LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 298, 11 December 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.*. The Agricultural Society's Committee meets next .Monday evening, not Wednesday, as Mated yesterday. The nurserymen who had exhibits at the horticultural show very kindly donated the whole of their blooms to 111! Hospital and Old People's Home at til:' conclusion of tiie show. Thi' first of the weekly practices instituted by the .New Plymouth Amateur Swimming Club was held at the Maths last night, from 8 till !) o'clock, Tigris was a fair turn-out of members, and all thoroughly enjoyed the dip. the temperature of the water was 01 (leg. and although the air seemed a trifle cool, it was compensated for by the caretaker (Mr Morris) having the dressing room comfortably warmed. (In Thursday night next a "ill yards sweepstake nice for seniors will'be held, but junior members also are invited to tak advantage of this opportunity to practice for the carnival on December 2!lth. Speaking at the -Horticultural Showlast night, his Worship the .Mayor, who is president of the Xew I'lynio'uth Horticultural Society, announced that the exhibits and the attendance co'astitut"d a record in the historv of the society, lie stated that Xew Plymouth, from its favorable conditions of soil and climate, should be made famous on account of its cottage guldens, and willi the object of encouraging the growth both of flowers and vegetables, he would offer next year several prizes for the best-kept cottage gardens. lie remarked II ha If Xew Plymouth would need lo do som'thing to counterbalance Hie oiled of the opening of the .Main Trunk railway.

The annual meeting of the Women'Christian Temperance (.'iiion was held in the liapti-t Church on Wednesday. Uopurts for the year were presented, abd showed that good work had been done in tin; departments of tile rest room, cradle roll, aid to the needy, maternity box. and literature. J;uriiig the past year, the reports stated, the energy of the .members lmcL I u concentrated cm the work connected with the local option poll, while Ilii' opening of the new rest room in the Carnegie Library had given that committee jui unusually large amount of work to do. The cradle roll department had been well worked both at Tariki and .New Plymouth, lhere being Hi!) children around Tariki who-e mothers have pledged themselves to train their little ones to abstain from the use of alcohol; at Xow Plymouth there are 41/. Nine families have been helped with clothing from the aid department, and four by other means. I'll reels of literature have been sent into the backblocks for the use of l!a.;.ds of Hope. Two dozen copies of '-(til .he Line" have been distributed monthly ainong-l railway men. and parcels have boon placed in the Muturoa shelter shed. A u'ift of U was donated from the funds lo'.Miss Itarlon. N.Z. W.C.T.I'. superintendent of Maori work, Reports from Tariki and Xgaire Auxiliary Cnions were read and discussed. The election of officers resulted a- follows:-Presi-dent. Mr-. Brash: seerelarv. Miss Aml.nrv: treasurer. Mi- s„dier. A vole (if sympathy wa- passed to Mrs. Whitaker and family in their ,ad brcav - incut. i