LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3469, 24 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Masterton iiarmer sold his oats last week at £ll 5/ per {on in the stack.

There is no occasion -to leave Taihape to see the Warship Renown, which‘ arrived at Auckland this morning, with the Prince of Wales 071 board. A particularly interesting serics of pictures taken of the Warship and crew While on her visit tc Canada, will be shown at the Kings The-_ atre to-night.

I An advertisement giving details of ‘the sale by Messrs Ward and _CO. Of Mr s. s, Timibs’ household furniture and effects, farm implements, s-took, building sites, etc., appears on page 8 of to-days issue.

'l‘he‘Hon. J. A. Hanan, who has been visiting Queenstown and -Central Otago, informed a reporter that it was the first time he had been over the Central Otago railway, and that in places it appeared to be a wicked wa.stc of money.

The Eltham Argus is responsible for the statement that the auctioneering business of Mr Newton King, which has reached very big proportions, has been floated into «a company, -of which Messrs Wright, Stephenson and 00., of Dunedin, are large shareholders.

At :the last meeting of the Franklin branch of the Farmers Union a resolution of protest was carried against the action of magistrates in ordering undesirable characters to leave cities and go into the country.- It was decided to make this a remit for consideration by the union.

The Wanganui branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association has now a membership of 2300 and 50 per cent of these joined within "the past six months. The secretary states that the new Soldiers’ Club, to be opened in June, will be free of debt, and that several substantial donafion.-s have been received 1-ecetnvtly.

About 100,000 small Union Jack flags have been printed on calico by the Government Printing Department for the use of schools during the Prince of Wales’ visit. These have been tacked on sticks by :1 number of girls especially engaged, and are being distributed gratis to the primary schools. Fifty thousand have already been sent out to North Island schools, and the South Island.’s supply is to be forwarded immediately. _

The Wairarapa Daily News advises that an experienced prospector has been prospo_c..ting in the Tararuas for the past few weeks, and, like all his predecessors, 11:15 found gold and silverbearing quartz. This he has sent to Wellington, and the result of the assay is 1-e'pol'fod"'to' be ” Very’ sut.iSfactol'y. Further than this, the prospector‘ has discovered :1 huge 'deposit.,’estinl:lted of thousands of tohs, of ptiré white marble. This find is reported to boin the ficinity of l\loullt 'H0l(Isw~.lrtl1, some distance further ‘in;

“.Every responsible member -of the community should take particular notice of the new wave of influenza which has come along,”_ remarks the Lyttelton Times.‘ “Fortunatelynearly all t-113'-i-.CaSCS>.3I'C of arnild type, but. the fact that lnindreclstof notifications have been made during the last few days schoulcl make." everybody realise that the position. is serious. Members of the community will be wise to take special precautions. They should keep from crowds, and particularly children should not be allowed to go unnecessarily into the dangers of infection that come from congregating together. A little extra attention to cleanliness is \-'_A_ery advisable, and it will be beneficiai to see that there is no economy inthe .matter of fresh air. What appear to be ordinary“colds’ ought not to be neglected, while suiferers from influenza, mild or serious, will be unwise if they treat the complaint lightly. We believe there are no grounds for alarm, but there is ample warrint for care and for preea.utionary measu’res. Fresh air, whiclh costs nothing, is one of the best preventives.” A Palmerston North High School pupil draws attention to a. conspicuous ::l.>sonce of the ordinary powers of observation in some of the members of l:"—arli:l.lnent who were chosen to visit Samoa. at our expense because they were supposed to possess that very essential qualification. Several newspapers report that members - were so much interested in the curious properties of “Kara beer” that some of them not only brought. back a small supply, but also secured a number of gl'<)\\'illg roots, with the object‘of introducing this beautiful plant -to New Zeula.nd. This same plant, which is commonly known here as the Kawa Kawa, or pepper-plant, is about the most beautiful in New Zealand, and grows all tlfrough the bush in our esplanade. Macropiper excelsum is its botanical name. A. decoction of the leaves was used by the natives to allay toothache, to cure rheuxnatism, and to reduce inflammation; but had not been convertml into beer as with the l’ll()3.llF.