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Taihape Daily Times, 14 August 1919, Page 4

doing well,’ ’ appears to be the maxim adopted "by the Ohutu and district members of the King County sawmill and timber workers, in the arrangements for their grand pla'in and fancy dress ball, to be held in the Utiku Hall on Friday, August 29th. The very energetic committee which has the organising of the ball in hand, is sparing no effort to make the function a landmark in the memory of the residents of this district. Special prizes will be offered for the most original costume, lady and gentleman. Special. orchestral music will be provided, and the supper will be quite in keeping with the excellence of the other arrangements.

The French Government have opened a system of restaurants in Paris capable of serving 400,000 meals a day. A model scientific ration of three meals for an average man costs 33 cents in these eating places, and most of the food comes from America. The man who would try to live on 39 cents a day in an American restaurant; as the prices 'are to-day, would soon become so emaciated that his own creditors would scarcely know him. Why the French restaurant can sell a good square meal of dAmjerician food for 13 cents, when it costs more than this

much for a few slices of ossified toast in the average food resort here (says the Thrift magazine) is >a question that several millions poor down-trod-den ham-and-egg hounds in this country would like to know.

The Government Statistician states fciat returns of actual threshings of wheat and oats to July 21st, from mdJowners, show that' so far 6.060,601 bushels of wheat and 5,662,251 bushels of oats have been threshed out. The average yields per acre in cases where particulars of areas were furnished work out at 33.34 bushels for wheat and 42.57 bushels for oats. The highs est average yield per acre for wheat was in Auckland district with 34.55 bushels, the lowest being Marlborough with 24.53. Southland holds the highest average for oats with 46.52 bushels per acre, and Nelson the lowest with 29.41. : Worked out on the basis of the guaranteed price of 6s lOd ptf bushel for wheat, the average of 33.34 bushels gives a return of £ll 8s 6d per acre for grain alone. If at this figure it does not pay to grow wheat there must be something radically wrong with our agricultural methods'.

The Government Statistician states i that the cost of living in the three groups—groceries, meat, and dairy produce for the month of June shows an increase of four points, as compared with the preceding month of May, and an increase of 42.80 per cent as compared with July, 1914. There was an optimistic feeling among consumers that with the end of the war prices for the commodities above mentioned would have at least remained stationary; but instead of this occurring, an increase of 4 points has taken place. Dealing with the increases in individual towns in New Zealand. Taihapc dead-heats with Whangarei for second highest place as the dearest town for groceries, Blenheim filling the unenviable first position, with a lead of 24 pointH In dairy produce, Taihape combs a good third in the list, Wellington being the dearest, and Gisborne second. In meat Taihape appears second lowest on the list, Dannevirke 1 holding pride of place.

From time to time comment has been made in the local Police Court (says the Dominion) on the number of Inebriated men seen in the streets of the city on some Sundays. The trouble is believed to be due to sly grog-sellers, against whom an active campaign is being waged by the police. The ether afternoon,' Senior-Sergeant Kelly, of Mount Cook, Sergeant Lopdell, of Taranaki Street, and Constable Hedgcman pud Shea, raided premises in three different parts of To Aro Flat, and took "the names of three men who were alleged to be dispensing liquor without a license at the highly remunerative rate of 2/6 per glass. At one place 32 bottles of beer were seized, but the stocks commandeered in each of the other two instances were not so large. In one case a stable at the rear of a wood and coal yard appeared to have been 'put to the uses of a "tavern.” The three defendants will appear before the Magistrate’s Court in due course on informations of having sold liquor without a license to do so.