LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 9 October 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The record price of £5 13s per head was received for a pen “of fat wethers‘ at the last Levin stock sale

Mr P. Kearins, of Taihape, has been adw-'ised'that his daughter, Miss K. Kearins, has passed her A.'l‘.C.nL. musical examination with honour. Miss Kearins is a pupil of the Sisters at the Wanganui Convent.’ V

A principal in aicivil action in the Alagistl'atc’s Court at - Fcilding on Tuesday was being abadgeicd in cl'osse:;anlination_' At last he ciied to the counsel. “How could I discuss the accident when I wasn’t there!” Magisntrate Hewitt. “You discussed the war didn’t you?—and you wa..<:n'.’t there!”

The local railxvay staff intend ha-}-l----ing a ball igwthe Town Han bu Friday, Noverrfiaer 7th, and'a strung committee has been formel. to make all 11eces§ary arra:2gem,euL=. It is intended to make the function one quite ou‘t of the ordinary, and a‘! the essentials to having right royal time are to» be earefu".‘.y worked out.

“I used to favour day ,labour as against the contract system, but I have changed my opinionssomewhat lately,” said Cr. Donaldson at a recent Wztnganui Borough Counml meeting. He added:—-—“We have ‘neard a lot about the ‘Government stroke,’ but I am sati.sficd the ‘municipa! stroke’ can beat the ‘Government’ stroke.”

On the first day nf school in. an Ohio town the teacher of the first gxfacle was securing the names at her pupils. She came to one youngs-Eer whose father was noted for his pr.-.‘:mity, and said. “What is ycur "name." “Bobbie Hughes,’.’ was the reply. “Do you know your a—b—c’s?”~ “Hell, no; I’ve only been here five m'zlutes!” was the astonishing answer.

Commenting on the recent seamcafs strike, the Sydney Daily Telcgrapll remarks: “Fourteen Weeks ago the strike/, began. It ended at :1 cost in wages alone of nearly of trade suffering, and pm-iv.’-Mon have also to be added, making the L"dnllllZ»'.tive effect such that (even unionists Question whether the result has been J'uStifie_d by the me:lns_ In :11‘. +llO I'n..~:t weeks the misery of unr.=mpln:»,'mout has gripped hundreds of homes in Hue city, am; not eVe‘.l’th»3 pathos of the relief committees‘ wm-k coulrlgive any idea of the sufi‘.ering.”

"A suggestion that the Adolph Wool‘mann, which recently arrived in We]lington, was not a suita}~‘e vessel for the c'al-riage of troops", was made in the House of Representatives on Monday night. by Mr A. Wallier. He asked whether it was not a fact that the Canadian authorities had refused to use the ship for this purpose. Ml- - said that the name of the ship should be an indication that she was “not much account.’ He knew that the Defence authorities were inquiring about the ship, and the Minister of Defence wouldlbe able to reply latex to the question. I

At Gisborne last Week 9. man named Gool‘ge Robert Peacock was fined £2O and costs for playing a. game known as “Rollers.” Detective McLeod said the stock—in-trade was an octagonal Piece of wood and a strip of oilcloth painted in four different. colours——— brown, blue, yellow, and green. Four sides of the wood are painted brown, the betting on which is even money; two sides are painted blue, the bet ting being.two to one_ One side is blue and one :y'elloW, on which the betting is three to one. The wood is rolled. along the cloth, and the owner Days out on all backers 9f the colour that turns up. With a skilful man rolling there was absolut-zly no chance of the punters winning.

“What is going to make a. very big? difference in conditions in New Zea-A land is the very alarming increases in the value of land. Such inr=.l-oases have occurred in .=\ustralia owing to the gradual push of agricultui-<3, but not nearly to the extent of the rise in New Zealand,” said Mr Alexander Maclll— to a Dominion reporter. “In some parts of the country land is fetching £IOO an acre, for dairying. Now, if ‘people are going to pay that for land, ihow is it possible for the cast of liviing to recede, seeing that everything comes from the land? .I have seen it ‘worked out in figures wh‘-.ch cannot be refuted that it would be impossible Hol‘ a man who has paid £IOO an acre ‘for land to sell butter at per ib. Llnstead of looking for a decrease the public must. rather expect an Increase.

A suggestion that the Government sohuld introduce legislation this session to allow locarbodics to expend money on memorials to fallen soldiers was made by Mr R. A_ Wl'ight, M.P., to the Minister of Internal ‘Affairs in the House of Representatives.

There was spirited bidding at the Southdown wool sale at Lewes (England), on July 19, and record prices ruled—-—more than double any previous, The top price was ‘4/5 per lb, cum'pared with 1/4% pro’-war_ Forty-five thousand fleeces were offered and cleared. Locks ranged up to 2/6 per lb.

The Huntingdom (England) Divisional Labour Party, in a_ resolution, “strongly protested agaimt the disgraceful salaries paid to teachers: by the Huntingdon Education Autho-rity." The secretary states there are twa teachers getting 7/82'; a week; one 11/6%; 19 17/3%; 361055 than £1; am‘ 32 less than £1 5/ a xv-291:.

‘At a recent meeting of the local Locomotive Engineers, Filemcu’s and Cleaners’ Association a resolution was carried strongly condemning the omialcs for the delay ‘in sending a. relief train and assistance to the Victims of the train smash on May 14th, and diaploring ~the adherence 10 red tape methods during a. case of great em+;r¥ -gency. ’

A country gentleman visitm‘ l-.)v:n to make’ some purchases. His: wife, amongst other things, had requested him to buy an illuminated text; but in his hurryvhe omitted to make at note of the one she wanted. He therefore, wrote to her, asking for pa.-‘:lcu‘mrs, and got a reply by telegraph to sa\fe time. Imagine the asdonishment of the telegraph clerk at receiving the following:——“Unto us a child is be 11. three foot long and two fut’ broad. Am feeling fairly Well.-—.Ma:-y”

People who have a mania for souvenir collection were 1-e‘spc‘n-.~.ible for the irhemoval ffom H.M.s. New Zealand, 'while"'in_Auoklén§l,.o_f a pair o["i"'orybacked hair brushles belougingito a. set presontc-1 ts Lady Jellicoe. The matter was reported to the Deputy-Mayor, Mr A. J_ Entrican, :by one of the officers of the ship. Theitakiug of the hair brushes, althdugu poss'lw‘:;7 the I'o- - of the souvenirs craze would appeal to normal people as little less than theft. Mr Entrican stated that he trusted for the. honour of the city that wzzoever took ths brushes would either leave them at his oflico or 1..-ut them in the post ?l-’1(ll'e:5$i"1 to him. Another "souvenir," taken by a visitor to the ship Was one that weighed 37.11 b. . -~ ~