LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3629, 16 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' Additional entries for Raetihi stock sale are advertised. A new five-roomed buftgalow, with every convenience, is advertised for sale. The official results of the Rangitikel jCounty Council elections are an- ‘ 1 nounced in this issue. The gap on The Terrace, Wellington, caused by the destruction of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church by fire a few months ago, is to be made good by a new church, to be built in reinforced concrete. The building will seat about 700, and the style chosen will be . .classic.

The six men who were arrested on Saturday week in connection with alleged theft and receiving of sugar, missing from the Colonial Sugar Company’s works at Chelsea, came before Mr. E. C? Cutten, S.M., at Auckland yesterday, and were further remanded on bail till next Monday.

The Governor-General was tendered a civic reception at Christchurch on Saturday, and was presented with an address of welcome. In the course of his Lord Jellicoe expressed regret at being unable to be present at last week’s Boy Scouts Conference. He said he felt the Boy Scouts movement was one that was going to bs a great help to the Empire in the future,

A man who sought sanctuary from the rigours of the blustery night at the Auckland police station on Sunday with a tale of no home and no means was accommodated with a cell, but when he came before a magistrate this morning charged as an idle and disorderly person he protested. “I’m in a permanent position,’-' he declared, “and have .just been off duty for a day or two. I can go back to work to-morrow if too much fuss is not made about it in the papers.” The police found by inquiry that the man’s statement concerning his work was materially correct, and the charge of vagrancy was withdrawn.

“I suppose you have already ered that the League of Nations is dead,” writes an American to an Auckland resident wdio met him on a I'econt tour in the United States. The writer adds; “The State of Maine went Republican by an unprecedented majority, which, in my humble judgment, means repudiation of Wilson and all his works. We arc thoroughly tired of a one-man Government. It docs not mean, in my judgment, that those who came into power will be any less friendly to Great Britain. The Irish agitation has been very trying, and the Sinn Fein crowd very noisy, but I do not believe they can possibly cause any serious trouble.”

A quarter-acre section, with fourroomed cottage, at Mataroa, is for sale. Five good cows, and a half-draught horse broken to saddle and harness,, are advertised for sale. A New Plymouth,, telegram announces the death of Mr .Henry Weston, proprietor of the Taranaki Herald since 1867. All accounts in connection with the Hospital Carnival should be rendered immediately, and books of raffle tickets returned at once. A band practice will be held in the baij/I room to-morrow (Wednesday), at 8 p.m, A full attendance is requested as it is desired to place the band on a permanent footing. A social and dance in aid of the Hospital Funds will be held in the Bennett’s Siding Hall on Thursday evening. Prices of admission will be 3s for gents and Is 6d for ladies.' ‘Visitors from Taihape will be conveyed free. . ■lt would seem as if the workers in the freezing industry of the Dominion * are unanimous in the decision not to accept the wages offered- by tb.e employers for the season about to commence. Several parties of these men in various districts have met of late and rejected the offer, and at least one party further decided not to offer themselves for work during the season. Members of the Auckland Abattoir Assistants/ and Freezing Works

Employees' Union met on Saturday evening to consider the matter, a very fair attendance being present, and again the offer was rejected, with further decisions that the men refuse engagement during the season, and not “turn to” until the matter'is settled to the .satisfaction of those concerned. The offer of the employers is an increase of 20 per cent. ,on the 1919 rates. «