LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Twelve building permits to the'value of .-€3052 were issued in New Plymouth last month.

The Mart will be open this afternoon and evening to receive contributions for the accountants' and land agents' day to-morrow.

The show will be continued to-day and to-morrow. The Citizens' Band will be present each evening. 'To-day will be children's day, when children will be admitted for 3d.

People are getting the tram habit in Aew Plymouth. The tramway receipts for last month amounted to' £741, as against £BIO last month, an increase of £l3l. No fewer than 22,863 additional passengers were carried. If the Morley Street route were extended to the top of Westown the increase would be still further marked.

There were IS eases of infectious diseases noted in, New Plymouth last month, comprising one case of enteric fever, 12 diphtheria, and five scarlet fever. The inspector recommends the taking of vigorous steps to locate the source of infection appearing to affect one particular part of tlie town. The inspector is making a, house-to-house inspection, and last month served notices on 21 owners to abate nuisances. Last month he fumigated three lots of sec-ond-hand buildings before sale by public auction. ,

There were slaughtered for local consumption in New Plymouth last month 172 cows, 1 bullock, 30 calves. 573 sheep, 1H lambs, 143 pigs. Compared with last May they show an increase of O calves, and a decrease of 8 cattle, 26 sheep, 74 lambs, 10 pigs. Slaughtered for export nii, a -decrease of 14 cattle. Condemned, 0 cattle, 1 sheep, and 3 pigs. Fees due were £ll3 Hl* 3d, rents duo £3 5* Od, stock from other works £2 Sb !lil, extraordinary fees and royalty .11 !0s Od, a total of £l2l Is, a decrease of £lO Ss Od.

To enable all country patroiiß to view I Mary Piekford's best'picture to date, "The Girl of Yesterday," the Empire Theatre! management has arranged fo screen this film again at the matinee tomorrow afternoon. A pet hen is a now kind of star, but she is ingeniously used in "Her New York," where the heroine has m«t a "White Slave Trader, and is much impressed by the kind man she meets at the latter's house. She is rescued from ■grove peril, by the flight of the pet hen, an altogether original idea in plot construction. '''Her New York" will lie .screened at tlie Empire to-night and to-morrow night.

Owing to the depletion of the ranks of school teachers through enlistment, Cabinet, on the recommendation of Mr. Hanan, has referred the matter to the National Efficiency Board, which has now classified teaching institutions as in Class B. which is an essential class.

Several people do not seem to understand yet the objects for which the Pierrots £IOOO day is being held on June 30. It should be explained that every penny will be administered locally for the benefit of local men—either by the Patriotic Committee or the Women's League. The whole reason- for holding the demonstration is that the loen.l fm:--!-

of both societies are getting so low that, unless they arc replenished, it will he imnoasiblc to carry on the good work the.v, are jjow doiua.

Tho Auckland city electrical' deprtineut showed a gross profit of £<W,O33 last year.

A special general order issued i'rom Defence Headquarters sets out tho rates of pay and allowance in tbe K'ew Zealand Expeditionary Force. It makes no changes, but it brings tho various rules and regulations on the subject together and makes some explanations on points where doubt has arisen.

A youthful looking Maori debtor in the Xapier Court told the magistrate that he had been married for 21 years and >l>ad 13 children, four of whom had died. Tho eldest child was married, and there were five children still at home, tho eldest of which was 21 years old.

A resident of the Hawera district (the Star reports) says that on December 27 last he sent a cable message asking for information concerning his son who had recently before that date been wounded. On May 31 ho received advice from his son, stating that the previous cablegram had just reached him. )

The Duncdin .police were very vigilant on the race days osijihe lookout, for breaches of the motor regulations—so much so (says the Star) that within n few days about 50 motor-car drivers will be charged with driving cither at an excessive ".peed or on tho wrong side of the road wSile proceeding to and from Wingatui.

"Acre sections in Eltham were offering in those days at £7 10s," said Mr. Wilkinson, M.P., at a meeting on Wednesday evening. He was referring to the early days of Eltham's existence, and mentioned that when the town received an alternative offer of a site for a town hall or a "river" the money was unhesitatingly accepted in preference to the land.—Argus. ,

' It lias been arranged that the Ad-dress-in-Keply debate in the House this session will he opened by two members on opposite sides, an arrangement in harmony with the National Government idea. The mover -will be Mr. G. H. Smith, the new member for Pahiatua, and the seconder Mr. Buddo, member for Kaiapoi. —Press Association.

There are several eases of diphtheria at Ngaere and six patients have been sent to the Stratford Hospital, while two are being treated at home (says the Argus). When the school resumed on Tuesday the attendance was very small, and on Wednesday morning the chairman of the school committee, after consulting the Health Inspector and the chairman of the Education Board, decided, as a precautionary measure, to dose the school till Monday next. The Wangamii Chronicle says:—"The ambulance men who marched from Awapuni to Wanganui are loud in their praises of the way in which the band «*ie!c to their work. For practically the whale of the 54 miles the three pipers and two drummers lifted the column along, the periods ot' silence being very few and far between. Nothing but the highest praise can be said of the conduct of the visiting men, and an equally good opinion is held toy the local public who billeted the visitors."

There is a good deal of "pinching" going on in !Xo\y Plymouth just now of motor car tools and accessories. The other day a car owner lost his maßCot and some of his most useful tools. Another caught a youth in the act of removing some brass fittings from his car, and (Ualt with him summarily. Another left some lamps and fittings inside his car in a garage, and on returning shortly afterwards found they were missing.

Mr. C, Parata, MP. for the Southern Maori electorate, telegraphs frvra the Bluff:—"lt has been decided hy a meeting lipid Rt Bluff this week that the \atives of the South Island shall make gift of mutton birds to our Maon sol(lirrs at the. front, each kaianga to raise £10." It is estimated that this sum raised from each kaianga, to the totsvl of about £250, would buy about SOOvt birds for the Maori soldiers, and would be appreciated 'by them,

0:io of the salesmen at the Winter Show on Wednesday received an unpleasant surprise on returning after the tea adjournment to find his stall conspicuously decorated with white feathers. As he has volunteered on several occasions and been turned down he feels very much hurt over the incident, but not so much hurt probably as the individual who wus the perpetrator of the action 'Would feel were he only ,known, that is if a man were guilty of the action.

In the midst of a sea of flood water one' would not expect to see a cottage burned down, says a Clutha paper, yet that is what occurred.at Otanomomo last week, when a two-roomed place belonging to Mr. Thomas Dale, a settler in the flooded area, was completely destroyed. The cottage was used as a storehouse, and in it were stored a ton of lime, four tons of chaff, CO bags of oats, and three sacks of grass seed, the whole being burned. There is no doubt that the water getting into the lime caused the fire. Robert Warwick,, the handsome "matinee idol" of the World T' ;v i Co., will be featured in that firm's latest success, "All Man," commencing at Everybody's matinee to-morrow afternoon. Warwick as the hero is a young New Yorker .with nothing to do but spend money. His father.ships him to Montana, and his experiences in the cow country work a transformation. He thrushes the bully, saves the life uf the heroine, and puts through other Jeals that fully qualify him for the title, "All Man." ' In the course of a discussion on the proposal of the Patriotic Society to raise move money for the rapidly dwindling funds of the War Belief Association, states the Dominion, Mr. John liutcheson said: "There are men in this town worth twice a? much as anyone in this room, who have no'u given anything. They should be pilloried by being 1 named —and they will be soon!" The above undoubtedly has a local application. Perhaps the Pierrot's committee could do something in the direction of persuading local backsliders to contribute and so save the neeessity of any pillorying in New Plymouth.

"It is now the first week in April," writes an English correspondent, "and it might he the first week in January judging by the weather conditions which have obtained throughout Great Britain. The heaviest snowstorms of the whole winter lias just occurred in Bradford, there being drifts two foet deep. All British formers are now in the thick of lambing time, and ths poor lambs are having a very cold reception. The weather is indeed a calamity, and instead of having mild, open, sunshiny weather, with farmers busy in the field ploughing and sowing, the country is covered with thick snow and tfcc outlook is far from being good." PAKKNTS. Protect your children against diphtheria. Give them Sykes' Formalin Tablets- all stores 1/fi- ,