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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tiio Tnriki scliooi chiKlron pu'itickt.'d i at lliL 1 bivalnv.iLiT o;i Flics,lay. Tke Klfham D.ii.'y Company has j generously offered to supply free milk 1 for lUe New Plymouth schools excursion at Elthim on Friday next. A lady complains ot the increasing eysle tru.!l!j on the Hsplanado, particularly in I ha erciiin?.-. Onr informant lays stress 0:1 the fact, that members of her own sex are the most reckbss scorchers. In the Ma ;isti\ile's Coart sit Wellington yesterday 111 the e„>e of tlif New Zeabvii'l Tim?* versus the Tar i- ' naki Petroleum C'ov., a question as to whether the Wellington brokers or the Company were responsible for advertising the Co'.iij)-ti'.y, ]>r AfcAitluir, H.M., decided agiinst I he C ,mp:'.;iy. That the milk lesls as made by some factory 111 magers are not always reliable, i* shr.vn by the experience of a factory in lN'orliierii Ta-nnaki. A stipjdi-r li iving hi-: diuhts al,o|U his test, got the hun of a H.ibcock tester, and tcrtcd his milk himself. lie did so several tin.es and his suspicions were continued; his proper tes! was higher th m the factory mana 0 ' had credited him with. A few days after he diluted his milk with a fair amount of wilier. His test was slill the tame ! He remonstrated afterwards with the manner, and now the laiter testing is checked by the supplier, with satisfactory results. At a meeting of the Committee of the New Plymouth Swimming Club en Tuesday night it was decided to hold the closing night carnival on I he 2i)th inst.,wheu the programme will consist of fancy events wit!) one exctption. The public of JN'ew Plymouth has always appreciated '.he novelty eyents at I the baths, and tliis fact seems to justify 1 the committee's expectatii.il of a big * attendance at this fancy carnival. There wiil be a fancy diving competition, blindfold event, swimming with hands and feet tied, cigar and umbrella race, the popular Monte Christo act, and an entirely new comic item called "finding the INorth .Pole," The bathers at our local baths are adepts in trick work, ami naxt week's function should attract a bill crowd. A discovery of rare interest to art lovers lias recently been made in Dunedin. A picture which had hung for many years in a private residence is . slated to lie a genuine Walteau. Air * -V. J.ougdeii, ISiitiaJior Art Commissioner at the J'.xhibition. who was in .Hiinedm recently, saw the picture, and lie say* that it is a genuine Watteau. and worlli a considerable amount of money. Tiic p'.eUuv was brought to the eulony about, -to years ago by a reniitlanee man, who left it with an liotelr k.tper iu payment for a debt. The hotelkeeper Jell it in the custody <jif die Baltic of New Zealand for several \ears, and :.() years H go jp«ve il to his daughter as a wedding present, and I lie picture lias remained in her house ever .since. A communication to .Major Dcuipsey from liea:i!'iuart(jr.s notifies him that -ell boys iloin lilt' Waugalini district will join his battalion on its way to 1 camp on 2Utli inst., bringing tlie total j number up to .">OO, the largest party of cadets that have yet travelled to- [ get her. Arrangements are being made, -o that the bov- can travel by the 51a- ' nawatu line, thus obviating tile necessity of going over the Uiniulaka. 'file ve-ponsibit.tv of looking after such a number of boys is very great, and siriet discipline will have to be enforced by llie ollieer's, who wilt not doubl impress ou Jieiv coinmauds the absolute ncces-i tv of tliorough ohedi- ' to instructions. Kvory hoy who nndfrlakes the trij) must mak<> up his .:11Jn 1 to act 1 he soMu-r. as far as ohny;ninstrnoion* 'a concerned; it' ho is not prepared to do 1 his. ho sho,u\l May at home. Visitors it) New LMymoulh have ire'jiienlly complained that the beach is .-Ucuii nn<i littered with paper n'lon«r j'.t'ii front l»y 1 lit; vahvay nation. \ .\ "NfUii" ri'prcsviilalivc who passed ! ainiiL; lit" l-i-pliuiaiic yesterday Wits to litul a st 11 greater nuisance existing. The fence thetwei-u .lie K-p'anad* 1 ami the railway line resi'iuldcd a d:*hcvoHed ciatlu's-line, in full use. Jim wires, acting as a trap, had caiH'lu scores of iiewsjiapers, and held I Ileal ill 1111 l lering suspension. Dawson and Mine streets were littered w'lli obi pa per, and pieces of il were living about a- far up as the JSoutli road. The "triangle" at the corner of Haw-on and llinc streets had aliraeled and lii'ld large <|uantities of paper and debris, anil the whole place looked like : i baek-vard of an tipcountry icw-paper olliee. The. linis- ' ance is directly traceable to the railway people, the paper being thrown ' from the carriages of Hie express 'train at, nighl by the cleaners as the train leaves for the Breakwater. Apart from the unsightly collection of paper, , there is the possibility of a fire as the . result of a smoker's match in this poular resort falling on some of the siray . paper along by the fences and hedges. , After all's said and done, the r I're-jwell soil, is Hie lie-l ready-made 1 siiii 'in New Zealand. Xo other suit | tits as well and is made as iveli as , Ibis one. Price to ofl/tl. Sole f agents iii T:i ru naki "The Kasb." v iicvon Street Now l'lymouth. Advt. ii

The Meihourne-Brimlisi dcspatcii of Ihe (lib February arrived in London on the Btli inst. When, the census was taken last April there were 1872 churches and chapels in New Zealand, with seating accommodation for 37o.!)l)8 persons; and the aggregate '■usual" attendance was estimated at 220,2113. Owing to the large amount of building now going on in New Plymouth and Northern Taranaki, master build era are experiencing trouble in obtaining carpenters. The building trade in New Plymouth lias never been brisker than at present. The New Plymouth, hire Brigade's team to take part in the demons:ration at Chnstchurcli leaves for south tomorrow morning. The personnel of the combination is as follows:—Lieutenant Boon, Foreman .1 Clark, Secretary Ford, Firemen J. Way and W. Hardwick; emergency, Fireman .1, Sadler. When witnesses ill the licening case ordered out of (Joint on Tuesdav, , Seargeaut lladilrctl, conducting the pro- ! sedition, appeared considerable slanted when ill- (.mill am suggested that he should leave the Conn, as he was one of the w.tne-ses. Conn-el will have their little jokes, even in Court. What might easily have been a nasiy accident happened In (Jurrie strec, yesterday iiitei-noeu. A lad on a pony was leading a blood mare with Ion", nl fool. Hie foal ran foul of the leading rope, and dragged the lad from the pony to the ground. At the moment the boy fell, an express passed, , and it was only by the promptitude of the driver in bringing his team to an r instant standstill that the lad was nut | seriously injured by the horse's feet and the wheels of ttie vehicle.

The plumbing class in connection Willi the -New PlymoutU technical classes wid be started shortly uuudj .ur H. Smart as instructor. In the past the students attending tils class nave given a particularly good account of themselves, and no doubt the stuUents this session will be equally successful. An aiternoou and an evening class in wood-caning is aiso under consideration, a iiist-ciass instructor having oll'ered his services should sullie.ent inducement oiler. Those desirous of jo.ning the above classes are requested to leave their names at the Ldueation ollice at an early date. "The duly qtialilicd physicians and [ surgeons at present on the New Zca- | land register and actually practising I in the colony number roughly titlO. The < population of ifew Zealand is in round i numbers IIUO.OUI); so that we have here ! 'one doctor to about every Kiuu of the 1 inhabitants. . . . The membership ; of our Medical Association now totals JOT. . I . 1 feel proud to think that 1 'n addition to a climate of unrivallel salubrity there may be another factor —namely the influence of our medical service—responsible in some -degree for the remarkable lowncss of the deathrate in New Zealand—ll.27 per iOUtl, the lowest death-rate in the civilised world."—Dr Burnett at the opening of the New Zealand Medical Congress. I A Wellington "Post" reporter made I sonic inquiries regarding the unlikelihood of New Zealand competing id army contracts for tinned meats. He

learned that for the year 11)03'the export of preserved meats from New Zealand was rained nt £00.217; for 11104. .CO4.SSS: and for lOOli, JC74.451. 'Llie actual figures for 1000 are not yet ;iva lablc, but I here is reason for believing thai llie. value of the export would lie much lower than ill 1»0.>, owing in the exposures made in Ch-u----a;;o n Mil the consequent effect on the tinned me:it trade almost throughout the world. "J don't think," said one gentleman, who was in n good posit on to judge, "dial the whole colony would export much more than 3.000,eOOlb of tinned moat per year." "The development of the tinned meat trade," hj" wen! on to say, "could only be carried out at the expense of the frozen ineiit trade, the tinned meat exported, comparatively speaking, is of little value if you eonsder the other great blanches of the meat export industry. I should say that if better values were not obtained in the future for tinned meal than has been the case in the past, there would be no inducement to put up a greater quantity than the companies carrying on the. business have hi.licrto dime." Freezing apparently, is of primary importance, and canning only a secondary consideration.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 13 March 1907, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 13 March 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 13 March 1907, Page 2

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