LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

So far 23 entries have been received from all parts of the Dominion for the band contest to be held in Nelson next March.

At Newton King, Ltd.'s, New Plymouth Haymarket on Saturday wean'er pigs brought up to 235, slips to 335, and stores to £2 14s Od.

Mails which left Wellington on 14th October, per a.s. Marama, via 'Frisco, arrived in London on the 23rd November. It was stated to a Wellington Times reporter on Friday that New Zealand is to be represented at the conference of Empire Premiers to be held in London next June, hut not necessarily by its Prime Minister.

A charge of breaking and entering and stealing two razors from a whare in Avenue Road, was preferred against two boys at the New Plymouth Court on Saturday.. The boys," who admitted the offence, were admonished by the Magistrate (Mr. T. A. B. Bailey) and discharged.

The proposal of the New Plymouth Borough Council to raise a special loan of £OO,OOO in connection with the electric light extensions will be put to a poll of ratepayers on Wednesday. The position in connection with the loan will be explained to a meeting of ratepayers to-night at the Workers' Social Hall.

The cabbage trees in Taranaki just now are a mass of bloom. This condition, according to the Maoris, is a sign of a dry summer and autumn. There is one particularly fine tree in bloom in the grounds of Mr. K. Hughes, New Plymouth, that can be seen from Powderham Street. We are asked to state that no building has yet been bought for the Clarke Memorial Hostel. Several are under offer, but nothing whatever has been done, or will be done until adequate finance is secured.

The Taranaki County Council is making active preparations to vigorously rush on with the tar-sealing of the coastal road from the Egmont, County boundary towards New Plymouth as soon as settled weather is assured. Already large quantities of sand have been carted out from New Plymouth.

At St. Mary's Church, New Plymouth, yesterday, special dedication services were held, the. occasion being the 77th anniversary of the arrival of Rev. William Holland, who was appointed by Bishop Selwyn to take charge of the district. The preacher yesterday at both morning and evening services was Archdeacon Mac Murray, of Auckland.

The re-trial of Samuel Thorn, charged with the murder of Sidney Seymour Eyre, at Pukekawa, will be commenced at the Auckland Supreme Court this morning. The Chief Justice, who presided at the first trial, will not do so on this occasion, as he has to preside over tiie Auckland and Waikeria sittings of the Prisons Board, which will probably extend over about four days, commencing to-day. Either Mr. Justice Hosking or Mr. Justice Chapman will, it is expected, take the Pukekawa re-trial.

A peculiar incident took place on the bench, near Kawaroa .Park, yesterday, when a young man, who had divested himself of hi? coat and vest, walked out into the breakers. He was stopped by a number of persona in the vicinity, and later he was handed over to the police. The case is stated to be one of shellshock re-action, the man being a returned soldier with considerable service. He will appear before the Court this morning, when it is probable a remand for medical treatment will be applied for.

There was a large attendance at Kawaroa Park yesterday afternoon, when a recital was given by the New Plymonth Citizens' Band. The collection, which will be devoted to the park funds, realised approximately ,£l(i. The music rendered by the band (under Conductor F. \V. 0. MeLeod) included popular numbers which were played by the band for the first time. The opening number was "Canberra," the test march at the recent West Coast contest, and the principal selection wrs "Carisbrooke" (Calvert). '"'

A need for (he appointment of a permanent Customs officer at Patea was discussed by the Hawera Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night. The president (Mr. Murdoch) said a man was stationed there before the war, but owing to the depletion of staff during the war, they only had an officer two days a week from Wanganui, and an officer one day a week from New Plymouth. This was very awkward, and inconvenient delays were sometimes occasioned business men. They should do all they could to have an officer established at Patea. The Customs paid at Palea was about .C1'2,000 a year. It was decided to make representations to the Department with a view to having a permanent officer appointed at Patea.

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Create an atmosphere of Kazol about uu, so that you constantly inhale it—about ten drops on the chest of the pyj»ma jacket at night or on the singlet in the morning protects you against inJ'ontious germs. &

There is money in bottles. A "bottleoli" told the Palmeraton North Magistrate's Court on Tuesday that he and his partner bought bottles at Is per dozen and sold them at ;fs per dozen. To collect, the bottles they ran a motor lorry.

The inoi-9a.su in the amounts of the deposits on which interest will be paid by the Post Office Savings Bank is announced in this week's Gazette. The change was authorised by Parliament last session. The rates are to be 4 per cent, on deposits up to £f>(X), and 3} per cent, on amounts above £SOO and not exceeding £»l)00.

A correspondent writes to the T)unedin Star: "Before the matriculation examination is held this year it is most devoutly to be hoped that some stop may be put to cribbing. T'have it on the best of authority that even dictionaries were taken In and used last year It is true that boys crib at school,'and pretty badly, too; but it is quite time the supervisors stopped that kind of thing." A quaint anecdote was told by Bri-gadier-General Andrew in a lecture lie gave at Christchurch. The Mahommedans had a tradition that when Noah was on his journey the Ark had sprung a leak and would have foundered if the serpent had not pushed himself through the hole and by making a knot of himself on each side made a satisfactory plug. Noah was unkind enough to choose the serpent for a sacrifice on Ararat, but the serpent got his revenge, because out of his remains a host of fleas had come to plague humanity ever afterwards I

A special sale of extraordinary interest to buyers of Manchester goods, damasks, voile blouses, etc., commences on Tuesday morning at <the Melbourne, Ltd. Our readers are asked to be on the look-out for the firm's sale advertisement, which will contain bargains of a sweeping character.

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