LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 171, 23 August 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"'Sow we're going to got £l3 10s less more."—A specious piece of reasoning from the Moa Koail Board meeting. A well-known resident of Waitara lias drawn a prize in Tattersall's Consultation on the Grand National Hurdle Race I recently run at Caulfield. The (scoop is worth i'SOO.—Mail.

The Mayor of Palmerston North states that within three months a proposal .will be put before the Borough Council for the introduction of an electric tramway system in Palmerston. j The Chief Inspector of Fisheries .(Mr. I L. P. Ayson) is of opinion that in a I few years New Zealand should be able to export salmon in largo quantities, and have a salmon industry in time equal to that of America. The Eaumati Co-operative Dairy Co.

(Dannevirke district) is on economically run concern. It turned out 121,0331b of cheese, and the total of the bill for wages was £197 !)s 3d.' This includes the salary of the manager and secretary, which radicates that someone must be working at sweating wages. Whilst at Christchurch on Tuesday, the Hon. D. Buildo, Actiiig-ilinistcr for Lands, referred to the securing of areas of lands .for settlement in the vicinity cf large towns and cities, lie pointed out that substantial areas of such land had been offered to the Land I'urchase Board all over New Zealand. In two eases at least the areas were close to large towns. A considerable proportion of the land offered was suitable for closer settlement. At present, however, no recommendations had ibeen made. It must be distinctly understood, however, the Minister concluded, that no land would be

bought except at a faic market price. At a gathering of railway servants on Saturday evening, Mr. S. G. Smith, a mouther of the executive, replied to the toast of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. He referred to the formation of a second society, and urged the members to stick to one organisation; pointing out its larger membership, that it had its own monthly publication in the interests of railway men, and that the executive had quarterly interviews with the Minister and General Manager of Railways. Thus the members of the Society were "on a, pretty good wicket," and it behoved thein to stick to and strengthen the Society that had this full recognition. Writing from Westport to Mr. M. Kudd, local manager of the Union S.S. Company, Captain A. Carson, of the s.s. Rakanoa, states that his steamer has just returned from Tahiti, at which place the vessel coaled H.M. ships Cambrian and Flora. The Cambrian, it will be remembered, was at New Plymouth for a few dajvs last January. While at Tahiti, Captain Vaughon Lewes, of the Cambrian, wrote to Captain Carson a letter, in which he says: —"Mease inform New Plymouth Cambrian has travelled 45,000 miles and visited jnany States. "Nowhere was any place seeti to> equal New Zealand—nowhere such prosperity as in the Taranaki district, and nowhere did the ship receive such hospitality and kindness as was offered by the town of New Plymouth, to whom Cambrian wishes goo'd'bye and all prosperity. Everyone was so kind to us there, and it was the brightest spot in the commission except for the weather."