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Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1921, Page 4

At Monday night’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council a request was received from the Taranaki Rugby Union that .Saturday, July 23 (the occasion of the Springboks’ football match at New Plymouth) be observed, as a holiday in lieu of Thursday of that week to allow of the Stratford public attending the match. The Mayor moved that the request be granted and the council unanimously figreed.

* The Stratford abbatoirs manager wrote to Monday night’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council complaining of the treatment he had received at the hands of a client at the abbatoirs. “He called me a liar and asked me to come outside and fight,” the letter stated, “but I did not go out, as I had the strongest’ conviction that if I did so I would be assaulted.” Professor Condliffe said at a recent meeting at Christchurch that the country’ needed confidence to surmount the difficulties into which it had been plunged. Looking over the other countries of the world, there was no country which had such bright prospects as New Zealand. There was to-day the greatest shortage of animal products, and New Zealand was almost in a position to establish a partial monopoly. If they could carry on over the period of depression there would set in such a demand even for wool in the next two years that the Dominion would be on its feet again, and one of the most prosperous countries in the world. (Applause).

The resolution circulated to all 'local bodies in Taranaki by the Taranaki Local Bodies’ Association, recommending a reduction of Is per day m the wages of local body employees, with certain exceptions, was received at Monday night’s meeting of the Stratford Borough Council, the council refusing to support the recommendation. In opposing the recommendation, the Mayor said that in his opinion the cost of living had not come down sufficiently to justify a reduction in wages. He did not consider that 15s per day was a high rate of pay in view of the present stringent times. The council unanimously approved of the Mayor’s contention and a resolution that the recommendation be merely received was carried.

Mention was made the other day of a censorship imposed upon Press cablegrams sent from New Zealand. The regulation provided that “no telegram purporting to express the views of any New Zealand Minister of the Crown on any Imperial question affecting any problem connected with the association of the United Kingdom and New Zealand in peace or war is to be permitted to be dispatched beyond New Zealand by telegraph without the written authority of the Minister concerned.” The effect of this regulation has been communicated to London newspapers via Australia. The publication of the prohibition appears to have been regarded as prejudicial to New Zealand interests, and it is understood that the censorship has now been lifted (says the Dominion).

Here is quite a new method for catch, ing rats, which is said to be very effective and so remarkably cheap that it deserves notice and adoptions, especially among stores and shopkeepers. Get a fairly good-sized barrel, into which pour water to a depth of about eight or nine inches. In the centre place a largo stone, which just shows enough above the water to allow standing room for one rat. Now cover the top of the barrel with fairly stout brown paper and sprinkle cheese over this. In the morning the rats will have cleared the cheese away and nothing else will have happened. But mark the subtlety of the scheme! Next day cut the brown paper nearly across in the form of a cross, and again leave Cheese upon it. The first rat to jump up will fall through, and when at the bottom will take refuge on the stone. His squeals and cries will attract his brethren, and their natural curiosity will cause them to jump down. But, as there is only room for one on the stone, they will have to fight for possession, and all but one will be found drowned. This very novel idea has been very successfully tried and is certainly worthy of a test. —London Daily Mail.

The attention of residents in the Lepperton and surrounding districts is directed to a sale of furniture and* effects at the residence, Mountain Road, on behalf of the trustees in the estate of the late Mrs. A. E. Harrold. The sale includes a Brpadwqod piano; and some valuable libraries. Everything is in firstclass order. An advertisement appears jn this issue.