LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3557, 20 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The supporters of the Sports Queen intend to hold a euchre party on Tuesday evening next in the Town Hall Supper Room.

It is proposed to erect around the apex of the rock in Edinburgh Castte a shrine dedicated to the memory of all Scots, both men and women, who were killed in the war.

On Wednesday, the architect, fro "thf. Waaganui Hospital Board reported that the Health Bepaftment had approved the plans for°additions to Tax hape Hospital, and the Minister's eon sent was now awaited.

There were 21 patients in the Taihape Hospital on Ist July, and 29 were admitted during the month. Thirty-two patients were discharged, two died, and fifteen were in hospital at the end of the month.

Serbia is said to be the land of centenarians, the proportion of those over one hundred years of age being ■at the present time one in 2260, while in Denmark and Switzerland the average is one in a million.

At a meeting of the committee of management of the Unitarian Church in Wellington it was resolved to express sympathy with the minister and congregation of St. Andrew's Church which was destroyed by fire and to offer them the use' of the Unitarian Church" on Sunday morning, and during the week-day evenings as may be arranged.

Owing to the high cost of fuel and the demand for increased production, many British mill-owners aue installing water turbines to use moderate heads of water and are using steam plant as an auxiliary.' Both plants general a electricity, the- hydro-plant taking thedeailing with additional demands in the busiest hours. The arrangements which several of the leading British electrical firms are making to carry out complete hydro-electrical installations of every size will encourage this movement towards power economy.

The destruction caused by oppos urns in the Wanganui district was re fe.rred to at a meeting of the sub-centre of the Farmers' Union on Wednesday Mr. Collins, of Kai. Iwi, said a few wiseacres considered the animals'werr not destructive. Farmers were nol suposed to shoot them, but they di<V so. It was regarded as something like breaking the anti-shouting law. Not only did the opposums eat. fruit from the trees at night-time, but at nighttime they also robbed fruit that was stored away. Last week he found that ! an opposum had taken 24 big apples ! out of a box. It.was decided io communicate wifh the Minister of Internal Affairs in order to get the presant flegal protection removed as far as opposums are concerned.

The Waingawa Farmers' Freezing Works (hear Masterton) is now going in for the manufacture of soup, with a candle factory. The building for this is in the course of construction. ■"

Mr. S. A. vR. 'Mair, Rangitikei County Engineer, with Messrs. Toogood and Templiss, ,a,re collecting data in connection with a view to ascertaining whether sufficient power could be obtained from the Rangitikei River, to supply hydro-electric power for the County. A conference is being held at Marton to-day.

! There are some things really worth the money. Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P. was endeavouring to illustrate to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce that a good defence system was one of these, and emphasised his point with a story. Once upon a time a young couple ob i viously interested in one another were. | travelling on the railway. In passing ! through a tunnel the young man \ screwed up courage to kiss his companion, and when the train emerged from the tunnel the looking very embarrassed, and not knowing what to say, blurted out: "That tunnel cost £(30,000 to build." "Oh, my dear," said the girl. "It was worth it —every penny!" Several Bunnythorpe settlers have quite recently been victimised by a young mall in a well-worn uniform. He arranged to buy the farm and stock of one settler who, after completing his packing and selling off his surplus stock, learned that his buyer had borrowed his horse and cart and with it had purchased and taken to the sale a number of pigs at more than market rate from several neighbours; also that when his cheques were presented they were marked N.S.F. The. reluctance of the average farmer to excuse the fact that .he has bee n victimised perhaps accounts for the circumstance that this sharper is still missing—Feilding Star.

At a meeting ©f the Wanganui Hospital Board on Wednesday, • the medical superintendent (Dr H. Hutson) recommended that Taihape Hospital should be staffed with trained nurses and extra domestic help only, so that the probationers from these could be withdrawn to Wanganui to overcome' the shortage here. —It was decided to ascertain the possibility of the request being granted. It was further considered that the Department's refusal to allow nurses to be trained at Taihape was quite unreasonable, and it was contended that equally good training could be given there. It was ultimately resolved to make further representations to the Department, ' A suggestion by the medical superintendent that V.A.D's. —engaged at the already advertised salary—should be employed to alleviate the shortage of probationers, was agreed to.

"Life without sport, life without the element of chance, the risk of tilings, would be very dull, very dull indeed," said Sir .James Carroll at the annual re-union of the Canterbury Owners' and Breeders' Association. "When suffering humanity needs help, a little attention, where does it, get them? From the world's sports! (Applause.) From- the "battler to the millionaire, : :ke same spirit, the stimulating spirit of sport carries us on. Bui we want to do more than live in the world of sport . We want to w r eld together, to secure a strong cohesion throughout the Dominion. Otherwise' there is a danger of the enemy invading the sanctify of cur preserves. W& must be a solid body all over the eoun try. The cunning sport, the intriguing sport, we have no time for. but if we can master the field by genuinesport, the cunning man, the intriguer must become subservienjt." (Applause.)

One or two interesting matters in relation to the Influx of Japanese into Western America came under the notice cf Mi-. Malcolm Fraser, of Wellington, during his recent trip to the Statistical Conference in London, relates the Post, In California there are a great number of Japanese. By law they cannot own land, but children born to. them on American soil are American citizens, and nothing can prevent them purchasing the freehold of land. Land is, therefore, bought on behalf of the Japanese and placed in trus' L far these .children, and, of course, utilised in trust for them. The practice has grown to so great <tan extent that the Japanese now own a large percentage of the orchards of California, and lawyers are waxing fat solely on the proceeds of this work. The problem of dealing with the Japanese invasion was, indeed, a most serious one. Japanese single women were not allowed to enter the country, so the practise existed of a Japanese marrying a coun try-woman "by her photograph, which enabled her in some evasion of the law to enter the country as a bride.

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

Members of the Chamber of Commerce are notified fnat the Annual General Meeting wilfbe held in the Fire Brigade Hall, on Monday, 23rd August, at 8 p.m., when the annual report and balance sheet will be presented, ami officers will be elected for the ensuing year.

The following vessels will be within wireless range on 20th .August: With Wellington:—Pateena, Maori, Wahine, Otairaina, -Tutanekai, Ulima,roa, Iris> Matatua, Monowai, Marama, Paloona, Karamea, Ngakuta, Pakeha. With Chatha mlslands:—Suffolk, City o2 Corinth. With Awarua:—Wanaka, Paloona, Kara mea.

At the Auction Mart to-morrow (Saturday), Messrs F. Ward and Co. will offer for sale by auction a nineseater Ariel car, which was specially constructed for passenger service. The car is of excellent make, and should be the centre oiTanimated competition when offered for sale by auction.

Edmonds' Baking Powder is again before 'the public of this district.

While war was proceeding the supply of the ingredients on which this excellent adjunct to cookery relies for its superiority were almost unjerchasable, but the Messrs. Edmonds have now a permanent supply of the besr materials and are now placing at the service of housewives , a baking jjowder that was not surpassed in quality in pre-war days.