LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3576, 11 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A girl for drapery establishment is advertised for. At a special meeting of the Patca Borough Council held on Monday, it. was decided to raise a special loan of £2OOO for the purpose of erecting two dwellings on municipal property.

A double furrow Reid and Gyay plough, as good as new, is advertised for sale.

A spare rixu and tyre lost from a motor car on Tuesday night arc advertised for.

A Cracow newspaper states that Trotsky’s son was killed during die recent fighting at PultuSk.

It is proposed. to erect a gateway to the Patea Domain in memory of the boys who fdDLI during the war.

A few more years of shilly-shally-ing, and Germany will demand an indemnity from the Allied and Associated Powers. —Columbia Record.

The United States Department has intimated to Mexico that it is impossible to recognise the new Government while a confiscatory policy towards American oil interests continues.

Mr. Crabb, in at most interesting address at the Lunch Club on the Mangauao hydro-electric scheme % said it would bo in full >'swing within three years', unless an unforseen delay occurred .—Manawatu Times.

A large consignment of Java tea i» reported to he en route New Zealand. It is understood that, retainers will- be able to sell this cheaper than Ceylon tea, but apparently the consumer has to acquire a taste for it, as the Java tea is more suitable for blending. "

The second re-union of the surviving members of 'the Main Body, 7th Wellington West Coast Company, will he. held at Marton on 18th inst. at 7.30 p.m. The addresses of some of those entitled to attend 'this function are not known, and if any in this district have not received notice they should inform the secretary, E.S.A., Taihape, or Mr. A. Blair, G.P.0., Marton.

“We cannot help him; we can only feel sorry for him, ’ ’ remarked the Mayor at Devonport Borough Council, when dealing with a ratepayer’s complaint that he had. been making overpayment of rates for some years. It was stated that die error had arisen through a surveyor’s wrong measuremem s. The council, however, had no power to retirrn the excess of rates paid.

A message of welcome to the distinguished aviator, Sir Keith Smith, from the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. J. H. Gunson, on behalf of the citizens, was dropped from a seaplane to the Rivcrina On Monday near Tiri. Unfortunately !he message fell straight down the funnoll of the vessel. “It was exceptionally fine bombing,” remarked Sir Keith last evening, "and so was a second message which struck the ship’s lifeboat and* fell into the sea. ” 1

The gross output of coal from the State mines during the year ended •March 31, .1920, was 156,280 tons, as compared with 214,919 tons for the previous year, a- decrease of 58,691 tons. Point Elizabeth Colliery produced 33,553 tons of marketable coail, a decrease of 48,499 tons on the production of the previous year. Liverpool Colliery produced 115,650 tons of marketable coal, a decrease of 9579 tons on the previous year’s production, The miners employed were only slightly fewer than during the preceding year.

When the Prices Investigation Tribunal was in Hawera a complaint was made concerning the price charged by a Hawera firm for soleing and heeling a pair of child’s shoes. The contention of the complaint that 7s 6d was an excessive charge for the. work was investigated by the tribunal, and as a result the full amount was refunded to the complainant. The. tribunal in a covering 'letter to the 'complainant, stats that it “feels that you have rendered a good public, service, and is certain Chat your ednjplaint will have a very far-reaching effect, for good.”

The severe frosts experienced in some parts of Taranaki during the past winter have played havoc with the fern, to the great joy of the settlors In the Whangamomona district, who, just before the weather broke, took advantage of a high wind to ibave an out-of-season tire. Fern fires blazed in all. directions, and some good clearings ween effected. The native bush has also felt the severity—tawa and hinau trees are quite browned, koromiko and other tender shrubs hang in ribbons, and tree ferns are black-•'ri'-'ci and dead looking. Sibbowoods aopoar to be the only native plan's uapablr of resisting the frosts.

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