LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A ewe belonging to Mr. Walter Hoskin, of Bell Block, gave birth a clay or two ago to a quartette of lambs, while a pedigree Jersey cow belonging to Mr. F. W. Sutton has given birth to twin heifer calves.

The Education Department has informed the Otago Education Board that, in its opinion, a school committee would be within its rights and powers in refusing admission to the school to a child who definitely refused (whether by the command of its parents or otherwise) to salute the flag and sing the National Anthem. «

“There is a gentleman in New Zealand who claims to be a lineal descendant of Brian Boru; can you tell us what his claims are to be the King of Ireland?” asked a speaker at an Irish League meeting in Wellington on Sunday night. “I do not propose to work on .Sunday,” replied Mr. P. J. O’Regan, the chairman of the meeting.

The liner Durham, which left New Plymouth on Monday for Wanganui to continue loading for the United Kingdom, loaded a cargo at this port comprising 15,000 freight carcases of meat and 3060 boxes of butter—24Bo boxes from Moturoa and 1180 boxes from the Smart Road works. The butter from the Smart Road works was the last of a quantity stored there after the fire at Patea. The Producers’ Freezing Company have been advised of a further allotment of 10,000 boxes of butter for the liner Dorset, which is due to arrive on about September 10.

A special meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board was held yesterday for the purpose of considering the purchase of a larger farm than that at present owned by the board. A property belonging to Mr. Honeyfield, and situated on the Barrett Road, has been offered to the board, and at the last ordinary meeting the matter was discussed. In the meantime the finance committee has also made an inspection of the farm, and it was decided yesterday to make application to the Minister for permission to enter into the liability.

There is to be a readjustment of county boundaries in the Waikato and the King Country as from April 1, 1922, by which the Awakino County will disappear.’ A new' county, to be called the Otorohanga County, will be formed, comprising the northern portion of West Taupo; the Awakino County, with the exception of a portion lying to the north, will be merged with the southern portion, of Waitomo to form a new Waitomo County, and the northern portion of Awakino will be merged into ifawhk County.

• Information was received by the New

Plymouth police last night of the death at Opunake of the eight weeks’ old son of Mr. C. J. McCallum, of Opunake. An inquest will probably be held to-day. .Some significant figures:—Coal, Ger-

many 22s 6d per ton, Britain 32s 2d; bar steel, Germany £6 15s, Britain £10; sugar, Germany 3£d, Britain 8d

per lb; milk, Germany 2d, Britain Bd, per quart; stewing beef, Germany Is, Britain Is s£d.

‘T have examined many so-called radio-fertilisers,” remarked Professor Marsden, in the course of his lecture at the Palmerston North Municipal Hall recently, “but I have examined none that had any more radium in them than ordinary cow manure.” <c We work as hard as any Court in New Zealand,” said his Honor, Mr. Justice Frazer, at the Arbitration Court yesterday, when objection was made to inconvenience caused by the Court not sitting in Timaru, “but according to the law we are supposed to get round to each centre in New Zealand four times a year. I don’t know whether it is possible to do that, but we are trying our best to do so. If, however, the Court has to visit the small towns on the occasion of each round, it will be quite impssible for us to keep up with the work. We will do the best we can. but we cannot do more. “The knocks and bumps of a strenuous game may leave permanent effects upon a woman,” remarked Dr. H. J. McLean in a lecture at Wellington, “and also tend to produce the masculine type of female. Can we see a mass of women pushing, kicking, sweating, charging, and pulling one another over on a football field, and say that it improves them morally or aesthetically? Yet the statement has been made that the woman football boom is the greatest national blessing of this decade. Practically all other sports but football are suited to women—l exclude boxing, the claims of which have not been pushed so far; but nowadays you never can tell! Perhaps when the woman pugilist appears she will be the greatest national blessing of the next decade!” Tn the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, yesterday, a. petition by Elizabeth Jenkins (Opunake) for a dissolution of her marriage with Charles M. Jenkins (Rotorua), on the grounds of adultery, was heard by His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond. Mr. F. E. Wilson appeared for petitioner, and the case was not defended. The evidence was to the effect that the parties were married in August, 1911, and lived at Otakeho, and then at Opunake. There were three children. In March, 1917, Jenkins left to go to Featherston as a motor

driver, and he afterwards went to Rotorua. He occasionally sent money to his wife. Au anonymous letter received by Mrs. Jenkins in 1918 was her first warning, but when she went to Rotorua later Jenkins admitted to her that he had lived with another woman. After other evidence, His Honor granted a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, with costs against respondent. Petitioner was given custody of the children. The staging of the war exhibits at the Coronation Hall. New Plymouth, is proceeding apace, and already the large hall has the appearance of a. museum. The number and variety of the exhibits is bewildering, but with the aid of explanatory cards it is quite possible to understand the purpose of the many weird and ingenious devices. The exhibition will be opened to the public on Friday evening, and will be officially opened by the Mayor at 8 p.m. Pupils of the Girls’ High School, Technical College, and 1 one class from the (Central School will visit the exhibition to-mor-row, while the remainder of the Central pupils, with West End 'and Vogeltown, will he shown round on Friday. Saturday morning will be reserved for pupils of the Fitzroy School, and Monday will be country school day. Teachers and others who wish to take children in groups should communicate with Mr. R. Day.

New Zealand women perhaps do not realise that the domestic labor problem is as acute in England as here. Writing to a Wellington friend, Lady Stout states that high wages are given and better conditions of living and leisure, but the girls prefer other modes of living, including that of subsisting on the unemployment grant. Many people were doing without maids and were learning as women in New Zealand have learnt that they, could live more comfortably without indifferent help than with it. “Social life in England,” Lady Stout continues, “is being simplified to fit the new conditions. England has learnt that waste of good food and time spent in eating elaborate meals was a mistake from every point of view, and people are now having simple, well-cooked, and lighter food, and are finding the advantage of the change in better health and more time for important matters. We eat far too much in New Zealand, and must learn to make less work for the maids or helpers. There is no hope for us unless we can secure the help of our own girls who know and have experienced the conditions which prevail in New Zealand.”

It will be hardly necessary to give a reminder of the ingleside to-morrow night, under the auspices of the ne.wlyformed New Plymouth Caledonian Society. To the uninitiated, an ingleside takes the form of a social oh Scotch lines. The committee responsible for the musical items have arranged a good programme of Scotch songs and Highland dances by Taranaki’s leading performers. Occasion will be taken to farewell Chief Meldrum, who has been largely responsible for the inauguration of the society. The committee has decided not to restrict their first ingleside to members only, and the public arc asked to go along and see how they do things. Arrangements have also been made for the presence of the Elthani Pipe Band.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercan tile Agency Company, Ltd., wish r<

draw clients’ attention to their Matau sale, which they are holding on Friday, August 26, at 1 p.m., at their Matau saleyards. Full particulars of entries will be found on page 8 of this issue.

The warmth of sunshine which has prevailed during the last few weeks has had a marked effect on the growth of all spring flowers, which are a good deal earlier than usual. St. Mary’s annual bulb show, which has been fixed for Thursday and Friday of next week, September 1 and 2, promises to be un-' usually successful. The earliness of the season has been a decided advantage, and given a continuance of fine weather there should be an excellent display of blooms.

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In reference to the Waikato-West Coaat light railway proposals, the representative of the Australian Company which has undertaken to finance the work states that it has been arranged to have the money available in October, by which time it is hoped, to have everything in train locally ready for the signing of the contract. The representative estimates (says the Waikato Times) that the work will mean the circulation of fully £1,000,000 in the district.

The question of changing the control of the New Plymouth Technical College was discussed at a meeting of the Advisory Board last night. Mr. G. H. Dolby presided, and there were also present: Messrs. T. N. Blackball, C. Carter, F. S. Cobham and A. L. Moore (director). The proposal is that the college should be controlled by a board of managers, as is the case in many other towns, the existing board to be dissolved in favor of a board of managers, who would have sole control of the school. It was decided to draw up a requisition on the matter, and place it before the next meeting of the Taranaki Education Board.

A plea on behalf of a juryman who was fined £5 for being late in his attendance at the Supreme Court at New Plymouth last week, was made by the foreman yesterday at the conclusion ot the case in which the jury were engaged. On behalf of the eleven other jurors, a request was made for re-conslder-ation of the circumstances. In asking the offender if he could give a further explanation, His Honor Mr. Justice Salmond pointed out that the occurrence was regrettable, as was no doubt realised. He did not realise last week that the jury would be occupied over the greater part of four days, and in view of the circumstances he would overlook the offence and the fine would be remitted.