LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the past month the Hawera borough engineer has ifisuod permits for buildings to the value of £5815.

A whole holiday will be observed by the (iovernment in Xew Plymouth, Stratford, Hawera, and Patea on Friday, April 30th-, on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales to Taranaki. This was announced by Sir William Fraser in Wellington last night. The small quantity of Ohura coal sent to Eltham will be tested by the Elthan County Council and the Eltham Dairy Company, whp will communicate the result of the trial to the settlers who forwarded the coal, and if the result is satisfactory further efforts will be made to have the deposits worked. The trials will take place shortly.—Argus.

Ernest Short's sale of the Parorangi Hereford, stud cattle concluded at the [""eliding- sale yards on Wednesday. There was a large and representative gathering and a clearance of the cattle, which go to all parts of the Dominion. Some were bought for a Victorian breeder. Lustre II went for 410 guineas. General Sir Andrew Russell bought the bull Chancellor 1044 for -200 guineas. Averages for the sale were: 151 cows (ineluding 50 aged cows), £3O; 4S 3%-year heifers, £44 10s; 37 2£-year heifers, £3O; 45 18-month heifers, £23 15s; 44 heifer calves, £ls 10s; 23 bull calves, £34. Bulls sold, if anything, to the advantage of buyers. At the Magistrate's Court, Mfinaia, on Wednesday before Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., Percy Merrie, of Manaia, proceeded against Thomas Horgan, of Geo, farmer, for £2OO, damages for a collision which occurred near the Kapuni bridge, Manaia, opposite Mr. J. S. McKay's property- The damages were made up of repairs £92 15s fld, depreciation in car £B7 4s 3d, loss of earnings £2O. Plaintiff's case was that the accident was caused through the defendant being on the wrong side of the road. The defence was that the plaintiff's car was driven bo fast that it was impossible for defendant to pull over to the right side, and he therefore pulled still further over on the wrong side. The evidence was that as a result of the accident the defendant's car was practically telcseoned. and was turned round on the road facing the opposite way to which it was going. The case has not concluded. Mr. A. C. Bennett is appearing for plaintiff, and Mr. P. O'Dea for defendant.—Star. The Melbourne, Ltd., for men's striped neglige shirts with detachable sports collars to match, 13s fid. Men's pure Irish lawn handkerchiefs Is each; men's police braces, 3s 6d; boys' braces, Is 3d to I Is lid; men's felt hats, 15s fid; men's | trench coats, £5 9s Gd; men's heavy I motor coats, £0 10*.

The Dunedin branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association last night passed a resolution asking for better conditions on the lines of the proposals made in other parts of New ZealandThe plans for the model township at VVaingawa have been approved by the directors of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, and it is expected that a start will be made with the erection of the buildings" in the course of a month or two.

Influenza is more widey prevalent than ever in Westport (says the News), Whole families are down with the epidemic. Some of those who were attacked last year have been victims again this year, and in a worse form. Not a few of them have passed through a state of delirium, and are left in a very weakened state.

A boy just under eleven years of age was brought before Mr. 'J'. A. B. Bailey, S.M., in the Juvenile Court at New Plymouth yesterday, on a charge, of having stolen twelve sash weights from Messrs Boon Bros. He admitted the theft, and said he had sold the goods to a secondhand dealer in order to get m'oney _ Wliile tho boy said he received one shilling for the weights, the dealer stated he paid the boy five shillings. Nothing else was known against the boy, oo far as the police knew, and tho Magistrate admonished him 'and gave him another chance. Speaking at the New Zealand Club luncheon at the Y.M.C.A. at Wellington, Dr. Guy Scholefield said that wc would do well not to believe the repeated statements that England is full of Bolshevism to-day. In a Derbyshire miners' village some time ago, he added, the miners had met and decided to form a Soviet Republic. Then, to conform with the rules of public meetings, they adjourned the meeting for a week, and next week they decided not to form a republic. (Laughter.) That, he thought, was abo\it as far as they would get with Bolshevism in the Ojd Country. (Applause.) The Mayor of Hawera reported at the meeting of the Borough Council on Wednesday evening that lie had communicated with the superintendent of tho AVorkers' Dwellings Department in reference to the delay in commencing the erection of the workers' dwellings in Ha\vera. A promise had been made that a start would be made three weeks ago. The town clerk had, received a reply stating that a start would bo made early next month, and that the delay had been due to a shortage of joinery. It was stated in tho telegram from the Department that Mr. Tong had withdrawn from his contract to build one dwelling. The Mayor said lie thought it a pity that the local builder,! would not undertake contracts, and if he was satisfied that the price offered was sufficient, he would move in the direction of having work in connection with business premises stopped so that labor would be available for workers' dwell- , ings—Star.

Poxton is evidently becoming notorious, if a letter by "Somnolent" to Hie Poxton Herald rums up the position there: "Seeing tlrat Foxton has achieved such fame outwardly, would it not also be fitting to examine our notoriety inwardly? Commencing with fires, we can boast of thirty inside three years. All but one at ni»ht_ Then we have the burglarj' of a draper's shop within a stone's throw of the police station, wherein it is alleged a. cart was used to transport the stolen goods; then we have a searching enquiry as to the whereabouts of a couple of porkers, which, it is again alleged, subsequent!}' were found far from home, but, alas! dead meat. Finally, not to weary your readers, let us take a look into the poker school within, let me say, a mile of the l'ost Office; or if you prefer 'two up,' then hie you to the racecourse, or if you have a horse and no saddle, jusjt grab P.ie first you see. You're quite, safe. Or, if you want 'spuds,' just visit your neighbor's garden at night, likewise when you want a sfhirt or blouse, oh, well, just wait till washing day, and help yourself at the clothes lino. So cheap. If your Sunday is dull, just take a walk up Main street and see the various gyrations of Sunday drunks. Then, when you have gone through the above, load yourself up with cart harness. Should you require company, flash a few bob in the street, and the effect, will be magical. In other towns undesirables are moved on. \Yo live in foxton! If you want any of the above to stop, get a nightwatchman. But why pay three?"