LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Invercargill, Robert Somerville, for selling a bottle of embrocation at an unreasonably high price, 3s 6d, was fined £lO and costs.

To-morrow morning at the New' Plymouth Court the hearing will be resumed of the charges in connection witli the sale of milk at eightpence per quart.

The price of fencing wire is on the decline, and can now be obtained at £OS per ton. It is anticipated that within the next four months the price will have dropped to £OO per ton. The New Plymouth Gas Company hopes to receive a portion of the Newcastle coal now being unloaded at Moturoa, as it is understood that 500 tons of the cargo is earmarked for gas companies, the remainder being for the Government. *" On a charge of failing to comply with an order for the maintenance of his wife, a man named William J. Mumford, aged 47, was arrested in New Plymouth yesterday, by Constable Wroblenski. The warrant for Mwnford's arrest was issued in Auckland. Many middle-class families in New York are now forgoing such things as potatoes, which cost 6s a peck, making shjft with dinners consisting of macaroni and rice. Lamb chops cost from 3s to 4a per lb, butter 3s 6d, and a single head of lettuce Is 10d.. A sitting of the Teachers' Appeal Board was held in New Plymouth this week to consider the appeals of several teachers against their new grading. Mr W. Poynton, S.M., presided, Mr T. jng represented the department, and At T. Thomas Eltham) represented the teachers. It is understood that none of the appeals were .sustained. . The C.W.S. marketing scheme was briefly referred to at the animal meeting of the Rahotu Dairy Company yesterday. The chairman said a delegate had attended! the Palimjrston North conference of farmers in connection with the marketing scheme, but after careful consideration of the matter the directors decided that they could not do better than consign their cheese in the usual ■manner, as the proposition of the CW.S. was very unsatisfactory in their opinion.

An accident happened on the ElthamOpunake road, just outside Elthani, on Wednesday evening, by which Mr. W. Stanners sustained a compound fracture of the leg and other injuries. He was 'returning to Eltham on a push bike, which waß unlighted, and a car, driven by Mr. Fearon, of Kaponga, ran into him. In endeavoring to avoid a collision Mr. Fearon ran the' car into a fence, a rail going through the windscreen, but missing the occupant. The head of a Wanganui firm states that he considers that town and district is not getting a square deal in regard to the distribution of benzine, says the local Herald. From information received by the firm, it is estimated that recently some 35,000 eases were landed at New Plymouth, and the Donald MacKay was expected to arrive at that port with another 15,000 cases, and in the meantime only small dribbles were being received in Wanganui. Kerosene was also in scarce supply locally, but consignments were expected to reach here next week.—Quite a quantity of benzine unloaded at New Plymouth went to Wanganui.

At a meeting of the Wanganui Education Board recently Mr Pirani said that years ago the Board took, a firm stand in "regard to holidays: > Bays such as Empire Day and Arbour Day could be turned to good account by giving the children suitable addresses to the occasion, but this indiscriminate holiday business was becoming : a farce. In many instances these holidays were purely for the benefit of the teachers, and it was the teachers who were wanting them. The holidays should be confined to days when they could not very well get out of closing. It would have been far better on General Birdwood's visit had the children been given lessons of what took place on Gallipoli and the part the General took in the war. A Masterton resident has received a letter from Edinburgh (Scotland), dated April 3rd, 1920, in which the following interesting passages appear: "Clothes are at ransom prices. One has to pay from 15s to' £1 per yard for ordinary tweed, and from 25s to 30s per yard fori good navy serge. An ordinary tweed suit costs from £lO to £l3. Boots cost £2 10s per pair, and a lady's costume runs into £lO and over. Food is very dear. Bread is Is Id the 41b loaf; butter 3s per lb; bacon, 3s Od per lb; potatoes 2s 3d per stone; sugar, lOd per lb; stewing beef, Is lOd per lb. No mutton is to be had at any price. There a large amount of unemployment. Meetings arc held daily at the Mound, and the unemployed march in processions through the streets, flourishing collection boxes."

The Auckland papers are the last of the New Zealand dailies to increase their prices to 2d. In making the. announcement, the Herald says:—"Relatively but few commodities have risen so high as newsprint. Prom less' than £l2 per ton a few years ago, the price has gone up to £65, with indications of a further upward tendency. Probably some considerable time will elapse before any substantial drop takes place. Conservative estimates place two years from the present time as the probable date when production will commence to overtake the demand, but there is no indication of any eafly from present high costs. New Zealand is situated further from the sources of supply than any other country, and has labored under many disabilities. Notwithstanding these difficulties publishers have been successful in maintaining the newspapers at a high standard, and have supplied subscribers at an extremely moderate figure." / The shipping freight rate for mutton, reported yesterday as %d per lb, should be l%d. A flower stall in aid of the proposed Girls' Hostel, is being run every Saturday in Devon Street where gifts of flowers will be gratefully received any time during Hie day. SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, the unequalled remedy for colds, influenza, chest troubles. 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." True honio comfort with the "UNIQUE'.' HOT WATER BOTTLE. Seams are heavily vulcanised, patent stopper prevents leakage. On sale everywhere. Alwys make sure of tho brand.

Great building activity is going on in Hamilton at present, and it is announced that over 200 residences are in course of erection. In 1918-19 the numbers ,of permits issued totalled 119, and represented a sum of £172,462. "The dairy farmer, with present prices for produce, is infatuated enough to give enormous prices for his land, and even the grazier is sufficiently forgetful of the lean years, when his debt increased and his income was reduced. Advice is given to us by the politician and the banker, who both agree that our salvation lies in more production. They are both right, but how are we to accomplish this, for the land is the greatest source of production? Labour says, 'Yes, by all means increase production, go that the cost of living may be reduced; but we want more wages and fewer hours' work.' "—Sir James Wilson (president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union), in referring, in-his annual report, to the financial question at the annual conference of the union. , There are those who say that the long spell of frosty weather that we are having in Fatea has been the most severe/ ever experienced here,- says the locaP Press. Those who can remember about thirty years ago know that such is not the case. In the early 'nineties frost continued for about six weeks and culminated on a Sunday, the second of September, in the only heavy fall of snow known in Patea within the memory of man. The country the whole day was covered with a heavy mantle of snow and the cold was intense. Much snow-balling was indulged in and many will still remember the big snow man that was built near the Masonic Hotel under the supervision of Mr Fred. Spooner, who was one of the gay sparks of the time and who had not been long out from the Old Country. Professor Larking, a well known former resident, was also in his clement at snow-balling but he met hig match when he pelted the' Rev. C. C. Harper when that clergyman was going to church. The two had a good set to, but the parson same off victorious} amidst the plaudits of the onlookers. The shortage of household help is nowadays alleviated by the adoption of modern labor saving inventions such as vacuum cleaners, carpet sweepers, gas stoves (when you can get. any gase), and "Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap. The latter is the greatest boon of all, as it cuts wash-day in half, eliminating rubbing, ahd halving the cost of fuel. It should be in every nousehold. Of all grocers. The Melbourne, Ltd., have a few more special satteen kapoc quilts, double bed Bize, left at 42s (id. As these goods cannot be replaced to sell under 49s 6d buyers should make early application. Blankets are still very difficult to obtain supplies still being very scarce and likely ;o remain so for an indefinite period.