LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Red Cross Hart had a very successful day on Saturday last, the takings amounting to £25 10s. Tlie Taranaki Farmers' Co-operative Meat Works at Smart Road are paying out in wages alone £30,000 a year.

Tihe heavy snow on the Tararua ranges has brought wild pigs on to the lower hills in the Wairarapa.

About 500 men entered the CI camp last week. They are First Division men, mostly drawn in the later ballots.

The treasurer of the New Zealand branch of the Bed Cross Society conveys thanks to the local centre for its last week's contribution of £4O.

For some time past there has been talk among a section of the ratepayers of merging the Parihaka Road District in the Egmont County, and a petition with that object in view is now being circulated.

The suppliers of the Moa Dairy Company on Saturday unanimously resolved to vote £SO to an appeal made by the Mercantile Marine Service Association on behalf of British merchant seamen and their dependents. A by-election for a seat on the Hawera Borougli Council, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. .1. W. Harding, who lias left the district, took place on Friday, Mr. H. W. Lewis securing !)5 votes against Mr S. Turkington's 4u?

A distressing accident- occurred at Eltliam on Saturday afternoon. A daughter of Air. L. Rodger* was driving a gig from lijome, when the wheels of the vehicle struck a gatepost, throwing the young lady out. She fell on her head, causing serious injury to the spine, her lower limbs being paralysed. Her condition last evening was critical, .

Mr. ■! S. Council, president of the Taranaki A. and L\ Association, addressed Ilie suppliers of the Moa Dairy Company at the annua! meeting on Saturday in furtherance of his campaign in (ho interests of the society. At the conclusion of his address, Mr. D. Todd spoke strongly in favor of the association, stating that members got full value for their money. Ho expressed the hope that shareholders would give their support to the society. A number of suppliers handed in their names as in adition to those who are at present: members.

The Egmont County Council has adopted the progressive policy of renewing the bridges throughout the county in concrete, and at the same time, where necessary, the road is. being straightened. One very awkward approach, just past the Parihaka Road, which has been the bugbear of motorists, lias m this way been removed. That some of the smaller bridges are not being renewed much too soon is evident from the fact that when the foreman bridge-builder (Mr. White) removed a temporary support at the Pu hina bridge, near Raliotu, t'he stone abutment collapsed, and he was very fortunate in escaping with a few cuts and bruises.

wait until it has gripped you, butita&e.

The following men are entraining on August 14 for the 45 th draft: New Plymouth, Fisher, F. E,; Bell Block, Falwasser, E. G.

The pianoforte recital recently given by Miss Eileen Clifford has resulted in a net profit of £25 2s Od for t'he Copper Trail. The total takings were £33 .Bs, expenses amounting to £8 5s 6d. The Postal revenue for the June quarter was £248,511, an increase of £IO,OOO. The telegraph revenue was £340,948, an increase in telegrams of £0382 and telephones £10,937. The Savings Bank deposits show an increase over withdrawals o £ £190,570 as against £1,448,013 last year. The difference is put down to subscriptions to the war loan, As a whole the business of the department is considered to show a satisfactory increase.

Tim following is an extract from a letter received from the matron, No. 1 Stationary Hospital, France: —"We are frequently receiving cases of goods for tho patients, especially from New Plymouth. About a month ago we received from some part of New Zealand —the South, I think—enough cake for 700 people. Beautiful cake it was, I can assure you. The boys did enjoy it. From New Plymouth often come cases of parcels. These are given out to the boys who are being discharged and sent back to their'units. They usually contain eocks, handkerchief, tin of butter, cheese, nuts, and some other useful article. The boys do appreciate them. In some cases, it is the first time that they have received a parcel. The people of New Zealand do not imagine how these gifts are appreciated.—H. MacLcirn, matron-in-chief, NJZ.A.N.S." A meeting of the directors of the New Plymouth Cas Company ivas held on Friday evening. Present: Messrs T. Furlong (chairman); E. Doekrill, Mt Hcalv, E. P. Webster and C. T. Mills. The secretary submitted an audited statement of accounts for the year ended June 30 last. ■ After some discussion it was decided to recommend a dividend at tho rate of 8J per cent, per annum; to place to the renewal fund £7OO, and to carry forward £527 15s 7d. This will bo submitted to the annual meeting of shareholders to be held on August 12. Five boys of more or less tender years were arraigned before Mr A. Crooke, .S.M., in the Juvenile Court on Saturday morning on charges of mischief and causing damage to a beach cottage at Moturoa, and, but for the youth of the offenders, whose ages ranged from 8 to 13 years, they would have had to meet a more serious charge. The owner of the cottage (Mr. Frederick Coxhead, Tahora) left it locked up about the end of May, and on returning on July 10 found that it had been broken into and that tea, sugar, and other articles were missing. The total damage amounted to £4. The boys, for whom ilr. A. H. Johnstone appeared, all pleaded guilty. They were admonished and the parents of each were ordered to pay 103 towards t'he damage and costs. There is evidently something very in teresting going on m t'he Male Choir practise rooms, judging by the fact that the average weekly attendance this season reaches 51 members. In this issue is the opening advertisement for the concerts to be held on the 15th. and 16th inst., when the public will have an op-1 portonity to hear "what all the noise is about." Ladies! here's a chance that won't come again for many a long day. The Melbourne, Ltd., have a small quantity of lovely .quality 10 momme Japanese white silk, 27 inches wide, -which is being offered while quantity lasts at 43 6d per yard. Shipments of the same goods now on the water will require to be retailed at 5s Od per yard. A meeting of all interested in the pro-: posal to commemorate the action of the, late Arthur Ambury (who gave his life in attempting to save another from death on Mount Egmont) will be held at the Soldiers' Club, New Plymouth, this (Monday) afternoon, at 4 o'clock. That unique company of entertainers which took New Zealand by storm some years ago, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, are paying a visit to New Plymouth on Wednesday and Thursday next. The enterprise is under the direction of Messrs C. A. White and Marshall Palmer, and the presonnel of the performers is well up to, if not beyond, the standard of those who previously attained such a liberal measure of popularity. The programme consists of characteristic jubilee choruses, glees, solos, plantation melodies, quartettes, coon songs, ragtime ditties, and all that goes to make the Fisk entertainment so uncommonly attractive. The company have just concluded a lengthy and wonderfully successful season at Wellington. There is a picture of particular interest supporting Ethel Clayton in "Whims of Society" at the Empire tonight and to-morrow. This is an official film of the "King's Visit to the Grand Fleet" on its war footing. As a spectacle it is most impressive, and to see the seemingly endless lines of grey sea monsters conveys as never before on idea of the grim might of the British Navy The film shows several of the naval heroes, including Admiral Beatty and Admiral Sturdee. (