LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 256, 27 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

By the end of the month the hop fields of the Nelson and surrounding districts will have been completely picked, and pickers, mostly girls and young married women, will return to their homes. Wellington supplies the major portion of the female labor for the hop-fields, and close on two hundred women and girls will return to the City within the course of a fortnight. This will not cause a glut in the female labor market, for these pickers return to their homes, and <o not seek other employment. Mr. Grainger, of the West Coast Refrigerating Co., speaking to a Chronicle reporter, said that considerable difficulty was being experienced in getting cheese shipments away just now, owing to the heavy forwardings of frozen meat. For instance, he pointed out that the Rangatira, whicli was to have taken 9500 crater, of cheese, could only manage to accommodate G3OO, thus leaving 3200 cases to be stored ut Patea, as part of the next shipment. The season is now "tailing off," and the supplies coming in have decreased considerably.

The epidemic of infantile paralysis has reached Southland, savg tho News, and already four cases have been reported in the district to the Health Officer (Mr. Blealdey). Two of the victims reside in Invercargill, one of the cases having been reported nearly a month ago, and the other last week. On Monday morning a child at Riverton, aged sixteen mouths, was found to be affected by the disease, and the other case is at Gore, the victim being seven years of age. Tn the Invercargill eases the ages of the sufferers are six and seven year. l :.

The divisional camp to be held at Takapau from April 27 to May 10 will be the largest Territorial camp ever held in New Zealand. In the past only brigade camps liave been held, but at Takapau divisional camp all branches of the services will be under canvas. Tt is expected that 5000 men will attend, and-the labor of finding equipment at the camp for this number is necessarily great. It is estimated that 1000 tents and 50 marques will have to be erected, and it will probably require two special trains to convey all the camp outfit to Takapau. The Manawatu Gorge was the scene of several accidents during the past week, reports the Auckland Herald, The first was caused by the meeting of a mob of cattle and Hock of sheep and before the passing was effected three of the beasts went over the bank and were killed.

Then along came, a motor-bike with a side-car attached. The connecting rod broke and the side-car just escaped going over the side and falling to the bottom of the gorge. A day or two after this a mau was driving a mob of sheep and bis horse was following him, when along came a motor-cycle, at which' the horse took' fright and jumped over the edge into the bed of the gorge and was considerably damaged. "I had a most enjoyable slav at Rotonia," remarked Karl Grey to' a Herald l epresentative in the course of an interview. "There yon have," be continued, "a most delightful pleasure resort and the foundations well laid of a | "lost attractive town. I was sorry to leave it. I was specially pleased with [the forest nursery, and with the encr<'v which is being displayed by the Government in producing I lie timber you will require in annually increasing' quantities." Continuing, be said that, he had -visited the prison camp, six miles from Rotorna, and was delighted to see the humane and progressive character of the 1 prison administration. "In both your 1 forest work and jour prisons." lie con- ' eluded, "you are setting a good example ' to other parts' of the. Empire." ! RICKED HIS RACK. ■'

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Hawera has decided to instal tepid baths.

The Moturoa "Regatta Committee has decided to admit all children urn! r ii years of age without charge to the anniversary celebrations on Tuesdav next.

The popular young local vocalist, Miss V. Gilbert, will again sing at the Empire Theatre this evening. Miss Gilbert's song will be the Becond item after the interval. . '>

Mr. Hoffmann claims in to-day's issue that the Ilaake stands supreme in the great world of low-priced cottage pianos to-day. He will be pleased to explain why at the piano warehouse next Webster Bros.' mart.

The Hawera water tower was officially tested on Wednesday. According to the Star, the results proved very satisfactory. The engineer is to be given a bonus of £IOO for his work in connection with building the tower. In to-day's issue Messrs. Webster Bros, advertise a sale of a considerable quantity of second-hand timber and a large quantity of second-hand corrugated iron, to be sold on Saturday morning next at 11 o'clock. About half the iron to be submitted is in very flno order, and anyone requiring good secondhand timber would do well to attend this sale.

There was only a fair attendance at tho usual monthly meeting of the W.C.T.U. on Wednesday. A letter was read from the New Zealand superintendent of Good Citizenship regarding the coming election of Mayor and councillors, also school committees. A letter from the Good Templar Lodge, asking assistance from members in the juvenile work was read and agreed to. The date for receiving reports from delegates to tho Gisbornc Convention was fixed for April 8, in the Lodge room, when there will be a social afternoon open to non-members. The Willard picnic report showed two new members had joined, and a good colectiun taken up for missionary work. A home meeting was held on March 4 at Mrs. Wickham's, Hospital Road.

Two Fitzroy boys recently scught adventure and found it not, unless the intervention of a constable can be counted as satisfying a lust' for new experiences. Under some exciting inlluence, possibly an undue admiration for the doings of some movin<* picture hero, they sallied forthwith stock whips and other cow-pmjchin? and buccaneering paraphernalia, and annexed a couple of horses. Their career of adventure led them to Mol'au, where thev succumbed either to the "hack to the land" impulse, or to I lie influence of a depleted treasury. Tie that as it mav. the two adventurer* accepted a position of pulling carrots and milking cows for a Mokau storekeeper, who, scenting a loose screw, unostentatiously d»ta'ned them.

Enquiries had been meanwhile set on foot, and the two bovs were returned to the paths of righteousness by tho Mokau constable.

Ono of the. extreme penalties liable to lie inflicted under (lie Defence Act for ' non-compliance with lite regul.itinns is the disfranchisement of the offend; r in j Dominion politics, (hiriously enough, [ one of the rewards earned liy the terri--9 torials who take an interest in their 3 work is disfranchisement in local polit tics. Such a thing was never intended, r perhaps, but nevertheless it is a fact j that the men of this regiment who Are entitled to vote in the forthcoming municipal elections will be debarred from " the exercise of that privilege if they at- - tend the annual training camp, for the men will be under canvass when the ! elections take place. This, of course, ! affects officers, and a remedy ought to b« : found easily enough, cither by so ar- • ranging the future encampments that ' the Territorials will not he deprived of 1 their rights of citizenship, or by mak- ' ing arrangement that will enable them f to cast their votes bv the adoption of a ' system similar to that of the absent 1 voters' permits obtaining at the Parliamentary elections, i A remarkable instance of the fortitude > of an old woman in the back country not ■ far from fiorc ia being related to illus- ■ trate the hardihood and endurance of 1 the earlier settlers in this part of the world. It is stated that the old lady in question was engaged discing a paddock when the horses became startled, the result being that she was thrown from the seat, and one of the discs passing over her cut a deep wound in her thigh. She rose and stopped the horses, but until she noticed the blood from the wound was unaware of her injuries. Procuring a coarse, needle and some strong thread, she went uuassisled to a neighbor's place and requested the lady of the house to stitch up the wound. A remonstrance that the needle was old and rusty was made but the sufferer merely suggested that "it should he dipped in turpentine" in order to avoid any possibility of poisoning from the use of such an unantiscptic instrument. Five stitches were made, and three days later the victim of the operation was taking light exercise by grubbing in the vicin-

ity of licr homo. The value of artificial manure as a fertiliser was brought prominently under the notice of three officials of the Pahiatua branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union (Messrs A. Ross, A. McKay, and J. A. Walsh) by Mr. G. If. Suistcd, an up-to-date farmer, of Kohimii, on Wednesday last, says the Wairarapa Age, In showing the visitors over a 'iO-ncre crop of swede turnips, one of the finest ever grown in the district, Mr. Suistcd explained that he used 1121b of I uniip manure to the acre, leaving, in eacli instance, one of the drills unmanured. The contrast, in the growth of tin? swedes which had received the assistance of manure, as against those unmanured. was truly remarkable, j \\ here the fertiliser had been used the j swedes had attained an astonishingly | large dimension, and looked particularly clean and heallhv, while the unnianurcd porlions nt the paddock, in comparison produced a small, weedy, and altogether insignificant kind of turnip. Tt is ecrtainU an object-lesson as to the value «>l artificial manure.

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