LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3500, 31 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Having just entered her 99th year, Mrs Ireland, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, has outlived h‘e‘l"husband and a family of 13. A cla.im for £IOOO for alleged libel, George Von" Zeidlitz v. New Zealand Times is set down for hearing on June 4. It is reported in. Christchlrch business circles that there is every probability of an increase of 6; per cent. in the bank rate for advances. “I did not notice any anti-British feeling in California,” said Mr F. M. Haggitt recently. “The chief complaint of the Americans seemed to be that they received very little as.s<isAtance from the Allies in winning the war.” -Illustrating the neglect of parents for their children’s teeth, it was reported at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital -and Charitable Aid Board that a patient, aged 14 years, attending the dental department had had every tooth in his jaws removed on account of extensive caries. A protest against the action of magistrates in ordering undesirable characters to leave the‘ cities, and go to country districts W-as embodied in aremit adopted by the Farmers’ Conference, just concluded. The remit pointed out that such characters are a menace Wto country settlers and should be committed for_ re-formative areatment. 4

Two fresh cases of smallpox were notified. from Invereargill on Friday. It is stated that there are undoubtedly in Dunedin ;a few se.'ve'.l'e eaées ‘of ~.\'llat.'is mrthoritat.ively declared to be .=‘nneris:-an smallpox. There iszreason to believe that many other cases exist of 1:1 distinctly mild inature. H'h.e knmvn cases in Otago are the subject of special and constant study and attention.

Is the shipping boom coming to an end? inquires an English paper. One authority says that to-day there is 5 per cent. more tonnage of carrying keels on the seven seas than !before the war, and he estimates that at the present rate of progress, within 18 months shipownerg will be giving away steamers. The four thousand shipyards which sprang up in the United Staes during hostilities are rapidly closing down, because they are no longer able to get.‘ work.

It. is not generally known that at one dark period of our struggle’ in France, plans were actually prepared for destroying the wiiole of the Pas de Calais province, wrecking the harbours of Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne, andbreaking down dykes. and locks so as to flood the country. This is revealed in a new book “G.H.Q. (Montreuil-Sul'—Mer),” by G.S.O. The only saving stipulation made by the French was that before the sea was let in to do\'as_tato the land, Marshal Foch should give the Word. On the leader page of this issue Dr H. M. Hay notifies that he has comnienced the practice of his profession in 'l‘:lihape. Dr Hay has only been recently demohilised from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with which he saw four years’ service, chiefly in Egypt and Palestine; he being one of :1 very few who went all through the campaign, Since returning to New Zealand he has been kept busy in the (‘hristchurch and .-kuckland Military Hospitals, and since deinobilisation he has been surgeon in the Christchurch Public Hospital. Dr Hay’s Taihape temporm-y address is Gretna Hotel, and his consulting rooms are in Kuku .s'treet.

The 1-econlmell(l‘ation of the jury in .-\.ucklau.(l for-‘the judge to consider the questioir of flogging for certain offences recnlls memories of the Liverpool “High Rip Gang” and -the late Mr Justice Day’s method of suppressing the same. Taking the Liverpool ASsizes at his own request, he applied the “c:rl."’ to the miscreants found guilty not merely of robbing Wayfarers, but of stabliiug and slicing them into the bargain. and there was method in its appliczttion. Waiting until a bunch of ten or twenty convicted ones faced him, Ju.<ti<'c Day would quietly apportion the laslres: “So many art. -the beginning of your sentence; so many half way through; so many two -(lays before you come out, in order that you may show the marks to your friends.” The bullies in the (locl‘{ would howl for mercy, but in vain, and the “High Rip Gang’? speedily passed away. _ I Keep the kiddies well. NAZOL is sure protection ngainst coughs and colds. Sprinkle baby’s pillow. Older childrcu can take it on sugar. 1

A smart. ‘boy for legal office is wanted by an advertiser. A firstclass cow, just upon calving is advertised for sale. It is notified by advertisement that the price of milk will be illCl‘eaSed from r-Sixpence to sevenpence per Q0311‘: as from tomorrow, Ist June. . Thursday next, June 3rd, befiig -the King’s Birthday, there will be no publication of the “Taihape Daily’ Times-” Advertisers will please note the fact, and make their arrangements accordingly. Rangitikei and H-awke’s Bay County Councils are cooperating in an effort to secure a. through road from Napier to Taihape, and Government is to be approached urging the national importance of the work, and the need of assiting the local boclics financially in cminectinr. with ‘the erection of the }l9(‘L‘SS{ll‘_Y bridges. Darby's Buildings, Queen Street, a modern block on an allotment with 33?; feet frontage to -Qurcen Btreqil and Fort Street. Lane, has just been sold for the sum of £45,000. The block has a depth of nearly 200 feet. It is situated a few doors above Customs Street. After deducting thevalue of the building the price works out at r-bout £750 a foot.

A phenomenal rise in the price of cement caused Cr McKinnon to move at a meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council that a circular letter to sent to zqll local .'bodies sthroughout New Zealand urging the Government. to lift the duty on imported cement, as by doing so it was considered there would be an increase in the amount of building concrete. The mover added tli-at it was time the Government look -.1 hand in the nlat'~tel'. The cost of local cement had risen from £3 10/ per ton before the war to £7 12/6, for which he did not consider there was just.lfication._A 'l.‘_he motion’ was carried. “Why are we always to follow the Americans? They took ithrec and ahalf years to hear the bugle call in the war, and they have not yet ratified the Peace Treaty. Why should we follow them? They are -always late” In these ternls9a delegate at the com ferenee of the Fruitgrowesr’ Federation opposed a. proposal to adopt the American standard fruit cases =throughout. New Zealand. “Call it the Canadian case,‘ then," suggested another delegate, “The Canadian and American cases are exactly the sanie.” This suggestion proved a happy way out of the difliculty, the conference deciding to adopt ‘the Canadian standard case.”