LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails despatched from New Zealand on July 7 arrived in London on Aug. 22. The Frankley Road Dairy Company last evening voted a sum of £25 towards the British Mercantile Marine fund. The Waitara Road Dairy Company has voted a total of £1207 4s 3d to patriotic purposes during the war, a very Creditable performance. Another arrest was made yesterday by Detective Fitzgibbon in connection with the charges of breaking, entering, and theft on which the young man named Jack Johnson was apprehended oh Monday. The second offender is a man named Still, belonging to Vogeltown. He will he brought before the Magistrate this morning, when it is understood a remand will be applied for. At the Eltham Magistrate's Court yesterday, Austin Hitchcock was charged with having permitted a horse to wander on a county road. A fine of 10s was imposed. Judgment was given for plaintiff by default in the following civil cases: M. MeOlassy v. R. Caldwell, claim £10; P. W. Allen v. J. H. Wooll.er, costs only 10s; I. J, Bridaer ;. J. Barnes, claim _iSt,,*J us*.

The weekly goods trains, for which there has been agitation in order to maintain the carriage of necessary goods between the port and inland Taranaki, have been placed in running as from the beginning of the present month. Every Tuesday a train leaves New Plymouth at il o'clock for Hawera, where it is scheduled to arrive at 5 o'clock. Every Thursday a train leaves Hawera at 10 30 for New Plymouth, the time of arrival here being 2 30 p.m. Sub-Inspector Hutton, of the New Plymouth police district, was advised on Tuesday by Constable Clouston, Opunake, that James Kinlock Law, school teacher, had been found dead that day near his farm on the Arawhata Eoad anil that the cause was believed to be heart failure. The body was removed to Opunako and inquiries revealed that a doctor in Wanganui, to whom the deceased man was known was willing to give a certificate as to tho cause of death.

"I would not be at all surprised," said a Levin dairyman to a Chronicle representative, "to see good cows reach as high as £SO or £6O in the next year or two. My reason for this 1 is that the lucrative returns promised by the manufacture of milk products such as casein is going to enhance the vame of cows. If the returns increase as they undoubtedly will when the new industries commence then the price of dairy animals must rise in proportion." The informant stated however that the new order would have its drawbacks, in that there would bo less calf and pig-rearing, which would send bacon up to fancy prices in times to come. At the meeting of tho Frankley Road dairy factory last evening, Messrs. A. T. Moore and E. Pepperell put in a strong plea for support for the .Taranaki Agricultural Society, urging all to become members, and asking that the company should make a donation of 6d per ton on its output to the prize fund. ' This, the secretary pointed out, would mean about £4. A motion that this be granted was immediately forthcoming, and appeared likely to have a sympathetic reception, when Mr. F. Baker stated that he objected to the payment. At the same time he had every sympathy with the aims of the Society, which was doing good work. He considered the directors 'should conserve all their pennies, so as to increase the pay-out.. He also added that as one shareholder objected the proposal dare not be put. In the face of this opposition the matter was dropped. Several additional members were secured.

In its editorial comment upon the load that Premier Massey is left to carry by the dissolution of the National Cabinet, the Auckland Herald points out that "the Prime Minister must face the unpleasant fact that some of, the Reform Ministers do not command the confidence of the country or of theii party, and they must be sacrificed in the interests of efficiency." And the Herald follows this up by naming the parties: "Sir William Fraser is too old to sustain the burden of the portfolio of Public Works and it would be a kindness to relieve him of a task which must grow very heavy when the post-war programme is undertaken. With less evcuse Mr Hemes has permit tin' the administration of the Railways Department to drift. His constitut'onal lack of energy renders him totally unfit for the responsibilities of a Minister at such a critical period. The Cabinet will be stronger for the retirement of two members."

Writing to a relative in New Plymouth, a British officer who is engaged on exhumation work near Ypros, says: "We are taking up the bodies of all the poor fellows who lie buried (and sometimes unburied) in the line, and, after endeavouring to identify them, reburying them in large cemeteries where the graves will be properly cared for. So far this company has collected some 4500 bodies, 05 per cent, being identified, many of them having been returned as 'missing,' so that we shall relieve the minds of a number of relatives as to their fate. I have found many New Zealanders on this part of the line, and have usually succeeded in identifying them as their metal discs wear very well and are still quite legible. They were all killed in the fighting of October 17, near Polygon Wood. Other fellows are working in other parts near here." He concludes by saying: "If you know of anyone who lost a relative at or near Ypres, I will do all I can to get particulars of his grave, or to find him." Any letter of inquiry addressed to "Missing," at the Daily News office will be forwarded to the officer in charge of the work. Somewhat of a sensation was caused on Tuesday night (reports the Post's Whangamomona correspondent), when news came through from Tamunaroa to the local police that a man was lost in the dense bush on the Wanganui River, and that he had been missing since Monday morning. Communication was obtained with the Wanganui police to see if the inlissing man had joined a boat going down the river, and oti the information being received that he was not on the boat, a large party set out to assist the settlers of Tahunaroa in the search. The missing man was found by Messrs. Laurenson, Callaghan, O'Hcilloran, Pritchard, and Knofflock late on Wednesday afternoon in a dense gorge near the Wanganui River. He was hi a very exhausted condition, having been out for three days and two nights. After being supplied with hot drinks and food, he was able to come out of the bush with the assistance of his rescuers, to whom he owes his life, as they had been out almost continuously searching for him since lie went into the bush, -which he entered in search of a wild pig, A few days ago Messrs Toogood and Mair, civil engineers, submitted to the Kairanga- County Council a report on the question of road-construction, comparing the ordinary water-bound macadam method with tar-sealing and with concrete. A macadam road, the engineers report, should be tar-sealed when the cost of maintenance reaches from £IOO to £l5O per mile per annum; and when the cost of maintenance of tar-seal goes above £250 per mile per annum, it begins to be a ease for concrete. We interpret this to mean that, in Kairanga County and in any district with approximately similar conditions, a local body may stick to macadam so long as the traffic is not heavy enough to require more than £IOO per mile per year to repair its road damage. Between £IOO and £250 it is probably a case for tarseal. Above £250 the wear-and-tear is fierce enough for concrete. Reporting on a particular road proposal (width 20ft.) in Kairanga. County, the two engineers report that the approximate averago cost of concrete would be £SOIO per mile; of restar, a tar preparation, £ 1652 per mile. Concrete, being classed as permanent, is a proper charge against capital; tar-sealing, not being permanent, is properly a charge against revenue. retailers like to recommend something b jo'. because that's the way they make friends. That's why thev always tell you the NORTH BRITISH HOT WATER BOTTLE with the "Unique" stopper is dependable. Ajk £w it, 4ft

' Wsihi comes next to Alexandra for the lowest rents in the Dominion, the average being 8s 9d per dwelling. A demand for residences is now setting in, and in view of the important developments in the Grand Junction mine, and the intended low level developments in the Waihi mine, it is not anticipated that rents will remain long at that figure. A rare and thrilling sight was witnessed at Sponge Bay recently (says Friday's Gisborne paper). A resident, noticing a tremendous commotion in the water, proceeded to the beach, and to his amazement discovered a large shark and huge sunfißh engaged in mortal combat. Becoming exhausted they got stranded in shallow water, and with the help of some Maoris, were finally captured.

"We do not want to encourage middleaged laborers to come out here," stated Mr. P. E. Cheal, chairman of the Auckland Railways League, at a league meeting on a recent afternoon. "They find it difficult to become acclimatised, and cannot settle tc, colonial ways. It was a pathetic sight in Taranaki to see an old woman—the • wife of an English laborer—who had been accustomed to a comfortable farm cottage all her days, suddenly transplanted to the discomforts of a pioneer's home, with its earthen floor atid colonial oven. They used to seem entirely dazed by the change 'in their surroundings." Mr. Cheal urged the importation of young, vigorous laborers, who could stand the pioneering work and would eventually make good farmers.

The formula of the already famous Fairy Wonder Cleanser for washing clothes is a closely guarded secret, .ana was the discovery of an eminent chemist only after years of research.for a soluble and active deterrent injurious to neither skin nor fabric. In addition it has the wonderful properties of quickly bleaching snow-whits any clothes that have become a bad color. Every housewife should use it. For the last three days of sale at the Melbourne Ltd. the following lines have been further reduced to clear: Two-and-a-half inch linen and celluloid collars, 6 for Is; men's white stiff shirts, Is lid; ladies' wool and cotton cashmere hose, 3s Od; men'B hard hats, 2s Od; men's large Bandana handkerchiefs, Is 3d. In the clearing sale advertisement to be hold by Mr Newton King on behalf of Mr W. Thurston, Strathmore, it will be noted that the fourteen Shorthorn cows and the thirteen Shorthorn-Jersey cows have been deleted. Both these lines havo been sold privately.