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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The gate at the Sprin'gbok-Wairarapa match in Masterton was over £BOO.

The Waikite • geyser at Whakarewarewa, which has been dormant for fifteen years, played yesterday for halfhour, to a. height of thirty-five feet (says a telegram from Rotorua).

The Hawera Star understands that cable inquiries have been received from America asking for quotations for New Zealand butter for Canada and the United States.

Two elderly offenders, who had been locked up on Saturday night for drunkenness, were convicted and discharged, on their appearance in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning.

Advices from America «state that Henry Ford, the great car manufacturer, turned otit his five-millionth Ford car in June, and this car was placed in the museum side by side with the first car manufactured by the firm. In connection with the national prohibition campaign a large meeting of supporters was held at\ the Baptist Church, New Plymouth, last night. The 1922 campaign was discussed, the provincial organiser being present. The officers were elected and urgent matters, put in hand.

The Springboks greeted the Wairarapa football team on the field with a true British cheer—the proper “Hip! Hip! Hooray!” not the absurd “Hip-ray!” that is heard locally on the football field. The Wairarapa Daily Times thinks the local team might with advantage take a leaflet out of the Springboks’ book in regard to cheering.

At last night’s meeting of the New Plymouth Citizens’ Band Committee it was decided to approach the Kawaroa Park Committee, the High School girls and various other organisations with a view to soliciting their support in raising funds to defray the expenses of the band’s participation in the Thames contest on August 6.

A light form of gastric influenza i,s prevalent in Wellington at present, and is the basis of a good deal of' the sickness which has occurred there during the last month. A recent arrival from Australia states that the same malady has been epidemic in Sydney recently. A medical man, referring to the complaint, said it was quite a nasty form of mild influenza, which had to be taken care of to prevent developments which may prove serious.

Mr. H. G. Staub, seedsman, of Regent Street, Hawera, has an advertisement in this issue that should be read by all requiring seed potatoes and garden seeds.

The total amount so far distributed for charitable and educational purposes since the inauguration of tlie Macarthy Trust, Wellington, is £47,907. The committee of the Clarke Memorial Hostel wish to acknowledge with thanks, receipt of the following subscriptions: Miss N. Smith 10s, Miss Bestford 10s, per Mrs. Lepper 12s 6d, Urenui euchre party £5 7s.

At the New Plymouth Citizens’ Band Committee meeting last night, Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., read a letter from General Richardson stating that the Defence Department were considering the proposal that the Citizens’ Band should become the Taranaki regimental band. He thought New Plymouth should be the regimental band's headquarters on account of the military history attached to the town.

Mr. R. B. D. Eyre, Collector of Customs at New Plymouth, received advice yesterday morning to the effect that some wreckage had been washed ashore during the night in the vicinity of Omata. The wreckage, which consists mostly of Oregon, its some 30ft. or 40ft. long and 16ft wide, and it is thought has formed the roof of the deck-house of a schooner. There is, however, nothing to indicate what ship the wreckage might have belonged to.

The estimates of the attendance at the Springboks-Wellington football match on Saturday struck anyone "'ho knows the ground as exaggerated (says a Press telegram). It would be impossible to get thirty thousand people into it. Taking the line by the 1904 match, when the place seemed fully as crowded as on Saturday, and allowing for extra terraces, it is improbable there were even 25,000 present. The official count has already been found out to be much overrated, one turnstile having recorded three thousand too many. The money taken also goes to show that the crowd was greatly over-estimated, for £2300 does not account for anything like the official return.

Ratana. the Maori healer, who has just concluded his tour of the native /settlements of the North Island, returned to his home at Ratana on Friday |He is now leaving for Temuka, in the I South Island, and after concluding his mission in the south, intends to proceed Ito the Chatham Islands. During his northern tour, Ratana visited every Maori settlement as far north as it was possible to go, and a reliable informant who has been in close touch with the healer, reports that he has had remarkable success and has effected some wonderful cures. That Ratana. does not intend to allow his’’ work to languish is manifested by the fact of his immediate departure for the south in order that his own people in every part of the Dominion may have the opportunity of benefiting from his remarkable powers. Speaking at the annual meeting of suppliers to the Midhirst Dairy, the chairman (Mr. G. Sangster) said that he had great hopes of the market in Germany being Open to them shortly. .A good many would not like the idea of trading with. Germany, but he pointed out that Germany was a necessary cogwheel of the machinery. New Zealand, he said, was all linked together, but if the ferry service was cut rt would be impossible to trade, and the same thing applied to Europe. As xong as Central Europe was unable to trade a cogwheel would be missing. Germany had, he understood, paid the indemnity, not in German marks, but in American dollars, . which showed that she wgs getting credit somewhere. New Zealand wanted potash, and Germany was the only place where it could be obtained. If they could not pay for our produce in money, they could pay- in manures, phosphates, etc.

Unusual circumstances surround ed the case of an elderly man who came before the New Plymouth Court yesterday morning on a charge of yagrancy. According to Senior-Sergt. McCrorie the man came to the police station on Sunday morning. He was penniless and had nothing to eat for the previous 36 hours, having been unable to secure work for some time, and asked the police to lock him up: hence the charge. He had recently arrived from Wellington. Answering Mr. C. R. Orr Walker. S.M.. the man in the dock said he had tried but could not get work. His Worship said he did not want to send the man to gaol, and at his suggestion the case was adjourned till the afternoon with a view to seeing what could be done to find employment for the police’s visitor. When the Court resumed in the afternoon the SeniorSergeant reported that he had secured employment for the accused through the Labor Department, and His Worship merely enteral a conviction.

Breaches of the hotel employees’ award through failure to enter certain particulars in the time and wages book were preferred avainst F. C. Faber, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, in the New Plymouth Magist ite’s Court yesterday morning. The. information was laid by the Inspector of Factories (Mr. L. G. Mountjoy), who gave particulars of several inconsistencies in Faber’s records as to hours worked by employees and wages received, especially by casuals. He said it was very necessary, in the opinion of the department, that these particulars should be shown, and in this case, when making investigations, it was impossible to find out) the exact state of affairs Defendant explained to the Court that in the earlier part of thq year great difficulty had been experienced in\obtaining labor, and it was a busy period. He obtained casuals whenever possible, but did not think it necessary to record their wages in the book. There were four informations concerning specific employees before the Court, and His Worship inflicted a penalty of £2 on each of the four charges. There were no costs.

A clearing sale is being held to-day on account of Mr. Iruhe Rangitaawa. Attention is drawn to the sale of Mr. B. McKnight’s herd on the farm. East Road. Stratford, on Friday, July 2.9. Full details appear in the Farmers’ Coop. advertisement. Mr. R. B. Wood, M.R.C.V.S., will deliver a lecture at Waitara on Friday next on the subject of “Farm medicines: their uses and abuses.”

There will be a good yarding of dairy cows at Rahotu on Thursday. See advertisement in this paper. Those interested in amateur athletics will read yvith interest an announcement in this morning’s issue that a meeting is to be held in the Soldiers’ Club next Monday evening, with the object of forming an amateur athletic, association in New Plymouth. Such associations flourish in Hawera, Wanganui and Wellington, and there is no reason why a really live association should not be formed in New Plymouth.

; An important clearing sale to be held tat Pnkearnhe on Thursday next is that on account of Mr. A. Sorrensori. The -cows are a very good line, showing plenty of Jersey, young, in splendid condition, and early calvers. H. J. Abram, “Shop by Post” chemist, New Plymouth, will mail his renowned ' Chilblain Application. 1/6, post free.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
1,535

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 4

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