LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 119, 17 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first term of the technical school concludes this week. Tile second term opens after a fortnight's recess. A local lad, about J4 years of age, appeared before Messrs. * Dockrill and l.vpper, .1.1'.V,, yesterday morning on two charges of theft of money—llls from An,ne Suing, of Moturoa. ',mn os and also ,'i purse value 21s from Anicli.i -Moon, of Devon Street, lie was rcm.imlei! until this morning for the S..\l. to deal with.

Wearing picturesi|iie head-gear alter the maimer of the country „i mrir birth (says the Dominion;' four Swiss dairy folk commanded passing attention on the wharf when thev lauded from the Moeruki. The new arrivals are stated to be on flivir way to Taranaki to engage 111 the dairying industry. Three Danes, a tierninn, and a Frenchman also arrived by tin- -Mocraki to swell the ranks of foreigners who have been attracted to "Cod's Own Country." "it is impossible that the current

month's payments can be made before the •■jlllh instant." This is a very litl ■ sentence, and it is contained in a letter from the .Secretary of Education to the secretary of the Taranaki Education Hoard. What it means is that the teachers 111 this district won't gel; their pay till after the coming holidays. I'nssihl'v they'll grumble about it. for in ine ~..sr the Hoard has usually managed to give the teachers some money to enjoy tlieinselves wilil. .Should the iiiuile'y'uot be forthcoming this time there will probably be an unlooked for extension of the much-boomed retrenchment sciicmc. In the .Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before ..Messrs. K. UockriH n'lil C. 31. Lepper, Kobert Wright, farmer, of Leppcrton, was charged with feeding pigs on raw olfal. The information was laid by Mr. 11. Monro, stock inspector, under section 51 of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, IPOS, which provides fori a penalty not exceeding CIO for such an oll'enee. A large quantity of the feed l of pigs, 1„. said, consisted „f"tl„, meat of old cons, and as a considerable proportion of tiles,, beasts were tubercular, the Act said the olfal should be boiled, whereby (he risk of transmitting tuberculosis to the pigs in this manner was done away with. The circumstances surrounding the ease, however, were peculiar. Tiie defendant stated that he. had never on any other occasion fed his pigs on the raw meat. At the Lime of the oll'enee, however, a woman who had witn-

serious condition of health was still missin.!.', and he (defendant) said he jad to chose between throwing tin. feed Id tiio pigs in its run- state or not ioining the search parly to try ami 11ml the missing woman, lie chose- to join tin- jiart.v. Cnder tin- circumstances .Mr. Munrosaid ho would not press the t-liurfjc against. Ihi' (Icfi'iicliint, lint would ask fur a milviclion ami lijrlit line. A line of os and costs was imposi'd.

The Education ' enf, probably as a result of tin- icLicnciunent scheme, has become very earet'ul of late. For instance, flu; Secretary for Education lias declined to forward to the local r'.dneation Hoard the subsidies claimed by tile Stratford and West Knd school committees on voluntary contributions to Ihe school funds. Yestcrdar the Board received letters from Mr. T. H. Pcnu. secretary to the Stralford Committee. Me wrote: " The departmental official with whom you are in enrrespondene must surely have been 'taken dnw-i pretty badly by someone to account for liis abnormal suspiciousness.'' The letter went on to explain the impossiinlifv of producing documents in support of their application. The money consisted of prolils from the school picnic, shillings collected hv Messrs. Sole and Tvrer from adults who took a steamer trip at Ihe picnic, prolils of a school concert, and small donations collecled by Mr. Kivell' and others. These sums were entered in bis cash-book, but there were no other! documents. Concluding, Mr. Pcnn wrote: "Can von suggest anv means of satisfying your friend nt Wellington? TTow about a lioval Commission, or would n Supreme Court judge lie considered reliable? A ."I.P. is evidently too low "n the social scale." It was stated I ant Mr. flilhert. chairman of the Vesl End school, was going to forward it it explanation, and the Hoard decided to send both letters on to (lie Department,. Monev is desnevateh- scarce and ynu rnn'l aifnv.l to miss anv chance of «\v- :, !'I it. Tho=e figures are moiicy-nivcrs: rienls.'s clirniuc bals (usual price las (Ml >c:. n i nvi"" S-- 'id: geat.'s glace Imls, ,'l7-s (iill, 1-s ltd: men's heavy kip -hoolni-s flfis (id), Us ltd: ladies' ehice hnttni) boots (Ids' liill. Ids fid; ladies' -1-ioe lived button shoes (Ks 6d).4s lid-; ladies' goloshes (4s 3dl. 3s 3d.—A.B.C. Boot Plymouth,—Advt, I