LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 26 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier stated in tlie House Inst night that at tlm present rate of progress the elections would not take place till near Christmas, and it might be necessary to ask the House to pass the necessary legislation to enable the elections to take place after the middle of January. A nice prospect! People are beginning to wake up to the fact that the general election is only five or six weeks away Tlie October meeting of the Education Board savored very much of a conversazione. If larger boards in transacting their business wasted their time proportionately the meetings would be a matter of weeks. The Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board purchased the closed portion of Tamar street at auction yesterday at the reserve of £75. There was 110 competition. The ground will be included in the hospital site. The Minister of Internal Affairs has notified the Taranaki County Council that the letter T and the numerals 1 to 100 have been allocated to the council for the purposes of the Motor Regulation Act, K)0«. The ero(|iiet courts of the New Plymouth Tennis Club will be open for play' this afternoon. The tennis courts weather permitting, will be open on Saturday afternoon. Afternoon tea will be provided by the ladies. Mr. ]). Petrie, late Inspector of Schools 1 in Otago, has for some time been in communication with Mr. M. Frascr, of Xew Plymouth, with reference to the botanical exploration of Mount Egmont. He had hoped to make the visit some time ago, but was prevented from carrying out his intention, fie has now informed Mr. Krascr that he hopes to arrive in New Plymouth about December 20th., and will spend some days on Mount Kgmont, which is a particularly interesting lield for the botanist, for J there are. to be found plants that are | foun'fl nowhere else. Mr. Petrie pro-1 poses to work from the Xortli Kgmont, j Dawson's Falls, and Ilahotu mountain-' houses, and he is anxious for the assist-1 ftnee of young men, especially school' boys who take an interest in the sub-' ject. Mr. Fraser will be glad to receive j the names of any who care to join the party. ' ' 1

At the Education Board meeting yesterday a letter was read from the Teachers' Institute (Taranaki branch) in reference to their request that expenses 01' teachers transferred be paid by the Hoard, as follows: "The Board's resolution exactly stales onr position. We did not ask that a teacher who is promoted should have his expenses paid, but one who is transferred to a school in the same grade. The matter was brought under our notice through a transfer of this nature. As far as we know, the transfer was not asked for, nor was there any financial improvement in the teacher's' position; in fact, the teacher suffered considerable pecuniary loss, and in such cases we consider that the Education Department should make arrangements for the payment of the expenses of transfer."—The chairman Raid it had been stated in the Ilouse recently that the Department looked on a transfer as a new appointment. No action was taken. The Lyttelton Times says that if Bishop Crossley lias really seen more drunkenness in New Zealand since his arrival in the Dominion a few months ago than he saw during the six years he spent in Melbourne, lie surely must have been more than a "little biiiul" to the "faults" of his neighbors during his residence in the Victorian capital. The statistics all show that more liquor is consumed in Australia .than in New Zealand, and that the convictions for drunkenness are more numerous, in Victoria fliere is a very amiable practice by which first offenders and persons who have been detained in custody from Saturday till Monday are discharged without being convicted, but in spite of this generous concession the convictions have averaged about 120 per 10,000 per annum in the Commonwealth during the past six years and about 110 per 10,000 in New Zealand. Victoria's leniency towards first oll'eiulei's makes the statistics for Melbourne look particularly favorable, and it is possible that the .figures have led Bishop Crossley into making comparisons between the records of the great city and of Auckland that have given him a wrong impression ol' the actual position. Auckland leads the Dominion in drunkenness as it does in beauty and population, hut (adds the Times) w'e can | hardly believe that its. people are more addicted to excessive drinking than are those of Melbourne.

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Mr. A. 11. llalcombe, of Urcnui, is the only Turanaki competitor in the Mana- | willii A. and P. Association's hutter-fat competition. and sent two purchreld Jersey cows to I'almerston North on Tuesday The wet weather has had the effect of limiting cricket practice, lint the groundsman at the Recreation Sports Ground has been getting in some good work. and the field is showing improvement.

Mr. W. L. Kennedy stated at yesterday's meeting of the Education Board that a few years ago bush land could be felled, gra-sed. and fenced for ,C2 an acre. liut. owing to the increased cost of labor, it now costs from £3 10s to £4 to make as good a job of it.

At a meeting of the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce on Monday afternoon a resolution was passed supporting the. request of the Whang'a moniona people for direct mail communication with Ongarue and for the extension of the telephone from Tahora to Tatu.

The Taranaki branch o: the Teachers' Institute has requested the Education Board to make arrangements with the banks whereby teachers will not be required to pay exchange on their monthly cheques. The letter states that other boards have 'made such arrangements, and inquiries are to he made into the matter.

A SiinHay School for young cliildren is to be opened at Vogeltown in connection with the Methodist Church. Pending the erection of a building the work will be carried oil at Mr. C. A. Benbow's residence. Mr. V. 11. S. Griffiths, one of the most successful teachers in tlve Whitcley Memorial Sunday School, has been asked to take charge, and a good attendance of children is promised.

The Stratford A. and P. Association is holding, in connection with its annual show, a prize essay competition open to all school children in Taranaki, the subject being "A description of the Stratford A. and P. Show, 1911." The Taranaki Education Board yesterday acceded to the request of the association that all schools in the education district be allowed to close, if the committees desire it, on one Hay of the show.

Mr. Thos. Luxton, of Waitara, has sold a purebred yearling Jersey .bull, by Campanile's Sultan—Grannie's Girl, to the Government for liOOgns. This bull was offered at the auction safe of Mr. Luxton's the other day, and was passed in, but he was sold shortly afterwards. This is a remarkable testimony to the estimation in which the youngster's sire and dam are held It is worthy of note that there were, eight Jersey men anxious to secure the bull, but the representative of the Government "got in first." All of these gentlemen were from outside Taranaki.

Recently a case of New Zealand butter was sent as a present to the Canadian Minister for Trade and Commerce by Mr. YV. A. Beddoe, the Canadian Trade Commissioner in Auckland. The butter wns sent on the first sailing of the Mara ma for Vancouver, and was forwarded to Ottawa and put in cold storage. The receipt of this ca-e of butter has .been attended with most gratifying results, and opens up a promising prospeot of a future trade with Canada for New Zealand butter. The butter, according to the Deputy-Minister for Commerce. who has written to Mr. Beddoe, arrived in Ottawa in twontv-seven days, and in -plendid condition. "It is the best butter I have ever tasted," declared the Mini?tcr. On the butter being placed in cold storage at Ottawa the manager of the stores was struck with its tine appearance and quality, and he requested the Minister to inquire from the Auckland Commissioner the cost of a trial shipment, with a view to large future purchases.. Mr. Beddoe informed an Auckland Herald reporter that arrangements 1 were being made for a trial shipment. A possibility, he said, was now opened up for sending New Zealand butter as far east as Ottawa, which was 3000 miles from Vancouver. He had always considered the market was on the west coast as far east as Winnipeg. If butter, however, can find its way as far as Ottawa, there is also a good prospect of trade in the other large, centres in Ontario, such as Toronto, with its population of :!5().0(I0, and Hamilton, with a population of 120.000 inhabitants.