LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3556, 19 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Mt. Roskill (Auckland) houseowner has 10 houses and 25 families live in them. In one house there are four families.

The following cable advice was received at the Taihapo Post Office yes-terday:-—Eastern notifies:—Please divert all traffic to United Kingdom via Pacific.

Preparations for reducing the Napier gaol to the third-class status are now almost completed. The change means that in the future only shortsentence prisoners will be kept there.

The auction sale of household furniture and effects at the residence of Mrs Barsby, in IvSrtta Road, will be continued to-morrow, commencing at 1.30 pm.

The analysis of the Manawatu Gorge limestone deposits shows a percentage of 82 per cent, of lime. Experts say that whan the seam is developed the percentage will be higher. The Farmers ’ Union Executive has decided to obtain particulars aa to. machinery, cost, etc, | .... y | fi

One of the most comical income-tax returns was that of a man who scrawled across the Schedule D form: “Got no income; average for last three years £3OO per annum; but the man from whom I borrowed the money is now dead.”

At Matakanui (Otago) recently a north-west wind of hurricane force caused considerable damage. The new Peace Hall, which cost £450 by public subscription, was completely demolished. The building was opened about four months age.

Mr. W. A. Veiteh has given notice in the House of Representatives of his intention to ask the PostmasterGeneral whether provision was beingmade for increases of the comissions given to country postmasters and postmistresses in the same ratio as the increases to be given to the service generally.

An instance of the ignorance abroad of New Zealand and New Zealand affairs is instanced by Mr. Malcolm Fraser, of Wellington (says, the Post), who, during his recent trip through America saw in a Los Angeles paper, in the “Answers to Correspondents” as to where Dunedin was, an explanation that Dunedin was the old name for Edinburgh. Mr. Fraser wrote to the paper to say that Dunedin was a New Zealand city of 30,000 people, but it was a week before the paper published the correction.

If high prices encourage production, as the most trusted economists teach os (writes the Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald), this coming season should surpass all previous one? in its output of butter and cheese. I am afraid, however, that the old beliefs in political economy have become somewhat questionable in these latter .days. We have seen high prices not only fail to stimulate production, but an instance of a group of our primary producers producing less because the high prices give equal returns for less labour.

Mr. C. D. Kennedy, who has returned to Napier, after spending several weeks’ holiday in Fiji, stated to a Tribune reporter that what struck him most was the 'little development that was being made. As in most other countries at the present time, scarcity of 'labour was the predomin--nt cry. The Fijians themselves were 'mrtent with the old standard of exis--1 nee, leading a careless, easy life, some of the plantations were, well kept, but in the majority of eases the natives little or no inclination in the way of development.

Jt is reported that the prosecution heard at the Wanganui Court against a country storekeeper for failing to send in a telephone pureau return is likely to have a far more reaching effect than at first anticipated. Apparently the system of postal employees obtaining free bureau communications has been inexistence for years, and the prosecution has now brought matters to a climax. It is understood that an inquiry will have to be held regarding the Wanganui office, and this in turn will probably implicate, employees in Wellington, and will probably involve •he whole of the telephone service in the- Dominion.

The London meat journal Cold Storage has the following on refrigerating stores in France, which should go to show that there is a possibility of developing a trade for our meat in that country; “The rapid advancement of the cold storage industry in France may be gauged by the particulars 'published in La Revue Gencralo du Froid. Details are given of 21 new companies whose aggregate

capita] at 25 francs to the £ amounts to £6,273,000. The largest of these concerns, the Corapagnei (I’Adikentation et, - d 'lnstallations Frigorifiques, with a capital of 40,000,000 francs, has been formed by the Banquc do‘ I’Union Parisienno and. important French Colonial interests.”

Concentrated into one hind leg the kicking power of 250 horses must be fairly strong, judging by an explosion which took place at the electric power house this morning. When the 250-h.p. suction gas engine was ins' at led a “silencer” was built round the exhaust pipe outlet, on the exterior brick wall of the engine housd. When the big engine was being started up this morning one of the Cylinders did not. pick up readily. Apparently the un exploded gas accumulated in the silencer and was fired by the exhaust from the other cylinder. The walls of the silencer were of concrete six inches thick, but the force of r the explosion smashed' the mass if they had been delicate china. One large lump was thrown about ten feet away. The concrete was bolted to the brick wall, brt the thick iron bars were torn through the wall. The noise of the explosion gave residents in the vicinry a great scare, but fortunately no one was hurt.—Fcilding Star.

Moirette for underskirts in shades of saxe, grey, brown, navy and black; 39 inches wide; price 4/11 yard. The Big Value House, Oollinson and Gifford.

A housemaid is required by an advertiser, r' : A railwayman is desirous of renting a four-roomed house.

An advertiser wishes to lease (JO to 100 acres of land near Tailiape.

A reminder is given of the dance to-night at Bennetlf’s Siding in aid of the Botfield ‘ Benefit Fund.

Messrs P. Ward and Co,, will sell at the Mart to-morrow a nine-seater motor car, built specially for passenger service.

Messrs Collinson and Gifford, Ltd., will shortly be converting the motor garage recently managed by the Taihape Motors, Ltd* into a very extensive addition to their present business premises.

The following vessels will be within wireless range on 19th August: With Wellington.—'Pateena, Wahine; Ulimaroa, Maori, Marama, Shahristan, Wahemo, Port Hacking, Monowai, Pakeha, Karamea, Kia Ora, Ngakuta, Borderer, Iris, Saikaimaru. With Chatham Islands.—Ayreshire, Suffolk. With Awarua —Wanaka.

A sequel to the declarator of prohibition in Samoa is a petition for compensation on the part of the lessee of the Central Hotel, Apia. His' statement shows that lie" took over the lease in November, 1918, to expire in December, 1922, at a monthly rental of £SO. The residental part of the hotel was run at a loss, but the bar trade showed an annual net profit of £2584, which it was anticipated would reach £3OOO. ,