LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 1 July 1920, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A sawmill manager is required to take complete charge of a large sawmill in the South Island. Prospects are excellent, the mill having a very long future before It.

A military deserter, who is alleged to have been hiding for some years, was arested in the Tinui district on Tuesday. • He will be taken to Palmerston North for court-martial

The supply of fruit case timber for the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association is being invited by advertisement in another column. Printed particulars may be seen during business hours at the Taihape Daily Times Office.

A reminder is given of the social and dance to be held in the Three Stars Theatre to-night in aid of the Taihape Returned Soldiers' Association. Dancing i s a healthy and pleasant form of recreation in such cold weather, and there should be a good attendance.

It is' notified in another column that an important business meeting of commercial travellers will be held on Saturday, July 3, at 8 p.m. in the New Zealand Express Company's Sample Rooms, at Wanganui, when delegates from the Wellington Association will be present.

The Secretary of the Board of Trade notifies that until the arrival of the new season's sugar no alteration in price will be permitted. Any increase over the present ruling price will be considered a breach of section 32 of the Board of Trade Act, and action will be taken accordingly. The public will be notified when the new sugar is expected to be placed on the market.

Messrs F. Ward and Co. have received instructions from Mrs McAuliffe, who is retiring from business, to sell the whole of her stock, which includes a large number of ladies' blouses in silk, crepe, voile, flannellette, etc.; children's dresses and coats, eider downs, costume lengths, sewing machine, and various other materials. The goods have been removed to the auction room, in Tui street, for convenience of sale. Thi s * a lc commences os Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock sharp.

Several complaints regarding allegelleged excessive charges have been under the consideration of the Auckland Prices Investigation Tribunal during the past week. Among the charges under investigation are those for boat and boot repairing, for galvanised piping, printing, tobacco in country districts, and flour. Complaints have been made that some country tobacconists and storekeepers have been exceeding the prices fixed for two-ounce packets of tobacco.

Mr Peter Hickson, of Palmerston, 71 years of age, was charged at the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday before Mr J. L. Stout S.M., that on September 14, 1874, at Masterton, he married Bridget Higglns and then on August 6, 1919, at Palmerston North, he married Annie Laurenson, thus committing bigamy. Senior-Sergeant fraser /applied for a remand, until Monday. Bail was fixed at £IOO. Accused, who was very deaf, stated lie had no idea where ho could obtain the necessary security.

In the opinion of the Wellington city engineer (Mr W. H. Morton), the present system of water-bound macadam construction is quite unsuitable to deal with the traffic which now obtains in this city, and which has so completely altered during a comparatively few years < The engineer has been authorised to purchase a plant to deal with the matter in the way he recommends as the most suitable for a climate such as Wellington has, namely, to dry the metal, coat it with tar, arid then consolidate it; with a roller.

With last season's crop of approximately 4.UU0.000 . bushels, the carryover from las! year, and some 2,000.000 bushels of Australian grain, it is estimated that with care New Zealand will have enough wheat to caYry On until after the next season's crop is harvested. Mr W. G. McDonald, chairman of the Board of Trade, who is at present in Auckland, says there are indications thai if all goes well and the next harvest is up to the avrage, the area that Iras been sown in wheat should supply the Dominion's needs.

An Ani-.ac former sergeant' has written to the Birmingham police asking them to find a girl whom he met and chatted with, at the lor- 1 railway station as he was passing through. He desscribed her as having declared herself ready to go to Australia. The Anzac undertakes, after corresponding with her, to pay her fare out. "Be careful,'' he adds, 'because I love her." The Daily Mail states that the Birmingham police have found the girl described by the Anzac sergeant, and 'whom he wished to trace. She blushingly volunteered to write to the soldier and send her photograph.

A. gold wristlflß'watch. lost, on the Taikape railway Button last Saturday morning, is adveijKed for. The watch is a keepsake, iMd lias the owner's name inside the wtek of the ease. Keward awaits findelp&i this office. The Greymouth fjptar says that prospects are brighteK&g in Blackball. During the last fJp niontlis the population has increased, as has also the coal export. At pfjesent every man is JS»-" ■ working at the mine, which is a' pleasing contrast with the state of affairs several months agb> f-,' ... - That the days of 'large families a-;? not passed in Auckland was demonstrated on Wednesday morning at the Magistrate's Court. In two instances there were families cf seven children, a third nine, and a fourth eleven olive branches. With the difficulty of renting houses at the present time, "Blessed is the man who hath his quiver full" scarcely seems to apply.—-Star.

A good natured Taranaki farmer is smilng. A little while ago he was approached for assistance by a benzinestranded motorist, and promptly from his small stock supplied a tin to tide the traveller over. A week or two later the farmer found that a tin had been stolen, and he suspected the man whom he had befriended. Then a third, tin disappeared, and he ,was quite pleased. That tin was full of water, and a car held up near by proved his suspicions to be correct.

During the hearing of a case at the Magistrate's Court in Auckland (says the Star) in which the quality of ice used for packing fish in was the point in dispute. Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., asked the manager of the Municipal Markets if he had ever tried the Bullot system. Upon receiving the reply that it had not been used, Mr Poynton said it was invented by an Australian named Bullot, and had been experimented on for the last IS months with great success. It was claimed that by this process mutton kept, quite fresh for seven days, when sent in to the freezers from the interior. It was further claimed that the meat kept its original colour when so treated. The system was to burn a powder in a chamber in which the carcases were placed, and the gas generated had the preservative effect. One of the constituents was sulphur' dioxide, which alone was a strong preservative.

A writer who contributes intimate personal paragraphs to the "Pall S

Gazette," and is accounted as fairly reliable, learns that it was in res ponse to a direct request from r ; •

New Zealand Government that Lord Jellicoe lias been appointed to the position of Governor-General of the Dominion, This request was made three or fcur months ago, but it was considered advisable to ask the Earl of Liverpool to "carry on" with the Governor-Generalship over the period of the Prince of Wales? visit. As soon as Lord Jellicoe got back to England he was sounded by Colonel Amery as to whether he would be ready to meet the wishes of the New Zealanders. It is distinctly a step in the right dire--

tion that Dominions should be consulted as to any preferences they may cherish on such matters (says the writer). The appointment now made will enable the popular Admiral to take over the duties in Wellington within a few weeks of Lord Liverpool relinquishing them.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Sir F. W. Lang) on Tuesday informed the House thai i Controller and Auditor-General (Colonel R. J* Collins) had reported that during the recess representations had been made to him by the Government that,, owing to shipping difficulties in I Australia, it was necessary to hold in I Melbourne wheat which had been purj chased by the Government for New Zealand, and that an advance of £241,000 against such wheat in store had to be made pending its sale on its o. i rival in New Zealand. As issue of the amount to make the payment would exceed the appropriation, and there were no other funds available for the purpose, it was held to be necessary, as a matter of urgent public policy and in the interests of the State, for the Audit Office to issue moneys in excess of the amount. allowed by law for unauthorised ex- I penditure; and this had accordingly been done, subject to an undertaking by the Goevrnment to indemnify ;'>- Audit Office by introducing validatiy legislation in respect of such issue.