LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The mails which left Auckland on June 15, per s.s. Niagara, via Vancouver, arrived in London on July 24.

A cable from Sydney states that the Tahiti sailed at 11 a.m. yesterday for Wellington with the Australasian Rugby League football team on board.

“You want to do as we do in Taranaki and you will soon have good roads,” remarked Mr. E. Dixon, M.P., at the Wanganui and Inland Districts Development League conference on Wednesday. “We can’t produce butter-fat like Taranaki,” was the reply.

At the Eltham Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, before Air. T. A B. Bailey, S.M., the rehearing of the oa<-e T. 11. Fever v. Ben Booker, a claim for damages for collision between cars on Burke’s Hill, near Cltham, was heard. Al the previous hearing Mr. Bailey gave judgment for the defendant. On appeal the Judge (Mr. Justice ITosking) ordered the case to ho reheard <m the ground that the Magistrate had misdirected himself on the law and had taken evidence irregularly. On the rehearing Mr. Bailey reserved his decision.

A total of fifty-two cases has so iar been dealt with by the War Pensions Board which is at present sitting in New Plymouth. Of the above number thirteen were granted permanent pen* sions, eight are to be reconsidered at the expiry of the present term, and 31 were renewed for a further term, elgv.i of these being final. In two cases pen-

sions were increased. The board continues the hearing of cases to-day, and will conclude to-morrow.

A special meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board was held yesterday, when members paid a visit to the reserves at Fitzroy, and met representatives of the Ratepayers’ Association in connection with the latter’s application to the board to grant a piece of the land for recreation purposes in this end of the town. It was decided to instruct the engineers to prepare a plan of the reserves before discussing the application.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, who is visiting New Plymouth, has kindly promised the Victoria League to give an address at the league’s rooms in Egmont Street on Monday evening next at 7.30 p.m. Dr. Gunn is the Government medical inspector of the Taranaki schools, and will give an address on medical inspection. The whole matter of the State and the medical profession, and the prevention and cure of disease and maintenance of health is much is evidence just now, and all interested, whether league members or not, are invited to , the meeting on Monday

The Wanganui Borough Council is considering the placing of a £120,000 tramway loan on the London market.

It has been remarked that a “cut” will he made in the Wairarapa railway service next month.

The new flag of the Imperial German Republic was flown from the Embassy in Carlton House Terrace, London, in honor of the King’s birthday. This ia the. first time the new German flag has been flown in London.

“I have had growing in my own garden in New Britain mandarines measuring 14 inches in circumference,” said Mr. Tunnicliff during the course of his lecture recently on mission work in the Bismarck Archipelago. On a recent evening, several boxes of fry in the Christchurch Acclimatisation ’Society’s hatchery were overturned, with the result that 20,000 fry were found dead by the curator next morning. It is estimated that the sailing ships La France, Rewa (late Abie A. Leigh), Vercinque tor ix and the Pampa, will take 40,000 to 45,000 bales of wool from New Zealand .to England. A delegate stated at a conference of farmers at Wellington on Wednesday that weasels were not a deterrent to the rabbit pest. He stated that weasels played with rabbits and lived by catching birds. The Cardiff eteamer Carston, 6500 tons dead weight, which changed hands for £87,500 in 1918, has been sold by the Bathampton Steam Navigation Company to foreign buyers for £15,000. “la he what you describe as a gentleman ?” a witness was asked in Bow County Court. Witness: “It is rather difficult to tell the real from the counterfeit since the war.”

The following remit was approved by the Wellington Automobile Club Executive at its meeting last week: “That it be a recommendation to the N.Z. Automobile union that a canvasser be appointed to form clubs or associations from Wellington to New Plymouth.” The file of La T ibre Belgique, the little secret Belgian newspaper that defied the German war lords during the war, and, despite orders to cease publication, continued to appeal’ all during the four years of war, was sold recently in New York for 800 dollars at public auction. This file, which was complete for the war period, was one of the four remaining complete files ,of this plucky little paper. “The laws here are not as good as in New Zealand,” is the opinion of a New Zealander now resident & Honolulu, expressed in a letter to his relatives. He states that everything is political, even the of positions. Jack is as good as his master, and the manners of the average parson would make a “bushy” blush. “When I took charge of the Northern S.S. Company in 1888,” said Mr. C. Ranson, when speaking at the annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers’ Club in Auckland, “it had eight steamers; now we possess 40. In 1888 we carried 38,000 passengers during the war, now we carry 200.000, and the cargo has increased in the same period from 50,000 tons to 240,000 tons annually.” Heart disease is increasing rapidly in Great Britain. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health, has shown that it has risen among school children during the past few years from 30 to 38 per 1000 in boys, and 33 to 49 per 1000 The children continue to have good health for many years, but break down under stress of work in later years. Thus the numbers of crippled and inefficient are swelled.

A member of the Wellington Football Referees’ Association recently spent a week-end in the Main Trunk, and passed the Saturday afternoon viewing a local match. He states that after the game had been in progress for some time rough play became very evident, and the local constable went on to the field and said to the referee: “Look here, if you can’t control the game better than this I’ll stop the game and order both teams off the field.”

Capital punishment does not jxist in Italy. Criminals, who in other countries would suffer the death penalty, are condemned to solitary imprisonment for the rest of their lives. This is known as the orgastolo. After he enters the cell, the prisoner never sees or speaks to a human being, not even to the warder. His food comes to him on a turntable in the wall. He remains absolutely alone, without books, or any occupation, until he dies.

Sir George Fuller, while touring the Cootamundra electorate, in New South Wales, has been telling a story which he tagged to his opinion that the Australian baby is the best kind.of immigrant. There is, he said, in one of the warehouses of Sydney, a man called Higgins. The other evening he returned to his suburban home and learned to his surprise and delight that Mrs. Higgins had presented him with three fine baby boys. All the talk at the warehouse next day was about the great event, and the managerial office launched a scheme to recognise ii. A solid silver cup was bought, and engraved with eulogistic references to the triplets. Higgins was so overcome when he received it that he could only stammer, “I hope I haven't got to win it three times in succession.” At the monthly meeting of the Central School Committee held, on Tuesday evening, the headmaster (Mr. IT. A. Stratford) reported that the average daily attendance for the past few weeks had been 564.6, or 90.870 of an average 101 l of 621.7. There were, therefore, on an average nearly 60 pupils absent daily. Dr. Gunn, the medical officer, would officially visit the school next week, and it was Imped that parents would render every assistance so that the inspection would be facilitated. The < financial results of the recent concert, showed that the receipts were at least £lO2 9s 2d, and after all expenses had been paid there would remain a credit balance of over £7O. It was decided to i place on record the committee’s thanks io Mr. Cooper, and to extend congratulations to him on the line success achieved at (he recent concert, and also to .Mr. Stratford, the staff and pupils, one of the outstanding features being the excellent conduct of the pupils engaged. The advertisement calling a general meeting of the Inglewood Operatic and i Dramatic Society appears in this issue, j The Purity Products Co., Hawera, ' manufacturers of the well-known “Fairy i Wonder” washing powder, “Sinus” milk- ! ing machine cleanser, soda crystals, Lan- ' cashire belt conditioner. Wonder radiator compound, “Nonskale” boiler composition, etc., announce that uieir products may be obtained through all wholesale merchants throughout the Dominion. Land seekers will do well to read Tristram and Co.'s replace advertisement on page 7. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1