few years the Mag. terton abattoir has been run at a loss of about £2OO per annum, due partly to a decrease in the_slaught-ering fees, and partly to 8. large increase in the wages account. _

We -are now in. a. position to s’{'al:c that the names of the second-prize winners in the humorous pedestrians class in the Monday’s monster Procession and Sports were W. Prime and F. Beuck, who appeared as “Night Attire.” Vve are indebted for this information to a. reader at Ohutu, which we acknowledge with thanks.

A mean type of theft is reported to have occurred at the Napier Cathedral last week,‘ whereby an "American flag was dragged from its fixing and carried art. The screen had been specially draped with flags for‘ a thanksgiving. Other thefts, such as of ladies’ coats, bags, etc., have also taken place at the Cathedx-ST, the thief’s depredations, extending over a considerable «period. _

The big Union. Castle twin-screw liner Briton, which -arrived in the stream at Wellington 011 Wednesday, with returning -dnaft NO. 268, is a vessel of 10,248 tons gross, and 5154 tons net. She is a stately vessel‘ with two funnels, painted red with black tops. The Briton ma.s_ built in IVB'9)_Z by Harland and Wolff, Lt’d., Belfasi. The vessel is to leave Vvellington aij daybreak on Suindoy for _\'.év.-c:zsi'l-3 (riVVollington. _ V

“How are -the mighty fallen.” ohserves, Table Talk; ,(I\lelbourne).» It is vnot,_lonj_g since the (tEcn)_prourl Kaiser iboasted’ that he and his troops woiuldbivouae in/the grounds of Buckinghagrne Psal-ace. ‘Well, he is about ‘go visit "London, ’tis sa,id—notV as the migilty_ conqueror, but as a. wretched clilprit, to stand before the bar of jus.tice, lana answer for his crimes against humanity. The dream——Buekingll~am Balace. The reality——The Tower of J_.ondon,

Something in the nature of a record was established by the Napier police on Tuesday. A theft took place from a dwelling on the Parade between noon and 1 p.m. and the police Wei-e notified at 2 p.m. Sergeant Cox immediately got busy and a boy was urrested an hour later. The stolen article‘ had been sold, but was recovered and the boy made his appearance in court at 4 p_m., pleaded guilty and _'~,vas’ol-dered to be sent to the Weraroa txiaining farm. He left next morning for his new place of residence‘.

"Peace nieniorials will be discussed at the annual conference of the Municipal Association, when the following remit will be moved on Behalf of Palmerston North: “That the _Government be requested to pass legislation authorising local bodies to contribute moneys from their ordinary funds for the purpose of establishing permanenii peace memorials, and that the Government be asked to subsidise such expenditure as per schedule already drawn up, and which does» not apply to memorials of .21. permanent. nature.” ‘

“It is quite useless blaming the Government. or anyone else, and I am not. going to do tliat, but we hear -that others have ‘plenty of coral, ‘ ’remarked Mr VV. H. Field, M.P., when (as a member of the deputation) he was addressing members of the Cabinet at WCllil]gtOll. “We are glad to hear that. the coastal steamers have plenty of coal. Then, the Governor-General is having :1 pleasure cruise and burning plenty of coal. Still, I am not going into whether the Government could have saved the position or not.” The Hon. W. 'H. Herries said tlrart the bunker coal which was being used by the steamers was not much use to the railways.

“‘lf we did our -du'f.y,” declared Bishop Julius, in a sermon at Christchurch ‘Cathedral last Sunday evening, “hundreds of =social'abuses‘would be swept away.” “The other day,” he added, “I was on the West Coast, and I looked at some of the miners’ houses. We are very angry with the miners; they don ’t work, they get big wages. and we .dou*t. get coal; we are vexed with them. But there is aanother side to the case. These -miners do ‘work that not many of us would put our hands to, and they -live in houses fit for pigs. You say they get good wages, So they do, bu’f. the circumstances they live under forbid the making use of those good wages.”

All Wool Khaki Knitted Hose, sale price 2/11 pair—a bargain.-—The Big Sale_——Collinson and Gifford, Ltd. For Bronchial Coughu, tdke

Wouds’ Ga-eat Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails

The following vessels will probably be within wireless range to—night:—,— Maori, Mararoa, Mokoia, \and Raupelr_lu. ‘ ‘ ' L

Mr. A ‘Spence, draper, clothier, and millincr, is holding a. great Winter sale, in which millinery, ladies’ coats, costumes and skirts form the nucleus of some wonderful bargains.

To-morrow, at the Tui Street Mart, Messrs_ Ward and Co._. will sell cauliffowers, eschalots, onions, seeds, potatoes; also horse and_cow covers‘, per--ambulators, books, fl_lrnit;ure and a host of other useful articles. Cafibage and cauliflower plants are always on hand.‘

Owing to -the unprecedentedly dry weather .at the end of the dairying sea-so-n, an acute. shortage of butter is reported in many parts of the Dominion, and it is anticipated that in some districts restricted consumption will result. There were 82,000 boxes of butter in‘ store at the end of April, and, given a’ normal Winter, ‘this should have been ample for local needs. The effect of the drought, however, has been that the winter production of butter was only about one-half of what it was expected to be. ‘No'but‘ter has been‘ exported» since the beginning of June, am‘: what remlains of the butter intended for export (not a large 'quan~ tity) is to be distributed to make good as far as possible theloeal shortage. The factories are ‘now charging retailers 1/6%} instead of 1/6 per lb, as hitherto, and the retailers, selling at the fixed price of 1/8 per lb, claim that, with a maalrginof only lisd per lb. they are really selling at -a. loss.