LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Eltham Boys’ llnine Band, which took part in. .the New Plymouth Salvation Army’s services yesterday morning, played a programme of music at Pukekura Park in the afternoon, and also rendered further selections’ at a service in t'he Workers’ Hall last night. There were large attendances on each occasion. To-night the boys will give a gymnastic display at the Workers’ Hall, and as their performances are always of a high ol’der there should be a large gathering. The programme will also include musical selections.

Nurses’ superannuation was mentioned in the House last week. Mr. J. A. Nash (Palmerston) asked the Minister of Public Health whether it would be possible to, introduce this session a Bill providing a superannuation scheme for nurses. The Minister replied that he had already answered a similar question during the present session. In view of the financial conditions existing to-day the Government felt that it could not afford the large contribution from the Consolidated Fund which the actuary advised would be necessary.

Help for the blind is the subject of a question in t'he House. Mr. Clutha Mackenzie (Auckland East) has given notice to ask the Minister in charge of Old Age Pensions Department, whether he will bring down legislation this session to amend the Old Age Pensions Aet making the. age at which the blind people of the Dominion will be eligible for the old age pension ten years lower than at present. Mr. Mackenzie adds that the question of the younger blind must receive further consideration, for assistance can best be given to them in the fetf-m of increased facilities for training and subsidising earnings.

Boys’ bathing costumes. 1/11 and 2/3, at the Melbourne, Ltd. Men’s costumes, 2/11; men’s two-piece cotton costumes, 4/11; ladies’ ditto 5/11; lovely all wool cashmere two-piece navy Canadian costumes, 18/6, for men arid women; splen-, did brown towels for beach use, 3/11, 4/11 and 5/11 per pair.

Domestic science is to be a compulsory subject with lady teachers in training for the Auckland district. The statment was made in a Sydney court recently that, in the last two years £5OOO had been stolen from receiving counters of the city banks through unwary depositors leaving the money unguarded for a moment. ‘‘From my twelve months’ experience in New Zealand I know well that there is no nation or community in the world more proud of the purity of its race than the people of New Zealand.”—-The Governor-General at Wellington on Thursday.

“Pithy—and true: Purchasers take kindly to an article that is well advertised. They are reluctant to buy one that isn’t!— Charles Haines.” This sapient observation reaches us from the pen of Mr. Charles Haines, of Wellington, the well-known authority on newspaper publicity. It is so much to the point, that we gladly reproduce MrHaines’ - brief monograph.

A farmer was before the Court at Auckland this week, as a judgment debtor. He explained that he bought some land in the Auckland district as a farm, paid £250, and another £5O for stamp duty. Now he was back in Auckland, having been unable to make a success of the venture, and he had lost all his money. Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., said no order could be made in such a case.

“I have seen imported meat at different places—Smithfield, Glasgow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, etc., and I consider that New Zealand will never come in to its own until it exports the meat in. its ships and sells it to the consumers direct from its own shops,” writes Mr. Joseph Red, who formerly resided in Manawatu and is now visiting England, in a letter to Mr. W. Moore, Palmerston North. The writer is not at all impressed with the conditions under which the meat is marketed, but he says that New Zealand lainb is well spoken of in the Old Country. Anniversary cervices in connection with the Fitzroy Methodist Sunday School were held yesterday. The service in the morning was conducted by tlie R«ev. W. J. Elliott, in the afternoon by Mrs. Martin and in the evening by the Rev. J. F. Martin. The children, under Mr. E. Holden, rendered special musical numbers. At each service the church was crowded, particularly at night. The singing of the children was a feature. The offerings, which will be devoted to Sunday school work in the district, amounted to about £ll. An anniversary social function wall be held to-morrow evening, when prizes will be distributed. The report to be presented discloses that the school has made great advanc< during the year and that building additions are being undertaken to accommodate the increasing numbers of scholars.

A daring robbery of a 10s totalisator ticket worth more than that number of pounds was committed at a pay-out window on the “outside” enclosure at Riccarton. An elderly lady who had backed a winner lost little time in getting a ,favorable position to collect the handsome dividend early. While waiting her turn she held the ticket loosely in her hand, and a young man grabbed it anti made to rush off. Some men, noticing the robbery, attempted to seize him, 'but the thief fell to the ground, and another young man who had been standing near him picked him up, catching 'his hand as he did so. There was general confusion for a few seconds, and •this allowed the thief to disappear among the crowd. Spectators said that the man who picked him up and let him go also disappeared before it occurred to them that he might have been an accomplice in a plan to pass the ticket on to an unsuspected confederate, who could present it at the totalisator. “I noticed the feeling of Americans towards Great Britain was much better on my last visit to what it was when I was there two years ago,” observed Mr. Alfred Seifert at the Palmerston North Citizens’ Lunch Club. He mentioned that the ill-feeling which has been worked up in connection with American interests at the Peace Conference had largely abated.. Though he believed President Wilson had been anxious To maintain good feeling between Great Britain and America, ha doubted whether the President had done us any good in the eyes of the American public. Had President Wilson given way on some of the points raised at the Conference he considered much illfeeling would have been saved. President Wilson had made a mistake in tacLord Salisbury’s autobiography recalls the fact that in his early days he paid a visit to New Zealand. Although he finished up a noble Marquis, he was not overburdened with cash in his early days, and was very glad to pick up a few odd guineas here and there in the ‘newspaper offices in Fleet Street. Just out of Pahiatua there is a block of land still held by the Cecil family, oY Mr. Balfour, who is practically one of the family. Although the late Lord Salisbury was known to the world in his later years as an exceedingly solemn person, he did not altogether forget his early Bohemian days. In a new book, Mr. E. T. Raymond describes one little incident to bear this out. A journalist who had worked with Lord Salisbury years before was presented to him at 'some official garden party. Lord Salisbury always had a bad memory for names, and had then become very shortsighted. He was saying the usual polite, formal things when the sound of the journalist’s voice suddenly brought a flood of old memories. “Hello, Billy,” he said, shaking hands warmly, “whose turn is it to pay for the beer?” The annual gala in connection with the West End School is to be held this year on Saturday, December 17, at Kawaroa Park. Already the pupils and all interested in the welfare of the school are working hard, and indications point to this gala being the most successful yet held. A number of novel competitions are being arranged, and in addition a carnival queen competition is also being held, the candidates representing Bseakwater, Kawaroa and Devon Street West. Keen interest is being evinced in this, and the result of the voting will be published from time to time. The worries of washing day may be considerably eased by the use of “Fairy Wonder" Dry Soap, which so lightens labor that file day’s washing can be finished in half the ordinary time. Thoel? housewives who take the precaution of soaking the clothes overnight with t’hifl wonderful compound claim that the washing can be done in one-third the time of old methods. , MURDERED IN BED.

This is what happens to a corn when Nipsem Corn Remover has been applied. The corn is frozen to death whilst you sleep. Then all there is to do is to nip it out from the roots. It is an absolutely painless cure.'’ Obtainable from all chemists and stores, or post free, for 2s from 8.A.8. Co., Box 219, New Ply* {south.

AU prices of small goods connected with the ‘baking trade will be reduced in Wellington to-day in conformity yrith the cost of many ingredients such as eggs, butter, etc. The price of flour has been fixed until March next, and fruit is also firm, and the tariff has increased the duty on supplies from America and other foreign countries, so that, any further easement from present indication may come only from a lower manufacturing co«t, such as higher efficiency or lower wages. The latter is not wanted if it can be avoided. Reference was made to t'he condition of New Zealand meat in London by the Prime Minister in the course of the Budget debate. He had just received a telegram, dated the day before, from the secretary to the London Meat Traders, stating that the frozen meat of Australia and New Zealand was splendid, and was pretty well down to prewar prices. He did not suppose, added Mr. Massey, that the producers would be glad to hear the latter statement; but it was good to hear that our meat was being landed at Home in splendid condition. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Thacker (Christchurch East) asked in the House of Representatives when the Government’s Shops and Offices Amendment Act was coming down. Many of the citizens of Christchurch, he ■said, were very anxious to know. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister for Labor) replied that he hoped to introduce the Bill this week. The deadlock in regard to the Wellington wool sales still continues, and no fresh developments have occurred to put a better light on the situation. Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (Second and Third Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable on Monday, November 21, at the Secretary’s Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.to. to 8 p.m.—Advt.'