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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left Wellington on January 6 by R.M.S. Marama, via San Francisco, arrived in London on February 13. A circular was received by the Egmont County Council yesterday from the Minister for Health urging the necessity of renewing efforts to poison and trap rats, and to clean up tfie district, as a precaution against plague during the next four weeks. It was 1 esolved to publish notices drawing attention of the public to the matter. Judging by the number of flocks of sheep and lambs being driven along the coast between Warea and Tataraimaka yeeterdy evening, there must have ibeen considerable activity at the Okato sale. The evening cars from Opunake passed fully a dozen flocks of varying,size being driven along the road, the majority appearing to be owned 'by farmers who had purchased a few with a view to making provision for their winter supplies of meat.

The vexed question of contractors’ •bullocks wandering on the road came up at the meeting of the Egmont County Council yesterday, • when Cr. Ferguson asked for a definite understanding as to whether the ranger had instructions not to impound contractors’ bullocks. There seemed to be an unwritten law that contractors were permitted to run their bullocks on the road while carrying out contracts, and he was continually receiving complaints front ratepayers on the subject. The chairman stated definitely that contractors were not permitted to run bullocks on the road, being subject to prosecution just as any one else was.

A Super-six Hudson motor car was stolen from the New Plymouth Breakwater last night between 8 and 9 o’clock. Snelling and Andrews, taxi proprietors, sent the car to the wharf with passengers to connect with the Rarawa, and while the passengers were going aboard the steamer the car was left at the foot of the breakwater. When the driver returned it had disappeared. A motor lorry driver reported that he saw a ear answering the description of the missing motor proceeding in the direction of Oakura on the Main South Road. Late last night the car wae found not far from the New Plymouth police station.

The question of a rebate on rates was before the Egmont County Council yesterday, The Waimea County Council asked support to a resolution urging the Government to amend the Rating Act by inserting a clause enabling local bodies to make a rebate of 5 per cent, to all persons paying their general rates within thirty days from the date on which such rates become, due. The chairman stated that the matter was threshed out at the counties conference, but there were as many against it as for it. 'Cr. Green moved that the council support the resolution, and thia was seconded by Cr. Tosland and carried. The Manaia people are not growing enthusiastic over the prospect of being connected with the. railway. Says the local Witness:—“Other small towns have had cherished visions of crowded express trains steaming majestically into the stations, and have settled down to the realisation of a rattling recumbent coffee-pot wheezing in with few passengers. The ' fun will begin when the guards call out (if they do) the various changes which will have to be made on this wonderful line. We shah get used to it, but should not expect oeal prosperity as tha result of the railway being here. With the knowledge that car travelling is cheap and roads are excellent, the average resident, no doit-bt, would rather see more houses and homes than hear tha whistle of the railway engine.” The Egmont County Council yesterday decided to apply to the Government to have the land within the county re-valued. The subject was introduced by Cr. O’Brien, who held that at present the land was not valued on an equitable ibasis, instancing a case of some. 200 acres on the Wiremil Road, which only paid 16/8 per annum in rates, while some, other land paid too much. He considered the present a good time to nave the land valued, as land was now down to bedrock values. Cr. Tosland agreed that the valuation should be on a 'better basis, holding that it should be based on the point of view of butter-fat production, but he thought it would be better to hold the matter over till markets were more settled. Entries are now being taken for a cattle and sheep sale at Uruti on the ixwj. _

The Racing Commission of last year cost the country £4389. This sum included £2522 paid in fees to the commissioners and the staff.

“I know that when you can get ratepayers to do the work you are going to get 100 per cent, efficiency,” remarked Cr. J. S. Tosland at the meeting of the Egmont County Council yesterday when discussing a proposal by a settler to carry out certain work. Three jurors who were successful in their application to be excused from attendance at fhe present sessions of the Supreme Court New Plymouth were farmers. One of these in explaining his case to “Mr. Justice'- Chapman at the opening of the Court yesterday morning said he had a herd of twentyfour cows, and rose that morning at five minutes to five. “I don’t think I can keep you,” said His Honor. Another juror who produced a medical certificate was also relieved from attendance.

The Supreme Court sessions at New Plymouth opened yesterday morning bebefore Mr. Justice Chapman. In his charge to the Grand Jury His Honor remarked that the number of cases for consideration, namely seven, was greater than usual in his experience of the district. True bills were returned in all cases. The charge of carnally knowing a girl under 16 years of age against Henry I. D. Mackay, of Stratford, occupied the Court during the day, and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred till this morning. Six criminal cases remain to be disposed of.

The picnic traffic to the Opunake beach js causing the Egmont County Council considerable concern, councillors considering that motor lorries conveying people to the beach were doing the roads a lot of damage. The Eltham and Main South Road to Ha'wera were the worst sufferers. Some discussion took place on the subject yesterday, during which' the question of licensing motor lorries cropped up. The clerk stated that a number of owners had already paid a license fee, and it was resolved to place the matter in the hands of the new overseer to see that the license fees were paid in all cases. A flagrant example of pillaging was shown a representative of, the Press, Christchurch, by an importer on Friday. A small case originally filled with engineers’ twist drills, of an estimated value of £lOO, contained only cobble stones. These had been neatly and closely packed together, and the fastenings of the case gave no indication that it had been tampered with. As if to add insult to injury, the person who substituted the stones -for the goods left the list of fhe different lines of twist drills the case ought to have contained neatly spread out on top of the stones. “The fact that no disaster of any magnitude has occurred in the trade during the most dangerous financial flurry that New Zealand has ever experienced is a tribute to the sound business methods under which the drapery trade in the Dominion is carried on.” So states an extract from the annual report of the Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers and Olothiflrs held in Christchurch. “It may also be adduced as a salutary lesson to certain politicians ,and officials,” stated the report, “who, in the turmoil of war years, endeavored to formulate new rules in the conduct of trade. The British Pripie Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech of quite recent date, made confession of his discovery that business men knew best how to manage their own affairs. The less Governments ’ interfered with trade/’ he said, “the better for trade—and Governments.” The quotation has a local application, and may be commended to the attention of our ruling powers.”

Writing from America to an exchange, a New Zealand girl says: “Yesterday afternoon, at a nice little party given by the manager of the Associated Press to say good-bye to Lord Riddell, who is returning to London. The guests included a Japanese millionaire, who is hi charge of the Associated Press of Japan, an American who represents the Press of the United States at Tokio, a lrish journalist from Paris and his beautiful Russian bride — quite an international group. Somebody mentioned the New Zealand soldiers, and Lord Riddell took up the theme. ‘Fine, fine, every man of them like a Greek god, tali’, brown, handsome, wonderful,’ he rattled On. I am getting used to hearing that our New Zealand men are the finest in the world, and I feel a thrill of pride when people who have met them on service abroad speak not only of their fighting qualities, their physique, but their all-round manliness, and the fair name they have left behind them. If you, in New Zealand, could hear the ungrudging and generous praise accorded to our troops, that foolish idea that Americans claim to have won the war would soon be dissipated. Only once since I have been here have I heard' it suggested, and the attitude of the other Americans present, their silent repudiation of such an idea, has convinced me that the person who makes that claim is the singular specimen, and not representative of American opinion.”

Attention has been drawn to a special class again appearing in the New Plymouth Horticultural Society’s autumn schedule—the collection of New Zealand flowers and berries. Messrs. Dunean and Davies offer a fine selection of native trees as a special prize. Our own New Zealand flowers and trees are well worth cultivation and a wider appreciation. It is desirable to make special efforts to stage a good competition in this class. Entries close on Tuesday, February 21. The New Plymouth Motor Cycle Club, at last night’s meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club, notified acceptance of the Jockey Club’s terms for the use of the racecourse for a motor cycle race meeting in March. A new and very important departure has been decided upon by the Patea Farmers’ Co-op. Freezing Co. In short, it is a proposal that will give farmers every facility for pooling their surplus dairy cattle (cull cows and bulls) in boneless beef contracts. The Freezing Co. will treat and freeze boner cows and bulls on owners’ account for sale either at the works or in the United Kingdom, and to facilitate this being quickly done arrangements have been made to receive cattle at any of the Farmers’ Co-op. saleyards. Such an arrangement wi.l afford farmers the greatest convenience in getting rid of their surplus stock. It wilf involve the minimum of driving for each individual, and being on the cooperative basis it means that they will receive the whole of the proceeds from the sale of their stock. Particulars are advertised. DEVELOPING and PRINTING is work in which we specialise. Post your next film or plate to H. J. Abram, the “MAT ORDER” Chemist. New Ply £M»Uth»

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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 4

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