LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Health Department's restrictions imnosed in Christchilrch on account of influenza were removed yesterday and the schools will re-open on MondayThe action which is being brought to secure an injunction restraining the New Plymouth Borojagh Council from erecting public conveniences in Brougham Street, is to be hoard in the Supreme Court "this morning, before his Honor Mr. Justice Chapman. .The new Shaw, Savill liner Gallic, which will probably come to New Plymouth this month on her first voyage to New Zealand, is a vessel of 7912 tons. She left London on March 13 for Australian ports, and is due to leave Sydney next Wednesday to load meat in New Zealand. It. is probable the Gallic will come direct from Sydney to New Plymouth, and in addition to taking meat from the Farmers' Meat Co., she will take'meat from WaitaraThe representatives of the English wholesale co-operative societies, who are at present visiting the Dominion with a view to securing business for their principals in New Zealand products, met representatives of the dairying and other Industries in New Plymouth yesterday. There were about 100 directors of various companies present and Mr. A. Morton (chairman of the N-D.A.) presided. The conference was not open to the Press; The visitors proceed from here to Auckland by to-night's boat, and will meet producers in the Waikato and other districts. When your commercial vehicles are shod with Clincher Solid Band Tyros. They are British and best. Clincher Solid Band Tyres will carry the heaviest loads and stfend up to the worst conditions. The British Arm lorxisn u&M them. 41

The Auckland Racing Club has donated £SO to the Olympic games fund (says a Press telegram). Each of the live rowing clubs in the city is to receive donations from the same body. Eltham (says the Argus) is sadly lacking .in accommodation for the travelling public. On Wednesday night some of the male members of the English Pierrots Company had to sleep in a railway carriage, all the hotels being full. The lady members were billetted in private houses. At a meeting of superannuated public servants at Auckland it was decided to form an association, to be known as the Association of Superannuated Public Servants (says a Press telegram). It was stated at the meeting that old civil servants wanted to voice their vieNvs to the Government on ,the cost of living. At present they wero unable to liye comfortably on their pensions. An exhaustive enquiry into the producing capacity of various farms in Taranaki has recently been made by one Df the dairy companies, and the investigations have proved that a good high average annual return ir, £7 net per cow per acre for butterfat, which, working on the basis of three acres to , a cow, makes; the average return £2l per cow for the season. Purchasers of dairy farms would be well advised to be guided by this estimate.

In connection with the reservation of seats in railway carriages, the Stratford Chamber of Commerce has decided to Buggest to the Railway Department to state on the reservation tickets the station from which the seat is hooked. Mr. P. Thomson, in moving the resolution, stated that he was a daily traveller by train between Stratford and Hawera, and it frequently occurred that a number of seats would be booked from Hawera, and passengers between New Plymouth and Hawera could not use tliem sis they did not know when they would have to give them up. The shortage of benzine is still acute, and not until May 25, when the Waitemata is due to arrive from San Francisco with a mixed cargo of 60,000 cases for discharge at Auckland, is a favorable impression likely to be made (says the Star). The Chepadoe is now discharging some 10,000 cases, but, although these "numbers appear substantial, it will require great care in making the consignment, combined with the email stock now in the city, extend over the period until the arrival of the Waitemata- A further shipment is due by the Eona, about the end of the month, and from thence on supplies should come forward regularly. To some men land at any price is dear. Others could pay twice the price for the 6ame land and still be successful. It is plain, then, that in estimating the value of land the personal equation is of the utmost consequence. There are some fairlv large farms in the Eltham district that are very badly farmed, and do not yield half what they would yield under different management. If these farms were cut into smaller areas, and put in the hands of capable farmers there would be a great increase in the wealth of the district. There is in this district a farm of about 50 acres the gross returns from which arc over /£IOOO a year. Not far from it there is a farm of more than twice the size, Of precisely the same, quality of land, from which the returns are not so great as from the smaller area. This is purely a case in which the individuality of the fanner makes all the difference. How impossible, under the circumstances, it is to say what is the value of land. The value of the man is the prime factor.— Argus. Referring to the unveiling of the portrait of the late Sir George Arney at .No"' Plvmouth. ''Fifty-one", in the Hawera Star, recalls a famous murder trial that was heard before Chiei Justice Arney, in the large room of the Masonic Hotel, New Plymouth, in ISO 3. _ A short time after the killing of the officers and men of the 57th Regiment at the Wairau stream, a party under Lieutenant Waller came into conflict with some Maoris at the Three Honeysuckles, near Oakura. One native was captured, and on him was found Dr. Hope's watch. As a truce was in existence at tlio time of the Wairau massacre, the captured Maori stood liis trial for murder, and as a result was found guilty and sentence of death was passed upon him by Judge Arney. This was the first time, I believe.' that the "black cap" was donned in Taranaki. The sentence was afterwards commuted, and the Maori is still alive and doing well. Takinn- all things into consideration, "murder" was hardly the right charge to bring against the man under tl\o peculiar conditions then existing between pakeha and Maori.

The liest method of clearing gorse was tlio subject of some reference in the Supreme Court- yesterday dm ing the hearing of a ease in which the terms of a lease were being considered. Counsel said the Noxious Weeds Act interpreted the word "clearing" as meaning cither grubbing or cutting, and added that the most approved methods of modern husbandry favored the cutting of gorse. In explanation it was said that grubbing not only opened up the ground, and cut the roots, but made for a rapid sprouting of the severed roots, whereas if the gorse was cut close to the ground and left to lie on the ground i£ tended to smother the roots and also any seedlings and suppress growth. There wove three methods of clearing gorse—grubbin" and burning, cutting and burning (which was said to be the very worst thing to do), and cutting and leaving lying 011 the ground. The latter was said to be now widely adopted by farmers. At a later stage of the case a witness, who exhibited some specimens, ■*ave the opinion that to cut gorse was to onlv half do the job. To grub properly the gorse should ™'t first ana then grubbed out by the roots.. One of the exhibits showed that a piece which had been cut had sprouted again from the root and grown nearly three feet in one year. The witness said lie knew of only one way of effectively dealing with gorse and that was to grub it When counsel said he would introduce him to four good farmers who favored the cutting process, he replied: 1 don't think they can be good farmers.-

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Says the Auckland Star: Wanganui, which is understood to plume itself on its social and intellectual superiority, lias been severely wounded in its pride. After what happened at the supper to the Prince of Wales it will always be liable to the target for some rude boy's question: "Who stole the spoonsX" * At a welcome in Wellington by New Zealand journalists to the pressmen accompanying the Prince on his tour, Mr. Keith Murdoch, whose interesting reports were frequently cabled during , the war, quoted the opinion of Lord Northclifte that the New Zealand Press was the best in the world in proportion to the population of the country. He emphasised the importance to the Press that the journalists conducting it- should have gained experience by travel, and for tlie maintenance of Imperial progress in unity, and for the widening of vision; lie strongly .urged that there should be regular interchanges of journalists. ■1 hough the was now, in proportion to population, the best in the world, and (remarked Mr. Murdoch with a smile) better than the country deserved, there was no reason why it should not be better still.

Writes the Christchurch Press special reporter: An excellent chef had been engaged for the Royal train at a certain stage of the journey, but he was n very loyal cook, and he drank the health of the Prince of Wales in such bumpers that before very long he was ordering delicacies in such quantity and quality that even Lueullus himself would- have been more than pleased. To begin with he ordered ICOOIb of rump steak;- He had evidently been a student of literature, and must have read Charles Lamb's immortal essay, for one of his demands was for.no fewer than 15 sucking-pigs, To this he added 40 gallons of port wine for preserves. Needless to say, lie was soon superseded, and it was satisfactory to all concerned that a new chef worthy of the princely occasion was found without delay. On Thursday this new chef prepared a Special soup' for the Prince, which probably no other Prince has ever tasted. It was a soup made from the toheroa, a mussel product of the North Island. Toheroa is Maori for "Long Tongue," and it very aptly describes the appearance of the mussel when it is taken from its elongated black shell. It is a delicacy prized by the Maoris, but only of recent years lias the pakeha recognised its virtues. Properly advertte. Ed, it would make a name for any firstclass restaurant in London, Paris, or even Berlin jin its palmy days. The Prince liked the new soup, for' on a menu that lie signed for the chef, "Edward P;," lie underlined the tohero soup, and in the margin wrote "very good," with double exclamation mark's: Needless to: say, the chef was as pleased as the Prince. .

It is understood that Chatl& and Frederick Magori, who are awaiting sentence oil'a series of'charges of theft to which they pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court, will be brought before Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M, at 10.30 to-morrow morning. When the charges were heard by the Magistrate sentence was deferred pending the hearing of another charge on which .accused had to come before the Supreme Court. On this both accused pleaded guilty on Wednesday and were ■'"sentenced to two years and one year respectively of reformative treatment.

The Melbourne, Ltd., still maintains its supremacy as the leading house for cashmere hosiery and crepe de chine blouses. ■ Although prices have considerably advanced the values offered are still 20 per cent, better than those oil'ered elsewhere. All wool cashmere hose on sale at 5s Cd per pair.