LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A cable from London says the Northern Union footballers sail by the Naldera.
The mails, which left New inland on the 29th January, arrived in London on sth inst.
The Waitui and Kaimata school children will hold their annual picnic on ,the Ngamotu beach to-morrow. A London cable says the King's Bench approved an agreement to stay action in the case of Merton versus Unghes, which was mutually arrived at.
The. Patea Licensing Committee elections resulted as follow:—Pacey 602, Groves 05-2, Hawken 644. Wallace 60G, Dixon 601 (elected), M'Neit 359. Some small returns are still to come.
To-day the annual Eltham school picnic takes place at the New Plymouth beach.
Saturday has been fixed as the statutory half-holiday within the Oro, Opua, and Rahotu ridings of the Egmont County. This affects the townships of Pihania, Te Kiri, Awatuna, Oanui, Rahotu, Pungarchu, Warea, and PunihoThe bakers in Wellington have decided to increase the price of pastry and cake. Questioned on the matter by a. News representative last night Mr. E. May (chairman of the Taranaki Master Bakers) said that no action in this direction had yet been decided on in New Plymouth. The shortage of benzine is considerably hampering local bodies in their operations. For this reason the Eltham County Council has had to lay up two out of its three wagons. The position is particularly unfortunate, as owing to the wet weather experienced this summer having delayed operations, loeai bodies were particularly nnxinus to iake advantage of any firm weather. The Eltham County Council has appealed to the Board of Trade on the matter.
Reserved judgment has been given by Mr. W. O. Riddell, S.M., at Wellington, in the case in which Percy MeKenzie Pratt, of Hawera, claimed £53 15s fld as special damages and £2O as general damages against William John Coombe Maddever,. of Pahiatua, by reason of a collision between the motor ears of the respective parties, which occurred on the Paekakariki Hill on July IS last. 'His Worship held that plaintiff was entitled to recover, and gave judgment for plaintiff for £O2 15s 6d and costs, amounting in all to .-672 163 6d. Judgment war, also entered for plaintiff on the defendant's counter-claim.
So far Nelson growers have applied for space for 17,000 cases of apples on the Atuenic, leaving towards thhe end of the month. Nelson was allotted 20,(X)( eases on the,steamer, but this will probably be increased to 23,000 cases relieved by export. No difficulty is expected in (securing the quantities required for the Athenic and following ships. Two steamers will sail in April carrying apples to England, and there will also be one in May.
The progress being made at the Defence Offices in stamping and despatching the 1914-15 star to those entitled to the medal, is necessarily slow, on account of the small staff engaged on the tedious work involved. The medals are being attended to in alphabetical order, and to date the majority of soldiers\wliose name? commence with letters of the alphabet down to H should Slave received their medals. A great amount of clerical work is necessary in connection with the contract of imprinting on the reverse of the medal the particulars of the recipient, in order to ensure that the details are thoroughly correct. At the present rate of progress the undertaking will take much longer to complete than was anticipated. The arrest at Onehunga some days ago of a boy, 13£ years of age, on a charge of having committed a series of burglaries, had its sequel when the lad appeared before Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., in the Juvenile Offenders' Court at Auckland. 'The evidence showed that the boyy whose mother was dead, and whose father was in Christchurch, had run away from his guardian and had lived for two months underneath the Congregational Church at Onehunga. He was charged with stealing sums of money and a quantity of goods from a number of shops. A number of the offences were freely admitted by the boy, who denied, without hesitation, certain other of the charges. The lr.agistrate ordered the boy to be committed to tbit Probation Home.
At yesterday's meeting of the Education Board it was decided to award a Junior National Scholarship to Miss M. E. Kilpatrick (Toko). It is quite possible that the coal shortage may be more acute during the next few weeks on account of the influenza epidemic among some of the West Coast miners. One mine has .closed down and another is likely to do so.
The finance committee of the Taranakl Education Board reported yesterday that the State Fire Insurance Office had paid the sum of £IOOO on account of the destruction of the Manaia School by fire. «. The serenity of the proceedings was rudely disturbed during the hearing of a case at the Magistrate's Court, Nelson, on Monday morning, when one of the witnesses addressed the Magistrate as "old sport." .. :- ; '
The amount of the amusement tax for the Dominion shows. \a steady increase. For the year 1918-19 it amounted to £40,290, while in the nine months' period of 1919-20 it has reached £43.700- , ;<-;.-
For the purpose of repatriating a number of German Methodist .missionaries and missionary 'Sisters working, at new, Britain, the Methodist Conference, at Auckland approved, without' discussion, of the inclusion of £IOOO in the year's financial estimates. The Mere Mere School Committee was granted permission by the Education Board yesterday to erect a war memorial in the school grounds subject to the site being approved by the Agricultural Instructor-
Permission was granted by the Education Board yesterday to Mr. A. M. Orr, to introduce to the head teachers of schools in the Taranaki district a circular relating to the Children's League in connection with the Society for th.e Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
It waa reported lately that, as the result of the increased price of hides, •boots for adults will shortly show an increase of from 17s to 25s a pair.. A New Plymouth bootmaker, discussing the matter the other day, said that though a pair of boots weighed only abont five pounds, and hides had gone up about a shilling a pound, there was a good, deal of wastage in the hides before being converted into boots. On solo leather the lo?s was 33 1-3 per cent, on uppers (kip) 50 per cent, and calfskins 0(5 per cent. On the fancy chrome lines, chemically tanned, the wastage was even much greater. It might fairly be claimed that it took lllbs of raw hide to make a pair of men's boots, for in the tanning process there were also substantial losses. Thus the increase on the cost of raw material would be lis, and then there had to be taken into account the increase of capital required, and the retailers' profits on the greater outlay. Altogether, at present prices of hides the public, he said, must be prepared to find an extra 14s to liis for a pair of adult boots. The question of scholarships awarded under the National system of education being tenable in private secondary schools was discussed by the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, when a letter from the Auckland Board was read asking support to a resolution protesting against the practice. The merits of denominational schools were touched upon, several members of the Board pointing out that numbers of people had good and conscientious reasons for not sending their children to the State schools. Other members looked upon the matter as the thin end of the wedge in securing State aid for denominational schools, and felt that the National system was being jeopardised. Ultimately a division on the question of supporting the Auckland Board's protests was taken, those in favor being: Messrs Eaves, Lees, Grayling, and Hoskin. Messrs White and Trimble were, in favor of the scholarships being tenable at private secondary schools.
"Luncheons in New Plymouth nre the cheapest in and outside the Dominion," remarked a visitor to a News man the other day. He went on to say that nowhere he had been (and lie has recently toured Europe and the colonies) could a three course meal of such quality and quantity as was provided at the New Plymouth restaurants he obtained for Is fid. The price in New Zealand was not less than 2s, and in England and America anything up to 245. This led the News' reporter to make enquiries of the local food purveyors. "Yes, we charged only Is 3d up to Monday of this week, when we were forced to ask Is Gd," said one of them. "Any profit at this price?" "Not a great deal. You have to buy and manage well to show a profit, and then you need to hu.ve the turnover, which we have. If things continue to go up as they have been it is likely we will have to ask 2s, the same price that Hawera and other towns charge. In Wellington you can't get as good a meal as we put on for less than 2s (Id, and if you go to a hotel it is likely to he double that."
At the monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Beautifying .Society several matters concerning the beautifying oi the town were discussed. Further subscriptions were received, but still a fair sum is required to clear the cost of Baines Terrace. It was decided to hold a concert to raise funds. The question was also discussed of unifying in certain directions the various similar societies, thereby strengthening their influence for town beautifying. Messrs .Burgess, Eraser and Co. were thanked for a long length of wire rope. Six first prizes comprised the awards won by Mr. A. A. Ward, of Tariki, at the- Taranaki Show. In addition to the five wins recorded in the report of the Show, Mr. Ward's "Miro Meadows' Melba" was awarded first prize for semi-official tested Jersey cow, calved
A mooting of all members of the Westown Progressive Association and of residents interested in the development of the district will be, held in the West End Bowling Club's pavilion tomorrow evening at 7.30. "One of the most wonderful accomplishments attained by blind soldiers," said Mr. Olutha Mackenzie in his lecture on St. Dunstnn's Hospital at Wellington recently, "is that of shorthand-typing." The patients learned to manipulate shorthand machines, an . instrument something like the stcnotype, but with six keys only, until they were proficient to "take down" dictated passages. "Chicago, with its 3,000,000 population, has more murders in a year than England, Scotland, and Wales, with their 40,000,000 people." This statement was made by H; W. Sims, president of the .Chicago Crime Commission. "Crime in Chicago is as highly organised as the mail order business," said Mr. Sims. "There isn't a police captain in the city, who, backed up by the prosecuting authorities and the Courts, cannot reduce crime in his precincts 50 •per cent in thirty days if he wants to. Crime conditions in Chicago are appalling. We are averaging a murder a Ut.y" ...
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