LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A telegram from Wellington says Cabinet lias agreed fo vote £20,000 for a physics wing for Victoria College, Wellington. The first grade football matches set 'down for to-morrow have been postponed owing to the representative match at Wanganui. The lower grade matches will be played as usual. Notice of motion that the boats on the lake at Pukekura Parle should be available for use on .Sundays during the coming summer, was tabled by Mr. W. C. Weston at last night's meeting of the Park Board. A conference of delegates from the local bodies in Tavanaki forming the Hydro-Electricity League, will be liela In the Stratford Borough Council Chambers to-day at 3 o'clock, when the question of forming a Power Board for Taranaki will be discussed. A well attended meeting of the newlyformed New Plymouth .Drivers' Union was held last night. The secretary'r report showed that the organisation was in good order, and in a sound financial position. The general terms of the new award were discussed and considered to be working very satisfactorily. "That in order to provide funds for the necessary works and maintenance of Pukekura Park, there be a special effort' made each year in May,' to be knpwn as Apple Day, combined with a street collection; also that the Board take immediate action to largely increase its number of annual subscripers," was a motion submitted to the Park Board by Mrs. Burgess last night. The suggestion was adopted. "Work short hours if you life. Short hours are best, I am sure, but remember tlmt you owe it to your country and to yourself to w<?rk hard during those short hours and not to be idle during them. I believe all returned soldiers wish to f,o down to posterity as good citizens, determined not to try and live on a reputation and at the expense of the rest of the community for the rest of their lives." —General Sir W. R. Birdwood, who is due to arrive at Wellington to-day, addressing "diggers" at the New South Wales capital. At last night's annual meeting of the New Plymouth Citizens- Hand, the chairman (Archdeacon Evans) expressed deep regret at the poor interest shown by the public in the Band, so far as attendance at the annual meeting. Archdeacon Evans said he ■ thought the room in which the meeting was held slionM have been crowded. In supporting the views of the chairman, Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., remarked that of those present, - with four exceptions, they were either members of the band or of the committee, and he thought it said very little for the many organisations that had sought the assistance of the band during the year, that none of them were represented at the annual meeting. "As the reconstruction of our education system is in the air, and it is probable that a bill dealing with it may be brought before Parliament during the coming session," stated Mr. J. H. Howell (director of the Wellington Technical College) in his report to the Board of Governors, "I would suggest that the Board consider whether it would not be advisable to formulate a policy with regard to matters that specially concern technical education. I would suggest the following: The constitution of technical boards; llie payment of teachers according to scale; the school leaving age; the age at which some differentiation of training should take place; the training of apprentices and the means for securing an adequate supply." The suggestions were referred to a committee. SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, the unequalled remedy for colds, influenza," chest ' {roubles. headache, indigestion. SANDER'S EXTRACT, the surest protection from infections, fever, diphtheria, meningitis. SANDER'S EXTRACT proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria to have healing powers not possessed by other eucalyptus preparations. Insist on the Genuine SANDER'S EXTRACT. There is no "just as good." For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/8, 2/0.

All the accommodation on the Rarawa for last night's trip to Onehunga was booked up by Monday, and a number of intending travellers had to be refused passages yesterday. What is believed to be a record price for any land sold in Wellington city has just been paid by the Union Bank of Australia, namely, £503 per foot. The land has a 45ft frontage to Lambton Quay with a depth of about 50 feet. In the'report supplied to us of the annual meeting of the Master Tailors' Union at Stratford last week, the name pf Mr. Besley (of the Modern Tailors, Ltd.), was oinmitted although lie was present. A suggestion that, voluntary labor, especially from retired fanners, should l)o mobilised to help to improve Pukekura Park, was made in a letter to the Daily News from Mr. James Burgess, of Fitzroy. The proposal was discussed at the meeting of the Park Board last night,''when it was unanimously approved of, and it was decided to ask Mr. Burgess to call a meeting of helpers to draw up a scheme. . The proposal to extend the tramway service through Pukekura Park to Vogeltown was again before the Park Board last night- The Borough Council wrote forwarding a resolution of the Council in which it was decided to ask the Board for permission to enable the trams to go through the park. It was decided that, the Board should meet the Borougli Council on Tuesday, 15th inst., tit the park to go into the matter. The opinion was expressed by Mr. W. P. Kirkwood at the annual meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society on Monday night, that the society would have to get some other game birds for the sportsmen. There was a fair amount of swamp land in Taranaki which would offer cover if they could only get birds which could be acclimatised,' and this was a matter for consideration not only of tho Stratford society but by all the Taranaki societies. I Details of the new agreement covering L the supply of sugar to New Zealand by tho Colonial Sugar Refining Company ' may be expected to be mude shortly, . but nothing will be announced officially i until everything has been completed. It ( is certain, however, that the new price will show an advance —the Prime Min- | ister himself has admitted that the day iof cheap sugar has .passed—but it is' aii- : ticipated that the price in New Zealand I will be lower than most places in the world. ' Attention is drawn to Hip advertisement on page 1 of this issue in which I tho Home Service League of New Zealand (Inc.) requests all officers, 11 0.0.'s and men who served on home service or. re-attested for home service to send in their names to the address given so • the aims and objects of the League can be explained to them. The League (which has now a membership of np- , proximately" 3000) is meeting witn suc- ! cess in the four* chief centres. ■ '"Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap, the great scientific household help, has tirmly estab- : lished itself in the homes of the people. Grocers and storekeepers throughout tli? 1 Dominion know by the increased demands 1 that this wonderful washing compound is supplanting all others on the market. ! Have you tried it yet ?