LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to tlie Argus, Eltliam presented a very deserted appearance yesterday, almost everyone having gone to the race meeting at Hawera. The Auckland Herald says that there are 108 doctors and attendants to 131 patients at the Rotorua soldiers' sanatorium. The Parliamentary party will not sail for Samoa tomorrow as originally intended. Those making the trip were notified that, owing to the delay caused in Dunedin by the influenza and the carnival week, the Mokoia cannot reach Wellington before Sunday. The vessel will leave on Monday afternoon. According to Inspector Given, fully two-thirds of the residents of Hawera keep poultry, and he adds that unless the runs are kept perfectly, clean they are a direct attraction for rats and vermin of all descriptions. A cargo -of 250 tons of cement, will be landed at New Plymonth next week. Advice was received by the local agents of the Wilson Portland Cement Co. yesterday that the Ngat'orb had left Whangarei for New Plymouth, via Wellington, with the cement, and is due here towards the end of next week.

The value of building permits issued by (lie Unworn. Borough Council for the monith ending January 22 was .CI3SO. Four now dwellings were included in the permits; the remainder wore for motor sheds and additions.

That it is very difficult to judge the distance traversed by a motor ear after the brakes have been applied, and every menas used for bringing the car to a standstill as as possible, was demonstrated at Hawera on Wednesday, states the Star. The driver of a new Hudson affirmed that he could pull his car up in two feet, while travelling at ten miles an hour. His ability to do this was challenged by a man in an official position, and the ground was marked and the trial made. To those in the car it appeared that the man had succeeded, but it, was found on taking measurements, that the car had actually t" tilled, from the time the brakes were at least twelve, feet,

At Wednesday's meeting of the Hawera Borough Council, it was decided, on the advice of Police Sergeant Henry, that, the speed limit of motor cars around corners at intersections be six miles an liqur. An amendment in favor of eight miles was lost.

A meeting was held in the St. Mary's Scout Clnl> room last evening for the purpose of forming a troop of Boy ■Scouts, whose ages will range from 15 to 20 years. Scoutmaster Hopkins presided. A good start was made, there being ten lad; present. One patrol was formed, to be known as the Otter Patrol. It is to be registered at headquarters. For the present the meetings will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays. \erily this is the age of machinery, and daily we hear of wqnderful tilings being done by its agency, hut previously no report has reached us of a man having driven the wily sheep by means of an automobile. This remarkable feat was recently performed op the Junction Road by a. well-known farmer, who says that the whirr of the Ford at the heels of the little lambkins caused 'them to skip gaily along, thus 'eliminating the necessity of the usual drover's dog. The schooner Lucy which arrived at New .'Plymouth about, the end of, .Taimary, has completed the discharge', of about 300,000 feet of Oregon timber, brought here direct from Portland. The cargo was shipped to the ordti of Mr. J- T. Griffin, of New Plymouth, and the local builders to whom the timber has been disposed of consider that in quality it is easily the best cargo ever landed at the breakwater. As a result of negotiations Mr. Griffin has been successful in securing another shipment of about 100,000 feet to the order of a TVaiiganiu firm. Tin's latter cargo is expected to_ arrive about July. The lu C y w ill sail to-morrow for Tahiti, where 'she is expected to load a copra cargo for Sail Francisco.

Tlie tramway "cut" at Auckland lias come as a financial boon to the motorbus proprietor; but to the small boys it lias meant the creation of a new* ".industry." The heavy np-hill work to which the passenger-laden buses are subjected heats the mechanism to such a decree that at the end of almost evcrv trip the radiators have to be cooled with water. Therefore the ismall boys of the Svmonds and Pitt Street areas' have set up a stand of kerosene. tins of wafer, with which, for a penny fee, they fill the steaming radiators. As there are dozens of buses in the, new service, and each makes on an average %> trips a day, jt is n ot difficult to credit the statement made by one boy that he had made us during the day. In the Magistrate's Court at Patea on Wednesday, before Mr. Wyveru Wilson, S.M., Alexander Cumberland MeDonell, licensee of the Kakaramea Hotel, was fined 15 and costs, together with an endorsement of his license, on a charge of keeping open for sale 011 the night, of December 24 last. Ho was also eonvi"ted and ordered to pay the cost on a charge of exposing liquor for sale. Mr. P. O'Dea, who appeared for the licensee, the fine be increased from £5 to .€.■> Is to allow of an appeal to the Supreme Court. The Magistrate at first demurred, saying that the evidence as given to the Supreme Court might be diflercnt to what was presented in the lower Court. Counsel, however, quoted a recent decision of Justice Sir B. Edv.ards, that Magistrates in such cases should increase the fines if requested and submittal that the Magistrate had no discretion but to increase the fine, xr.e Magistrate thereupon increased the fine to £lO. Notice of appeal has been given by defendant.

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