LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Prices for pigs at Messrs. Newton King, Ltd.'s Hayuiarket, New Plymouth, on Saturday were: Store pigs £3 2s fid, slips 21s, 30s and 325. The Whiteley Flower Show was brought to a successful conclusion on Saturday, when the proceeds brought the grand total to the sum of £2lO. There lire 40 Taranaki students attending Victoria University College, and two former Taranaki scholars. Out of twenty-one- Taranaki scholarships awarded since 1910, eleven have been held, at Victoria. This information has been supplied in reply to a query by Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P. ■* Two consignments of overseas mail are due.in New Plymouth this week, the quotas being brought to the Dominion by the Port Alma and the Tofua. The Port Alma, which arrived olf Waitara yesterday, has 130 bags of Australian mail—6B of ordinary and a similar number of parcel-bags. The New Plymouth postal authorities advise that providing the ship shows a clean bill of health the mail will be brought off either at the morning or evening tide to-day. In the latter event it will not reach New Plymouth till to-morrow. The Tofua, due~ at Wellington to-day from San Francisco, has 1382 bags of parcel mail, and the Taranaki portion should arrive by to-morrow night's express. Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (Second Group) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable to-day, Monday, Sept. 13th, at the Secretary's Office, Currie, Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to B ?,m., and 7 p.m. to 8

It is proposed to erect a gateway to tlie Patea Domain in memory of the ' hoys who fell during tlie war. * The Dominion golf championship meeting opens at Hamilton this morning. There is a record gathering of golfers, including J. H. Kirkwood (open champion of Australasia), and tlie prospects for the meeting are indicated by the special message elsewhere recording that four players have lowered the course record in practice play., Special telegraphed reports of the play will appear in the Daily News every morning. When the House was in committee on the education vote on the Estimates on Friday night, Mr. W. T.. Jennings (Waitomo) made an appeal for the establishment of a school for defective children in the North Island. There were two in the South Island—one at Nelson and the other at Oamarn. The system of teaching feeble-minded children in America was an acknowledged success, and arose owing to the large number of defective children discovered after the American civil war, and the itoember asserted a sim'lar condition wouhj arise in this Dominion, owing to the lat,e appalling war, as all histories proved this to be a result. The long delay in the erection of. schools and teachers' residences in outlying districts was alluded to by Mr. • W. T. Jennings (Waitomo) in the discussion of the Estimates in the House on Friday night. It was pointed out that these delays arose owing to the non-fulfilment of orders given by education departments to private sawmillers. In two cases he knew of schools which were not erected though four years had elapsed. He strongly advised the Minister to urge Cabinet to reserve some of the Orown timber landji for tlie Education Department's requirements, and have sawmills in connection with these lands. A similar project was in force iiftecn years ago, and the railway State sawmill at Kakahi turned out many good schools and teachers' residences at a considerable saving to the Government of the' country. A letter received by Mr. 0. Hawken, ' M.P., from the Prime Minister, in' reference to the question of local bodies overdrafts at tlie banks, was read at Saturday's meeting of the Eltham County Council. Mr. Massey stated that he had communicated with the Associated Banks, by whom he was advised that : the difficulty, in regard to public bodies was that they were not allowed by'law to borrow against funds allocated for special.purposes. When the banks had a legal and unquestioned right of set-off in regard to the respective debit and credit balances, set-off in interest was always allowed. He was, however, giving the matter further consideration with the object of ascertaining whether it was possible to afford the local authorities some relief by providing that the surplus cash balances of separate accounts may be temporarily utilised in anticipation of revenue. The state of the roads in some of the bush districts in the King Country was (says the Auckland Star) shown by two bespattered bush farmers who Joined the Main Trunk express at a small station where the engine stopped for water on Wednesday night. They had urgent business in Auckland,, anil had ridden 35 miles over roads that were full of bogholes, which tested the reliability of their horses to the fullest extent. It had taken just on ten hours to do tlie journey, then eight hours' train jo'nrney, a day in the city, then' eight hours in the train on the return journey, and ten hours on horseback again. One can understand the hardy material of what our pioneer settlers are made. There lias been an exceptional number of companies formed during the present year in Auckland (says tlie Star). Even during tlie old days of the mining boom when new concerns were as plentiful as mushrooms after rain, and the' printing of articles of association was a profitable occupation, Auckland never added more than one hundred names to the company list, in any one year. For the eight months of the present year there have already been 120 new companies registered, and before the year is ended the number will pro'bably reach 100, which will make a record. A commercial man said the activity had nothing to do with mere speculation. It meant for one thing that there was quite a lot of money about, and commercial ventures were more popular than Government and local body securities. In times when money was flush commercial concerns reflected the general prosperity. It might be taken for granted that tlie large number of registrations in Auckland hail nothing whatever to do with "speculation" in the ordinary acceptance of the term. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw attention to their Stratford sale on Tuesday, at 12.30 p.m. Full particulars on page 8. A euchre party and dance is to be held in the Bell Block Hall to-morrow evening. Some women find a day's washing, particularly during cold frosty weather, very trying on account of chilblains, chapping and roughening of the hands. All this can be avoided by using "Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap to do the washing with. This wonderful labor-saver- is highly emollient and leaves the hands sofe and smooth after the hardest day's washing. Try it. The Melbourne, Ltd., are showing a particularly good line of ladies' kimonos, full length, in plain colors, embroidered with self shades, and in floral crepes. Prices, 8s lid and 12s 6d. The present wholesale price of these goods is 20s or , more. Buy now. i Windows are the "eyes" of your home that should delight all who enter or pa3s by. Make them attractive by the use of some new window curtains and casements advertised by the Big Store, Waitara, on page four. The calf is nourished net by what he ] eats, but by what he digests. "TUI" Calfineal is easily assimilated by the ' calf, who is not called upon to waste digestive energy in trying to digest indigestible matter which is never present in "TUI" Calfineal—the ealfmeal which , is all meal- Obtainable from all stores and merchants.