LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 279, 28 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fire Board has drawn the Borough Council's attention to the dangerous state of a large number of verandahs, particularly to firemen, and asked that this state of affairs be rcmedied._ The New Plymouth Fire Board, at a recent meeting, passed a resolution that it be pointed out to the Borough Council that smoking was carried on in the Theatre Royal, and that the Council be asked to instruct Inspector Tippins to suppress the practice. Two ladies were talking outnle tfe Melbourne Clotntng Company's : ky> yesterday, with a little lad 1 standing uy. A little brute of a spaniel dug his teeth in the little chap's foot to such purport that medical aid 'had to be securea. There's someone looking for that dog. To give additional interest in the chrysanthenmum show which ia to iie held in. the Good Templar Hall on Thursday, the committee have decided t.' judge the decorated tables by popu.ar vote; each person attending the sluw will be given a ticket on which to record their choice of tables.

At last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council a strong deputation, headed by Mr. Stanley Smith, waited on the Council to request that a committee be set up from the Council to confer with them on the question of furnishing them with a new site for the Fitisroy hall, when the present site shall have been taken for a carshed site. After a lengthy discussion, a committee was set up to investigate and report on the validity of the claim for a new site, on the understanding that the setting up of the committee shall not be taken a* a recognition of the claims. Recently a member of the crew of the pleasure yacht Rawene was fined Hi and costs for picking oysters out of -se'ison. Tke liawcno was not seized by the Customs Department, as the owner Gilford undertook to hand tne yacht over should the Departmcnv require j>im to do so. Later Gilford was informed that the Minister of imstoms had imposed a flue of £SO upon the owner of the yacht as an alternative to the confiscation of the vosscl. Gilford paid the line. Auckland yachtsmen are reported to be moving in the matter of remission of the fine and Gilford will probably take action to test the legality of the pr iceeiings.

It is reported that a record wag established at the Gear Works on Tuesday, when 7,000 sheep were slaughtered in 8 hours 50 minutes.

Approximately 800 men and 228 horses went from Taranaki to the Takapau camp. The utmost order prevailed, and the trains were all despatched without a hitch.

The Librarian of the Carnegie Library desires us to say that she was not the party referred to by a correspondent in yesterday's issue. She did not meet him. Our correspondent referred to a man, not a lady.

In our report of the meeting of the Taranaki Kuutation Hoard in last ThurFday h Lssu; 1 , u u;io mentioned tluu "the action of an! \> aihi school committee in closing iis school during an epidemic of measles was continued." This should have referred to the Waitui school. There has been no epidemie of meas'.s at Waihi, nor has the sonool been closed. The effects ol the recent strike' were far-reaching; even the churches did not escape. Asked at the annual meeting of St. Mary's Church last evening the reason lor the decrease in the offertories, the treasurer stated that for the three months duriug and succeeding the strike the offerto'cies showed a substantial falling off. "We got," he added "more three-penny bits then than we usually do in a six months." The following new boosa have been added to the Carnegie Library:—"The Call of the Cumberlands," by uh'arbs L. Buck; "The Red Colonel," by George Edgar; ".Something Afar," Maxwell Gray; "The Right of the "Strongest,"' Frances ->t. Greene; "Uncle Peter's Will," Silas K. Hocking; "Tnc. Amiao.e Crimes of Dick Memling," Rupert Hughes; "Lo Michael," G. L. H. Sutz; 'Dolly Castlcton Southerner," Crit Marriott; "Otherwise Phyllis," Meredith Nicholson; "On Board the 'Bcatic,' " Anna C. Ray; "Sylvia," Upton Sinclair; "The Day of Days," iiouia J. Vance; "Idonia," Arthur F. Wallis; "The Chief of the Ranges," H. A. Cody; jiarcus Holbeach's Daughter," Alice Jones; 'The Purple Mists," F. E. Mills Young; ':The Valljy 1 of the Moon," Jack London.

Mr. J. W. H. Scotland, the aviator who is now back in Christchurch, Has complete plans for the future, according to the Sun, although he is not saying a great deal about them at present. It may be said, however, that he has another Caudron biplane on order, and it wll have a much higher-powered engine than the 45 h.p. Anzani which was fitted to the machine wrecked in Wellington. It will also he capable of carrying a passenger. Mr. Scotland's amotion is to establish an aviation school in the Dominion, and from what he has seen he has come to the conclusion that the only possible site for an aerodrome is in Canterbury. He has been assured pupils.- Should his scheme come to fruition the plucky young New Zealander will have the honor of establishing the first school in the Empire outside of Great Britain, and the first south of the line.

The. dissatisfaction which has recently been widely and not without some justification expressed at the working of the New Plymouth Telephone Exchange wa» voiced yesterday by a deputation from the New Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, which waited on the Chief Postmaster. That official, while admitting that the service had given grounds for complaint, as the exchange had been understaffed, said that the trouble would cease with the installation of a metallic circuit, and the renewal of the telephone service, which was now in progress. He also mentioned certain disabilities which the exchange girls labored under at the hands of subscribers who omitted to give the number as well as the name of the subscriber required, and to mention the number of rings in the case of a party-wire .subscriber. A visit to the exchange would, he suggested, convince subscribers of the difficulty of the work. It the New Plymouth climate havd on juvenile throats? Accoraing to -l. Mary's choirmaster it must be. He mentioned last evening that most of the lads who had come under him suffered from wretched throats. Several he had se:it to the doctor for attention. Generally .speaking, the juveniles did not display a great deal of interest in their work, and for his part, he would rather be without the assistance of many of them. As for adults, it was a striking fact that there was only one member in the choir at present who was native born; they had to depend upon others to keep up the supply. A parishioner stated that in former times they could always de pend upon securing juvenile material from the Sunday schools, and could not understand why tne snme shounl not be done now. The vicar did not believe in Having "dummies" to fill up the juvenile ranks of the choir, preferring to have no boys at ah than to have them ineffective.

The Chairman of the Fitzroy School Committee (Mr. W. G. Reid), in his report to the animal meeting of householders last night, made special mention of the dissatisfaction which he said his committee felt concerning tjhe Scripture lessons in the schools, and continued: "Unfortunately during the past year these classes have been held very irregularly, and unless the ministers will keep their appointments or make proper arrangements for holding these classes, I would suggest to the incoming committee that they he dropped entirely. The matter is one of importance and should not be ignored. It is my opinion that the Education Department to do its duty rightly to the children, whom it compels to attend school, should see to it that the building up of character plays a far more important part m the lives of the children than is at present the case, and it is to the interest of all to see if the children of to-div are going to be of any use to the nation in future, to see that everything is done to assist in building up their characters in early life. Moral training and character building should occupy the foremost part in our educational system hut instead an already overcrowded syllabus of material subjects is bein" added from year to year!" " YOV SHOUXD BE DETERMINE!} in rejecting the worthless and frequentli injurious counterfeits which are sometimes pushed for the sake of greater gain as "just as good" as the ftENTIN'E SANDER & SONS' VOLATILE VAX" AI.YPT.I EXTRACT. Re not deceived SANDER'S EXTRACT is recognised bj the highest medical authorities as pos jessing unique stimulating, healing am! antiseptic powers. The Preparation" of SANDER'S EXTRACT from the pure «e leeted 1< •*, >s, and +he refinement hi- sne cial processes,. give it curative virliirv peculiar!} its own. Therefore, h.- n.,< misled. Demand and hi-ist nimn t,i. ■GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT, ~„.! you will derive the benefit that' th.m sands have reaped iron; <: ,„.fore. Whcr ill you should not depress yourself uior. by the common, bulkr mid nnu.-eann" eucalyptus oils una n. ■mli.m i-xtrm-r-;'

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We like the "R. and G" brand of hats and caps very much. Thev are so com fortable, light in weight, perfect in style and very durable. Ask your local cloihier for the "E. and G," brand evcrv time.

There is a chicken-pox epidemic in Auckland. In the Renmera district the outbreak seems to have been particularly bad, and over fifty cases arc known to the Health Department. The balance-sheet in connection with the recent "Queen of the Carnival" elec- x tion was presented last evening, and showed tnat the Wanganui Beautifying Society's funds will benefit to the extent of £ls3o.—Press telegram. According 'to the King Country Chronicle, a Mr. Wisk, a Waitorao County employee, is the happy father of triplets, and to mark their appreciation of the event the Waitomo County Councillors have decided to grant him a bonus of

I am quite willing to have Europeans coming into the country," said the PrimeMinister, when discussing the Government's immigration policy at Whangarei recently, "but we are not going to have Asiatics. I hope during the next session to have legislation placed on the Statute Book to make it prmctwally impossible for Asiatics to enter the country." (Loud applause.) That the services of lay readers are not always appreciated was gathered at last night's meeting of St. Mary's Church. The attendances at their services arc often meagre. But not in the case of those held at the Old Peoplgs Home. There they arc always assured "of a good congregation, "perliaps," said the secretary, "because they cannot get away!" The parishioners laughed.

The three Turkish soldiers who attacked the daughters of General Limin von Sanders, the chief of the German military mission at Constantinople, wer* shot on March 3rd. The ladies wore

walking in the neighbourhood of the ( '"Sweet Waters of Asia,' when some infantry soldiers rushed towards them, and, calling them barbarians, snatched off their hats and trampled on them. They then took to flight. General Liman von Sanders subsequently lodged a complaint with the Grand Vizier, tnd a court-martial ordered the soldiera' execution.

At last night's mecitng of the Now Plymouth Borough Council, Mr. V. (?.* Morris, caretaker of the baths, writing in reference to the health cent statement, stated that there no ladies' private baths as far sb htft salt water baths were concerned, both baths being always open to all-comera. It was only since mixed bathing corn-

raenced, and the last visit of the health officer, that the laundry was put at the service of ladies. When Mr. Kendall visited the baths on Wednesday, ke had pointed all these things out to Mm. The Bathroom was ventilated on the iaspector's last visit, and as regarded the out- i let to the septic tank, Mr. Kendall (then borough engineer) approved of it as it now was, and had been for the past six years. .

Wairoa sawmills are at present in no want of logs for their laws, for there in an abundant supply (says the Northern Advocate). All the booms are full, and the present difficulty is in finding accommodation for the supply. If a freak should come this difficulty would be very acute and serious. The Northern Wai-

roa Timber Company has a total of ' 25,000 or more logs waiting to be brought to the mill; 14,000 of these arc at Mangakahia, 2000 in Kaihu creek, 8006 in Mangonui, and 1000 at Tangihua. The K.T.C. also has a large number of logs available, and the trouble is to know where to cut them. The busk workings have been slackened on this account. The Northern Wairoa Timber Company has probably paid out an advance of £30,000 on "timber whicfc has not yet reached the mill. The biggest aeroplane is exiateace at the present time is the llya Mouromets, a giant biplane which has flowi many times in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg during recent months. Thia craft has remained in the air for ninety minutes with eight mechanics in chargs of its machinery und eight passengers in its cabin, a glasß-sided structure placed between the planes. "The total weight of the aeroplane is three and a half tons," says the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times. "With en-

gine of 400 home-power, the Illya Mouromcta raises a total useful weight ot u little over 1 ton l'/scwt., neavly Bcwt. of fuel and oil. The 5 chanics can move about freely to attend to the motors and other parts of the machine without disturbing the equilibrium of the aeroplane while in flight." The Russian Admiralty has ordered ten of these machines, and the design is being adopted by builders in other countries. Apparently there is no reason at all why such an aeroplane, carrying a crew of four or fire men, should not remain aloft for twenty or thirty hours. Yet some people are 'saying still that a trans-Atlantic flight ii outside the bounds of possibility. Cr. Collis furnished a report to the Borough Council last night on a meeting •f the Moturoa Seaside Committee at which lie had presided. He suggested that the Council revoke any authority lor the formation of the committee, and ui the meantime take charge of its moneys. 11,. also suggested that the committee might be amalgamated with the West End Foreshore Society and make a strong organisation, with a subcommittee at Moturoa. Further, he remarked, if it were proposed to continue the Anniversary Day celebrations tho matter should be taken up by the Council as a provincial and not a local affair; also, that with the assistance of the

various committees the function be held m turn at the various reserves. Seventeen members of the Moturoa committee * forwarded a written protest against the result of the meeting on the grounds that the place of the meeting had been changed from the bathing shed to the Breakwater Hotel without notice to them. Consequently, they had been un--* ab.c to vote in the abllot on the question of the resignation of the president, the result of which was not to their satisfaction. They asked that the comj Ce ns° dlssoived "ml ■> new one formed. Mr. G. Braund, vice-president of the committee, wrote favoring the amalgamation scheme, forwarding resolutions or the executive committee, and suegest.ng that Mr. Kiley be appointed caretaker pro tern, of the property of the committee. It was decided to dissolve the Comnnttee, and Cr. Collis and' Messrs W. Paul, C. W. Williams and J. W. ~!>'. dcn J V ero ""powered to wind up the "Hairs, tlio balance in hand to be held in trust, pending the ioimation of a new committee. ,

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