LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 201, 14 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tbc Public Works, Department has forwarded to the Taranaki County■,■Council the Government subsidy of £SO for expenditure in "improving...jtlie;-l T pper Man-: gorei Eoad. It is estimated that there avo 300fl professional mendicants in Loudon who are earning from 5s to 10s a day. They find it'more remunerative than work.

Builders in Falmerston 'arc cxperienein« a'-shortage'of labor, considered to be (Itin in sottu' raeiisiirc to .holiday-making.; and consequently some difficulty is being experienced in pushing on contracts.. A remarkable example of the; memory of .animals is reported from the ApiU district. Some time ago ■■Mr. Watson drove sonic animals front his farm at Apiti to a new section which he had taken up near Tc Kuiti. Among, the bcaats was a hull, which, after spending a few days on the Te Kuiti property, decided that lie would go back to his old home at Apiti. and although the distance is about 180 miles, he arrived there safely.

"1 would beg to notify the Board," remarked the curator in his report to the Pukckiira Park Hoard last •evening, "of a nuisance which occur* more or less to us after every sports meeting or gala day held in the-Sports Ground. I refer to the enormous quantities of loose papers left in the grounds to be blown about by every wind. With one exceptionthai of the Central School. Carnival-? when all papers and rubbish were carefully collected and burned next morning by the boyß, no sports body or oth r party has done so for three years," "f ivan't to protest/' vemMed Mi'. W. Amlmr\~ at last night's- meeting of the. Pukekura aPrk Board, against the opening of the tea-rooms in the Park, on Sundays. On principle, T don't believe m 'it:'neither do I think it was necessary, [ therefore wish to record my protect a< a matter of principle. I would have opposed the departure, had I been present at la.-t meeting," Members pointed out that it was too late to re-open the subject for discussion, which was dropped upon'it being agreed to record Mr. Ambury's protest in the minutes. I'cuding the acquisition of certain land which it. traverse's, work has been suspended on the deviation of the Te Kuiti-Awakino Road, which was undertaken l>y the Public Works Department in order to avoid the Taumatamairi Hill. H 'will provide a level road in place of the present road which traverses, the a fore-mentioned hill, and which rises to an attitude of 1200 feet. The length will he. practically the same. There were seventeen men employed on the work before it. wari suspended. For about ten miles the new road passes through some magnificent scenery, especially where the. ro:'d cuts through a limestone bluff. Some feeling arose early in December over (be Piikckura Park Board's refusal to lend its collection boxes for the purpose i,f assisting canvassers on Baud Saturday. In order to'remove-misappre-hension, on the. point the chairman of the Board (Mr. C. W. flovett) explained ■»!■ la-l night's'meeting that the reason for this step was that the Board had always held that it was inadvisable to "ear-mark" more than one Saturday a. .war for the purpose of making a public appeai for funds on behalf of the public institutions in the town. On this account he, as chairman, was unwilling to assiai the recent Band Saturday, seeing that there was already an ammil fixture in the shape of Park Saturday. The Board, had refrained from holding its Park Patimlaywhile Hospital Saturday was in vogue, but upon thiV latter 1 project being eventually abandoned, its patience had been rewarded and it had been enabled to step into the breach. The town could not run more than--one-Saturday each rear. A Band Saturday was militant (o the Board's interests, and it therefore had a perfect right to decrine to tend its collection boxes. Messrs Amhurv and Browne differed, holding that the Baud, being a public body, had an. equal claim upon the public generosity on such occasions.. There waft room'for two Saturday collections each year. The majority of members, however, sbled with the'chairman ill his coiitcntiol! Ihat-it- would be .linw.Ue ■ t0..: "conic.'on"', the vcar."".'"."'

Air. (~ 11. j) lXO n, president of the Xe.w Zealand Jtugby l' u i 0!l; has accepted the position of husirnvs manager of the New Zealand Times.

Nineteen lieutenants in (he Salvation Army, who had been undergoing training in the training garrison at-Melbourne* arrived hy the Mocraki at the Jil„ff ves-

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A* the result of the defeat of i], u ■m.eh athletes at the Olympic tLuT iorgan,satio„ under the'pr side eS !><• Alar, )UH of I'olignaA colEim, f ''''««« to establish sclu.ols of pn,S '■l'Hnre and athlelic colleges. ' Dairy Compam- has start -to maniuaetu,,, casein from "!»>■ Instructor l»otonsen, of f| u . d- bv -v-on. is at present in kga ( 't J i ;< !«• and ass.stanee for a few "lav,"' 1 " «:-M«T ln "'»t will „ 0 doubt be w Sh interest by neighborin;;:^;

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Residents in Hawora and --the : srv -"" . oj tho :death:: flf.-Mlr.-M- : <L"<TO&fi-: "■"= he h -occurred suddenly on S.' ■ u Am Ms :ftrfeep v " tlilftui). -Mr.ODonnell was born in India- :i .J^"!«^%.^?«n; Mutiny, a, 1( j he c«mo.= to the Dominion tlurty years ago, when' ho joined the Armed Constabulary.'Later • he became a member of the police"' W" and was officer in charge at Blenheim' ; and Picton and also held the position' ot Clerk ot the Court. Nineteen vear*" ago he resigned from the force," at:l : started a drapery business in Hawera, which he has ever since conducted, "Tin' ate Mr. O'Donnell had been a Justice ftl the Peace for fifteen rears,.and was <il'wa. VR ready to give a helping hand lit the Court work. Deceased leaves a widow and grown-up family, of whom one son.is in England as an ecclesiastical Student. ... .. ...