LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 41, 9 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A pig weighing CSOlbs, the property of a Kapuui farmer, was recently killed at the South Turanaki Bacon Co.'s factory. A .Sydney cablegram states that Mr. J. F. Archibald, founder of the Bulletin, in 1880, has scld his interest to other shareholders. | The committee of the Taranaki Freezing Works arc inviting applications from holders of suitable sites on which to build. The property (up to 100 acres') must be between one mile south of Stratford and Moturoa, and have the advantage of being near railway or port. Waitara is agitating to get the Government to purchase the Munakoriki native reserve, in tile middle of the town, and have it cut up and sold for residential purposes. The Chamber of Commerce is' writing the Minister and the Public Trustee and the member for the district on the matter. The Borough engineer has given his opinion as to the necessity for leaving concrete kerb to set before proceeding with the channelling. His opinion on the boys 'and girls who find amusement in running over the concrete work before it is set would be quite a_s interesting, if more forcibly expressed. The Dominion Bowling Association decided on Tuesday night that a player delivering a bowl "must have a portion Or the whole of both feet on the mat. Mr. C. R. Smith then •said the question now arose as tc the size of mats, which is an unwarranted rellection on the size of bowlers' feet, in these parts, at any rate. Just over two years ago a Samoan was knocked down at the races' by a motor-car (says the Auckland Herald), He was removed to the hospital with a broken back, his death being considered to be a matter of a few days. TJhe man did not die, however, until Monday, havinsr lingered on with the lower part of his body completely paralysed. Immediately after his admission to" the hospital the man's depositions were taken by Mr. E. O. Cuttcn, S.M., t)he Samoan statin? that the accident was entirely his own fault. It is not considered that an inquest will be necessary. Constable Fitzgibbon lias received the following very gratifying letter from Air. Kenriek, Stipendiary Magistrate:llawera, 4th July, Ifll-i. Tfc> the Clerk of the Court, Tnglcwood,—When sitting at luglewood for the la.t time T fully intended to make reference to youV services as Clerk of the Court tiiere, i but forgot to do so. 1 wish now to express my appreciation of the willing way you have done vour duties as ' Clerk of the Court, which you have al- , ways done well. Although not very i heavy work, si ill. with the duties of a constable, it has kept you busy; and 1 have been well satisfied with your work during the live years 1 have held courts as lnglewool. -'Record. ' At the meeting of the Hospital Hoard yesterday, the inspector reported that he had received a petition from 40 resi- ' dents in tin l vicinity of the new rubbish J tip at Te Henui, complaining of the ; offensive smell issuing therefrom. Un- 1 doubtedly, the method used was bad, and the only satisfactory solution was 10 1 erect a destructor. The chairman pointed out that the Board had no juris- ' diction in the matter unless the Health Department moved. It was for the Borough Ciiuii: il to deal with petitions of that nature. This gave rise to desul- I tory discussion oil l.'ie anomalous fact that the Board should have power to en- 1 force action for the protection of the community, but could act only when 1 a menace was actually existent. As Mr McAllum put it, "We can only gather 1 up the pieces after the jar has been broken. It should be pll, or nothing/'

_ It lias proved a matter of great satisfaction to many people that the Everett Road l Reserve has, notwithstanding the opposition of interested parties, been saved from axe and Are and wi'l be retained as a reserve. Those gentlemen who bestirred themselves to save the Reserve have done a good work, and we are sure that in the not , r distant future the good people of liiglewood_ will feel grateful for one of lne_ prettiest, scenic spots in Tarana'd having been reserved for them.—Eltham Argus. Recently a delegation from the Wanganui County Council went over the Eltham County tarred Toads, and returned loud in their praise iof the roadmaking methods pursued % the Eltham County. The chairman, in report!<lf coun<:i1 ' remarked, inttor Mia: Mr. Basham gave us some startling figures The rate that 'had been levied m the past was as high as 3d, and the roads were villainous Under the new system the rate was iy a a, and tbe ratepayers had first-class roads." He went on to say t'nat the Committee went over tbe roads in the worst time of the year, and they travelled over by-roads as well as tha main roada, Thfv found them all to have a smooth and dry surface. Why,' he said, the roads in Eltliam were swept, and the settlers complained if there was a pool on them. There was not a street in the- Wanganui Borough as good as these roads. The Wanganui County is now out to make its roads on approved' Eltkam principles. <