LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An endeavor is to be made by residents of Westown to have a school established in that growing district. Br. McNab is visiting the Mokau on or about the Bth May re clearing the river and making it fit for traffic.

The committee ask that all butts and unsold tickets in connection with the Railway Art Union to be drawn on Thursday, be returned at once. Taranaki's quota of the Sixteenth Contingent leave for camp by the mail train this morning. The New Plymouth men will be farewelled at the railway station at 7 a.m.

The Returned, Soldiers' Conference at Wellington has concluded. It was decided that matters be furthei discussed in committee before publicity was given to the proceedings.—Press Association. The Premier stated yesterday that tl;e Government has decided to grant a shilling a day increase of wages demanded by the second division of railw&ymen during the currency of the war.—Press Association.

We have to thank Mr. ,T. S. 3. Iviedley, Registrar for the district of New Plymouth for the vital statistics for the month of April. Those of the same month last year are given in parenthesis: Births 30 (32), deaths 18 (8), marriages 15 (7).

A meeting of the Lake Rotolcare Domain Board was held in the Westown Hall on Thursday night, when there were present: Messrs W. H. Haddrell (chairman), E. C. Reube, F. Lee, R. W. Davies, ,T. Langley, and V. C. Davies (secretary). The chairman reported that the chairman of the New Plymouth Reserves Committee (Mr. W. A. Collis) had visited the Rotokare Domain and had expressed himself as pleased with the work done. The 100 l committee had made over a mile ef paths through the bush, and [>. working lice had mp.de a dam in order to raise the level of llk> lake, on which it was hoped shortly to have boating. The Reserves Committee had granted a further sum for expenditure on the reserve and Mewrs Duncan and Davies, of the Exotic Nursery, had also donated the Domain Board £.j worth of trees.

Mr. McT.eod, Bandmaster of the Citizen?,' Bund has during the lart week or more been besieged by requests from different parta of the Dominion from bandsmen anxious to make a change and also cniyic under liis personal tuition—a distinct compliment. Mr. McLeod is anxious to fill r.p a' number of important vacancies in the instrumentation of our Citizens' Band, and it would help matters considerably if some, of these men could be "planed." Re has applications from stationary engine drivers (second-class certificate), bootmakers, motor mechanics, and drivers, grocers (senior), and others, while it might also be mentioned that lie h. 13 poe'tiens awaiting drivers (dray), laborers (2), and til engineer's blacksmith to hjnd.imen who arc capable and reliable in these departments. Employers gene/ally might kindly take note of the foregoing, as by assisting their band they are helping their town, and, further, themselves. Music demands intelligence, and if men are expert musicians as bandsmen they are invariably capable tradesmen. The Melbourne, Ltd,, announce that they have secured an#ther small lot of men's Kaiapoi all-wool tweed suits to sell at 37s Od. These suits are good winter weight, strong and warm, and are guaranteed to-give double the wear of imported slioddy suits at the same price.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Stratford, have just received advice from their Wellington branch that the next Wellington wool sale has been fixed for Friday, June 2,

Not all stage successes are equally effective on tha screen, lv.it it is stated that th« famous Napoleonic drama, "J>rg.u!ie*' Gerard" gains considerably when produced in motion-picture form. With th." eminent Knglisli *et»r, Lewis V?.iler, in tin ntnie part, and Miss .tiiul.-o 'iitlicrado;?, who has inherited her father's t»Wit, as the Countess (le Ecc•juelaire, "Brigadier Cierard"' is ths outstandi lit; picture of the moment. This film will he screened at the Empire Picture I'altcc to-morrow night also on Wcilnesdfy. Members of the Equitnbla Building So-jiefy of New Plymouth (second gro-jp) r.r L - iio'.ili?d that subscriptions will he due :ind payable to-day (Monday. May I j, at t.ho Secretary's Office, Curric olrect, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., frcai 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. t« 8 p.m. CHAPPED HANDS

Of course; Exposure to bitter weather; i;» gloves uir.y be; work which soils the hand-, so that frequent washing is necessary —resr.H, sor.: hands, cracked asil blc"!i3iiia'—aiay be blciod poisoning. Keep your hfci'-d 8 in good condition with Rcxomu, the Rapid Healer. A perfect skin treatment in itself. After work wash them with Rexona Soap, dry carefully, then rub in Rexona Ointment Your hands will respond to its healing influence, become soft and flexible without sores or blemishes. Rexona keeps the hands safe from Winter troubles. ir.a is sold in tvi.-.ngular tins at Is lid 'Sad. 2>. ev:rv\vhcr«w.'

A shark seven or eight feet long was se<Mi in the Patea liver near the railway station wharf last Thursday. A large resilience at Bonili, a suburb of Sydney, has been purchased by the Government of New South Wales for th« purpose of a domestic training institution for girls from oversea and the temporary housing of female immigrants. It is' anticipated that with the provision of such means of training in housework girls younger than those usually recruited can be brought out, ( and be fitted to take positions in the best classes of houses. Training will extend over at least throe months. The immigrant womeu who will be able to avail themselves of temporary accommodation are those who have just arrived or are awaiting reemployment. Our latest war economy is to save all battles of every description (writes a. London correspondent). Glass bottles are becoming a luxury. The shortage is so serious and progressive that many big firms supplying beer or milk, or other liquids in bottles, and even chera. ists and hospitals, are at a loss to meet the growing deficiency. This shortage arises, it ia explained, from the fact that during the years immediately prior to the war a very large percentage of Lotties, of, evory description, were imported into this country. Foreign competition became so acute that a great many of the glass bottle factories of the North of England were closed, and many operatives were driven to seek work in the coal pits. Foreign competition was so severe that manufacturers found the industry unremunerative. Home manufacturers are rtow engaged in making bottles once more. Dr. E. J. Dillon insists that when this war is over we shall search in vain for what was peculiarly British in our cherished civilisation. "Of that civilisation, which reached the acme during the reign of the late King Edward, we have seen the last, little though most of us realise its passing. It was an age of sturdy good sense, healthy animalism, and dignity withal, and not devoid of a strong flavor of humanity and home-reared virtue. But in every branch of politics and some departments of science it was an age of amateurism. Bespect for right, for liberty, for the law and tradition, for relative truth and gradual progress was widely diffused, Well-controlled energy, responsiveness to caMs on one's fellow feeling, and the everyday honesty that tapers into policy were among its familiar features. But if one were asked to sum it all.Uß.in a single word it would be hard to utter one more comprehensive or characteristic than the essentially English term, comfort. Comfort was the apex 1 of the pyramid which is now crumbling away." High prices of packing and containing materials have stimulated the inventive faculty in most merchant houses, and materials are now being used which were formerly despised, and sometimes consigned to the waste-heap (says the Sydney Morning Herald). Some wooden packages brought from abroad are lined with tinned sheeting. In the past this has been carted away as rubbish. Now, with an increase in the price of tin plates of nearly 200 per cent.; this tin sheeting, damped though it be in opening the casing, is taken to the factories r.nd used <[ol' manufacturing containers for various commodities, such as washing powders, osv.stie sods, cr coarser disinfectant?. Of co-irso, it is not used to contain food. As a. food container, cardboard' is used an a substitute for tin plates. A cylinder of cardboard ia topped and bottemad with tin, we have a container equal to a tin psckage, and much cheaper. It iR understood that there are enly two machine* in Sydney capable of being used for thin purpose to-day and these havo been raked out of U;™be;- vooiiia. Again. any sort, nt' pßper will sell to-iay. Old stook that kas been hidden uway for years because it had »one out of fav»r i-j n#\v being searched for, and ia used to decorate all aorta of package:. It had long ago been written off ;\s dead stock.

American laclios persist in tkeir fad for short, full ckirts, r.nd th? showing of two or three inches of stockings above the high shoe tops is customary, while much shorter skirts are, in many instance*, not uncommon, writes a New 'iork correspondent. Po greatly has the fr.d grown :tll ov?r the loimt.ry that the City C'nimiil of 'I c.lerfn, Ohio, has passed an ovdir.arce i':-.t women must w«»/ nkirfc* reaching within three inches of the ankle, m:dsr penalty of line and imprisonment, but the police say they cannct enforce it, because they cannot determine cractly at what point a woman's ankle exists, and tlu-y may he liable to mistake in arresting * f'irl, affair.st the lonsth of whi?.(. cfciri* there ir: r.o lav/, instead of a waroui. On the other hand the ■ htate Legislature of Virgin?, has defeated a bill to prohibit women from weaving skirts that: do not reach wiihis four inches of the ground. And jolly old New York legislators say nothing except that, if tl-e girls and women can stand it, the men will luve t.o try, so seme of the ladies show their knees, and some of the men admire them, as intended. A wsmen's convention recently passed a resolution against wearini dresses "too far from the ground at the bottom and not far enough at the top," but the caricaturists merely smiled, and the world went on as usual.