LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3388, 17 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-__. _._..,...._--.. It was stated at the Borough Council meeting last night that there were 193 residents ill the borough who were using the pan system of sanitation, for the removal of which 35/ per annum was individually paid, A special strong effrfrt is to be Insld.C‘ in the Bruce electorate to induce Sir Joseph Ward to reconsiider his decision not to re~ent'3r politics at present. and to accept nvomirmation for the Bruce-sga-t on the re ignahion of Sir lames Allen. ‘ R

Some ra.t-her quaint statements are occasionally made by the departmental form in connection with applications for land. To the. question on the form: “What was your occupation be fore cnlis.tnlcnt,,” the startling ropl," was made by one applicant: “M:ll'ri€‘-1 couple for nine month‘ 1" V

One pound is only worth ten shillings 1115-se days,” remarked Mr S., E. McCarthy ,S.M_, in making an order for maintc-nance in- the Magistrate’s Court this week. A solicitor said that it was hardly worth that, when a householder could not buy sugar and other necessarie}.

‘ Giving evidence in the Magist.ratc.’s Court in Wellington on Thursday, a boot manufacturer said that the manu facture of standard boots was thé only means ofDolVing the higgh price of footwear. ‘Boots were being imported into New Zoaland, but the price was so prohibitive that the ordinary working man could not purchase them.

The Board of Trade met the merchants and the retail tobacconists and an agreement was arrived zrt."between the parties that tobacco in the 2oz or reputed 2oz (1302) tins or cartons should be sold retail price of cigarettog should be 9d per packet. Tfifs will not apply to c~igaret’rosr of New Zealand manufacture.

With a view to securing the equitablc control for sugar distribution during tho continuance of the prcgent shortage, the Board of Trade desires that each grocer will order only from 0119. Wholesale distributor. Difficulty is being e-xpcrienced as a result of certain grocers securing supplies from more than one wholesale firm.

The amount stlbscribecl to the £lO,000,000 New Zealand "Victory Loan has been ill'cl-eased to £8,800,000, stated Sir James Allen, Minister for Finance, and there are consideahle amounts still to come in under the compu‘§»ol‘Y clausfe-s. Should these not make up the whole of the ten millions, the loan is notwithstanding fully ‘guaranteed-

That‘ the shortage of first—cla.a( la.bour for road and footpath Work was \'.'l‘_\-' acute in Taihapc was inllustl~at—ed at the meeting of the Borough Council last night. the foreman statnig he had been trying hard recently to get: men, but without. success. It was -suggested that :Idvorl'i-; ing should be tried as a me~a.ns tn relieving the shortage. 1

Thu Time-5 sfatvs that 111.; \-comm-;-ca7l Admiralty -is likoly ‘to sell the famous two-(‘locker Implncable, if money is not available for ““l)ai-rs. The» Implacable is one of tfie gl-eaftesf ‘hittorical tl'e.:nsul'os_. and -is the last survivor of France's Trafalgar fleet, She has been anchored for nl_f.-my yea-,\, at Falmouth. The main timbex-s are still remarkably sound, and £2OOO would suffice for her preservation.

The Taihape sale of the NZ. Farmrers’ Co-operative Distributing Co.'Ltd. 'l3 advertised to be held on Wednesday, '2l t January. - ‘ ,A circular brooch, having one pearlj missing, lost between Mrs A. Bent-! le:v"s residence and the post oiiice, is‘ a.dve.rtise=d for, The finder if: H asked] to» return it to the Bank of New Zealand, Taihape. I The ‘Railway Department notifies] that holiday excursion tickets will be-, issued from Waiouru and ianter-nled«ia.te stations to Wellington on 21st and 22nd January, available for return to 18th February_ For other particulars! see advertisement in another column,‘ and posters. in A rema,rkable discovery was made[ a, the result of investigation into the‘! death of a bullock on Mr R. H. Phillips’ farm at Hurioa (Taranaki) recently. A piece of rubber tubing, ‘three! feet long, of the type of ordinarily, used'in connection with milking ma-l ichnes, was found in the :I.llinlal’sll stomach, and apparently caused its_ death. About six inches of the tubing‘ had been chewed, and the rest swat. lowed whole. This s.hol'l‘ld mrve as a! warning to stockowners to keep their‘ places clear of odds and ends of -this description. |

How a sporting British airman once had Baron Richthofen, the crack G;~1'1n~a11 airman (killed in April, 1918); at his mercy, and spared him. is told by Count Czernin (late Ausstro-Hum gari-an Foroign Minister) in his book, “In the World W'ar_” “Richthofen and an English aiman were circuling round each other furioully. Suddenly S«i?l‘.‘..'Ul'illg ‘\’\'ellt wrong with Riclltho~ fcn’s machine gun, and he could not shoot. T-he Englishman looked acrossin surprise, and‘, seeing what was wrong, waved his hand, turned and fie-W o-ff.” Count Czernin calls‘ the British airman “greater than the heroes of old."

‘Two thoulsand small papers are threatened with extinction in the Unit. ed States because they cannot obtain paper supplies .If the whole world” were surveyed the number would” probably not be two thousand but twenty thousand. For the casualties» during the past 12 months have been enormous, and they have been entirely due to a. paper famine which‘ {has spread throughout the whole “world. That there -houid have been such a Wholesale closing down of papers in America. is demonstration of the acuteness of the shortage, because America is easily the largest paper manufacturing country.