LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A small farm of 35 acres .it Waitara Rond, which was sold two years ago at £7O, changed hands this week at £T2S. The first consignment of butter that lias left the Moturoa cool stores for some months was loaded by the steamer Corimia vesterdar and will be continued to-day. ' It consists of 18,000 boxes, to be taken from Wellington by the liner Paparoa. At a special meeting of shareholders of the Press Association at Wellington yesterday it was decided to hold the next annual meeting at Wellington, instead of Akaroa, the place originally fixed. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. 11. P. Cattley, J.P., Albert Loyeridge, who did not .appear, was convicted and line;', ."is and costs (7s) on a charge of failing to send, a child to school. At Opunake, yesterday, four local residents were brought before Mr. T. A. P.. Bailey, S.M., on charges of being found on licensed premises after hours. They were each convicted and fined £1 and costsThe man whom Detective J. Torrance arrested at Wellington recently on a charge of stealing £9l at New Plymouth, has been remanded to appear at New Plymouth on Wednesday next It is understood a further remand will be applied for. The Opunake mail car had a narrow escape front accident a morning or two ago, when it came somewhat suddenly, on rounding a corner, upen a big mot) of cattle which occupied almost the whole of the roadway. Some of the passengers received a shock, but little damage, was done, and the car proceeded on its way. Mr. W. B. White, who has reronlly been <jn a visit to England, returned by the Arawa, and arrived in Ilawcra on" Wednesday evening. Asked for his opinion, lie said lie thought London was a very good place to be out of just now. Accommodation was expensive, and not to get on any terms, and it was also difficult to get about the city. Mr. Massey was telling something about the butter-fat levy and the equalisation fund at I'ltliam on Wednesday nigftt when an inlerjector said the people that manufactured dried milk escaped the butter-fat tax. Mr. Massey: 'Yes, that i=_ so." Voices (eagerly): "Why? Why?" Mr. Massey': "P>o : cause I wn; away from New Zealand." "Aotea" grounds are to be opened on Sunday week, not next Sunday, as was erroneously stated in yesterday's issue. Mothers! buy your children's Christmas presents on Saturday at the toy store. Our readers are finally reminded that the Melbourne's great salvage sale of Poberts, X.Z., Ltd., stock commences sharp at nine o'clock this morning. Considerable interest has already been evinced and the magnitude of the bargains will no doubt create a sale record for the firm. FAIRY WONDER DRY SOAP .MAKES WASHING EASY. ' Fairy Wonder Dry Soap always gets the clothes beautifully white, without boiling or rubbing. Fairy Wonder contains no paraffin wax and consequently clothes never become yellow—always snowy white! Is lCd packet sufficient j for 12 washings. Try it

I In our leader yesterday we stated that the bank note tax was 2J per cent. It should have read li per cent. It was formerly 2 per cent, but after the war it was increased to Z per cent. Speaking at Waitara last evening, Mr. Jennings said that he waa sure if ladies were elected to I'an/ament the stupid methods of procedure set up wherebv Parliament sat from 7.30 p.m. to 0.30 a.m. would be altered. Now, in the House, some most- important proposals were left till the last day of the session, and through some back door iirlluenec were put through in the Washing Up Bill, when thoy would not benefit the people. It would lie far better if members sat in the day time for six months instead of sitting for two months. Legislation must often 1)e imperfect through "being rushed through in this way. Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., said yesterday at Tikorangi, that over 2800 young men from the Taumarunm electorate had gone to the war. The North Island had sent more men to the war in proportion to the South Island, and he thought this was due to the fact that there were in the North Island many of the descendants of the Imperial regiments who remained here at the time of the Waori war, and that they were imbued with the fighting spirit of their progenitors. "It is not my business to make party capital," said Mr. Massey at his meeting at Eltham on Wednesday night. "I have a higher duty" than that. I intend to speak in this election campaign in the interests of the country rather than in the interests of the party. We have had too much party in the past. (Hear, hear.) I don't want to see in the future what I have often seen in the past—for I have been in Parliament for a long time—politicians putting the interests of their party before the interests of the country. ' I hope that those times will never come again." (Applause.) , At a meeting of the New Plymouth branch of the Post and Telegraph Association held last night, the following resolution was passed in connection with the war bonuses: "Considering the faithful service ;riven by the Post and Telegraph Department, this branch is emphatically of the opinion that the treatment of the service in the matter of war bonuses is most unjust. We strongly protest against the action of the Government in referring the matter to an outside tribunal, when they have the definite statement of the late Postmas-ter-General that the promise was made. While other departments, notably the railway, were paid increases, absorbing their bonus of £45. this department ballot been so treated, and the bonus is absolutely neressarv to the rank and file to meet {.he increased cost of living." Fathers! buy your cigarettes and tobacco at the cigarette store.