LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3440, 20 March 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Hastings land agen.-t claims that, during the last four weeks he disposed of property to fho value of £50,000.

In our report of the pl-esentatious to Mr Stevens we omitted to mention that Capt. Reid, on behalf of the Fix-e Brigade presented"a‘."sugar scuttle and tongs.

An Order-in-Council has been issued prohibiting the importation into New Zealand of Sinn Fein Irish Republic Brotherhood badges, and portraits of De Valera, “president of the so-called Irish Republic.”

An extraordinary experience befell a _motpl' cyclist recently. Ho was on his way to Belfast (Christchurch) on his machine when .9. bee stung him on the neck, just by the adam’s apple. After arriving‘ at His destination he collapsed, and was unconscious for three hours. .

A Mast-erton farmer was in town while it was raining heavily. A neighbour co'mmiserated with him on the serious outlook. “Serious, be blowod,” he replicki, “why, if the wheat becomes discoloured I shall get more for it as fowl Wheat than I could get for it for milling.”

A Levin lady had an unpleasant experience on Wednesday at Poroutawhao (says the Chi'onicle). She was visiting a. friend, and when in the vicinity of her frie/nd’s house she was cll{ll'g‘ed by a bullock, but making a hasty flight she gained the house and clmnmod the door as the ahinlal struck the wall within a foot of the door\\'a§'. .

.\ girl named Hilda Holden, who recently figuijed in the Auckland Su-pi-enie Court in a case in connection with the murder of an infant child, on being released on recognisances, attempted suicide at Whangarei on Thursday by taking fl ypoison. fihe was ‘removed to the Whangarei Hospifai. Her condition is regarded as critical.

. '.:"iu‘- following vessels will be with’r:= xvi;--“-less; >r:—lnge for the 20th .-and ‘?lst Mzl;'ch:——Radio Wellington: Mararoa, Wahine, Pateena, Megantic, Km-ow, '.\.[amari, Moeraki, Waitomo. For Sunday: Megantic. Ulimuroa, Ku-_ row. Mamari. Radio Chatams: ¢Loraine.. Radio Auckland: Makura. Mokoin_, Arahura. For Sunday: Mokoia, Al-ahllx'a. Radio Awnuni: Nahure, Wokoia. For Sunday: Nahura, Mokoia.

'.l‘he principal subject of comment among dairy produce niereliants is the absence of any furtherintlications to the proposa.l.s for next season. Since the Imperial Government. inquired for producers’ ideas of value. in the event of an extension of the purchase there has been no further niessziges from that quarter. l.ollrlon Inaximuiu wholesale and retail prices for butter now stand at 2/5 and 2/8 I'eSpecti\‘ely on the ground that the il‘.Cl‘(‘{lS(_‘ was necessary, owing'to the falling off in shipments from other cheaper sources of supply (including New Zealaiid), in order to enable the Food 'l\=[inistry’s -‘operations in butter to be conducted on a self—sllppol"ting basis. Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Wellington Grocers’ Industrial Union of Employers, the‘ president (Mr H, D. Bennett), refer 4 ring to iEUbOlll‘ conditions, stated that the incoming executive would be called upon to meet unrelenting pressure from the Shop Assistants’ Union for still better conditions. It is no seeret, he said, that the aims of the union are earlier closing, no late nights and 2.: continuous «Faster holiday. “A recent order of the Arbitration Court granted a. further rise in wages, now making the basic wage £3 12/6 for adults, plus 4/ per week bonus; with pro rata increases in the seal eof 51111iors. This makes the second upward alteration in our award of March, 1918, which was dated to expire in M:‘.i‘Ch of this year!’