LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3466, 21 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fruits, sweets, cufflowers and pofplants can always -be obtained fresh at Mrs Muncaster’.s' shops, in Stil’€ioll Street. A special feature is made Of flowers and pot-plants, and of all fruits in season.

At the meeting of the Hospital Board at Wanganui the chairman for the ensuing two years was elected. There was only one nomination, that of the retiring chairman, Mr B. P. Lethbridge, who was unanimously elected.’ »

Seven prosecutions under the Profiteering ‘Act have been authorised by Mr Massey as president of the Board of‘ Trade. The articles‘ concerned in the cases include milk, ciga/I‘€tt€'S‘, Vaseline, and the defendants are distrifbuted in towns outside Wellington.

‘An advertiser wants a cow that has just calved, or is about to calve.

At the meeting of the Waimarino A. P.H. and 1. Association on Saturday evening, a rough balance-sheet submitted showed a. profit of £74 6/9 on the yearfs operations.

The adjourned general quarterly meeting of the members of the Taihape Chamber of Commerce is to be held in the Fire Brigade Hall on Monday next, 26th April, at 8 p.m. As the business is of exceptional import.ance it is hoped all members will be present.

Sir Auckland .Gedde§, interviewed on his arrival in New York on Sunday stated that Britis-hers not domiciled in Ireland ought to stand aside and leave those living there to solve their own problems. It would also be helpful if thlose in other parts of the world, not Britishers, but interested in Ireland, would do likewise.

‘At Waihao Downs on Saturday, two youths, brothers named Milne, xvére successively attacked by a Jersey bull. The elder, aged 17, was gored in the abdomen, thigh, and back; the other Was tossed, and suflered a dislocated collarbone-. Both lads are in hospital, and are progressing‘ towards recovery. The bull has been destroyed.

Every shooting season a number of so-called sportsmen make it a practice to shoot wild duck for the market, consequently many sanctuaries have been greatly depleted, Offenders are prosecuted when detected, but the unsportsmanlike practice continues. In order to give wild ducks an opportunity to multiply, this season will be a closed one in the Auckland district, for this particular class of game.

Exceptionally heavy traflic is expected over the railway between Frankton Junction and Rotorua during the visit of the Prince of Wales to the thermal regions; and in order to: cope with it large H.B. engines, which have a running weight of 87 tons, will be used on the trains. An engine of the class named is being used on the line at present in" order that the drivers may become accustomed to them. It is not gcneially known that a per-_ son may be married without :1 wedding ring, and marriages‘ have actually been “soienmised” without the ring. Twice Mr F. Evans, the Clll-istchurch Registra‘r, has “hitched” a couple ‘;vithout: the c.onventiona.l cirelet. In one case,‘ when he asked for the ring, the bride‘ .-':1i(1 she had :1. religious objection toi the use of it, and as there was nothing in the Marriage Act about wedding. rings, the ceremony had to proceed.

During an action for possession of :1 tenancy at the Wanganui Court on Tuesday, the defendant stated that he had six children. He had tried to get rooms, but no one would take him in. The Magistrate remarked that defendant had received plenty of notice, and he should have endeavoured to buy :1 house, as he must have known there was not :1 possible chance of renting; one in Wanganui at the present time. An order was made to give up possession ef the premises within twenty-one days.

.What a Wairarapa paper stigmatises as‘ “a regrettable sight,” Was witnessed at Carter-ton when several youths were observed playing “twoup” in a main street at Carterion. It was stated to a “Times” representative that “two~l1p" schools flourish in and around the vicinity of Wellington. Each Sunday a large number -of young men journey a short distance from the city where the illegal game is played. The “school” referred to is said to be well organised and paid scouts are placed on vantage points to watch for the police.

‘Wellington traders have been much exercised in mind as to what is to be con.<idere«.l “:1 reasonable rate of commercial profil", ” us defined in section 32 of the Board of Trade Act in connection with profiteering. Until a. ruling on the subject has been given by the Supreme Court or by the Government through the Board of Trade,

it is presumed that a recent British lofficial opinion on the point will stand. !“If a trader sells at the current mar’ket price, notwithstailding that such 'price is higher than that o‘rigina.lly ‘paid for the article, then‘ that is not i v_n-ofiteering.’ 1

Wax matches are practicably unobtuinable in Christchurch. Grocers and tobamonists have exhaustéa their supplies, and cannot replenish them. At present there is no prospect of adequate supplies‘ coming forward. A manufacturing firm in VVellington, the only one in New Zealand ,is rationing clients. It seems to {follow the policy of sending supplies to different towns in rotation, and Christchurch-just now is out of ‘the running. A grocer explains the shortage by explaining that much of the ingredients of Wax matches comes from Germany, and as that supply hale been stopped, a shortage is the result. Austra-lien firms. have made an effort to supply the ing gradient, but as they hardly can meet‘ the demand. in .the‘—_ Commonwealth} very little is coming ‘to New Zcaland. I

A first-class Jersey cow, in full profit, is offered for sale in. 0111- advertis-_ ing columns’. The adjourned meeting of the Rovers Hockey Club will be held in the Fire Brigade Hall this evening at 8 o’clock. - A first offender who was charged at‘? the Court this morning with being Jrunk, failed to appear, and'~v's7§s‘ fined the amount of his bail, 10/.

A deputation consisting of Messrsi McNickle, Ongley, and Pratt. are to‘ meet the Mayor and Councillors at their next meeting to ask for a. sum 013' money to be placed on the esf'il'nate.<' for the public library. _

Inquiries in official circles regarding the possible date of Lord Jellicoe’s return to the Dominion as ‘GovernorGeneral, suggest it will be early in August. It is an unwritten law that the incoming Governor does not meet the outgoing Governor, and Lord Liverpool does not leave New Zealand until the end of June.

The ‘R.M.s. Niagara, which -arrived from Vancouver yesterday morning, brought a large English and Canadian mail to this port. The New Zealand portion of it consisted of 264 bags. The Moana, due at Wellington on Tuesday night from San Francisco, has 2848 bags» and hampers of English and American mail on board. The local portion should arrive here some time to-mlorrow

During the journey of the mail train 'from Auckland this mor_ning, 21. child, 20 months old, the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Cl'os:<man, died between Te eKuiti and Taumzlrunui. The parents ‘arrived by the R.M.S. Niagara yesterday morning, and were on their way to Napier. Dr. Frengley, who was on the train at the time, ordered the body to be removed to Taih-ape, where an inquest was held this morning before Mr Aldridge, Coroner. After hearing the medical and paternal evidence, a _verdict of death from -heart failure: isupervening on bronchitis, h

With reference to - the statement made by Major Whyte at a meeting of the Hamilton Farmers’ Uni-on that frozen meat :Ind'l'abbits ' had been shipped to sea from certain freezing 'works south of Dunedin and thrown ioverboard, the allegation is denied on behalf of the Southland companies. The‘ sub-manager of the Southland ‘Frozen Meat Company, controlling the Bluff, Makarewa and Mataura works, gives an emphatic denial and said the statement Was a surprise to him, and’ he could not think there Was‘ any truth in it. A representa.t.ive of ‘J.. G. Ward and Co. was equally positive,’ and said the produce mentioned was! certainly not. shipped from the ocean| Beach works. . i

I Mr Massey’s manifesto, :by which he replied to the claims -of the railwaymen is thus commented upon by the New Zealand Railway Review:—— “Really it is not Mr Massey’s, but the production of the head office of the New Zealand Railways, which sought Ito put up what the Thorndon branch :of the A.S.R.S. aptly calls a sinolae ‘screen between“tlle railwaymen and Ithe general ‘public. Cannot every ‘railway man with experience of the bloodless, arithmetical methods of the lpaper, not Worth half a real glitment lot‘ the Prime Minister the familiar {hand which calculates how a_ sixlpenny rise, spread over so many thou'sand men, over so many days in the year, totals out at some surprising number of thousand pounds sterling? ——they still talk of sovereigns though what the men get are dirty pieces of paper, not worth half a real glitgtering good-as-gold sovereignff And yet. the Railway Review acclaimed thei appointment of Mr McVilly as Gen-‘ eral Manager at £3OOO a year as if} Heaven itself had sent such a man!

’ The swordfish which was washed‘ yashtore on the ocean beach at Westshore. says the Napier Telegraph, has {been bought by the Wanganui Museum fland has been placed i-n the freezing works pending instructions The fish [Was 11ft 6in long, 4ft 6in girth, its tail 3ft 6in from tip to tip, the actual sword a foot long, or, with the bony l structure of the nose, 3ft. Its weight{ was between 4 and 5 cwt. The fish‘ {was evidently a. figlfter, one eye being‘ [gone and several recently healed. scars appearing on the body. Two remora, or pilot fish, were inside thefl big fis~h’s gills, and those remainedl ‘alive for twenty-four hours, The} ‘swordfish was noticed in the breakers! on Friday by a woman and was las-' seed by Mr T. Boyd. With the aidl of a horse it was dragged on to dry land. It is thought that a warm current must. be setting towards Napier’ from the tropics, as recently thresher sharks, a large sunfish, and now a swordfish (quite different from the variety caught !by rod and line at‘ Russell) have been captured at Westshore. I

Smart Navy Serge Costumes in genuine first dyes. ‘Excellent Value. Price from £8.19/6.-4—The Big Value House?;Collinson and Gifford Ltd., Taihape. . _

A lost black and tan dog is a<1?c:~ tised. -for. . - Messrs Bridges and Furber ‘notify’ that they have sold their carrying business to Messrs 'l‘}20111:1s011 and Stephens. While doing so they thank the publig for liberal patroxxagc received, and request that their favours will be passed on to Messrs Thomason and Stephens, whom they Tlave full confidence in -reconlmellding_