LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Juvenile Court yesterday morning, Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., committed 11 boy, who had previously been remanded for theft at I.epperton," to the Weraroa Industrial School. At the Methodist Conference, Christchurch, it was resolved to protest againsti lioldin',' secular Sunday evening concerts and picture shows. On the motion of Mr. Quilliara, probate of tits will of the late Mr. Tom Parkin, has been granted by the Su•ireme Court to Mr. Roy Leo Parkin, the executor therein named. Three more seamen from the bar. nueutine Thrasher were given leave on Saturday evening to go to the pictures and have not vet returned to the vessel. The four men who deserted last week have not yet been traced. The collection at the band recital on Sunday afternoon will go to the bandsmen':- benefit fund, which under ordinary circumstances would have been raised at Christmas time, and which now stands at about £2O. To further supplement the fund a ball is to be held in the East End pavilion on Thursday niylit • '

New Plymouth ladies are eagerly searching for a new material suitable for autumn costumes. Their search will end if they pay a visit to Moray's and see the new costume cloths exhibited there. Call to-day, madam. Morey's have an advertisement in this paper. Read it.

The Loan and Mercantile draw attention to their Tarata sale on Friday next. Full particulars on page 8 of this issue. A choice Ngaere dairy farm for Bale as a going concern, is advertised on page one, by >V.. H. and A. McGarry, Eltianij •"• ■ ■

The liner Farmvortli, ut Wanganui, ia loading 10,000 bales of wool for London. This will he the largest consignment of wool taken from Wanganui by one vessel At an average of £23 per bale, this consignment will be worth about £308.000.

During his lecture at Invorcargill last week the Hon. W. Earnshaw, M.L.C., threw an interesting sidelight on that aspect of Parliamentary life which is mentioned by the "unco quid'' with a knowinp nod and a rueful smile. "In P.elhimy's." he stated, "either whisky or tea may tie procured, and I venture to assert that for every glass of whisky drunk, there are 50 cups of tea consumed. One man used to say to another, 'Come and have a glass of whisky's new he ;ays, 'Come and Tiave a cup of lea.'"' It was an absolute lie. he declared, tn =nv that members of the House, were drunkards, for although some took more honor than was good for them, he thought that the average politician drank less than the average citizen in other walks of life.

The report of a special committee appointed by the Wellington City Council to investigate matters in connection with the recent epidemic concludes: "There is" one other "recommendation that w; would make, viz., that there should be. a frequent inspection of all premises in v-'bicb food is supplied to the public. Tv w.nv cases we found that raw and cooVcd meats, fish, and ot>er articles of die*- were Iving about in kitchens, sculleries, ?;<■., without protection from flic-.. Tp one l«r?o private hoH there was a vent - P > in Ike kitchen, but the fitting was without a back, and. therefore., no.t fivr.v.f Tn one restaurant we found hiniv- barring in a enclosed yard ad;ji ft .,,;r •;..- \ we. We understand that the Health department has control of these matters, \b\it from pergonal experience it would appear that the Department undertake--" very little inspection unless attention be drawn to some nuisance by an outsider "

A whilom Opunake resident has returned to that town after an absence of twenty years, and he gives his inv to the local paper in these lugubrious terms-.—To-day we have many motor-cars, but the Town of Opunake seems to have stood still during all these years, and I am quite sure, from what I have seen business is a long way behind what it used to be: thorp certainly is not the number of business people, and the number of houses and shops seem to have dwindled. From enquiries I find there is a Harbor Board, whosa only duty is. and will for rnam- decades. consist in looking after battling facilities at the harbor: that st-v,iv.crs have actually ceased visitins Opunake and the harbor master is officially defunct; tha wharf is but a rendezvous for a few desciples of Tsaac Walton and is about to collapse. From observation I am. sure, that although there is an up-to-date Town "Board with a real live secretary, the town, which should by now have been a borough and one of the most progressive in the Dominion, is the mosi backward. No lkrhts, and on dark nights one is either falling over cows or horses or bnmning into fences or verandah po»fs. The sanitary conditions are appalinsr: no water, nor drainage of any kind : if dry weather for a short time the inhabitants have to beg, borrow, or steal water or cart it from the Waiaua or Te Nganm.

Some discussion took place at the meeting of the Eltham County Council on the" hydro-electric development. A letter was received from the Eltham Chamber of Commerce forwarding copy of resolution parsed at the recent public meeting and asking whether the Council would contribute to the cost of obtaining a report on the available sources of supplv. The chairman (Cr. ReKciwf said that he must say he did not approve of the proposal. They would do nrucli better if all local bodies in TaranakJ combined to urge on the trovcrnment the need for pushing on the National North Island scheme instead of these side Issues. He was opposed to these small schemes having some experience of them, as the Eltham Dairy Company had harnessed up the whole of the Waingorgoro river and only developed 120 liorr,,--power. Taranaki rivers had too much fall and could not be damned tip to provide a reserve for the dry season. Thev should, he added, combine and urge on the Government to push on the Waikaremoana scheme. Cr. Carter said that! they would have to wait a long time for the Government scheme and any smaller schemes could Inter I*> linked up with that scheme. It wa.s p. shame to see the beautiful waterways running to waste, ind the sooner they were ha,r> ne=«ed the better. Cr- Hardwicke-Smifcli considered the matter should he left to th" Chamber of Commerce who were interested. After further discussion it was resolved to hold the matter over until after the deputation has waited on the Minister of Public Works.

Nimot, who was identified by New Zealand medical officers in Germany, deserted to the enemy during 191 C on the eve of a contemplated attack by the New Zoalanders. He got out of the trendies and rushed acres* 1 ? to the German lino with liis hands up. Before the rest of the men realised what he was doing he had reached the German line In safetey. There he related to the German officers all the plana for t,b.e /imposed attack, gave the disposition of jiuv forces, rssc-rves, munition supplies, Hid jras cylindirs. The result was that ifhe enemy was enabled to forestall the D.Hack by heavily bombardin<r the area whence it was to issue, and the result waa that the plan, which had been maturiii!} for some time, had to he abandoned, while the New Zealanders lost fairly heavily under the enemy bomliardment. The matter was referred to several times in the House of Representatives, and in July, 1917, Sir Jas. Allen thus explained the position: "Privata Nimot was originally reported by cable to have deserted to the enemy. .Shortly after lie was officially reported by tint American Embassy in Berlin to be a prisoner of war. Latest advices are that he is still so held. A court of inquiry held in "France in December of last year found that, in spite of the fact that .he was a prisoner of war in Germany, it was considered that Nimot had deserted to the enemy. No further action ns recards ■jazettins' is at present considered necessary. Nimot will be duly tried by court-martial under the Army A"i when recovered at the end of tin; war."

There is only one SANDER EXTRACT and that is why the people reject the many inferior and harmful substitutes and just as goods. SANDER'S EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus. Sander's Extract cures all infectious diseases, all winter ailments, ulcers, bums, snrains. eczema, etc. Insist on the GENUINE SANDER'S EXTRACT. > Riders of Harley-Davidson or Indians should try one pair of "CLINCHER DREADNOUGHTS" 28 x 3—these tyres >WiU>{deaga jrqjji, 8

There is a movement in Opunake to establish a Technical High School there.

The New Plymouth branch of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children were given parmission by the Borough Council last night to make a collection in the sired s, on Saturday wxt. on behalf ci funds for the purpose of providing the nurse with a motor

In a letter to his father, Mr. W. W. Charters, Colonel A. B. Charters, C.M.G., D.5.0., describing incidents (hiring the march of the New Zealand Division to the Rhine, says: "Through all the village.-; and towns through which we have passed there is intense hatred of the Hiiehe. How lie. will live it down goodness only knows. Ho will have a thick hide if he attempts to invade Belgium or France commercially." The fact that farmers have been growin™ wheat at, a loss since the Government fixed the price for this cereal is not generally known (writes the travelling reporter of the Wanganui Chronicle), hut such is the ease, according to a speech made at Master-ton recently by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. D. S. Maodonald), who referred to n,„ n-iivioH'.-m of the furaiicrs in cropping wheat at a loss when the country required every bushel it could get.

The meetina organised by the Tiaw*n» branch of the Efficiency League at C.f-akeho in Saturday night proved a ;>?r+.:cnlarlv lively one. Right from the commencement of the meeting (cays the ■■vjr) there -.vere elmos't wtinuous intprvoptiont ;ir.d interjir-iicnw, and the several speakers could only make their remarks as the intervals between th» running fire of comments permitted. A motion, moved l>v Mr. J. D. Bash ford, "That in the opinion of this meeting if would not lw a right, thing to vote for prohibition" was declared lost

In a letter to one of the Vancouver pn.pers Mr. Geo. Bell, M.P., one of the prohibition propagandists touring New Zealand at the present time, gives a ; : vi',' :i.-.-.-<'U'- of an encounter lie had at a meeting in Dunedin, and assured Wis liviLi? I '. Columbian friends that ''from one to two hours are required to deal with interruptions." One of his meeting in this city he described a= a "rough house." A saloon man and himself p:n;,etl the leading roles, his opponent occupying the floor for most of the time. Mr. Bell thinks that the liquor issue is very much in doubt, and he tells the British Columbians that the National Government lean towards the traffic.

i "There is no sight more sad than a pev=on who drifts through life without a definite object, just the mere sport of chance; there is no object in life more miserable than such a person " said Dean Weeks, addressing a large assemblage of pupils, ex-pupils and friends of the Wansrnnui Girls' College at the annual prizegiving ceremony. Dean Weeks _ urged liprm'his hearers to have a definite object in life, to have the highest, purpose. That was the development of life itself in an all-round development of all that one could possibly be; that was higher than wealth, than learning, than fame, or even beauty, for all those passed away and personality remained. The Defence Department's help to soldiers' wives and dependents, through the Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board, include the payment of grants in cases of confinements, and surgical operations. During January, under this head, £337 was expended, so that the board distributed a large number of baby bonusci. to soldiers' wives. The amount of the grant in these cases is £5, and the board has not refused a single application. Lodge fees paid for the soldiers often run into hundreds of pounds per monthJanuary wa3 a light month for these pn-vments but the life insurance premiums totalled £3232. Just as the old saw declares that truth is stranger than fiction, instances of life's uncertainties, involving the gulf .between human motive and human action, are not hard to find (says an Auckland paper). Fven the machinery of the Court procedure for probing into affairs sometimes fails as a means to the end desired. Eecently a civil claim, which aroused some public interest, was hcar-1 in the Magistrate's Court, a returned soldier suing for moneys left in the earn of liw lady friend, who had married another man. Much was made on the side of plaintiff as to the callous conduct of the woman, who, it was insinuated, in addition to having failed to account for monevs left in her keeping, had unwarrantably broken off her engagement. In defence', she wholly, denied the impeachment, and said the aggrieved one had "•vert her authority to use his money while she was ill. Judgment was for plaintiff, who subsequently succumbed to an operation in hospital. The young woman referred to was amazed to receive the other dav intimation from the Public Trustee, advising her that tin deceased had made her sole beneficiary of his will.

At the Wangaivui Magistrate's Court last week an elderly man named Alfred Ireland pleaded guilty io four charges of obtaining goods by means of a valueless chwme, tradesmen in Wanganui, Stratford and New Plymouth being the victims. Detective-Sergeant Hoilis stated that in 1917 the accused was employed at Patea as a milker on shares. He opened an account at, a bank there, and deposited a small amount, but he had never more than :Cfi to his credit. From Patea he went to New Plymouth. Ha was a married man living apart from his wife. When in Stratford on November last he tendered a cheque for £;> to a hotel keeper, C Arden. At ibis time accused had only 4s fid to his credit in the bank, and the cheque was consnoucntly returned dishonored Tn Now Plymouth he picked up with a vnuni girl, a dancer.' He took her to a tailor'.-, ■shop and paid for a dress for her with a, cheque of £4 This cheque was also returned marked "No account," The pair then came to Wanganui and visited Ncttleship's shop, when the sirl selected a ring valued at £l3. which was paid for bv another cheque, the accused reprosen+ing himself as a farmer from Patea. Later in the day he cashed a cheque for £1 at the same shop. The accused said he was quite prepared to refund the amounts. The magistrate, ~\fr Wyvcvn Wilson, said he would irive him an on of makin? his words srood. He would sentence him to three months' imprisonment on the charge in relation to the -CIS. and would order him to come up for sentence auv time within six months when called upon on the other chsrgea, action on those charge* Ikin<r deferred while the accused endeavored to '-cpay the amounts. The interest in prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drinks is increasing. and will increase as the poll draws nearer. It is then wise to hear all sides. Messrs T. G. Blake and L. Sim will put forward a soldier's view tonight in the Good Templar Hall. They are returned soldiers, and, with a soldier in tie chair, it will make a chance for soldiers to discuss the topic of drink and its effects. The speakers will i awwer &UMtipߧ.

The post office advises that the aaaflt which left New York ou January 24th arrived in London on the ath inst.

An idea of the cost of advertising in same of the big papers of the world:— The London Daily Mail announces that "owing to the increased supply of paper all trade advertisements will be executed at reduced rate*—viz., for specified positions 70s per inch, and position at paper's option 60s per inch."

In many cases, remarks the New Zealand Trade. Review, the Government haa been acquiring properties for returned soldiers, and paying oil' existing mortgages before maturity, and this has been done to an extent to cause some {liscomfort to building companies and others who lend largely on mortgage. The result of this is that these institutions find themselves with a surplus of funds on hand for which there is not sufficient outlet except' tying it up for a long period in war loan.

There are few organisations in the . town that have worked more wholeheartedly for patriotic purposes than ha* the Old Girls/ Association of the local High School. During the past two Jrears they have been instrumental in raising some £ISOO for various deserting funds, and now that the urgency fpr Buch work io happily past they are desirous of placing the finances of their own association on a good footing. Last year, owing to various accounts in connection with the cafe chantant not being Bent in for some months, the association found itself out of pocket to the extent of some ten or twelve pounds, and it is with the idea of wiping out this debt that vconcert has been organised to take place in the Good Templar Hall on Thursday' and Friday, March 27 and 28. An unusually fine programme has been arranged, consisting of a sparkling comedietta, together with a dance recite! and vocal items by New Plymouth's favorite artistes. Further particulars are girw in our advertising columns.

In connection with Chautauqua, is an advantage in baying a Beaton ticket, which costs 10s 6d, because it gives admission to 12 performances) j (afternoon and evening), whereas the ' cost for single admission for six even! jngs alone would be nearly 16s. The Melbourne's great sale ended on; Saturday. Nevertheless there will be' .'njany- bargains offering between and stock-taking on March 20, thorough stocktaking reveals many a) line that requires discounting, and ultra will be many such within the nest few days. Ask to see the stocktaking throwf outs. There may be something you art) requiring.