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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tnranaki Agricultural Society wislu-H to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of £2 2s from the Ridd Milking Machine Co., as a donation towards the nrize-list of the Autumn Show (o be held on February 25th and 2(lth. While a farmer's family at St. Call (Switzerland) were dining,' an avalanche fell. The violent displacement of tie air tore doors from their hinges and swept the inmates, uninjured, fortv feet down the garden. The avalanche then fell on a farm house and wrecked it. "We arc under anti-cyclonic control nt the present moment. A great nntic.yelonie swing is taking place, and an early winter is foreshadowed." This is contained in a report issued on Monday by Mr. Deverenx, E.R.M.S., the wellknown Wo Hi i meteorologist. The Vest-Pockot Kodak is the perfect , nvniat.ure camera. The Davies Phurra- j acv have them.

The. Waitara Chamber, ef Commerce and thu Clifton County Council are ondeavoring to arrange for the Minister for Public Worka to visit their distri;t and inspect the roads. On the 3rd inst., on the application of Mr A. 11. Standish. letters of administration in the estate of the late John Benjamin Baker, of Inglewood, carpenter, were granted by Mr. Justice ICdwards to William Baker, the father of the deceased.

We have received an excellent little booklet giving information on poultry—an industry that is rapidly making advancement in the Dominion. It is written by A. B. Merrett, Christchurcii, a writer of practical experience. Thu booklet may be obtained for six penuv stamps from box 538, Christchurcii. The principal of the Auckland Training College has written asking if accommodation for from 40 to 50 teachers can be obtained at the Mountain House at Kaster. The house is in considerable demand, and difliculty is experienced in complying with the numerous applications for accommodation.

The annual competitions betwe'en the Stratford ami Kltham Fire Brigades took place at Kltham on Thursday. Stratford won two of the three events, and hold the shield for another year. The competition was inaugurated in 1912, when the trophy was won bv Eltham. Last season Stratford secured the victory. The reports of the sensation created by Mr Dufault during his recent tour with Mmo. Nordica are still fresh in our memories, and everyone will rejoice in the announcement that we are at last to hear this great tenor. It can safely he said that -no male singer who has ever visited New Zealand has beeh so immediately recognised and so universally appreciated as Paul Dufault. Says an American paper:—"Men who have served nations as champions of reduced postal rates have been patriots and humanists of a high grade, not ai,ways suitably rewarded while they were ip. office nor adequately commemorated afterwards." That is quite true. The man who has done, most for penny postage in New Zealand, for instance, is the target for the constant abuse of whining journalists.

i The Government is pushing on with ; the policy of providing homes for rural [•.workers. A number of cottages are to be erected near Masterton shortly, and others are in contemplation elsewhere. At Willowbridge, in Canterbury, thirteen cottages are in course of erection. Attauhcd to each cottage is a small holding, the area divided up in this way amongst the thirteen allotments at Willowbridge being Go acres.

I. In Stockholm there are about 80,000 .telephone, subscribers for a population of a little over 230,000, or 1 for every .l'/ 3 inhabitants. 'At the same ratio, the London telephone service would represent a million and a-quarter. Practically speaking, there is not a person in Stockholm who has not the telephone, who cannot be. reached by it. The telephone exists not only in every house and every shop, even of the humblest, but in most houses on every floor, and •in hotels and in every "room in the establishment. In the principal streets and . thoroughfares there are telephone ' kiosks, which any passer-by can enter J and use by dropping Id in the slot.

The XI. Regiment Batfid, which in competing) ui the band contest at Auckland next week, left by the Rarawa last night. The band, prior to entraining for tile breakwater, marched down to th? station, playing the contw-t march, "Imperii tor," on route. Their bearing and playing mm very favorably commented on by many of the lar«e gathering thu assembled to fareweli thom. Twentyfive playing members of the band are milking the trip, under the conductorship of >lr J. J. Cummins. SergeantMajor K. Lister goes with the band as drum-major. The Hawera Band, which is also competing at /uckland, will leave by this morning's mail train.

. Great success having attended the first experiment carried out by Mr T. K. Sedgwick in bringing Kuglish town boys out to Xow Zealand farms, Mr. Sedgwick has written to the Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. P. Massey) offering to select and bring out 200 more. In his letter to the Prime Minister Mr. Sedgwick says that the possibilities of settlement are very great, but in o'rder to find sufficient trained people to occupy the land it is necessary to encourage junior migration. It is estimated that 500 lads could be immediately placed out on farms, so that 300 would be well within the demand. A condition of the lads being brought out is that they should be under the care of the Labor Department, which has given marked proof of its ability to carry out this class of work. Mr. Sedgwick suggests that 90 per cent of the lads should he .under eighteen, the nearer to sixteen years of age the better; that the apprenticeship should be until the lads reach nineteen, provided each has been at least twelve months on the land; the banked wages to be retained at the discretion of the Secretary for Labor until ,the lads come of age; that they Bhould .be brought from fonr or five centres, and each contingent should be placed out in different localities (Scotch boys .going to Otago and Southland); that .the minimum wage shoukl be, say, 10s a week, but to be fixed after arrival of ithe koys (between the Department and .the employer concerned—perhaps after a short probationary period of service), the clothing to be purchased (aB required) bv the Department, which has proved the most satisfactory arrangement in the past; that a flat rate should he quoted to the first situation, to include .expenses on the voyage (average 12s a head), maintenance after arrival (if any), rail to situation. Thus, if the Government decide to contribute £fl to.wards the £l4 fare, the boys be required to repay £lO. Any balance of the extra £2 could be applied towards the .loss caused by death or non-payment from any other cause.

Rev. A. Reader will preach in tha i Whiteley Church to-morrow morning and oveuiiipr. The subject in the morning will be "Winds of God," and in the evening "Is Christianity Passing?" \'OU SHOULD BE DETERMINED in rejecting the worthless and frequently injurious counterfeits which are sometimes pushed for the sake of greater gain as "mat as good" as the (JEXHIXE SANDER ft. SONS' VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Be not deceived. SANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised by the highest medical authorities aw pos sessing unique stimulating, healing and antiseptic powers. The preparation of SANDER'S EXTRACT from the pure se •ected leaves, and 'lie refinement by ape eial processes, give it cnru.tive virtues peculiarly its own. Therefore, be not misled. Demand and insist nnon the GENUINE SA.\ T DER EXTRACT, and Ton will derive the heuofit that thou sands have reaped from it before. When ill you should not depress yourself more by the common, bulky and nanseatins eucalyptus oils and so called extracts." What you want is quality and reliability, in amnll dose, and this you find in SANDER'S extimot.

A meeting of the New Plymouth Brotherhood will be held in the Good Tem-

plar Ilfill to-morrow a.tcrnoon, when the Rev. A, Reader will give an address on '•Patriotism." The chair will be taken by Mr 0. Ahier. A solo will be given by Mr Hooker.

Bothasbcrg Day (the -24 th inst.) is a notable anniverssiy in the history of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent, which served in the Mouth African war. In nn engagement on that day 13 wore killed and 41 wounded. There" are 000 .survivors to tell the story of the fight, and a committee, of which Mr. Esam, of the Advances to Settlers' Office, Wellington, is secretary, has in hand a commemoration dinner and re-ur.ion on the coming anniversary. The Waharapa Daily Times, commenting on the frcijuencv of deaths bv drowning, remarks that'many of these fatalities are due to the inability of the victims to swim, and adds:—Not only boys, but grown men go bathing in the sea and the rivers without having the least idea how to swim. The result, very often, is that they get out of their .depth, and. in addition to losing their own lives, are sometimes the cause of the death of others who go to theirescue. Many men who spend the greater part of their lives on the waler cannot swim a stroke. In New Zealand, at all events, there is not the least excuse for any person who is unable t ■> swim. Every town-of any size has its swimming baths, with facilities for learners, and where baths do not exist there are open rivers with pools shallow enongh for beginners. Swimming, in I addition to being a most useful ami healthy exercise, is one of the most | pleasant forms of recreation. Those j who refuse to learn the art of swimming 'have only themselves to blame if in the future they fall victims to the surf or the river.

The motor fire engine, which "13 the latest appliance to be added to the equipment of the New Plymouth Fire Brigade, is one that will be welcomed alike by the firemen and also by those who have assisted, in the past, in push.ing the old hand reel to the scene of operations in ease of fire. Indeed, the extension of the, borough area rendered its introduction mi imperative necessity. A new Ford ear has had its chassis transformed by Messrs. llonnor and Clark into a model fire-fightnig appliance, capable of earning five men. It. is fitted with 1000 feet of hose in 4(10 feet lengths, wifch branches attached all ready for running out. Two hydrants, a double union ,a 2-lfl, extension ladder, a jumping sheet, axis, etc. It also, carries three chemical fire extinguishers. The engine was given a trial run to Fitzroy last night, and gave every satisfaction. It is -now housed in the Central Statior ready for any emergency, and can he quickly placed in action, as Custodian Doughyt has been appointed driver. Firemny Cree is also qualified to act ns driver if required. The old reel will bo utilised for fires close at hand.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 7 February 1914, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 7 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 7 February 1914, Page 4

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