LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fanntis all over the province ivero busy yesterday getting in their hay, and a great deal was Btacked before the drizzle sot in at sundown, the farmers helping one nnother. All report good erop3, which, in the light of last winter's experience, will be very accecptablo.

Tho matter of the tarring of Devon street east was referred to at last night's meeting of the Borough Council, and in reply to a question by Cr. Griffiths the engineer stated ho was getting a staff of workmen together for tarring work and that Devon street would be done at the earliest opportunity. A lifebelt which was found recently on the Kakaramea beach has been forwarded through Sub-Inspector Hutton to the Collector of Customs at New Plymouth to be placed with the lifebelts discovered at OaonuL It ia marked "S.G.T. M. Marseille," similarly to some of those already received. It was found on the beach near the Patea electric powerhouse by one of tho employees.

One of the Taranaki County Council's big steam rollers met with a mishap on the Junction road, just past the Te Henui bridge, near the borough boundary last night, one of the rear wheels breaking through a wooden culvert and acutely canting the machine. Later the Council's other roller was brought to the scene and pulled the other out to terra lirma. It is estimated that when the West Coast Refrigerating' Company's cool store near the Winter Show building, Hawera, is completed there will be over a million pounds' sterling worth of cheese stored iu Princes Street. TJie walls of the new building are about finished, and a part of the roof has been fixed, whilst some of the freezing machinery has arrived. One of the fly wheels turns the scale at four tons. The building is nearly three hundred feet long by eighty wide and covers about half an acre of land. It will be "some" place, aa the Yanks say, when completed. The Stratford County Council are again paying attention to the main road, extending the tar-sealing northwards. The widening of the asphalt on the road near Eltliiii'i by the local County Council is another improvement appreciated by the travelling public The piece of road under the jurisdiction of the Norraanby Town Hoard is undoubtedly the worst piece of the road from Hawern to New Plymouth, and calls loudly for improvement.

Af last night's meeting ev the New Plymouth Uorough Couueil Cr. Griffiths raised again the question of exercising racehorses on the beach, to the danger of children and others using the beach, lie pointed out that the practice was still being persisted in, and asked was ilt to he allowed until some serious accident, or fatality, occurred, or would the Council take such action as would prefect its continuance. Other Councillors were equally as opposed to the practice being permitted as Cr. Griffiths, but some doubt was expressed as to the Council's juris' diction over the area used. It was decided to ascertain the Council's position, and if possible take action against offenders.

A wire-making industry at Newcastle (X.S.W.) will shortly to established. The company will draw its supplies from tho steel works, and will employ about fIOO hands. Electric power will be obtained from tho Government power house at Newcastle, and 100 li.p. will bo required for tho first section of the plant. When the works are running fully 100 men will bo employed, and ultimately they will he expanded to take on 1500 hands. The capacity of the works at first will be 200 tons per day of all kinds of wire, and ultimately they will put out up to 400 tons per day. The company will not only supply the whole of the requirements of Australia, but will export a large quantity .of wire.

"There are more lies told about farming profits than in any other business," said an ex-farmer the other day, and he went on to explain. "Hear the farmers at the factory in the mornings," he said. "They will talk of the big cheque they've got, and mention the number of cows milked, quite omitting to state, however, that the herd includes several heifers in addition! Heifers are not cows, so they don't count, though a. good heifer will often give as much milk as a poor cow. Then, again, a farmer buys some stock, puts it on some fattening fodder crop, and sells it again later at an increased price of a few shilling's per head. 'Yes,' he will say, 'I did jolly well out of those ewes. I mode three bob a head on them.' But li.' never reckons the, cost of the crop or the «ent of the land that fattened tliem. Yes," with a sad shako of tho head, ''there's a deal of lies told by farmers!"

Ko fewer then 15,000 >boxes of lmttcr are hi store in Auckland awaiting shipment to Vancouver. They are held for the mail otcanier Makura, now detained in Sydney. Commenting on the exports of butter to Canada, the New Zealand Herald says: "Transport facilities to Vancouver during the present ■season are such that trade has been opened up with that port on a larger scale than is usual. Tho figures of butter shipped to that port during the first she months of the season total 20,355 boxes, as against 780 boxes for the corresponding period in 1917."

The Melbourne, ltd., have the finest valuo on the market in men'a working shirts. These prices tell the tale: Dark UTiiou shirts, summer weifrht, Bs lid; ■fins Oxford shirts, light or dark grounds, Ss 1' *1; Harvard shirts, 4s 6d; dark striped shirts, 4s lid; S.S.S. navy drill shirts. Us 6d; striped or plain, plain or striped blue graudrill shirts, 5s lid.

Ask distinctly "for SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, or else you may receive ono of the manv substitutes. The GENUINE SANDER EXTRACT cures colds, fevers, indigestion; prevents infectious diseases and heals ulcers, poisoned wounds, skin diseases, bums, sprains, etc. It is much more powerfully antiseptic than the common eucalyptus and does not depress or irritate like the latter.

"KAZQL" for Influenza and Catarrh,

There is said to be a l)it of self-re-spect even iu the Spanish influeiiKa microbe. He has attacked all ranks of the 40,000 men in Camp Grant, Illinois, but lias declined to enter the barbed wire enclosure where the German prisoners are herded.

Among the strange experiences of patrols, a state of affairs found by one of these voluntary helpers would be, probably, hard to beat (reports the Cliristchurch Press). In the same room as that occupied by the patient she found no fewer than 17 cata. The patrol declined to send any more soup til! the inspector had dealt with the cats, and the matter was reported to the proper authorities.

An Australian paper writes: "Since the war, both in England and Australia; some women have been indulging in a veritable debauch of dress. On every band there are sad stories told that men who have been away fighting for their womenfolk have come homo to find all their allotment allowances gone in finery Aud there are instances where womo have deliberately become engaged to several men in order to have a steady income to spend in decorating themselves." "Women are dress-drunk," declares Mr Eugene Walter, the dresa dramatist. "It is a passion which transcends in these days of civilisation that of the most barbaric belle of the Congo, who stuffs her head full of ashes and smears it with cocoanut oil. Good, sound linenn that can bo washed and kept clean," he continues, "havo been thrown away for insanitary finery. Women think dress, talk dress, live dress. With clothes, of course, go all the accessories of jewels, perfumes, motors and whatnot."

Captain Hall Thompson said that as a result of further information received from Germany, it was learned that 35 mines were laid off Cape Farewell. Of these, 18 had been accounted for, and probably others had also been destroyed by coming ashore and exploding. So bad had been the weather during the last two months that the trawlers had been able to put in only a few days' work. With tho advent of better weather, and the assistance of the Tutanekai, which was now 'being fitted up for mine-sweeping, the Captain hoped that in three months, at the most, he would 'be able to raise the embargo on the port of Wanganui. In that time he hoped to locate the mines or satisfy himself that the danger was reduced to a minimum. He pointed out that tho danger to shipping lay in the event of the steamers having to run away from the Wanganui roadstead owing to rough weather. The danger zone a.3 defined l>y the Admiralty is all that part of the sea, between New Zealand and a line drawn from Eguior.t to Farewell.

The military party which journeyed overland to Big Bay, on the We3t Coast, and arrested two military deserters J&oy and Reg feradley, of Christchureh, found, theus quartered in a comfortable hut, and to all appearances happy in their solitude, and thriving on fresh air, the products of a well-kept garden, and on game. The potato Bhawa were about two feet above the ground, and the ! onions were far from backward in grow. Tho brothel's (says the Press) apparently obtained milk from a settler's cows. Circumspect in their ad-1 vances, the party resorted to strategy, \ and the statement that they were tourists was readily accepted by- the Bradleys in good faith. The party partook of the deserters' hospitality for a night, and on the morrow, when informed that they were under arrest tho Bradleys took the matter philosophically. They gave no trouble when they wcro being brought back to Qucenstown, although ithey could have escaped had they been determined to do so. One of them is over Gft. in height, and both are splendid typea of manhood. Handcuffs, of course, were out of the question, as the light back to civilisation even to ths unshackled men was fraught with great risk and hardship. The trip home was undertaken in snowstorms and in irain and galea of wind, and occupied several days.

'•'Ono of the lessons to bo learned from the war is tho necessity of fostering patriotism in our schools," said the president of the iJ.Z. Employers' Federation (Mr T. Sbailer Weston) m his address to tlw conference. "Religion is not one of the subjects there taught. Some high standard of life should be impressed upon the children's minds. Love of country seems the only one open. But something lucre than this is required. Wlien every child upon becoming twenty-one years of age is entitled to a vote, surely the study h most desirable in our .schools of some short text-book explaining tho growth of States from small village communities, tho purposes of the States, tho protection and' other advantage, derived by the citizens therefrom, tho correlative obligation due in return by its members, the purpose of law and punishment, a-nd, iu short, the doctrine of civic right and responsibilities. A democracy to be successful must be an educated democracy. At present democracy, mainly for want of any education in the elements of sociology, is as insistent on the rights due to it by tho State as it is silent on its own duties towards the State. For example, though the New Zealand Labor Party demands further privileges from the State, such as as extension of the benefits of the Old-Age Pensions Act, it rewolutelj opposes compulsory service for the protowtioa of tho State."

A municipal band concert is advertised to take place on Thursday next at 7.45 p.m. at the Breakwater when tha public will be treated to an excellent programmo spec ! .iUy arranged xor the orasion. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency draw attention to entries for their Ta rata sate on Friday next