LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A London cable states that the Prince of Wales viciled Tattersall's and bought a. hunter for 400 guineas. 'Die case of the Inspector of Awards ugainst H. Brown and Co., reported yesterday, was for a penalty for breach of award, ,-tnd not for the amount of overtime said to be due; the amount duo for overtime worked being a separate matter. Two youths named Roland Breeze and Ke.ineth Austin, aged 17 and 1!) years respectively, who stowed away on the steamer Moeraki at Sydney, and were during the voyage to Wellington, will appear before the Court in' a week's time, owing to the fact that they are undergoing quarantine

According to an expert, Great Britain's extravagance in the past is shown as follows: She spent per annum £5,000,000 on golf, £7,000,000 on football, £7,500,000 on hunting, £20,000,000 on gambling, £25,000,000 on jewellery, £28,000,000 on millinery, £38,000,000 on tobacco, £181,000,000 on strong drink.

The men who were taken under police escort to ..ellington on Tuesday were intercepted at Wanganui and returned to New Plymouth, a mistake having been made, the men being Galician Poles, whose nationality was recognised by the Polish consul in London. These men have been engaged for some years in oil boring at Moturoa. At Tuesday's meeting of the Returned Soldiers Association the chairman (Licut.-Colonel Evans) stated that ho believed in a living wage. They were j'aying Mr. Ellis (the secretary) a very poor salary, and in that connection he did not mind stating that he (the chairman) was receiving probably the smallest pay of any man in the Dominion. His official salary was £ls per annum (laughter), so he knew something about the need of seeing that their secretary received a fair payment. Curiously enough, the question was not of the local secretary, but that of an organising secretary, and, although members thought £2OB a fair salary, no one in the room was prepared to accept nomination for the position. When the question of appointing a delegate to. represent the Returned Soldiers' Association on the Taranaki War Relief Association was before Tuesday's meeting, a Hawera ex-soldier was nominated. One speaker thought that they might as well have one from this end, although admitting that Mr. H. L. Spratt, the retiring representative,, had proved an energetic delegate. The majority of the New Plymouth members were satisfied to let matters stand, and, as there I was no further nomination, the Hawera man, Mr. Willis, was elected unanimously as delegate for the next two years.

While discussing the question of raising the salary for the organising secretary at Tuesday's meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association, mention was made of big pushes. Mr. Howell stated that in Hawera between £3OOO and £4OOO had been. raised, but the major portion had been spent in the club there and in putting up a memorial, and he believed the Hawera soldiers would find it necessary to launch another appeal to raise funds to maintain the club. Continuing, he stated that \t stood to reason that the public would not continue putting their hands into their pockets with the same willingness as in the past. The association would have to look after themselves, and, personally, he always made an effort to get in touch with the soldiers returning and to persuade them to become members of the association. If those who had been back some time would act likewise they would have no difficulty in keeping up the membership, seeing that the men were returning to Taranaki by the hundreds. Still, with a membership of 350, the New Plymouth association had done very well, in' his opinion. "The crux of business life is profitsharing; I believe in it absolutely," said Mr. Charles M. Schwab, the American Steel King'. "Moreover, I believe it will ultimately settle the wholo labor problem. Look at Andrew Carnegie. He is the most successful pro-fit-sharer in this country; he gave his employees half of his profits in bonuses. My rule in building up a business success is: Don't engage a man of great reputation to do it; get a young fellow who has his reputation to make; he will give you his best, undivided effort. When I took hold of the Bethlehem Steel Company for the second time, after it had collapsed, I selected as my parsers some fifteen of the young fellows right out of the works. I said to them, 'Now boys, let's go to it. What I make you make.' One of the fifteen was working at a crane, getting 75 dollars a month. Now look at him. He's earning a million a year and over. I mean Eugene G. Grace', the president of the Bethlehem Stedl Company. He's fifty times the man that I am. Yes, I mean that. All I did was to select hjm. He did the rest."

In the course of a letter to Mr. A. M. Conroy, ot Hawera, Eric Quin (son of Mr. Joseph Quin), who at the time of writing was or; duty in Germany, gives an interesting note descriptive of what he has seen. He says, inter alia: "We are in a big factory just now, 6000 men. They make everything from a deep-sea cable to a door-mat. Some of the maclii 11 es are marvellous—will do anything but talk Ons for manufacturing wirenetting mad# my eyes stick out. . . Any amount <vl copper, zinc, aluminium and brass in tiiis place—tons of it; it is not a good quality, but there It is ■Whera do you got the zinc from?' one asks. 'Oh, Australia!' 'During the war?' 'Ob, yes!' Thev are cleverer than we are There are men here who have been all over the world. What-for? To find out what sort of an article will sell best and quickest. The Hun laughs. He ought to." But the really suggestive thing in the letter is an enclosure—an advertising lal-el for a new bag dress shield, printed, in the factory referred to. This advertises an elaborate trade mark, under which is printed the words: "London, Paris, Lyons," conveying, of course, the idea that the article is manufactured and sold by a Franco-British firm, with nothing to disclose the fact that, the article and label alike are made and printed in Germany. It is true the words "made abroad" are printed, but in England this would suggest that' France is the c.iuntrv of manufacture; and in France that England is. The slim German evidently is already preparing for future foreign trade.

Mrs. Dowling, who has retired from I he position of headmistress of tlic West End School, is to be tendered a farewell social at the bungalow, Kawaroa Park, on Friday next, at 8 p.m., when all parents, ex-pupils and friends are cordially invited to be present.

Children's combination sleeping suits Ss Gd at the Melbourne; boys' and youths' two-piece pyjama suits !>s Cd and 5s lid; men's pyjama suits 9s Cd, 13s Gd to 16s 6d; men's Petone flannel undershirts Gs 6d; men's warm wool and cotton singlets 5s Gd; pants to match 5s lid; men's- all-wool knitted underpants as lid.

Ask distinctly for SANDTCII'S fiUCALYPTI EXTRACT, or else you may receive one of the munv substitutes. The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT cures colds, fevers, indigestion; prevents infectious diseases and licals ulcers ) poisoned wounds, skin diseases, burns, sprains, etc. It is much more powerfully antiseptic than the common eucalyptus and does not depress or irritate like the latter.

Land buyers who wish to secure a farm on easy terms should read W. H. and A. McGarry's advertisement on page one.

An offer of £SOOO for the local prison reserve baa been made by the Napier Borough Council, and is likely to be accepted. The Prisons Department undertakes to provide the labor free of cost for dismantling the buildings and levelling the site if the council will pay at the rate of £2OO per year for the services of the officer supervising the work.

The Cabinet has decided, states the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister for Lands, to increase the limit for loans for improvements and stock to soldiers taking up bush lands from £750 to £IOOO in general cases, and to £1250 in necessitous cases, at the discretion of the Laud Board.

The I-lawera Star understands that the directors of the Farmers' Co-opc-ralive Organisation Society have decided to erect offices on their site in Union fiuect It is hoped to be able to put the work in hand in the very near future, and that large and commodious offices wiil te erected that will enable the company's large business to be conducted under one roof- If the project materialises it is hoped to provide meeting rooms, etc., for farmers, in which conferences can Ik? held in comfort or private business transacted amongst farmers themselves.

Speaking at Wellington on Wednesday Sir James Allen said that an endeavor had been made to surround the soldiers with flowers, especially in hospitals, where it was hoped the influence of the beautiful would assist recovery in the shell-shock and other cases. He had lately been considering the question of asking the owners oi works of art to lend them to the soldiers' hospitals, so that the patients might have the benefit of them. Music and dancing, properly controlled, might be utilised to help to take the thoughts of the sufferers from themselves.

During his lecture on the war at the Lower Hutt the other night Mr. F. W, Haybittle said that when the people in England and New Zealand were paying 3s Gd per gallon for petrol it could be bought from the War Department for Id per gallon. He did not know the reason of it, but it never increased beyond that price. The War Department may have made a great contract at a low figure, or someone was making an enormous profit. At their Mart on Saturday at 1 o'clock Messrs Webster Bros, are selling a quantity of good and useful carpenter's toola and accessories in the estate of the late Wlll. Kendall.

"Building a Business Successfully" is the theme to be discussed by Mr. Edward Moulton, of the Sheldon Institute of Business Science, at the lecture to business and professional men to be given at the Good Templar Hall, New Plymouth, to-night. Mr. Moulton told the Otago Employers' Association at Dundin recently that the biggest problem any man who wanted success in business must face was the problem of personal power and efficiency development. "Make the man right and the business edia recently that the biggest problem and yet the lecturer is reported to have proved his case very clearly. A large number of keen and prosperous business and professional men throughout the Dominion have endorsed the Sheldon method of "success development," and many business science circles have been established. One of the big factors in the Sheldon studies is the passing on of success methods of the men who have developed and are to-day commercial leaders in Great Britain and America. It is claimed that Sheldon touches practically every problem a business or professional man would have to face. Probably a very large and interested audience will avail themselves of Mr. Moulton's presence in New Plymouth to hear these problems dismissed.