LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Plymouth Borough Council has decided not to declare barberry a noxious weed in the borough. A movement is on foot in New Zealand to send New Zealand trees and shrubs for planting in the cemeteries of England, France, and Gallipoli. The Tikorangi Dairy Company will pay out for the past season 2/11 Ad for butter-fat. The company went in for butter and casein last season. The pay-out is the best so far reported in Taranaki.

The Taranaki Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting of the council yesterday, decided to give support to the Auckland Chamber’s proposal to institute daylight saving in New Zealand. The Supreme Court at Auckland last week awarded £4OO damages for slander in the case in which Mrs. Lelia Watson claimed £5Ol from one Boyd, who was a laborer, and lodged with plaintiff in a boarding house. The words complained of reflected on plaintiff’s character.

A social evening of much merriment and enjoyment was spent at the Whiteley Club on Monday. Music, games and competitions were indulged in. Mr. C. E. Bellringer presided. Songs were contributed by Miss Cooper, a duet by Miss Fenwick, and an elocutionary item by Miss Kivell. The singing of the National Anthem concluded a pleasant evening.

■“Your directors are given to understand that quality with a big Q in cheese and butter is what is going to command extra prices on the Home markets this coming season,” said Mr. A. E. Burwell at the meeting of the Kaimat& Dairy Co. on Monday. “The output of both commodities is going to show a heavy increase from New Zealand and quality will not only talk, but shout.”

The taxation of dairy companies was commented on at the annual meeting of the Kaimata Dairy Company on Monday evening, when Mr. Klenner asked why the. depreciation was written down so heavily. He pointed out that anything written over 5 per cent, was faxed. The chairman (Mr. A. E. Burwell) said that the Government was taxing all thrift and the inclination of any company to be carefufl. He understood, however, that there would be an effort made to get an amendment to the tex. It was particularly hard on those, interested in dairy companies, for they were taxed personally and then through the companies.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their Te Wera sale which they ere holding in their Te Wera yards on Friday, August 12, at 1 p.m. Full particulars of entries will be found on page 8 of this issue. The first of a series of recitals will be given by the Citizens’ Band at Everybody’s Theatre on Sunday evening next, August 14. The collection will be in aid of contest expenses,

The Eltham Chamber of Commerce ia moving in the direction of securing a continuous telephone service for the town.

The Eltham Chamber of Commerce, a real live body, has a membership of 54, with no outstanding subscriptions. In the town are a Tradesmen’s Association and a Progressive League, and ar. effort is being made to merge the three, as the different bodies’ work is overlapping. At the Hawera S.M. Court yesterday, Patrick B. Malone was charged with having obtained two smaP sums of money from Walter V. Patterson by means of valueless cheques. Counsel attributed the action to drunkenness. The magistrate said he was loth to send accused to gaol, and fined him £lO with costs, and ordered him to find the amount of the worthless cheques within a month.

A recent cablegram stated that Caruso had left the usufruct of his estate to his widow. The word “usufruct” is not an uncommon one, and implies that the widow was to have the income from the property, literally “the use of the fruit.” Apparently neither the Dominion nor the Post had ever met with the word, for they printed it with a capital as i'f it were the name of a place. The Auckland Herald omitted it altogether. It remained for the Wanganui Herald to plunge really deeply, as follows: “Caruso lived the life of an Italian gentleman on his fine place, Usufruct, near Venice, and he had hoped to spend all his days and fortune in peaceful happiness in his beloved Italy.”

The suggestion made at a recent meeting of the Stratford Chamber of •Commerce that a more suitable route for the main road to Auckland (under the new Main Roads Bill) would be inland through Ohura, was referred to at yesterday’s meeting of the Inglewood County Council by the chairman (Mr. A Corkill). He said he was opposed to any alteration in the present proposal, which was that the route be through Waitara, and he pointed out that a fair part of this road was already in good order, and the district which the route traversed vzas a closely populated one. Subsequently the council resolved, on the motion of Crs. Hunter and Simpson, to oppose any interference with the present suggested route.