LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 93, 28 July 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next meeting of the Education: Board will he held on the 30th and 31st August. I The tenders for the erection of the school at Okau are far in excels of the! Departmental grant, and the Education I Department is to he approached in re-1 spect to the inadequacy of the amount: allotted for the work. * i It has been discovered that the recent! election of the committee for the Cnr-j rington Eoad School was illegal, owing [ to the householders' meeting not having l been held on the advertised date. Thel Education Board is now as-ked to appoint! the committee as commissioners, a* they.j are thoroughly representative, or to ap-' point Messrs J. Bawlinson and 0. ],,- , Page as commissioners. The Board decided to adopt the latter course. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s Gd.

The date for the meeting of the commission of enquiry with reference to the control of the Waipuku bridge lias been altered to 12th August. On the application of the solicitor for the Deputy Official Assignee, the Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court adjourned the public, examination of Thomas Clare, of Waitara, bankrupt, until Wednesday, 10th August, at 11 a.m., at the Supreme Courthouse, New Plymouth. Messrs. A. Ha trick and Co. are at once erecting a large distributing warehouse at Waitara. The Harbor Board are extending their wharf 120 ft., so as to give greater shipping facilities and enable cargo to be discharged direct from the ship into Messrs. Hattrick and Co.'s warehouse, to which there will also be I a railway siding.

An unusual suit has been entered in America against the directors of an electric railway company. The plaintiil's, the dairy farmers of Elgin, Illinois, are claiming damages against the company on the ground that the flash and roar of the cars on the out-of-town lines have a disturbing effect on the cows at night, with the result that the supply of milk has uecreased seriously. Quite a record in rat-killing was established near Timaru on Wednesday evening. Having (says the Herald) been troubled for some time by .a pest of these animals, Mr. H. Smallridge, proprietor of the Fairview woolworks, took advantage of the rise in the creek, which had flooded the lower holes, to destroy a few of them. With the assistance of two of his men he killed 87 in an hour and a-half.

) Among tihe prophesies at the Theatre . last night were the following: "The f Champion Mine will not pay a divi."; > "Arnst wall win the great boat race"; i "Prohibition will not be carried in New ' 'Plymouth next election"; "In the course '■ of a few years the oil will be a very '' profitable industry and will be <M great : financial benefit to New Plymouth." The 1 latter reply was greeted with vociferous " applause. i E The,ltalian savant Mgr. Cerebotani, . Papal Nuncio at Munich, is the inventor of an instrument like a large watcb which enables a person to receive mes-1 sages transmitted from 'wireless" station. 'The apparatus is merely a pocket- ' receiver, and the only accessories are a ' bobbin of wire and a metallic encased 'cane. A person thus equipped can at a ' given moment receive communications ! from a station within a radius of twenty I to thirty miles. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hos- | pitals, mentioned at the last meeting of I the Stratford Hospital Board in refer- ; ence .to the question "of improved atten-' • tion for maternity cases m the baek- ! blocks, that his Department was prepnr-1 1 ed to give free training at St. Helen's ' Hospital to young women recommenced ' by hospital boards, provided that they ' would undertake to practice for a ceri tain number of years in backblock dis-j • tricts after completing their training. Mr. W. A. Ballantyne, Chief Inspector under the local Education Board, re- ' marked that the older Maori children at-, J tending the Board's schools showed more ■ ability as a rule than the European • children' in writing and drawing, but] 1 were much weaker in English. This ' shows that the Maori child is really j • brighter than his white schoolmate, for i English is, after all, a matter of environ-! ment. The Maori boys and girls do not j ■ hear much English in their own homes. 1 A good story is going the rounds of a i country district tiot far from Ashbuvton. I ' Two farmers—A and B—were each send--1 ing cream to a private butter factory iby i rail every morning for six days of the week. A was getting a 3.5 test of but-ter-fat, and B was getting a 4.0 test. Suspecting something was not quite right, A put his cream into B's .tin, and B put his into A's for a week. Still A got only a 3.5 test, and B still got his j 4.0. Not being able to understand tnis,| they left off sending any more butter-fat. to that factory, and.are now forwarding it in quite an opposite direction. Both have received better tests, says the teller of the tale. ! The newest method of growing hair on bald heads is by electricity. It is said to he more effective than any process hitherto known, and promptly checks a tendency to falling of the hair—though, of course, when baldness has reached its final stage nothing will help, and even the electric current does not avail, the i roots being dead. The result, is a vigorous stimulation of the scalp and of ! the roots of the hair. If the latter have ' , any vitality left in them the bald place ' will soon be covered with a downy fur, ! and healthy conditions being restored, a : I becoming hirsute thatch will take the I place of the erstwhile bare expanse of cranium—a source of thankfulness to I the patient. j A parent of children attending one of I our country schools recently had a fisticuff' encounter with the school teacher. Writing to the Education Board, he says i the teacher "has taken another turn. , Not able to give me a hiding, he is practising on my children. A little girl of , six years he smacked in the face, and my boy came home with his hand swollen and bruised, which the teacher did with the strap." Then with fine disdain: "He told me it was a fair fight between him and myself—he 22 years of age and my- : self 50 years. I do not expect a hearing, as he is Mr. T , headmaster (without , a certificate) and lam old R , cowspanker. I have reared a large family, ; and T is the first teacher I ever had , a quarrel with." Tho Wanganni Hospital Board on Tuesday had something approaching a fit (says the Herald) on hearing a letter read from the Health Department concerning precautions to be taken bv workmen engaged in building the additions : Ito the infectious diseases hospital. Ela- ' borate directions were given as to the clothes to be worn by' the men, and : the manner of changing them, also as to how the men were to'be disinfected bv spraying. The Department said it did not want to raise a scare, but the pre- .' cautions mentioned were absolutely ne- ; , cessary to prevent the carrying aiv'r.v o: 1 the infection. When he had recovered ' I his breath, the chairman (Mr. Ritchie) ' | raised hi.? by no means insignificant bulk ( ladoft, and, after remarking that there ' j Was no epidemic in Wanganni, and if the ( building required disinfecting tho Depart- > ment ought to do it, added, witheriniflv. ' "A piece of downright, .teetotal humb'u?! ! The Department is going to spray a man ' as if he were a tree!" ' 1 EPILEPSY AND FTTS. ' From Mr. (I. B. Westeott. Collin.awood, Ontario. March 27th, BlOS.—"Although all my life r have had a horror of anything of the nature of patent medicine,' I am glad to be able to make one exception, in favor of Trench's Remedy. 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Tlic weekly session of the Hope of Egmout Juvenile Temple, No. 25, 1.0.G.T.. was held in St. Man's Hall last night, O.T. .Sister 1). Eva presiding. The election of ollieers was held and resulted as follows:—C.T., Sister G. Kendall; P.C.T.. Sister ]). Eva; V.T., Sister (i. I'owley; I'inanciahSecretary, Sister A. Loveridgo; Assistant Secretary, Sister R. Aldridge.; Pianist, Sister M. Street; Chaplain, Sister D. Mills; Treasurer, Sister 1. Connett; Secretary, Bro. X. Howell. The weekly session of the E«rmont Lodge, No. 112, 1.0. G.T., was held In St. Mary's Hall last night, C.T. Bro. J. C. Legg presiding over a large nttondnnce of members and friends. The following items were given:—Piano solo, Bro. s". Lewis; song, Mr. Rich; recitation. Sister L. White; violin solo, Miss Dowliw (encored); song. Miss V. Gilbert (oncoral); piano duet, Misses Smith; song. Miss Guilford (encored); violin solo, Miss Dowling; Irish recitation (comic), Bro. A. 'White (encored); piano solo, Bro. S. Lewis; song, Mr. Rich. The accompaniments were played bv Mrs. Moverley, Mrs. Dowling, Miss Guilford', and Bro. S. Lewis. The piano was kindlv lent toy Mr. Hoffman. The cost of living in so far a* it relates to the working classes has hitherto •been hard to estimate with anything approaching accuracy. Endeavors arc now to be made to' obtain reliable information. Tho Minister of Labor lias instructed his department to make enquiries, and with this object in view it is proposed to distribute amongst workers in the four centres books in which a record can be kept of the receipts and expenditure of each week in the year. This is the practice followed by the Commonwealth statistician. So far as possible the enquiries will be limited to 'married men with children under fourteen years of age who are solely dependent upon the earning of father. It is hoped to make a commencement with the work at the beginning of September. The department will be pleased to supplymarried workers in the chief centres with a copy of the book referred to for the purpose of compiling the desired information. By this means it is hoped to obtain records from at least three thousand workers in different parts of the Dominion.