LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3416, 21 February 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Special Train arrangements for the Wanganui races and trots are advertised.

In these days of advancing prices it is interesting to learn that a Hastings bootmaker says he sees no I'e'3.son for an increase in prices for repairs. ‘

A medical max}, who is“ also a gardener, says that orchardists handling stone fruot with any sign of ripe rot or brown spot should be careful, for it is highly poisonous.

According to the latest calculations of French war losses from August 2, 1914, till the end of histilities, 18.7 per cent of the officers were killed or died of wounds, and 16 per cent of the men. ’ _

V The ‘Public Trust Offiee, Taihape, notify that all claims against the estate of the late Thomas Glover, are required to be lodged in duplicate on or before the 21st April, otherwise they are liable to exclusion.

A statement setting forth the total cost to New Zealand of the military occupation of Samoa from the beginning of the xviszr to 31st. September, 1919, shows an expenditure of £428,190 5/10. The expenditure for the December qual'tc~l' was £8,586 9/3.

On all the great lakes of China are found flc):uillg islands, which are enormous rafts of bamboo overland with e~al-ti), and bearing on the's-urface of the water pretty houses and gardens. ']‘huy are, in fact, aquatic. farms, bear~ in-g‘ crops of rice and vegetables.

The Rangitikei Advoc-ate is ini'ol'lned that the Glen Murray sheep station, comprising sonic 5000 acres, has 11".)-' Gently changed hands. The t.ransact*ion was on a cash basis, the price, including stock, being in the vicinity of £70,000. The purchasers me well knowxl Tarallaki sheep farmers.

At the Egmont Show this week .\l': J. J. Bryce"s hunting mare, Twilight, had splendid victories. Yesterday she had a double win, being awarded first "prize in the open hunter ’s eompetition, ‘and taking 100 guineas as the prize money, and also getting first in the ladies’ hunter. In "the latter event Twilight was riduen by Miss Bryce, who had quite I'ecoV'ered from the accident which she suffered at the Woodville Show last month.

“The whole thing in municipal enterprise is money. With money you can do anything,” said Mr A. D. Ford, Mayor of Riccarton, when rnembors of the Borough Council asked him what he had particularly noticed while in Ausctralia. In the Commonwealth, said Mr Ford, -the acuthorities thought nothing of -spending £IOO,OOO, or oven £300,000, upon a scheme that was considered worth while. There was evidently plenty of money in Australia. One bank manager had said that the prosperity of the country was artificial, but it was \'(‘l'y marked at any rate.

The ignorance of the public gel,lvr—ally as to the Aliens egistration Act was commented upon at the Police Court. in Auckland, where the wife of 8. native of France was S-ummoned for t'ni]ing to register. As is frequently the ease, the circumsflaxlces were revealed when 9. passport to leave New Zeuland was applied for. In this case thg defence was that, though the woman’s husband was an alien. but had been naturaliseil, she herself was an English Woman. In entering the conviction and ordering‘ the costs to be paid, His Worship emphasised that these circumstances did not obviate the the necessity of registration. A fallacy which from recent Court happenings was all too common.

“I lwlieve that the price of woollen j_;‘oo<,ls is a scandel,” remiarked Lieut-enant’-Coloned G.| Mitchell, 1\1.P., during :1 <-,ompliment'al'y function at VVellingfon Souflx, “and I fllink.the Goverllment shoud step in and protect the }uu..glw;](x”' 'Wlle{ther iorofiteemiiig \lrwas going on 01' not, he said, did not matter, so much as the fact That the people believed that such was the case, He instanced having bought some kniffing WOOI all 14/ per lb, and this (',OSf. only 1/6 to the farmer. “\Vho gets the difference?” he asked. “It is high time,” he urged, “that some commission was ;et up by the Government .'0 p"()p(*r'j.' ;_j;e into the question. " Li(FlltL'll‘.l]lt-COIOIIOI IV[itelle]l also suggested that consumers’ committees mighf; be formed, similarn to those in Paris, which had brought down the price of foodstufi’-s 50 per cent. w.i’L'hin a Week.