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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr C A. Wilkinson, M.P., stated to Hie Waimaitc Witness last week that he expected to get his Bill on the abolition of toll gates before Parliament at 'the next Session, when he had little dou'l.t of it being passed in'o law.

Cr- Mi-Allum at yesterday's meeting of the Taranaki County Council, gave noti.-e to move at next meeting that the Council seriously consider the question of laving down the whole of the mainroads in concrete, and that steps hetaken for immediately raising the money necessary for completing the whole work.

Mr Wm. Sole, who was -employed with Mr A. Yeale, grocer, of Brougham street, died in his sleep during Sunday night. Mr Sole was in his usual health on Sunday, .but had been subject to heart trouble fineo ho suffered an attack of rheumatic fever. He was a. married man and leaves a wife and widow'andi two children.

At last night's meeting of the Works. I Committee of tho New Plymouth -.■ Borough Council, word was received from "Messrs A. K. Harris and Co., of Christ-ch-urch, that the chassis for-'-hhe-Councii's -olociric motor bus, and one-of the-duipli-tla'tc batteries, oould bc-sexpected to be. delivered in New Zealand during next: month.

OnrTSaiisday evening (jin tb,e"Warfia, Hall, issddenis of th^ : dfetmoi-are ten-' '■dejfag-ia farewell social fojfe and. Mm •S. H^,^ho^]»>aak«%^eiaving!Sor^he,i Starts:'

On tlse motion of Mr Qiiilliom (Goveti and Quilliiim) probate of the will of the late Mrs Kmily Marsh has boon granted by the Supreme Court to Messro fJeorgi: and Mauley James Marsh, the executors therein named. There in good authority for the statement liiat recruiting is excellent at the Narrow Xeek Maori Camp, Auckland, and recruits are coming in in numbers from all over this island (states the Star). The provinces of Wellington, Taranaki, and Hawke's Bay are well represented, as arc also the northern and southern districts of Auckland, apart from the Waikato, where compulsion is in force. There is every prospect of the future drafts being satisfactory in numbers. The tendency of shareholders of dairy factories to criticise the action of their directors outside, but to have nothing to say thereon during a meeting, was strikingly shown at a recent coastal dairy factory meeting, when a supplier who had freely exercised Iris right to criticise, remarked: HHtvs no one else got anything to say?'' Turning tio fihe back, he added: "Now is your chance tr>» tell 'he directors what you said you Were going to at the factory this morning'". All, however, remained silent. The Doniinion says editorially:—New. Zealand spends £33 a day on measures ; calculated to prevent disease, and £2,000 a day in treating disease. Taking account of the enormous resources that modern science has made available for' the prevention of disease, these figures in themselves constitute a strong indictment of our existing system of Public Health administration, and go far to explain why expenditure on our public hospitals is increasing by leaps and bounds.

The pilots of the British Royal Air Service have been well named the "Byes of the Army,'' and it is admitted that our airmen will, when sufficiently reinforced in numbers, become the great deciding factor in the war. To win the war we therefore want aviators and more aviators. The Canter-bury Aviation Company school at Sockburn, Christchurch, ia the great recruiting ground foT pilots, and has in little over a year ■'taught over 120 pupils to fir. Additional machines have arrived, and more pupils are required for Uhe school. Young men wQio desire to serve their country as airmen are requested to communicate with the secrcitttry, Mr C- W. Hervey, whose advertisement appears in this issue. I

"One of the tilings that the war is likely to permanently altar is the way in which fectory outputs have been disposed of in the past," remarked Mr Burgess at the annual meeting of the Waren Dairy Company on Wednesday"lhiring the war," he continued, "dairy company directors collectively have had to d«\l with the Imperial Government, and il. weans unlikely that we shall-ever return to the old system under which every dairy company made the best terms it could for itself, but stall adopt a combined system of marketing our produce." Mr J. Burgoss, chairman of the Warca Dairy Company, in the course of his address to suppliers yesterday, said that enraplaim; were eometknes hoard about the price paid 'by the Imperial Government for Xew Zealand cheese as compared with that paid for English cteese, "but," he added, "when we consider how essential it is that every ton of shipping should be used 'to the best advantage, the great distance we are away from the market, the fact that 90 per cent, of the price is advanced when it lhaa been in the freezing works for 14 days and that nearly half the season's output in which the r>o per cent has been advanced is still on this side, we must admit that we been fairly, nay more, liberally treated. Had the Imperial Government not made the libera'! advancs aguirat our cheese, few companies could have paid out la ■p?r pound, and many not 101 .per pound butter-fat, and the possibility exists that very little cheese would have been shipped, in which ca".e storage, would have been almost impossible, and the j pay out. extremely small." "In four years of war the aeroplane had been developed and improved to an extent which it would not have reached in fifty years of peace," remarked Colonel Sleeman in the course of his address at Wanganui, says the Herald. There were still some people who regarded the aeroplane in much the same .manner as the early Britons might have regarded their more venturesome companions who set sail in their crazy skin coracle. He assured his hearers that the air was as safe as the sea, and travelling in the air was as comfortable as railway travelling, and more pleasant than sea travelling. Pc6ple should realise that the air was conquered. Great as the advances which had been made during the past four years were, they' would be nothing to those to be made in the future. An aeroplane capable of flying IGO miles an hour could fly against a' wind with a velocity of 150 miles an hour. Wind, therefore, could 'be discounted. Learning to fly was easy and safe, far safer than learning to ride a motor cvele.

A prophet, they say, lias no honor in his own country, and it has' been too much the policy of New Zealamkrs in the past to pass over the products of their country in favor of imported goods, which, in many cases, are actually inferior to the New Zealand article. Take tobacco for example. Most American tobaccos are objectionable on the score of excess of nicotine, and defective combustibility, leading to the clogging :of the pipe, with unpleasant, and indeed, injurious consequences to the smoker. Try the Hawke's Bay grown Gold Pouch, if a pipe-smoker, and Three .Diamonds or Bed Shag, if a cigarette smoker. Their purity, flav.or, aroma, and all-round excellence will surprise you. Unlike most brands from overseas N.Z. grown tobaccos never become rsoppy, they burn freely to the last ■shred without waste. They do not foul the pipe either and leave the mouth sweet and clean. Experts maintain that of all tobaccos known N.Z. leaf is the least injurious on account of its small percentage of nicotine and that it may be smoked continuously without the slightest after-effects.

There is a new programme commencing at Everybody's to-night that will .papular withtihe.picture-going .■public. 'lt includes three pictures that would be attractive enough to star on any programme. 'Gail Kane leads in the Mutual de luxe production "Souls in Pawn," and pretty little Vivian Rich ;is the star of the American CojJs fine idrama T/he IJaneer." "Bftere as also a 'Tfogue"' star-comedy, "The Fainted- ' Pedigree."

An wiil»be*giKent) mt-.the>T«:hnsearWHcg£>i,i(J©w-'!SByinioiul&, tWanoEEow (Wednesday) ewjrifog, by-ilfe,

"At one time we put our criminals into striped suits and sent them to work breaking stones or working in the public parks. But we found that wasn't a good way to reform then:. So we bought 1000 acres and employed expert agriculturalists. Instead of warders with revolvers in their hip pockets and a high wall to keep them from escaping, they are put on their honor, and the usual fence encloses the farm. Do you think we arc going back to the old stylo of prison again after seeing the result No, indeed wo are not!"— Mr. Simpson, of Toronto.

Gisborne has not escaped a severe handling during the stormy weather of the past week. The other night the seas were so heavy that at high water they out into sections in Victoria township, from Grey, Street to Roberts Road. Fences and fowl-houses were carried out to sea, and there are steep banks now where the sand was formerly level; with the sections. Residents "in the< vicinity were a good deal alarmed at; 'the rapid encroachment of the sea, and 1 spent an anxious period during the. height of the tide. Very cold weabheiJ has been experienced : the wipie way up the East: Coast, and snow Iras fallen on: the ranges to a greater extentHhan dur... ing any other Winter within memory.

An indication of the problems which will affect the people in the Home Country after the war more poignantly than, at any previous time was given by? "Professor Hunter ina speeVat Welling-' ton. He quoted Sir Leo C. Money as-' haying stated that at Home l'-.70t1i of* the population owned far more than ialf of the entire accumulated wealth ■of the community. Various authorities showed that at Home l-30th of tne, population lived in poverty, receiving; the barest wage, and many not oveni getting that. The same system produced the same sort rff results in the United States of America;, and, necessarily, wherever it obtained. Again,, he said, 521 persons owned 1-sth-of the : . United Kingdom; 4;sths of the land was in the hands of 7000 people; while no less than twenty men owned onehalf of the land of Scotland; and they knew that the system of land tenurehad nearly starved the British people. Of the total "national income" of Britain, £830,000,000 was taken by five millions of people, while £880.000,000 —practically the same amount—had to be divided up amongst thirty-eight millions. That, the American automobile will' prove to be the premier factor in extending the foreign trade of the United States is the belief of many observers,* and their predictions received encouragement at the recent National Foreign Trade Convention, where some astonishing figures in regard to the trade were disclosed. Even with embargoes on prac-1 tically all the countries in Europe; American trade last year exceeded £17,600,- i 000 for 02,792 passenger cars and 14,347 trucks, the larger portion of»the latter going to the nations at war. During the first three years of the war the United States exported 45,308 motortrucks to England, France, and Russia, nearly all of these being for war purposes. The exports for the two years preceding the war amounted to * only 410. With engines, tyres and parts the total value of the exports of the industry last year amounted to more than £28,000,000, which very nearly equalled the' total value of the exports of all railroad locomotives and ears, all electrical machinery and apparatus, and all agricultural machinery, combined. I These figures do not cover cars and' parts sent to the American overseas forces.

No more appropriate subject could have teen introduced on a pitcure programme last night than the picture of "The King's Visit to the Grand Fleet," whioh was shown at the Empire theatre. Coming on the anniversary of the war this picture is of exceptional interest and gives a wonderful impression of the might and power of our Navy. The programme also includes a fine World film feature, "Whims of Society," starring Ethel Clayton.

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Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 4

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