LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Wednesday's mooting of the Wanganui Hospital Board, the two inspectors reported twenty eases of goitre in the district. An order for discharge from bank: ruptcy was made at the New Plymouth Supreme Court in favor of John Henry Nicholas, of Hawera, farmer. "The building trade in New Plymouth continues very 'busy," states the monthly report of .Inspector Day to the Borough Council. "The issue of Board of Trade permits is now in full swing. Permits valued at £20,300 have been issued and the fees amount to £B7 14s 6d." The 'bus traffic in Now Plymouth during the month of August is summarised in the report of the manager (Mr. R. H. Bartley). A total of 8268 passengers was carried, the mileage run being 2054. Fares received amounted to .£BB 12s lid. The manager, of the New Plymouth abattoirs (Mr. T. J. Reakes) reports to the Council that the number of sheep slaughtered in August totalled 861, which was a record month. The Wanganui Borough Council, with the object of reducing the price of bacon, by five votes to four sanctioned pigs being reared and kept outside a proclaimed area in the borough. The conditions are to be subject to the approval of the Council and its engineer. The following is the result of the Opunake Town Board election for the return of live commissioners: J. P. Burton 14G, C. A. Trotter .147, Dr. T. N. Watt 88, R. Malcolm 102, A. Richard 06 (elected), S. Feaver 74, F. Hammond 72, !" Rowland 55, G. Davey 61.. The polling was, states our correspondent, the heaviest for ;i!:my years. In the course of his monthly report wider the heading of streets, the New. Plymouth general manager (Mr. F. T. Beilrihger) expresses the opinion that in view of the approach of summer it will be necessary to purchase certain portions of the plant authorised in the £57,000 loan. He states that.the engineer is now engaged upon a special report in regard to the matter. The effect of the rainfall on the volume of water available for hydroelectric generation is noted in the monthly report of the New Plymouth electrical engineer. He state? that the lowest level recorded on the Waiwakaiho River during the season was on August 2, being only three inches above that which the Department regarded as the miiuxm level. The river remained at this "Tel tor approximately 'two days. The river was in flood for ten days, the highest being registered on August 27.

The following are the results of the poll held or, Wednesday for the Manaia Town Board:—J. B. Craig, 219; A. H. Christie, 212; J. J. Meldon, 186; G. Edwards, 180; J. Hickey, 177; N. Innes, 174; G. Neilson, 172; C. Jones, 101; A. Andrews, 159; A. Hansen, 130; C. Hunger, 135; K. Massey, 120; W. Budd, 104; A. Mead, 101. The first seven members were duly elected members of the Manaia Town Board. It was a record poll. "There is real need for something to warn .ueople here of the danger of standing on street O'Wer;. walking across the street and in many other ways miming risk of accident." Thus comments Inspector Drty in a report to ihe New Plj - mouth Borough Council. The report adds: ''The Wellington Automobile Club lias recently organised a safety first campaign, which 1 heartily connncnd to local motorists, liverv motor car seems to beat some warning tersely put advising the public not to cross the streets nnheadingly." The coal shortage in New Plymouth lias been relieved by Mr. A. L. Humphries (the local representative of the controller) arranging for a supply of 50 tons for the gas company out of the cargo recently brought here from Newcastle, while Mr. S. O. Smith, M.P., is arranging to have a further 50 foils railed from Wellington. There is no anxiety in regard to the supply of household coal, but coal for steam purposes is running short, and unless there is animprovement in existing conditions the dairy companies will be placed in a difficult position. Until recently the progress made with the erection of the workers' dwellings in Hawera has not been very satisfactory, but Mr. Pettett states that five additional men arrived last week, and others are due shortly. So far only the foundations and parts of the walls of two houses have been erected, but the additional hands will expedite the work, which will now be pushed on quickly to a conclusion. According to the contractor the concrete work is to be completed in December. —Star. A girl of thirteen and a boy of ten, after some preparation in the way of commissariat, consisting of two rugs and a box of matches, left their kindly guardians in Palmerston at noon on Friday. They were listless and bootless,! but managed to reach a farm house about twelve miles away by ten o'clock at night, when, unobserved, they got in through a side door and crept into another child's bed. The mother discovered them on Saturday morning, and they wero promptly returned to the anxious ones, none the worse for the escapade and all the better for a little hardship. The work in connection with the hydro-electric extensions being carried out by the New Plymouth Borough Council proceeded steadily during last month. The manager's report for August states: "So far the works have not been actually held up owing to the cement shortage. There have been times when the contractor has been compelled to stop the concrete work from this cause, but the men were able to proceed with other work connected with the contract. Owing to the recent closing down of certain of the cement works the outlook for the future, however, is not without anxiety " *'A great deal of unnecessary congestion on the footpaths is caused in Devon Street central owing to the public failing to observe the rules for pedestrian traffic," says the New Plymouth borough manager in his monthly report issued yesterday. "The time has arrived when the by-law requiring pedestrians to keep to the right, and also the by-law prohibiting loitering upon the footpaths, should be more strictly enforced. To do so, however, it ig necessary that the assistance of the police should be invoked, and 1 therefore recommend that the Sub-Inspector of Police bo asked to co-opcrate with the borough inspector in seeing that the by-laws in question are observed." A choice small Normanby-Hawera dairy farm is advertised by W. 11. and A. McGarry on page one. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is Od .Mmi&it infectious influenza j^nas.