LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Curie Hill elevator at Wanganui was officially opened on Saturday afternoon. There is a tunnel 700 feet long, and an electric elevator which carries passengers 216 feet.—Press Association.

I'iuus insigmis as a building timber is rapidly finding favor. Some pinus insignus put in houses twenty years ago wivs found" to be in excellent condition when examined recently.

The Empire Theatre was crowded last evening, when Mr. Wherahjko Kawei "avo a very interesting and instructive address on the arts and crafts o£ the South Sea Islanders, illustrated by specimens of their work. He also delighted the audience with a programme of Polynesian music, song and story. The Wellington Woollen Mills have had another excellent year. The profit anil loss account shows a gross profit for the year of £59,911, the balance to appropriation being £24,903. Big dividends and bonuses are being paid. The restricted supply and increased prices obtaining for Home woollens and tweeds provide the local companies with an opportunity to . make a rich harvest—at the people's expense. AH interested in education, and particularly secondary education, shouii not fail to bo present at the Technical College this evening, when an address will be given by an expert on the subject.

These at the Melbourne. Men's linen collars Is each, boys' washing ties fld and Is, men's large flannels, Petone hud Kaiapoi, 7s lid. men's white cotton singlets and pants 4s Cd, men's pure wool .cashmere socks 4s 6d pair, men's strong .grandrill working shirts (Is lid. Cold in the head and Nasal Catarrh, are quickly relieved by "NAZOL." Take 5 or 6 drops on loaf sugar and place between the cheek and gums and allow to dissiAe .naturally and very slowly. This £ivsa jpelonged aewju*ai£i»J<&er relief.

Land in the Waverley district, though not so high' as in South Taranaki, is nevertheless moving up. Last week a property belonging to Mr. E. M. Johnston, 040 acres inland of Waverley town, was sold by Messrs. Holder and Wilson to Mr. Fred Wilson, of Bulls (son of Sir James Wilson) at £4O per acre. It is however, a well-improved place.—Star. It is stated by the Christchurch Sun that the soldiers' poultry farming settlement which it is proposed to establish on what is known as the Bcadel property at Fendalton, will cost the Dominion between £40,000 and £50,000, but it hoped, according- to what Mr. A. W. Jamieson told members of the Canterbury Kopatriation Board, to make it a credit, not to Canterbury alone, but to the whole of New Zealand.

That dairy companies are not always successful when they enter the Btorekeeping business was shown by the Moa Company's experience last year, when though the big sum of £15,438 was turned over, the net profit was only £292. The chairman said that one of the reasons for the small profit was the difficulty of buying on a falling market, but a shareholder pointed out that he found prices instead of coming down were going up all the time. The Eltham Chamber of Commerce at a meeting on Friday decided that the Government be urged to reinstate two goods trains per week from Patea and New Plymouth to inland Taranaki, for the carrying of essential goods, particularly building materials, and adjoining Chambers be asked to make representations in the matter.

At the conclusion of the annual meeting of tho Omata Dairy Company on Saturday, Mr. J. Connett (president of the Taranaki Agricultural Society) invited shareholders to become members of the Agricultural Society. Already a good number of the settlers in the company's district were members, but he Imped that more would join. The Agricultural Society was doing very good work, and was an institution that considerably benefited the settlers. Every effort should be made by factory suppliers to foster the interests of the Agricultural Society. On Saturday evening one of the Wellington Municipal Milk Department's bV, motor lorries, loaded with empty cans, when proceeding down the PaoItakariki Hill Road, got out of control and went over a bank Three men wore aboard, and it seemed to them they must bo dashed to pieces, but the vehicle's descent was stopped by a stout telegraph pole, which sfood the strain. The next pole, however, snapped under the shock, cutting the direct telegraphic communication with the West Coast, messages having to be diverted through the Wairarapa until the wires were readjusted yesterday by a special gang of linesmen, who were Tusbed to the job. Tho men on the lorry were unhurt, and the vehicle was not much damaged.— Press Association. In connection with the fire at Messrs. Cook and Lister's shop on Friday evening, there are indications that the fire was the outcome of a burglarious entry, as the door appears to havo been forced open by a crowbar or similar instrument. Tt is surmised that the till was being examined by the light of a match, prior to an attempt being made to open it, and that the match fell into some papers that were below. On leaving the shop the proprietors left a £1 note and a few shillings in silver and coppers in the till, and several coins were found after the fire on the footpath, where they had evidently fallen when the counter was dragged out of the shop. Tho pound note may, of course, have been destroyed by the fire. The police are making enquiries.

At a conference of local bodies in Wellington on Thursdny, Mr. W. J. Howell said there were good roads in Taranaki, but a local body could not afford to maintain them equally well. As proof of this, he Baid the road through Eltham was in a bad condition, while on each side there was a length of 200 to 300 miles that was in first-class condition. Through Eltham it was not much better than a bullock track. This observation proclaims the speaker's ignorance of Taranaki road conditions. Through Eltham the roads are and have for years been in excellent condition. Did the speaker mean Normanby? The road there used to be vile, but to-day it is tarviated like the rest. The really bad piece of road is between Waipuku and Stratford, and the increased motor traffic and rains of late are not improving its condition.

Mr. F. Pirani, chairman of the Wanganui Education Hoard, is very angry with Mr. R. Masters, chairman of" the Taranaki Board, over some remarks the latter made in connection with the re-build-ing of the Manaia schop.l, In a letter to the Manaia paper he accuses Mr. Masters of buttonholing members of the Council of Education with the object of persuading them to help him to filch part of the Wanganiii Education District, and that since then he- has done little else than abuse the Wanganui Education Board's administration and continue the neglectful policy the Taranaki Board has been so notable for in education matters. Mr. Pirani continues: "At the time his wish was gratified and his logrolling proved successful, a settlement of building financial matters was arranged with Mr. Masters and the Taranaki Education Board, which the former at any rate, in his smug self-satisfied way, accepted as satisfactory, and he particularly said that the Taranaki Board did not want immediate payment in casli as its funds were 60 healthy. Accordingly we arranged that the amount to be paid towards reinstating the wornout buildings—including Manaia—was to he handed over within twelve months of the termination of the war. £SOO of the. £2OOO has already been paid, and the Government have also been paying the Taranaki Board a proportion of' the cost of reinstatements, while the balance of our liability will soon be paid. We had planned the re-erection of several of the old schools, including Manaia, but Mr. Masters' wire-pulling prevented our going on with the work. ... It

is amazing to find Mr. Masters recounting Wanganui Education Board's faults, especially as his reference to them must bring to mind the part lie played at. Wellington when ha haunted the door-mat of the Council of Education."

Holders of tickets for the Star Minstrel Troupe's troubadour entertainment, to be given on August 14, in aid of St. Mary's Peace Memorial Mart, can now book seats at Cpllier's, and donations for the mart can be left at Mr. Hugh Baily's office, A.M.P. Buildings, where tickets for the entertainment can also be obtained.

"Fairy Wonder" Cleanser, the wonderful new scientific dry soap for washing clothes, is obtainable from all grocers in either large or small packets. THis great new discovery lightens labor at the washtub by eliminating the necessity for drastic rubbing, and also cheapl ens the cost, as not half the old amount Sof boiling is necessary, Give it a trial.