LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3588, 27 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A station cook is advertised for.

Entries for Raetihi Stock Sale on Ist October are advertised.

The owner of a stray be'ardy dog with white points is advertised for.

Two'boys are wanted at this office to deliver papers after school hours.

Butter can be .obtained surreptiously in Germany by the very rich at 60/ per lb.

Rats are becoming bold and numerous at Devonport (Auckland), and a poisoning campaign is to be initiated by the Borough Council.

Sir A. E. Kemp, the former Canadian Minister of Militia Overseas, returned uncashed to the Finance Department all the cheques received by him for his Ministerial salary during the war period.

A return presented to Parliament shows the approximate areas of the various classes of lands still unsettled in New Zealand to be as follows: Ist class, 155,072 acres; 2nd class, 1,280,648 acres; 3rd class, 1,769,463 acres; barren and worthless, 2,568,823 acres Total, 5,774,011 acres.

It is rumoured that in connection with the new defence scheme several changes in regard to registering of territorials and cadets will take place. The main idea of this will be to provide the police force with lists, with the right to take any eligible person along to the Defence Office and see that he is registered and attending parades l .

The following petition, signed by 80 of the largest sheepfarmers in the Gisborne district, representing ownership of one million sheep and 100,000 cattle, is to be forwarded to the Premier: The undersigned sheepfarmers in Poverty Bay district are of opinion that every encouragement should be given to buyers of frozen meat to secure new markets for our produce, and with this object in view Armours should be allowed to operate in the Dominion either to buy c.i.f. f.o.b. o" on the hooks for export with the safeguards existing under the 1918 Slaughtering Act. We consider the interests of the sheepfarmers fully protected by this legislation. Under no conditions would we be favourable to any American firm becoming owners or shareholders in our freezing works.