LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

No sugar for Taranaki was brought by the Raraxya yesterday, but it is stated she will bring 80 tons next Tuesday.

Government consent has been given tqs the Clifton County Council to borrow £l3OO.

The Yorkshire Insurance Company has purchased at Auckland for £23,000 the corner property with 45ft sin frontage to Shortland Street and 105 ft to O’Connell Street, formerly the site of Brown and Campbell’s offices.

Mr. E. P. Lee, Minister of Internal Affairs, states that Cabinet has decided that in view of the reduced prices now quoted for imported cement the remission of duty on cement will be cancelled from April F. The Immigration Department is advised that the Ruapehu, with assisted immigrants, will arrive on the morning of March 6 and disembark North Island passengers and sail for Lyttelton, where she is due on the 17th.

Good progress is now being made with the erection of the two bridges on the Te Roti-Opuuake railway line, near Te Roti. Last week one gang of men, engaged in preparing the permanent way, was sent on as far as the point at which the line will cross the Rowan Road.—Eltham Argus.

The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. T. Harle Giles) presided over a sitting of the Council at New Plymouth yesterday when the dispute in the grocery trade came up for discussion. This matter was finally deferred till Tuesday. On Monday the bakers’ application will be dealt with and the Commissioner will also be asked to ratify the'Wtlement which was arrived at in the butchery trade at a recent conference between the employees and men after an amicable discussion.

Recently the library forming part of the estate of the late Mr. Saxton was placed under offer to the Carnegie Institute at New Plymouth, with the result that the public library has received an addition of some 240 books from this source. The books comprise a varied assortment and all are worth perusal, ranging as they do from large, finelyillustrated works of exploration and travel to series of home economics, gardening and farming, and other branches of human knowledge and activity. The children’s section of the library has also recently received some accessions from various sources.

A charge of indecent exposure was preferred against James McConville, wharf laborer, in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the offence, it was alleged having been committed at Kawaroa Park the previous afternoon (Thursday). Messrs. H. R. Cattley and T. Furlong, J.P.’s, presided, and Senior-Sergt McCrorie appeared for the police. Accused pleaded not guilty, but after hearing the evidence of three witnesses, including the park caretaker and Constable Small, the Bench convicted McConville, and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment. They remarked that the case was rather a bad one and commended the action of the gentlemen who had been instrumental in having McConville placed in custody.

Webster Bros, draw attention to a direct importation of high-grade basic slag, ex the s.s. Port Pirie, arriving May-June.

The NZ. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their Stratford sale which they are holding in the Stratford yards on Tuesday, March 1, 1921, at 12.30 p.m. Full particulars of entries will be found on oage 3 of this issue.