LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

last month 01 Chinese arrived in New Zealand, of whom four • were females. The departures numbered 12, and two of these were females.

The voting in the Seaside Queen Carnival contest at the last count was: East End (Miss L. Bellringer) 2555, Ngamotu (Miss C. Weston) 1825. The season's champion trout from the Patea is (states the Post) credited to Mr. Maurice Jury, a well-known disciple of Isaac Walton, who lapded a beauty weighing lllbs last week; The New Plymouth trams earned £1241 in December, or £474 greater than December of 1918. The electric bus took £93. During the month 34 applications for electric Bupply were dealt with.

The steamships Omana and Inga have been chartered by the New Plymouth Borough Council to bring electric light poles from Australia to New Plymouth. It is hoped they will arrive within the next six months. The poles will be used between the works and Inglewood. The Hawera Borough Council appears to be most anxious to solve the housing problem there, but, states the Star, finds itself practically helpless. As -a last resource, a movement is on foot to provide rough temporary premises, if they can be provided. A profitable butchery business is advertised for sale on page 1 by Messrs W. H, and J, MsOtoy, Sltbam,

A movement is on foot to hold a sports gathering in Patea at Easter. The name of Sefton Herbert (sou of Mr. T. Herbert, of Otakcho). who was successful in winning th» "Kelly" Cup for shooting, at New Plymouth High School recently, will be the first to be inscribed on the Cup.—Witness. An undesirable named John Norman was arrested at Manaia on Monday for drunkenness, and lodged iu the lock-up. On Tuesday he was brought before Mr. T. MePhillips, J.P., and given ai: hour to leave the town. Tlie accusiu lost no time in departing, ami was some miles out before the hour was up.—Witness. South Taranaki was visited by a heavy hail storm on Thursday. The streets of Hawera and Manaia were white, as after a fall of snow. The cold snap has also brought the snow linj well down on the 3lop?s of Mount Egmcnt, the sides of which presented a very wintry appearance yesterday.— Argus. According to a Gazette notice examination of engineers for the mercantile marine will be held at Whangarei and New Plymouth in addition to the places where suoh examinations have tieen held in tha past, and they are to be conducted during the first three working days in February, May, August, and November. "Wanganui's population is about 22,000, and there are about 20,000 engineers among them," remarked the chairman at a recent meeting of the Harbor Board, when referring to the numerous opinions and statements which are in circulation in town.

The members of the N.S.W. orchestra were accorded a civic reception at Hawera yesterday by his " Worship the Mayor, who expressed his delight at seeing the orchestra there. Mr. Verbrugghen and Mr. Alfred Hill replied. The visitors were taken for trips round the country.

The Mayor of New Plymouth (Mr. ,T. Clarke) has wired the Prime Minister as follows:—"When the itinerary of the Prince of Wales is arranged I sincerely trust that New Plymouth will be included, We feel we have a claim for special consideration in view of the fact that the itineraries if Admiral Jellicoe and the French Mission did not include New Plymouth." The fact that there is a large demand for boots in the Dominion was pointed out by a prominent boot manufacturer who was a witness in a case heard in the Wellington Magistrate's Court. The witness said that his firm's travellers had secured in brief periods, sufficient orders to keep the factory going at high pressure for the next seven months."

There were slaughtered at the New Plymouth abattoirs last month: 197 cattie, 33 calves, (175 sheep, 562 lambs, 120 pigs, whilst 130 tripes, etc., were cleaned. Compared with last December thev show an increase of 41 cattle, 17 calves, 90 sheep, 138 lambs, 37 pigs, and 23 tripes. There were condemned: 5 cattle, 1 sheep, and 4 pigs. The fees totalled £193 8s sd, an increase of £4B 10s 2d.

Members of Parliament, it is Understood, will probably leave Wellington for Samoa by the Mokoia on the 14th of next month. The following is to be the itinerary of the party:—Piarotonea (two days), Mangaia (12 hours), Aiutaki (12 hours), Nieue (12 hours], Apia, including Savau (seven days), Vavau (20 hours), Nukualofa (12 hours) Suva (three days). The tour thus takes in the Cook, Samoan, Tongan, and Fijian groups. An Ashburton bottle merchant worked with profit three days after Christmas and three days after New Year. He secured in those six daya 3600 bottles. "I am sending away another truck-load of bottles this week," he added, "which will make the third truck since Christmas." Judging from the brands on the bottles with which his cart was being rapidly stocked in his early morning peregrinations (observes the Guardian) this must have been a very, merry Christmas locally. At a meeting at Christchurch a resolution was passed that it is considered to be in the best interests of the Dominion that an exhibition of national industries, primary, secondary, and manufacturing, be held at the earliest possible date. It was decided that the exhibition should be exclusively one of goods substantially made in New Zealand, with the exception of a display of goods used in New Zealand but not manufactured here, although raw material necessary for their manufacture was obtained in New Zealand.

The immigration and emigration returns for December show that'34os persons arrived in the Dominion, of whom 2574 came from the Commonwealth. The arrivals in December, 1918, numbered 420. The first ports of arrival of those who came to New Zealand last month were 1578 at Auckland, 1753 at Wellington, and 134 at Duncdin. The departures last month totalled 24J-2. as compared with 420 in December, 11)18. The arrivals last month exceeded the departures by 1023. In tke corresponding month of IMS the arrivals exactly balanced the departures.

A solicitor was andeavoring to prove in a case heard in the Magistrate's Court, Stratford, yesterday, that some of the articles mentioned in an account, and purchased l)v the wife of defendant, were unnecessary. "There is an item," he said, addressing plaintiff, "six combs. 130 yon think it was necessary for a woman to have six combs'!" The draper's face expanded as lie replied: "Those combs were combinations." What the solicitor had understood to be the name of a toothed instrument used in the adjustment of the hair was really a shop assistant's ordinary contraction of the name of an umler-garment.

There does not appear to be much probability of the price of eheese dropping. A cheese company in the Dannevirke district has refused an offer of Is per Hi for the whole of its cheese output for the next season, conditional on the commandeer being removed, although this offers an advance of l'/jjd per lb on £ll 14s 4J per ton on the commandeer price of IOJd. The offer was not thought good enough, in view of the prices being obtained in 'the United States and elsewhere at lad or lOd per lb, which, unless the unexpected happens, means that the quantity of cheese on most New Zealand tables will become smaller and beautifully less, while the retail price, which at present is Is 2d per 11), will surely advance. Loan and Mercantile draw attention to their sale in their Stratford yards on Tuesday next, 20th inst., at 12 noon. Full particulars will be found on page S of this issue.

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