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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a. meeting at Okaiawa on Friday evening, it was decided to erect n monument in Joll Park as a memorial to the fallen soldiers of «the district. Close on £2OO has already been collected, and steps will be taken to at once proceed with the erection, a committee, being set up to interview the Park Committee in regard to a site.

Reserved decision was given by the Magistrate, Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, at the New Plymouth Court yesterday in the case of Fairbrother and Pickering v. C. L. Rasper, claim for £122 10s for commission on the sale of a farm. After reviewing the evidence, His Worship held that plaintiffs were entitled to commission as it appeared their efforts had introduced the property to the purchaser. Judgment was given for £l2O (being commission on £4800). and costs.

It has been decided by the New Plymouth Borough Council 'that in cases of application for water supply to a property situate at a greater distance than 66ft from the nearest water main, the applicant be requested to pay the cost of the extra length. By a* resolution carried at last night's meeting, applicants for a connection are also to be advised to endeavour to arrange for all other property owners whose properties could also bo served by the extension, to cpntribute towards the cost of the extensions in a proportion based upon the unimproved value of the properties con,cerned.

A report received by the New Plymouth Borough Council last night from the Carnegie Institute Committee stated that twenty-three applications were to hand for the position of librarian and curator of the public library and museum. The applications had been narrowed down to three, and after further information had been secured a final recommendation would be made to the Council.

11l answer to a question by Mr. S. 0. Smith, M.P., at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday, it was stated that no reply had yet been received from the Minister in reference to the application for a site for the West End School. Mr. Smith said that the Minister had informed him that owing to pressure of business he had not yet cone into the matter. Mr. Smith stressed the necessity of keeping the matter before the Minister, as if the opportunity of securing this site were lost he did not know where they could secure another.

A circular has been issued to sharein the Bank of New Zealand explaining the re-arrangement of the bank's capital and reserve fund", for which authority was given by Parliament in the recent session. In accordance with the Act the directors have fixed December 31st as the date at which the existing capital is to be cancelled, and in lieu of it 3.375,000 shares of £1 each, fully paid, are to be issued. On thßt date holders of ordinary shares will then receive ten fullypaid £1 shares in exchange for each fullvpaid £6 lSs 4d share which they

A young man who had acted somewhat peculiarly on' Sunday on the beach near Kawaroa Park, ,and had walked out into the breakers after divesting some clothing, was brought before the New Plymouth Court yesterday on a charge of attempted suicide. On the application of Sub-Inspector Hutton a remand for a week was granted. Permission has been granted by the New Plymouth Borough Council to the nursing staff of the public hospital to make a street collection on Saturday, Dec. 11. The object of the appeal is to raise a sum of money towards de* fraying the cost of putting tiled floors in the kitchen block at the new nurses' home instead of concrete as was proposed. In connection with an application for the sewer in Devon Street West, the Borough Council last night decided that provided the owners concerned pay onehalf of the total cost, estimated at £393 17s, the C.i.icil will extend the G-in. pipe to the intersection of Belt Road and Devon Street. At a meeting of the Taranaki Counties' Conference to be held at Eltham on December 15, the question of uniform wages will be discussed. The engineer (Mr. W. H. Cook) was last night delegated to represent the New Plymouth Borough Council.

A letter was received from the Frankley Road Settlers' Association at. last pight's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council drawing attention to two dangerous crossings on the road near Mr Gibson's property, and asking that the Council secure a report on the matter. In a note on the subject the engineer (Mr. W. H. Cook) said he had been over the road frequently, and did not know of any corners which could he classed as dangerous to ordinarily careful drivers. The Council decided that no action be taken.

The soldiers' memorial at Leppertorf was unveiled on Sunday afternoon before a large gathering of people. Ministers of the several denominations took part in a combined service, and the unveiling was performed by Lieut-Colonel C. _H. Weston, D.S.O. The memorial is in the form of an obelisk, rising from a .square base to a height of 27 feet. The stone waR quarried on a neighbouring farm and thus to the people of the district the obelisk is, more than it would be if otherwise composed, a fitting reminder of the men to whose memory it is dedicated. Their names, which are inscribed on a tablet, are: Private A. Burnard, Private A. L. Cartwright, Lance-Corporal J. Crofskey, Gunner T. V. Fcakins, Gunner ,T. H. Griffin, Private \V. H. Harrold, Sergeant H. J. Jeffery, D.C.M., Lieutenant H. M. Lepper. M.C., Private Bert Luke, Trooper R. Paul, Private G. Payne, Rifleman ■T. C. 0. Simpson, Private T. F. Stewart, Private S. West. Above the names are the words: "In the cause of liberty, justice and humanity." On another

tablet it is recorded that the obelisk was: "Erected by the residents of Lepperlon and Sentry Hill to the memory of their men who fell in the Great War, 1914-IS."

The arrangements for the Christmas Fair in the Workers' Social Hall, New Plymouth, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in aid of the Clarke Memorial Girls' Hostel fund are well advanced, pnd stall holders are very busy making up their stocks so that even-one will be well catered for. Saturday will be a special children's day, and Father Christmas will be much in evidence in the evening. As the produce .stall on that day will be managed by ladies from Bell' Block and Hillsborough, the Fair will open at 12 noon, instead of at 2.30 as on the preceding days.

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Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1920, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1920, Page 4

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