LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3597, 8 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The officially corrected census figures show the population of New York city to be 5,620,048. The Palmerston North Borough Council has notified that street lighting would be cut off until further notice.

A supply of new season's butter has arrived in Raetihi, and is now on sale at 2/10 per lb. It is stated that new season's butter will be on sale at Taihape from to-day at about the same price.

The series of euchre parties anu dances under thei auspices of the Mackay Lodge, U.A.O.D. will be continued in the Hall tonight, at 8 o'clock. *<*

A gentleman at Taihape, being unable to proceed to Wellington last week because of the heavy rains, uelegraphed to a friend, "Cannot come. Wash out on the line." In a few hours a reply came: "Never' mind. Borrow a shirt."—Call.

on Friday, 22nd October, a dance vv in be hem in tae Bennett's Siding id am of the tiports Ground ImprovenientgU'und. Mr Kilkody's lorry will convey passengers from the Taihape Post Office at 7 # 30 p.m. free of charge, and music will be supplied by Mr S. Dash's orchestra.

After a loss of nearly 8,000,000 uons ox merchant shipping, during the war, Ureat Britain's commercial tonnage is now about almost equaJ to me pre-war tonnage of 20,534,000. Of mo present merchant fleet 1,334,000 tons are former German ships. A number of new shipping companies, both large and small, have been registered in the last few moni.hs.

"If youngsters were properly trained and looked after they would never appear in this Court," .said Mr. McCarthy, S.M., during a sitting of the Christehureh"' Juvenile Court. "I have been studying child crimes for a long time, and I agree with the American who said, ''Show me the parents of the children going wrong, and I will show you* the-real wrongdoers."

Whitebait are late in coming up the local rivers in any number this season, the catches so far being small (says the Levin Chronicle). In the South Island the best months for whitebait are September and October, and on the West Coast the "kittle fish are so numerous that; two canning factories are kept going in G-reymouth alone.

About thirteen years ago a campaign of tree-planting was commenced in Western Canada, and the face of the prairie has since been gradually transformed by the introduction of millions of trees which have changed the bareness of the prairies. The end of another quartet of a century will doubtless find this wo.rk completed—every farm- with its avenue of hardy trees, giving welcome shade and protection.

The New York Board alderman granted Police Commissioner Enright's contingent fund 200,000 dollars with which to investigate radical activities, conduct secret, service work and pursue radicals throughout the nation independently of the New York city's police force and the Federal authorities. Commissioner Enright originally asked for £IIO,OOO, a sum which was increased in view of the Wall Street explosion.

Speaking at a meeting of farmers in Masterton on Saturday afternoon, Major Norton, managing director of :ihe Bristol and Dominions' Producers' Association, stated that in his opinion all the inflated prices which had prevailed were due to speculation. He advised

them not to look for big prices in the future, but for prices which would be reasonable to both producer and consumer. He remarked that the inflated prices could not last, and had to fall.