LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3533, 22 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An experienced waitress is required by an advertiser.

"An Englishman's home is his castle,"' said a Buller old age pensioner proudly, living in a one-room cottage.

The Capetown University Rugby team, which was due'to play the local club at Moorreesburg; made the journey of SO miles and back by aeroplane. *' ' \, ; '-J'"' '" *

Owing to Clabby refusing to meet Holland for less than Uren was to compete for (£SOO )the boxing competition on Friday bag been declared off.

In the House of Representatives on Tuesday Mr David Jones (Kajapoi) presented a petition from H. D. ! Acland, L. A. Rutherford and 106 others, praying for a meat export license for Armour and Co.

In one of the Otaki orchards several cherry plum trees are in full blossom. This is very early for fruit blossoms. Quince, trees have been bursting into leaf for the past, fortnight or so, and there are other indications of an early spring.

General Sir John Monash says that Vhen his Anzacs had desperate fighting ahead they Mked to have the Canadians on the right. Well, the Canadians liked to have the Anzacs o n their left. It's a ease of fifty-fifty, RirTobn.—Toronto Advertiser.

"This i s a bad time to ask for subsidies." said the Hon. C. J. Parr to a deputation on Wednesday. "There are demands unheard of corning in. How the Prime Minister, even with his robust frame, will be able to bear lip under the financial demands of the Dominion I do not know! "

"It is a clog's life being a borough councillor," remarked one of the Wanganui city fathers at the tramway power plant inquiry, as lie started to relate the bad time the public had been giving him in consequence of the recent tramway breakdown. The Mayor said that a man came to him the other clay and asked if there were

any tram cars for sale as lie wanted one for a fowlhouse.

Referring to the experiences of the Prince of Wales at Randwick, the Sydney Bulletin says: "The education of Edward, Prince (of Walcsj as a punter lias been much neglected. He bets too often and spreads his money too far. In each of three races he backed four horses, and they all lost. In the Cup four carried the Prince's savings. In 10 raee s in two days he had 19 nags goit%. There was only one winner afflong the lot, and a deadheater. V For Children's Hacking Coughs,

Wooods' Great Peppermint Cure 1/9, 2/9.

A. B.S.A. motor bike, practically new is advertised for sale.

A quantity of second-hand sawmill machinery is advertised for.

A well-built house on the Terrace, standing on a large freehold section, is advertised for sale.

It has been decided to re-open the reading room of the Municipal Public Library en Sunday, afternoons. Commencing on Sunday next the readingroom will be open from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Seventeen sections 0/ land in the Puni settlement, four and a-haif miles from Pukekohe, are now open for selection by discharged soldiers. The sections range in area from 7Q acres to 141 acres. Applications wtJT close on August 2, and a ballot will be held two days]later.

The latest maritime steal revealed iu Dunedln is in connection with cargo just lanoed by the City of Winchester from New York. Out of one consignment, which included valuable leathers, £4OOO worth had disappeared. The dunnage put in by the thieves included a quantity of American magazines and newspapers.

Signs of an early spring are now making an appearance over Hawke's Bay, and the weather, brisk and clear, heralds that the spring will be a beautiful one. During the past fortnight lambs, have been born in different parts of the district, while in Napier some of the fruit trees are in full bloom and present a beautiful sight.

A Palinerston North theatre-goer asks why all entertainments, amateur or otherwise, adhere to the tedious custom of observing an interval. He points out that the practice arose when men had "certain business to do," occupying, say,"ten minutes, but the pretext being gone, so too should this meaningless custom be obsolete. —Times.

The five aeroplanes which were brought to Auckland by the Port Denison are the first consignment of -20 machines presented to the Dominion byUhe Imperial Government. Of this total eight are to go to the Flying School at Auckland, and the remaining twelve to the school at Sockburn, Canterbury. The immediate destination of tthe present consignment of five has not yet been determined.

! Intending competitors for the Awarua Gun Club's handicap at Taiha.pe ~(.n Thursday next >are reminded that nominations eioso "frith, the secretary, Mr E. McLaughlan, Box 73, Taihape, .on 26th inst,, at 3 pan. The shoot will commence at 9 a.m.,, and £IOO is offered in prize money. It is certain that this competition will be a great success, as practically every gunman in the district will be a competitor. ' >• \

Mr G. Forbes (Hurunui) intends to ask the Prime Minister whether he will remove the present embargo on American meat-buyers wishing to operate in the Dominion? "The present chaotic condition of the London market is likely to be continued if the season's meat is poured into it, and the diversion of a proportion to the American market will relieve to a certain extent the congestion in the. London market and allow it time to get back to pre-war working/' Mr Forbes says.

The Wanganui Borough's power plant closed down on Wednesday with the result that Wanganui is now in for about a month of a ti'ahiless era. Steps were taken to provide an improvised transit service per medium of a "puffing billy" and trailers of the Gonville-Castlecliff end and a petrol service to suit the needs of Aramoho and Wanganui East. Last night the Mayor informed the Council that it was proposed to run an hourly steam service between Castlecliff and the Old Cemetery. He hoped the service would he improved as time went on, but for the moment they could not help themselves. The plant engines would be sent to Wellington where work would be carried on night and day to get them back as soon as> possible.

A remarkable instance of red tape methods is reported in the Troon and Prestwick Times, describing how a quantity of bricks was transported from Dreghorn to Irvine, live miles distant, via London—a journey of 921 miles. The bricks were made at Dreghorn for some cottages being built at Irvine. The two towns are connected by the Glasgow and SouttiWestern Railway, but the official regulations concerning the transport, of bricks by rail require that bricks must be delivered to the "nearest railway station." In this case the Caledonian station at Irvine was a little nearer to the site whefe the bricks were required than the G. and SW. station. To conform with the requirements of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Transport, the bricks were therefore railed to the Caledonian station by way of London.

Year after year brings increasing: proof of the superiority of SHARLAND'S Baking Powder. Costs less 'b.'ir. others —worth more! 2

A poor man has lost three one pound notes. He will gladly give ten shillings to the finder who returns them to this office. .

The secretary of the Taihape Rugby Sub-Union to-day received a telegram stating that the Horowhenua representative team will play the Taihape rep*, at Taihape on Saturday, 31st inst.

As announced at the official welcome to the returned soldiers last night, the series of socials in aid of the Taihape Returned Soldiers' Association,:'will be held in the Town Hall in future. The next of the series will be held on Wednesday next, and tickets are now j on sale. The calendar advertised on page 1 has been altered, and the attention of dance patrons is drawn to the/fact.

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Thames Valley Dairying Company to consider the advisability of amalgamating <with the New Zealand Cooperative Dairying Company, Mr Goodfellow, in a lengthy speech, explained advantages to be gained by the formation of companies into one large concern. After \ several shareholders had expressed their views for and against the proposal, a poll was taken, whieh resulted in a vote of 1093 for amalgamation and 73 against.^

The hTgh cost of living and the difficulty of making ends meet were reflected in an application before Mr Justice Salmond in Auckland thTs week, when a widower obtained 200 per cent, increase on his minimum allowance from bis deceased wife's estate. Under the will the residuary estate is to pass to the Anglican Diocese of Auckland for the purposes of the Church at Ohaupo. His Honour made an order that the trustees pay to the plaintiff £3 per week, and that the will should read as if £3 had been inserted instead of £l.

"Christchurch has a vast reserve for timber planting purposes right at her front door," said a city man interested in forestry to a Lyttelton. Time s reporter. "The sandhills along the beach at North New Brighton could grow enough irees to keep the city going for two hundred years." Reports from other sources confirm this statement. In the City Council's reserve at Bottle Lake the young trees recently planted are making wonderful progress, and there is every prospect of a successful "strike," The trees are pinus radiata (insignis), a species which is held in special favour because of its fast growth. Before the war a Government expert said that an acre of sandy soil at New Brighton could be made without trouble to grow timber worth £7OO.

"You are under a misapprehension as to the purposes of this Court," remarked Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., when a couple of creditors had done talking the other morning regarding the sins of a debtor. His Worship said this was not a Court for punishment as in criminal cases. One creditor sadil the debtor won £7OO in Tattersall's sweep, bought a motor car, get tyres on credit, and subsequently sold the vehicle. "I would like to fix him up". "

he added. "I have met him on several race courses." Mr Cutten remarked dryly: "No doubt you would, seeing you must have been there yourself." Another creditor said: "The worst that could be done for him would be too gocnd." Late?,, M¥ Cutten saidy in another ca?e, he could not make an order when a man's earnings showed it could not be effective, and which 7iiight be used as a weapon. An interjection in regard to Sir George Clifford was made in the House while Mr Isitt (Christchurch North) was making a characteristically vigorous anti-garnbling speech. "Sir George Clifford," retorted Mr Isitt "He's a man who advocates the breeding of long-legged, herring-gut-ted weeds which have to be doped with* arsenic to run two furlongs, in the hope of maintaining or improving horses available for our cavalry." Mr Isitt was proceeding to add some more enlightening words as to the weight-carrying capacity of the horses he was discussing, when Mr Speaker broke in to the effect that he was afraid that the interjectors were tak« ing the honourable gentleman slightly away from he Bill under discussion. Laaer Mr Campbell replied to this and similar criticism- by quoting General Allenby.'s reference to the thoroughbred horses which came through the Palestine ordeal.