LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Farmers' Co-Op. Organisation Society report the sale of a line of fifty in-calf heifers, at £ll 5s per head. Notwithstanding the bad weather, the takings at the door in connection with the Hawera Winter Show exceeded those of last year by £75. According to Mr. Payne, M.P., in the House of Representatives, the establishment of two Government meat shops in Auckland had saved the people £104,000 a year. He urged therefore, that similar shops should be started in other centres. At the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., plaintiff secured judgment in the following undefended civil case:—New Plymouth Borough Council (Mr. J. H. Quilliam) v. Et'helbert Whitney Griffiths, £ll ss, with costs £1 10s fid. That there is a large quantity of cheese in the Dominion is shown by the official figures of the amount exported from the Dominion during the year ending 31st May last and during the corresponding period of last year. In the latter case £1,102,090 worth of cheese went over the Patea bar; this year but £894,374 has been exported—Press.

A nurse in a military hospital at Folkstone, England, writing to her brother in Christchurch, pays a high compliment, to a New Zealand soldier. "A tremendous contingent of New Zealanders marched through yesterday," she says. "I have now a pretty good experience of all the colonials, %nd I can say that the New Zealanders are out and away the best. They are such fine men—so clean and alert and strong. "I am not giving away any political secrets," said Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby in the House of Representatives recently, '■' but there is a good deal of makebelieve in the political situation of New Zealand. We are not the friends we pretend to be. Bist can't we put aside everything, so as bo do something for the returned mien? There are men in tjiis House who have properties on every fifty acres of which a family could bo maintained; but how many of them are going to do anything for the returned soldiers?" i A man named Edsward Hotwe Shore, for whom Mr. A. H. Johnstone appeared. was ibrousrht before* Mr. A. Crooke, ■S.M., at the New 'Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday charged with having in May last obtained the sums of £4 19s Oil and £.3 19s Gd from Charles Arthur Harrison, of New Plvimousfch, by means of false pretences, namely by means of valueless cheques. On the application of Sub-Inspector Mdlvenev accused was remanded till Tuesday next. Bail was allowed, the accused in £25 and one surety in a similar amount. Flannelettes have advanced 40 to 50 per cent, in price on the Home markets, is the alarming announcement made in another column. Fortunately the Big Store, Waitara, has anticipated the advance, and purchased over 100 pieces in | white, cream and staiped designs, and •now offer you (see tap left hand corner) the pick of this lucky purcha.se at last season's lowest prices. Send for free j nattern%

The will of the late Mr. Robert Glendinning has been filed for probate. The estate is valued at £360,000. In the House yesterday Mr. Massey read a letter from Mrs. Constance Gillies offering her house at Rotorua as a home for returned soldiers. The gift was received with applause. The Tarania ranges are at present entirely free from snow. This is a thing almost unknown in the experience of the oldest settlers of the Wairarapa for the present season of the year. A large number of directors of Taranaki dairy factories leave for Wellington to-day to take part in a monster deputation of Dominion factory representa: tives to the Premier, in connection with the butterfat levy. In Objecting to the proposal to levy a rate of iy 4 d in the Raliotu riding of the Egraont County Council, Cr. Campbell stated that he was very much interested, as lie had a property on the Ihaia road, and he understood that the Parihaka Road Board meant to strike a Id rate. He would then be paying 2%i general, besides two or three special rates, and could not even get to his section. Cr. Dudley: "Then, get a boat."

Owing to, the difficulty experienced .by the GiP.O. in dealing with the large number of payments made on account of the pensions department and other State services at the beginning of each month, the Hon. A. Myers intimates that it has been decided by Caibinet that instalments of pensions usually falling due then may bo .paid on any day in the preceding month, not earlier than the 23rd. The new arrangement takes effect on August I.—Press Association. An extraordinary general meeting of the members of the Inglewood Oil Boring and Prospecting Company, Limited, was held at the Soldiers' Club last night, Mr. T. Furlong, junior, presiding, when the .resolutions adopted at a previous meeting to voluntarily wind up the company and place its affairs in the hands of a liquidator, were formally confirmed. It is understood that several offers for the plant have been made and are under consideration, The national committee of the Y.M.C'.A. has to acknowledge the following contributions to its war funds: Taranaki Patriotic League, £74 10s !)d; North Taranaki Patriotic League, £18; Tariki 'Ladies' Patriotic League, £10; Lawrence patriotic fund, £ls 18s; anonymous, £(100; Miss E. White, Wellington, ss; South Wellington Tennis Club, £3; Ronsrotea girls (per Mr. H. E. Grainger), £6 10s; Mr. J, Costell, Rongotea, £1; Mrs. E. Wells, Brooklyn Bay, ss; Mr. Blackie, Mosgiel,* £1; Mr. T, Hinckson Mee, Becks, £5 ss; Mrs. McKinley, 4s; Anonymous, £l,

There was a good attendance of ratepayers of the Parihaka Road district at the meeting called to protest against the proposal to increase the rate tn Id. Mr. Gibson presided. It was resolved, with hut two dissentients, to appoint a deputation to wait on the Eoad Board as a protest, and the following were appointed: Messrs 0. Cross, H. N. Chapman, A. F. C. Chapman, P. Brophy, W. R. Wright, J. Lawn and Gibson. A resolution was also carried unanimously in favor of merging with the Egmont County Council. ' Mr. J. McCombs, M.P. for Lyttelton, has retired from the Labor party as the result of differences which developed at the United. Federation of Labor Conference held in Wellington last week. His retirement is stated to be due to Mr. McCombs, who is well known as a strong prohibitionist, having declared that certain members of the Labor party had sought to support the licensed victuallers' interests at the expense of the solidarity of Labor. On the congress passing a resolution calling for the addition of State control of the liquor traffic to the issues voted on at the triennial licensing poll, Mr. McCombs at once handed in his resignation. Mr. McCombs admitted to a New Zealand Times representative that he had retired from the party, but stated that he could not at present make any further statement in regard to the matter. Speaking at Pukekohe on Monday, Mr. Mnsscy expressed the hope that there Would be no slackening of New Zealand's efforts in regard to the dispatch of reinforcements. New Zealand had pledged itself to do all in its power to assist in bringing the war to a successful conclusion and any turning back from that decision was equal to declaring that we wore growing weary of the war. He stated that 75,000 men had left New Zealand and 10,000 were in camp. Referring to the congestion of produce, he said that relief was coming to New Zealand producers. In Jiily and August shipping space would be available for 50,000 boxes of butter. !He had been authorised by the Imperial Government to negotiate for the purchase of the New Zealand output of cheese. In re- l gartl to the shipping problem generally, material relief would be forthcoming within the next three months.

Duned in merchants are becoming apprehensive as to the means of obtaining supplies of the new season's Californian dried fruits, which usually reach Now Zealand iu November in time for Christmas trade. Advices from San Francisco have just been received on the freight question. It is considered here, tlmt on account of the British Government haying requisitioned certain steamers, it will be necessary for the Union Steam Ship Company to charter outside tonnage to carry on its trade between San Francisco and New Zealand. Owing to scarcity of freight space and the excessive charge that will have to be paid for putside steamers, the shipping company, according to the authority being quoted, will not be able to accept any freight less than £0 per ton weight or measurement, at ship's option, and in all possibility this rate will have to be increased. The rate between ports has also advanced. There is just a possibility that later on a sailing vessel may have t<i be despatched to take on freight for New Zealand, but the shipping company will do all it can to charter sufficient steamers to carry the freight. San Francisco firms are now being instructed to use their own discretion in the shipment. of orders, and not to adhere strictly to given instruction*,. ■ HOME SAVED FROM DRINK. "Our home was saved from a downfall, and we can only thank 'Drinko' for it. Only two packets were used." So writes a Dunedin wife. Hundreds of similar letters on file. Write for free booklet with copies and full details of this wonderful secret drink cure. Address Lady Manager, Drinko Proprietary, G.P.0., Box 055, Wellington. July 37 is the closing date of Desert Gold Tea Competition. Camels must be posted to G.P.O. Box 1520, Wellington. Enclose name and address and number of camels sent. • (1) Wood's Great- Peppermint Cure. 1/0, 2/0. Tor Chronic Chest Complaint*.

If tlie price of the hitherto comparatively despised cotton gets much higher, housewives will soon estimate their wealth by the number of reels of cotton thoy own, rathe' 1 than 'bv their jewellery supplies, says a Ohristchurch (paper, It was stated at a meeting of the Cashmere Bed Cross Fund that cotton naw costs sixpence a reel at Ohristchurch haberdashers, and in London the price over the counter was on© shilling. The prospects are that the price will further increase. An appellant before the Military Service Appeal Board in Masterton stated that he was one of a family of five bo vs. Four had gone to the front, of whom one was killed, another returned minus an arm, a third had sustained an injury to the leg, and fhe fourth was still fighting. The chairman remarked that this was an excellent record.

On Saturday at Hawera a large number of people witnessed the wrestling match between Private P. Woods, from 1< eatherston Camp) light-weight champion of England, and Joe Gardiner, middle-weight champion' of New Zealand. The match was made for £2O aside, Gardiner to throw Woods in IS minutes. It was a very fine exposition of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, and at the end of the time neither had secured a fall and Woods won the stake. It'is understood a match has been arranged for a fortnight hence between Gardiner and a local wrestler. The farm near Kaponga, sold to the Government by Mr Parkes on particularly favorable terms, for the settlement of returned soldiers, is now being surveyed into sections of 50 acres; and the land will be open to ballot as soon as possible, with the view of the farms being worked at the commencement of the dairying season, though the time still available for getting ready is short. The Government, it is understood, propose to allocate to each man £SOO for buildings and for the purchase of cows, but at present prices for building material and stock this sum will be inadequate.—Star, The following resolution was passed at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Dairying and Farming Union of Employers last week:—"That this meeting is of opinion that, by reason of the operation of the Military Service Act, the position of the dairying industry with regard to obtaining adequate labour, both in the factories and on the farms, has become so serious as to endanger the carrying on of the work of the industry, and that the Government be requested to give this matter serious consideration with a view of affording protection to the interests of tho industry," •

Speaking in Christchurch prior to lecture by 7>r. Trilby King, Mr. D. G. Sullivan made reference to the fact that New Zealand had one of the- lowest birth-rates in the world. Dr. Truiby King when it came to his turn to speak, corroborated what Mr. Sullivan said on the subject, and added that it had always struck lrim as particularly unfortunate that New Zealand should have a low 'birth-rate, partly because the country so badly needed population, and partly because the native population was so infinitely'preferable to the , imported or emigrated article. Mr Jacob Marx who appeared before the Military Service Board the other day in support of an appeal by his son, explained his nationality, and said he had come out to the colonies from Germany when 3% years of age, going to Tasmania with his parents. He had full citizen rights in the country for many years. He came to New Zealand 23 years ago, and with the exception of two or three months, had resided at Manpatoki for the whole of that, time. His father, who was a great reader, left Germany because he was always an admirer of the British constitution. Mr. Marx gave the Board particulars of his long association with many of the local bodies in Taranaki, of his activjty in helping to promote the progress of the dairying industry in this district, and his connection with patriotic movements.—Star.

A special feature at the Mart on Saturday will 'be a dainty violet and daphne stall. (Baskets and boxes are being prepared, and the Mayoress; -who will tie in charge of that department, asks. all friends to rob their gardens and .bring as many flowers as possible to the patriotic deipot on Friday afternoon, and to the mart on Saturday morning. The time is not very far distant when suburban sections in a good position will be very hard to secure in a desirable locality round shout New (Plymouth, "itzroy has always been recognised as a very promising suburb and the sale advertised by Nolan and Co. affords an opportunity for those requiring a section to 'build on, now or in the future, to acquire one in a good 'position at a reasonable price. These sections are admirably situated, have a good outlook and a high healthy (position.