LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sydney Sun newspaper's certified daily circulation is 70,1'13, which the Sun claims is an Australian record. —Sydney cable. The Patca Borougli Oouneil has decided to embark in a municipal picture, enterprise- with a view to making the recently erected Town Hall interest earning for the ratepayers. •Wcstport advised last night that the s.s. Kauri, which went ashore at Westport about a month ago and was refloat ed and patched up, took in 200 tons of coal, and sailed yesterday for Port Chalmers for docking. A difficulty which occurred with tho special crew .brought from Wellington was overome. After over fifty years' existence, during which many changes have been experienced, tho North Otago Times has 'ommenced a new career under a new

company. Judging from the initial issue, our southern contemporary bide fair to be a force to reckon with', and U. has every prospect of a long and nccc'sful career. Congratulations. That "pence make pounds" was a fact that received ample demonstration at St. Mary of the Angels' Church, Wellington. It is the custom of this church that each member of the congregation donates a weekly subscription of Id to the paying oft of the debt upon the Catholic schools. It was announced on Sunday that the revenue derived from this humble source for the last twelre months totalled .0130 7s sd. Dr I-lardwick Smith, in a lecture at Wellington on eugenics, referred to tho notoriously bad state of the teeth of children and adults in the colonies. He said that there was a theory going the rounds in Australasia that this state of affairs was due to the lack of a saline ] substance in the blood. But his theory ] of the cause of bad teeth in New Zealand and Australia was that it was due I to the amount of sweet stuff given to young children. They had practically unlimited access to cakes and sweetsfar greater than was the case with tha poorer and even the middle classes at Home, There, one result of the confining of food to absolute necessities was good tcetli. At a meeting of Parliamentary agents of the friendly societies, held to consider the suggestion contained in the report of the Public Service Commissioner that the Friendly Societies' Department should l>e attached to the Government Insurance Department, it was resolved: "That, seeing the Friendly Societies' Department, as at present constituted, i.-s doing the work so satisfactorily, this meeting views with apprehension the suggestion of the Public Service Commissioner to attach that department to the Government Insurance Department, and that a letter be sent .to the Minister in charge of the Friendly Societies' Department, expressing a strong desire that before any action is taken in the direction suggested, the friendly societies have an opportunity of being heard on the matter if necessary."