LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Inglewood R.S.A. has affiliated with the New Plymouth R.S.A. as a subassociation. The s.s. lonic, which is due in Wellington on Friday, Oct. 24, has an English mail. Mails despatched from New Zealand on September 9th arrived in London on Oct. 19, and those despatched September 13th. arrived on October 17. A record price for bananas was obtained at a sale by auction in Auckland recently, when a choice line of ripe fruit brought 34s per case. This is equivalent to 5| per lb. wholesale. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Organisation Company has purchased the warehouse of L. D. Nathan aud Co., New Plymouth, opposite the Daily News office. It is to be used as a grain store and motor and implements warehouse. .. Sailings of Orient steamer's from England have been postponed on account of the strike, and Generals Birdwood and Monash, who are sailing by the R.MiS, Ormonde, will leave on November IJ>. It is General Birdwood's intention to spe*d his first days in Australia- with his 1 daughter Nancy (Mrs. Frank Craig) in West Australia. Most of the solider members of the N.Z.E.F. football team arrived in NewPlymouth by the Rarawa yesterday morning. The Star Club sent a gaily decorated motor car to the wharf for Mr. C. Brown, an old Star player. The car also bore the club's banner and, with flying colors, the returned soldier was taken to his home in Lemon Street. The committee of the New Plymouth Horticultural Society held a meeting on Monday night to make further arrangements in connection with the forthcoming show which is to be held in the Coronation Hall on Thursday, Dec. 4th. The secretary reported that subscriptions were coming in very well, and that numerous donations had also hecn received. A meeting is to be held in the Soldiers' Club orj Friday to increase the committee. The defendant in an action in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, in which possession of a dwelling was applied for, stated he had been trying for some time to get another house, and hoped in a few weeks 1 to get possession of a house he was trying to buy. He stated incidentally that he had endeavoured to make arrangements to rent a hall belonging to one of the friendly societies, but had been unsuccessful. "That would have made a makeshift dwelling for a short time," he remarked to the Magistrate. LET RUSMA HELP YOU! Superfluous hair on a woman's face takes all lie enjoyment out of her life; it, a daily humiliation to which unfortunately many women become martyrs. YOU should know that there is a "certain DESTROYER ol hair growth within easy reach. RUSMA (Reg.) does aU we claim for it- Removes and destroys permanently all superfluous hair by a simple treatment in your own home. Let us send you particularswrite to-day to Department N, Mrs Hullen, 3A Courtenay Place, Wellington. Economical housekeepers are now preparing to put down their supplies of preserved eggs. There is no preservative like SHARLAND'S "MOA" BRAND EGG PRESERVATIVE. Just try it. % k 2

The City of Winchester is expected to load off Waitara this, week. I understand (writes our Waitara correspondent) 7000 carcases from the Smart Road works are to be shipped through this port. A very large mail is due to arrive at Auckland from Vancouver by the Niagara, due to-night. It is stated to comprise some 1000 bags of European and American mail. The Napier tramways are losing money. They dropped £1,143 lasti year. The Borough Council now announce that it will be necessary to make a substantial increase in fares. "New Zealand has a good repatriation system, and has nothing to learn on major points from Canada." The foregoing is the opinion expressed in a letter received in Dunedin within the past few days from a New Zealand business man, with experience of repatriation work in this Dominion, who is at the present time visiting Canada. At last night's meeting of the Borough Council Mr Burgess referred to the £l5O of his honorarium which it had been decided to spend in beautifying the vacant section opposite the railway station. He said it would be folly to spend the money there if a building was likely to be put on the site. A similar sum had been given to the Pukeknra Park Board, and he thought if the council were agreeable the other amount might be added to it and he and Mrs Burgess would bo prepared to subsidise the sum up to another £IOO, and enable the Park Board to erect a tea kiosk in the gardens which would be a credit to the place. The council readily agreed to the Mayor's suggestion. An omission from the remarks of Cr. J. Clarke on Monday night in connection with tramway matters made the figures he quoted appear in a somewhat unfavorable light. He had referred to the cash loss incurred each year, and to the fact that at the end of the current year the loss would be turned Into a profit of about £B3O. The loss of aJbout £9OO on the whole syßtem if the Westown extension was carried out was insignificant. He estimated that (not considering depreciation or renewals), the cash profit by the end of 1922 would be £IOOO so that with the extension, and the estimated total loss of £l7lO, the actual cash loss would be only £7lO, so that the borough would foe in no worse position than at last March. To mark her exit from the official position of Mayoress, Mrs C. H. Burgess gave an "At Home" at the Kia Ora tea rooms yesterday afternoon. The room in which the reception took place was very artistically decorated with seasonable flowers and flowering shrubs. The afternoon tea tables were also very effectively decorated. A large number of guests availed themselves of the opportunity of showing their appreciation of the services of Mrs Burgess to the town during her term of office, and they also expressed their enjoyment of a very pleasant afternoon. The enjoyment of the proceedings was enhanced by the utilisation of the roof garden, which helped materially to lessen the crowded state of the room at times, and also by the very excellent programme of music given by a small orchestra.

"It is many a long vear since the fishing season has opened so well," said Mr B. C. Bennett, president of the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, to a Star reporter. From iy 3 lbs to l%lba is considered to be. a good average, but this season the fish are averaging 2 to 2$ lbs, while t.bey arc in very good condition. Most of the catches lately had been caught with the minnow and creeper. Recent catches are as foLows: Mr Mackie, six from the Kaupokonui on the first day. rnd three three-pound-ers on the second; A. E. Putt, four from the Kaupokonui, one averaging *'/-, lbs, an unusually larffo fish; Keen, Jofl and Bargh, twenty-eight from the Kaupokonui; McGlashan and Daw, nine from the Kaupokonui; Andrew Hunter, seventeen from the Waiau. Taungatara; Andrew and Moore Hunter, twentyeight from the same stream; Baker, Bauchop and another, twelve from the Kaupokonui; Bauchop, four from the Kapuni; Bargh and Joll. ten from the Vfiupokomii; Hartley Bros., six from the Kaupokonui s S. Gibson, three from the Wain eon sroro: J. Willets, four from the Wniaii; B. Joll, five from the Waiau. Some very fine perch have also been obtained from Robertson's Lakes. ' The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile draw attention to additional entries for their Tarata sale on Friday next, 24th inst. Full particulars on page 8 of this issue.