LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is understood that the Government intends netting salmon on a commercial scale this year. Asked by a Christchurch Press reporter on Saturday regarding the state of tilings in connection with oversea, shipping, Mr. Massey said that 1.:; could not give full information on the subject. "You can eay," he added, "that the supply of shipping continues to be satisfactory." The Wanganui Chronicle reports that a fire occurred at the Feilding Freezing Works at 9.20 on Monday eyening, in the wool-drying room, which was gutted, though fortunately the blaze was confined to that portion. The damage has not yet been estimated. The manager of the works considers that the fire will not stop operations. Motorists should be careful to leave no removable articles in their cars when left unattended in the public streets; otherwise they may find them missing. A bare-faced robbery of this nature took place on th? Devon road, Fitzroy, recently, even the starting key of the motor-car being removed. There are evidently some undesirables in the town who need the attention of the police. A local resident complains of the number of cases of infringement of the borough by-laws, particularly regarding traffic, that are taking place daily. The other evening, he states, he. stood at a street corner for twenty minutes, and noted no less than 17 infringements. Motorists were the greatest offenders, driving, round corners on the wrong side, exceeding the speed limit, driving without lights, etc. Motor-cyclists and cyclists also committed various breaches. Good progress is being made with the re-erection of a ferro-concrete structure to replace the wooden bridge that has done duty for many years past in carrying traffic over the Warea river. It is expected that the new bridge will be completed by the end of the week. In order to allow the filling to be completed, and the old structure to be removed, the Egmont County Council is closing the bridge to all heavy traffic from 8 o'clock on Friday morning until 8 o'clock on Saturday evening. The heat in New Plymouth during the past few days has been particularly oppressive, and residents of many years have said they have never felt the heat more trying so early in the season. It is generally conceded that the temperature ha 6 been more like that usually experienced in February, which is considered the hottest month. The readings taken by Mr. W. W. Smith at Pukekura Park would indicate that Monday was the hottest day, the minimum temperature being ti6 degrees and the maximum 78 degrees in the shade, "Settlers are going to have their road frontages kept clear of noxious weeds. If I cannot have that done I am going to resign my position." So remarked the chairman of the Egmont County Council (Cr. W. R. Wright) at the meeting of the council yesterday. He stated that he was not going to have people motoring through from Wanganui and elsewhere, saying, as they did at present, that the Egmont County had the dirtiest road frontages in New Zealand. The remarks arose when a list, mostly of natives, was read of those who were to be charged with time occupied by the council's staff in clearing the frontages of their property. Cr. O'Brien agreed, but lie 'thought that there should be no discrimination, but that Maori and white should be treated alike. Others besides natives were, he thought, neglectful in this matter. The Egmont County Council yesterday decided definitely to sue for all rates outstanding after January 21. THE POISONING OF THIRTY GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by .eucalyptus lollies which were evidently made from the common eucalyptus brings home forcibly the importance of using only the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTHACT sniffed up the nose and three drops on sugar, is a sure and safe protection from meningitis and other infections. Applied to ulcers, poisoned Wounds, sprains, chilblains, eczema, SANDER'S EXTRACT brings quick reSmokers who like to keep their teeth clean and white should use OZO TOOTH POWDER. It is the ideal tooth powder. -So£t fid per tin,

The statement was made )>y a man who appeared before the First Military Service Board at Palmerston Xovtli last weok that lie is making £3 lu.s a day clear out of a contract for cutting llax. "1 have spoken to Americans who did not know there was such a jilace as Xexv Zealand;'' said Mr. .lolm Maekay, who lias just returned from an extended trip to the States. ''Others 1 met," ho said, "knew a good deal about the Dominion, and were glaxl to meet someone who could give them further information." , Dairv farmers are now beginning to feel the ell'ect, of the diy weather tlmt lias prevailed in the Auckland district for the last few weeks, and rain is eagerly looked for in the lower Waikato (says the Star). Jn some instances the output of milk at some of the factories has fallen at an alarming rate, although further south the effect of the weather has not yet been felt. Canon Parfit, of Jerusalem, who described himself as "Vicar of Mesopotamia and -Rural Dean of. the Garden of Kden,'' told a few Kastern tales in London recently, lie said that whim he first saw his "charge." the scenery did not impress him. The people were povertyStricken, and begged for ''bak-sheesh." the children were "brilliantly clad, in olive oil and the sweetest of smiles." A soldier, writing home, said the heat was so intense that the population were feeding their fowls on ice cream to prevent them laying liafd-boiled eggs. At Baghdad, the pontoon bridge having been washed away, the Sultan determined to build a new one, so lie set about raising the money. The people were whipped and blackmailed into parting with £-40,000. The bridge cost £4-000, the taxgatherer pocketed the rest. According to a Berne report, the Germans have become so alarmed at the great -progress in aviation made by the Allies, and the possibility of their munition centres in Western Germany being destroyed, that they have begun to adopt measures for removing the war factories as far as possible from the Western.frontiers. It is said that even the great Kriipp works at Essen are to be removed to as great an extent as possible during the winter to Posen, in East Prussia. The report adds that other centres of military industry arc to be evacuated for the same reasons. We hope it is true, says Flight, If it is, then there are at least two comforting reflections to be drawn from it. In the first place it is a confession tha< the German military chiefs Tacitly ad that they have no hope of being able to successfully resist the great Allied air offensive that is being' prepared for next spring. Captain Martin H. Donohoe, the distinguished English war correspondent, writing to a friend in Sydney under date British Military Mission, Rumania, August -28, says:—Last year 1 abandoned ink-spilling, temporarily at all events, and put on khaki, I have now been a year on the ever-shifting Rumanian front, having come here from Greece by way of Italy, France, Nor way, , Sweden and Russia, The W.O. lias treated me very well I have an important job up here, and I cherish hopes of becoming a general, provided that the war does not end too soon. What wonderful chaps the Australian' are. There are a. number fighting with the armoured car section on the Russian front. I ran into three of their number the other day.. All had been in Kgypt, and had survived the horrors of Gallipoli. One I spotted because of his speaking Russian with a real Australian bush accent. The Russian soldier is now learning quite a deal about the land of the kangaroo. I put in a cold time last winter. 1 anticipate that the forthcoming wintei will be none too comfortable. Austrians and Germans captured in the fighting are removed some distance from the war zone, and then turned loose. Not one has been known to attempt to escape. I think this shows their good sense. With good wishes to all Australian friends. I hope to see you some day unless something happens to me. Six years ago. Patea may be said to havo been stationary (remarks the Press). Since then its progress has teen sure and steady. Instead of an old insanitary wooden building that did duty as a public school, it has now its District High School built in brick and a credit to any town. Its old Municipal Chambers have given place to an up-to-date Town Hall and Council Chambers also in brick, the whole contrary to the prognostications of the Jeremiahs being a complete financial success as well as a splendid advertisement for the town. The principal industry in the town —the meat works—which consisted for the most part of a. collection of wooden and tin buildings, now consists of ferro-con-crete structures, with all modern improvements and covering considerably over an acre of ground, and it is still being added to. The grading works of the West Coafit Refrigerating Company have more than doubled their space, and in addition have also re-erected new offices and an engine room in ferroconcrete, installing, in addition, new machinery of the most up-to-date kind procurable. With regard i:o dwellings more have been erected in the six years under review than in the previous twenty years, and yet at. the, present time there is not a vacant house in the town to be obtained, and it is safe to assert that tenants could forthwith be found for at least twenty houses were'they to -be erected. On top of the expansion of the existing industries the town can claim a rennet manufactory which has proved a magnificent success, far beyond expectations and an/ironsand smelting works which will be completed shortly. The New a Zealand Loan and Mercantile draw attention to their Tarata sale on Friday, 18th instant, at 1 p.m., and for which they have an exceptionally large entry of both cattle and sheep. Full particulars will be found on page 8 of this issue.

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