LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Daily News will not be published on Monday, December 26, and Monday, January 2. Advertisers are requested to make arrangements accordingly.

The Eltham Dairy Company, which has been manufacturing butter, has decided to change over to cheese. The mails which left Auckland on November I’s per s.s. Makura via Vancouver arrived in London on December 19.

“Hawera is beginning to get noted for the strictness with which its by-laws are being enforced,” said counsel for the defence in a by-law case at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mr. Massey states that he is advised by the High Commissioner that Professor Harbord’s report on the Darlington iron sand tests left London on November 30.

A further reduction of 2d per lb. in the retail price of butter was notified ’yesterday by New Plymouth retailers. The prices now are Is 8d (pats), and Is 7d (bulk). Mik Dan Bowie, one of the oldest guards on the Taranaki section of the railway, is retiring on superannuation and on Friday evening he is to be tendered a smoke concert and presentation at the Workers’ Social Hall. A further remand until December 28 was granted in the Hawera Court yesterday in the case in which William Alfred Gustafsen was charged on four counts of theft from the Defence Department. Bail was granted in two sureties of £-150 each and the accused in. £l5O.

The petition recently drawn up in New Plymouth asking for a change in •the half-holiday was referred by Parliament to the Labor Bills Committee. It was reported on by the committee in the House on Monday with petitions from other towns, and the committee had no recommendation to make.

The immigrants who arrived on the Ruahine yesterday are described as the best class yet landed in New Zealand. Of 573 passengers, 218 were assisted by the Government. Of this number 116 are ex-imperial soldiers, with their wives and families? G 5 nominated by residents in the Dominion, and 37 domestics.—Press Association.

“There is the Garden of Eden with its tree of life, surrounded by a palisade and well labelled in Arabic and Ehglish characters that it is the tree of life,” said Mr. T. N. Holmden at the Auckland Rotary Club, in referring to places of interest in Mesopotamia. “As a matter of fact, it is a mulberry tree about 600 years old,” he added amid laughter.

The New Plymouth police were notified late last night that an Oakland motor car belonging to Mr. L. A. Nolan had been removed from Ariki Street, and could not be found. A diligent search of the town by the police revealed no trace of the missing car, and investigations are proceeding. Mr. Nolan left his car standing in Ariki Street while transacting business in town, and on returning at about 10 p.m. the car had disappeared. The registered number is A 744, its value being stated at £4OO. A number of overseas steamers are on the list of expected arrivals at New Plymouth, six of these vessels being due before, the middle of January. The Westmeath, of 81*29 tons, will be in port to-morrow to load produce for the United Kingdom, the steamers to follow being the Trevelan, from Texas with benzine; the Waikawa, from Pacific ports of America; the Kaitangata, from Melbourne (all early in January); and the Port Albany, to load produce on January 15. The. Wellington papers state that the Cape May will arrive at New Plymouth from New York next month.

“We are constantly accused of pessimism and want of courage,” said Mr. Hugh Morrison at a farmers’ meeting at Masterton last week. “But if people would go out into the back-blocks and see men there hard up against it they could not say they were pessimists or deficient in courage. It takes a lot of courage for a man with a wife and family to hang on by a thread with practically nothing between them and ruin and going on the labor market for a living. It needs great moral courage for a man to show spirit under such circumstances. but there are a good many of them, full of buck and optimism, the youngsters and wives helping to pull through. These people deserve every bit of help that can be given them.” Fino indigo serge suits for lioys are again on the market at the Melbourne, Ltd., at moderate prices. These are made in the popular sports style, with “shorts” knickers fine grade and warranted pure indigo dye. Sizes 4 to 16. Prices 49/6 to 69/6.‘

Farmers, how can you expect your factory manager to secure highest grade points for butter and cheese when milk supplies are not absolutely pure? Pure milk can only be supplied by the strictest observance of cleanliness, and can cleanliness can only be absolutely assured by the regular use of “Sinus,” the champion milking machine cleanser. Obtainable from L. A. Nolan and C 0,,. New Plymouth*