LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3579, 15 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kenloha lias accepted- the New Ponth Wales Swimming Union's invi*n+ion to visit Australia. KahanaT>inVn also hopes to accept.

It is said that the Quality of some of the coal used on steamers is very poor and that, the schedule times are being kept with extreme difficulty.

By the will of the late Mr Patrick Lyne, who died last year, the Wellington Catholic Education Board will benefit to the extent of £3OOO.

The city of Wellington is now the largest municipal area in the Dominion owing to the inclusion of the borough of Miramar. The area is 16.000 acres. A flask of gunpowder and a number of cartridges were recently sent among some refuse to the Wellington city destructor. They were discovered before they went into the tire.

Antwerp municipality has decided that, any of its women employees who present the country with a child will get three months' holiday on pay. This leave will not he counted as absence or holidays.

The re-inar,riage of war widows is a remarkable feature of the matrimonial market is the United Kingdom (says a cable message fo the Australian papers). Of 233,700 widows in Great Britain, including only 300 officers ' widows, 85,000 have already ■married again, and these mairriages arc going on at tie rate of 2000 a month

The Social Democratic Party on Sunday afternoon opened a Socialist Sunday school in Palmerston North for all children and grown-ups. These Sunday Schools are a prominent feature of the Labour movement in Britain.

A sovereign remedy for the dimming of the glass window screen on motor cars during misty or frosty weather has been put forward by an Ashburton motorist. He recommends the cutting in half of an onion and the rubbing of it on the glass.

Ove ; r £1.0,000 has been deposited with the Nelson Borough Council in response to the Council's decision to accept money on deposit at 3i per cent., with a view to saving the interest charges on the overdraft. The saving to the Council in interest on that amount will be £250 per annum.

"I visited Palestine a few months ago," said Mr. Israel Cohen at Dunedin in the course of an address On the scheme- to re-assemble a Jewish nation in the Holy Land, "and everywhere the Jews with whom I conversed spoke in the highest terms of the New Zealand troops who had assisted in its recapture. Above all General Chaytor was acclaimed the conqueror of the Jordon Valley."

A former resident of Geelong, i; German, who, after being interned, was sent to Germany at his request, his* written to a Geelong friend describing conditions in Germany. He says that he earns £5 a day. but it takes £3 a day for himself ond' his whf« to live. Boots cost £l2 a pair, and all clothing is very dear. Cows could not be secured- under £4OO, and horses* were practically unprocurable at £6OO,

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands, in answer to a question put in the House of Kepresentatives by Mr. ,T. A. Nash (Palmers* n NoTth), said that if a soldier had paid the valuation fee of two guineas for one property, he was not asked, as a rule, to pay the fee again for the valuation of another property. But that could not be allowed to apply to property after property, especially as; on some occasions two valuators had 'to be called in. ■ •

It is understood Lord Incheape is receiving satisfactory inquiries"" regarding forty-two ex-German liners which he is offering for sale. It is pointed out that while there 'is no great shortage of tramp tonnage, liner tonnage is stjll required for replacement. It is expected the big companies will 1 buy the largest vessels, for example, the Bismark, as their .running requires specialised management, but the smaller vessels should find a ready sale as there is a great shortage thereof.

"Every plank in that platform will be given effect to. A great many of them have been given effect to already, " said the Prime Minister on Tnseday pointing as he spoke to a copy of the Keform manifesto issued diiiTng the recent election. "Before the term of the present Parliament has come to an end," Mr. Massey

said, "I" pledge my word to this House that if they have not all been given effect to, it will not be my fault. I went to a lot of trouble over that manifesto, and I am glad to say that it appealed to the intelligence of the people of this country."

The latest in the matter of strikes is reported from one of the Wellington golf links, where have evidently been holding meetings in emulation of their elders. Upon the members of the club arriving at the links the other day, they were confronted with a notice which conveyed to them the interesting information that "owing to the high cost of living and the high price of leather" —this at once set the golfers smiling, as many of the caddies do not wear boots—"an increase of one shilling per round (the present fee is 1/6)' is demanded. Unless the advance is agreed to," the caddies' ultimation proceeded, "a strike will be declared, will be continued'unMnEe increase is paid, for only when the increase is granted, and only then, will the strike be declared off."

Speaking at, the annual meeting of the Gonlburn branch of the Released Prisoners' Association, Judge Bevan said that the presence of gaol? was a reflection on our social status. Most of the gaol inmates were not properly educated. They were educated up to the age of .14 years, and then turned out to fend for themselves. Boys who did not leave school till 18 or 19 seldom mixed with the criminal class, for the simple reason that the last three or four years at school were the only ones when a boy got any world influence. It was during those years that the boy<*came under the influence of the spirit of the school. The time had come when they should try and get their legislators to raise the age for leaving schoof, certainly for another two years. If the agewere raised enormous numbers of the criminal class would be eliminated. I

Entries for Taihape Stock Sale on Wednesday next are advertised. At Mr. Eicliard's shop, in Station Street, there is a full supply of cabbages, cauliflower, lettuce, and onion plants, on sale —ail in prime condition.

Ecsidents outside the water supply area have benefitted toy the downpour of rain, as there was a shortage of water for domestic purposes owing to the dry spell.

Applications are inivted for the position of organising secretary to Taihape Soldiers' Memorial Committee at a salary of £4 per week, plus 2$ per cent, commission on gross sum collected. Preference is to be biven to an applicant with a knowledge of the district.