LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cable from Sydney states that good progress is being made in testing the pulping qualities of Australian timbers for producing paper.

The membership of the New Plymouth branch of the P. and T. Association totalled 239 at March 31 last. The annual conference opens at Wellington next Monday and Mr. W. K. Coleman will represent New Plymouth.

A Timarii message states that the fund to assist the widow and children of Constable Dorgan, who was murdered at Timaru on August 27, Ims closed. The total, including the Government subsidy of £250, amounts to £1305 18s. The disposition of the fund will be decided by a meeting of subscribers.

About 300 children from the various New Plymouth ■schools attended the miseioh of Mr. Palgrave Davy in the Whiteley Memorial Church last night. A number of competitions were held and the mi&sioner recited the story of the Pilgrims’ Progress, also addressing tile children on various subjects.

“I have been in the offices of your great newspapers in Melbourne and Sydney,” said Lord Northcliffe, at Brisbane. “They are equally efficient. I say it with pride that the newspapers of the British Empire are the best newspapers in the world. (Applause). I except none. If you ask me which is the most wonderful Press in the world, I would say the Press of New Zealand, which has 62 daily newspapers, and. good daily newspapers, in a population of less than 1,300,000. (Hear, hear.)

When in Rontnania and food grew scarce, Mr. Fyfe made a virtue of necessity. In “The Making of an Optimist,” lie says: “I found that the less I ate the clearer my mind was, and the discovery left with me a valuable lesson. From that time I revolutionised my diet, almost gave up meat, entirely gave up alcohol, and was all the better for it. Simple short meals, always begun with appetite and always ended before you feel that yon do not want any more, will do more, f am certain, than any other way of life to preserve health and vigor, and that elasticity of body and of brain which makes one enjoy life instead of merely enduring it.”

The procedure for the opening of the Clarke Memorial Hostel has been forwarded from headquarters. There will be little departure from the official programme. which 'is comprehensive and arranges all minute details. Tt is hoped that all who have helped in nhy way since the inception of the movement for the hostel, all subscribers, campaign workers and any who are contributing towards the ten, will be present on Friday, 28th, at 2 o’clock for the official opening by her Excellency Lady Jellitoe. All arrangements for tea have been undertaken by Mrs. Hugh Daily. Mrs. George’s Orchestra Will provide tnusie. The council has decided to close Powderham Street from Robe Street to Brougham Street from 2 to 3 on that dny.

A gentleman whose business takes him periodically through the province, states that never in his experience has he seen Taranaki looking so well as it is to-day. The mild winter, warm and early spring, and the regular rainfall have produced an abundance cf good, succulent feed., and the cows, which wintered well, are looking and milking splendidly. There is every indication of it being a record season. Dur informant further reports that the prices for good cows and young heifers are well maintained, due largely to the demands from other districts. There is little market for fat cows aijd culls, due to the low prices obtaining at Home for frozen and tinned meats, b\it prices, he believes, have touched ■ bottom, and the improvement in the hides market indicates that a rise in the meat market is a possibility of the near future.

A reminder is given of the adjourned annual meeting of the New Plymouth Expansion and Tourist League to be held at the Soldiers’ Club this evening at 8 p.m.

Saturday lest was beautifully fine in the afternoon, yet when the workers’ roll was called on Baine’s Terrace the only man to answer to his name wes the president. Stimulated evidently by tlie saying that “the fewer men the greater* share, of glory,” he set to work. He was later on joined by a gentleman resident in the neighborhood, and the two forked steadily until a quarter to six. The committee of the Beautifying Society desire to gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a donation of £1 each from Mr. Kotterill Breach and iNIr. Walter Anibury, and of £2 2s from Mr. T. C. List.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their Matau sale which they are holding in their Matau yards on Friday, -October 21, at 1 p.m. Full particulars of entries will be found on page 8 of this

Eltham business men. with character-* istic enterprise, are setting out on a campaign to further popularise their town as a business centre, and with this object in view are arranging special cut prices for next Saturday. Particulars of ordinary prices and the “cut” prices (which’ will be available for Saturday only) will be published in tomorrow’s

Messrs. H. Derby and Co., the well known Ford motor dealers, New Ply month, notify their intention of open ing a branch businesa in. Inglewood,

'I hh to inquire into and tpp'/f l. upon th<! allegations lately made by .VI/, It, M.P. for .Stratford, / ‘ girding Ihe cerneni. industry held its p/Mbh/inury w/riing uL Wellington yesj.iu/dsj.y, Mr. Ju«»tiee Sim is the Com- , HU Honor fixed t/he data f',t the opening inquiry as Tuesday, Novembrt L

There an anomaly of the law which fthould be rectified in the Interests of jiMH/iee if not economy, says the Auckland Star, The Magistrate at the Police Court committed a man for trial, olacerving that it wan a uselesa thing to <Jo, for be did not think any jury would eon Viet, Vet he had to send the man on for trial, for under the Act he had no option. Ami so this man, whom no jury will iumvid, will be produced with all the formalities- of absurd legal custom at the Supreme Court before a judge and jury to be found not guilty. A prominent citizen of Christchurch lias suggested that publicity should be given to opinions as to the best waye in which moneys may be given or bequeathed to that city. He believes that many men and women who leave money or property behind them bequeath nolhing for public purposes simply because during their lives no definite object is placed before them. Many people fail to make wills, and as letters of administration are granted in their estates, money they might, have given for the public good is lost to the community, and even may go out of the country.

A good Maori story was told by Mr. W. J. Polson, president of the Farmers’ Union, at a meeting of farmers at Ashburton. Mr. .Polson told of a storekeeper who received a cheque in payment on. account from a Maori custom-

er. The storekeeper lost the cheque, and wifred to the Maori telling him to stop it at the bank. He received the telegraphed reply: “Never worry > cheque he stop himself.” Mr. Polson said the present financial depression was helping to create a similar position for other people than Maoris—the cheques were stopping themselves.

“Many people say that times in New Zealand now are worse than ever they were before,” mid Mr. J. Maynard at the Canterbury Builders’ Association’s function (reports the Lyttelton Times). “That’s all rot. The fact is that times have been so good that people seem to think when matters sink a little below the level, they are awful. I remember the old days when I was on the Ashburton plains, when best wheat sold at half a crown a bushel, best oats for tenpence, and potatoes were carted in and sold at a shilling a sack,; the days when one used to wonder who would 'be the next farmer to *be sold up. I say, go and fight the battle, and things will come out •all right. The money is still in the country, and in one of the best countries in the world.”

We are descendants of a race of shopkeepers, if Napoleon spoke the truth, and we don't like paying any more than we need for an article. Even the burst of patriotism that flamed up during the war and its slogan of “buy Avithin the Empire” is likely to receive a damper if the difference in price is too pronounced. A firm, in Auckland has just had a severe test. It imported two lots of bolts, one from America and the other from England. The articles were identical, but the price of the American worked out at 7/6 as against 18/6 for the same quantity of English make. On the deal the firm’s .patriotism cost it £5B. If England wants to hold trade it is obvious her prices must come down considerably. A man's whole suit for 09/6. All wool too, and best colonial make. Think of it! Yet that is what the Melbourne, Ltd., are offering nt their salvage sale of Bergman’s stock. Don’t delay purchasing. The supply is not inexhaustible. Farmers, don’t lose your milk for the sake of a ha’p’orth of “Sinus.” One can of milk rejected by the factory manager would pay for many a bag of “Sinus,” the champion milking machine, separator and dairy cleanser. Clean milk ean be positively assured by the use of “Sinus” at -such a small cost a<B to be almost negligible. Ask for it. Canned Meats manufactured at the Taranaki Farmers’ Meat Company’s Smart Road Works are now on sale. Ask your grocer for “T.F.M.” 11b sheep tongues; 31bs and 61bs ox tongues; Ijlbs and 61bs corned mutton and beef.