LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3429, 8 March 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A xnoctixig of the Taihnpc and District Caledonian Society is to be hefd on Tuesday (to-morrow) evening‘.

All those whose names are On the Parliamentary Roll for this distl'ic'T are entitled to vote at the election

01". f.ic(-using committee to—morrow

'Pim following vossvls will be \\'i‘(hi:: ‘.\‘il'¢‘ll">TS mxlge. to-night: Wawlalia, “fliporo, }.’;l:'eella, .\l.:u~al-oa, Wahine, Kurow. In range of Phnthams: Port Sfepmm.

The master bakers at Cllristchtlrch, Wellington, :-New Plymouth, and Palmerston North have decided not to accept the conditions 01' the Government about bread prices, on the ground that under them they cannot produce bread at a profit

What is probably a rettord for New Zealand was established on Monday by the chief beef butcher at the Canterbury Frozen Meat Co’s Pareroa works, Mr Johnson. His -tally for the day was 37 head of -cattle——a remarkable performance. Experts whosaw the results of the day's Work say that in spite of the enormous speed attained there was not a ‘blemish, Mr Johnson’s care and accuracy being wonderful.

At the Auckland tepid baths on Friday evening, Norman Ross, the world’s ‘-champion swimmer, loxvercd the Dominion’s record for 220 yarls, the time being 2min. 25 2-Ssec. The previous record was min. 37 3-ssec., made by M. E. Champion. On Saturday afternoon. Ross lowered the \vrcrl«_l’sv 500 metres record. The champion was accorded a. great ovation on leaving the Water. His time was 6.44 2.5. The WOl-Id&’s record was previous--13; held by J. G. Hadfield (England), his time being 6.56. H. E. Vcllmer (America) holds a. record of 6.51 2-5, registered in‘ .21 small bath necessitating 21 turns. M F. Beaurepaire (Australia), 6.57.

An afivortiselllont, important to farmers and pig-breeders, appears «.v._\ the front page of this issue.

' The st:lt.em'cnt that -attracted by higher ralfes of pay caTpente,’l‘s are going from Canterbury to the North Island, was made at :1 sitting of the Council of Conciliation in Christcvhurch recently," when new claims made by the carpenters and joiners were consiclcred. The Un'lon’s representative, in putting fsrward :1 claim of 2/6 per hour, said he could assure the Council that within an hour he could place between -10 and 60 carpenters and joiners in employment at that figure.

Describing his flight round the world, Sir Ross Smith says: The day we started out from England the machine was coated with ice; then it was baked by the glaring sun of India, saturated by the monsoonal rains of the tropics‘, and subjected to the fierce heat of the Northern Terrifory. where the thermometer’- stood for days. at 120deg_ in the shade. And yet, at the present time—-she is a. monlnfiént to British workmanship'—'she is capable of turning back in her traclis and I'e"rurning to England! "

He thought. (stated Mr D. B. Seymour, organiser to the VVorkel's’ Educational Association at the annual meeting last night) that it would be a good thing if every member of Parliament, ‘had to attend ~an ec<'onom.'ic class——(laughter)——and if the VV.E.A. could so interest the members of the various ‘local bodies as to exercise a great influence on the whole of their local public life. _ (Applause) They wanted to bring forward so many young men with a sound knowledge’ of economics and sociology that no man who knew nothing about these matters could get up and speak on them without, metaphorically, of course. getting his head broken. (Laughton)

A circular has been issued to all branches of the Farmers" Union in New Zealand by the Dominion ("(0011tive with a View to ascertaining the opinion of farmers with regard to the control by the Government of the primary products. A reply is ‘aslted tothe following questions: ff) Does the branch favour the sale of the following classes of produce to the Imperial Government: (a) meat, (b) Wool, (c) butter and cheese, (d) any other produce? It is anticipated that the replies: will be received in time to be placed before the Dominion confer-ence-of producers and those interested in the meat industry to be held’ in Wellington shortly.

In November last over half :1 million pairs of discarded Al-my boots were offered for sale by the Disrusrzl Board at ‘the White City. The boots: included Army boots of every‘ :t.-rge of wear, Canadian, Australian, (491--man and Russian boots, thigh boots and gun boots. The prices obtained were generally low. Five shillimw,-:,: a pair was quite ‘a high price, and was given for a pair of Colonial ‘mots. Grade 5 boots—the lowest grade-we:-e sold in lots of l 0!) at ld per pair, while grade 4 boots fetched ad per pair for a lot of 20,000. Gernm.-1 l)0!)tS fetched 6d for grade 4 anal 26 for grade 5. A shilling was ;>:iv<-31 for three pairs of German half-\V‘ellill:;t-3n boots with Wooden soles. <

A sensational dividend was glairl at the Nelson Trotting Cluhfs meet’-2-1g last Friday afternoon. Out of 21 horses entered for the Wakefield Handicap (1Z- mile). 14 started, including an aged grey mare named Wairoa Belle, owned by Mr L. Bertett, a farmer ,on which £1 was invested on the totalisator. Another starter was I\'lr L. Reilly’s grey mare (aged) Cloraine. In the first quarter of a mile the two greys went to the front. Cloraine being in the lead until the straight was: reached. Then Wairoa Belle came on in fine style_ and piss» etl Cloraine, then under the whip, about a fin-long from the post, and won by a cuple of lengths, The ‘oral )iD\'oSt€'d on the race was £ls'.‘o. and the dividend of Wail~oa Belle was well over four figures. The second horse paitl only {I small dividend. Referring to the statement in the VVellington Catholic Education Board’s annual report that the penny collection in the four cities last year nearly covered the expenditure for the 12 months (£760 10/10) the “Tellington (‘hut-ch Chronicle (Anglican says: “Our Church has a similar system for collecting weekly pence for Church schools, and it is interesting to compare what we have done with theste figures. Fifty of our churches against the Roman Catholic‘ (four) collected Peoples’ Pence last year, and the total amount obtained was just under £2OO, or less than onethird of the Roman Catholic sum. Our population is three times that of the Roman Catholics; the churches we collected in 12 times more, so that if we gave in like proportion, we should have obtained, instead of £2OO, something like 5325.000. With such an income we could do an extraordinary work for our Churchfs children. Cakes to :make——scones to bakehow easy, pleasant and sure is the work when you use SHARI.AND’S Baking Powder. . 1

it is understood‘ that Mr D. McL 011311: Lll6 Well-known teacher ‘of Highland dancing, will commence classes in this district if sufficient inducement ioffers.

licfu-nu‘.-g to the slxortage of motox cars, :1 P3.£nlcrston North resident who 3:15 rctanned from ‘abroad, stated that if tn; Al_n-er-v'can manufacturers b1?.’.(1 1,5|3U_.(|()0 tars this year (exclusive o'.‘ E‘ol'ds, w11i::I1 are prolific) there wuuld still be a s‘ ntage of 1,000,000 cars 1:1 the 7_7n'.:’c«‘. States itself.

:\. prediction that a further increase in prices of tobacco and cigarettes will soon have to be paid‘ ‘was made by the representative of an Australian tobacco-importing firm, who is travel-_ ling by the Niagara on his way -to England. He stated that his firm had reiccntly purchased a fiarccl of tobacco in America, and the landed cost. apart from Customs duty, was 6/ per Ib., this figure representing an increase of £3OO per cent, as compared with the prices ruling about eighteen months ago. The demand for tobacco in Australia was increasing out of all proportion to the supply. In regard to price he considered that when present stocks of tobacco are exhausted the cost of tobacco and cigarettes is bound to increase, unless three is a cons.idel'able improvement in the American rate of exchange.