LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3447, 29 March 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of the “T-aihape Daily Times’{’ on Good Friday and Easter Monday. The paper will be published as usual on Saturday. Advertisers will please note, and make their arrangements accordingly.

“A man who has 3. wife and family needs £1 a day these daysi” That is what a police constable with a firstclass record told a Dunedin Star reporter. In order to withstand the pressure of the increasing cost of living the constable is resigning from the police force to go rabbiting.

An interesting and unusual event, not as a rule connected will trains, happened on the Matamata (Waikato) Show train, when‘ a woman_on board gave birth -to a child. Fortunately, a. doctor was a passenger, and attended to the case, the scene of the disconcerting contretemps being ‘the guard’s van. The mother and child are doing well.

“This is the Worst season for the dairy farmer on the flats that has been experienced for the past 13 years at least,” was the remark of the manager of the Kia Ora. Rairy Company to a. Poverty Bay Herald reporter last week. Although the number of cows supplying to the factory had increased the supply had fallen off. Even if rain was experienced now it was too late to affiect the supply of butterfat to the faotbry, although it would bring on winter feed to a large extent. The shortage in supplies to the works was 50 tons of butterfat for the season.

The Prince of Wales’ visit already promises to cause quite a lot of heartburnings, says the Wairarapa Age, which issues‘ a Warning. There is just a danger of a litle too much “flummery” being exercised over the royal visit to Mastertovn. -We do not want any of that sort of thing. The Prince does not want it, He is only one of us, as he showed himself in France. Therefore let us do things in the modest and circumspect way in which he would desire. We cannot all meet him at the railway station. Nor can we all shake the Royal hand. But those who have charge of him would be well advised in remembering that they are also one of us.

Prices for this season’s pullets are quoted at very high rates in Ashburton at present (states an exchange); Pullets of special White Leghorn laying strains are priced and sold up to £2 2/ each, and other sales are reported at 35/, 25/, and’2o/ per pair. The latter price seems to be bedrock for \Vhite Leghorn pullets -hatched in September and October and due to start laying early in April. It would seem almost impossible to get a return on the money at such prices, but practical poltrymen state that the price of eggs expected this season, even when considered along with the price of wheat and pollard, makes the proposition payable. In fact, there are more inquiries for pullets than can ‘be satisfied.

As showing the increasing price of calico the Poverty Bay Herald says that a local firm received a sample from England quoted at 14:';d per yard in the Old Country. ‘On March 4 :1 cable was sent Ordering 30 pieces, but another cable was received, dated London, March 11, to the effect that prices had advanced 100 per cent, which meant that after landing and treight charges had be‘en paid it would cost from 2/11 to 3/ per yard at least. The lowest retail price, after allowing For ordinary handling expenses would be 4/ per yard. The order was cancelled, as? it was found that at the present time it could be obtained cheaper in the Dominion, but it is interesting to note that the retail price of this cloth in Gisborne to-day .s less than the wholesale price ruling in En-gland

'.'\',_'Te_tTli-il‘e'dWms'oldiel"s twenty-year-old daughter pleaded guilty. in the .»~nd Police Court on Friday last to withdrawing £4l from her fatherfs Post Olfice Savings Bank account by means of forged withdrawal slips. The evidence showed that in December last, the father handed the accused, for safe custody, certain doceuments vouching for the payment into his bank :Iccounf- of his gratuity money, amounting to £4l 2/. On January 34, his daughter told him they had been stolen. The police were informed, with the result that the girl was arrested. It appeared that she had withdrawn the money in fhree sums of £3O on December 30, £8 on Janumy 6, and £3 on January 19. On one occasion she got a stranger in military uniform to witness the signature on the withdrawal form, remarking to him that he would be doing it for a returned soldier. Afterwards she confessed to her father. In the witness-bo'x the father stated that the accused was his only daughter and kept house for him. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed in; one surety of £IOO.

A young girl is advertised for by Mrs Drew ,of 1:119. _;[:lau§a-pa tea and dining rooms.

Mr Walter Smith notifies that he will not be rc-sponsible for any debts contracted in his name.

Tuihape solicitors notify that legal holidays will be observed from 4.30 p.m_ on Thursday, April Ist, till 9 a.m. on Monday, April 12th; all solicitors’ ofiiccs will be closed during that time.

Messrs Pratt and Co. who have a. five years’ lease of the Taihape Railway Bookstali, have just received word that the Railway Department have agreed to double the size of the stall in order to allow the firm to cope with increasing business.

The following vessels will lbe within wireless range for 29th March:—--Radio. Awaruaz Paloona, Tarawera, O‘:-ari_ Radio, Wellington: Mara;-oa, Wahine, Manuka, Mokoia, Westralia, Ax-niagh. Radio, Chatham Islands: Matatua, Tainui, City of Agra.

Salmon are running in the Waitaki, though not in great number (says t‘Ee Oamaru Mail). A 20lb salmon was caught recently, and several anglers have been fairly fortunate, though the fish are running smaller on the average than they were in the year of the big run.

There is still a shortage of latbour in the tailoring trade, says a Wellington paper, and communicafions have been received by the secretary of the association from both city and country on the matter. The average rate for coat hands is 30/, and as high as 35/ is being offered for competent workers.

A sidelight 011 the joys of secretaries of Patriotic Societies was mentioned at Fl-iday,’s meetin, . I.+‘eilding.. A man who traded upon a (:31)pled arm, because he demanded an advance of money to which he was not entitled, challenged the secretary to “come out into the middle of the road to get the frandfatner or a. no ing!”