LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3344, 24 November 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Socialists estimate that among every thousand bachelors there are thirtyeight criminals, whereas married men produce eighteen per thousand. ‘A Press Association message from IllVcrc:Lrgill saysthat the Presbyterian Geiieml Assembly carried a resolution by 155 to 3.4 in faxtour ‘of church un--10!]. - V x . _

The price of flcJ':l—l",M which has been 10/ per ton -below ‘the Governmentfixed prices, has now bee‘n raised to £ls per ton at South Island ports.

“When ;a young man says ‘not ‘to my knowledge,” he is "generally lying,” remarked Mr Bailey, S.M., in reproving a witness in the New Plymouth‘ Court.

“Judging from my experience in staying the other night in Taihape, it is not a. prohibition district,” remarked His Honour ‘Mr Justice ‘Stringer. with a smile, in the ‘Arbitration Court.

Mr J. Williams, flailor, has on View a consignment. of English worsteds for men ’s ware. As nothing but ‘the most ordinary tweeds have been obtainable for some time past‘; men wanting somefhing out of the ordinary should see these worsteds at once.

The Land Purchase Board Has acquired from Mr‘George Rutherford the Waitohi Peaks estate, Medbury, North Canterbury, for soldiers’ settlement. Th propertY_comprises 9000 acres of pastoral land, and the work of subdivision will be put in hand at once.

“Would you remove the restrictions on Mr Webb to allow -him to contest a seat in Parliament,” was a. question put to Colonel Mitchell at Berhampore. “No,” he replied, “No man has a right to help in the goVel'nnlellt of the country who is not prepared to help to fight to defend it.’.’ '

A bold step has been taken by the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Sociéty in announcing the horse leaping cha.lllpionsl}ip of New Zealand to take place at the show in February. The prizes for this event amount to £lO5, with the president’s cup added to the first horse’s share This is the largest sum offered for show jumping in new Zealand The New Zealand championship for hunters will be another leaping atiraction, the prizes totalling £BO. '

“The cocaine habit has developed in America since pi-ohibition became law,” s=aid Mr Robert A. C. M.acPhaili (an Otago business nian who has just returned .fronl_Aml:ica) to an inter‘viewer. “In fact, the drug habit would appear to be the ‘worst of all pvils athxat ‘ghe Amei-ic«an ).'l‘cgiéslat~o-rs have to contend with. Anothcnthing that is certain to do great injury to the people is the awful substitutes for alcohol —thva.t are being sold by slygxroggers. I think this stuff is generally known in New Zealand as ‘chainlightning.’ ”

At the request of the Defence Depal*tnlent,’ the General ‘,Manager‘ «of Railwaysdias consented to provide seats, where practicable, for disabled soldiers travelling by rail, whose dis—ability renders it ‘practically desirable that seating aeeonimvodation should be provided. Discharged soldiers WllO intend travelling should apply’ for certifieates to the A.D.M.S_ of the district in which they resided at the time of their d‘ischarge from the forces; or, if undischarged, the A.D.M}S. of the district in which they are stationed. Although -every endeavour'will be made to provide seats, it must be remembered that neither =tlle 1-ailwlay nor Defence Departments can definitely promise that such will .always be available.

A letter, in which a threat of exposure was made lagainst the petitioner in a divorce case, if she'fai!led to pay the expenuses connected with her confinement, was produced in the Wellington Divorce Court on Fridvzxy. The evidence showed that the petitioner had not been provided with In:lintenonce by her husband, and that after her discharge from a maternity hospital she was not in :a. position to pay for her treatment. .The matron wrote her £1 letter, threatening to expose her story to her piarents in England if she did not settle her account. “The woman ought to be ashamed of herself for writing such :1. letter,” renmrked the judge.

The pl'£LCtiCc of cutting and teless coping mutton and lamb carcascs for the purpose of saving freight space, which was inaugurated in the 1917-18 season, and which resulted in a saving of storag space of 20 to 25 per cent. has new to be discontinued, and ..-e Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Compaiiy has received notification to this effect from the Government. The decision was arrived at in consequence of the Ministry of Food at Home having had to make consider-able allowances to meat traders owing to the wastagje. It is stated tlmi: while the cutting of the caresses has a detrimental effect on the meat, and entails a considera‘b»le loss, the discontinuance of the pr:ic‘~frice will have a serious effect on the storage space in the Dominion unless iidequate shipping facilities are provided. Representatives have been made to the uahtrities in London pointing out the necessity for providing the necessary refrigerated tonnage to enable the position to be met. “Worth five tinies its price,” is what everyone says wh7o' tries NAZOL for colds, catarrh, sore throat, and hay fever. NAZOL quickly gives revJief. 60 doses cost. 1/6. h I

“Massey and Ward may be bad enough, but the Lord preserve us from Holla.nrl,’:’ said Colonel Mitchell at Borhampore. British coal operators are introducing electrical and compressed air coal cutting machinery following the statement made by the trade authorities that the pre-eminence of the United States in the coal trade is due to the excellence of its mining machinery.

At the meeting of the Borough Council on Friday night, an allowance of £2‘ 15/ was made on the hire of the Town HLIII to the Railway 821 Committee, the. secretary of whim wrote that the function was held for the benefit of the widow of a rll.‘.way employee, who with a young family had been left in necessitous circlml-stair-cs.

A very good story has just been told by the Rev. R. S. Gray, prohibition lecturer. It. concerned a man who, when making -his win, desired that a clause be inserted, providing that his Ford car should be buried with him. The lawyer, who thought this a most‘ extraordixary clause, asked the reason why. The man replied that there had never ‘been a hole yet out of which his Ford could not get him.

Germany is evidently not the crushed na.tion, commercially, that ‘she is popularly. supposed to be, but is making a strong effort to capture the worl(l’s trade. ‘A Hamilton firm, Messrs J. E. Hammond and Co., received a lentghhy list printed in German, French and English from a.“ Ger. man firm by this Weeks’ mail. The firm’S knowledge of geography, however, is not complete, as the address reads: “Hamilton, New Zealand, Australia.”

Mr R. J. Kennedy, of the Taihape railway staff has been transferred to Dunedin. Prior to his departure Mr Kennedy was presented with a silver cigarette case by the returned soldiers as a mark of their appreciation of his valuable services in connection with the series of socials during the season. During his stay in Taiheipe Mr Kennedy was ever ready -to oblige by placing his- musical talents at the servies of any social body, and was deservedly popular with all classes of the c'onlmunity. , ',

Things are moving fast in different directions in the Auckland butchers‘ strike. Since Friday a conference between Master Butchers’ Association and the Butchers’ Union has been arranged for Monday evening at 7.3’) and on Saturday morning the chamber hands at the Wcstfield _FI-oozing Company's Westfield works refused to load -out meat for city supply, and are now listed amongst the strikers. Tney number only a few, but nevertheless constitute all so engaged at the works, and consequently the strikers accept ti as another feather in their caps, while a high oflicial of the company does not attach much importance to the diversion. Referring to the profiteering which is said was rampant in New Zealand, Mr Monteith (Labour candidate for Wellington East), in his address at Kilbirnie on Friday night, said the Board of Trade had not done its duty —it was a huge joke. It had professed to make investigations and to act in the interests of the public-—to protect the people——but it was a strange thing that it usually found Work to do in the matter of investigation when there was it race meeting on. It had gone to Christchurch to" investigate. but there.was a race meeting (the New Zcaland Cup meeting) on at the time. He hoped the investigations of the Board of Trade hm] proved‘ profitable.

Says the Christchurch Press editor~ ially:—We notice that Mr H. E. HOl- - in his acfdress at Timaru, stated that none of the Christchurch papers had mentioned the fact that he had delivered addresses in Christchurch on the 1;: ovious Saturday and Sunday. We have previously charactrised a statement to the same effect made ‘by 3 Christchurch correspondent of the paper of which Mr Holland has been appointed editor, as a conscious and‘ deliberate falsehood, and have given facts to-prove that this is so. We still await"Mr I-lollland’s retraction of his assertion. Meanwhile it is obvious that if the leader of the Labour Party cannot be accurate regarding a question of demonstrable fact, the public have every excuse for suspecting the correctness of -his statements on other matters which are less easily disproved. .