LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

If the weather is favorable to-day a golf match is to be played at the Waiwakaiho links between the members of the local ladies' club and the Stratford ladies.

There is scarcely any cheese to be had in England, sa.vs John Bull, but we are assured that the huge cases shown in a picture in the Daily Mirror, of a British food ship being unloaded in Germany, represented New Zealand cheese. The Board of Governors of tho New Plymouth High Schools on Monday night adopted a report of a committee which recommended small increases in fees. The increases, which are to take effect ■from the beginning of next year, will be £1 per term for boarding fees and 13s per term for tuition of preparatory pupils and paying pupils in the upper school.

There was a large attendance at the meeting of the Whiteley Club last night, when Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Cooper gave an illustrated sttdy on the life and work of Mendelssohn. An interesting account of the life principal works, of the composer was given, interspersed with appropriate selections from some of his compositions, including three of the Songs Without Words played by Miss Douglas and Mr. Russell Grave, aiid the overture, known by the title "At Home from Abroad,"- played as a pianoforte duet by Mrs. Cooper and Miss Douglas. Mrs. H. L. Richards sang "On Wings of Song" and "Summer Days are Cominf," and, with Miss M. Cannell, the duets "I would that. My Love" and "The Maybells and the .Flowers." The solo "It is Enough," from "Elijah," was sung by Mr. Cooper. At the conclusion a very cordial vote of thanks was carried with acclamation to those who had contributed towards the evening's enjoyment.

As ail instance of "the false reasoning which is so common to-day," the Christcliruch Press qnot.es from the address or. the chairman of the School Committees' Association Conference the reference to the demands for new schools from all quarters of the Dominion. 'We have," that gentleman said, '-been able to find money for the war, and why should we not be able to find money for the purposes of education?" Tho answer that at once suggests itself is (says the Press) that the fact that we had to spend some scores of millions of pounds for the purpose of doing our share in the war is a very good reason why we have not now got the money to'spend on other objects. It is unfortunate, for the purpose of our contention, that education is just one of the objects ongwhich wo must spend more money—there is no evasion of that plain duty. But that does not alter the fact that many people argue as though they thought that because we had to spend money with both hands to help the Old Country and her Allies beat the Kaiser, we caii continue the same lavish rate of expenditure. We cannot. And the sooner the community understands that we have yet to meet enormous war obligations, the better it will be for everyone. "Economy, with efficiency, and hard work," should be the motto of the Dominion, as of every other part of the Empire. Nothing succeeds like success, yet lasting success cannot be achieved unless backed by solid merit. That is where "FAIRY WONDER," the great new dr; - soap, scores over all other competitors. The results of washing clothes with this soap cannot be over-estimated. It does nil that is claimed for it and more. It is sweeter, cleaner, and cheaper in the long run than any other washing compound, To be had at. all grocers. Ask for It,

At yesterday's sitting of the Magistrate's Court, Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M„ gave judgment for plaintiff by default in the case of Spedding and Stainton (Mr A. If. Johnstone) v. L. Whiting, for the sum of £2B Iss (costs £2 14s). The well-known Murray Huntei estate at. l'aparangi (inland Kai Iwi) lias clanged hands, the purchasers being the Chapman Bros, (son? of Mr Chapman, of Fordell). This represents a big deal, as it includes the stock, etc,, as well as the In ml, involving a sum of between ISO,OOO and 1!!10,()00, The purchasers are returned soldiers. Another property adjoining the above has also fuanged hands, some 2400 acres having been purchased from Ml W. Fleming by the Addonbrooke Bros., late of Mangaraali, who are also returned soldiers. deferring to his recent visit to the Cook Group, and speaking of trade matters, Professor J- MacMillan Brown staled in Christchureh that if only a canning plant were introduced pineapples could be canned in large quantities. If a drying plant were established bananas could be turned into a product similar to dried figs. But there was a certain lack of enterprise in the islands, he said, and si ill more ill New Zealand commercial circies. "The traders in the islands told me that it was cheaper to go to England or America for their goods, and to export their copra to America," continued the professor. "There is something wrong in the relation of New Zealand to these islands. There ought to be a class of trader in the Dominion who would deal in copra and at the same time supply goods a 9 cheaply as they can be supplied from England with the freight added. But the traders all said that New Zealand traders wanted too much profit. With Samoa, also under New Zealand law, there ought to be enough enterprise in the Dominion to capture the copra trade in the Samoan and Cook Groups." An address on the subject of State purchase of the liquor trade, which is to be an issue at the approaching elections, will be delivered by Mr R. A. Armstrong, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Moderate League, in the Empire Theatre to-niglit. The speaker has made a special study of this subject and his address should be of particular value at this stage as electors will be required to vote on the hew issue in a few weeks. Councillor J. Clarke will preside and questions will be welcomed.

The Melbourne, Ltd., offer the following lines at. old prices:, Clark's sewing cotton 4§d reel, bundles of assorted tape Od, excellent white flannelette Is 'Bd per .yard, best quality Llatna hose, yellow label, Ss (id pair; children's tooth brushes 5(1 and Cd, Yardley's tooth paste 9d tube; men's superior hem-stitched handkerchiefs Is each.