LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The London cheese market is stronger. Canadian is quoted at OS l-ss, and advancing; New Zealand butter, lS2s. The High School Board decided last night to ask the Magistrate to hold an enquiry into yesterday's fire. The directors of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company yesterday decided to invest £4OOO of the company's reserve fund in Government war bonds. An open-air demonstration' in Wnnganui in aid of tlie war loan on Saturday resulted in £a4BS bring invested, including £3OBB in certificates.—Press Association. In "Viator's" letter on hospital matters, published on Saturday, Mr. J. Brown was wrongly mentioned as Mr. (i. W. Browne. The Komiiey Marsh Sheep Breeders and the Hereford Cattle Breeders' Associations are investing their whole surplus funds in the war loan.—Press Assoiation. Tlie Omata Ladies' Sewing Guild, at the opening of the Soldiers' Club on Thursday, handed over a donation of £5 for the club's funds, a kindness which is greatly appreciated. It is expected that the Kaupokonui Dairy Company's pay-out will average Is Sid per lb butter-fat for the season. In addition, the company pays 0 per cent, interest on share capital. A soldier arrested at Trentham was charged at Wanganui on Monday with issuing valueless cheques to a total of £25 during April. As the man was serving the country he was ordered to come up for sentence later.—Press Association. The Xew Plymouth Borough Council has decided to alter the by-law regulating pedestrian traffic. It provides that in future pedestrians shall keep to the right, instead of v to the left, as previously. Thirty-four applications have been received for the position of engineer to the New Plymouth Borough Council. Applicants hail from all parts of the Dominion, and also from Sydney. The Borough Council will meet on Friday evening to consider the applications. A writ was issued on Wednesday on behalf of Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., claiming £5Ol damages from Mr. A. E. Jull, chairman of the Napier Harbor Board, for alleged slander. The ease will be heard at the next session of the Supreme Court. At Wanganui yesterday, Boy Lambess, an ex-jockey, was charged at the Magistrate's Court with not attending parades, but did not appear. Lambess is 22 years of age, and described as one of the worst shirkers in the Dominion. He has never attended a parade. The Magistrate deprived him of all civil rights for five years.—Press Association.

Writes our Tougaporutu correspondent:—A north-west gale set in here on (Sunday evening, and lit the time of writing (10 a.m., Monday), it is still blowing with terrific force. Rain has fallen continuously since midnight on Saturday, consequently the river is in flood. I have not heard of any damage being done by the sale. At the annual meeting of the Eltliam Dairy Company, Mr. Forsyth stated that, having bought rennet when it w»t cheaper, and having a stock to last for some time to come, the company had naved £2323. Similarly, they had saved £IOO in salt. A meeting of members of the Soldiers' Club was held at the Club rooms, King Street, last evening. There was a good attendance. A committee was set up to obtain rules and other particulars from the Auckland Soldiers' Club, and report to a. future meeting. Owing to the fire at the High School having disorganised the work of the school, if has been decided to commence the term holidays from to-day, instead of at the end of the week, 'in consequence, the football match that was to have been played between the New Plymouth High School and Technical College teams, in aid of the funds for providing Christmas comforts for the soldiers at the front has been abandoned. The eoncert, however, will be held in the Good Templar Hkll on Thursday evening, and an excellent programme has been arranged. A mean action is reported. At yesterday's fire, a schoolboy with difficulty penetrated the doomed building and rescued his camera. He placed it in what he thought was a place of safety, and then returned to help in the rescue of other boys' outfits. Whilst he was away, someone purloined his camera. The iad depends upon his scholarships for his passage through the High School, and worked hard and long after school hours for the wherewithal to buy the oamera.

At the conference between the Premier and the committee appointed to negotiate for the disposal of New Zealand cheese to the Imperial Government, th« Premier reported that the Imperial Government had declined the offer of the committee made last month to sell the whole output at SJd, but offered Sd for 800 tons at the rate of 200 tons a month during November, December, January and February. The committee pointed out to the Premier that sales had already been made, in New Zealand closely approximating 9d, whilst to-day firm offers of Od are available from Home buyers. The committee declined .the offer of the Imperial Government and factories are thus loft to dispose of their outputs as policy directs, either by sale to Home agents or on consignment. The adjourned meeting of the Egmont Lodge, 1.0. G.T., was resumed last evening, Bro. N. T. Maunder presiding. It was decided to defer the installation of officers to next Monday evening. The programme for the quarter was drawn up. Miss Dorothea Spinney gave a recital in the Good Templar Hall yesterday afternoon to a very appreciative audience that included a number of High School pupils. The subject was "The Trojan .Woman," and her portrayal was a revelation. This talented elocutionist will give another recital this evening, the subject being Euripides' "Iphigenia in Tauris." Scenes of particular interest to local residents were included in the War Gazette, screened at the Empire Theatre, last evening. A number of New Zealanders were presented with the D.C.M. medal by General Birdwood. Amongst the number was Harry Skinner, a wellknown local boy. The Moa Farmers' Co-operative Dairy Company, Inglewood, invite applications for position of assistant butter-maker. The programme for the, concert to be given in the Good Templar Hall on Thursday evening next in aid of the Soldiers' Comforts Fund will ■ include items by Mrs. P. Nathan (New Zealand's leading elocutionist), Miss Peart, Miss Speed, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, Messrs ,N. Day, Gpldsvcthy, Farmer. et%