LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Mokau correspondent states that a butter factory is likely to start there at any moment, the .outlook being good. Returned soldiers are taking up milking sections on the river.

Masterton will achieve the honor within a few days of being the first town in New Zealand to be completely furnished with automatic telephones.

The Orissa, which leaves this morning for Newcastle, takes with it a mail for Australia—the first direct mail from New Plymouth to Australia.

Tie industrial agreement, recently arrived at.between the employers and the employees in the freezing works and related trades throughout New Zealand is stated to involve an annual increase in wa»es of about £IOO,OOO. The agreement is for a term of two years, and comes into operation on August 81 next, but the new rates of pay date from April 7 last.

Messrs Moore-Jones 8r03., land and financial agents, of Auckland, notify clso'whore that Mr! K. Travis twis*, who is well and favorably, fcnOftß, in Ta''aiialvi as late Crown Lands "ringer, and subsequently ranger for the Public Trust in Auckland province, has been appointed manager of a branch, offloe they are opening at Hamilton, and that he v/ljl be pleased to advise clients as to the values of land in the Waikato and northern districts' generally, ~.. Speaking to a News representative recently, Capt. Atkins, of the Orissa, stated that there should be a Splendid market for New Zealand butter, cheese, and apples in India, He had paid 2s 4d per lb for Australian apples in Madras, and considered himself lucky to get them even at that price, while for Australian butter they paid 3s 6d per lb, and wore glad to get it. The Indian market would absorb all the dairy produce New Zealand could send, and the same applied to apples. It was a market which he was surprised had not been exploited before.

The present .regulations :for the election of managers of technical schools do not prescribe any limit teethe number of managers to l>e appointed on a Technical School Board, and there has been a tendency in some cases towards the establishment of boards with an unreasonably large number of members. An amendment gazetted last week provides that the number of maifagers shall not be less than five,'nor more than nineteen. This will take effect at the election of boards in July, August, or September next. A further amendment provides for the representation annually of a public association or a looal authority giving a monetary contribution towards the cost of a site or a building for technical school purposes. To close the estate, Messrs Webster Bros aro selling at their mart on Saturday next, at 2 o'clock, a commodious and well-built six-roomed dwelling, With basement, situated near the corner of Devon Street West and Belt Road. As immediate possession can be given, this opportunity should sot be missed.

A London cablegram says that the Pood Ministry denies the report that it has bought the Canadian cheese. During the year ended March 31 last, Mr. T. Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner for the Auckland district, presided at the hearing of 50 disputes before the council, hi no fewer than 40 cases complete settlements were arrived at. Partial settlements were secured in eight other cass. Mr. Harle Giles's record is regarded as an excellent one.

Aft alarm of fire was given at about 5.40 yesterday evening, and the Central station brigade turned out very promptly, the call being to a small art goods shop in Devon Street, just opposite the A.M.P. Buildings, occupied by Miss Stanford. Some damage was done to the back of the premises, and a quantity of stock was more or less soiled by water. The brigade quickly had the outbreak under control. It is understood that the proprietor of the business locked up the shop at half-past five, and everything was all right. But at the time stated a youth in a fruit shop adjoining noticed signs of fire, and gave the alarm. Nothing definite can be said as to the origin of the outbreak.

According to Mr. T. M. Charters, Canterbury district repatriation officer, there is ample work awaiting fit men on the West Coa9t, from which he recently returned. Generally speaking, said Mr.: Charters, there was little trouble on the coast in regard to repatriation, and there was plenty of work, particularly of milling, trucking, mining and ordinary laboring. One mine manager had told him that he could take 300 men for trucking, really unskilled and comparatively easy work, at 13s 8d per day. Westport and Greymouth. Were, in fact, practically stagnant for want of men, and the whole coast was actually starving for want of labor. _ The only difficulty West Coast repatriation committees found was in finding light work for partially disabled men,

The council of the Auckland Railway. jLeague proposes that the chairman of the League, Mr. p. 0. Oheal (who, by the way, was one of the surveyors of Taranaki,and after whom the Cheal Road, Ngaere, was named), shall visit Tarauaki at an early date to endeavor to promote united action for vigorous railway construction. In a circular addressed to the local bodies, it is pointed out that there are nearly a thousand miles of branch railways in the South Island and very few miles in the North. The idea of the League is to get concertert_ action and influence at work to obtain a greater amount of the proposed loans to enable important railway works to be carried out. The principal lines in view are the Napier to Wairoa and Gishorne, the Stratford-Main Trunk, and the North Auckland Main Trunk line. Members of the Mount Egmont Lodge nssembled at the Masonic Hall, Robe Street, on Monday evening for the purpose of making a presentation to P.M. Bro. J. Asher, who for health reasons is retiring from the activities of the lodge and is about to take up his residence in the Waikato. W.M. Bro. Parkin made the presentation, which took the form of a travelling rug, and Wor. Bros. Bain, White and Chatterton also joined in expressing the good wishes of the lodge, and hopes that the recipient would soon be restored to health, and that at Borne future date he would return and renew his association with the lodge. Bro. Asher suitably acknowledged the gift and the good wishes of the members, and in a few interesting remarks spoke of his early connection with the Jodge. A local branch of the New Zealand Welfare League was established on Monday night at a meeting at which the Dominion.organiser, Mr. A. P. Harper, took occasion to deny some of the extraordinary that have been made as to the objects of the League. One of these statements, made by the Rev. HowaroV Elliott, was to the effect that it is a Roman Catholic organisation in disguise, A sufficient answer to this is that three of the men most prominently identified with the formation of the League are either sons or grandsons of former Anglican Bishops. Another statement, that it is a brewers' organisation, is disposed of by the fact that prominent Prohibitionists'are closely identified with It. That it is Reform camouflaged is untrue, as is shown by the fact that among its promoters are men who. though thev are prominently identified with party politics, have been supporters cf the Liberal party. The real fact fs that the League is exactly what -t purports to be—an organisation formed with the object of promoting better government and opposing such extremists as the avowed Bolsheviks.

( The unsatisfactory condition of affairs in Russia has had a serious and worldwide effect on the supplies of various classes of materials used by sail-makers and allied trades. Speaking to a Gisborne Times reporter recently a local merchant in that particular line of business remarked that much of the raw material—flax and hemp—converted into canvas and like commodities was grown m Southern Russia. It was quite a mistaken belief that linen and canvas manufftoturws relied on Ireland and the Philip- ?, 8S .<*«>*•■ - raw - -materials. Apart from Russia heavy supplies of the raw materials were also obtained from Italy and in time the Balkans would become a great source of supply. Asked whether or not prices were beginning to recede out informant answered in the negative adding that supplies of canvas, thread' -etc,, were at a lower ebb in New Zealand than at any period hitherto. He mentioned incidentally that a certain line of .thread in everyday use in his trade was to-day worth five times as much as before the war. . ' I

The Old Girls* Committee has preparations well in hand for the house-to-house collection on Saturday, in aid of the nurses' recreation hall which is to be ereoted as a tribute to their work in the war and during the epidemic. Ail streets have not, however, been provided with collectors, and the committee would be pleased if any Old Girls who'are willing would send in their names to the president (Miss Douglas) or the secretary (Miss Andrews), J

The Kawaroa Park Society wishes to acknowledge with thanks a donation of £i Is from Mr. R, A. Large.

Mr, T. fi. W. Callingham, optician, etc, is at present visiting New Plymouth and Way be consulted at the Trocadero between 10 am. and 4 p.m.

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