LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 117, 16 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A third cadet corps is tu lie cs.abfoiled ill the Stratford school.

The next session of tlie Supreme Court at .\'ew I'l.yinouth opens on .Monday. 28th instant. So far there is prospect of a light list.

On the motion of Mr. Quilliam (G'ovett and Quilliam) probate of the will of the late Arthur Edwin farrai nas lieen granted by the Supreme Court to .Mary Cornelius Mandoline Farrar, tue executrix named in the will.

The essays written by the school children on the "Danish Marianne industry." as depicted recently at \\ est's rietures school matinee, are now being judged by the Education Hoard's inspectors. There are about a hundred of them. Hearing at last night's meeting that there was to be a conference of oll'icials engaged in technical education, .Mr. 11. Kaull greatly '.unused his colleagues on the Education Board by interjecting, " 1 hope they don't put anything more on the .svllabus."

Shareholders in Lhc TaiauaM l'etroleum Company, Ltd., are reminded that the extraordinary general meeting called at the request of shareholders to consider matters in connection with the company takes place in the Theatre Roval this afternoon, at 2 o'clock.

The president of the New Plymouth branch of the Navy League, Mr. «• Tiscli, has ordered ten copies of the '• Xavv League Mop'' of the world for the Education Board. Tne Hoard "jumped at the chance," and seemed to think he might have ordered twenty.

A painful accident happened to the young daughter of Mr. Hugh Leilly yesterday. While she was climbing a tree on a vacant section in Powdcrham Street, near -Mr. T. Brookiug's residence, she slipped and fell on some broken earthenware pipes mo cue her leg bartly, necessitating several stitches. She wasj taken to the hospital for treatment. A Lepperton fanner named j-ra-nkj Cropskey Stockton was arrested yesterday moiiiing by Detective lioddam and Constable Jlclvor on a charge of having, on November sth, 1908, at .\lairumd, New South Wales, made a false declaration respecting the year, date, and place of his marriage. The arrest was effected upon information received H'oni iNow South Wales.

Tliere was a short sitting of the Magistrate's Couit yesterday .morning, before .Mr. 11. .S. l-'itzhcrbcrt. S.M. There were, no defended cases. Judgment by default was entered in the following: Pungarehu Supply Company (Mr. WrMit) v. Wallis Kiinini. claim £2l Is 8(1 and costs ,C 3 10s; same v. Alec Tanliiki, claim C2 Is and costs .€1 14s (id; I). S. Wylie (Mr. Nicholson) v. (ieorgc Weston '(CbrisU'lmrch). claim .€IOO bs 3d and costs L 5 Ids; E. Orilliths (Mr. Quilliam) v. Thomas Iligginsoii, claim .Cl 4 Us and costs CI 15s (id; Malone, Anderson, ami Johnstone v. James and Co (Uruti). claim £3 and costs os; (iu!d'\vater Bros. v. (ieorgc MrArthu.', claim ,C 8 IDs and costs £1 3s (id; A. E. Sykes (Mr. Standish) v. William To Whiti, claim £1 17s 4d and costs £1 2s. Tile working overseer recently appointed by the Education Board is having a busy time, judging by the extensive reports being sent in by him to the Board. And they are not padded either. Mr. Morton, chairman of the Finance Committee (which is really the liianag?liient committee of the Board), referred to the nature of tlie reports, saving that if Mr. Moore were going to effect the repairs required he wouldn't in twelve months get round a quarter of the schools he had already visited.

One by one those little things that give rise to long speeches at Education Board meetings are being made to disappear. One fruitful source of discussion by one or two members for some time has been tllq expensive method of constructing tank stands. The architects reported last night that for some time past they had recognised the necessity for improvement iu the construction of tank stands, and after due consideration and tests at Lepperton, Norfolk, and lluiakama, they had decided to make all stands in future of reinforced concrete in lieu of wood. Tile initial extra cost would lie about .t 1 per tank, but with no upkeep the concrete would be the cheaper ill the long run. UpoT this report being read last night, Mr. Fault advocated tlie use of pungas; and stated that the tank stand at Tikorangi, made of five pungas, had been in use for twenty years, and was still sound, llie architect replied that pungas were not so easily obtained now as tliey were twenty years ago,