LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is an unusual demand for Devon Street shop property. "Recently two business sites changed hands. One of :ho properties, on the wrong side of Devon Street, sold at a price approximating £l3O per foot. At the Rewa Rewa rifle range yesterday, in connection with the opening of the New Plymouth Defence Rifle Club's season, a veteran rifleman, who has not handled a rifle for several years, put up a score of 44 at the 500 yards range, with the aperture sight. "I have never used the sight before," remarked the veteran, "but that's the sight for me."

In connection with the commission which the Government undertook to set up to investigate matters relating to the proposal to form an Inglewood County Messrs G. H. Bulla.rd, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki and Mr. S. Wilson, District Land Valuer, have been appointed commissioners. No arrangements have yet been made us to the place and time at which the commission will sit.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Taranaki Hospital Board wap held on Wednesday for the purpose of scrutinising accounts in connection with the influenza epidemic. Some surprise was experienced at receiving accounts for £2O and £l.l respectively for the nso of St. John's Hall and the friendly Societies' lIa.II, Waitara. The bo-.ird had in all 1!) public halls and buildings iu use as temporary hospitals, and all were given rent free with the exception of the two buildings named at Waitara.

A medical board, with Captain W. R. Wade, N.Z.M.O. as president, will be held, at the Defence Office, New Plymouth, to-day, when a returned ollioei* and | several returned soldiers will be dealt with. A number of men who have bacn on sick leave from caiop will be brought before a medical officer. If a man states ho is suffering from the cil'cets of camp service he will be brought before aboard of two medical officers, who will determine his condition, and state whether he should be recommended for pay in lieu of pension. While addressing the Court yesterday in a case against a local milk vendor who was charged with selling milk deficient in solids, SUb-Inspector Hutton referred to such practices, not only ir. connection with the sale of milk, bnt also other food stuffs, as nothing short of robbery of the public. In the ease of milk certain standards of quality had been fixed and testing was so simplified that there was no excuse for peoplo who sold milk below standard. Vendors fhould be compelled to test their supplies for quality The Magistrate, later in the case, aaid it was inciunbevt on suppliers to satisfy themselves is to the quality of the miJk they werb selling.

i.lr J. iU'Combs, M.P., spestking at a. mooting in C'hvi&tehureh on Wednesday night on municipal matters, stated thai tho Chrislehurdi City Council last year made A)l'2,000 profit out of tho electric power and lighting system. Of that amount £IO,OOO was spent on erecting tho new electrical buildings in Armagh street- Mr M'Combs contended that the users of electricity should have liad tho benefit of the profit, and that the ratepayers should have been asked to sanction a loan for the purpose of erecting tho buildings- The Council was adopting a wrong policy in not catering more extensively and cheaply in connection with the electrical supply. The electricity should he supplied for use and not for profit, therefore the price : should bo made as low as possible.

Unfavorable weather interfered somewhat with the municipal tod recital at the breakwater last night. At tlie advertised time of the recital the weather was threatening, yet in spile of this a largo crowd, numbering from GOO to 700, gathered to hear the programme. Early in the evening rain began to fall and a number of people hurried back to town. The rain was not sufficient, however, to stop the concert, and the following programme v>as played: Quickstep, "Agan<lab"; suite, "Star of the Ball"; selection, "English Songs"; quickstep, "The Contemptibles"; cornet solo, "A Perfect Day" (Bandsman Voght, soloist); lancers, "Old Tunes"; march, "When the Boys Come Home"; and "God Save the King." The bund played under the eondiictorsliip of Mr. T. Hughes, of Waitara. At the conclusion of the recital the bandsmen were enterta-ined to supper by Mesdaines Wilson and McLeod. The next municipal recital will be given on Thursday next, at the East End reserve.

THE POISONING OF THIRTY GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by eucalyptus lollies which were evidently made from the common eucalyptus brings homo forcibly the importance of using only the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTRACT sniffed up the nose and three drops on sugar, is a sure and safe protection from meningitis and other infections. Applied to ulcers, poisoned wounds, sprains, chilblains, eczema, SANDER'S EXTRACT brings quick tend. Members and intending meiribers of the Star Moter Cycle Club ar» remind.ed that a meeting will be held at the Soldiers' Club on Monday, tlio 20tli inst., at 8

It is reported that Mr G. II l orry's farm at Upper Plain, about four miles from Maslerton, has been sold at £lO5 per acreIt is anticipated that the new tuberculosis hospital for New Zealand soldiers, now in course of erection at Waipukurau, tvill bo ready for occupation in. April ly pet.

A of Otaki, commenting upon the fact tlii it the Chinese are gradually utilising evil ly vacant plot in llio town, remarked ifjlio Maori people only possessed the < iesira for steady industry and the sami 'frugal mode of living as is shown by tlij' Celestial, tlicy would now have been 13 { aristocracy of this country.

The Star says:—Mr. \V. R. J. McNeill, mentioned at a meeting of tho Hawera Inihien/a Epidemic Social Committee that the claims for labor in connection with the epidemic in the Egmont, Count.v totalled over £IMO, and he remarked with pride that the only claims made by workers who assisted in Hawera 'fere confined to those put in br *wo laundry women and two other workers. It is ostimated that over 200 people worked in the various hospitals in Hawera alone.

Mr. A- V- Sims, of Ngaere, at Wednesiday's sitting of the Educational Conference, sitting in Wellington ,moved a. vote ol" ilrnnks to tho Minister for Education. He. referred to tho recent improvements effected under the Minister, such as an increased vote and tna ii:akirs: of a commencement with "ionie of the reforms tho institute had maiie the objects of the campaign. Mr. Just, in seconding tho motion, sa;id ho believed tliat the Minister for Education was a sincere friend to national education, and was anxious to secure the best conditions for the teaching service. lie was sure that the Minister wished to see the system more efficient than it was to-day, and wished to givo a wider eanetion throughout the Dominion. The motion was carried.

Messrs. Nolan and Co. notify that the next Government valuation of wool at their store at Waitara will take place on February 4. Boys' elastic braces with leather ends Is at the Melbourne, Ltd.; boya' khaki Vasliing hats, 2s 6d; boys' white linen hats, Is Gd, 2a 6d, 2s U<l; boys' and youths' Hue panama hats, 8a fid; children's untrimmed nanamas, 5s lid; boys' summer suits, crashes and poplins, 8a Gd to lis fid.