LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3536, 26 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At die Police Court this morning a first offending inebriate was ordered to forfeit the amount 'of his bail, £l.

Legislation constituting Anzac Day a close holiday will be introduced by Colonel Mitchell, M.P., next week. The measure i s likely to meet with sympathetic Government support. The directors of the HoUit ka Sh>pping Company have resolved to abandon the steamer Pneroa to (he underwriters The vessel is insured for £750 in the Union of Canton. Her cargo ot timber is also insured. A final reminder is given of the fancy dress danee to he heid in (he three Stars Theatre this evening in aid of the Sports Queen in connection with the carnival in aid of the Catholic Church buj’ding fund.

The Transport Workers’ Adv’soiy Board will consider the advisability of lifting the embargo on fim transit of racehorses early this week. As an alternative to an official .pronouncement circular advice to the unions concerned is likely.

The choosing of gifts b* made very easy at H. D. Bond’s, A splendid stock of new electro-wage has just been opened up, and comprises a selection of choice articles for the table that will prove particularly acceptable as presents. A visit of inspection is cordiaPy invited.

4 An inquest was held this morning concerning the death of a four-months old infant named Borman Williams at Hihitahi. Tfic "medical evidence bowed that the cause of death was syncopis, following on an attack of bronchial pneumonia.

It i s notified in the Gazette that the Public Service Entrance Examination, Senior National Scholarship Examination, and the Intermediate Examination for Senior Free places will begin on November 22, the Junior National Scholarship Examination, November 30, and the Public Service Senior Examination on January 5, 1921,

A Wanganui businessman says it is most exasperating to have to pay railage on shipments from the port of New Plymouth to Wanganui because the bottom has. fallen out or something else equally disastrous has happened to the Wanganui harbour. Five ships were unloading at New Plymouth, but for some reason or other none could get into Wanganui.

In a new r advertisement Messrs T. E. Thomas and Co., drapers, milliners and clothiers, notify that nest Saturday they will hold a half-price sale day. It is to mark the termination of the great winter sale that is now proceeding. Next Saturday all goods will be marked at half-price; everything, from neckties to bed quilts, is to be sacrificed. All articles marked in the windows wall be obtainable at just half what they arc marked at. Thomas’ establishment is opposite the Town Hall-late A. Spence.^

When speaking on the subject of ‘‘glare’’-from motor-car headlights at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Automobile Union in Wellington, the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. J Anderson) sgid that this question was going to be the most difficult to settle, and, in his opinion, the only people who could suggest any practical remedies were professors of physics. “Glare” was an absolute menace to the community. “I look upon the man who don’t dim his lights when passing another ear as the very worst class of ‘road hog,’ ” said Mr Anders n. “He is the most callous of individuals, and he should be deal! with very drastically.” Mr W. Stuart Wilson: “Confiscate his car!” “You might do that, ” replied Mr Anderson, “but that would not be much compensation for the widow rf a man who was killed through such callousness.”