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Home My WebLink AboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-01-23, Page 4PAGE 4 --THE BLYTH STANDARD— Janl:ary 23, 11-,0 A LABOR AUCTION 1lfrr1Tttl Being Encouraged to Pertra Farm Hiulds In France 5(111 Sold at veto 7n Farming Efforts. the Market, 1101 They flet Hale Money. A labor market, where farm hands are auctioned off to the highest bid- der, still exists In France, Unlike the slave markets of old, French farm laborers willingly take part In the annual auctions. There la nothing inhuman or forced in their sate of their own bodies for a stated period of toll, for they get the sale money minus a fee for the auctioneer. As witnessed at the annual "Petro aux Valets," or Workman's Fair, at Chateauroux, the form hands con- sider it a banner day of the year be- cause 11 brings new employers, new surprises ---and often more money. On the day of the fair each autumn Om laborers come in from the farms to the central town In seacli of new employers for the coming year. Ex- cept in the minority of cases where the workers are satisfied with their fernier employers, nearly all seek new places each year. Many of them are engaged before elle actual auction starts. Others pre - lo watt until they are placed upon the auction Meek and the farm own- ers bid for their services for a period which is usually set at eight months. If the worker 1s young and physics ' ally well built he mounts the plat- form with pride. He flexes his b us- eles In a manner intended to Impress the watching prospective employers of his high value se a farm hand. The laborers especially try to make an Impression upon 010 farm ow1101.s whom they know to be good masters. They know and curry Ole favor of the farm owner who does not work his ,nen too hard and who furnishes them with comfortable quarters and A report lust presented to Parila- ment shows thatsome progress is be- ing made in the long and difficult business of turning the Maori into a successful farnlet. The Maori com- mnnat system of land tenure, and the effects of the contact of the race with white clvllzation, makes this a slow process. Tho natives still own 4,000,- 000 acres of land In the North Island, a great deal of which is not utilized. Large areas hale been bought by the Crown from the Maoris, and 01 too many cases the former owners have nothing to show for what they received, It has beenpart of the life work of Sir Aplrana Ngata to teach his people to copy the virtues of the white man, and under his inspiration Maoris on the east coast have become successful farmers, The report of the Native Depart- ment_shows that in other parts the cause is progressing, It says that a splendid Illustration of the frults of Maori perseverance under proper guidance is to be found in a Maorl- owned dairy factory that last year produced 285 tons of high-grade butter. In several districts many Maoris are supplying factories, "Some people," says the report, are apt to e005111er the Maori es one who fs not accustomed to work, but returns recently published by the Government statlstleian show that oat of a population of 64,000 Maoris, including women and children, over 22,000 of these were engaged in var- ious laboring pursuits, at least halt being in the primary industries, The Maori land boards are doing what they can to give incentive to agricul- tural development, and it will be not- ed from the returns that the ad- vances to Maoris have increased by good food, 180,000, while certain areas of land The show of prowess is highly have been acquired by the boards for amusing to sightseers who gather in native farming purposes." the (square to watch the proceedings. The laborers are dressed in their hest, The old men, who feel the years Blipping away and wish to hide the fact from would-be employers, dye their hair and straighten up their shoulders to appear young and more powerful. If they succeed In impress - Ing, they are sure to obtain a couple of hundred francs more for their ser- vices than they would otherwise. In 1929 the auctions showed that the average hire p1100 for a period of eight months has advanced from 200 to 800 francs over the previous year. Women ma well as men ere sold, al- though feminine labor brings only about half the price of male. A first-class laborer, sold on the auction block for eight months' toil, is worth about $120 or $125, while second-class workers, those who are slightly weak, old, or notoriously lazy, bring about $100 for the period. Master shepherds are worth about $85 for the period, while the price for male farm cooks varies according to their local reputation for good cooking, Farm girls, even the pret- tiest, seldom hire for more than $55 or $60. Whence Came Slang. What has tripe done, either now or in the past, to make 1t the most con- temptuous, unsympathetic term in American rhetoric? asks a writer do Harper's Misvalue, What, 1u short, to it that causes so many words, un- related in themselves, to leap out and take hold as withering epithets of scorn and abuse or as glittering sym- bols of affection and respect? Wily "spinach," "prune," "lemon," and "applesauce," and why, on the other hand, "corker" and "brick?" iNhy "He's the berries" as a term of esteem and "Give him the raspberry" as a term of contempt? Why, for that matter, both "good" and "bad" „egg,,., The most cursory study of the na- t'lre of slang must very shortly re- veal two basic facts—tiret, that the apparent origin of a slang term is very sehlem its real one and, second, that the pith of a slang word arises not, as a rule, from anything in Its own nature but from some aspect that 0 holds for a certain group of persons at a certain time. SELLS Old) HOME. BLYTH TELEPHONE SYSTEM OF THE VILLAGE OF BLYTH FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1929 GEORGE M. CHAMBERS, Chairman JOHN FINGLAND, Commissioner JOHN BARR, Comrnissioner GLADYS M. FAWCETT, Sec'y-Treas. 11111111■1111Y1111111/111111/111111111111111111111111111 Number of Telephones, January 1st, 1929 Subscribers 550 Renters 57 Total 007 01(1 17th -Century Sporting House to Become a Theatre. Tte National Sporting Club of Eng- land, W11 1011 for so neatly years has been the supreme authority in all matters relating to boxing, lo now without a home, and is staging 1ts contests at t t t the Stadium Club 1n Ho] Number of Telephones, December 31, 1929 Subscribers 552 Renters 53 Total 605 Decrease in Telephones for the year. Miles of poles, January 1st, 1029 Miles of pules December 31st 1029 Miles of Single Wire, January let, 1929 Miles of Single Wire, December 31st, 1929 ' OPERATING ACCOUNT—REVENUE AND EXPENSES The following ie a condensed statement of Revenue and Expenses for the year ending December 31et, 1020. REVENUE Subscribers' levies in 1929 for principal. interest and mainten• ance, collected Non•Subecrlboie' Rentals for 1029, collected Local toils from non•subsetibers, pay stations, etc From Bell Telephone Company fur commissions, etc., on long distance calls . Net earnings from tolls to or from other systems other than "Bell" Miscellaneous receipts Total revenue 182 182 013 053 8410 06 800 50 18 00 2061 25 2 05 ,,, 18 99 $ 11313 55 EXPENSES: Operators' salaries $ 1303 00 Annual switching fees paid to "13e0" or other systems 1 1 5 46 35 Maintenance or repairs—wages 4333 8 Maintenance or repairs—supplies. , .. • • • 13801 00 Commissioners' salaries Secretary2440 Treasuret's salary 4 80 Salaries (auditors, clerks. municipal officers 2;7 80 Rent, heat and light Stationery, printing and postage .. . ... .8 24 insurance and Workmen's Compensation 41 70 Sundries ' • e97- Total operating expenses Expenses over revenue,... t' d� $ 1730 09 Principal and interest paid on Debentures in 1929 Deficit for the year over rev $ 13043 (14 born, The "N. S. C." has sold the tine Surplus December 31st, 1928 old seventeenttrcedtuey house in King street, Covent 004'4ien, which has been the` headquarters of the manly art, and 'a aettirbthg for new premises. Slime the National Sport- ing Club entered on the tenancy of Paid Servants to Attend Tree, The stately elm which stands in the Andrew Bayne Park, Bellevue, is the largest known tree in Alleghenny Co., U.S.A. It boasts a circumfer- ence of 32 feet and height of 125 feet. Too, it probably receives more care than any other 1n this district. For in her will, 35110 Bayne Teece, who died nearly a decade ago, set aside a large fund, stipulating that 11 should be used to perpetuate the elm which had been the property of her faintly for generations. These facts come from Borough Councilman C. A, Saints of Bellevue, who has to look after the tree as part of his civic dutlea, Every year tree surgeons are paid several hundred dollars to keep the plant In a healthy form. The tree stande in a brick pit to allow it "breathing apace," Holes are dug each year and fertilizer poured down on the roots, As near. as the hest tree experts can reckon, the age at the elm Is over 300 years. 43 King street, few alterations have been made—excepting In that part of the building where boxing contests are held —• and the exterior of the house remains as It appeared in eigh- teenth century inlets. The house was built about 1627, and Its most fam- ous occupant was the Earl of Oxford, who Is said to have held there the lirst Cabinet meeting ever convened. In the eighteenth century the house became an hotel. Supper rooms and a music hall ftllovred, and the music - hall developed into a place where prize-bghte were bold, A notable feature of the house 10 a One staircase of carved oak made from the timber of a man -o' -war of Nelson's lay. There is a mantelpiece carved by Grinitng Gibbons In one of tine spacious first floor rooms, and the top part of the house—in which are the servants' sleeping ggarters— presents a curious example of a re- production of a street in "Old Lon- don." Over the doors of the rooms are painted such names as "Dr, Cates," "Bardolph the Grocer," and so on, and the "Pig and Whistle'; inn, a. post hit se and stables with an ostler's bell outside, also figures In the unusual decorative scheme of wall painting. the site Is to he taken 119 by a theatre building. Truck's Striking Force, An automobile or truck weighing only 3,000 pounds and going at a speed of forty miles an hour has a striking force of not less than 2,700 toms. This warning has been issued to automobile drivers by the Massa- chusetts Safety Council. "To state this point more accurately," the council continues, "such a car going forty miles an hour strikes with suf- ficient energy to toss a rock weighing one ton eighty feet high." Meta_ 2 Investments, American Investments In Mexico amount to approximately $1,195,- 000,000, according to an estimate made by the Department of COm- rnerce. The greater part at It le In- vested 111 oil properties, mines and railroads, The Cheapest Metal. Iron is the commonest and cheap- est of all the metals found in the aartb. Surplus December 31st, 1929 Canada's "Fourth." Oddly enough Independence Day in tine United States is also the anniver- sary of the introduction of ocean steamer service to the world and the re -founding of the greatest merchant marine in al: history -- the British Merchant Marine, 011 July 4111, 1840, Sir Samuel Cunard, then a progressive shipping merchant of Halifax, Nova Scotia, (born there in 1787 of humble Unit- ed Empire Loyalist parentage) aston- ished the world by steaming out of Liverpool, England, bound for Amer- ica, in its famous little old "Brit- tania," the first steamer to maintain a regular trans-Atlantic service. This sturdy little "side-wheeler" not only became the foundation for the mil- lion tons of shipping operated to -day by the Cunard 1iue, and the forerun - (ler of the world's fastest liner of to- day, the Cunarder "Mauretania," buts also added au10(1101 chapter Can- ada's pioneer role in the history of transportation. va 1025 45 $ 2755 54 $ 3186 02 $ 430 48 BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEA1t ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1929 ASSETS Plant and equipment 'fools and vehicles.. Office furniture and fittings Tolls uncollected in previous years and up to December 31, 1929 Cash in bank and on hand and corporation telephone account Total LIABILITIES Debenture principal unpaid on December 31, 1929 Accounts payable $ 271)00 00 50 O(1 800 00 - b73 115 495 14 $ 29818 29 $ 274 68 1500 00 Total...... $ 1774 08 We certify that the annexed statements of Revenue and Expenses, Construction Account and Balance Sheet exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the System's affairs as on December 31 1929 A City of Churches. The city of Norwich, where the congregational 0111011 recently held its annual eon10lence, has long been a stronghold of Ncucontormity, and Queen Elizabeth, when ordering Bishop Parker to take action for sup- pressing "the readings and comment - Mae on Scripture" among private citizens, advised Trim to "begin at Norwich." Whether adhering to the Establish- ed Church or dissenting therefrom, Norwich folk would seem to have been --and perhaps still are—Inter- eeted in public worship to an excep- tional degree, for the clly boasts 11101'C churches than almost any other In the kingdom, some of them of re- markable beauty. A. H. ERSKiNE, 4 Auditors R. RICHMOND) A Mote s o is Neese Done— but it can be lightened con- siderably by the installation of an Empire Duro Water Supply System in the home. A kitchen sink, laundry tubs, both with Emco faucets—and best of all a modern bathroom completely furnished with Fixtures and Fittings of guaranteed Emco construction. Such a bathroom • is a joy and will give lasting satisfaction. An Empire Duro Water Sys- tem will serve all these improve- ments with a constant pressure weter supply, Models for deep or swallow well operation, suitable for farm, suburban or country homes with a capacity of 250 gallons or more per hour. See your local' dealer and he will be glad to show you the system most suited to your needs. For sale by MUNRO BROS. Blyth, Ont. Dated this 13th day of Jan 1930 ■(u IiI11111111*111111111111111111111111111111ilial", NOTICE Killed 6tH) Buffalo. The surplus of the Government buffalo herd in Buffalo National Park at Wainwright, Alta., were reduced. uy 500 anilmals recently. The meat, hides, and 'leads were sold. Tl.e Blyth Municipal Telephone Syste wit hold;ttneir'iI al meeting We dna: day, January 291h, 1930, at one p. m. shat in ly1b 'tem ai Ball, re - As the lease of our present Telephone a expi December 301h, 1031, the question will be up for discussion whether ry will etain the present location for an- other term or whether we will build a new'l'elep ne Office for the System. A new set of Bylaws for the Blyth Munici I Telephone System will be submit- ted at this meeting for your approval bet re ing sent to the Railway Board for their suction. Mr. 13 L 13aulch, Manager of the Northern Electric Co„ London, is expected mere and will address the meeting on telephone construction. GEO. M. CHAMBERS, GLADYS hl, FAWC1 fl' Chairman. Secretary' Treasurer Pressure Water Systems and Bathroom Fittings HULLETT'S FINANCIAL CONDITION lo view of certain rumors regar lieg the financial condition of Huhetl Township the pest reeve, E, Adams, and Com:eaters Leiper, Mogridge, Forbes and Lawson have decided to copy and publish the following from the books of the township clerk at:d treasurer, which will explain themselves. The township books are open to the inspection of any ratepayer at any time, se that the financial condition of the town- ship need be in no doubt. 1n condensed loan here are the figures: Township County Expend. Rate for Balarc1 Gov. Grant Year Levy Rate Ws. Bridge Year on bend on toads 4 1.2 $2105 11 6 1.2 3235 67 b 1113 40 5 1-2 2213 07 4 1 2 480 47 4 1•'2 24e4 02 412 65 412 1 4 11' 441 1921 $14911 50 7 0.10 510680 50 1922 12855 00 0 6.10 9759 15 I923 12083 70 6 2-10 0777 30 1924 12083 70 02.10 9153 81 1925 14140 50 7 2.10 6723 20 1926 15940 20 8 2.10 7993 52 1927 15339 00 7 9,111' 11110 09 1928 75339 00 7 0 10 10395 07 1929 17806 60 9 2-10 14410 19 1030 Value of Road Machinery ............. A quantity of 18" tiles valued at. Unpaid taxes .., Government Giant du ASSETS AV( ABLE,QSSETS Due Goderich Township 1?ue McKillop Township flue Morris Township Unpaid accounts Unpatd Debentures on crusher TAI A}7SETS LIABILITIES 1175(5 76 1974 09 11181 20 1504 86 18Nt1 07 t3 05 •162 76 3288 32 3282 75 4604 30 $ 1000 00 1i50 09 650 00 .$ 1369 14 4504 30 $ 5873 44 .$ 10623 44 Muskrats for Ilreedirng, Cash due Banks.... Canada is now sinipping muskrats for breeding purpoaee to France, Great Britain, Germany, and C0eeho- alcvakia. 1 5 220 63 25 79 89 04 6 00 2864 80 4417 CO TOTAL LIABILITIES . .....5 7023 76 Signed—Ernest Adams. James Leiper, Herbert Mogridge, James Forbes, Robert Lawson WORLD of SPORT gears with a • ELECTRIC RADIO THE Majestic will admit you, your family and l� your friends, to every important sporting event this year, next year, and for years to come. Free from A.C. huin and oscillation at any wave length. Equal sensitivity and range at all points on `the dial ... Don't take our word for it—come in old see the 1930 Majestic Models today.( Model 91 Model 92 $19700 U8$ TUBES Easy Terms If Desired. $24200 LESS TUBES Ask us to demonstrate NOW!, Custom Sawing Done AS USUAL AT WALTON SAW MILL THIS SPRING For Information Phone Walton Hotel An attractive, Offer For Oul Headers. Thc'Slanderd costs 82.00 per year, The Family Herald & Weekly Star costs $1 00 year. 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