LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, which opened last Tuesday, were concluded yesterday morning.
The New Plymouth Citizens’ Band committee Jias decided to apply to the Bands Association to have the 1922 contest helfi in New Plymouth. A bubcommittee was set up to draw up conditions and invite applications for the position of conductor. A number of the schools from inland Taranaki will hold their annual excursions at New Plymouth this week. To-day the Midhirst picnic will take place at the East End beach, while tomorrow the Stratford picnic takes place at Ngamotu. The Ngaere people will picnic at Ngamotu on Friday, and Eltljam on the 24th inst. A man named Samuel Skipper was admitted to the New Plymouth hospital last night suffering from injuries to the head, received through falling from a motor lorry at Fitzroy. It appears that the lorry side-skidded while negotiating a corner, with .the result that Skipper was thrown heavily to the grounii. ■
The am'ount of damage for alleged libel to be claimed by Mr. P. Mora, clerk to the Waitomo County Council, against Mr. J. E. Hamill, proprietor of the “King Country Chronicle,” in connection with an article dealing with Mr. Mora’s purchase of the bounty farm, is stated to be £4ooo—there being two counts of £2OOO each.
The question of the A-establishment of the Eltham District High School was before the meeting of the Eltham School Committee on Monday. The chairman reported on his efforts to secure the re-establishment of the school, and he stated that he Had received the following reply from the Hon. C. J. Parr:—“Your telegram .re district high school at Eltham received. Have instructed Director of Education to look into matter, and will let you have further reply as early as possible.” At the Eltham Magistrate’s Court on Monday afternoon, Edward Guillosson, described as a laborer, residing in Castle Street, Eltham, was before the Court on two charges of theft. In each case the alleged theft was’from the house in Castle Street occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ricketts. The first was' stated to have been committed on January 19, when accused is alleged to have stolen the sum of- £.30 in notes, and the second on February 12, when he is charged with taking £l2. The case was adjourned till to-day, bail being refused.
At the meeting of the Wanganui Harbor Board on Friday evening the chairman stated that the . prospective pjice of supply of stone from Mount Egmont quarry appeared to be reasonable, but the quoted price of 10s 7d per ton for railage was unreasonable. He considered that if the board entered into an arrangement to get the stone in large quantities, it should be at a much more reasonable tariff. The Government could make the quarry pay by supplying large quantities to this and the New Plymouth Harbor Board. ’ The stone would be very useful, as both moles could be kept going simultaneously. The engineer said the stone was very much better than that in use by the board at present. The chairman reported that he had visited the local quarry, a large quantity of useful stone was in sight,, and something like 96,000 tons would be available, or sufficient to keep going for three years. The present, season lias been an exceptionally good one from the gardener’s point of view, and anyone With an eye for these things cannot help admiring them. The autumn show of the New Plymouth Horticultural Society, which takes place next week, provides growers of flowers and vegetables with a first-' class opportunity to show’ what they can do Entries are now beginning to come in. The 282 classes give a wide range and everyone gets a chance to make an entry of some kind. We reyou to get a schedule and see what you can do right away. In the Supreme Court New Plymouth yesterday, His Honor, Mr. Justice Hosking, granted a decree nisi, which may be made absolute in three months, in the case of Mary I. Stanley, of New Plymouth, (Mr. C. 11. Weston) who petitioned for a dissolution of marriage from J. H. Stanley, on the grounds of desertion. The case was ’heard last week, when decision was reserved.
What the drop in sheep and wool means to farmers is brought home by the experiences of a well-known south Taranaki breeder. He took a line of first-class Lincolns to the Waikato ram fair last week. The animals, he estimates, cost him 50s each to breed and get ready for show, and another 15s to rail ayid enter for the fair. His best bid was 10s 6d. Last year he received from eight to ten guineas for similar sheep. Just before that., he got at Wanganui, only 7s 6d for fat ewes that last year brought 37s 6d, and £7 for cattle that seven months before he bought as stores for £lO. A 4-ton Leyland motor truck made the journey from Wellington via Stratford and the Ohura, through to Tauranga recently. This was the first time a heavy truck had negotiated the Tangarakau and Ohura. The drivers (the Messrs. ( Seabrooke, Auckland), took six Jays over the trip, and said the worst parts were the Tangarakau and , the Kaimai hill from Matamata to Tauranga, probably the worst road in New Zealand to-day. The machine stood the hard journey well. Further voluntary courses of instruction wiill be held at General Headquarters’ School, Trentha/m, for officers and n.c.o.’s of the New Zealand Territorial Force and Senior Cadets in March, April, and May. With the object of providing sufficient trained officers and n.c.o'.’s for the Territorial Force and Senior Cadets in the future, it has been decided that special training platoons may be formed on the lines of the Officers’ Training Corps at Home. Special training platoons may be formed at secondary schools and at group and area headquarters comprising selected volunteers from the various cadet units. Membership is to be confined to th'ose cadets who have had at least two years’ efficient service in the Senior Cadets, have passed an efficiency test for entrance to the special training platoon, and are prepared to attend parades of the special training platoon in addition to those of their cadet unit. Mails , which left Wellington on December 30. per s.s. lonic, via arrived in London on February 10. The Railway Department advertises in this issue that there are vacancies for cadets. Better crops when NORTH BRITISH CARDEN HOSE is used. Regular use i* assured by its splendid condition always. No leaking. AU hardware-
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