LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 163, 27 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Trade Review states: "About £2,000,000 has been spent in motor cars m New Zealand urging the last two years." If the public has spent this sum, then all we can sav is that the agents are making a vcrv fine haul, for the Customs figures show that in 1910 the value of tlie motor cars, etc., imported was £203.015, and in 1911 £507,452.

Sitting in his civil jurisdiction at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Mr. A. Crookc, S.M., gave judgment for the plaintiff by default in the following undefended cases:—Frances McCann v. R. H. Eai'ley, claim 15s 3d, costs sg; A. S. Iksell v. James Purdie, £7 9s, costs £1 3s (id; R. If. Campbell v. Harry Blair, £l7 7s, costs £-2 0s Cd; Hall'enstein Bros, v. John Wm. Orr, £3 9s 9d, costs £2 14s; R. Slieltou v. Paul Jenkins, £4 4s, costs £1 Is.

Says the Patea Press:—-'The value of the exports from Patea during the year ending June 30 last was £836,535; those from New Plymouth for the same period were valued :,!■ £;i!'-»..45f1, and from Wanganui £515,007. In fact, on Thursday last the value of the exports that went over the Patea bar on that day alone was over £15,000." According'to the returns at our disposal our contemporary is in error regarding the exports of Patea. According to the Government returns, the exports for the period named were not £836,535, but £610,595 (only £BOOO more than New Plymouth exports), made up as follows:—Butter, £98,929; cheese, £489,132; beef, £ll,718; mutton, £4386; lamb, £3879; tallow, £l4-75; wool, £21,076.

The mail train arrived in New Plymouth last night twenty minutes behind time.

The New Plymouth Technical College will be thrown open to the public on December 19, on the occasion of the distribution of prizes in connection with the day technical classes.

The Education Board has acceded to the request of the Stratford A. and P. Association, that school committees throughout the district be permitted to close their schools to-morrow, People'.-! Day at the Show.

A meeting of ladies and all interested will be held at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of considering a proposal to hold a bazaar in King George's Hall during the autumn show week in February next, under the auspices of the Taranaki Agricultural Society. At yesterday's meeting of the Education Board the following appointments on school committees were confirmed: Tariki, Mr. L. Gernhoefer, in place of jMr. IT. Stratford, resigned; Makahu, Mr. C. Kophe, in place of Mr. R. Mounsey, resigned; Tarata. Mr. L. Street, vice Mr. A. Corney, resigned. The quantity and value of the principal products passed through the Customs for export from November 1 to November 15 is as follows:—New Plymouth butter 4531 cwts (valued at £23.092); cheese 3153 cwt (valued at £8071). Patea 474 cwt butter (valued at £3118), tallow 2 tons (valued at £00). The public meeting to further consider the position of the Taranaki Garrison Band will not be held to-night, but will take place shortly on a • date to be advertised. The ' band wish to acknowledge the receipt of a donation of £1 Is from the members of the New Plymouth Eire Brigade. The committee set up to go into the question of the reorganisation of the band have matters well in hand.

A North Taranaki farmer who was present at the meeting at Hawera on Saturday in connection with the formation of a Farmers' Co-op-erative Association, informs us that the question as to the possible headquarters of the Association was asked, and that it was practically unanimous that New Plymouth with its advantage of accommodating Home boats was the only place to be considered. Somewhat involved litigation was commenced in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, when in the cases of IT. 11. Ford (Mr. D. Hutchen) v. Paul Jenkins, and the A.B.C. Boot Company (Mr. D. Hutchen) v. Paul Jenkins, in'which attachment orders (interlocutory) had beep made, the sub-debtor, .Stanley John Smith, appeared to show cause why moneys alleged to be owing by him to defendant should not be paid 'to plaintiiT. The Magistrate adjourned the examination to December 3.

Among those who gained the Standard VI. proficiency certificate at the West End School examination on November 13, was Grace Warner, from Omata School. This girl is only twelve years old and is second daughter of Mrs. F. A. Warner, of Koru School. She has ridden twelve miles a day on a dangerous young horse for nine months to be finished by Mr. Meyenberg, an experienced and successful master. Grace Warner has passed two stiff examinations within three months, as she was successful at the junior examination (practical) for the Trinity College of Music at the end of August last. At the last meeting of the committee of the Taranaki Agricultural Society it was reported that a large number of applications .for space at the Autumn Show had been received from all parts of the Dominion. Through their local agents (Messrs. L. A. Nolan and Co.) Messrs. Wright. Stevenson and Co. were hcartilv thanked for their donation of £3 3s for the best pen of two calves fed on Bibby's Calf Food. Mr. Nolan has offered '£2 2s as a second prize and £1 Is as a third prize in the same class. Mr. J. C. Montofiore, of Hawera. has donated £5 5s as a special prize for the best horse, mare or gelding (open to all) for speed, action, and general conformation.

_ Comments 1 ho Pa tea Press on the article recently appearing in tlio Xews, regarding the river ports of Taranaki, in winch the fear was expressed that the port of Pa tea was doomed and that "no one knows it better than the men on the spot":—''We have a fairly good acquaintance with most of the men on the snot referred to, but we have yet to meet one of them who is so far at sea as to believe anything but the fact that the port was never in a more flourishing condition tin.n it is to-day. ■ Facts and not opinions are the things that tell. It is a fact that for the year ending December 31 last there was not an accident of any description at the port. This is not had for a bar harbor which dealt with over half a million pounds' worth of exports in the twelve months referred to. It is also a fact that the dairy factories and farmers in Southern Tara«aki and local business men have quite recently given practical proof of their faith in the future of the port by acquiring additional interests in the'various institutions connected with the town. This scarcely looks as if 'the ■ port were doomed, and no man knows it better than the man on the spot.' Ji, is a still further fact that the port, far from going back, is prospering as it never prospered before, and the men on the spot know it. For instance, in 1901 the amount of cheese shipped was 1098 cases; last, year it had reached the phenomenal total of 01.58-2. The total number of boxes of butter shipped in 1001 was 10.314. Last year there v-,-no less tman 30,G00. Still more striking are the figures in connection with the imports for the current year. Last year the Customs revenue from January 1 to November 1 was £4852 7s Id; tin's year it was £10.320 12s lOd. The total for the year ending December 30 last was £C7!»B lis Id. It is confidently expected that this year it will be nearly double this amount. Under the circumstances any man on-the spot who believes that the port is doomed is, to put it mildly, a. fit- subject for examination bv a brain specialist, There are Jeremiahs in everv town, but we have yet to meet 1 li'c Patea resident ■whose confidence in the future of the port is shaken in the slightest degree, even though a boat had •the misfortune to strike the breakwater whilst entering the harbor at a time when the heaviest gale was raging that had been known for several years—a gale which actually prevented the Arahura, the. bulldog' of the •Union Company's fleet, getting beyond the Wellington Heads."

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A sample of tho new white metal, extracted from Taranalri ironsand, n i de into a horseshoe brooch, is on view at Mr. SkeateVs jewellery shop. The new metal is of the colour of silver and can be worked up into jewellery, wire, and many other articles.

It is said that Lady Islington was particularly tickled at ;» function at the Palmerston railway station by the remark of one of the speakers' that the people ••were just beginning to like them." She remarked afterwards that this seemed to he rather slow progress for two and a-balf years' work. The Union Company received a cablegram yesterday stating that the now steamer Wahine, which will run between Wellington and Lvttelton has been launched at W. Denny and C'o.'s yard at Dumbarton. The vessel was christened by Miss Mills. The Wahine. which is a turbine steamer, is slight forcer than the Maori, having « „ rosß rpgUter of 3750 tons.

When som pit ponies of one of the English coal mines were brought to the surface some time ago, all of them were bewildered, and many were as frightened 'as though they had "been deposited on a new planet, but there were some which showed signs of joy, neighing'and rolling over and over on the ground. None of the animals had seen daylight since they were first taken into the mines, some as long as twenty years ago. It takes tho. Alaskan delegate nearly a year to cover his constituency in a campaign. He reaches the coast cities by boat, goes down the Yukon to the interior, and goes i:i as far as time and facilities permit to the interior camps. So closely is the population packed in the settled districts, however, that ha is able to tell by midnight of election day from the telegraph reports from the important cities, whether or not he has been elected.

Mr. David Jones, the youthful Radical millionaire M.|>. f or Montgomeryshire, and his family have given a further £50,000 to the cause of Calvinistic Methodism. The donation is for the purpose of clearing the existing debt of the Forward Movement in the missionary organisation of the Connexion in Wales. Six years ago Mr. Davies gave a training college at Aberystwyth for Welsh Calvanistic theologians at a cost of £50,000, and to the Welsh.National Memorial to King Edward they subscribed £IOO,OOO. The foundation stone of the new St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, which is to cost about £13,000, \\>- M hi id at Wan«auui yesterday. The church will be located on a commanding site at the corner of Gfuyton and Nixon streets. The rents from the present church property in the Avenue have financed the big" scheme without a call being made on the congregation. The rents will increase by ?."> per cent, at tfc" nv] of the first 14 years and a further 25 per cent, at the cod of the succeeding 14 years—Press Association.

A former resident of Auckland writes to a friend in that city from Sydney:— "Money is certainly exceedingly tiglit in Sydney, and flic* bottom appears to have fallen out of the imaginary prosperity that has been in existence here for some years. T should not be surprised to see industrial trouble before long. I met some New Zealanders here yesterday who now regret having left Maoriland, and some are returning sadder and wiser men. Others are going to try their luck in the Northern Territory, the accounts from which under Professor Gilruth's progressive regime are rather encouraging. The financial outlook as regards the State has a rather ominous aspect, and Ministers are beginning to realise the truth of the old saying, that it is money that makes the mare go."

"San .Francisco is no place just liow for the man wit]) CSO or £100," remarked Mr. Foster Eraser, a passenger on the R.M.S. Marama, to an Auckland reporter. '-All the money at the moment." he explained, "is being: made in real estate, which has grown to figures.far beyond the reach of the average small capitalist. Those who got in earlv a few years ago have made tremendous profits, but only multi-millionaires have a chance now. ami. there is little real trade done outside real estate. A clerk," he continued, "can earn (JO dollars a week, but it costs him 45 to 48 dollars out of that to live. Reckon up what is left after he has had a little enjoyment out of the balance, and vou will see that he could do better in many places outside San Francisco."

Ft appears that there is a likelihood of trouble occurring in the furniture trade in Auckland. The position, Mr. D. Moriarty, secretary of the Furniture Trades Federation, states, is that the rest of the Dominion, save Taranaki and Gisborne. was working tinder a unitorm award, which provided for a. forty-two hour week at Is 4 1 / 2 d per hour.' In Auckland the week was of forty-seven hours at Is 3d per hour. These conditions, coupled with the fact that kauri timber was at least Ss per 100 ft cheaper m Auckland than elsewhere, enabled the Auckland manufacturers easily to undersell their southern competitors. Employers right, through to Dunediii had spoken to him of the unfair conditions existing in this respect. When, in Auckland he had ascertained that the employers, with one exception, were willing to grant .the terms asked for by the men. In the meantime the Furniture Trades Federation has cut off the supply of labor so far as Auckland is concerned.