LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3586, 23 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The population of Vancouver is now 202,229, an increase of just under 30.000 within the last year. “These half-yearly reports should bo sent in quarterly,”’ remarked a minister at the Auckland Presbytery, and even the Scots laughed. «

It was decided at a meeting of the council of the Amateur Athletic Association at Wellington on Monday to endeavour to arrange for a visit dur- | ing the coming season from Thomas, I of Canada the world’s champion hurdler, and for a visit of a champion 1 sprinter. »

A notice • of interest to anglers rc fishing licenses appears in another column of this issue.

A Napier message stages that the tailoresses’ dispute has been settled, the employers agreeing to pay lOd per log hour, plus a bonus of 2d. The girls demanded 1/ per hour.

The owners of Returned Soldiers'* Association badges numbered 9/1012 and 2/513 may have same on producing satisfactory proof of ownership to the secretary of the Taihape R.S.A.

Complaint is made that the low value of potatoes is not proving of benefit to the householder who, by buying small quantities of the tubers, is required to pay in some ins ances as high in the aggregate, as £l9 per ton. sa » ; As a result of the return from shipments of apples sent to London, the Agricultural Department does not anticipate that the Government will he called upon for the payment of the guarantee that was made to the growers. An Auckland Press Association message states l that the Profiteering Tribunal, after investigation of gas production, recommends legislation to provide, among other things, that the consumer pay for the ga s on the basis of heat unit,

The Island of Java experiences l on an average 97 storms a year, or approximately two a week, the world's record Sumatra comes next, with her 86 storms per annum, while Rio tie Janiero, Borneo, and the Gold Coast have 50 each.

The Mamari is due to arrive at Port Chalmers to-day from London. The vessel has been delayed by westerly gales. She has 456 immigrants, 51 for Dunedin, 56 for Lyttelton, 40 for Greymouth, 152 for Wellington, and 156 for Auckland.

Last season 256,459 head of cattle, 4,658,789 sheep and 3,139,238 lambs were slaughtered at the various meat works in New Zealand. The increase compared with the previous season’s figures were: Cattle 37,588, sheep 968,745, and lambs 293,825.

■ The car which went oyer, the eipbankment near the cemetery on Tuesday was got up on to the road yesterday and towed into town for the necessary repairs. The car was rather badly damaged, and extensive repairs are necessary.

: 'Lambing percentages should be fairly good throughout the district, and the recent change in the weather should be of great benefit generally. (Since the series of frosts ended there has been a good growth of grass: which has benefitted all classes of stock. ’ -

: An octopus, measuring ten feet between the extremities of the tentacles, was captured on the rocks af Milford Beach on Wednesday afternoon last by two (Hamilton High School girls, who are spending a holiday at Takapuna. The octopus was dragged on to the beach above highwater marks by mean ■ of a garden rake.

A Southern farmer, in atempting ro justify the increase in the price of butter, writes to a Christchurch paper and suggests thafi a visit to the picture shows and theatres several nights a week would show the public whore the money goes that should be used for buying milk and butter. ” In othe - -' words, cui‘ out your amusement for the benefit of the profiteer.

Commenting on the question “Is dancing wicked?” the Rev. A. E. Gifford, of Adelaide, said dancing was not in“ itself. It depended on the dancers and on the dances. Rhythmic movement as (dancing must be classed among the natural and healthy pleasures. It was the poetry of motion. Instead of denouncing it, he wished they could restore the open dances on the green, such as were practiced in the old English villages.

Mr. Veit eh asked the Minister of Railways in the House on Tuesday if he will take into his favourable considers. ion an amendment of the railway freights in the direction of carrying Cook Island fruits at the same rata as New oZaland fruits. These fruits are almost entirely shipped to the per of Auckland, and the cost of transport from there to southern ports is very heavy; also, there is great delay in handling the fruits, resulting in a very heavy I'oss through wastage.

Trust a C.T. to know a good drink. They all “hike” on to D. & J. McCallum’s Perfection Whiskey. Why. it makes them fair of vim and vital-ity-—-lit to face the most obstreperous and obstinate prospect afid clinch his order. Don’t have too many though because Perfection Whiskey is more stimulating’ and more delicious than other brands. Say, “D. & J. McCaallum’s, please.” Bottled only by the proprietors, D. & J. Mc-

Callum, Edinburgh, Scotland. Distributors: A. Ha trick & Co. Ltd., Wanganui.

There is evidently money in old houses In the course of the hearing of a claim for possession at ithe Christchurch Magistrate's Court an instance was mentioned of an old bos of an house which had been condemned by the authorities. On the day on which it was condemned the owner seit: to work to “turn it into a bungalow,” as the city inspector put it, and it, was sold shortly afterwards for £650, and was now let at 30s per week “It’s what you might .term an up-to-date bungalow' now,” said Mr. Hardie. amidst laughter, as he left the witness-box.