LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3590, 29 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Loudon newspaper reports that Mrs. Sissons, of Mansfield, aged 100, made a fight in an aeroplane.

In reporting on the Timaru electric lighting system the new manager, Mr. G. Wilson says: "I have gone over the whole borough reticulatlo uq*(lA present installed and regret to say it is one of the worst I have ever seen.” Mr. Wilson outlines a' scheme which would cost £21,309.

A regulation has been gazetted prohibi ing the sending of bees from the Auckland district to any other district in the Dominion without a permit from the Agricultural Department, and in order that the bees prior to their dispatch may noi have excess to any flowers or other vegetation, they are to be Quarantined for three days.

Draught: horses are becoming dearer and dearer in Otago. A dealer who went to a country sale a few days ago found the bidding up to £35 and £4O for horses that six years ago would have been knocked down at about £5. A good working draught is worth £SO and more, and one of the principal carters put down his whole team at a value of £4O per head.

A meeting of the Soldiers ’ Memorial Committee was called for last night, but as Messrs E. A. Davies, J,. E. Norriss, Hall, E, Eenihan, and W. R. Benneit we,re the only members of the Committee to turn up, the meetling (lapsed for wantj of a quorum. The number of members of this committee is more than twenty, and it is regrettable that so few of them take a sufficient amount of interest in the memorial to think it worth while attending a meeting. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 6th October, at 8 p.m., in the Mayor’s Office at, the Town Hall.

Entries for Taihapo stock sale are adertised.

A child’s cot, in good condition, is advertised for sale.

Tenders for splitting about 4000 cords of firewood. Particulars are advertised. *

A bay mare, two-year-old colt (half'draught);' and aged black mare have been impounded from Pukeokahu Riding, and a chestnut mare from Mataroa Road.

It is stated on good authority that a petition is io be presented to Sir Thos. Mackenzie shortly after his arrival in New Zealand asking him to contest the Patea seat at the next General Election.

M. R. A.' Wright, M.P., has been approached by a number of prominent citizens and asked to contest the Wellington Mayoralty at the next election, on the understanding that Mr. J. P. Luke does not intend to offer himself for re-election.

“Some years ago, if I had been asked which grass I would keep if I had to let all others go, I would Have said" perennial ryegrass. Today, after more experience, I would choose cocksfoot,” said Dr Hilgendorf, when addressing a farmersmecting at Ashburton on Saturday.

Mr. A, Buchanan was in a satirical mood at the Farmers ’ Union meeting at Palmerston North on Saturday morning, when he gave notice to move: “That the Farmers’ Union cordially invites the watersiders to purchase out of their excess w%es good farm lands, employ labour to work such farms under the same conditions in striking and going slow as the wharf labourers enjoy, and calculate the cost of producing for themselves. ’ ’ —Standard.

In recognition of the gift of numerous war trophies sent out to the Dominion (says a London correspondent), the New Zealand Government has presented to the Imperial War Museum, at the Crystal Palace, three life-size figures representing various branches of the New Zealand forces. The figures are made of paper mache, and represent an infantryman with rifle and full pack, an artilleryman with rifle and pack, an artilleryman, and a dismounted member of the Mounted Rifles.

An anomaly in the pensions law mentioned in the House of Representatives by Mr, Statham (Dunedin Central.) If a woman with children is left a widow, the State will pay a pension in respect to the children, but if the mother dies and then the father dies later, the children get no pension. Sir William Herries said that the whole of pensions amendments depended upon the cost and the amount of money available. He would, take a special note of the point raised, and have it considered.

<l When last I wrote,-” states Mr. Thos. Todd in a letter received in Gisborne from Edinburgh, “I was scared about the possibility of trade depression. I am so still, for all the financial authorities seem to me Ito be standing, watching and listening for the first whispers of the storm. It may blow over, but everyone seems to be anxious, and that in itself is enough to cause a disaster when prices are so high as they arc now. Business depends on credit. Translate""that into ‘Business depends on confidence, ’ and you will see why I am seared. ’'

“Do you class butter as essential?” asked a member of the Legislative Council when the Hon. Dr. Collins remarked that he hoped the people would not be driven to taking margarine. ‘ T do, most certainly,” he replied ”It is one of the most essential things.” Dr. Collins said he would like the Health Department to make inquiries into the result on the health of the people of Denmark of the exportation of large quantities of butler, He had reason to believe that the exportation of so much butter, and aconscquent shortening of supplies for home consumption in Denmark, had been followed by the development of certain diseases. That was a point he would like the Health Department to investigate.

Mr. T. E. Y, Seddon, M.P., in speaking at a cost of food meeting, said that he had noticed in the States that requests from President Wilson or other recognised loaders had a wonderful social sanction from the nation. He instanced a time when petrol was in very short supply, and the President asked the American people to give up all use of motor cars on Sundays, so as to save the commodity. This was promptly done, and Mr. Seddon found that, as he was on .a mission, and obliged to travel on the Sabbath, he was continually .stopped by chains of self-appointed police who held hands aceross the road. He was obliged to show his credentials in each case. Mr, Seddon urged social sanction to all means as an aid to remedying shortages and other evils in New Zealand.

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