LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The working bee on Baines Terrace on the west bank of the Huatoki, will be continued on Saturday afternoon, commencing at 2 o’clock. Refreshments will be provided.

Speaking at a half-holiday meeting at Hawera on Tuesday, Mr. L. O. Hooker said that from Waverley to Wellington the whole of the Wairarapa, except Featherston, were now observing the Saturday half-holiday.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Patea County Council a motion to seek the permission of the Minister to erect tollgates- on the main road was 1-6'st by six votes to three. One councillor remarked that one could travel from Patea to Wellington or Napier without having to pay any toll, and he did not see why Patea should set up such barriers.

A young girl named Violet Watson, of Kaponga, was charged at yesterday’s Eltham S.M. Court with being idle and disorderly in that she had no visible means- of support. After hearing evidence by Constable T. C. Liston, of Kaponga, the Magistrate convicted accused, and sentenced her to fourteen days’ imprisonment (nominal), with a recommendation for her removal to an industrial school.

At the Hawera. Magistrate’s Coijrt on Tuesday, Augustus Edward Watkins claimed from R. J. Tiddy the sum of £37 10s. Both parties were land agents, and the claim was for half commission on the sale of a farm at Otakeho, a sale that was not completed and determined in November last. The hearing was adjourned in order to secure the evidence pf an essential witness.

Our Wellington correspondent writes: The Hon. D. IL Guthrie states that during March 68 sections, comprising about 104,000 acres, will be offered to discharged soldiers. Men /Who intend to take up these sections must move quickly, because the Minister intends- that land not required immediately by soldiers shall be made available for civilian occupation. Discharged soldiers are being given their last chance now to take up sections aggregating about 100,000 acres already reserved for them but not occupied. This total includes scattered sections in various soldier settlements. All this land will ‘be offered to civilian settlers if soldiers do not require it.

Among the 150 books just received by the New Plymouth Library from Mudie’s, London, are quite a number which have created a stir in naval, military, and diplomatic circles. Among these may be detailed Viscount Jellicoe’s two books dealing with the Grand Fleet and the naval crisis,- Sir lan Hamilton’s diary of the Gallipoli campaign, Candler’s description of the Mesopotamian operations, Marshal von Hindenburg’s account of his own career,. Count Czernin’s narration of Austria’s participation in hostilities, and numerous other interesting works. Nor has the world of letters-, of biography, of travel, of nature, been neglected, as the consignment embraces all these branches of thought, as well as thirty novels by more or less well-known writers.

A fascinating display :of the New Winter Millinery is being made this week at the Big Store, Waitara, including some very charming imported models This exhibition is being made in the Millinery .Showroom, to -hicli you are cordially

At a meeting of the board of directors of Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Ltd., yesterday a dividend of four per

cent, and a bonus of two per cent., making ten per cent, for the year, was recommended.—Press Assn.

A Canterbury farmer, who is on a visit to Wanganui, stated that the low price of stock was making farmers in the south turn their attention once more to grain growing, and already some of his neighbours who had devoted their attention in recent years chiefly to fattening stock were now ploughing in readiness for sowing winter wheat.

A rather serious accident occurred at the Waverley racecourse station on Saturday, resulting in a young man named G. Monaghan having his leg broken in two places. It appears that he was driving a horse and dray loaded with metal, and the horse, taking fright, cleared out and threw Monaghan out of the cart, the wheel of which passed over his leg, with the above result. Hq was ordered to the Patea Hospital.—Star.

“I never saw such generous helpings as they give in New Zealand,” said Miss Julia Fisher, a physical culturist, to a Christchurch Press reporter recently. “We in America don’t eat so much at one time. At every place I go to I have to say ‘Not so much, please.’ My father taught me to clean up my plate, and when I see great loaded plates yoming to me I say, C I cannot eat all this up, and I cannot have anything else till I finish my first help-

The moratorium, which under existing legislation expires in June, will be considered in the short session of Parliament this month. Mr. Massey was asked in Auckland wlmther the moratorium would be extended. He replied that he could not at present say what would be doiie. There were many people who wanted the moratorium lifted, and there were also large numbers who wanted it continued.. Unless Parliament decides to extend it during the short session, it would automatically expire in June.

The extraordinary respect that is shown the cenotaph may be due to these continued reminders of death pro patria (says the London Times). To pass that noble monument is to be struck, every time afresh, with the deep significance it has- taken on. The men on omnibuses, the men in motor-cars, the men walking on the pavements, raise their hats as they go by; and the women seem to envy the men the privilege of this easy mark of reverence. Pound the cenotaph, at all hours of the day, is congregated little group of women and bare-headed men.

In England during the war the difficulty- of getting domestic help was almost as great as it was, and is, in New Zealand, but now the pendulum seems to have swung too far in the other direction. In a letter received by a Christchurch lady from a friend living in one of the suburbs of London, the writer says: “I have a good woman coming to me every morning from nine to twelve, and she' only charges me 6s for the week. There are plenty of girls and women wanting work now.” It may be mentioned that this letter comes from a district where, during the war, thousands of girls were earning almost fabulous wages in the munition works, and spending them on expensive furs and other luxuries. The same correspondent states that “prices have come down with a huge rush” at the sales in the London shops. Says a writer in the Post: My advice to all Workers, be they watersiders or ribbon-sellers, waitresses, or - ledgerkeepers, carpenters or if you’ve got a job hold it down, and hold it down with ( both hands and hard, for the war time jazz -of big profits, high Avages, great turnovers, lovely prices, is over. It will not matter how much cheaper things may become, to any man or woman, if they are not earning money or enough to buy them! Get this idea clearly into your head, that New Zealand lives on what it sends away to other markets; that the bulk of this is meat and wool, which are well down in price; that markets are being missed, and the jflow of money into the country is stopped by disputes—no matter who is to blame. Get these ideas firmly fixed in mind, and then hold down your jobs, and nail them down if you can.

At the Eltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday Edward Joseph Hickey, of Tirimoana, was charged with stealing certain parts of a milking machine, valued at £2O, the property of Mi'. R. Trolove, farmer, Mountain Road. Constable Townsend said Hickey was returning home from Eltham with two companions, and when passing Mr. Trolove’s farm he entered the milking shed and took a set of cups from the milking machine. He, however, returned them the next day. When spoken to Hickey admitted he was drunk at the time. The Magistrate said although Hickey might have regarded his actions as a joke there was nothing funny about them. ‘He did not wish, however, to enter a conviction against him as he had apparently no intention of actually committing a theft. The charge would be dismissed and the application for a prohibition order granted.—Argus. Uruti sale entries appear in our auction columns. The change of seasons, Bees a transformation at Morey’s. New Autumn goods are displayed for the first time this week, and ladies are advised not to rrfiss seeing the styles that will be in vogue. Every man travelling or holiday making this forthcoming Easter, should provide himself with a light gaberdine raincoat. Easy to carry, showerproof, and will stand any amount of rough usage. Special value at the Melbourne Limited at £6 19s (id. “Fairy Wonder” washing compound is the best known compound on the market for washing clothes sweet and clean without rubbing. Just put the soiled clothes in, 'soak overnight, add a tablespoonful or so of “Fairy” and, in the morning, hey presto! the heavy part of the work is finished. Sold in packets, everywhere.