LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 20 February 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Moa Road Board has not appointed a representative to the advisory committee of the Inglewood Technical School. The matter was discussed at the Board meeting on Saturday, and the opinion expressed that "it would nov he any good." Twenty-two new dairy factories have started operations in Otago and Southland within the past two years, all on up-to-date principles. Special attention has been paid to the cheese-curing rooms, and this is expected to have a good inllucnce on export trade. There are 221) newspapers published in New Zealand and registered at the General Post Ollice, Wellington. Of these «•) are published daily, 32 thrice weekly, 33 twice weekly, 7<J weekly, 3 fortnightly, 35 monthly, one every four weeks' aiid one every three weeks.

The tercentenary of the issue of the authorised version of the Bible in 1(111 will be celebrated throughout the Anglican world this year. In England, Canada and Australia the celebrations will he held in March, in the United States they will take place in April, while in New Zealand the celebrations have been lixe.l for Sunday, April 30, and the succeedin-r days. °

Firms in Wellington, drapery linns especially, who employ large numbers of young Indies, have a complaint, which was voiced by Mr. 11. W. (Jeorge at his linn's picnic. Young ladies, he said, just when they were getting into positions of importance in the shops, left to get married. Jokingly, he said that he would hare to get the young.ladies in his shop to sign a bond to remain for five yeaiV service, a declaration that was received with little shrieks of feminine alarm. A prompt piece of work in the matte* of property sub-division has to be chronicled. On .Saturday some thirty acres 01 land adjoining the hotel at Moturoa, in the estate of the late Mr. Albert l'.avly, were purchased and -Messrs. Callaghan and Co. were entrusted with its sub-division and disposal. Last evening we were shown a sub-divisional plai" giving 40 sections, none of less than a quarter of an acre. The price is not disclosed, but land on the opposite side of Ngamotu road was sold recently at from £B4O to £BOO an acre.

After a month's sojourn in Australia, Mr. E. Davis (Mayor of Xcwmarkct) has returned, convinced that the people of Australia think little or nothing about New Zealand. "While I was there," he said to a reporter, "I never once heard New Zealand'mentioned, and I saw nothing about it in the Australian newspapers, except perhaps a statement or two by Sir Joseph Ward. While in New Zealand we possess a wonderful little country, we must not forget that it is "litHo.-atid that outside of it people are scarcely aware that it exists."

. A nasty influenza cold in epidemic form is making its presence felt in New Plymouth district just now. A lady ratepayer in the Moa Road Board's district testified on Saturday to the effective spread of blight among the blackberries.

The Taranaki Guards held church parade at Te llcniii Church yesterday. The corps mustered fairly strong, Lieutenant Boon commanding. An elderly woman with a bad record was the principal character in a disgraceful scene at the Auckland Police Court last week. On being sentenced to six months' hard labor for drunkenness and using obscene language, she clutched the railing of the dock convulsively, and burst into a tirade of foul language. The services of four constables had to "be called into requisition to remove the woman from the Court.

"Jones, get on your bicvele, and go up and tell Smith he can't have that house, will you?" A not infrequent request by builders, varied, of course, according to circumstances. And, as a rule, the employee is glad enough to assist the "boss" and to save time. A London cablegram, however, reports that the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, by a majority of 10,000 resolved not to use bicycles during working hours, fearing that unless the practice is checked it will become incumbent on the men to provide bicycles in addition to their ordinary kit. In the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning, before Mr. 11. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., a first-offending inebriate was convicted and discharged. William Hart, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order against him. Accused was dealt with leniently because he has a sick wife and a family, who have been in receipt of charitable aid. His Worship, in the course of a severe reprimand to the accused, said that Hart deserved severe punishment, but if a fine were inflicted it would but rob his wife and children of bread. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Householders in parts of Devon, Currie and other streets affected by the Carrington road water-supply being turned off frona ten o'clock on Saturday night until half-past six last night, complain that no notice of the matter was given. Not only was the inconvenience felt in the house, but in some cases animals were without water to drink throughout the whole of a very warm and muggy day. The borough turncock (Mr. T. Smith) and a gang of men wern engaged at the intersection of Devon and Currie streets in putting in an enlarged main and effecting the duplication service to the west end of the town, the shift working for upwards of twenty-two hours.

The Feilding correspondent of the Dominion telegraphed prior to the Hawera races:—"An interesting sidelight in our weathercock gaming laws was observable to-day. There are races at Hawera tomorrow, and when the early mail train left Wellington this morning, a score of northward-bound members of the betting fraternity were aboard. Along the line the express gathered sports to add to the contingent of odds layers, and at Palmerston North the armv wa.s further supplemented. Those students of New Zealand's oscillating law, who have any doubt as to what is going to happen to the fraternity since the ending of the palmy days of Government-mothering, may follow the evonts of the immediate future with much curiosity."

Some large cheques have been made by agriculturalists at Pnkekohe this year with potato crops, and a record season has been experienced. Tt is estimated that the local growers have accounted for approximately £15,000 for potatoes. The nature of the soil is such that an earlier crop than elsewhere can be ob tained, with the result that Pukekohegrown potatoes reach the market in the early part of the season, when high prices prevail. At the beginning of the season growers were netting from £S to £lO a ton, and the crops ranging from nine to twelve tons per acre, so it will he seen by these figures (hat a handsome return was being obtained. At the present time about £5 per ton is being obtained, and some of the later crops are working out at twelve tons to the fx-re. The district has been free from blight.

A sad .story of married life was unfolded in the Wellington Magistra te'a (onrt reeently. The complainant had been married for eleven years, and her husband was in steady employment at the power-house, earning £3 3s a week Vearly every Saturday be came home intoxicated and assaulted her. He smashed the furniture and burnt his wife's clothes by placing them on top of the hot stove. On one occasion, complainant's injuries were so serious that she had to be taken to the hospital. A constable whose aid had been invoked recently, found clothes burning on the stove, a clock lying on the hearth, complainant's face cut, and the husband drunk on the bed. There were three children, aged respectively !), 7 and C years. Summary separation was granted, and defendant was ordered to pay 30s a week towards the support of his'wife and children, together with solicitor's fee

"The inspectors don't know anvthin" about weeds," said a member of the Moa Road Board at the meeting on Saturday when the question of the amendments in- the Noxious Weeds Act were being considered. Said another member: "They'll never do any good until local bodies appoint their own inspectors. If the Moa Road Board appointed two men for three months, they would do more good than all the Government inspectors have ever done." A third said that the Government men had too much to look after, and didn't half look at tlie properties, only going along the road. The trouble also appeared to be that a man did not like to inform upon his neighbor, although it was annoying that" a man should clear his land of weeds and find that his neighbor did nothing. "If Ihe Board bad power to appoint a" man ■•:* inspector it would be better." remarked another. Tho chairman's opinion was that until the Board could put a man on to cut the weeds there would be no improvement.

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No home should be without the New Roslyn Writing Pad (copyrighted). It has a wonderfully cheering and refinin" influence. Price fid, from drapers and storekeepers.—Advt.

Harvest festival services were held at St. Mary's Church yesterday, and were largely attended. The 'Taranaki Farmers' Union provincial conference will be held at Inglewooa on the 18th and 19th of May.

Wanganui wires: The Wanganui Band received a hearty welcome home on returning from the hand contest on Saturday. There was a large crowd at the station, and a speech of welcome was made by the mayor.