LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Plymouth Returned Soldiers' Association wish to thank the following for donations towards the luncheon provided for country members at the Soldiers' Club on Peace Day: Messrs U. Bond, P. E. Gadd, J. McNeill, Hill and Johnson, J. Somer.ton, P. Lealand, Burgess, Eraser and Co., Ltd. The Mayor of Hawera yesterday stated they were all quite satisfied that the innovation of trying to run the business witli a magistrate visiting the town once or twice a week was quite inadequate and quite unsatisfactory. For fifteen years the town had a resident magistrate; the town and district during these years had grown considerably, fie hoped the members of the legal profession would co-operate with him in bringing pressure upon the Department in seeing that South Taranaki waß again provided with a resident magistrate.—Star. Temporary arrangements in connection with the magisterial work in New Plymouth have been made as follows: Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., goes on three «noaths' leave of absence prior to retiring from the Bench, Mr. McKean, who has been recently appointed to the Bench, comes to New Plymouth shortly for a month, during which time Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., will be on leave of,absence. At the end of that time he returns to Chris.tchurch, where he occupies the position of senior magistrate, and Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., will then take up the duties to which he has been appointed at New Plymouth. He is expected here about the end of August. Coming across in the Prinzessin last week Peace Day was duly celebrated. A meeting was held on Friday, and shows were got for tho morrow. Mr. R. Cock, of New Plymouth, contributed the main speech of the day, that of proposing the health of returning soldiers. As an old volunteer he referred to what their forefathers had done in fighting the Maoris, and related quite a number of humorous stories thereanent, which evoked much interest and merriment. The peace function was quite a success, and relieved the tedium of what was far from an enjoyable voyage. Messrs E. Masters, O. A. Wilkinson, M.P., Trimble, and Eaves, mentiers of the Taranaki Education Board, fvisited Manaia on Thursday in connection with school matters. After meeting the Manaia School Committee they decided to recommend the board to build a couple of classrooms in concrete. It is proposed that the new rooms shall he so constructed that at a later date, when a new school is built, they will form a part. The condition of the Manaia school has been unsatisfactory for some time past, and It has been necessary to accommodate the surplus pupils at the Technical School. Moreover, the old school is rapidly approaching the time when it will be of no further use. The boards are worm-eaten, and it is time that Manaia was given better educational facilities. Tt is expected that the board will adopt its representatives' proposals, and that the new structure will not be long delayed. Mr. W. R. Haselden, speaking at Hawera yesterday, said he did not think it was extravagant of him to say that the police buildings would be a disgrace to the smallest town in New Zealand—they were absolutely a disgrace to the department to which they belonged. He was aware that Ministers of the Crown had visited the buildings and had made various promises that the matter would be looked into and kept steadily in view, but up to the present nothing had been done. But something should be done to remedy the state of matters now existent. Mr. E. Dixon (the Mayor), who was on the Bench, endorsed Mr. Haselden's remarks. If any business man were to allow his staff to work under similar conditions to those obtaining at the police station there would be a howl throughout the Dominion. The building should be photographed and a copy sent to every member of the Cabinet. He hoped that something would be done to secure new police quarters for the town. "I don't wonder that the seamen object to their accommodation and 'tucker' if what we got on the Prinzessin is any criterion," said Mr.' RichaWl ' Cock, of New Plymouth, .to a News representative yesterday. "Both were really shocking," iie said. "The German boat is a dirty old tub that labors awfully in the sea, "and tho 'arrangements for sleeping I 'are very primitive. The' food was never properly cocked. The soup was burned and was generally semVback. The Ash was cooked in rancid fat, and we had to dig into the middle,before iwe could get rid of the nauseating taste. And the meat and the rest of it—oh, don't ask me! They were enough .to try the (stomach of an Esquimau. The tea was apparently made in the coffee pot and the coffee must have come from Germany, judging by its camouflaged nature. Both were guaranteed to make one 111." Mr. Cock was glad to get ashore at Wellington. It was a very late hour, ibut they quickly got around a supper. "Thank God for the best meal we've had for a week," was the.fervent prayer of everyone present. Mr. Cock, who was kept cooling his heels for weeks in Melbourne and Sydney, with other New Zealanders, realises now more than ever the truth of the old saying that there is no place like home. Messrs Nolan and Co. will sell at their mart at 12.30 to-day U0 one-year-old hens, The attention of dairy farmers is called to the sale by the Farmers' Cooperative Society of Mr. H. N Chapman's choice young grade Holstein cows on the farm, Stent Road, Warea, on Monday next. It will be seen on reference to the advertisement on page 8 that a pedigree Holstein heifer has previously been described in error as a bull— Netherlands Domino IV. For Chronic Chest Complaints 1 K°9s* Qr «*t PsMenaiat §ur«j