LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3649, 10 December 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Education Board litis decided to appoint a teacher for the establishment of a District /’Sigh School' at Ohakune.

Nearly 40 per cent of the marriages which were the subject of petitions in the London Divorce Court in 15)1.8 were childless. Mr M. Goldsbury, headmaster of the Utiku School, has resigned, and we understand that it is his hrteuition to conduct .a private school elsewhere. iQne hundred is to be selected .as telephone number of every fire’ station in Canada., according to a decision of the anmiid convention of brigade chiefs.

It i* stated that she™ lambs are to yield Jibe grower IhfTT this season. The freezing companies got them latet year at 6Jd. There also an increased price for mutton.

At the Wanganui Education Board meeting on Wednesday, it was decided to try and Secure the use of a hall at Raetihi on account of the inadequacy of the school accommodation.

A teacher was re-i.<s’'ig to her class when she came across the word '“unaware.” Sc asked if anyone know the moaning. One little girl timidly raised her hand and gave the following delnition: “Unaware is what you put 01 first and take off last.” T^pl |

Entries for Mangaweka stock sale on 16th inst. are advertised.

The Waimarlno Racing Club has applied for a totalisator permit for a one-day meeting.

The Taihape Swimming Baths will be open for Club members and the general public on and after 11th December.

Machinist, yardman, yard labourer, camp cook, blade shearers, laundress, waitress, and general are advertised for.

On Sunday at 11 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Methodist Sunday School Anniversary Services will be held. Special singing by children. /

Mr Goldsbury, headmaster of Utiku School, will conduct a farewell service at Torere "bn Sunday at 7.30 p.m. Mr Goldsbury, who will be greatly missed leaves immediately for Wanganui, where he intends l to teach.

Owing to the illness of his wife, K. Bracken, the Australian jockey, will be unable to make the trip across to Auckland for the A.B.C. summer meeting. Bracken, it is understood, was to have ridden several of Mr G. L. Stead’s horses, and may have had the mount on First Salute in the Auckland .Cup.

The thirsty American now becomes inevitably, the turning point of anecdote. One such, visiting England, had just bought and pocketed a bottle of whisky when he was knocked down by a lorry. As ho picked himself up he felt something trickling down his leg. “Gee!’' he said, “I hope it’s blood.”

A trout, about 51b;si i nweight was caught at Ohaku'ne vhe other day, and it had protruding from the mouth the tail of "another sm ill trout some four or five inches in length, lie part which was in the stomach of the large trout was partly digested, and goes to prove that trout do considerable destuefion amongst their kind. Those who have just gone in for fiy- farming are experiencing a great deal of trouble in securing the necessary stock, as there i© little intimation on the part of holders to soil now that such good prices are riT'iig for butter fat. • Whenever stof-k ri available for sale, the prices arc very high, and in proportion to the price of butter-fat for the season; so that those who have come in late at > claim ing ,arc not likely to benefit by l.igh produce prices as much as they would have done had they been able to get a start curly in the season, when stock was much lower in price.