The Daily News. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 November 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16.

All effort is lieing made to revive the * Ureiiui branch ol tl.o Farmers' Ui ion. £ Tin 1 : Treasury has intimated that the fi Carrington Road Board's loan of £2700 j is now available. The County Council made application s to the Auditor-General to have the 1 ' Eltham-road special rate reduced. The ( Auditor-General, however, cannot see his i way to grant the request. : Mr E. Maxwell, Provincial Presided 1 of the Fanners' Union, addressed -i good meeting of fanners at I'ruti on Tuesday evening, his remarks embracing the achl.ie'innts and aspirations of the Union. The Valuation Department has agreed to refund tho .€(3 5s expended by the Taranaki County Council in searching tlie rolls with a new of ascertaining reliable particulars in respect of native land rating. Messrs .Smith and Soil, of London, music publishers, through their New Zealand agent, Lieutenant Herd, Wellington, have donated Ihe ''March" to lie played by the massed bands at tne forthcoming Band Contest. The Taranaki Provincial Executive of the N.Z.F.U. has oil'ered the joint position of secretary and organiser to Messrs Xaughtoii and D. Cattanach, with a view of having new branches formed and new life put into some of the less active ones. Home mischievous lads arc amusing themselves aiij annoying others by deflating bicycle tyres. There's a real g hot time awaiting Hie iirst youngster I caught interfering with any machine, I so they might take this warning and H desist in future from their pranks. B (Small birds are not considered a nuiH sauce in tile Pa tea, County. Tile Pate* H County Clerk, in reply to a suggestion B froiii the Taranaki County Council that a joint ellort should be made to cope with the small birds pest, writes that t!ie Council arrived at tlie decision that small birds were productive of more good than harm. A resident who is interested in the progress of technical education has offered to donate two guineas towards the New Plymouth Technical School funds, with a view to enabling the committee to reduce the fees to students at next sessions. The director of technic,il education will be pleased to hear trom others similarly disposed. Each contribution earns a like amount from the Government-, so il is quite in the hands of people to materially strength!en the hands of the authorities in their efforts to cheapen the classes. At Thursday night's meeting of tlie 1-itzroy Town Board Jlr. \V. Clifford presided, and there were also present Messrs. \\\ 11. (irilliths, L; Jackson, an.l M. Kamson. The Board decided to have the footpaths and watcrtables in Devonload attended to, and to do file repairs in Wilson-street a*ked for by Mr. Nolan. Messrs. Cutlield and Jackson will interview the Borough Council with respect to the licensing of vehicles. After some discussion it was decided to ascertain from the Borough Council the charge for eleven electric lights for the streets. Accounts amounting to £l2 were passed for payment. A letter received by the New Plymouth Harbor Board the other day stated that the present position of ironbark was quite unprecedented. The supn'.v was rapidly diminishing, and the demand had greatly increased a! late, and as the drought had buraed up the grass it was very ditlicalt to work bullocks ill S the bush. Besides, just at present nearly all Hie principal people refused to quote" prices till the New Year, when there would be a further advance in \[ r Maxwell said that with • -Wis advance in tiinbsr prices tlie Board would have to consider the question of future wharf extension in ierro-conerete. The \\ est End Committee met r,u TWsaay evening. It was decided to hold a bazaar on December l'Jth, and to present tlie prizes the same afternoon. Mr Okey, M.11.i1., will be asked lo open the bazaar, and Mr G. T'iseh to present the prizes. The committee also decided to procure immediately a champion belt lor competition at the rille range among the cadets, the belt to be held by the winner for a year, but always to remain the property of the school. The winner will also receive a medal, his own property. The belt will be of black leather, with silver clasps . and shields, and will cost about £lO. it will be presented for the lirst time on December 10th to the best shot iu tlie company's tiass-iiring. 'iiie Jong arm of the coal strike is threatening .New Plymouth. iakin' lime by tlie loreloek tne chairman of the liaibol Jjoard and tlie harbormaster have been making enquires with a viciv to accuriKg u good stuck and regular supply ot coal. Whilst they were unable to have their big order tilled, they obtained an undertaking that the Board would be kept supplied. Jlr King said tlud tlie later news of the strike was mole reassuring, as the Government was going to step in. Mr lline wanted to know if tI, L . Government could compel the men to work. Mr King had no doubt of it. "They can do anything now in this democratic country," he added. Mr Jlinc was not convinced. '1 don t think," he mused, "that they can make a man work when he doesn't want to." A yood story eomus i'roin ail inland town. Iwo inspectors were examining the district school. It was a. two days' job and the inspectors divided the «ork, one taking the upper, and tliie other the lower standards, in the ranks of the latter was a little son of a publican at whose hotel they were staying. During the afternoon the upper standard inspector left the school aud visited the dentist to have a molar extracted. <>n his return he was accost- ' ed by mine host, who invited hiin to have a drink to brace him up. lie had 1 , and the little fellow happened to ' pass ae the time. U c must have puz/ zled his little head jihout it all night, ; or ear y next morning he popped his j head into Ills lather's bedroom. "Fata >! "¥ou was idling up 1 the wrong bloke yesterday. It's the ' other 'spector chap what 'zammms me!" | " (