LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In response to a petition,. signed by a number of visiting business men, th» Acting-Postmaster-Cleneral lias agreed to allow the Post Office to be opened for the delhtery of mails from 7 to 7.30 eaol) evening this week. Tli o new 5-tou dump White motortruck, imported 'by Mr.Jfowtoii King for the New Plymouth Borough Council, is at present on allow at th» Dominion Dairy Show,.Hawera. The weekly meeting of the Whiteley Club was held on Monday night, when nn impromptu speech competition took plran The subject selected wa3 "That Life is Happier Than the Married," and on a popular vote, Mr. Wilkes wa3 declared the winner.

In giving evidence before the Military Service Board at New Plymouth yesterday, Mr. G- H. Bullard, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki, said that, as universal military service had been adopted, lie thought that as a natural corollary, there should be some organisation for the carrying-on of the farm a of men who were called up for service. Zoe Kay, Ruth Clifford and Harry,; Carter are a brilliant trio in- an equally sparkling picture, "A Kentucky Cinderella," which is* showing for the last time at the Empire to-night. To-mor-row there will be a complete change in-a stirring romance of love and adventure, entitled "Bed, White and Blue Blood."

The motor-car thief is apparently a.ti. work in Taranaki. Some of the employees of a Stratford firm left their car outside the Hawera Winter Show buildings on Monday evening, whilst they were inside firing their firm's exhibit. On coming out a few hours later, they found that the car, a new one used for demonstration purposes, had vanished, and up till yesterday afternoon it had not been found. The matter is ill the hands of the police. At a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., gave judgment by default for plaintiff in the following undefended cases:—o. L Joll (Mr. A. A. Bennett) v. Albert Loveridge, £1 2s 5d (costs 12s); Swanwick and Kidd (Mr. F. E. Wilson) v. George Curtz, £l2 5s Ud (costs £1 l«s M). In the judgment summons case, New Zealand Express Co., Ltd., v. Norman G- G. Winkelmann, the latter was ordered to pay £5 8s on or before July G, in default six days' imprisonment. In the case of the Wellington Publishing Co. v. the same,Winkelmann was ordered to pay £lO lis lid on or before July G, in default ten days' imprisonment.

As an American friend of mine said, "You get no two guesses in this work," said Mr. P. Black, electrical engineer, of Wellington, at yesterday's pitting of the Military Service Board at Ntw Plymouth, when speaking of hightension electrical work and the possibilities of en-ors being made by inexperiences men in charge of such plants, during the course of his evidence in support of the Borough Council's appeal on behalf of the electrical engineer and the assistant.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Washer, who are taking up their residence in New Plymouth, were tendered a farewell social iu the Alton Hall on Friday evening last. During the evening a number of presentations "were made to the guests, including a marble clock, a silver tea and soffee service, and silver salver, from the Alton residents, a silver entree dish from the Loan and Mercantile Agency at Hawera, and a silver egg-stand froifc members of the Patea Bowling Olub, Mr. Washer was a director of the Alton Dairy Company, chairman of the Alton School Committee, and has taken an active interest in other local institutions as well as in the Farmers' Union.

Speaking at the opening of the Hawera Show yesterday, the Hon. W. D. S. MaeDonald, referring to the restrictions recently placed on the Post and Telegraph service, stated that he had noticed a paragraph in a paper that morning, stating that the Government hid behind the war to hide their own efficiency. That was a cheap way of talking. The Government was doing all that was possible under difficult conditions. He added that 4600 of the Post and Telegraph employees had gone to the front, their places being filled by untrained hands, and but for their reserves of women it would have (been very hard to fill the places. Now that the Second Division was being called up, they must, expect the services to 'be curtailed a little. It was marvellous what the Postal Service had done in the way of supplying men for war purposes, m addition to handling an enormous amount of extra heavy work, and it would be an injustice to call the Department indifferent.

The wonder of the "Goldwyn" pictures, with the beauty of the story of '•Polly of the Circus," is one of the main topics of conversation in town. The public hud been prepared for something right out .of the ordinary when "Goldw.vn" picture?, came to town, but it is questionable if anyone really expected to nee such a real advance in motion pictures as the "Goldwyn" brand signifies. "Polly of the Circus" is a classic, atelifts the motion picture drama to a very high eminence. There will be a special '"Polly of the Circus" matinee at Everybody's this afternoon at 3.15, and tiie ■final screening will take place to-night.

In regard to Mr. Maunder's letter to Monday's Borough Council meeting referring to the cost of certain work in lower Carrington road, Cr. Collis in our report was made to justify the letter, when in point of fact he apposed it. The substitution of the word "every" for "no" was responsible for the take.

As will be noticed in our advertising columns, Mr. Newton King will, on Friday, sell on account of Mr- D. Maroney, a very nice herd of grade Jersey cows! These are a line that have a factory average of 4.5, and, being a good, young line, should attract considerable attention.

Tho a cold in the head seems a simple thing Tis the cause of discomfort and suffering; • You have inflamed nostrils and aching eyes,

And incessant sneezing your temper tries; 'Tis a weary affliction that all have endured, It is easily caught and easily cured; Ihat is to say, quite easy and sure When using Woods' Ctreat Peppermint cure.

Winter ills and winter chills fade before the magic watinth of a North British Hot Water Bottle. Look for the "Unique" stopper.'