LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Pahiatua business man who recently indented a crate of crockery from England at a purchase price of £l7, found that freight and other charges came to £27 10s. In addition to the monthly pay-out of £-9000 for milk supplied during September, the Eltham Dairy Company has paid out this month an additional sum of £16,000, being a bonus of 2d per lb. butter-fat on last year’s supply, making the total payment this month £25,000. —Argus.

A case is being heard at the Supreme Court in Wellington in which Thomas John Linton Buxton, accountant, of Wellington, claims £983 16s 6d damages from Jack Reginald Grey, merchant, of Moorea Island, near Tahiti, French Oceania, for alleged misrepresentation in connection with a partnership said to have been agreed on between the defendant and the plaintiff. As the result of a complaint made at a meeting of the Fitzroy Ratepayers’ Association on Saturday night it was decided that the attenion of the police be called to the danger to which residents are subject through the practice of a number of people in using firearms on the foreshore.

Farmers, how can you expect your factory manager to secure highest grade points for butter or cheese when milk supplies are not absolutely pure? Pure milk can only be supplied by the strictest observance of cleanliness, and clean-Ln-ess-can only be. absolutely assured by the regular use o r “Sinus,” the champion milking machine cleanser, obtainable in hags from L. A- No lor ami Co.. ffirawirfh. '■—- - • <

For the professional middle-weight boxing championship of New Zealand and a purse of £2OO, Heeney, of Gisborne, met Cadman, of Auckland, at New Plymouth on Saturday night Heeney, the holder, withstood the challenge of Cadman, who failed by a knock-out in the eighth round. Full details are on page 3. In the course of his sermon at St. Mary’s Church yesterday, the Rev. Young made an appeal for assistance in providing some form of entertainment for the increasing number of sailors calling at the port of New Plymouth. He said that the hotels were legally closed after six o'clock and the sailors had nowhere to go unless they had friends in private houses. No longer (says an exchange) are the great United States studios a speedway to fortune for the player. A record migration of screen stars to the stage reflects the hard times now being experienced by film folk. Well-known cinema artists returning to the theatre —or to make a first appearance—include Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Bessie Barriseale, Mae Marsh, Mildred Harris, Pauline Frederick, Nazimova, Doris Kenyon, June Elvidge, Carlyle Blackwell and Vivian Martin.

A “doctor” factory which qualifies applicants for diplomas in medicine, surgery and dentistry in less than five minutes for £lOO has been discovered in America. The diplomas beer the name of the Oriental University of Washington, and are stated to be good for use in South America and Britain. A detective told a magistrate in New York that he had bought one for £lOO. He had but said that he wished to extract teeth, but had no time to study his. subject, and preferred to learn by experience.

To-morrow will be “cleen-up” day in New Plymouth, and residents are reminded that rubbish gathered for removal should be placed at the outer edge of the footpaths by eight o’clock in the morning. The destruction of rats by poison is also being undertaken in conjunction with the “clean-up,” the Health Department having recently circularised local bodies urging that this should be carried out as a precaution against the introduction of bubonic plague from Australia.

A very successful concert, organised in aid of the New Plymouth Convent building fund, was held in the Rollend Hall on Saturday afternoon. The programme was contributed by the Convent pupils and others and all the items were appreciatively received by the large audience. The work of the pupils in the various action songs, choruses and solos was a tribute to the care taken by their tutors, and the items by the junior children were particularly good. Contributing numbers included violin solos by Miss Mannix and exhibitions of fancy dancing by Miss M. McHardy.

The raising of the minimum frontage for properties on which buildings can be erected was advocated by one speaker at a meeting of the Fitzroy Ratepayers’ Association on Saturday night. He thought the Borough Council was too easy in regard to building sites. While a lot had been heard about town planning anyone could build a house as long as the section had a 40 feet frontage. This might be alright in the populous part of the borough where land was at a high figure, but he thought that in the suburbs the minimum should be more .than 40 feet, and as the unoccupied land filled up the suburb could push further out into the country. The question being apart from the subject under discussion the meeting did not express an opinion on the proposal.

The question of providing a clock for the new post office at Fitzroy has been the subject of representations made to the Post and Telegraph Department by the Fitzroy Ratepayers’ Association. At a meeting held on Saturday night it was reported that in response to a letter forwarded through Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., the Hon. J. G. Coates (PostmasterGeneral) had replied stating the request would receive his earnest consideration. The meeting was of opinion that the provision of a clock would be a convenience to the residents and that the l matter should not be lost sight of.

The prevailing overcast weather is •holding back the season’s strawberry crop, and very little of this fruit is reaching the local • markets (states the Auckland Herald). Only a few crates of berries have so far been offered for sale, and, lacking color owing to the absence of sunshine, the fruit has realised only about one shilling per chip. Growers state that this promises to be an exceptionally good season for strawberries provided warm, sunny weather is experienced during the next week or 10 days. The beds are heavily laden with berries of good size, but the la<|k of color is against good marketing. The recent rains have greatly assisted the crop, and with the coming of warmer conditions the fruit should come on to the market very freely. Some remarkable “freak” wagers are now being paid as the outcome of Carpentier’s defeat by Dempsey, says a New York message. A barber in Wisconsin,’ because of Dempsey’s victory, must shave Mr. Arthur J. Haugen and cut his hair whenever required until July 2nd, 1926. He must also- give him a 50-mile motor-car ride every Sunday for three months. Mr. Haugen, an employee of the local post office, had wagered a twoacre crop of runner beans on the champion. Police officials intervened at Ottawa to prevent fulfilment of another variety of wager when they notified Raoul‘ Mercier that they would not permit him to roll a monkey nut four city blocks along Sparks Street, the main business thoroughfare.

The Farmers’ Co-op. draw the attention of dairy farmers to the bull fair to b.~ held in Inglewood on Thursday, October 27. As this fair is held at the right time to suit dairymen of North Taranaki, and a good entry of ths fashionable Jersey breed, including a number of pedigree bulls, has been secured, farmers should make every effort to be present.

Mr. Page, of the Forestry Department, is at present in Taranaki, and will give a lecture at the Omata Hall to-night (Monday), under the auspices of the Omata branch of the Farmers’ Union.

A concert and dance in aid of the church funds is to be hold in the Warea Hall on Friday next, October 28. Complete arrangements are being made to ensure the success of the and as the admission to the concert has been fixed at the moderate price of 2s, and an excellent supper is being provided, there should be a crowded attendance. Members of the .Equitable Building Society of Now Plymouth (Second and Third Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable on Tuesday, October 25, at the Secretary’s Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m M and