LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is understood that under the will of the late Mr. J. C. MclCillop, St. Patrick's School, Masterton, benefits to the extent of £SOOO. He was an ex-pupil of the school. Mr. E. Griffiths lias received a telegram from the Board of Trade that they are making every effort to ship 1000 tons of Portland cement for Taranaki by the end of the month. At Newton King Ltd's hay market, New Plymouth, on Saturday, wesner pigs made 10s, 14s, .£l, CI Os'ttd, £1 »s 6d, £1 (is, slips £1 lis to £1 16s Od, stores £1 19s 6d to £2 Is forward, stores £2 lis. As an example of the loss sustained by hotel proprietors through leakages and thefts of glasses, a hotel proprietor stated in the Wellington Magistrate's Court that on one Saturday he lost over six dozen glasses. Three steamers chartered by the New Zealand and African Company, Ijie Durham, Hororata, and Wangaratta, in the last three weeks lifted 317,708 carcases of meat and 3647 casks of tallow and sundries for New York and Boston (says a Press telegram from Timaru). Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, la 9d "M 88 9d. '

The Wellington police proceeded against Alfred Gustafsen, licensee of the Britannia Hotel, for failing to supply lodgings at his hotel. The complainant, Charles J. Simpson, a butcher, stated that he went to the hotel to procure a bed for the night, but was refused the bed unless he took breakfast also. Complainant was obliged to gd to work eaviy, and did not require breakfast, and consequently laid the information. The magistrate convicted defendant and ordered him to pay costs amounting to 295. During the past year there were 463(5 letters and 1875. letter-cards posted in "this country without addresses; 1 letters were wrongly addressed; 61 letters bore libellous addresses and were intercepted; 37 letters were discovered to' bear previously-used stamps; and 9436 registered letters were unclaimed. Three thousand one hundred and seven-ty-one newspapers and 4272 books and other articles were received without addresses. Many of these were subsequently applied for and delivered. Nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninetyone newspapers were returne4 to publishers. When a circular letter from the Auckland Railways and Development League, asking for co-operation in sending a deputation to Parliament with a view to having a fairer proportion of public money allotted to the North Island, was read at the meeting of the Hawera [County Council on Saturday, the chairman (Mr. J. B. Murdoch) remarked that they should attend to their own affairs first without joining in with others. They had, he said, been endeavoring to get certain works carried through in Taranaki that would be of benefit to the district and 'to the Dominion. The Hawera County Council on Saturday briefly discussed the question of subscribing to the Workers' Educational Association. The chairman pointed out that while he Was sympathetic to any educational movement, the meetings would be'held in ,the towns, and it would only be possible for very few of their ratepayers to take advantage of them. Under the circumstances, therefore, he did not think the Council would be justified in subscribing the ratepayers' money to it. The Borough Council was in a different position, as their ratepayers could take advantage of it. Members agreed' with this aspect, one member stating that aijy ratepayer wishing could join the Association. The principle of differentiating between married and unmarried persons in the imposition of income-tax is making considerable headway abroad, says the Lyttelton Times, it is recognised in the United Kingdom and the United States, and now France has fallen into line. Under recent legislation the in-come-tax is increased by 25 per cent in the case of unmarried persons of both sexes over the age of thirty, and the extra tax is also imposed on all married persons who after two years of wedded life have no children, a, measure obviously prompted by the extremely low birthrate of the French nation. So far as New Zealand is concerned, what is needed is legislation more on the British and American lines, adjusting existing taxation more equitably between married and unmarried, and between the large family and the small.