LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Eltham Progress Committee on Monday it was reported that;,over £IOO had been collected for the "boosting" campaign. ' The Inglewood County Council has been gazetted a registering authority in connection with the registration of motors,' and the distinguishing letters 1.1f.C. and the .numerals 1 to 500 have been allotted to the County. The rainfall at Inglewood for July amounted to 4.02 inches. The heaviest fall was.on the 14th, with 1.31. Practically all ,the rain fell on eight days consecutively from" the Bth to the lath. There were twenty fine days. It is stated (reports the Star) that the Ngaere, Kaponga, Whenuakura, and Ngutauvara dairy factory companies have recently v held disposal meetings, and decided to send their 1020-21 outputs forward on open consignment. In view of the difficulty of obtaining accommodation the Timaru Presbytery wise to repeat the invitation to the General Assembly of IEI2I to meet at Timaru. —Press Association. The Eltharn Fire Brigade ha 3 offered the pupils attending the Eltham School two prizes, one of 10s and one of Os, for the, two best essays on "The Fire Brigade; its equipment and work, and the v'alue of its services to the community." Tho competition will take place this week. * During the past month Mr. Kean, curator of the Hawera hatcheries, has liberated 04,000 .brown trout-fry in the streams along the Skeet Road, and in addition 5000 rainbow yearlings and a number of two-year-old rainbow trout have been liberated in Robertson's lakes. At the meeting of the Patea Harbor Board on Monday, a letter was read from the Bank of New South Wales consenting to hdvance £B6OO at 0 per cent on the security of debentures. The pilot reported there had been eighteen arrivals and twenty-one departures. The Eltham Borough Council recently secured a gift of two machine guns captured from ihe Germans in the war. It has now been decided to place one of these in the entrance to the municipal chambers and the other in the gasworks show room; Many small parts of these guns are removable, and it was therefore necessary to place them in positions where they would be under constant supervision.—Argus. Rain fell on 9 days at Eltham in July, the total fall being 3.68 in. Tho greatest fall on one day was .89in., on the 14th. In July of last year there were 18 wet days, the total fall being 4.60 in. Maximum in one day, ,88in., on the 12th. Fifteen consecutive frosts were experienced, being a record for thirteen years. In May, 1912, there were nine consecutive frosts. —Argus. In the course of his report to the Pukekura Park Board last night, the curator {Mr. W. W. Smith) stated that during the month Mr. Clement L. Wragge, of Auckland, sent a quantity of new plant seeds to the Park. Some unknown donor living in the Whangamonfbna district also sent a quantity of Native plant seeds, all of which were very acceptable. To-morrow, at Tariki, the Farmers' Co-op. Organisation Society will offer for auction 100 choice dairy cows on account of Mr. Chas. Hall and Messrs. Putt Bros. The cows are an exceptionally good lot, in good condition, and should attract the attention of farmers' in search of useful milking cattle. In connection with the Park £IOOO effort a general meeting will be held tomorrow evening at' 7 o'clock. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile draw attention to the clearing sale thev are holding on account of Mr. C. F. Voliske, at the homestead, York Road, Midhirst, on Monday, August flth, at 1 p.m! sharp. Full particulars of stock and implements to be offered will be found on page 8 of this issue. For Children's Hacking Cough, .. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/9, 2/9.

Mails .which were despatched from Auckland to London, via Vancouver, R.M.S. Niagara, on June 30, arrived in London on August 1. The Rimu from Onehunga yesterday brought no supplies of sugar to New Plymouth, and as this is the third occasion on which no consignment has been received the stocks held by local retailers are very low. ' Colonel JR. J. Collins, C.M.G., executive officer of the Dominion Rifle Association, has received a cable message from London that the New Zealand riflemen, Croxton, Loveday, and West, will accompany the English team to Australia. At last night's meeting of the Pukekura Park Board<Mr. Hughes reported that steps had been taken to deal with persons destroying the terraces, in the Park by climbing up and down' the sides. The names of several offenders had been noted and prosecutions would probably follow,. While a heavy penalty was not.sought, the action would have the effect of giving publicity to the regulations. "- ■■„•'-. At a meeting of the executive of the Stratford Chamber of Commerce last' nighty the chairman (Mr. JJ B. Sichard*,) reported that the representations regarding the landing of supplies'of Nauru phosphates at New Plymouth had achieved satisfactory results** and the Government had now undertaken to land supplies at New Plymouth ifKprovisiou was made for adequately treating the phosphate rock. ir Steps are to be taken to improve the Tarata zigzag. At yesterday's meeting of the . Ingle wood County., Council, Cr. Cameron moved in the dlrectioßi of having particulars submitted at next' meeting, showing the amount, of Joan money ratepayers were liable for 'in connection wi('h' the zigzag. The object, he said, was that settlers were detiroua. of raising a sufficient sum to pay off the present loans, and leave a balance of £2OOO, which could be utilised to improve dangerous .portions of the cig tag. The Mercantile Gazette reports'registration of the following new company:--New Zealand Producers, Co-operative marketing Association, Ltd. Capital, £IOO,OOO, divided into 100,000 shares.of £1 each. Subscribers; Egmont Village, A. Morton; Kketahuna, Thomas Moss; Otokia, W. Bryant, A. P. Fleming; Qkaiawa, J. R. Thftckerj ISltham, H... D:> Forsyth; Pshiatua, J. O, Brechto; YVaimohaka, W. Bryant; All one share each. Objects: Commission, financial, and ■' mercantile agents. Messrs..A. E. Laurence,, W. V. Harkness and Kendrick, lopresenting the settlers of Tariki,'waited on the Inglewood County Council yesterday and /asked for permission to erect a memorial to the soldiers of the district on the roadside at the corner of the Surrey and Mountain roads. Councillors were favorable to granting the necessary permission, providing they had the power to do so, and that its erection did not interfere with the traffic. The. matter was'lWt in the hands of the engineer, Councillors Cowley and Simpson with-full power to act. > ( Some of the posts necessary .for the erection of the electric transmission line from the New Plymouth electric light station to the Inglewood Borough, arrived by the Rakanoa, and are now being carted from the Inglewood station and placed ou the roadside - where required. The matter was briefly discussed at the meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday, when a plan of the proposed transmission' line Was received. The question was referred to the engineer, with tlfc understanding that the posts should be placed as close to the fence line as possible. ' Replying to representations from the Stratford Chamber of Commerce urging that the Lyttelton-Wellington ferry service should connect regularly with the Sew Plymouth mail train, the Minister of Railways states that in order to ensure a regular connection it would be necessary for the, mail train to leave Wellington much later than at present. This, he believed, -would not be satisfactory, as on a former occasion, When the train left at 9.10 a.m., many complaints wore received about its lot* arrival at New Plymouth and other stations. The matter would, however, be again brought to the notice of the. Onion Company. The. matter was considered by the Stratford Chamber last night, and on the suggestion of the chairman, was referred to the Taranaki Progressive League.