IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

MORE MEN UNEMPLOYED. ■» On June 5 the total number of males wholly or partly dependent on the Employment Promotion Fund was 35,839, against 34,218 at May 8, an increase of 1621. A reduction of 17,195 is shown as compared with the number at June 6 last year. SHEEP FOR JAPAN. A further consignment of New Zealand sheep will be taken to Japan this month, when a shipment of 1000 wll be loaded at Lyttelton by the Yamashita Kisen Kaisha Line steamer Chifuku Mar-u. The steamer arrived at Auckland yesterday from Miika, vii Noumea, and carried two memb( rs of the Agricultural Department at Kobe, who will supervise the sheep on the return voyage to Japan. D3GS ON TAKAPUNA BEACH. The growing nuisance caused by uncontrolled dogs on Takapuna Beach was brought before the Takapuna Borough Council in a letter from a resident, who asked that some action be taken in the matter. The writer I stated that he had seen children being worried by dogs. The opinion was expressed by the deputy-Mayor, Mr W. M. White. “These dogs have been a. nuisance for the past two years,” he said, “and I think that we should ask the borough solicitor to draft a water-tight by-law to cope with the nuisance.” The council decided upon this course.

CHILDREN’S LONG HOURS. Forty Inglewood children were absent from home for as much as 11 hour a day to attend the Stratford District High School, said Mr H. Patterson, Inglewood, at the annual conference of the North Taranaki School Committees’ Association at New Plymouth last night. Mr Patterson severely criticised what, he contended were inadequate methods for the transport of children from Inglewood to Strati ford, and his remarks found general ! support from the other delegates to ! the conference. DROUGHT ON WEST COAST. ■ The shortage of water at Cobden, near Greymouth, among residents • who are still dependent upon tanks, j has become acute, and demands upon ; the services of the Cobden fire brigade to fill tanks from the fire plugs on the new mains have become so insistent that the brigade has decided to inaugurate a systematic service. Arrangements were made at a meeting of the brigade yesterday, when all applications for water were dealt with. The township of Kumara is similarly affected by the dry spell. The lowest June rainfall since 1933 was recorded at Greymouth. In spite of the dry spell this month the rainfall for the past six months exceeded that for the same part of last year.