LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A meeting of Maugatoki settlers on Monday evening decided to instruct the hall committee to obtain estimates for the building of a soldiers' memorial hall.
There is every indication that in the near future the manufacture of sugar-of-milk in the Dominion will form an important industry.—"New Zealand Dairyman." Edwin Wells, who gave evidence in connection with the inquest on Robert 11. Clarke at Eltham, will be charged by the police at the next sitting of the Court at Eltham, with liquor to a prohibited person. A land agent's license was granted to Eiohard Fry Cornwall, of New Plymouth, at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court, before Mr A. Crooto; S.M.. yesterday. At the Magistrate's Court, Wanganui, yesterday, J X. Boss, owner of a river launch, was fined £2O for allowing a launch to ply for hire without being in charge of a certificated master or engineer.—Press Association. During the height of the storm which, struck New Plymouth yesterday morning, a largo tent which is being used in connection with the Mace Mission was blown down, whilst a motor-car which lud been left in Brougham Street was blown some distance further along the street. Fortunately no material damage seems to have been done.
A delegation from the Wairarapa County Council arrived in New Plymonth last evening' for the purpose of inspecting the roads and becoming cognisant with the methods of road-making in Taranaki. The delegation consists of Messrs A- D. M'Leod (chairman), Quinto.n Donald, S. M'Laren, T- 0. Haycock, G. W. Cobb (clerk), and H. P. Toogood consulting engineer). To-day will be spent in Ne\Y Plymouth and district and to-mororw morning the party will ipotor through to Eltham, Waimate West and Hawcra districts, returning on Friday.
In connection with Monday night's Borough Council meeting and the discussion on the patching of roadways, Or Griffiths desires it to be stated that he only agreed to allow- his motion to drop as it was stated the engineer had already been instructed to do the work to which he had referred. He still maintains, however, that the policy of the council should be not to let the roads get into disrepair, and that side hv sid.; with new tar-sealing work being done, men should be employed to keep in repair the permanent roadways already laid down.
At a sitting of the Magistrate's Court, held before 'Mr A- Crookc, S.M-, yesterday, judgment by default with costs was given in the following civil cases:—Red Post Furnishing Company v John Walker, £1 2s (costs 13s); Helen Hughea v. John Charles Smith. E7 5s ( .61 3s); Taranaki Branch Hotel and Restaurant. Industrial Union v. Thomas Waller. £3 2s 6d (13si: Margnret Cecilia Callaghan v. Frank Lawson £5 ( .CI Os Gd). A judgment order was made in the case of" Henry Brown and Co. v. Frank Bound, claim. £ 1"2 l'7s 3d. Amount to be paid in instalments of 10s monthly.
In the course of a letter to the Hawera Siar, Mr W. !)■ Powdrell gives an idea of how some poor men have got on In Taranaki through the dairy industry. He say*: I divided and sold all of my 2'ood dairying land amongst seventeen good families, and in small areas on the easiest of terms, charging 5 per cent on unpaid land purchase under a perpetual mortgage to prevent foreclosure until repaid out of profits, and S per cent on the cows- All of the. freehold laud I own is 119 acres on this coast. In no ease did I roeeivo more than £4OO down in anv transaction, including land and cows. Tn no case was there a failure-. on the other hand, every family made sood. and did really well.. The lowest profit made in the worst year was £•250 net and I now have the satisfaction of knowing that I have helped more poor people on to the land than any other private individual in.Taranaki, and that rhrw of mv old tenants are worth over £20.000 each, and that the aggrc gate wealth of the seventeen tenants now amounts 1o over £V20,000 —this derived. from the combined deposits of seventeen tenants aggregating under £4OOll all told at time of purchase. Ha continues, by way of contrast, that Mr Pearoe. M.P.. has steadilv,acquired about. 4.0(10 acres in all. largely freehoTd land of extra good quality, and held tightly on to it.
Mr W. D. Powdrell and Mr G- Pearce, M.l'. are evidently not rowing in the saros boat now, judging from some correspondence appearing in the Ha,wera Star Mr Pearce recQiitly made some pointed references to Mr Powdrell/s connection with the Patea Freezing Works, suggesting that he wa§ bleeding the poor farmers by accepting a high salary asmanaging director whilst. .they were pai'l no dividend. Mr Powdrel! hits back thns. The works have put all profits into extra storage and plant for the farmer's benefit, and his £5 shares are worth' nearly £ls according to the assets. ' The works and stock on hand now' amount to nearly £300,000, and to achieve this with £12,000 worth of old buildings' bought by shares and £12,000 of paid-up share capital from the farmers is a record made by my directors that shareholders may well be proud of. That the works could pay no dividend in cash can readily be understood, when Sir Pearce, the large.it landowner and fattev.er on the coast, only took up £250 worth of shares, compared to some with very litt.le land takih'g £IOOO to £2OOO worth in halfpaid shavss. The directors are guaranteeing the bank as well as private depositors for nearly £200,000, and forty farmers in turn signed a p.n. as security to. the, directors for £250: but when Mr Poaree's p.n. became eld and required renewing he refused to sign. For many years Mr Pearce has refused to put stock through his own works, and so other ports ship all his frozen meat, to the detriment of his town, district, ami the workers of Patoa Mr Pearce only once came to an annual meeting, four years ago, and while the chairman advocated extension of storage lie strenuously opposef! same on the ground of shortage of stock, likely cessation of war, bad times, etc ; but t.'ie directors and shareholders stuck to their chairman unanimously, and have increased their storage from the then storage of 40,000 cut carcase to 210.000 cut carcase storage, besides havinsr a srood deal of frown meat stored in thn grading works at the present tiros. The Referendum to be taken, on Thursday, April 10, on the liquor question is the topic of the hour. On page six of this issue appears an interesting announcement regarding this question. E. F. Cornwall, estate agent, advertises particulars of two handy-sized dairy farms.
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