LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3414, 19 February 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Trespa.-ss.ers«on Waiouru Station are notified that they will be prosecuteé after this date.

The lease of a farm of about 45 acres, having seven years and two months to run, is advertised for sale by the Taihape Distridt Agent for the Public Trustee. All particulars Inay be obtained from ‘the Thihope Public Trust Office.

Says ‘the King Couiitry Chronicle:--As illustrating the confidence outside buyers -have in the King Country, the following facts are given. A property of 1100 acres, not far from Te Kuiti, was offered on the usual terms, and after inspection the owner was asked what reduction he would give for a spot cash deal. The pricg ran into something like £BOOO, and the whole of the cash was paid, and the deal c.ompleted last week. _

Mr P. C. Webb is carrying out his intention to return to the coal‘ mining industry (says the Grey River Argus). He has gone to the Cronadun mine to work, and this week will don the apparel of the miner once more. Mr Webb, who is, of course, a. miner of long experience, is in ‘this instance engaged for the special purpose of ascertaining the capacity and prospects of the mine in question. He has been commissioned by a number of Greymouth business people to examine and report as to whether the mine will prove a paying proposition.

High prices charged in New Zealand for products which were being exported was a mat‘ter touched upon by Lieut.-Colonel Gr. Mitchell, M.P., at Wellington South last evening. “The farmers say, ‘get all you can out of the _peollle_."” he remarked,‘ “anld during the war they have got their prices. Is it not, then, the duty of the Government to say to the farmer: ‘We are going to ensure that the people get sufficient at fair prices before you send your products away. You ’ve got to sell articles required for their sustenance at fair and reasonable prices.’ ” (Applause) The Colonel will probably find that it is the middleman, not the farmer, who gets the profit. . V b I _......,_,__3 A fine sense of family honour was evidenced in connection with a case which came under the jurisdiction of the Christchurch Official Assignee. A man who was adjudged a bankrupt in 1906, died, having paid no dividend to creditors, to whom he "- owed some £2OO. This unpaid liability was a burden upon'his son's mind, and be-, fore going to the War he insured ‘.hi'=' life for £2OO, and made provision in a will that £2OO odd owing to his father's creditors should be deducted from the amount due under the policy should he lose his life, and that the debt should be wiped out ‘therewith. The lad was killed in action on Gailipoli on May 2, 1917. The creritors received 20/ in the £l.

An interesting arrangement has been made by the Government housing oflii‘ «‘::‘l's in one 01' two cases for the erection of workers’ dwellings for applieants who are skilled artisans, and quite able to carry out the work themselves. They have entered into contracts ‘themselves for the erection of the houses which the}: will occupy. The plans and specifications are either those of‘ the Department or approved of‘-‘by the housing architect, ‘and the whole of the work is supervised by the Departnlen‘t’s "officers. The Department provides the material, and it is thought that men working on houses which are to be their own will do Work at least as satisfactory as what would be per-f_ol'm‘ed were the builder and ‘the future occupant not the same person.

One of the most important questions to be tlisenssed at the annual conference of the Auckland District Manchester Unity Oddfellows, to be held in Auckland on the 27th inst, is that of the levy on private members for the payment of benefits to soldier members on the same scale as though‘ in civil emplo_vment. The continuance or otherwise of this lev_v will be decided at the conference. Delegates will be present from. Hokianga and as for down as Gisborne. Another big event in the Oddfellow world is the biennial moveable conference of the Order, to take place in Auckland at Easter, the delegates coming from all parts Of New Zealand. At this conference the question of soldier members will :Il.<o be a prominent. one. Nothing can convince us that me people are not being \‘iCtillliS<?d by DWfiteers in all branches of trade, states an oxdlange, All the suave “expl'3nations" of Hl‘. wholehouse liouses ':'.-d the Q'(‘11(‘l‘:llll'l(‘S indulged in by pi")-.iti—-cians are, in face of the facts, Sn rnneh buncomb, If the Government were hom,_q- in 115 endeavours to keep down pl-ices, it could do so very easily, but it Prefers to shilly shally and split hairs instead of co-OrLli‘na.ting all its departments in an endeavour to get at. the root of the trouble. It is notorious thag if the post otfice worked in with the police every bookmaker in New Zealand could b» laid by the heels in a month, and it is equally patent that if the Government would only go to Vhe trouble of Comparing its Customs declarations with the Prices ixnport.-srs charge retailers for goods from overseas, profffeering in that direction would become impossible.

An Otaki dairymans’ milk cheque for last. mongh totalled over £4OO. This was the yield’ of 100 to 120 cowst

It is notified t-hat Taihupe banks will Observe the Rangitikei A. and P. Show Day, Wqlneslday, 251911 February, as '3 Bank Holiday.

The Bol‘ollgh Council invites applications for a junior oflice assistant, wages 15/ to commence with This is a good opportunity to 19am office routine. with prospects of advance. men-t.

Giving evidence in a fencing dispute at the Wairoa. Court, witnesses alssesised the value of posts at £l6 to £2l per 100. A few years ago the same class of posts could be purchased at £4 per 100.

“My daughter has never been happy since she Wol] 3, beauty competition. All the other other girls have made her life miserable by their sneer-s and jealou~sy,’,’ said a woman giving evidence at Willesden Po-lice Court.

The Caledonian Association's Concert Committee has been very fortunate in securing some splendid talentboth outside and local——for its National Concent on Thursday next. From the draft programme we have seen the programme is one of the best ever submitted to a Taihape audience.

The following vessels will be within wireless range for 19th and :-20th Feb» 1-ua ry : ——Awanui: Mokoia, El-sterling, Northumberland, Auckland: Kent, Al-allura, Monowai. Wellington: P 3.» teena ,Mal-aroa, Wahin-.-'e_, Manpka. Susséx, Waikawa. Chat!la=_rls;' ‘Kenf, Rinnxtuka. Awarua: Wai*,ol::-4.

With the removal of the control price of bacon, the price Has, been raised by some curers 1d per pound. The head of a large curing -and preserving establishment in Wellington in Wellington stated on Tuesday that his firm had not yet raised its prices, but a rise was inevitable in_ the case of bacon. -

.“In view of the great shortage of houses,” report John Dunn, Son and Co., Ltd.; of New. York, “(building is now going forward on a tremendous scale. One hundred and fifty-nine cities. show expenditure contemplated, according to plans filed during the month (fiecernber), that will amount to 140,691,000 dollars, as compared with 18,347,000 dollars in 1918, which was the largest amount recored for the same month until the present timed’ ‘

An inquiry is «being instituted in‘ England by a representaive commit-I tee of Government officials and others ' interested in the price of motor fuel [ as to Where t'he profits go, in connec §_ tion with the present selling price of[ petrol in England. It is stated that! petrol is landed in that country at one ‘ shilling and ninepence halfpenny per’ gallon—and retails at three shillings! and a half-pence a gallon. The committee will set itself to discover Who gets t.he profis. -

The bread subsidy in France. is 'a.bou‘t to be withdrawn by the Government. At present it is costing £160,000,000 a year, «and it would have been even higher but for the favourable contracts for Australia and America, which are now ended.- American wheat is costing £5 per qu'al'ter, and the French Governmeiit has been selling it to the bakers at £2. The price of breed will now be about doubled. The old scheme resulted in terrible waste. Bread was sometimes cheaper than potatoes, and agrieulturalists used bread to feed pigs, chickens, and rabbits.

“I don't say I am an angel,” said a witness in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, “but I tell the truth whenever it is necessary. I wouldn’t tell the truth to save my skin. (Laug‘hter.) I mean I wouldnt,’ ‘tell a lie to save my skin.” Counsel asked t‘;-=;~ witness whether his evidence in a previous case had not been characterised by the magistrate as a “tissue of falsehoods.” The witness replied that the magistrate had only said that some of the parties could not have told ‘the truth. “And be de-c-ided against you?f’—“Yes, the other man was religious.”