LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3439, 19 March 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Furnished rooms in 3. good, cent’:-a1 ‘locality are advertised to let.

A minimum wage of 14/ a day has been decided upon for the Palnu;-rston Borough enlplgyees.

A good six-roomed house, just out of town, with free firewood, in; ‘.L(IV'I;a3-_ tised to let.

School children will not be pleased to learn that their usual period of holiday leave will not be granted at Easter time. The Education Board decided on Wednesday night that. in View of the many, into:-1-uptions in the school pl-ogrmmzze, it would grant. only twp days’ holiday, Good Fl-inlay mm.-:1 E:as=.%oz~ Z\londay. A pI'ODOSflI to included Tueszlay was lost by six lo flu-ee.

Several complaints have reached this ofiice .a.bou.t the frequency of 1101--ses and cattle straying on public roads. Motor cars travelling at night are in constant danger of running into frightened animals.

The Rangataua. ‘Axeman’s carnival nominations close on 22nd——instead of 18th. Competitors are particularly asked to note this fact. The Carnival is fixed for the sth ‘April, and is attracting competitors from all over the Dominion.

Threshing out of the stack for Mr D. Shaw Lowclifl’e (says the A;shburton Guardian), Mr H. Holland’s mill recently thrcshcd 90 sacks, each containing 41 bushels, of Dun oats in 70 minufes, which they contend is a. record.

The Ohakune Times states: Ten pounds 3 week and found is the price being paid to fencers in‘ this district by at least one farmer. All We can say is that this. particular class of Workel' should have no cause to complain of the high cost of living.

At the Tvui Street Auction Mart on Saturday, Messrs Ward and Co. will sell by public auction a complete butchers’ outfit. Everything necessary for carrying on the business will be submitted for sale. An advertisement giving full details will be found in our advertising columns.

The State miners resumed work at Brunnerton this week, after being idle for two weeks through the influenza epidemic, Which afiected the district. The general feeling in the district (says the Gl-eymouth Star) is one of relief that no fatal results followed the scourge. Through their enforced idleness a good deal of growling was heard among the men, who were particularly anxious to resume work again.

Speaking of the congestion at freezing works, a buyer for the ‘Wellington meat firm told‘ a reporter at the Raetihi Show that an unsually large number of fat lal_ntb-sv were offered in that district at present. In normal times, he stated, he would have been prepared to buy 1000 lambs, but had he Ab';‘.on prepared to open his "book at the Raetihi Show he could__ easily have secured 4000. As it Wis he could not up-1.11-clmse a. single animal.

Householders should find particular interest in tlle proceedings of the annual meeting of controllers of the f;l‘O(':os'y business now-being held in Wollingfton, and will be concerned no doubt as to the statemen-t made at the meeting that there will be no fall in the present prices for at least two years. Further, the president of the Grocers’ Union has the opinion that “bread and butter -lines,” will go still higher before winter.

Sheep Worrying by dogs has become a nuisance as well as a, serious pecuniary loss. On Saturday and Sunday last stray dogs got among sheep belonging to Mr I. Johnston, on the property formerly owned by Mr G. Bolton, near Raetihi' township, and worried fifty sheep. On Sunday morning one part of the paddock was reported to be practically white with dead sheep, and those that were not dead or killed outright. had to be destroyed.

The British High Coinmissioner at Constantinople has called the attention of the Ottoman Minister of War to the fact that damage has been done recently to certain British cemeteries in Gallipoli, and that His Excellency has caused disciplinary action to be taken in cases in which Turkish soldiers were -the offenders. In order to prevent further acts of desecration and to facilitate the work of the Graves Registration Units, the G.O.C. of the Black Sea Army is sending Serbian Guards into the area.

A Cllristcllul'ch retail (lairyman recently came in conflict with the authorities for the third time, and was fined £SO for Selling milk below the standard. Now the by-laws and financc committee of the Christchurch City Council has cancelled his license to sell milk Within the city. The two previoug convictions against this dairyman were for selling milk of Door quality, and for o»bs’rructing a Government inspector in the exercise of his duty—on that occasion the retailer tipped -his milk into the side channel. ‘

To find a needle in a haystack is gene‘;-ally accepted as a difficult task, and one should imagine that to find a penny in a sixty-acre paddock containing good cattle feed, would be equally zmlous. A witness at t.he Chi-istchurch Supreme Court, however, alleged that in 21 paddock of 50 or 60 acres, in which about 40 cattle had been placed, the feed was so source that one could easily have dropped a penny in the dark and recovered it on the following morning. .»\s for sheep feed. witness» considered that the sheep would have required spe(:‘mcle:< to see it in that partimilar pndaloclc. .\ .<m-(3 ::.n{l ;>l.vzl~::'n‘s ~'mwilix- ('o'-‘ moving \vm‘m.~: is \\'.'\T)l‘l'.Q \‘\‘l/"PM mm. 2

A reward is oflfered for the return

of a. grey coat, lost in Taihage on Monday iasfi. ’

All accounts owing to Dr R. J. 1.-‘.u_v(l are to be .paid to Mr R. A. Davies; Solicitor, Taihape, who is acting 011 Dl‘ Boyd’s behalf.

Owing to an unusually heavy budget of cable news .to-day we have been compelled to hold over reports of Magistrate's Court held yesterday and this morning.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board on Wednesday it was stated that £230 was authorised by the Education Department for altera}glon to the teacher ’s residence at Taihape; £2BO had been applied for. The senior inspector reported in favour of removing part of the old school at Tiriraukaroa. to Whaka Road, and making the remainder suitable for use. The Board decided to apply ‘for a grant for a new building at Whaka. Road. The Torere Committee is to be asked to obtain a price for the erection of a shelter shod. The annual meeting of householders has been fixed for Api-i1 19, to avoid clashing with Anzac Day.

The Fire Brigade Social Room was the scene -of great joviality last night, the cause of the gathering Ibeing a farewell social and presentation by firemen and friends of Fireman ‘W. Stevens, who has been an active member for the past three years, and with -his wife is leaving for Australia next week. There was a large attendance presided over by Captain S. Reid. A long list of toasts were duly honoured, while songs, recitations 3 and speeches appropriate for the occasion was gone through During the evening Mr M. O’Sullivan on behalf of the Fire Brigade and friends in a neat speech presented Fireman Stevens with a Mosgiel travelling rug and umbrella, Wishing the departing guest bon voyage and good luck, On behalf of the sports of the town Mr J. Ryan asked Fireman Stevens. to accept on behalf of Mrs Stevens a small token of respect, in a beautifully zbound clock. Fireman Stevens feelingly responded and said that during his stay in Taihape he had’ met the best of friends and ‘good sports. "The kind things said about. him and his wife, with the nice presents would always remind them of" Taihape and district. The singing of Auld Lang Syne brought a‘ most successful evening to a close. Mr and Mrs Stevens leave for Australia‘ on Monday.