LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3519, 5 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Members of the Wellington Wharf Police yesterday raided an alleged hazard school in the small tug wharf opposite the Customs Buildings, and it is understood that as a result several prosecutions will follow.

A London cable states that at an inquest 'on Dick, Gainfort, a Fleet Street newsvendor, it was stated that for years he suffered from cancer, but refused to go into hospital during the war because the bed was wanted for a soldier.

“We did think that Lieut.-Colonel Mitchell was going to be an independent member of the House,” said NMr j. McKenzie, at the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association meeting. This was because Colonel Mitchell voted with the Government on the Labour Party’s no-confidence motion.

Voting papers in connection with the Education Board election, which is to be held on July 21st, have all been distributed to the electors, members of school committees. According to the legislation governing the election the ballot papers have to be held fifteen days before being counted, and this process will therefore not take place until oth August.

There should be an appreciable difference in the position with regard to cement before long. The Board of Trade has completed arrangements with the Government Coal Control to give .the Wilsons Portland Cement Co., in Auckland, regular supplies of coal, and it is hoped that this will ease the situation caused by the almost famine of building material.

Two questions regarding the military censorship will be asked in the House by Mr Howard, member for Christchurch South: —(1) Why the military censorship of private correspondence is still in operation? (2) Whether it is a fact ..that letters so censored have been suppressed without notice ftp the (sender? (3) On what grounds are letters being censored?

Speaking of the reduction in ordinary packet teas by 3d a pound a Christchurch wholesale merchant said: "Perhaps sonic of the people who think that a merchant is always on velvet will be interested to know this. We bought our stocks when the rupee stood at 2/9, instead of at 2/ as it does now. That means that we have to face a loss of about threepence or fourpence on every pound of tea in our warehouses at the present time.”

At a special meeting of the Napier branch of the A.S.R.S. the folio-wing resolution was unanimously passed: —• "That members are not in favour of accepting the latest proposals as issued by the Board set up to deal with increases and better conditions; further, they insist on their executive demanding from the Government full accept ancc of the schedule as placed before Mr Justice Stringer; also that this branch of the A.S.R.S. ask the assist ance and hearty co-operation of every branch in Now Zealand to secure those demands, and also ask them to wire the executive to that effect.”

Pig hunting is a sport invariably associated with the bush, but yesterday afternoon townspeople enjoyed tho fun of- watching a weaner run down. A Maori had speculated in a fine young porker at Williams’ and Harper’s sale, and ho had visions of some good"kai” as he forced his possession into a sack. Unfortunately the receptacle had as big a hole at one end as it had at the other, and out shot the pig from his would-be prison. The Maori, fearful that he was going to lose his prize, made a big lurch to grip a leg of the pork, but being ‘'‘dairy fed” himself was unable to get down to it. scooted the pig with a flying squadron after it, and it was not until the police station was reached that the quarry was run down. The hunt caused a good deal of amusement while it lasted. —Wanganui Herald.

‘‘The Progressive North Island” is the heading given to the following paragraph in a Manawatu paper;—"A visitor from the North'tells us that the Waikato and King Country districts ore in a most flourishing condition. The mildness of the late autumn, together with abundant rains, have kept the pastures good. Tho turnip crops for winter feed turned out butter than anticipated. In the King Country a great deal of development is expected in (lie near future. To the eastward of the Main Trunk line big areas of pastoral and farming lands' are expected to be made available for settlement before lung. The subject of light railways is receiving attention ,and several projects are afoot. A new coalfield, within a few miles of Te Kuiti, is to be opened next summer. Trial bores have proved the existence of big scams of excellent quality, and a start is already being made with miners’ houses and preliminary works.”

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are being advertised by Mr B. H. Just, the Palmerston North nurseryman, at a very low price for quantities.

A n anonymous donation of £1 fo the funds of the Taihape Patriotic Society has been received by the secretary. Mr H. F. Potts.

Lovers of dancing are reminded that the committee of No. 3 Convent School Queen are holding a social a-nd dance in the Three Stars Hall tomorrow evening.

Brethren of Lodge Otaihape are requested to attend the funeral of late Brother Godfrey Lyndon, which leaves his late residence, Kaka Road, at half-past 10 on Tuesday (to-mor-row) morning.

The following are the vital statistics for this district for the month of June, for which we are indebted to the courtesy of the local Registrar, Mr J. P. Aldridge:—Births 43. deaths 14, marriages 11.

A Christchurch paper recently compiled an interesting comparison of prices ruling in various countries for wheat which showed New Zealand (Government minimum prices 1920-21), Tuscan 7/3, Hunters 7/6, Pearl 7/9, with 3d increment per month from August Ist to cover storage costs. Great Britain (imported and Govern mcnt guarantee for Homegrown), 12/ a bushel. It is interesting to note that" although the price in Great Britain is higher, yet the retail price of bread in both countries is practically the same.

There has been gome comment as to why the Prince of Wales’ letter did not appear in facsimilie in the School Journal, as the Prince had requested. The reason is that the number of the journal was practically all complete when the letter was received and an engraving of the actual letter could not be made in time for insertion in the June number of the journal. Lt.Colonel Grigg, on behalf of the Prince, then suggested that the letter should appear-' in the June number in ordinary print, and in the July number in facsimile.

In view of the rising price of tobacco, a correspondent of a Calcutta paper makes a curious suggestion to tobacco smokers. Alluding to the alleged discovery that watercress is a perfect antidote to nicotine, he says: “It lately entered my head to try how some of it dried -would smoke. To my great satisfaction I found that when put into my pipe, after a couple of days’ drying in the sun, it had all the flavour of the best cavendish without the treacle, and it was stronger than cavendish. Here, then, is a perfect substitute, for tobacco, without the deeltcrious and deadly poison so freely contained in the latter.”

‘ ‘ There is no such thing as poverty in this country,” Dr Truby King told his audience at Dunedin the other night. He was speaking comparative ly with reference to conditions he had recently noted in the Old Lands, where the problems to be faced are, he says, enormous. He confirmed the opinion of many other travellers that this is the country where the people are far better off than in any other part of the world. It has been rashly said that people were starving here, and so on, but wo knew perfectly well that we had not conditions like that in our midst, whatever there might be to mend —and there would always be something to'mend.