LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Board of Trade is going to G'isbornc and Auckland to inquire into the meat position.—Press Association. The dairymen of Stratford have decided to raise the retail price of milk to 3d per quart. The Stratford branch of the Taranaki Fanners' Union, wliieh has lately been ■resuscitated, now has a membership of 39.

A farewell social will bo tendered Privatet Wells and IClwin Clothier in the Warea Hall 'to-morrow (Friday) evening. Both men are home on final leave. At a meeting of the New 'Plymouth Returned Soldiers' Club Committee, it was decided to open the club to the public every Thursday evening'.

The Napier Chamber of Commerce has received advice from the Hon. J. Allen, Minister of Defence, that it is necessary to hold territorial camps, and that business men must arrange with the local officer commanding as to a suitable date —Press Association.

The shortage of labor in New Plymouth was strikingly emphasised at the Breakwater yesterday, when only two gangs, instead of four, were available for the Corinna, while there was no labor at all available for the Kaituna, which had to proceed to Nelson without discharging the local cargo. The races evidently proved an irresistible attraction for the workers.

The West End School opened on Tuesday morning, when 4"2G pupils were present. The number on the roll is 407, ai compared with 478 at the beginning of last year, an increase of 10. Fifty-seven new pupils were enrolled this week. The. attendance at the Fitzroy School on Tuesday was 107, as compared 'With 1"4 on the opening day last year, ail increase of 13.

The Labor Department is taking action against t'he Blackball miners who went on strike recently. The miners came out because the company refused their demand to pay bin hoys for the time lost since Christinas, although the previous practice had been to pay them only for the time worked.—Press Association.

The Taumarumu Borough Council 011 Tuesday night set up a committee to make inquiries regarding the starting of a municipal bakery; also to call on the Government to establish refrigerating stores in To Awaniutu, Te Kuiti, and Tauinarunui, and to send meat and fish by rail for country consumption, charging local butchers Government prices; alos to inquire about starting a municipal milk supply, to reduce the cost of living.—! Press Association.

"You don't see able-bodied men driving taxis or acting as tram conductors in London now," said Mr. Houghton, a returned Wellington soldier. "That sort of work is all done by young women, and it's surprising bow efficient they are! As good as men? They are bettersmarter, more polite and attentive, more alive in their job. When a wounded soldier gets into a crowded 'bus, it is the girl conductor who says, 'Who'll give up their seat to a wounded soldier?' And she makes tliclim give it up if 110 one responds." For regular school attendance, the reccl'd of the Elwin family, Puniho, probably stands unequalled in New Zealand. Doris Elwin, aged 13, who received a pioficiency certificate at the last examination, commenced school ill April, )l)10, and left just prior to the Christmas vacation last year. She went to school for six years and eight months without missing a day, and this, in view of the fact that,she' had to go three miles to school and had to milk cows night and morning. Doris' sister, Florence May Elwin, 11 years of age, who has just passed the fourth standard, has attended school rcularly for five years without missing a day. The next member of the family is Edward Elwin, aged 10 years, who lias just been successful in passing the third standard. He went to school for there years without missing a day, and the regularity of his attendance was only broken by an unfortunate injury to hisfoot which necessitated his removal to the hospital. The remaining member of tlie family, Herbert Elwin. who is a cripple, and Jenkin Elwin, have attended school regularly for a year without missing once. »

HEALTH A FACTOR IN SUCCESS. The largest factor contributing te a man's success is undoubtedly health. It has been observed that a man is seldom sick when his bowels are regular—lie is never well when they are constipated. For constipation you will find nothing quite so good as Chamberlain's Tablets for the stomach and liver. They not only move the bowels but improve the appetite and strengthen the digestion. Sold everywhere.

Nurses are good judges of tea; A nurse writes: "I use Desert Gold Tea in ay Nursing Home; all my patients like the tea and intend using it when they go tome." 1

A London cable states.that bread has been raised to elevenpence. The military ballot was finished yesterday. The result will probably "be made known on Monday.—Press "Asso. cintion.

It is expected that owing to the dry weather the season for slaughtering ilieep in the Wairarapa will be shorter this year than in former years.

Glimpses of a starling treble life lived by a man in New York weiv revealed in the will of Mr. Wm. \V. Syiulcr, of Mount Vernon, The astonishing fact then was disclosed that for the past 2D years he had lmd three "wives,'' all of whom resided within a few miles of each other. Suspicion first arose when the newspapers of the three towns in the States of Nmr York and Xew Jer.-i-y, in which his ' esc:iblishmcnts" were located, published obituaries all of which diii'cred regarding the name of his "wife'' and the siie ot hU mily. hi his will Mr. Kynder ignore ie "wife who resided in trie town of Jt.,rrison (X.J.), but acknowledged h Synder of Mount Vernon, and also Mrs. Synder of Kant Oronge (N.J.). Lip to a few days before his death, which occurred in February last at the age of 07, he spent a great deal of his time at the Harrison home with a wcnian over (iO years of age, who had been his companion for many years. They bore locally the reputation of being a very devoted and worthy couple, and he himself was highly esteemed as one of the mr.st reputable and solidest members of the community. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction.

A writer in the Paris "Journal," it r.eutral recently travelling in Germany vouches for this story of German organisation. Female labour .is employed in Germany on a scale and in directions undreamt of by Britons. "Berlin women have shown themselves apt. for all trades. 1 was riding back from my hotel in Berlin in a tramcar. A soldier got in, who was evidently on leave fitin the front. A stout, imposing, well-dressed woman at, once opened conicrtation with him. The soldier spoke freely and rather bitterly of the hardships he had undergone, of the rigorous discipline from which lie had suffered, and of the heavy losses outside Ver■ii'ii, where lie had just come from. The good lady listened sympathetically, interposing kindly remarks. Eventually I i!te got down, but told the tramway conductress to keep the ear wailing. She then went to the nearest policeman ami. oidered him to take the soldier in charge The policeman, who was an elderly, good-natured Woking fellow, demurred, and the other passengers in the train protested, whereupon the good lady brought out from a reticule her card, showing that she was an inspectrcss of the secret police. The policeman obeyed and took the too outspoken soldier into custody

The need for adopting modern metn ods of road construction was stressed by Cr. Laurence at the meeting of the Taranaki County Council 011 Monday, lieferring to the cost of continually blinding the roads with clay, which was swept off the roads within a couple of days either by the wind or passing motor cars, he said that the Council must face in a comprehensive manner the tarring of their roads. Continual blinding with elav was only a waste of money. The ordinary rate was not sufficient to keep the road's in repair to cope with motor traffic and either a loan or toll gates would bo necessary. He thought that it was 110 use tinkering with the mauer by tai sealing half a mile ut Omata and a quarter of a mile at Moa. The roads should be comprehensively dealt with. He thought that the Council should procure a tar sealing plant. Cr. McAlluni said that he had favored tar sealing for years, though the majority had opposed it. He favored laving down half a mile as an experimental piece, because while this was done by the Restar Company it would serve to teach their foreman the method and he in turn could teach the other foremen. Omata riding, he ndded, had £-100 earmarked for purpose.

Looping tho loop is a commonplace nir performance nowadays (says an English paper). The story goes that Lieut, Robinson, V.C., looped the loop three times in his joy after destroying the Zeppelin. But there was something to marvel at in the extraordinary performance of the airman who gave an exhibition recently to the crowd gathered at a gala for war hospitals at Ciolders (Jrei'n. Tie had a line sky of white clouds to show off against. He began hia "stunt" high in the air, and h.> made his big biplane do some wonderful bird-like evolutions. Someone who saw it said it was like figure skating, and so it was if you can imagine the skater tinning somersaults bv way of varying his intricate patterns. He dived, turned over, and shot up in a sort of passion of mastery. He looped the loop 23 times, getting lower each time until he was too near the upturned faces for nervous watchers. It was a dance in the air as quick and sure as the sportive flight, of a swallow at evening. It was exciting wi.ichiug the looping business, but what iii::;c<l alarm with the admiration was to see tile biplane skimming around rearel 011 its side, staying for balf-minutes in the position which one always thought meant the immediate prospect of sliding straight to earth.

Lucky ladies, yonr chance has come. This week The Big Store, Waitara, oilers you some lovely summer dress materials at almost half-price, and, better still, several decidedly smart blouse lengths at a shilling cadi. ; See top left iiand corner, page i. Horrockses' famous tennis shirts, as supplied by the Melbourne, Ltd., are •'out on their own'' for value. Compare these prices with those offering elsewhere for inferior goods. White tennis and neglige shirts, 3/11 and 4/11. Mercerised cotton tussore neglige and tennis shirts, 4/11 and 5/0. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., draw attention to their Tarata sale on Friday, 9th February, at 1 p.m. Full particulars will be found' on page 8 of this issue.

RECORD TRIP—NEW PLYMOUTH TO WELLINGTON IN OVERLAND 75.

This road record proves Overland efficiency, speed and petrol economy. were tliree passengers in the car; 102 miles from Now Plymouth to Wanganui took only ,'i hours !) minutes. Previous record was 3 lionrs 25 minutes, and the train takes ">} lionrs. Wanganui to Palmcrston North, the speed averged 31)4 miles per hour—sometimes it was 53 miles The 221 miles from New Plymouth to Masterton were do:io at an average of 31 miles per hour. Featherstou to Wellington, over the Rimutakas, occupied only 11 lionrs, almost entirely on top gear in a raging gale. Average petrol consumption was 24J mihs per 'gallon. Inspect the Overland 75! For free catalogue and particulars apply:— B Ilyrn, Agent, New Plymouth, T. Donald, agent, Stratford.. Hurrell Bros, Hawjra, A. Hairick and Co., Ltd, Vangauiii, distributors for North Islnnd. 10