LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3615, 30 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Methodist Church on Temperance Sunday to-morrow), 'at 7 p.m. Mr Lea’s subject will be “Strong Drink. ” Soloists: Mrs Banks and Mrs Durand

A statement was presented to the Eangitikci County Council on Thursday showing the general rates levied up to October 28 had been £34,359 11s 2d; special, £4715 Is 2d; payments totalled £6769 9s 6d, leaving £32,305 2s lOd outstanding.

The scarcity of houses to let in Dunedin was illustrated in the Magistrate’s Court by a witness who said that he Went to sec a house half* an hour after the paper containing the advertisement Was published, and found that he was the 47th applicant on the list.

The following nominations have been received for the four vacancies on the Wanganui Hospital Board for the Rangitikei County Council, viz., Messrs Robert Brown, B. P. Lethbridge, A. G. Simpson and G. E. Anderson, all being sitting members of the Rangitikei County Council.

“Some people think that a clergyman should go around with a face like a yard of tripe, but I don’t think so he should be joyful when his people are happy, and sympathetic when they sorrow'. As St. Paul said, he should be all things to all men.”-—Canon Bean at a reunion in Christchurch.

“When husband and wife quarrel, as you w'ould know from your own experience,” said Mr. W. Hoban to Mr. S. McCarthy, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch, “it. is Very hard to bring them together again” Uproarious laughter on the legal benches' informed Mr. Hoban that he had made a faux pas, and he hastened to add: "From your magisterial experience, of course, I mean.”

Apparently aeroplane flights have

their disadvantages as far as some farmers in the vicinity of the aviation gounds at Westmere are concerned '(says the Wanganui Herald). It was mentioned at the Farmers’ Union meeting that one dairyman had stated that his milk had dropped considerably owing to his cows taking fright at the aeroplane. Another farmer had to suspend ploughing operations as the cquines evidently resented the periodical aerial visitations over the farm. This Avro also caused a general consternation in the -poultry,yards for a time, and the hens adopted a temporary “go-slow” policy in egg production, but having recovered from the original fright have settled down to business as usual.