LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 187, 11 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are now 407 connections with the municipal electric lighting and power system. The directorate of the Mangorei Dairy Company lias decided to instal a pasteurising plant, and will pasteurise their milk all the year round for buttermaking purpose's. The Electric Light Committee of the Borough Council will recommend to the Council that applications be called for the position of meter-render at £2 a week, Mr. West to continue in the position until a permanent appointment is | made. |

The Ifurworth Co-operative Dairy Factory Company has decided to amalgamate with tho Mangorei Dairy Company. The scheme has been under consideration for some time, but tho arrangement was only arrived at conclusively during tile current week. The Hurworih factory will be run as a creamery, probably from Ist October next. It is understood that an effort i* to be made to have the road opened out for wheel traffic between the Carrington and Mangorei roads for the convenience of cream cartage. The Reserves Committee of the Borough Council on Thursday dealt with the application of the New Plymouth ■Horticultural Society for the use of I lie old i-eading-room for the rose show. The committee decided that, provided no charge is made, the room should he placed at their disposal for half-a-crown. Should, however, a charge be made, the by-laws require that a license fee of £1 must be paid. The committee further decided to complete the plans of the new Anglican portion of the cemetery and to accept the tender of Mr. F. P Corkill for the lease of the grazing rights of the south paddock on the Avenue road.

i The Patea Harbor Board at its meeting o tt Monday briefly discussed a motion in regard to wharfage on frozen meat, tabled by Mr. Sutton. Mr. AlcKcnna pointed out that the wharfage at Wanganui on frozen meat was Is per ton, and the local company should be put on the same footing as those at Wanganui. Several members concurred m this view. Mr. Cbristeneen said that I there was an extremely liigh w!iai\fa»e I on hides at Patea, nam% 5 S ~„ to ", ' flus made it useless to expect Stralfort hide-exporters to ship at Patea. At pre' Bent all the trade from Stratford went to J.ew Plymouth. The wharfage at latca on a smgje hide was iy,d and the same charge was made on a"bag of hides as on a bale of wool. The secretary was instructed to procure information in regard to wharfage rates at Wanganui and New Plymouth. Further consideration of the matter was de. ferred. Mr. Pearce said they must aot \ reduce wharfages to au unreasonable extent, or they would not be able to par their way. ' J

, At a rose exhibition aF Paris recently sixty-nine new varieties of roses were exhibited.

For Influenza take Woods' Great Peapermlsi Cure. Never fails. i„ 6 d and 28 ua.

W Yesterday the Hawcra Acclimatisation Society forward 10,000 fry to Tariki So. ciety.

In Mr. T. Schnackenberg's garden at Vogeltown are sweet peas in full bloom. What is more, the vines have been urofuscly producing flowers for a month past.

A startling proposition was made yesterday afternoon by the bankrupt licensee of tie Opunnke Hotel. The D.O.A. had been cross-examining him concerning the amount of his takings, and having gathered in a series of replies that the average weekly receipts were only a little over £23, he produced a couple of bankrupt's letters that would have completely "floored" the average witness on oath. In these letters he had represented 4o the hot-el-brokers that the average takings were about £55 a week. "Do you consider that straight?" asked Mr. Medley. "Yes," said the bankrupt. "From the seller's point of view it's a'l right. I've never heard of a hotelkeeper yet who sold out without doing this sort of thing, saying he. was taking £IOO or £i2o a week when he was only doing £SO or so. But I don't see why a private letter ". Mr. Watt, acting for the recipient of one of the letters, interrupted: "This isn't a private letter. It was a business letter to us, and you asked us to find a purchaser for you on that, basis of £s(i a week. Do you call that straight business/" "Yes, that's what every hotelkeeper does. They : rc all the same. It's the same everywbeie. You always say land is worth £4O a foot, while it isn't worth anything of the kind." The D.O.A. quietly added: "Evidently a man needs to be careful when he's buying a hotel."