LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A poll was taken on Monday on a proposal to borrow £20,000 for the purpose of placing the roads in the south riding of the Eltham County in good order, the proposal being carried by 102 to 2il voles.

It is estimated that the rabbit skin inilutry in Otago brings in at least £50,000 a week, and as it is accepted as a fact that there is no profiteering in this line the men who find the rabbits get practically the whole of this sum less a fixed commission.—Dunedin Star.

Many in Wellington are complaining of the' high price of lish, which is now being sold at prices which vie with the best cuts of meit. In some shops smoked fish is being retailed at Is per lb., and fresh fish of any quality is now told at luxury prices,

The final meeting of the Wkiteley Club for the present season took place last night. There was a large attendance, the proceedings being in the hands of the male members. An entertaining programme of musi.! and elocution items, games, and competitions tilled up the early part of the evening, following which there came a fruit banquet, at which a number of toasts were honored and what was regarded as one of the most successful sessions of the club was brought to a fitting conclusion. The price of boots was the subject of a complaint passed on to the Government by Mr. G. Forbes in the House of Representatives on Monday night. Mr. Forbes had heard from a constituent pr a friend that a working man earning ten shillings a day or thereabouts had had to pay a pound for a pair of boots for his boy. Mr. Forbes suggested t" the President of the Board of Trade ilnit a man should not be required to pay two days' wages for a pair of boots for a boy. He asked whether the Government had anv information about the delayed scheme for the production of cheaper boots. Mr. Massey said that this niatter was at present being dealt with by the Board of Trade, and that it was hoped that arrangements might be made for the supply of cheaper boots in the near future. The Old Boys' Association of the New Plymouth High School, which was reorganised six months ago after the war interim, is to hold its annual general meeting on Friday of this week in the assembly hall at the school. The Association has had a somewhat chequered career, but is now making steady progress on the up-grade and the co-opera-tion of all ex-pupils of the school is all that is required to place it on a strong and permanent uasis. When the war broke out the Association was only 'n the second year of its existence and consequently received a severe set-bae!:. The retiring executive have placed its affairs in smooth-working order again and a large attendance at the annual meeting is hoped for in order to ensure that the future shall be a period of prosperity for the Old Boys' Association. Speaking at the Tourist and Expansion League meeting last evening, Mr. A. .10. Sykes said that in California there were thousands of magnificent motoring roads, extending irnni Seattle right down to the Mexican 'border. They were made of concrete and cushioned with a tar and pitch compound. Tarring itself had proved a failure. A motor tax of .£lO was levied by the Government, which found half the money and the local bodies the other half for the roads. Motorists did not object, for the very good reason that tyres which on New Zealand roads would do no move than :JOOO to 3500 miles would do 23,000 miles there. One person in every seven in California owned a motor. In Los Angeles alonejthere were 107,000 motors. It was an ideal country for motorists.

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