LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3567, 1 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

\ Entries for Taihape stock sale are | advertised in this issue. ' • The person seen taking an overcoat j from the Three Stars Theatre last j night is asked to return same at once i to this office. ; I The lady who left a scarf in the j Town Hall Supper Room at the euchre party on Monday may have same on ' applying at tin's office. The Costume Specialists of Auckland are paying a second visit to Taihape, and have now their wares mi exhibition in the Gretna Sample Rooms. At the last, meeting of the Racnhi Town Biard, a. member said: ''Why j let ail the mOnry*go out of 'he town for liquor? No one advocated a pub." Another member (but we must not I m-ntion his name at present) said that lie intended io makei this proposal one of his planks at the forthcoming Town election. —Wai'marino County Call. . A visitor to Taihape commented to a representative of this paper on the dirty state of the watertables, asking if there was not a surfaceman em- j ployed to clear them of orange and banana peels and other refuse lying J about. He suggested that the health inspector should get busy and make < some of the fruit vendors clean the i refuse from in front of their shops, j

A Sydney cable states that the s.s. Abadesa sailed to-day for Wanganui, and that the Kutoa has left Newcastle for Auckland.

Whilst driving- home on Friday evening with his wife and family, Mr. Bert Aplin sustained a severe injury, to his arm by being thrown out of the gig, the accident being caused by the horse stumbling. Mr. Alpin received surgical treatment, but wil'l be unable :o work for some time.

There is an interesting display in the windows of Messrs Collinson and Gifford, of a new creation in straw hats, known as the Henderson Hat/' and which is the latest innovation in ladies' elite-head wear. Messrs Collinson and Gifford are the sole agents for this new hat in the Taihape district. Iu connection with the Catholic Church Queen Carnival, the results for the month of August show tha. the greatest number of votes were polled for the Sports' candidate, the Hibernian candidate being second, the Mangaweka candidate and the Farmers' candidate fourth. In the children's carnival, Nonie Bradley headed the list for the month, Enid Welsh being second, and Mary O'Brien third. »

At a meeting of the King Counti\ sawmil'l and timber workers, held at Raetihi, the following resolution was passed:—"That this representative meeting of workers of Raetihi and surrounding district do hereby support and endorse the action of the N.Z. Labour Party in cabling to the Committee of Action in England approving of the necessary and timely intervention to prevent the outbreak of war, and we beUieve Mr. J. R. Clynes when he says that if Government is unable to prevent war the people will have to prevent it for them."

"The supply of boys who had passed the Public Service examination was much below requirements last year," says the Public Service Commissioner in his annual report. "This may be accounted for by the increased popularity of "the medical, legal, and teaching professions, and the fact that the age of leaving schodl appears to be gradually becoming higher than before the war. There ifc still an unsa isfied demand for .accountants with the university qualifications, and for male shorthand -writers. Female shorthand writers are even more difficult to obtain than ,during tho war."

At the Empire Timber Exhibi.ion, organised by the Board of Trade to advertise in the United Kingdom the extent and variety of the Empire's forest wealth, opened in London last month, there were about 800 different woods on exhibition. Many were practically unknown in England, though of great beauty and commercial value. India made the most attractive individual display. Among the specimens from her forests were the shishan wood (used in building ' Solomon's temple), Anderman marble wood, black walnut, and many other kinds, of which strikingly beautiful furniture has been made. India has almost unlimited supplies of timber.

A case, stated to be the first of its kind! in England, was heard at Bournemouth, when Reginald Edmund Tollerfield, an air pilot employed by the Bournemouth Aviation Company, was summoned under the Air Navigation Regulations* for flying 100 low and doing trick flying .iver Biurnemiuth. Two E.A.F. officers said they saw Tobberfield flying over the town 500 ft to 600 ft up. and doing the Immelmann turn, a lightning air manoeuvre called after the German "hawk" pilot of that name. Tollerman said the turn was not trick flying, but a quick way of swerving. He denied that he could not have landed safely if his engine had failed. He was fined £SO.

Residents living in the vicinity of Curran Street beach, Pinsinby, were

amazed yesterday morning at seeing a man rushing wildly down Curran St., towards the beach, crying out as he went. At the concrete steps leading down to the beach he fell injuring his head and leg, but picking himself up lie hurried on across the sand and into the harbour. With amazing rapidity he gained deep water. Realising that something was tnfly amiss a party setoff in a boat and rescued th eman, still in an' excited state. It appears that he is a returned soldier, and is evidently suffering from, the effects of shell-shock. After rescue he was admitted to the hospital.