LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A conceit and dance is to be held in tin; Oakura Hall on Thursday as a farewell to Private l.cn Morris, who is home on final leave.

It ia the opinion of competent authority that the T'aranaki Farmers' Freezing Company will develop into the largest beef killing works in New Zealand.

The sum of £.lO 12s was taken at the Mart on .Saturday.| Donations were received as follows: —Common juror 12s, "Friend'' (sale of lace) !ls, sale of horse at Waiwakuiho sale-yards C> l-'x.

Sir Jas. Wilson stated at the Palmcrston Hospital Board meeting on Thursday that the germ of infantile paralysis had been discovered )i-, the expert at Mavo Brothers' clinic :i! .Kochestcr. United States, and that the medical fraternity would thus be enabled to deal effectively with, the disease by the assistance of this valuable discovery. The commissioned and non-eommis-sioiied officers in Taranaki, Wanganui, and Wellington are holding a "refresher'' camp at I'almerstou North. On Saturday many officers travelled by mail train. Six Inglcwood men Mere included in the batch for canvas town, the commissioned olliccrs being Lieuts. Frew in, Buckley, and Robinson.

It was reported by the clerk of the Klfham County Council at the meeting on Saturday that a considerable amount of trouble was caused by motorists who plied for hire in not re-fegistcring their car;, when they had effected exchanges. In consequence a sum of money had been lost to the Council in fees. It was decided to take steps to prosecute those who had offended.

Laughter was caused at the Eltham County Council's meetin'g on Saturday, when a member reported that a certain amount of free grazing on the county reads was being obtained by certain settlers. The member added that the greatest offender was a contractor of the Council's, and he suggested that no notice be token of the matter for a fortnight to enable the contractor to continue uninterruptedly until the work in hand was completed. The Boylan Road, between Eltham and Ncimauby, is now open for traffic, the Hnv.ora County Council having completed the tarviatiug of the road. This will he appreciated by motorists. The Stratford County Council is also engaged in re-making and tar-sealing the Mountain Read near Xgacre. With the piece between Te Roti and Normanby attended to, the road from New Plymouth to Hawd'i! would be hard to beat- anywhere in New Zealand.

A special meeting of the Works Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council was held on Friday evening to consider proposed improvements to the entrance to Carrington road. The committee conferred with the borough engineer (Mr. W. 11. Cook) on the ground, and it was ultimately decided to proceed wiih the regrading of the road in accordance with the engineer's recommendation, and also to improve the intersection of Carrington road and ipeiidarves street.

For some months past various circular letters emanating from the Petonu Borough Council, have been received by .local bodies. Most of these letters relate" to the war. When an invitation from the Petone Council was extended to the Eltham County Council on Saturday to co-operate in a move to urge the conscription of wealth, a member of the Council observed. ''They seem to have a lot of time at Petone. "A few had better come up here and do some work," said the chairman. "It must be a most important body. We get a circular from it at every meeting,'' added a third, in a It-no of sarcasm.

\ little girl named Kathleen Christiansen, aged about six year*, had a marvellous escape from a serious accident on Saturday afternoon. At the conclusion of the Empire. Picture matinee, the little girl ran across the road right in front of an approaching tramcar, the driver of which promptly applied the emergency brakes, and stopped the car, which struck the child and knocked her down, but she, to the relief of all who wittiessed, % the incident, picked herself up and ran away, having espjtped scathless, with the exception of a, flight bruise on the arm.

The Eltham County Council has undertaken another duty—that of trying to reform a motor-driver who is believed to bo committing a breach of one of the county by-laws. The circumstances of the alleged breach were stated by the ranger, and a councillor mentioned that tile driver in question was one of the most happy-go-lucky, hail-fellow-wch-mct sort of individuals he had known. The man was an awful nuisance on the road, and yet he was one of the most good-hearted fellows, one could wish to meet. The Council must reform him. Tt was resolved to ascertain the legal position with regard to the alleged breach, and to take proceedings.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., draw attention to their Kchuratahi sale on Wednesday, 14th insi., at 1 p.m. Particulars on page 8.

Tho New Zealand I/ian and Mercantile Agency draw attention to their Malau sheep fair and cattle sale on Tuesday nex't, February lit. at 1 o'clock. As will be seen by the advertisement on page S, a very largo entry of sheep has been received, and it will well repay buyers to be present. Cars will leave the company's office, Stratford, at I) a.m. on the morning of the sale.

Meetings to discuss matters in connection with the Opunake Harbor Board's proposal to raise a loan of £50,000 for harbor improvements will be held as follow: At Opunake to-morrow afternoon at 1.30; at l'ihnma in the evening at 8; and at Oaonui and Te Kiri on Wednesday and Thursday evenings respectively. The poll in connection with the loan will be taken at the same four places next Monday.

SUNBURN May be classed by some as one of the ltsser ills of lite,' hut to the possessor of a delicate skin :t is one of the worst modes of torture to be imagined. Alter p. glorious day in the surf, "or a delightful bush pic-nic, the aftermath of scalding, burning face and hands and disfiguring blisters takes away the happy ir.emory of the day's pleasure. 'To minimise the after effects of sunhi.rn, minointing with liexona, the Rapid Healer, is all that ;s necessary, and the skin, soothed and cooled by its wonderful influence, will quickly regain its normal tempera tun and comfortable coolness. Rexona, Is (Id and 3s. Obtainable everywhere

Delicious flavor and wonderful refreshing power are the distinctive qualities of Desert Gold Tea. Its purity and strength make it economical. Superb quality.at 2s. Other prices: Is lOd, Is Od, Is Bd. 3

Ti ko residents are farewelling I'vivate T!. liiirgham tit a social on Wednesday evening.

Privates A. Julian and W. Simpson now homo on final leave, are to be farewelled at a social in the Okato Hall tomiTiw ovening.

The West Coast Times, 1 Hokitika, wad unable to publish on Tuesday morning of last week', the supply of paper having run. out.

On Thursday at Palca D. S. Couchman was lined .ttf for failing to at lend parades. Defendant, in replv to the Magistrate, stated (hat he did not intend to attend -parade, ami was then warned by his Worship that the tine indieted did not end the matter unless he did his duty. Tt is estimated that the amouii! of damage by fire in Southland since January 1 is .€7.5,000. This figure has slruek the insurance companies hard, and it is staled that several are contemplating winding up their Southland brandies (says the Southland Times). This is in addition to ouo well-known covering firm, which is shortly closing its entire ]")nmi' 'i business.

It : .; not probably generally realised (says the Otago Daily Times) how large an amount of cargo space from the Old Country is being taken up at the present time by whisky and other liquors. One large liner, for instance, due here next week, has over 5001) cubic feet of space occupied with whisky from Glasgow for this port. The weight of this quantity is about 130 tons.

"I was very much surprised ti see, in the betting books produced, the names of some reputable citizens," commented j\lr. W. A. Barton, S.M., in delivering his decision in some gaming cases at Otisborne on Monday. "It is to be regretted that these persons do not pay more attention to the war than to betting. So long as gambling is encouraged by persons who should set a better example, we rannot expect a proper obsci va.tion of the Gaining Act."

Tlio responsibility of employers in assuring themselves that all men employed by them are enrolled on the National Register was mentioned at a meeting of tlie_Eltham County Council on Saturday. It was stated that a number of good men bad been engaged in clearing the slips at The engineer interposed that lie had had to dismiss two of them because they had been unable to prove that they bad registered. He mentioned that the Council would have been liable to a heavy penalty had the men been kept in its employ.

A narrow escape from a horrible death was the experience of a boy who was playing' on the beach the other day in a locality known to old residents as Blanket Hay. says the Dunedin Star. Several youngsters were playing in tne smttlov. water at low tide, when an octopus of large size, pursued one of the boys, and travelling with a velocity unsuspected in so uncouth a creature, seized him by the leg. A girl—and a plucky girl she was—tried to pull the uncanny creature from its prey, fiut, from all accounts, she wojlld not have succeeded but for the arrival of other children, when, recognising that the odds were against it. the repulsive devil fish abandoned its attempt and escaped. "A policeman's job is not a happy one" may also apply to the guards on the railway. On Saturday a lady boarded a crowded train and the guard showed her to a vacant seat. This did not suit a second* passenger, who protested that the vacant seat was held by another lady, who was evidently visiting friends in another carriage. The guard protested that no passengers were allowed two scats, but the superior woman tilted her chili and glared in such a manner that the incoming passenger hastily rose and secured a seat and comfort in another carriage. The affair happened in a. lirstclnss carriage, too, where good manners might reasonably be expected. Evidently the incident was an isolated one, but the guard was sympathised with by those in the neighborhood.

In view of the recent declaration By\ Curtain Walker at the Military Service Board sittings that he regarded new improvements on farms and stations at the pnf-ent time as a luxury, not justifying their use of man power, there ■is a tendency on the part of some settlers in the Poverty Bay district to cut out all bushfelling and fencing propositions after this year until the war is over, and the balance of lahor has been readjusted (says the Gisborne Times). As a case in point, a bush settler in the Wairoa district who recently engaged men to fell some thousands of acres of bush has changed his mind and sacked all hands. "I thought that if we extended our pastures and grew more wool and mutton we would be assisting the Empire as well as ourselves," he declared, "but I have come to the conclusion that the men would be better engaged in the firi:i,2 line, and my improvements will have to wait a while."

With the pronounced shortage of paper that exists at the present time, some remarks made b,\ (he Hon. 0. W. Russell on Thursday evening were very opportune, "[ think we are importing something like 400,000 pounds' worth of paper every year." said the Minister. "The only use. I believe, that is made of the waste paper in New Zealand is in two small mills, where a quantity, a very small quantity, of our waste paper is turned into brown wrapping paper. The whole of the rest is sent to our destructors and goes up iu smoke. My own opinion is that scientific men ought to be able to discover some method by witich the ink could lie extracted from the papers after we have read them, and the paper then remade in our own country. This would provide employment for our own p(oplc. and turn what is now a waste product into a profitable industry, saving this country hundreds of thousands of pounds 11 yenr." An unusually fine lot of mavcclla quilts has opened out at the Melbourne, Ltd. These quilts are full size, good qpiility and made in uncommonly pretty designs. Prices 15s Gd, 18s (id and 21s.

Tlii! attention of farmers is directed to Ihe advertisement in this issun o f Mr. Newton King's annual Inglewool sheep fair. A splendid yarding of good sheep is assured so that buyers should have a good opportunity of stocking up at this sale.

Throe million pounds of tobacco a year -that's what .Yew Zealand imports cadi year from (lie United States, and every pound of it helps to make heavier the enormous burden which the Empire has to carry. Surely every patriotic New Zoalawler realises that by smoking an Umpire product he is helping the "Empire. And when by buying Wold Pouch Tobacco he is supporting a New Zealand industry, lie surely owes it to himself and the Dominion to at least try. Crown, picked, blended and packed in" Hawke's Day, (»old Pouch Tobijeeo is not only superior to the. imported article, it 'is 45 per cent, better value, too—2} ounces for a shilling as l%ois. At all tobacconists and stores, . . c