LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3559, 23 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A 6-roomed house, with free firewood, is to let at 10/ per week.

The railway competition for the two live geese was won by Mr J. Galvin, Taihape, winning number No. 47. A sale of work and promenade concert will be held at the Methodist •School Hall on Wednesday next. At 7.30 p.m., a charge of .1/- will be .made for admission. There has been of late in Wellington an epidemic of thefts of overcoats and hats. They have disappeared by the score from porches of churches and vetsibules of hotels and boardinghouses. “A, Victim,” writing to the Post, quotes as “an instance of gross t profiteering” the increase m the price of postcards to lid. He states that, Mr Massey has said the cost of production has gone up 621 per cent, over pre-war prices, “yet the Government is charging ns 200 per cent, over pre-war prices for carrying postcards ”

The following letter from a correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury is of interest:—“l am willing to risk my reputation as a public man if the worst case of smallpox cannot be effectively cured in three adys. simply by cream of tartar. This is the sure and never-failing remedy: One ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in a pint of boiling water, to be drunk when cold at short intervals. It can be taken at any time, and is known to have cured in ,a hundred thousand cases without a failure. I have myself restored hundreds by this means. It never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and always prevents tedi-' ous lingering. If people would only try it and report all cures to you, you would require many columns if you gave them publicity,”

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 Gifford.

A bricklayer >o build four double chimneys is advertised for. A milkfloat and milk cans are advertised for sale. A laundress at 50/- per week and i cook at 40/- arc advertised, for by Shuts Labour Exchange.

A four-inch, tyre, two-and-a-half ton break is offered for sale at Mr. J. Turnbull’s, Tui Street, as a bargain at £SO. ' v

The following vessels will be within wireless r’ange on 23rd August: With Wellington: —Wahine, Maori, Pateena, Iris. Moeraki, Wcstralia, Paloona, EuaInne, Kiaora, Essex, Wlxangapc, Port Danison, Tarawora, Hororata. With Chatham Islands:—Suffolk, Ayrcshire, Mararaa, Pakeha, Ruapehu. City of Corinth, Tutanekai.

The newly-elected chairman of the Wanganui Education Boad intrroduced an innovation at the last nieeitng when he announced that it had not been the custom in the past for members of the Board to smoke at meetings. but if non-smoking members had no objection, he proposed to alolw the free use of the fragrant wed. The announcement was received with general approbation, in which the members of the Press fully concurred.

The acuteness of the newspaper situation, in the Homeland is reflected in the statement that since the war the cost of paper has risen fivefold, while printing charges to-day approach a rise of 200 per cent. This has necessitated a large increase in the price of many popular papers. The price of the Nation and of the Spectator has gone up from 6d to 9d, while other weekly journals have been increased from 6d to l/_ The price of the Times has risen from Id to 3d, and of the Times Literary Supplement, from M to 6d. The Manchester Guardian has increased from Id to 2d, and this example has been followed by a number of other daily papers.