LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3664, 30 December 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An advertiser is desirous of purchasing a harness pony, ((met and staunch.

Ties make useful presents. Dozens of dozens to choose from and all on view at ThomaaT.

Dr. Guy Scholefield, a New Zealander with English experience, has purchased the Wairarapa Age newspaper.

Buy her a Voile Blouse —something sensible, you will find the right one at Thomas’.

There will be no publication of the Daily Times on Saturday (New Year’s Day), nor Monday, January 3rd, Advertisers and subscribers please note.

A great variety of Tray Cloths, Duchess Sets Runners. Those make make useful presents. Get them at Thomasi’.

The Dunedin correspondent of the Auckland Star states that Mr V. V. Fraser, Assistant Public Service Commissioner, will be the next President of the Arbitration Court.

The assortment of Ladies’ Handkerchiefs make a great show; come in and see them for yourself at Thomas’.

The dairymen in the Taranaki dis_ trict will probably receive 2s 7d per lb for butter fat which, represents an advance of 7d compared with last season’s prices.

Messes McLaughlan Bros, have a large consignment of -Christmas hams for sale at 1/10 per lb’

People of the United States spend about £50,000,000 for ice cream annually.

Protracted drought has ruined the banana industry in many parts of the island of Jamaica.

A- reward is offered for the return of a small cameo brooch lost on Sunday.

The persons who have been advertising for lost dogs should make in. quiries at the Times - offioo for information relating to same.

“‘Germany will easily be the first nation to recover from the war, ’ ’ stated Mr J. C. Cooper, at Masterton.

Fortunes are being made out of kangaroo skins by settlers in Western Australia. Two men are reported to have made £IOOO each in six months.

A vegetable curiosity has been dis. covered in a garden in New Plymouth, A cabbajge in which the heart was jusl developing, had two leaves grown in the form of a funnel.

The White 'House boardinghouse is to be offered foV sale by auction on .Wednesday, 19th January, 1921, by Messrs Ward and Co.

The “War Cry” announces that General Booth has appointed Commissioner D. C. Lamb, the head of the emigration department of the Salvation Army, to be international secretary • for social affairs.

Don’t fqrget you save money on everything you buy at Thomas’ this month. Ten per cent, discount makes your Xmas presents easier to buy. This is what you save by buying. at Thomas’.

Dr. Frengley, of the Health Department, informed the Hawera Hos. pital Board that if cost between £BOO to £IOOO for every bed provided in a hospital on the present price paid for building construction

The public should make a note of the fact that the premises of S. S. Timbs, and of the Tui Street Meat Company, will be closed on Monday, 3rd January, as well as on Saturday, Ist January. The warmer weather has enticed sharks to bruise close inshore along the Tarandki coast, Recently near Hawera* a fishing party hooked several of the monsters (one ten feet long) in less than four feet of water,

The public should make a note of the fact that the promises of S. S Timbs, and of the Tui Street Meat Company, will be closed on Monday, 3rd January, as well as on Saturday, Ist January.

Mrs L. P, Sharpe, widow of the late Mr John Sharpe, who was killed in a shunting accident at' Papakura, has been awarded £I4OO compensation, together with £35 costs. The ariginaL claim was for £2OOO, but the amount of compensation was arnica, bly arranged between the parties.

In February a large party, consisting of members of Parliament ‘‘'and their wives, will tour the hot lakes and Bay of Plenty districts. The residents of Rotorua are making ar. rangements to entertain the visitors. Several Wellington members intend making the trip, which will be conducted under the auspices of the East Coast League.

An exceptionally interesting cal picture has at .length reached New Zealand, depicting the All Blacks in South Africa. E. A. Beiliss, our local favourite, is partictt. larly prominent, one view in fact showing him after his collarbone was broken iil the match. This topical will be shown at the King’s to-night.

The secretary of the Returned Soldiers ’ Association has been ad. vised by the Commissioner of Crown Lands that the Land Purchase Board will inspect a number of properties iu the Taihape district which have been offered to the Government for sub-division and. settlement by returned soldiers. The total area of the various holdings offered is about 8000 acres, and the inspection by the Board will be made, about the second week in January.

An American tourist, who travelled down the Wanganui river, expressed himself to a Herald reporter as follows: “You have a wonderful coun. try and you have your New "Zealand sunshine, but one thing you have not got and that is a plentiful supply of your own products.” The visitor s tben went on to explain that since his arrival in the Dominion he was heartily sick offlnding canned fruit from his own country on the menu at various hotels, and in a land flowing with milk lie had on more than one occasion been served with the condensed article. “We can get plenty of the tinned commodity in my country,” he added, “without having to juggle with it here, and to say the least of it the advertisement from a tourist point of view is bad.”