LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3444, 25 March 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A fine line of 1000 fat wet-hers passed through Taihape on Tuesday, their destination -being Ngaruhanga. The consignment was sent from Raetihi

A second-hand piano in good order is wanted by an advertiser for readymoney. Ofifers should be sent in writing to this office, addressed “Ready Money.”

A boot and shoe trade journal published in London states that the introduction of the tack-up rubber sole for meDs’s boots (now frequently seen inn Taihape) has reduced the work of boot repairers in London by 50 per cent.

The Canadian Board of Commerce has ordered the paper mills at Ocatzn Falls, British Columbia, to supplv several -thousand tons annually to the ‘Winnipeg papers to relieve the pressure in -the Fort France's milis. The Ocean Company unsuccessfully protested.

A sensational return has been re-1 ceived by a. Wapori mining syndicate; from some stuff lying between the two reefs in their claim, hitherto considered debris and thrown away ‘On concentration and analysis (states a Dunedin correspondent) it gives a gold value of over £2OO a ton The London Daily Mail gives details of recent discoveries likely to throw great light upon heart disease. They are prinicaplly the result of researches by the eminent specialist, Dr Thomas Lewis, the outcome of the investigation of thousands of war cases of fibrillation, of which the analysis and understanding are now almost complete The paper is; informed that further steps giving greater ‘insight into the malady have almost ‘been reached and may reveal the secret of this disease of the heart‘ ‘game id.ea of the very eager rush for farms and other properties there is just no wmay be guaged from the fact that farms are often re-sold before transfer to the previous purchaser takes place. At Te Horo a 20-acre section, formerly a portion of the Gear estate there, has been re-sold four times since the Ist of last September. ‘A "man employed on the railways purchased this property eight yea}-s ago, when the Gear estate was first subdivided, for £45 10/ per acre, and old residents of the district held up their hands in amazement at such a price. Yet a retired carpenter from Wellington City soon came upon the scene, and paid the lucky railway man £7O per acre, and on Ist September, 1919, the carpenter sold for £2300. A few weeks later it was sold again for £2450, then for £2600, and just a week ago for £2900. The last purchaser comes from Picton way.

Since the regulation g3vern=.n;:*tl{e rights of tenants and lamllorfls were so amended as to give tenants the right to retain possession if they could prove to the satisfaction of the Court that ejectinent would result in an undue degree of hardship—~greater than tlle hardship which would be the_ lot of the landlord and owner, were he refused possession—many tenants have been in a rpositlon to smile broadly at the discomfort of their landlords. “Our hardship will be greater than theirs,” they congratulated themselves, “and we stay on.” A decision given by Mr W. G. Riddell, 5.M.., in Wellington, however, shows that liardship or no hardship a tenant is liable to ejectment if he has allowed -his rent to fall in arrear. The det‘endallt, Lewis Gestro, butcher, of Wadesto-wn, was ordered to give up possession to Frank Browne and Frank Robert W'aters by 23rd ‘April, and to pay accrued rent amounting to £9 10/ and £1 19/ costs.

A visitor to the thermal regions seldom leaves without purchasing some reminiscence of Rotorua (writes :1 correspondent of the N.Z. Times‘)Articles made of delft with views of the district are usually carfully packed away and on arrival at hils distant home the purchaser makes the discovery that the articles have been made in Germany. Thousands of postcards are sold annually at Rotorua, and there are apparently many thousands to be sold—-the stock appears to be limitless. These cards with photo-gl'aphs——-plain and coloured—of Maori nnridens, themal activity and pictures of the santorium grounds bear the words “Made in Germany” on the space set aside for the stamp. A visitor enters a. shop, selects the picture postcards he desires, little dreaming he is purchasing German goods, as the address side of the cards is carefully turned away from him while they are being placed in an enve]ope_ Later he discovers what he has done, and becomes so annoyed that be either tours the cards to pieces or goes back to the shop and has a heart-to-heart talk with the proprietor, but the satisfaction‘ is a poor one. » . If you catch a cold, you can ‘t help it. If you keep a cold it ’_a, your own fault. NAZOL is a safe and certain cure, and gives immediate relief 1"/6.‘

A visitor from Canada expressed the opiD.ion. that, the xesurces of the Dominion would make ‘it ultimafefy one of the greatest in the world .

A ‘black dog lost between Taih-ape and Ngawuka. Junction, wearing 3» Rangitikei County Collar, 11920, is advertised for. The finder will receive two pounds reward on returning it to Mr F. Mickleson, telephone 193 D.

A reminder is given of the Harvest Festival Sale and Valedictory Social to Rev. W, H. Hocking ,which "takes place in the Methodist schoolroom this evening. A cordial invitation to be present is extended to everyone.

There will be a special meeting of the Borough Council at 3.30 to-morrow afternoon, succeeding which there will be a meeting of ratepayers whose interests are ‘located in Main Street, to discuss street improvements and other matters. ~

It is stated that a large lan-d owner in the Otaki district, who had 800 acres of bush felled, paid nearly £3OOO for grass: seed, most of which has failed to take root The total expenditure involved Was in the region of £SOOO

Mr Herbert; Page, chairman of the Wellington Brokers’ Association, writes with reference to the cable sent by Mr Massey to the Dil'ector of Raw Ma.terials in England regarding the markeiing of the new sea.son’s’wool clip, and the statement. that such cable had been sent at the suggestion of the Farmers’ Distributing Company. Mr Page states that the company ll:l.I11C(1 had absolutely nothing to do with the cable. It was suggested and franicd by Mr VV. S. Bennett, as President of the New Zealand Woolbrokers’ Association, approved of by Mr Massey, and sent by him to London in the exaét wording of the suggestion received from the New Zealzmd Wool Brokers’ Association.

The importance of completing as soon a.s possible the North Main Trunk railway from the present railhead at Okaihau to Awanui, with a branch line to Whangaroa harbour, was urged upon the Miniskter for Public Works by Colonel Allan Bell (pre—sident of the Kaitaia Chamber of Commerce) and Mr L. M. Lane (of the Whangaroa County Council). The suggestion was made that the whole work should be let by contract with a time limit, or that “the people of the district should be empo-wered to establish a company with a capital of £2,000,000 to complete the line, subject to due control as to the rates of -freights: and fares and to the rights of the State to take the line over on a compensation basis. Sir William Fraser stated that a. policy question was involved, and he must ‘therefore submit the matter to Cabinet, which he would do at an early date._

Some very large sums are reported to have been made by Various freezing companies out of tallow recently. There is an “all sunk” price allowed by most of the companies for the byproducts of stock sent in for freezing, and for tal-low, up till recently, this was somet.hing under £1 per cwt (says the Otautau Standard). Owing to the shipping scarcity, huge stocks of tallow have accumulated at the works throughout the Dominion, and it was no uncommon sight to see many hundreds of puncheons stacked along the railway sidings at the various works. The companies were well paid for the hold-up, as fats of every sort kept soaring all through the war period. Considerable shipments were got away throughout 1919, and the fortuante companies are now reaping a rich harvest. One company is credited with clearing high up in six figures, and with having netted a sum in excess of its entire paid up capital.