LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For a breach of the County by-law in allowing stock to wander, A. Carr was fined 10s, and costs 17s Bd, at the New Plymouth Court yesterday. Mr. R. H. Quilliam appeared for the informant, the County inspector. A charge of failing to comply with an order 1 for the maintenance of bis wife and child was preferred against All". A. Francis at the New Plymouth Court yesterday. For the informant Mr A, A. Bennett stated that the arrears amounted to £lO7. Defendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the order to be suspended if he pays £2 per week maintenance and 10s -per week off the arrears. A conviction and discharge was recorded at the New Plymouth Court yesterday in cases in which two youths appeared to answer charges of committing breaches of the by-laws in setting off fireworks in St. Aubyn Street. In addressing the offenders, Magistrate Bailey said it must be. understood that this class of offence could not be permitted. "You can let your mates know," said the S.M., "that if any more are caught in future they will be fined." He pointed out that the setting off of crackers in the streets was often the cause of intimidating passers-by, such as women and children.

On the information of the Commissioner of Taxes, at the New Plymouth Court yesterday, W. G. Heslop-Barnett was proceeded against for failing to send in tax returns. Mr. C. H. Weston appeared for informant. For the defendant, Mr. Quilliam said that Mr. Barnett was in failing health and advancing years, and last year had allowed the assessment to go by default. Since the institution <;." proceedings he had done all in his power to rectify the matter. His Worship (Mr. T. A. B. Bailey) remarked that often the assessment was allowed to go by unscrupulous persons, who might finis escape hundreds of pounds in tax. While such was evidently not the intention in this case, the aim of the prosecution was to stop the practice of not sending in returns A fine of 40s, with costs £1 Bs, was imposed. Don't miss the lovely sports coats and jumpers at Morey's. There are lots of new styles to choose from, and the color combinations and plain shades in these seasonable garments form not the least attractive features of the display. "Belgium .During and After the War," is the title of the lecture Mrs. Knowles' will give in the Workers' Social Hall on Monday next. Mrs. Knowles is the New Zealander who did such valiant work in connection with military hospitals that she received three decorations from the Belgian Government—Chevalier de I'Ordre de Leopold, Medaille de la fieino Elisabeth avec Croix Rouge, and Medaille Commemorative de la Guerre 1914-1918. Mrs. Knowles (as Miss Dormer Maunder) had experience in Belgium from September 1014 to March of this year. The interest of. (he lecture will bfi greatly enhanced by lantern pictures from photographs taken by Mrs. Knowles, and supplemented byothers supplied by the Minister for War

"There are some of you people who are trying to make yourselves small millionaires, and my advice to you is to spend your money while you are hero. It you don't spend it now, Bill Massey will get it, when you die." — Chairman Woods, speaking on labour and the cost of living;, at a recent meeting of the Manawatu Drainage Board. Several cases of infantile paralysis have been reported in Gisborne during the past week or two, two deaths having occurred recently. A Gisborne medical man, in conversation with a reporter, said that the infantile paralysis seemed to come in waves,'at intervals estimated about six years. The last one to come to New Zealand was a severe one, and there were over SO cases in Gisborne alone.

Already, under the railway building scheme, 22 new houses are occupied at Kaiwarra, and it is hoped to have 100 completed by next March, and 400 by the following March; that is to say, an annual output of 400 railway cottages is aimed at. Thej> are mostly five-roomed houses, on sufficient sections, and the rent is reported to be on the basis of the equivalent of "a day's pay."

Says the Lyttclton Times:—"We find this North Island administration distributing £1,170,627 on roads and bridges in the North Island, leaving £4IG,S»2, or a mere 26.3 per cent., for the South Island. The two Auckland road districts get £41)7,074 more than the whole of the South Island. They are given 31.3 per cent, of the total expenditure for the North Island. Canterbury gets 3.5 per cent, of the Dominion expenditure, or one-ninth of Auckland's share, a sure indication that Canterbury does not rote on the right ticket. We are slowly beginning to appreciate that delightful joke the Aucklanders indulge in 'about 'the roadless north.'"

On the authority of the American motor journal, Automotive Industries, it is stated that New Zealand has more motor vehicles than all Australia. Mr. G. Hamilton-Grapes,- consulting automobile engineer, of Melbourne, who is at present in Wellington on his way to America, informed a Post reporter today that, in his opinion, there were certainly more commercial vehicles in Wellington than in Melbourne, with over six times the population of the New Zealand capital city. This he regards as all the more astonishing, as Wellington, with its high hills and heavy grades, is not particularly well suited to the development of motor transport. The motor-express is a remarkable feature in Wellington, and how the owner manages to make it pay at the present price of petrol is a marvel to the visitor.

Mr. R. S. Abraham, of Palmerston North, writes as follows to the editor of the. Dominion: Sir, — t should be glad if you could tell me why the manufacture of margarine is not'allowed in this Dominion. 1 understand that it good palatable articles can be put on the market at about Is to Is 3d per lb, which, with lit per cent, of genuine butter added, cannot be distinguished from ordinary factory butter by the consumer. 1 am led to understand that a manufacturer of this commodity in Australia has the necessary machinery, and would be prepared to start making margarine here if he were allowed to do so. We have any quantity of good, edible tallow available—no better in the world—and it would give an outlet in this direction which would be very useful, and would save the risk of' shipping and expense to which this article has to submit before it can be marketed. My firm has lately shipped tallow to America, the cost" thereof being £l2 (is Gd per ton by the time it was sold in New York. Why are we not allowed to use our own products in our own country and thus save this useless expense? As the son of a poor parson, I was brought up on dripping, and seldom tasted butter, but we liked the dripping and throve on it, and for most people margarine, if of good quality, is just as wholesome as butter. Probably it would, not be good enough for Messrs Eraser, Holland, and their clan, but ordinary people would only be too glad to have the chance of saving the extra cost of butter in these times of costly living, and the farmer would benefit by being able to export more of his butter. I offer the suggestion for what it is worth, though possibly there may be some good reason beyond the ordinary political one, which makes it desirable that margarine should not be allowed to be manufactured here. We have to apologise for the non-de-livery of one of our New Plymouth deliveries yesterday morning, due to the sudden illness of the runner. "Let me pop it on your finger Where the wedding ring will be, Will you? Won't you? Will you? Honeyl will you marry me?" That's what Sammie said to Sadie, While she sighed in rapture pure; Now she's bending over baby, Mixing Wood's Peppermint Cure. A special display of ladies' longclnih lingerie is being made by the Melbourne Clothing Co. As these goods were indented for last year, when longcloth was much cheaper than to-day the values now offered are extremely 'favorable to buyers. Prices for' similar goods next season will be 50 per cent dearer.

A comparative trial of the ditTe-siit washing powders ou the market will resuit in a veritable triumph for "Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap, the queen of houseHold helps. It cuts time, labor and expose m half, and, moreover, is a po<itive pleasure to use. Obtainable at all stores.