LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fifteen members of the Napier Harbor Board have been surcharged with £351. The money was used for distributing loan proposal propaganda. The members concerned intend to defend the proceedings.

The Patea District War Memorial Committee are erecting a. memorial gateway to the Patea Domain at a cost of £4OO. This is to be a district memorial to the men of Alton, Hurleyville, Ma.nutahi, Kakaramea, and Whenuakura who were killed in action or died on service.

A motor-lorry which had taken a load of furniture to Featherston came to grief while returning unladen to Wellington on Saturday evening. When half-way down the Rimutakn Hill road the driver, Ge'orge Moore, lost control of the lorry, which went over a bank, throwing him out and. rolling on top of him. He suffered a compound fracture of the left leg, and was considerably bruised, but is making good progress towards recovery in the Hospital.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Hawera yesterday, before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.AI., Fred Cole King was charged with the theft of two gallons of beer, the property of the Hawera Brewery Co., and David Callender and John Smiley were each charged with receiving one gallon of the beer. All pleaded not guilty, but after hearing the evidence the Magistrate convicted accused and admitted King, who was night watchman at the brewery, and Callender to

tw'o years’ probation. Smiley, whom he considered technically guilty, he ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year.

Prior to their departure for Australia, Misses D. and G. George were presented at the Roland Ball on Monday night, with a beautiful travelling rug each by their friends. Mr. Whittle said that theijr generous help and interest in local functions had helped make these young ladies most popular, and lie felt it was opportune to show their appreciation of their many kindnesses. He then made the presentation, the company singing, “For They are Jolly Good Fellows,” following three hearty cheers and wishes for u pleasant holiday. A dainty supper was served, and dancing was continued till late.

Reference to the Tangarakau and Ohura coal areas was made at the annual meeting of the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association on Monday. The chairman (Mr. F. Ranford), speaking of the activities of the South Taranaki Dairy Companies’ Committee, said that, as a direct result of its representations, a report on the possibilities of the Ohura coal ffields had been made by the Government geologist. He was sorry to say that this report was not favorable so far as th*e immediate future was concerned. Mr. J. B. Richards, commenting on this, said that in the Ohura there were very large seams of coal and he would not like the meeting to disperse with the idea that there was not coal suitable for mining in that district. Many people did not know the difference between Tangarakau and Ohura. In the latter district there were very extensive seams suitable for mining and that was the source from which Taranaki should get its supplies of coal. It is stated that as a result of the slump in wool and certain grades of meat there will be many additional suppliers to the dairy factories of the Auckland district during the coming season (<mv<s the Herald of ’Wednesday). The transfer of activities to dairying on the part of meat and wool growers commenced last season, and resulted in a record output. The recent increases in both butter and cheese prices in London will serve to establish confidence regarding the prospects of. the coming season, and experts are predicting that, given favorable weather conditions during the coming spring and summer, a fresh record in production will be established. According to the latest quotations there is little difference in the butter-fat value of butter and cheese. The cost of shipping and marketing cheese is about 3d a lb, and the ruling price for it in London is 140 s a cwt. This gives a return to the producer of rather more than Is a lb, which is equal to about 2s 6d a lb butter-fat.

Many people considered that in times of commercial depression, the motor, business would be one of the first to feel the pinch, and while this is no doubt true in the main, there are some shining exceptions. We learn from Messrs. Wilson’s Motor Supplies, Ltd., Eltham. who are Taranaki and Wanganui agents for the famous English lorry “Leyland”, that from the period duly 20, 1920, to July 20, 192], they have actually taken orders for 25 lorries, which is slightly i better t'han two per month and represents a sales total of over £35,000. This can be taken as an indication of the general soundness of Taranaki, as the firm heads the list for New Zealand for all “Leyland” retail selling agents, and they are to be congratulated upon *he fine result obtained. The firm considers the prospects for the next twelve months to be as equally good as the past twelve months, basing their belief in the province’s development and general soundness.

A sale worthy of attention is that fixed for August‘l. when Mr. Robert McCay, of McLean Road, Okaiawa, is disposing of his dairy. Mr. McCay is a returned soldier who is still suffering from wounds sustained at the war, and as he is now in hospital he is compelled to give up dairying. The herd is a very attractive one and the sale should attract special interest.

Four candidates are already announced to contest the Marsden seat, from which Mr. Mander has intimated his intention of retiring.

An observant dairyman, though he has grown fairly good shelter, says that by rugging his cows he has increased the milk yield by twenty-five per cent.* He removes the covers on warm days, and hangs them in the air to dry. There is a rumor that the AucklandWellington and Wellington-Auckland express trains, which pass through Palmerston North during the night and early morning, are to be discontinued. It is also believed that further cuts in other services are to be expected. “There appears to be rife in New Zealand,” says the Auckland Star’s London correspondent, “a number of rumors respecting men of the N.Z.E.F. still in England, the most persistent being, that one man is still in hospital in Brighton, England, who has lost his memory and is still unidentified. To put to rest all such sorrowing for missing ones, it may be stated that strict inquiry has been made. The War Office states (hat there remains not one soldier in the hospitals unidentified and whose situation has not been notified to his relations.”

An Auckland business firm was surprised the other day to receive a packet of postcards, some of them bordering on indecency, and some of them over the border. ' They were the sort of thing that occasionally figures in, the Police Court with counsel for the prosecution pressing for a conviction and counsel for the defence urging that if the policeman could appreciate true art there would have been no prosecution. The recipient had some knowledge of art in printing, but in this case he was unappreciative, and he was indignant that he should be asked to be the medium for the distribution of such pietdres. The accompanying letter was from Germany, and it contained a suggestion for an agency, which is declined without thanks. Even if it is to help to pay us the reparation due by Germany, it is to be hoped that steps will be taken to keep this sort of trash out of New Zealand. There will be a good yarding of dairy cows at Rahotu on Thursday. See advertisement in this paper. A splendid line of boys’ and youths’ gaberdine trench coats is being’ shown by the Melbourne, Ltd. The material io thoroughly proofed, will not fade, and is guaranteed to give long service; sizes 10 to 16 y A ars. These goods are exceedingly smart looking, and are recommended with every confidence.

Clean, sweet milk, that’s what the factory managers want for producing a high grade butter and cheese, and it’s to the farmers’ own interests to supply nothing else. The use of “Sinus,” the champion milking machine cleanser, ensures absolute cleanliness. Secure a bag to-day. It’s cheap and efficient. —Purity Broduets (k>., Hawera, wholesale suppliers. Newton King, Ltd., are submitting for sale by auction at the Mart, Devon Street, New Plymouth, on Friday, 29th inst., 135 fully paid up New Plymouth Sash and Door Company shares. The sale advertisement appears in our auction columns of this paper. An important clearing sale to be held at Pukearuhe to-morrow (Thursday/ is that on account of Mr. A. Sorren«on. The cowo are a very good line, showing plenty of Jersey, being young, in splendid condition, and early calvere. A final reminder is given in our auction columns of Mrs. JJ. Hodson’s clearing sale, to be held at Waitara to-day.

Note advertisement in auction columns of an important sale of dairy cows at Stony River saleyards on Monday next, on account of Mr. Frank Sole.