LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Mayor said at the last meeting of the Feilding Borough Council that the buildings authorised in the borough for the last four weeks aggrega’rc<] £IO,OOO in value.

There has been quite a. cold sn=aP in Dunedin. Fourteen degrcsc 01’ I"1'0-3'5 Ilzwe been registered in the suburbs» and on several nights pal'Eicularl'y low readings of the barometer have ‘DOOII recorded.

It is reported that M»u.jor A-_ HWilkifi‘, of Ollfilmllo, who has zll'l‘lVod back in the Dom'l‘nion, is to be nsliod tc allow himself to be nominated as 51 candidate for Tzlumarunui sent. at the ;;o'1101‘:1l ouoction.

The meeting 01‘ the Borough Council lagt night was :1 pl'otracte(l one. The Mayor took the chair at 7.30, and it was 10.30 before the adjournment W 35 moved. The agenda paper Was 3 lrngthy one and there was a long dis‘ Cflssion on the question of asphalt and concrete in the loan proposal and th'e situation in regard to the water SUD‘ ply of the borough reports of Which will appear in :1 future issuc_

New Zoalanclers who have visited London rare usually zisltonishod at the ‘enormous amount of vehicular tx‘ilfl‘io on the main streets, principally in the Strand, Piccadilly‘ Circus, Ludgate, across Waterloo, Westminster, Blackfriars, and London B‘l-idges. It is sfiated, however, that in this respect the busiest part of -London is at Hyde Park corner. Ii; is officially stated that at this spot no less than 35,346 vehicles passed the corner in twelve hours.

'l‘hc..follo\ving vessels will be within wireless range to-night:—-Mokoia. and Rona. ’

Tenders are ‘invited for the erection of St_ Margaret’s Parish School, to be addressed to the Vicarage, on or before ‘August 31. Plans axgd specifications are to be seen at the Vicarage.

During the hearing of a by—;a\v case at ttie Wanganui Mélgistrate’s Couzt the magistrate asked the defendant, a, youth aged 19, what wages he was getting. The youth replied he was employed at the Imlay Freezing Works and was getting £4 10/ a Week.

Sir James Allen asked the Returned Soldiers’ Association deputation which waited upon him some two weeks ago for 2. statement :0? those ma.tbe.rs in respect of which the Association proposed to make claims for retrospective treatment. He stated: that he wished to consider this in conjunc.ti.on with the war gratuities. The statement has now been supplied, and will be considered when the estimates of the cost of the claims have been preparzed. It is understood that when this has been done, Cabinet will be in .a position to arrive at a. final decision regwarding War gratuities.

Replying to rum-o.urs in Wellington, Sr James Allen say-5; “It seems to me that personal wishes must be put aside and everyone, politicians and others, should render whatever services they are capable of to bring about peace, eo.ntent.ment, and prosperity. The suggestion that I am intent on becoming the leader of a new political party is entirely without foundation. There appears to be a. very general feeling throughout the country" that every effort should be made to secure a strong Government, and with this I am i.n entire accord!’

That the butchers, like the public, are not anxious to deal in frozen :11-Lat, is clear from statements znadeat the last Westfield fat" steel: ’ sale’, states the Auckland Sta-r. - ' The big e firms operating in "the «city 1;2.1*:>. doilzg xfery little in this t"wa‘y,"-‘and lik-§fw'aso the smaller man -is keeping off as much as possible, both‘ knowing the reluctance of" the public to v'acce‘p.-, frozen ::~.0a.t when the" fresh "article is available. There is another point, however, and one which influences them more than any other. L It is this, that in accepting the frozen meat the butchers are left short of tongues, brains, etc., for these small goods are not forthcoming with frozen meat. '

F The question of providing a restlroom in Taihapc for the convenience lol‘ ladies and children was brought up lat the Borough Council meeting last !night by Cr. Reid who inquired what ‘had “been done by the Mayor in the matter. His .W-orship stated that the cloak-room in the Municipal Chambers would be suitable for the purpose, but Mrs Boyd, who was taking great interest in the movement was dissatisfied wnith the idea of having to share this room with those people who used the Town Hall for social purposes. The latter contingency was’ inevitable_ The Mayor tried to find a Way out of the difliculty, and decided to offer the room set apart for the exclusive use of the Mayor, and there was every prospect that apartment would be turned into a ladies’ rest-room in the near future.

Some of the cartoons in the French comic and other papers with reference to the Ameriezins’ share in the war are calculated to scratch jyretty deeply, so much so that the French censorship has stepped in and seized more than one of the offending issues. One ‘of the eartoons showed 9. huge German bully risen tohis feet again on the right side of the Rhine, and facing fl. tiny French soldier on the left bank, with distant fiamniy in the background, comforting the latter in the words: “Don't mind him, friend; If he attacks you ag‘a,ill I’ll fly to your rescue. after two and a-half years.” A Second cartoon pictured the mob in Berlin changing its limito on the wall from “Got-t mit uns” to “Will——mili uns,” and a t.hi;r(l_ described the American troops homeward bound was “not having .to fight to be victorious.”

American papers publish a. statement by Mr Frank ‘L. Polk, which is interesting as evidence of the ciforts made to stir up suspicion between America and Britain. Mr Poll: is repol't»ed to hzwe elinracterised is -absurd and mischievous ‘J! published story of 3- possible British‘ ‘mamdate over (‘Me-xico. He said that such a suggestion had never been made. el\:e/ept, in several newspapers end that no such mzindatc had ever been contemplated. Mr Polk saidthat under the provision of .the covenant of the League. of Nations there was no provision for mandates except for German colonies, and for partß Of the Turkish Empire. From this it Would uappcar that there"ebuld- also he no foundation for the stories printed some time ago to the effect that the United Sates Governmenhmight be asked to fake a mandate for Mexico from the League of Nations. A .

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An American who is an engineer in ’big mines in Peru, writing to a friend in Feilding says:-—"We are all jubilkiant here to-day, as last night. we were ‘able to catch a Japanese thief who had been working hand and hand with the Germans,‘ and who has also been a. thorn in our flesh for years. He owned a barber shop in the native village, and when we tried to run him out the Japanese Minister himself sat into the game, and blocked us. Now that We have caught him with several hundred dollars’ worth of stolen goods, I can see his finish. Banzai! I presume that, as a New Zcalander, you will shed no tears over his fate.

“The position in Australia is perhaps even worse than it is in New Zcaland,’f said a Christchurch businesg man when discussing the ship« ping problem this Week_ “The freezing works in Australia are practically full of meat, frozen rabbits, and dairy produce, with a new freezing season just about to commence. The Australian freezing companies argue that, in view of the rear approach of the new season, and of the fact that. unlike the New Zealand freezing companies, do not ‘require any payment on account of meat in store, their Works should be relieved before New -Zeaiand receives any considerable amount of tonnage.’

Speaking of profiteering Lieut.-Col_ Wilson, who returned to Napier from the front last week, states that rabbits were being retailed in London at 35 and 3s 6d. -VVhen the Food Controller ordered that rabbits be retailec‘. at 9d each, ‘it became impossible immediately to procure one in the city. The trappers and killers immediately stopped Work. It Was common talk in London that those in.control of the fisheries in the North Sea had advised th_e__Govel-nment that as soon as the sea was opened again the harvest woul_djbe‘s‘o' great that the; trade -would not be able to handle thefish with the existing appliances. ‘ The ‘Government Were Aasked"to _make better arrangerncnts, but: that was never done. When‘ the .trawlers_ returned, expectations were more than realised" Fish by the hundreds of tons could not_be'handl—_ ed. . Rather thansell t-hem cheaply the owners allowed them ‘to rot and they were ultimately sold as manure. .