THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 29 June 1923, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is expected that poles for the hy-dro-el'eetrio works will be erected as far spilth, as Paekakariki by the end of August, Mr S. Xorgrove has left at the "Mail" Oflice a sample of peas which .ho hac- grown. Like Air Mitchell's they are well-grown, and prove what the OaJti soil is capable of producing. A send-off was accorded Mr I'. A. l>. Mickle at Manakau uu Wednesday night, when he was made the reeipient of a valuable presentation. Mr Mickle ieaven ihortly to take control of the 1 Porirua State school. t Members of the Otaki Fire Brigade held a practice in coupling and uncoupling last night, and made a good showing. Further practices will be held at frequent intervals, and it is hoped all members will attend. The Honorary Justices of the Peace ,j, j Association for the Wellington district

v now has three hundred members, c J» which forty are in Palmerston >,'ort * ■ and fifteen in Feildiug. An exccllez », J handbook has been distributed to cae !» | member of the Association, which v.a * originally formed at Palmerston Xortl v, I but finding that more advantage ■• j were to be obtained by a. larger bodj * it was decided to merge with the newJ; •, ionned central body at Wellington. ' . The funeral of the late Mr Joscpl , j A'oble took place yesterday, when th< > I cortege was a representative, one. Ii | included the Mayor and Borough Coun . cillors, members of tire old Boad ant . Town Boards, and a large number oj ; Druids. The Rev. 0. F. Pctrie, M.A., I conducted a very impressive service at the graveside, while Bro. Duncan Wil- | son, P.D.P., read the service on behalf j of the Druids' Lodge, of which the de- | ceased was an old and esteemed memi btr. Sevoral floral tributes were plaej fd on the cofha, ' With the commencement, 0 i i ue c:aßt bridge across Sydnev harbour—it will be one of the biggest structures of the kind in the world—those parts of ine , city within its vicinity will un-.'crgo such a metamorphosis as to nalife the old inoiber town of Australia almost unrecognisable in some directions (gays a Sydney correspondent r>rob.iblv ihe «-hoje area in ihe naighbourhsod of the city approaches to the plant causeway .win have to b« corhpipely remodelled, and some of the streets leading to the bridge widened to practically double their gresici wfdtfi • and It Is to go Into these problems »at a conference of all the bodies concerned has been called. Traffic conditions are so quickly developing in r-ydjier along the line of New: York; traffic, that, with the bridge the" Opening up of new arteries will he essen- * L A ° ro *s on ihe North Shore side of the bridge whole streets of board-ing-houses and fiats will be torn ruthlessly down. Six lines of vehicular irarnc. as well as two railwav lines two tramline., and footpaths "win enable more than 6000 vehicles—3ooo in . either direction—to pass over the ' bridge in the morning and evening -ush hours, and more than 30»0 peo-(i sle to traverse the bridge: in both, di- { ' •ection: in an hour. J | Mr Fred Barrett Is here again—this j i time in the heart of the town. B» haj j > rspaira to do but will acd tsrais to do j ~or». Set hit price s. and e=s hi? leati- * tfe — \zi; ". '- "■*

A Te Aroha farmer recently received more than sixtv applications in response to an Advertisement tor sharemilkers. Many of these, it is stated, were from farmers Who have been forced off their properties.—" Stair"." The Otahuhu Borough Council intend* to amend the by-laws prohibit ing pillion riding on motor cycles, so !S9 to allow the practice provided proper pillion seats are attached to the motor cycles.

A Press Association telegram from As-hburton says: Believirfg thai infant christening has no scriptural authority, the Rev. F. A. Cra.wshaw, the high-ly-respected Anglican minister of Hinds, near Ashburion, has turned Baptist, and has accepted a call to Gisborne. Mr Crawshaw held his last sen-ice last night, when the Anglican Church was overcrowded for an undenominational song service, after which presentations were made to the minister and his wife. Mr Crawshaw was recently bapiised in the Hinds River. "We have heard a good deal about Auckand and TananaJvi. but r have heard nothing about Wellington," remarked a delegate at the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association at, Palmerston North on Wed; nesday. "They have good land in Auckland," he added, "but they cannot make cheese—Wellington scooped the pool at Hamilton. They cannot make cheese in Taranaki—we scored up there, too. These districts may have production and. quantity, bui the main thing is quality, and that is what Wellington is doing."

A fire at the lop of a telephone pole Is surely an occurrence that it. not recorded in the annuls of many tire brigades, but the Auckland City Brigade ran now claim to have attended such an outbreak. The call came shortly afler five o'clock on Tuesday evening, to the comer of Hobson street and Cook street, where it was found Uiut. Ilic top of a telephone pole was (smouldering. The outbreak was extinguished with a few buckets of water. As some workmen engaged in repairing wire connections on the pole during (lie afternoon, it is probable it was ignited by a spark from a blow-lamp.

A remarkable document, was produced in evidence in a Chinese case heard in the Magistrate's Court recently states the Poverty Bay Herald). It possessed the combined character of an enlarged laundry ticket and a draper's window display ticket in red paint. It. purported to'be an account from a Chinese firm for an amount which they claimed was owing. When asked whether he would like to see it, Mr C. B. Levey, S.M.. hurriedly declined to have anvlhing to do with it until the Celestial producing it had written out ai translation of the mysterious symbols which strayed over its surface.

Ratana, the Maori faith-healer, will visit. Taranaki shortly. A New Plymouth Maori, who spent five days at Rotorua settlement last week, says five thousand natives were present on one occasion during his visit there being a continuous ..stream inwards and outwards. Four trains stop at. flie station nearly every day, and all a.re said to bring large "numbers of Maoris seeking a cure for various ailments. It is Hatanu's plan to extend his work to the pakehas. Hence, he proposed making a tour of the Dominion, including Taranaki 'says the •' Taranaki News"). Is he getting ahead of Mr Hickson?

The foolishness of attempting to drive over a jevel railway crossing when a tram i s approaching was brought home to a man in Hastings recently, and no doubt the lesson he then received will stand by him for the rest of his life. He was driving a motor car. and. disregarding the signal of the crossing-keeper to pull up, he proceeded on his way. When on the railway line the car stopped, and an accident seemed inevitable. Realising the situation, and failing to get the car to move, he jumped out. and by an almost superhuman effort pushed the car over "the line just in time.

I The Bank rate of exchange on money sent lioni London has necn a sore point with commercial *nen during the past lew years. There is another side to the question, however, o; wliich the JHorowhenua power Bcaru had experience this week. The Board had. to re;uit £43BU to London in payment for copper, and it was actually paid £ll by the Bank ior giving it Uie privilege of forwarding the money. Tliis is at the rate of 5s per cent. On the other hand it costs H per cent, to bend money to Australia. The reason for these arbitrary exchange laws seems to be beyond the comprehension of the average citizen, but the fact remains that at present 'he Banks will pay lor the privilege oi sending rnonev 10 London for their clients. As Ulasiruliiig the differences between Australian and New Zealand tanning, Mr w. J. MeCulluugh, man ag£r oi the Central lievelopmeiii Farm, explained u } a "Chronicle" representative that on the Werribee experimental farm in Victoria, ball a cu i. oi phosphate manure ir, ibe maximum put in wiili crops. Tliis is solely for the purpose of giving the seed ■ a quick start, and a larger amount is considered detrimental rather than beneficial, as in dry weather tending to burn the young plant, speaking generally, Mr McCullough said that 30 bushels was considered a good crop in the wheat areas and 15 bushels a pay-, able one, the reason being that the ground i> so easily; worked that one man can put in 500 acres by himself, and by the use of the stripper, which cuts only the heads of the wheal off. and in the latest models even thra.shes it, whilst continuing the process of 9}rippfhg. the cost of harve-ting is reduced to a minimum

>. t h is not generally known, bui a fact nevertheless, that, living in a l ' modest cottage,, working .side by side '• with her soldier husband, on their Utile farm at Aoroa, near Uargavijle. . is a ciose connection or one of the * olilest. Du-cal houses of YorKsiure, Eng--1 land. Tnis lady, the only da-ughter ! o( 5 younger (deceased}, was a 1 nur.se in one • >(" 'he large hospitals in

' the north of England, before eorrsine- ! to N*ew Zealand. Mar only brother, 6 who wa> killed in the S"i>th African ' war. would, if living, have now been • heir to the title and estate.-, which will eventually jro to a distant cousin. ' Her grandfather was one of the lea/J- ---' tag men of the day in Queen Victorin - s time. A gTanrj oid mas, who was .'till hate and hearty, until within a itea weeks of his death at id years of age. Time brings many changes, hut this lady, who wajs so popular wifh

I all classes in her own country home, later a great, favourite with "doctors, 'nurses arid parents alike. ir f the hospital where she served five years as a nurse, is now quite happy and content on a dairy farm, helping her husband milk cows, looking after h-'r garden and poultry and well content to be free from sjxial ties and old conventions. Her husband, who was born in New Zealand, served four years in the late war, was awarded a decoration for conspicucts bnivery in the field at He -ones" frprn a Ion? line of C'-nfricv. farmers,. qniei retiring dist>o=:tion like his •wife, well content with his farm and firmly of the opinion, atifrr ail i;~~ fiavet* that Xew Zeiliuid is guile the best plate vet.— | Darg&riUe ''Times." For BrocaH&l *o~zbt, isk*

'•The floor of the Bunnythorpe j School is so rotten," remarked Mr Mclntyre at the Wangau-ui Education i Board meeting, "that they dare not" shii't the piano from the infant's de-l partment to another room, otherwise I the whole understruclure would col-1 lapse."

"Have you ever seen your father strike your mother?" asked counsel of a boy witness in a Palmerston North separation case on Monday. "Yes," replied witness. ' Where did he hit her, then?" >'ln the dining room." wa« the- illuminating 'reply.— Manawatu ''Times."

"I'm .not going to Taranaki any more to buy Jerseys," said a Wai-| pawai buyer at Carterton, "as 1 can , buy the same quality stuff at hall'! ilie price in the Wairarapa." Another buyer, Mr W. H. Jenkins, of Christchurch, who paid Si guineas for a yearling bull, stated that direct relations of the animal purchased by him were sold in Taranaki the other day at £l5O. "If. paid me handsomely to come from Christchurch to secure such an aristocrat at the price." Speaking ot Sydney. Mr W. J. MeCuliough, oi the Central Development i arm, explained thai one 01 the sight, oJ the city which had most impresse. him, was the crowd of business people leaving the Central Station altei business hours every afternoon. One hundred thousand people travel in. ami out twice a day by the suburban trains, and alter five o'clock pour into the station in 041 c s oli(j.uiibroken mass before splitting" up, on to the different platforms from which they start to their various destinations.

During the hearing of a case at the Cambridge S.M. Court on Thursday, a witness declared that his wife, though careful of her household duties, was very careless about her dress, and her untidiness worried him. Sometimes she had not tidied tier hair lor weeks at a time. The S.M. and counsel looked rather incredulous on this statement, being made, whereupon the witness repeated it, and added, amidst laughter, that he had once made a mark on flie wall, to his wife's disgust making note of 'the fact that his wife had "done her hair," the first time for weeks.

In these days, when nearly everyone we meet grumbles alwut the state of the weather, or the slackness of business, it is quite cheering fo meet one wiio lakes a rosy view of things. We have in Cambridge at least one optimist. Yesterday, during one of the very brief snatches between the wintry showers, wlien the sun broke forth, and one might almost be persuaded that it. was a balmy Spring day, one of our best-known citizens sallied forth along the main streets wearing a straw "boater" hat. His supreme optimism aded like magic on those ho met and passed, and he was congratulated as he deserved.—" Cambridge Independent.

Some interesting information has been supplied to a correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times" by Mr Main, ilie ranger for the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, at. Temnka. Recently stripping operations have been carried on. It is intended to hatch for next year half a million brown trout. La«t week 100.000 eggs were secured from, the Tcmuka River, and have been placed in hatching boxes. The were found in good order. The society has tagged 100 fish, a small silver label marked S.Cand a number being attached to each fish. They were all weighed, and the length taken, so that in future years, if ihey are caught by anglers, it will be possible 10 ascertain how much the fish have grown, and what distance they have migrated.

Reporting to the Hoiowhenua. Power Board yesterday, the Electrical Engineer, Mr Overton, stated that during the month a shipment of 534 poles were received ; out of tins number two were condemned owing tu large suncracks. These, however, would be cut back and passed for a smaller size. The report continued: "In regard to thi= question I have no hesitation in saying thai the Board is getting full value (according to market value*) for the money spent on this contract. The ironbark is of a hard and durable nature with ninety pop cent, of 'he poles much over siz\ T may here add that the suppliers have not relaved upon iho standard of quality sent in itr* first shipment, which I think the majority of you have personally inspected. Xotiflcaiion of a further shipment of 'ioo poles now on the water has come to hand."

Mr G. Webb, who is one of the largest poultry-farmers of the Levin district, is very enthusiastic about the value of ducks to the poulirynVan. He runs on an average, 200 duck-; of the rnijinn runner variety. The s'rains being Stott's "Wonder." crossed with Green's well-known strain from ChrJstclmrch. From the 72 dunk'; of this year's hatching, which «.re now laying, an average of CZ eggs per dayhave been colleclev] for the last thrve rnonth=. Last year from 12-") duck«j Mr Webb collected up to 115 eggs per day. F"rtherrn"re, tbvy lay 'all the year roucl. beginning at 4| months, and ais r-r"flt-<hv-. from a poultryman's point of view, for three years as against the hen's two years. Mr Webb" Is now successfully engaged in the task of breeding •.■■;! Hie green tfnge which is the chief objection to duck-ogcrs.

Considerable amusement was caus<'<j in ?hr- Hamilton .Supreme Court one day last week by a Hibernian witness during the hearing of the King Country voucher forgery cases. 'ls it not a fact," asked Mr Johnstone,' for Recused, "that you want to get prisoner out of the way, in order that you can get more money out of the Government." "I don't care a whei tbe.p I ever get another penny out of rhe Government or what you'do with prisoner," replied witness. Counsel: -But is it not a fact that you said you wished you had put a plug of gelignite under prisoner?" Witn'e--: •The rlfvil: I didn't put it that way at all. What J did say was that I wish I had put a plug of gelignite under him, and have blown him -to-smither-eens and have saved all this bother.", 'Loud laughter, tn which his Honour { joined). When, finally, silence was restored, witness added dryly, "thati is. of cour>e. if I could have 'got him i to sit on the plug." (Renewed heartv- f laughter}.

j Yesterday's Feilding "Star" *a y = One of the borough workmen made" a shocking discovery at KOwhai Park thij morning. fast after '» o'clock tie noticed the body of a man Hincr fn the lake, with only the feet above iheraw - .««1P was called and the bodv removed and it wa, identified a= that of Mr Ernest Eade. of ManSUSfr street Feilding. There ?™ Ti '\ r V ,1' e h * a l- anfi tn « 'nrrotm'd. w indicated that Mr; Kaae stood on the hank of the rtlVfl f :en ht " owl nte - the bodv kw& r is lnto the 'ake. Mr Eade had been in bu--in~ s f n Palmers- 1 ton many years ago. and then became a dairy f'nnej- at \oranirf. He v-w SuS"? S«*Ued in Feildfng. He was comfort-I amy r.ell off, and no eaase can be) ass'.gnt-'i for the deed. Last wee*- he J MX: eiia =ed a section a* Kopane. and i *iad been making arnwrerneD*< fori constrn<3ins.-,;'Qie r : ec<>--sarr t>n»i<fiiiss J for cirr*.-irig ,- r . dairy-iiig. Mr Cad*' *' i> « T-He-vr and two younjr Wiit- \ jgg. *** wffl jJm moi* prn-

A Masonic Lodge will bo opened ai Paraparauinu oil July 24th.

Tire bicycle thief is still with us. and of late many machines have disappeared from their accustomed places.

l'he monk thief in Otaki lias evidently '.owe 1, stay. A local publican had liis sale visited on Wednesday night, urn! had half a frost-fish, which ho had just purchased, taken.

Of recent date a deal or larrikiuism lias been carried on at Otaki Railway, especially on Sundays. At the last week end the guard's van was entered and quite a number of articles takeu or damaged. The matter is now iu th«* hands of the police.

Mr C. H. Bould, ranger for the Acclimatisation Society, yesterday visited Paraparaiuuu. He informed a I "Mail" representative that licenses had been issued to trappers from various plates, including a large number 10 Wairarapa spurts. He considers, judging- by licenses issued, that opossums will be practically exterminated this season and predicts a close season next year. The "Levin Chronicle" reporting on a recent concert states:—"Miss Berrill, being prevented by a severe cold from singing, had provided an acceptable substitute in Miss KlderUui, of Otaki, who made two appearances and greatly pleased the audience by ber singing, having to respond to triple encores in each case. Her singing of "The Irish Immigrant," "It's Quiet Down Here." and "Coniin' Through The Bye," revealed the capacity of her 1 voice, no less than her clear enunciation and intelligent expression." Miss Eldcrton, of Otaki, will be among the singers Cm Tuesday night at the Pel one Bowling Club's annual concert. a A pram is advertised for sale. Mrs Muir has a replace advertisement hi this issue. A pc'M. rt'iiti Uiing money, i ; adv->r-t»M"! as lc >'g foand. An envelope containing Te Iloro lac tory dockets is ndveittaed as lost, A mother with boy of seven years requires good accommodation iu Otaki. A first-class piano i. advertised for sale. A 3-year old grade Jersey heifer tat drop) is advertised for sale. Mr S. Worsfold, of Levin, has an important announcement on our front I page. Train arrangements i'"t the Wellington races and welcome week nro advertised, Mrs Danil lias well bred White Leghorn and Black Orpington fowl* for sale, also ducks, eggs. etc. Messrs Burbidge and Co. state the rate of commission on fruit and vegetables after July 2ml c. ill be reduced to 7J per cent. SALE OF BOOTS AND SnOES.—Our half-yearly sale is on and all rfi« odd linos must be cleared in ladies', gents', and children's boots and shoe*. —lrvine's .Shoe Store, Otaki.—Advl.