LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Palmerston North Borough Council has decided to cut off street lighting except in the Square, until the coal shortage becomes less acute. A proclamation has been gazetted taking 48J acres at Marlon for the purpose of the Foxton-New Plymouth railway.

Sittings of the Native Land Court and Land Board are at, present being conducted in New Plymouth by Judge Aeheson. Milk will cost more from to-morrow. New Plymouth retailers who have been selling milk at 7d per quart announce that the price will be 8d a quart from tomorrow.

The Waitomo Sawmilling Company's mill in the King Country has lately, been in full swing. Last week the company forwarded some 500,000 feet of white pine to Auckland for shipment to Australia. An arrest of a member of the crew of the Port Pirie was made by the New Plymouth police yesterday, in connection with a chaTget of theft. Ti"he accused will come before the Court this morning.

The sale of Hawera Borough leases, which was conducted by Messrs. R. P. Morrissey and Co. yesterday, elicited keen bidding, the whole of the sixty-nine sections being disposed of at prices varying up <to £2l 10s. In practically every case the leases were sold at prices in advance of the upset rental.

Last month the State, miners were idle on nine working days. Up to yesterday they had wasted live working days of the present month, the figures of normal output the aggregate stoppage of 14 days deprived the country of more than eleven thousand tons of coal. The plain truth is that in their unscrupulous violation cf honest obligations and callous disregard of the rights and welfare of all other sections of the community these well-treateft employees of the State have established a record.—Wellington Dominion.

Speaking at a valedictory social at Waihi on Saturday evening, Mr. F. Campbell (president of the Miners' Union), who wis recently in Wellington, said Mr. Massey had thrown out a warning to the effect that a crisis was apparently approaching in New Zealand, and that it would ba "God help the Dominion" if it came. The Prime Minister had not indicated whether the approaching trouble was of an industrial or financial nature, but it 'behoved the workers to be ready, added Mr. Campbell, and so industrially organised that they' would be prepared to hold their own in probably the biggest fight that New Zealand had ever seen. The Minister of Defence has informed the New Zealand Rifle Clubs that they are to remain under the Defence Department. Up to the present there has been some doubt about this, as it is generally recognised that the war has proved that the shooting of such clubs is not on the lines shown to be necessary in modem Warfare, while there is a general disposition to cut down the expenditure oil defence to, what is absolutely necessary. The Minister of Defence has stipulated that the expenditure under the heading of Rifle Clubs must appear as a separate item in the Defence vote.

"The great possibilities of the North are being rapidly realised by the southem people," said Mr. Hornblow, Mayor of Dargaville, in the course of ail interview, in which he was asked as to the truth of the reports about fabulous sums being made out of the gum industry. The statements, we are informed, are not by any means overrated (says the Auckland Star). Dargaville is the centre of this great industry, which is, it is stated, on the eve of a boom. Thousands of pounds are being expended in machinery", and small companies to work the gum chips are springing up all over the place. Private individuals working under the most primitive conditions are making £lO to £ls a week. One well-known syndicate, in Auckland, which owns a large tract of country a few miles out of Dargaville, has employed over one hundred Dalmatians, who contrrtmte £5 each per month ( £6O per annum) merely for the right to dig. Several properties are earning as much as £6 per square yard, and it is reported that as hiuch as £BOOO is being taken out of one allotment containing three-quarters of an acre. Entries are still coming forward for the Annual Sale of pedigree Jerseys, being conducted by Newton King Ltd., at Waiwakaiho yards on 7th October. The offering now totals over 100 head. The excellent quality of the stock cannot be denied, a brief glance at the breeding displayed in the catalogue being sufficient evidence of this. Apart from the value of the sale to Jersey Breeders desirous of securing fashionably bred animals, it also offers a Very good opportunity to dairymen of obtaining a real good herd bred on butter-fat producing lines.

Dairymen in search of a herd hire, whether it be a pedigree Friesian or Shorthorn, or grade Friesian, Shorthorn or Jersey, which is required, should note the date of the Waiwakaiho Bull Fair, Friday, Bth October. All pedigree Jersey bulls are to be sold at the annual Jersey sale in the same yards on Thursday, 7th October.

On Saturday next Newton King, Ltd., are offering for sale by auction the splendidly situated property owned by the late Mr. James Honeyfield. This is an ideal cutting-up proposition, it having two good frontages, is on the tram route and close to the breakwater. On the same day will be offered on account of the Pyrotan Leather, Ltd., a handy section at Fitzroy, and on account of Mr. Newtou Honeyfield a fine building site on Ngamotu Road. A meeting of Friesian breeders will be held under the auspices of the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Friesian Breeders' Association, in Mr. T. H. Sinclair's ofliee, Opunake, on Saturday, at 1 p.m.

R. P. Morrissey and Co. notify in this issue an important sale of pedigree Jersays on behalf of various South Taranaki' breeders, which is to be held on the Egmont A. and P. !jJho.w grounds on Tuesday next. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to. draw attention to their Te Wera sale which they are holding in their Te Wera yards tomorrow (Friday), at 1 p.m. Full particulars of entries will be found on page 8 of this issue. ' CLINCHER CROSS—the motor-car tyre that is superior. The ' result of painstaking and extended research, experiment, and long years of wear. All garages can supply. 106

It is better to use Nazol too freely than too carefully for inhalation. Its effect is more pronounced and reduces the danger of infection from influenza