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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The North Taranaki Hunt Club will pa}' Government tax to the extent of £B3l 10s fld as the result of last Thursday's races. The Customs revenue collected at the port of New Plymouth for the period April 1 to August 31, shows an increase of £12,960 over the corresponding period 'irt 1919. The vital statistics for Hawera for the month just ended, with the figures for the corresponding month of last year in parentheses, were: Births 22 (21), deaths* 10 (7), marriages 13 (6). The Shaw, Savill liner Mamari, which will inaugurate the direct import service between England and New Plymouth, has passed Balboa, and is due at Port Chalmers on September 20. The Mamari will call at Lyttelton and Wellington before coming to New Plymouth. A part, cargo of ease oil was brought to Auckland by the steamer West CamargOj which i arrived from San Francisco on Monday evening, The West Camargo, which is coming to New Plymouth this month with case oil, is a new oil fuel steamer of 3551 tons net, and was specially built for the trade between America, New Zealand, and Australia. Advance Manaia! Yesterday a poll of Manaia ratepayers was taken on a proposal to borrow £30,000 for the installation of water and drainage. It was carried by 143 votes to 111, there being one informal vote. This should mark the beginhing of a new era for the "city of the plains/' which has suffered severely in the past from the want of these prime essentials. The Ayrshire, from Liverpool, and the Suffolk, from Montreal, which arrived in Auckland on Sunday, left Panama within 40 minutes of each other. Tho Ayrshire had a slight accident to hor machinery on the run across, and the Suffolk was delayed for an hour delivering mails at Pitcairn Island. The Ayrshire reached Auckland four hours ahead of the Suffolk.

A deputation from Kaikoura to the Prime Minister received a shock when Mr Masscy informed the deputation that Kaikoura was the most-/ unprogressive place in the Dominion. "You have no loans, you have a credit balance of £2OOO, and only levy a rate of Id in the £. Unless you are prepared to help yourselves, I will not assist you." Shipping at New Plymouth, after a few slack days, is becoming busy again. The Flora arrived from the south yesterday afternoon with merchandise, and the Japanese steamer Atsuta Muru, with 3000 tons of coal from Newcastle, anchored in the stream at 6.20 last evening, and will berth this morning. The arrival of the Kittawa to-day, with coal from Westport. will make a further demand on the waterside labor. The Flora will sail for Wellington and Lyttelton to-night, and the Riniu and Arapawa, both from Onehunga, are due to-morrow. A trip to North, via Wanganui, will be made by Mr. A. J. Smith with his super White 'bus for demonstration purposes. Leaving on Sunday morning the return to New Plymouth will be made on Tuesday. By advertisement In this issue Mr. Smith notifies that passengers will be carried at special rates, and those intending to make the trip, are invited to ring 'phone 44. This trip will not,affect the usual 'bus asrviee, ;

There are 327 soldier patients in hospital i, Trent-ham, 289 of whom are attending vocational classes. L>p to the' present women patrols have been appointed by the Government in the interests of public health under the Social Hygiene Act, 1917, one at Wellington and two each at Auckland, Christclmrch, and Dmiedin. A resident of Murchison (says the Nelson Mail) had purchased a new motor car in town, and was driving it through to Murchison recently. The benzine ran out, arid the now owner, after partially refilling the tank, struck a match to see what quantity ho had put in. Tiie benzine caught fire, and very soon the car was a mass of flames. Except for the engine and ironwork the car was totally destroyed. Steps are being taken to float a company for the purpose of opening up a big brick-making industry at Johnsonville. This will be by far the biggest industry of its kind in New Zealand, and will be ruu on up-to-dato lines. It is expected that when in working order the company will be able to manufacture bricks of tip-top quality at much less than the present charge for bricks.— Ofcaki Mail. A remarkable strike is reported from Whakatane. The members of the fire brigade who had been holding a series of dances, presumably in aid of the brigade funds, became so annoyed at the poor attendance at the social functions and the general lack of interest in fire brigade matters generally that they struck, and nine members have gone off duty permanently. Probably the local authority will now sit up and take notice of the fire brigade. The regulation enforcing the vise of all passports of passengers to Canada by the American Consul, irrespective of their owner's desire to land at an American port en route, lias been removed. Advice to. this effect lias been received by the American Consul-Gener-al, Mr A. A. Winslon; from the Department of State, Washington, in reply to a petition for an investigation of the regulations. As the cost of .the vise had recently been raised from two to ten dollars, very strong protests had beon made by intending passengers by the Vancouver boafs. It is stated that another company is being formed in the North Island for the purpose of growing and making up tobacco in New Zealand. The c«mpany intends to supply the ever-increas-ing demand for tobacco with a New Zealand grown product, and has obtained the services of an expert as manager. The soil in various parts of New Zealand is considered suitable for the cultivation of all grades of leaf, and most of the work tn connection with tobacco culturo is so light that it could be performed by partially disabled soldiers. "There is a persistent demand for the establishment of more State experimental farms, but this requires to be met cautiously," says the Director-General of Agriculture in his annual report. "It is undoubtedly necessary' to do what is possible to meet tiie very evident desifo of tho agricultural and pastoral community for more information and more advice on matters bearing on the further development <■£ these industries and on tiie increase of production, but this can be done without unduly multiplying OoGvernmcnt farms. A commencement is being made with the demonstration farm arranged to be established in the west coast districts of the South Island. The possibilities of this portion of the Dominion for dairying, and from n, pastoral point of view generally, are very considerable, and the establishment of a demonstration farm there should prove of practical value to the district and, indirectly, to tho country as a whole. Special consideration is also being given to tiie question' of a farm for the southern portion of the South Islnnd."

"Tho great war disclosed an enormous percentage of unfits due to military service," said Lieutenant-Colonel J, L. Sloeman, 1.G.5., Director of Military Training, in the course of a lecture in Wellington. "Under the Military Service Act 57,900 were rejected out of 135,282 on account of medical disabilities. This is between 40 and 50 poV cent. Of these fifteen were rejected to every sixteen, passed for service between 20 and 25 yars of age. This, in a healthy country like New Zealand, possessing all the magnificent opportunities for physical development, discloses something enormously wrong. Certain .of these men were placed in a CI camp, and after n period of training 55 per cent of these were trained to a physically fit standard, high enough to allow them to enter for Expeditionary Force service. If this can be done with men over 20 years of age, how much more can be done if attention is paid to physical development during the earlier years of cadet service? A Chess and Draughts Club was formed at a meeting held in the Soldiers' Club, New Plymouth, last evening, Mr. P. E, Stainton (convener) presiding. The following officers were elected:—Patron, Mr. J. L. Perry; president, Mr. K. Hine; vice-presidents, Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., His Worship the Mayor (Mr. Jas. Clarke), Messrs. George Grey, T. C. List, R. C. Hughes, and W. C. Weston. A committee was chosen as follows: Messrs. P. Stainton, L. Sim, J. J. Lomas, J. Bruce, H. B. Gibson, and H. J. Moverley. Mr. Stainton was elected secretary (pro tem). The subscription was fixed at £1 Is and 10s fid for junior members. The Patron announced that he would present a set of chess men to the Club. It was stated during the meeting that there wap a possibility of arranging telegraphic matches with Wanganui and other outside clubs. The matter of rules and arranging a meeting-room 'was left to the committee who will report to a general meeting to be held next Thursday evening, September 9,

An extraordinary example of the depredations of a mouse was brought to light in n Christclmrch house last week. The owner of the house sent for a workman to repair a pianola, which was not playing well. On examining the instrument the man found that the tapes, 88 in number, which lighten the action of the keys, had been cleanly cut, and no trace of them could be found. The instrument was removed to the workshop for further examination. When the keys were removed for the purpose of inserting new tapes, a mouse nest, built of the old topes, was found in the centro of the keyboard. To form this comfortable home the mouse concerned would have had to make eighty-eight journeys each of several feet, through the instrument. However, as he remained undisturbed—except for the music of the pianola—probably for several months, he no doubt considered it was worth the trouble. Dairymen wanting really good heifers should not miss attending the Waiffa.kftiho sals on Friday,

Farming circles of Bunnythorpe (says the FeUdmg *tar} were stined recently when several settlers were duped by the transactions of a. youug man, he bought a farm from one, purchased stock from another, and irom another, when it was found that the cheques upon presentation were returned N.S.F. Tha man is missing. • The London correspondent of a Scottish paper remarks:—Atr J. 11. Thomas told a moving story, fie visited the grave of -Raymond Auuuith, who was buried near liis cousin, .\lr Teniiuut, a peer's son. Between the two, and with the same headstone, was the grave of a humble noldier. Air Thomas took a note of the name unci pulled a leal. Ho related the incident 10 his constituents, and a few days later received % letter from a blind man in Leicester, which ran: "I was told by some friends that my boy is buried near .Raymond Asquith, aim I am wondering whether you can tell whether the grave is well kept." On comparing the names of soldier and parent, Air Thomas found they were the same, fie aent the leaf to the father, and in reply received a joyous letter 'of beautiful sentiment. In pointing out that the general testimony of the world was that the standard of intelligence .md power of adaptability of New Zealand-born men was quite better than that of their peers in other countries, the Assistant-Director of Education in Wellington (Mr J. Caughley, M.A.) stated in his Wellington address that in all the 10,000 hoys and girls in New Zealand who passed the sixth standard last year, no fewer than 75 per cent, are now receiving fulltime secondary education in either public or private schools, SO per cent, in the former institutions. The average length of stay of free-place pupils in our secondary schools was two years 10J months. If the school age was raised to 15 years, only some 2000 children would be gathered in—the others were already receiving secondary education. Speaking of industries in California, Mr. J. B. Merrett stated at a complimentary dinner given to him at Christchureh on (Saturday evening that the Americans develop' every possible ircßCAKlrce ftir the world's market. "Over 100,000 acres of sugar beets," he said, "are grown annually, and keep ten refineries going in the manufacture of sugar. Areas of land that would remain idle in most countries are cultivated to grow beet. We have in Canterbury an ideal soil for sugar beets, which carry a higher percentage of augar than beets grown in other parts of the world We need enterprise and enthusiasm to i-ct the licet industry going. It would give a fine return tn the growers, provide us with sugar without being dependent on other countries, and supply us with ideal stock foods from the pulp after the sugar has been extracted.''

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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1920, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1920, Page 4

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