LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 11 October 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

..A laundress, also a maid to help in kitchen are =oEe‘red= ihigfh wages .'by Hrs Str-Omborn, of the Hun'fley School, Marten.

It is announced that the Anuwa. Gun Club will hold its Second shoot for the D. J. McLennan Cup, on the Cl_ub’s grounds, on Thursday next, 16th October.

In reply to Mr R. W. Smith (-Waimarino), the Prime I\-linister stated on Thursday that aha iqguesition :‘of ‘the extent ‘to which the Railway Depaljtment can go in providing houses for its staff has been engaging attention for some time past. The erection -of a. number of houses is’ now in hand, and it is intended =to proceed on systelna.'tic lines as funds are zivailable.

N 0 ‘tender has yet: -been. accepted for the ‘erection of 200 «additional workers’ homes in various parts of the Dominion. Some, of the tenders We-r_e abloxge -the price which the department could agree to, but negotiations wi't-h individual tenderers are proceeding, ‘and the dep«al't.me«nt hopes ‘to -be able, to rriake ayrangements to proceed" with most of the Wellington houses (60) and possibly some ‘of ‘the others.

In an interesting letter f 0 21. Welling-‘ ton prcssman, one ofthe leading residerfts of Colon (at the eastern entrance to’ the Panama Canal) says:———“Your boys are still passing through, but not in such large numbers, and we have not had the same -oippol't=unities Of W€lConl- - them to this dynamic liffle burgh. I like your boys. They have always appealed to me, probably ‘because I am British born. They are so independent, so cnnfidentfand so modest. I have very “'l-arely heard a. New Zualanrlol* boast of his prowess——«oh, yes, Ivhave heard him give praise to‘ the New Zea—land Diviion, to which he was privileged to -bvelon-g-—~but as; forfltihe ‘alone I did it’ stunt, no,‘ -never.” i »_. 3;‘

When Lucifer was thrust out of the Garden of Edbn, he set ou‘t. on a search for a soul who would reject him.,For everyone he found one hour's happiness was to be granted him. ‘He had a long Search before he found one. “The Sorrows of Satan” starring Gladys Cooper, will show you how his quest began and ended at the Kings on Tuesday night.

A deputation of South Island members of Parliament waited on the Postmaster—Gener.al (Hon, J. G. Coates) on Thursday, and made a request similar to one made to the Prime Minister a few weeks ago, namely, for »a flat rate of freight: charges from ‘the chief ports of New Zealand to San Francisco and Vancouver. The Minister said he would review the whole position and endeavour to: draw up a. scheme. If it appeared to him -that a pra.ctic~a.ble "scheme had been found he would sub-. mit it to Cabinet.

That remarkxable member of the parrot farnily, the Rea, which is one of the pests of the South Island pastoralists, has been 'fhe subject of several conferences among Canterbury sheepowners lately, and recently the committee appointed to consider measures by which -the bird can be dealt with, passed a resolution asking the Government to declare the kea a noxious bird, and give a subsidy of 5/ a head, in addition to subsidies of county councils, and that the Government give a. subsidy of 10/ a head for keas killed on nll Government lands.

“It has become the custom of poli‘ticians, especially those representing farming districts, to revile the shipping c=ompa.nies, and to clamour for Sta.teowned services,” said Mr C.. M. Turrell, Wellington manager for the New’ Zealand Shipping Company as a social gatherin-g of shipping staffs. The prosperity of this country. he said, was entirely due to the existing regular lines_ Had it not been for the loyalty of the companies in the early days, the country would not be in its present position to-day. ‘He knew one shipping‘ company whose shares had been sold for half-a-crown. That showed what the companies had gone through in the early -days. The companies had suffered great losses through the War, and it: would take them years to recover.