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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On account of the unfavorable weather last evening, the concert which was to have been given in Pukekura Park was < postponed. There was a great glut of fish in Auckland last week, due to the successful operations of the municipal ' trawlers, and the price went down to i 5s a basket. The catch of the two steamers was 80 tons. "These people convicted of being ' rogues and vagabonds are often greater ' pests to society than the man or woman i who committed, under a sudden temptation, what is normally regarded as a more serious type of offence," said Mr. Justice Edwards at the Supreme Court at Wellington. It is reported that in 1913 a Masterton builder tendered for a large building at a quoted price of £SOOO. The contract was not let, but recently tenders were again called, and as *a result of the increased price of materials the tender of the same builder was £IO,OOO. The Otago Daily Times believes that it is safe in Saying that the oldest 'elector in New Zealand voted on Wednesday at the South Dunedin Town Hall. | TMb was an old lady 105 vears of age, jvho was wheeled to the polling booth in a chair, and duly recorded her selection on the momentous issues which sho was called upon to decide. The following communication which has been received by the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, indicates how anxious the Germans are to do business with New Zealand. The postcard reads as follows:—-"To the Information Office, Wellington.—l would be much obliged to you in soon getting the addresses of some jewel.ers and some dealers in postage stamps in your town and country. —My address, C, Weislogel, Photzheim, Germany." Advice has been received from the Education Deprtment by the Board of Governors of the New Plymouth High Schools, that a grant of £1650 lias been made for the erection of two of the classrooms of the east wing of the Boys' School, and tenders for the work are to be called immediately. The Board also received from the Department the balance of the subsidy on the amount subscribed by the public of the district towards the erection of the. Assembly Hall at the Boys' School. It is reported that the Tongariro Sawmill Company is about to commence operations (says the Hawke's Bay Herald), ond intends to build mills capable of cutting 40,000,000 feet of timber a year on a block between ana Tokaanu. It comprises 68,000 acrea of bush with approximately 30,000 feet of timber per acre, and 20,000 acres of bush with 25,000 feet per acre. It is stated on good authority that another sale of woollen mills has taken place recently, by which Mr. J. H. Dalton merchant, of Auckland, acting on i behalf of an Auckland syndicate, has I acquired the well-known Napier Woollen Mills. The nrice. it ic .

I jnce > it is reported, is m the vicimlty 0 f £50,000. A vurv serl ous shortage of material required foi the tailoring trade generally exists ir New Zealand at the present time, and there appears to be a strong tendency tc acquire these mills. This is the fourth purchase of the kind that has been made by Aucklnad business concerns. An in* dieation of the scarcity of tweeds and woollen goods generally j 3 furnished by the fact that, according to recent cables £2 shares in woollen mills at Home are now selling at £lB. Writing to a friend in Palmerston worth, a Sydney pressman relates the following experience that befell him in connection .with the Australian Federal elections:—"l went down with the redoubtable Billy Hughes to the wateriront the other day. He yearned to once more address the gentle wharf laborer, and might have succeeded if they had consented to listen. Finally he was rescued by a crowd of policemen—thrown mto las car with myself and another and so we departed amid loud jeers. It was a great day. We had all to go and have a bath after the fray. Luckily a coal lumper who fell on my head from a pile of chaff bags and put his legs round my neck weighed only 2cwt. If he had weighed 3cwt I might have been hurt." With the idea of increasing the comfort of passengers at refreshment stations, the General Manager of Bailways (Mr. R. W. McVilly) has devised what may be described as a portable dumb waiter, as a supplement to the refreshment room, and mainly for the convenience of women, especially women with children, who do not feel equal to the strain of forcing their way through the throng to the public buffet. The "dumb waiter" is compact to a degree; it runs so easily, that it could be moved by a small child, and it will be taken along the platform to the various carriages, halting at each for the purpose of supplying the occupants with coffee, tea, sandwiches, cakes, and such light refreshments. Big, bright, insulated copper uins, one at each end of the waiter, will of themselves readily servo to disclose the presence of the travelling refreshment room, which will be placed on commission at Marton, Palmerston North, Frankton Junction, Mercer, Ashburton Oamaru, and Palmerston South. ' His Majesty's Trade Commissioner has been advised that the Department of ei sens Trade in London are organising an exhibition of timbers grown within the British Empire. The exhibition l will take place in London from the sth Julv to the 17th July, 1920. The main object ot the exhibition is to bring prominently before those interested the full range of Imperial grown timbers, especially those which, up to the present, are only very slightly, if at all, known' in the United Kingdom, and to demonstrate the chief uses for which such timbers are suitable. In giving vent to his feelings on his discharge, an old soldier wrote to his late colonel: "Sir,-After what I have stiflered, you can tell the Army to go to hell. In; due course he received the following: suggestions or inquiries as to movements of troops must be entered on Army Form 123XYZ a copy of which I enclose." ' The Melbourne, Ltd., express thanks to the public for the record patronage accorded to the firm during the past year and now take the opportunity of wishing one and all a happy and prosperous New Year.

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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 4

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