LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During the past month the New Plymouth Borough Council issued permits for the erection of buildings to" the value of £IB,OOO, whilst plans for other buildings amounting to a further £IO,OOO have been deposited. * At a special meeting of the North Taranaki Hunt on Thursday afternoon the following resolution was passed: "It is recommended that all hunt clubs throughout New Zealand should endeavor to obtain annual totalisator license permits for race meetings."

At the dance tendered to the returned soldiers last night by the local branch ; of the Red Cross Society there were present three military nurses—Matron McMillan, and Sisters Patterson and Young —all of whom were trained in the local hospital. During the course of his lecture last night, Mr. Hughes, of the Y.M.C.A., made a strong appeal for the establishment of a branch of the institution in New Plymouth. He spoke of its value to the men who had been to the front, and hoped tho people of New Plymouth would rise to the occasion and form a strong institution here.

A boy of about 11 years of age appeared before Mr. A. Orooke, S.M., in the Juvenile Court yesterday, on a charge of stealing a bicycle. Nothing was known against accused, and the magistrate admonished and discharged him.

The election of officers and Dominion executive of the Protestant Political Association resulted: President, Mr. Ewen M'Gregor (Hamilton); vice-presi-dents, Messrs. Eearnshaw, Harford, Rev. Knowles-Smith; committee, Messrs. Donald, Newton, McEldowney, Middleton and Kemp; secretary, Mr. H. S. Bilby; national organiser, Rev. Howard Elliot.— Press Association.

A sad accident occurred at Takawhare, four miles from Coromandel last week, resulting in the death from burns of Miss Grace Tierman, aged twenty-one years, daughter of the late Mr. F. Tiernan. Late in the afternoon Miss Tiernan was attending to an open fireplace outside the house, when her pinafore caught Are, her clothing being destroyed ,and her body fearfully burned. As there ws.s no one else at home, Miss Tiernan wrapped a cloak round herself and walked to Mr. Campbell's house. She was removed to the hospital at Coromandel, where she died at 11 o'clock at night.

For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Pepjurmjat Cur*

For the month ending April 30 the New Plymouth tramways took £9G2 in revenue, or £ll2 more than for the same period of last year. The suburban electric bus took £7O.

At Mangaoraka on Wednesday next Mr Newton King is selling a very nice line of pedigree and grade Jersey cattle on acoeunt of Mr C- Wyatt. Full particulars of the pedigree cattle are obtainable from the auctioneer* in leaflet fQrm. In addition to the cows, there is a very nice line of rising 2-year old heifers to be sold. i Excellent value in white towels and white towelling by the yard is being offered by the Melbourne, Ltd. The towels measure 23 inches by 50 inches long and are a Rplondid heavy weight. The towelling is heavier weight and measures 23 inches wide. Towels, 3/11 pair; towelling, 2/3 yard. A famine in blankets is ejected this winter and wise women are now buying the economical eiderdown and kapok onilts offered by the Big Store, Waitara. on page four. These quilts are lighter and warmer than blankets, while their dainty colorings give your bedroom a bright and cosy appearance.

This chilly weather—when a shiver runs through you—are you wearing woollens f Doctors recommend woollen underwear for winter wear because of its warmth and cold resisting properties. You'll be free from colds and coughs if you wear Morey's cosy woollen underwear—all New Zealand manufacture. Head Morey's advertisement in this issue and become convinced.

On the Carrington Road on Tuesday next Mr Newton King will sell the herd and stock on account of Mr H. W. Saxton. The cows are a well bred line of Friesians, the vendor having been breeding right into these for a number of years. South Taranaki dairymen who fancy this breed should make a special effort to attend the sale.

Evidence given before the Industries Committee showed that the nurseries of the Dominion contained some million apple trees in excess of requirements, valued at £50,000. Local planting was Btopped by the war. These trees had been grown at the request of the Minister of Agriculture. , Witnesses urged that they should be used for planting by returned soldiers and that the Government should subsidise two or three ships next yoar to enable'them to dispose of the trees in overseas markets. If no use could be found for them they would have to be dumped.—Press Association. ,

Inasmuch as the American Government restricted the output of motor cars after entering the war, the figures for 1918 naturally show a-big reduetion on the preceding year. They are none the less formidable, no fewer than 974,606 private passenger cars having been produced, as against 1,718,000 in 1917. Motor lorries, curiously enough, although their output was officiaUy curtailed last August, actually increased in numbers from 109,000 in 1017 to 182,000 last year, exclusive of war requirements.

In addition to the threatened water famine, Waihi is now faced with the possibility of having its gas servce seriously reduced, owing to shortage of coal supplies, says a northern paper. The manager of the municipal gas works is recommending immedate. action on the part of the Borough Council, suggesting that street lighting be cut off, in order to conserve the present supply of coal, which is estimated to last only three weeks. ■ . .

According to the Dutch newspaper Telegraaf, ano.thcr serious case of espionage has been discovered in Flushing. A wireless installation has been found in a house, the ground floor of which was occupied by an office belonging to the Butch naval authorities. The owner of the wireless had made a hole in the floor in which he could hide the apparatus in case of danger. It would then be in the attic of the Navy Office, where the police would never have thought of looking for it. ' ■

It has been decided to erect a memorial to the victims of the Runanga murder. At a public meeting at Runanga (Bays an exchange) it was decided that a deputation wait on the Grey City Council with reference to the dedication as a road reserve of that portion of the town where the murder took place, and known as "Eggers' Lookout," as a a,ito for the memorial. It was decided that, if the sanction of the two bodies be obtained, the memorial shall take the form of an obelisk of red Aberdeen granite, etreoted on a suitable base and surrounded with iron railings, and with a flight of steps leading up from the road level.

A cablegram from Paris, dated March 8, stated that Maurice Maeterlinck, the celebrated Belgian author, was married a few days ago in a little village near Nice The bride is a young Riviera beauty of 23, Mile. Reneo Bahon. ,She was for some time a student at the Paris < Conservatorie. M. Maeterlinck's divorce from his first wife (who is well known on the stage as Mine. Georgette Leblane) took place Bome months ago. It was Specially for Georgette Leblane that Maeterlinck ' wrote the play "Monna Vanna." M. Maeterlinck is 67 years of age. To British readers he is best known by such immortal works as "The Blue Bird of Happiness," '•Lbs Aveugles," "Peleas and Melisande," and "The Bee.™ For some time his home has been the "Villa of the Bees" at Nice.

Speaking at Wellington on Wednesday General Richardson submitted a demobilisation scheme to the War Office in 1916, and they were surprised to get it. However, his idea was to get the men who went away first back home first. When the war was concluded the War Office approached Australia and asked them how many ships they, wanted, but'they answered that they did not require any yet. Th'e same question j was put to Canada, and the same answer received. They next approached the speaker; and he asked for fifty, but the War Office said tyiat there wjtre only ships available for unfit men. To this the General replied' that he would see that all the men were unfit in order to get them home. Tliis resulted in the comparatively large number of ships' which had arrived in New Zealand recently with returned soldiers. New Zealand would have to be ready to deal with the large number of men who were returning, and as far as he was concerned, every man would be back by September. There should not be a discharged soldier out of work during the coming winter. Every returned soldier would have to help himself, and he was confident that every man was prepared to help himself if given the opportunity. The principle of civil re-establishment was to see that the men were put back into the jobs which they were temperamentally most fitted for. Three factors decided this—training, .education, and character —and these three factors made for success. He did not want to see a returned soldier selling matches, as one saw them on the Thames Embankment, and if the Repatriation Board did its duty nothing of ths kind would "«)"•

A Christchurch message says that tho lifting of the embargo on the export of potatoes has resulted in a rise in the wholesale price of from 5s to 10s per ton. At yesterday's conference of farmers held iu New Plymouth, when the question of the utility of goats in connection witli the eradication of noxious weedi was mentioned, one delegate said farmers could not be expected to buy goats when there was no sale for them. He stated that he had a herd of 50 goats, and had to sell them for Is Od a head.

A duel is to be fought shortly between Flight-Curtain Robert tichniider and another well-known .French aviator named Vaudccrune under absolutely new conditions, us they propose to settle their <]iiarrt'l in the air. The French "Ace," Captain Madon, and Pilot Babo are acting as Vaiidecrane's seconds. The adversaries will each ascend in a Nieuport single-seater aeroplane fitted with 120 h.p. motor and a Vickers' machine gun. The exports from New Plymouth during the twelve months ended March 31, 1919, amounted to £1,663,705, as compared with £2,161,260 in the preceduig 12 months. The corresponding figures for Waitara were £207,330 and .£437,■609, and for Patea £1,248,669 and. £l,432,780. The exports from Timaru in the two periods were £782,037 and £854,579. New Plymouth, stood seventh on the list of exporting ports iu the year ended March last, and tenth in the year ended March, 1918. Its exports included butter £555,228, cheese £820,135, frozen meat £54,785, wool £57,790, hides £7604, sheepskins £26,336, and tallow £10,200. An insignificant rat, with an enquiring turn of mind, succeeded in setting the trend of the city's affairs all astray one' day last week, says a Chrietolmrch paper. He went behind the switchboard at the City Electrical Department, destroyed two of the phases, and interfered with the main feeder of the electric supply. Complaints from numerous quarters followed, and, as a result of the rodent's enterprise, a temporary "shut-down" was necessary, when tho cause qf trouble, which was absolutely, if not satisfactorily, electrocuted, was removed.