LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'"Tiroofclands" and "Maranui" pvi vale gardens will be open to the publ'u on Sunday next.

The first sitting of ths Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth for this year takes plac.. to-day-at 10.30 a.m.

At tiie opening of tlie New Plymouth Rifle Club's season. which lakes place at ihe Ke'.va llcv.'a rs.nge this afternoon, the first shot will be lired by Lieutenant,Colonel Weston. Captain Harcuett wi)J awn participate. Mr, (i. 11. Dixon, of Awakino, whose house was damaged by the explosion of the mine on the beach on Friday night last, mads an examination yesterday morning of the reef on which the mine exploded, aiul found that a vary big hole had been blown out. lie slso found a large piers of the mino-easine, weighing •Mb, lying out beyond his hou-W. Conditions that one would hardly expect to obtain m a progressive district like Taranaki were discovered at Auroa, when a visit was "paid to a house in which several patients were down with influenza. Six were discovered in one room lying 011 a mattress on the floor, covered with a rug and some sodas. Their parents were shareiuUkras on land worth £CO per acre. The monthly meet : ng of the committee of the North Ta/ayia.vi Read C'enr.re of the Koval Life-saving Society was held lust night, Mr. J. Bennett presided, and there were also present: Miss White, Messrs J. It Carrigal, S. G. Smith, MP., 'N. A. Christiansen, and P. A. Mathesoa (secretary). In response to inquiries "from Tauranga regarding the design of working of lil'e-saving appliances, it was decided to personally acquaint Mr. Dean with the particulars and to reply 'to the Tauranga Surf-bathing Club that Mr. Dean would be in their district shortly and give personally the particulars asked for. It was decided to commence the schools' competitions on March o, and that the finals take place on March 7, at New Plymouth. It was also decided to place on record the committee's regret at the death of Miss Jessie Mcisaac, and appreciation of her services as a member of the committee.

About thirty men who were exempted by the Military Service Boards on the ground of religious objection to bearing arms are at present employed on the State farm at Levin. They are members of three denominations, the Quakers, Seventh Day Adventisfca and Christadelphians, which were considered by the Boards to come within the limited scope of the exemption clause of the Act. Thcae men. are to be demobilised fthortly. The only obstacle to their immediate release is the desire of the Agricultural Department to keep them until after the harvest, probably the Department will try to arrange with the men to stay voluntarily to help reap where they lia.vs sown. These religious objectors are not defaulters in the view of tho law They were given exemption from >uiiilary service fry law sad they have oampfied with all tfco reguiniicns pliic-w tipnn theiu.

The mails which left New Zealand for the United Kingdom on the 10th November arrived in London on the 2iith ult.

Men's mercery bargains at the Melbourne, Ltd.: —Police braces, 2s 6d; President braces, 2s lid; fine lawn handkerchiefs, 6d each; fine cotton singlets, 2s 3d; summer pants, 2s lid; linen collars, all shapes, lOd each; line cambric hemstitched baadkerehiefa, 9d each.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd, draw attention to thoir Tarata sale, to be held to-mor-row (B'riday), at 1 pjn. Full particulars will be found on page S of this issue. SANDER'S KUOALYFTI EXTRACT, the unequalled remedy for colds, in(]iien::a. cheat trasWos. headache, indigestion. SAKD.KB'S IC.. TRACT, the snrwS jirotecfwu from infections, fever, diphtheria, meningitis. SANDER'S EXTRACT prove** at ti a Supreme Court of Victoria to have healing powers not pwscssed by j cthrr eucalyptus pr<if.,m.tifK!K. Insist a# the Genuine SAMMSPJjj

There are or.ly four or five eases of influenza in the Opjsnakc cotta™ hospital, only one case being regard on as *«(• ious. The temporary hospital lias been closed. *a.u;l it is expected that ihe cottage hospital will Jxs closed to in!liv;n.;a .cases in a few days. There ha.? licre a •further oniiircak in tiic Aurtu d'u Ir'wL. in ono family no fewer than nine veto down of, ntiee.

"During l,l:o last several years, J have consistently recomn:; aded tho anwilj.'aniu•tiun of the daivj ing interests ia South Auckland," is the stat-mait of JJr. 11. K. T'acey in his resignation to the New Zealand Dairy Association. ".v!y Aravval from the business/' lie suggests, "/nay facilitate sueli amalgatnatioi, and I venture to recommend, in tl'e interests of the producer, that tliia end be sought." The conference of representatives of the various 'Labor federations throughout New Zealand, called by the New Zealand Federation of Labor, luia now been fixed for January 23. The meeting will take place in Wellington. It is understood (says the Wellington Post) that an endeavor will b? made to federate al! the existing federations in one big body; in short, Uie policy of forming what is generally known as "One Big Union" will bo discussed. It ia impossible to give airy general attitude ot unionists to the *One Big Union" idea. An Auckland syndicate lias purchased the well-known Wairakci Estate, on the Rotorua-Taupo Road, from the Graham family, and intend'to spend £50,000 on developing it. The estate contains in the Wairakci and Wairoa valleys one of the'most remarkable collections of thermal wonders in the world, including the Wanikei' geyser, the champagne eauldrdL. the Karapiti blowhole, and the Hu.ka Falls, and, in addition to tin; Geyser Valley Hotel, the property embraces I over 4000 acres of land. As ;.he Government own a considerable portbn of this property, it is a t;l,u.me they did not purchase the estate.

"When Messrs Watson Bror., fishermen of Waikanae, went to haul up their nets at Kapiti Island tlm oLV-r di.y. t!wy found that a large i,ha.i\; had "become entangled in the meshes, and had been stranded on the beach. Mr W. E. Bcnda.ll and Professor Kirk who visited the inland during the week-end, saw the monster, which is 2Sft Cin. long, 15ft in circumference, and its jaw is 2ft. 10in. from side to side. The shark belongs to a strange species, the bone ■being s:>ft, transparent., and easily broken, the tooth email and curved inward, the eyes as large as a tea-cap, were set close together. The fishermen stated they had never seen a similar rpecimen, and Professor Kirk has taken a portion ft the tail to Wellington in an endeavor to establish the identity of the 3pecies.

Mastcrion (according to the Wairarapa Age) is one of the few townships in New Zealand which not only en-> courages but heartily supports the Chinese tradesman. The market "?.r----dens are entirely in the <ia.nds of Chinamen, tho fruit trade is largely controlled by them, the laundries, with ono ox two exceptions, are in their hands. Where do they derive their support? Go into a Chinaman's shop on any day or night cf the week, and one will find it filled with working men, their wives, and children. Yes, tho people who clamour for a "white New Zealand,'' who loudly depreciate low wages, and who are staunch supporters of the eight-hour movement, are tiie bc\ customers the Chin man has. The tiirv will come when the ''yellow menace' will cause us serioi's troubK What does tho working man intend doing' about the matter?

At its last inoetir'g the Egmont County Council wroie to tlio Tanuiaki County Council drawing attention to a dangerous corner near the Oakura bridge on the Main South road, lu acknowledging receipt <>f the. letter the clerk io the- Taranaki County Council staled that the Council had taken every precaution possible by erecting warning boards, ~o that motorists would use a little discretion in negotiating that portion of the road. The only response got from motorists was -10 miles per hour. The c-hairman said that no dou'ut the Taranaki Comity Council had done what it could in that direction. They could not, of course, provide against motorists with a "'skin full of whisky." They thought that it was a mild request from a council that paid £llOO or £I2OO annually through the toll. Or Green remarked that the Egmont, Comity Council had no right to dictate to another Council. The Egmont County chairman would take exception if any other council dictated to them. The chairman said that it was not dictation, txtxt a l'aaonimendatioß.

A copy of the new Sports Protection League's manifesto gives the following statement of the poliey of the League: "The poliey of the League will be to promote a strong public opinion in favor of the indulgence in sports as part of our national life. We do so because we believe that active participation in our national games gives to the youth sound and healthful bodies, affords the most effective antidote to the temptationa which beset the young, and begets thadiscipline and control of mind and ibody so necessary to the building up of the true man and citizen. The League will oppose any attempts made to restrict what we consider the rights, aspirations and freedom of sportsmen, and any curtailment of the privileges they at present enjoy. To this end, questions will be submitted to candidates for election to Parliament, and if neeossary to loe?.l bodies, to ascertain their views m public questions affecting the interests -if the League, whk'h will tserche lie fca:ucnca in support of too prisciplea which it stands."

The need for a permanent doctor for the Opunake district was referred to by members of the Egmont County Council on Tuesday. Cr Cornish considered tJiat, the Council should support the Opunate Town Board in their efforts to have a doctor appointed, adding that the last three months had. shown more than ever the dire need for a medical man. The Town Board had passed a resolution urging on the Public Health Department the necessity for providing a medical man for Opunake and the surrounding district, and, in the event of their being unable to provide a man, that they arrange for Dr. Barrow to bo immediately released to resume practice. The Chairman stated that the new provision allowing local bodies to strike a rate to pay a medical mrn had considerably simplified matters. The discussion tended to ehow that the main stumbling Mock was that Dr. Barrow had enlisted and left his practice, and his interests had to 'be safeguarded; so that another doctor did not care to como into the district Moreover there was a scarcity of doctors and it wa3 pointed out that it might be possible to arrange to buy out the practice by striking a rate .to c.over the cost. Finally it was resolved, ■«n the motion of Or. O'Brien and the ■ chairman, to call a conference of the * Opunake Town Board. Egmont County Council and Parifeka Read Board with a view to thoroughly d'scuering the matter, and in tlio meantime Dr. Valintine will be communicated withigr inlgnaft-.