LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The retail price of -butter will he further reduced in New Plymouth. this morning. The new prices will be pats 1/11 and bulk 1/10, The trustees in the estate of Miss Mary Walters have paid £4700 to Bishop Liston as part of the bequest to the Catholic orphanage at Auckland. The trustees expect to pay over the balance of eleven thousand at an early date. Press Assn.

A leading Taranaki dairy company chairman has worked out the redt etions in freight charges as regards dairy produce'. They amount to £2 per ton, or 16.6 per cent, in the case of butter; and 12/10 per ton, or 5 per cent., in the case of cheese.

The Dunedin City Council has raised a loan of £426,000 locally. £B9 300 at 5J per cent, with a currency of 20 years, and £337,000 at 6 per cent, for ten years. The total cost of floating the loan, which is distributed among 640 subscribers, was under £lOOO. —Press Association.

In the' Supreme Court at Gisborne yesterday, Wharj Hickey was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for assault with intent to do bodily harm, and on two charges of theft I'2 months’ imprisonment for each. The sentences were to be concurrent. —'Press Assn. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new cottage hospital at Opunake, which was to have taken ■place this week, has been postponed till the New Year. It is understood that the opening of the new nurses’ home at iNew Plymouth will take place in January and that the Hon. C. J Parr. Minister of Public Health, will officiate.

“Preference to unionists is the most pernicious thing in the history of New Zealand: it is merciless and tyrannical,” said Mr. J. C. Cooper at the Chamber of Commerce meeting in Masterton last Tuesday afternoon.

On the sth inst., His Honor Mr. Justice Reed, on the application of Mr. Hughes, granted probate of the will of Emma Cecilia Pearce, of New Plymouth, to her sons Alfred Pearce and Charles Stevenson Pearce.

On his return from a visit to the North Island the chairman of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, Mr. A. Gilbert, stated that he found no evidence of depression in Auckland. The slump appeared to be felt more in Wellington than in the north.

“Do you think a cow could die of starvation in three weeks?” a solicitor asked a woman, who was giving evidence in a farm exchange case in the Auckland Supreme Court the other day. “I do,” the witness retorted, “and so would you if you had had to live on the farm.”

Quite a record number of entries have been received for the Spring Show, to be held in New Plymouth on the. 9th inst. Not for years have horticulturists displayed so much interest. Over 600 first class exhibits will be displayed, and the public will be assured of an interesting afternoon and evening.

The Auckland Methodist Mission has arranged to take 500 children into the country for one day during the holidays. Tram fare and means will be provided free of cost. No denomination..! barriers will be raised, and children of all churches and of no church are' to be taken.

At a special meeting of the Eltham County Council, held in committee, applications were read from fifty-eight ratepayers for an extension of time in which to pay their rates for the current year. Permission was granted in each instance, and the clerk (Mr. A. Tiplady) was instructed to prepare summonses in all other cases of unpaid rates.—Argus.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of Frank Albert Loft, formerly of Ohura, but now of an address unknown, called for at the office of the Deputy Official Assignee (Mr. J. S. S. Medley) at New Plymouth yesterday, lapsed, none of the creditors being in attendance. No proofs of debt were lodged, and consequently the administration of the estate remains in abeyance pending final arrangements with the creditors. George Watt, alias J. Thomas, who was arrested in Palmerston North on a charge of stealing bicycles at New Plymouth on November 18, was brought to New Plymouth under escort last night. Of two rugs found in Watt’s possession one was identified by a New Plymouth resident and the other, a Kaiapoi rug bearing the name “Jean McDonnell” on a white tape, is now awaiting an owner. Watt is at present undergoing a sentence of IS months’ imprisonment for the theft of bicycles at Palmerston North.

Reporting to last night’s meeting of the Pukekura Park Board, the chairman I (Mr. C. E. Bellringer) stated that a letter had been forwarded to the Park I Tennis Club pointing out that Sunday play was taking place at the courts, which, it was considered, was setting up a precedent without the sanction of the board. He understood that as the result of the letter the practice had now ceased. In explaining the reasons for communicating with the club, he said that the playing of tennis was setting up a precedent in regard to the use of the park for other games on Sunday. The proper course for the club to Rdopt if they desired to. innovate Sunday play was to make an application for the consideration of the boardy The Somme battlefields in France and a back country farm in the King Country are scenes far removed, but one soldier who was on the eve of “the push” in 1916 awaiting his fate was also thinking deeply about his farm at Awakino. He wrote to his attorney as follows: “If I go under try \nd get that boundary line shifted to the top of the main, ridge; it will save fencing.” The principal, however, was spared to return home. He was the plaintiff in an action in the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, yesterday and alleged that his darm had been ’mismanaged during his absence. The above sentence was read in Court among other correspondence which had passed between the soldier and his attorney.

With regard to the raising of a further loan, the Prime Minister stated he could say definitely that he did not intend to go to the London money market again during the current financial year. He believed the Government could finance its operations until April or May next —perhaps a lit tie longer. Mr. Hanan: Provided that you cut down your proposals? Mr. Massey: I should like to take members into my confidence in regard to what is being done and what is intended, but until we get the tariff out of the way it is impossible to say as much as I would like to say. I will tell members exactly what we are doing and what we 'intend to do. I think they, and the people of the country, will be surprised at the information. The Government’s proposals are being carried out, and will be carried out.

The spread of noxious weeds through impure grass seed was mentioned in the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, yesterday during the hearing of a case concerning pastoral matters. f 'lt seems an extraordinary thing that farmers can’t o-et clean seed ” commented Mr. Justice Reed, when a witness attributed the distribution of weeds partly to the seed. Mr M. Mvers, counsel engaged in the case, said'His Honor would no doubt know that there was a good deal of talk about a Pure Seeds Bill, but it presented areat difficulties, and at present the checking of the weeds was left to the farmer to watch.

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