LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 182, 19 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The breaking-up ceremony in connection with the Technical College will take place at the College at 2.30 p.m. to-mor-row.

The Ingle vood Patrol and Girl Scouts, under the Scout mistress (Miss Sutherland) will camp at Moturoa for a week at New Ye.tr.

On the 14th instant, 011 the motion of Mr. A. R. Standis'h, Mr. Justice Edwards granted probate of the will of the late Dugald Henry McKellar to Mrs. M. A. McKellar, the executrix therein named. A London correspondent has it 011 good authority that a great deal of the oats shipped from New Zealand during the last few months is arriving in London in an almost rotten condition. This is due, it is believed, to the very wet season in New Zealand last' summer.

The Wailii Telegraph states that about twenty members of the police force left for their respective stations on Friday morning, anil it was understood that a further batch would take their departure on Saturday. Wailii should soon assume its former quiet appearance.

Mr. Stanley Shaw has presented the Public Library with two old maps. One is of the United States of America in 1733, and is illuminated. The other map is one of England in the forties, with projected railway lines marked off. Bo.th serve to emphasise the tremendous advancement made in both coimtrie»— America especially—since the date of the publication of the maps.

A deputation from the Polynesian Society waited upon the Education Board yesterday, asking it to give the Society a site 'on the Technical School grounds for the erection of a brick building to house its library. On behalf of the deputation, Mr. S." Percy-Smith explained that the Society was at present accommodated in a room in the Technical College, but the library was ever increasing in size, with the result that the quarters were getting too confined. Of its kind there was no other library in the Dominion so valuable.—Nothing definite was done in the matter.

A desire for an alteration in the existing schedule of the school winter holidays was expressed' by a deputation of two members of the Teachers' Institute, Mrs. Dowling and Mr. Mcllroy. that awaited on the Education Board'yesterday afternoon. The present arrangement was not, it was pointed out, working very well. The lapse of months between the week's holiday in April and the week at the end of September was too big a strain on the children, especially those in the infant classes. The deputation asked the Board to revert to the old order—a week in June and a week in -September. It had the support of the majority of teachers. In discussing the matter, Mr. A. M, Bradbury advocated term holidays. The chief inspector (Mr. W. A. Ballantyne) entirely endorsed this view, suggesting that the school year be divided up "into three terms, each with an equal number of holidays. The second inspector (Mr. Whether) said he was in favour of docking a week off the summer holiday.-; and putting it on to the winter holidays in June, making a two-week spell.' It would be greatly appreciated in the baekbloeks. As an outcome of the discussion, the chairman gave notice to move: "That clause 21) of the Board's regulations with reference to holidays be amended." In the meantime enquiries will be made among other boards as to the* systems in vogue in the various districts.

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The Mu-.iU-ipal .Swimming- baths will be open th's afternoon for family bathing from 2 o'clock until 4.30 p.m.

In connection with tiie visit of Father Xmas on tins Sports Ground on Boxing night, ilr. Lints Ims kindly consented to reproduce the March of Flowers by limelight. All ilie children are requested to keep their dresses for this occasion. "I'le lives like an eel—by suction," was the manner in which Sub-Ijispector Ilendry summed up the existence of a vagrant at tin; Auckland Police Court. The sub-inspector, describing one of the man's methods of obtaining free drinks, said that he was in the habit of smearing his boots with clay, likewise his hands, after which be mingled with the workers returning from quarry work and persuaded some of them to ".shout" for him.

A remarkable instance is recorded of the use of the aeroplane in actual warfare. A Bulgarian aviator succeeded in locating a body of Turkish reinforcements, a thousand strong. ' On his report being received, a rapid movement was made, an ambuscade formed and the detachment was almost annihilated. The guns captured were brand new. and the Bulgarians carried them oil, and used them against their original owners in the main attack.

..The Foxton Herald says that the other day a local resident was making frantic attempts with the aid of a" stick and a kerosene tin to induce a swarm of what he considered were honey bees' to settle somewhere in the vicinity of his residence and had a box ready in which to imprison the insects should they alight. His efforts not being crowned with success he obtained the assistance of a neighbor, who on arriving at the scene found that the swarm in question was comprised of grass grubs. Says Robert BlatehfoTd in the Clarion: The war in the Balkans is one more example of the results of readiness and efficiency. The allies were ready, and the Turks were not; the allies were efficient and the Turks were not. It is the story of Prussia and Austria, Germany and France. Russia and Japan, repeated. Now it is quite certain that whereas we spend an immense amount of money on military preparations we are not ready and are not efficient. The ruling classes have muddled the army and the reserves in the past, and are muddling yet.

While Mr. W. Thompson, roi)d contractor, was engaged in cutting away a portion of a road at Waitoa, a few days ago, he unearthed the skeleton of a full-grown human body. The remains had evidently been roughly interred close to the roadside. The bones were found two feet from the surface. It is considered that the remains are --those of a white man. The skull contained a complete set o" teeth in an almost perfect state of preservation. An old resident stated that many years ago a man was missing and was last seen close to the Waitoa river.

The land contiguous to Wellington is not apparently of the quality which makes good fat sheep and record butteu outputs. During the hearing of a compensation case the other day a witness stated that land about Pahautanui. Porirua, 'etc.—had deteriorated to, a considerable extent. Reckoned on a basis of weight of sheep, lie computed the fall at easily Gib per animal. In wool the difference was not so pronounced. The country carried about the same number of stock, but it did not turn them oil so well; it did not grow bone in them—-a result of the disappearance from the soil of the potash. The greater portion of the land was of a nature that made ploughing impossible. The witness did not think the land would deteriorate further—it was about as hud as it would get.

'"The fat lamb market lias opened very strong this year," said the Manawatu representative of one of the large auctioneering firms to a Wellington Times representative. At the present time lambs in the wool are making from 14s to 14s (Id each, and there is every probability that the level of the market prices for well-finished drafts of lambs will be above the average of prices ruling in previous years. He had heard of attractive offers having been made, to some farmers for their season's output, as Mgh as 14s being mentioned, but was doubtful if this were so; except for very special lines that would be marketed without, being shorn. The percentages of "fats" off the mothers this year was rather'below the usual number, because of the backward spring, and now shearing operations are interfering to some extent. Very little topping off with rape will be required this year, and in a few weeks' time the effect of the acceptable change from cold to warm growing weather will be apparent bv large numbers of lambs coming forward for freezing early in the New Year. Farmers, he noted, were going warily this year in buying lambs front the hilly country for forward delivery. Those who did buy early will very likely And the investment a good one; but the remembrance of past experience is making fatteners very careful about buying in stores at high prices and' risking the market.