LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A loco or hauler—driver desires Work 0 hereabout. -

A cow or heifer, at drop, is advertised for by Mr H. Dean, Ohakune.

Artistic pictm-e—framing, highestclass Wm-k. and best material, at lowest possible prices, is advertised by H. F. Strong, the picture. artist, opposite the (‘Eretna Hotel.

A traveller in Central Otago''' hears wonderful tales of cheques made by rabbiters these days. One man is employing a lad from town to help him. "He gives the lad £6 a. week and found. The 1-abbiter’s cheque runs from £4O to £SO a fortnight, leaving him a. handsome return from his lab'ou'r. Three pounds per day is considered 3. very ordinary return for a abbiter.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, on Sa.tul'da.y conducted a sale of the Fair estate, which is situated in the Kairvm.g:l_ district, on the Rongo’tea—l.ongbarn road. For convenience of sale that property was divided into two slecfions, the first containing 82 acres 3 roods 13 perches, and the second 82 a‘cres,3 roods 20 perches. Both sec~ tions were bought by Mr C. W, Turner, of Kaitanga, the price for,/the first being £136 per acre, and for the Se(','C‘l]d £l3B.

l The .~~ind Star says‘: The Govfinrnixieiit can hardly expect to be conlgratulated on the stops it has taken to pi'ev<§nt the open and notorious scandal of Betting by teleg'l'anl,. satis't'a.etory though those measures seem to be. One’s first fedling is of astonishment that the door was not locked long ago. It is some months since this business flared up int.o :1 scandal, to be commented on by the Press generally and by the Supreme Court Bench. The anomaly of 21 "State Department with a full knowledge of the facts providing facilities for persons to break the law DQ631110 positively comic. At :10 meeting of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club, held at Christchurch, it was stated there were .'i.000,000 fowls in tlie Dominion, and a bushel of wheat per annum per fowl was :1 fair average: but allowing for a proportion of oats and maize, the total requirements of poultrymen for tlie Dominion were 1} million bushels. Mr Mzlssey had got the requirements down to one-quarter of what was actually needed. Poultrymen expended £50,000 annually on wheat, and a suggestion was made that :1 man should he engaged at, £IOOO per’ annum to purchase wheat. The proposition met with little support.

Lessees of railway station refreshment rooms continually bemoan the losses which they sustain by reason of (‘ups and saucel~§ taken out of rooms and getting broken onotherwise going vestray. In some instances the lessees impose an extra cll3.l'g'e of 1/ when Pups are removed from the I'c-fresh-ment. counter, but. this, it is pointed out does not fully recoup them, as cups and saucers cannot be bought nowarlays for less than 14/ per dozen, while the :I.\'el'ago price for a .spoon—--by no means a pretexllilmis article—is £‘~._‘.d. Illu~stmtin;g ‘l-is rlisadvantages, the 1(‘SS«?+: 2:2. Tie Kuitl—-—a cmnpar-.1-tively small room, stated the -other day that his loss from December 20th to ‘April Ist had totalled 98 dozen cups and saucers.

An important. step t‘orw:lrd' in the New Plymouth harbour development scheme took place on Easter Monday (states the Taranalii Herald). A charge consisting of over :1 ton of explosive was fired ut. the end of :1 40foot. tunnel, near the summit of Maturoa. Island, and the result was the bringing down of 30,000 or 40,000 tons of’rock. A face was opened up from the summit to a.b’out. half--way down the slope on the side of the island facing the breakwater, and where the shattered rock now slopes downward into the sea will be the base of the wall to connect the island and the present end of the breakwater. The event created .9. great. deal of interest, and a large number of people assemb'led on the vantage point in the vicin‘ty of the harbour.

An agreeable aperient for laides, Children and Infants is SHARLAND’S FLUID MAGNESIA. Sweetens the stomach. Cooling‘ and health giving. Most economical! 4

Mrs A, Williams, Kuku Street, adverjiifieg-_ £01: -1- Qgmpgnigg help_ for 3a few weelis. .

For artistic picture-franxing, highest class work and best material, at lowest possible price, go to H. F. Strong, the picture artist, opposite the Gretna. Hotel. ' ~

‘Messrs T. E. Thomas and 'Co., drapers and milliners, have an interesting announcement in another column, in which particulars «of high-class goods at very reasonable prices are given. The attention of our readers is directed :0 the advertisement under notice.

‘Messrs Blockley Bros., Taihape, notify that they -have large stocks of firewood for immediate sale-—maire 'and matai—-—at lowest current rates. Anyone wanting firewood -at lonce can have it by posting a. post card to Blockley Bros., Taihape. .

Some idea of the number of proporties that have changed hands in South Ta.rana.ki of late may be gathered from the fact that the Patea. Harbour Board has received notice of no less than 550 transfers since last October. The figures. will include, or course, a. large number of town properties. ‘

According to a statement of a. Wanganui farmer to a. “Herald ’.’ reporter, good store sheep are difficult to° procure in suflicient numbers at the present time and many farms where feed is plentiful are understocked. During the drought in Hawke's Bay large numbers of sheep were sent to Wanganui district, but,now that feed is plentiful on the East Coast, many of these lines have been taken back again. For some months past there has not been the same amount of exporting of breeding ewes from the North to the South Island, but even with curtailed exportation, which was "due largely to increased freights, there is not sufficient sheep to meet the demands along the Coast.

! The Chatliam Islands Fishing Com- ‘ puny have purchased in Sydney H.M.S. Torch for the purpose of using her in ’the service to the Chatham Islands. The Torch will fill a long—felt Want, for since the__wrcck of the conlpany’s steamer Himitangi at the Chathaxns a few years ago, there has been only 11 desultory service "to those islands owing to the difliculty of purchasing a suitable boat. for the trade. The Torch. which Wasformcrly used at a patrol slop among the Islands, is a. vessel ‘of 960 tons, and her engines had an indicated horsepower of 1100. The vessel is expected to carry about 700 tons of cargo when she was refitted for her new occupation. She will take passengers and general cargo from‘ \Vellington or Lyttelton to the Chathams, and will return with passengers, frozen fish; live stock, Wooi, etc., according to the season. “When not occupied in the Chathams Islands service she will run on the New Zealand coast. ‘ ,_ .

After the running of the fifth race at the Avondale Jockey Club|’s meeting on Saturday, and after the jockeys had "been weighed out and ‘their n;ame§ hoisted for the.VVa.itakerei Handicap, there was a “strike” of horsemen, and apprentices fhad' [top the requisitioned. The action of the jockeys in declining to ride was over an inquiry instituted in regard to the movement made by L. H. Hewitt, on the opening ‘day to bring about a hold—up when the weatherwas very ibad. The inquiry had been adjourned when the jockeys took action, and they sought to obtain a. guarantee that Hewitt would not be disqualified. The Stewards’ Stand inquiry had been adjourned, but the jockeys would not go on Without a guarantee. As a result of the strike the proceedings were delayed for over an hour, and the last race was run in the dark. The stewards sat for two hours on Saturday evening considering the positidn in regard to the strike. The matter was then adjourned for further consideration,