LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki last year possessed no fewer than 5344 purebred Jerseys. A London cable states that forced strawberries brought 54s per lb. at Covent Garden market.

A Hawke’s Bay station, together with its stock and implements, has been sold for £40,000. Of 349.892 pigs in New Zealand last year, 74,841 were in the Auckland province, 54,085 in the Wellington, and 51,310 in the Taranaki. The president of the Court of Arbitration expects that the court will be in Wellington till Thursday of next week, arid would then go f ( o Palmerston North, Wanganui and New Plymouth, and be back in Wellington -by Easter. An application for a land agent's license, made by the wife of a former land agent, now bankrupt, was refused by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.,\ in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, on the ground that the applicant Jacked the knowledge and' ability required. The application was opposed by the Christchurch Land Agents’ Association. At a special meeting yesterday iriorning the Inglewood County Council decided to take steps to upset the award of the auditor-general in connection with the adjustment of accounts between the Taranaki and Inglewood Counties, on the ground that the Junction Road reserves should be vested in the Inglewood County. At a meeting of the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce yesterday it Svas decided to make representations to the general manager of railways to reduce the mail train jo-urney from New Plymouth to Wellington as soon as the big locomotives are available on the run. At the Soldiers’ Club, New Plymouth, this evening a public meeting will be held to hear reports from the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce delegation wnieh recently toured the backbloeks, and to consider proposals to help the settlers in the matter of communications. It is hoped there will be a large and representative attendance of townspeople to show their sympathy with a cause so urgent and deserving.

A social arid dance is 'being "held at Bell Block Hall to-night, in aid. of.-.he Cricket Club

An inquest will be hold before Mr. A. M. Mowlem (coroner) at the New Plymouth Courthouse to-day concerning the death of Charles B. Andrews, which occurred in the New Plymouth hospital at 12.30 yesterday morning, as the result of a fall from a building the previous day, details of which were reported in yesterday’s issue. Andrews was a married man, aged 42, and had a wife and three children, who reside in Auckland.

Bishop Liston’s speech at Auckland on St. Patrick’s Day has set the city on fire. The Auckland Star, which has always been a strong supporter of Home Rule for Ireland, says: “We cannot regard Bishop’s Liston’s rasping and bitter address as anything but deplorable. We say this, as a newspaper that has fought Ireland’s battles for a much longer period than Dr. Liston.” The Herald says: “It is difficult to see how the cause of Irish freedom is advanced by such speeches as that delivered by Bishop Liston.”

The change from tlie manufature of dried milk to butter and cheese is not welcomed by the majority of suppliers to a West Coast factory, for the change imposes, apparently, an obligation upon the suppliers to remove large quantities of whey and .skim milk, and this waste is well-nigh useless to farmers. During the past few days, it is computed, a daily total of 35,000 gallons of whey was discharged into the Waihou river, the only beneficiaries being the hordes of eels that congregate round the outfall pipes.

My own personal opinion, says a correspondent of the Wellington Post, is that our present-day system of education is much less effective in making good politicians, or, for the matter of that, good citizens of any description, than was the system of forty or fifty years ago. ,It is, speaking broadly, a system of inspiring cramming, while the system of four or five decades back was a system less pretentious but far sounder teaching. Writes our Inglewood correspondent: A clearer proof that reliance is given to statements in correspondents’ contributions could hardly be given than the following: Some few weeks ago it was reported -by our Inglewood correspondent that a’swarm of bees, starting from a parent hive housed in the Inglewood Hotel had created some interest in that town. Though the name of the hotel was not given the bees inspector, or whatever his official title is, marked it down and lately served the proprietor, Host Saunders, with notice that he must clear them out. To the ordinary lay intelligence, this seems rather arbitrary, and makes one feel inclined to protest, but Mr. Saunders, wisely most likely, has complied with the notice and his uninvited tenants, after a lease of several years, have now been forcibly ejected. At a meeting of ladies held in the Soldiers’ Club, New Plymouth, yesterday afternoon it was decided to organise a gala day, to be held in September, in aid of a fund for the erection of a gymnasium at the Boys’ High School. The meeting was held under the auspices of the High Srihoo) Old Boys’ Association, Mr. R. H. George presiding. Mr. M. H. Moyes (headmaster) attended and explained the object for which the funds were required, and he expressed the hope that any mony raised would bear a Government subsidy Mrs W. J. Penn was appointed chairwoman, and Mrs. George secretary. The following | were elected sub-committees to take j charge of the respective stalls: —Cakes, Mesdames Anderson and Rockel; flowers, Mesdames George, Mac Diarmid and Bewley, produce, Mesdames Cress well and Willis; sweets, Mrs. Walter Bayly; bookstall and bags, Mesdames L. May and Wilson; fancy work, Mrs. Barnitt; jam and pickles. * Mrs. Alleman; afternoon tea, Mrs. Moyes; bran tub. Mrs. Kircher; doll stall, Mrs. P. White; plain sewing, Mrs. Waterston.

Owners of typewriters, many hunof 'which are ’in use throughout the province, will be interested to learn that Messrs. McLeod and Slade, Ltd., have added a permanent repair department to their business. A competent tneehanie is in charge, and as work will in tne future be attended to on the spot, machines need no longer be out of commission for indefinite periods waiting the arrival of peripatetic repairers.

Hart’s stores, New Plymouth, are renowned for the high value offered to the public. Elsewhere an advertisement appears giving details of a few cut prices. Tlie Westown butchery are .buyers of porkers and vealers. See advertisement. The Tuna school picnic will be held in the school grounds, Tuna, to-morrow. A farewell social is being tendpre<l to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Moss and family in the Tataraimaka school to-morrow evening, commencing at 8 p.m. A preliminary announcement of an annual draft sale of pedigree Jersey heifers and bulls on account of the wellknown breeder, Mr. John Hale, is made in our auction columns.

Residents of Uruti and district are reminded that the annual meeting of the Uruti Nursing Association will be held in the Uruti Public Hall on Saturday next, at 1 p.m.

Dockrill’s are offering their superior footwear at specially reduced prices until stocktaking at the end of this month. This is not a clearance sale of poor, out-of-date boots and shoes; every pair can be relied on for style and good wear.

The man who wants a serviceable raincoat can be fitted out at the Melbourne at a reasonable cost. This firm is showing two remarkably fine lines at £3 19s 6d and £5 19s Cxi respectively. These goods are splendid value, and are worthy of inspection. The demand for “Fairy Wonder” Dry Soap is so keen that the manufacturers, the Purity Products Co., Ltd., who are the sole proprietors of the secret scientific formulae, have had to enlarge their plant to cope with “rush” orders from the wholesale. “Fairy” has proved such a wonderful success that housewives will not now be without it. At all grocers.

Particulars of a clearing sale to be held at Omata on Monday next are advertised.

The date of the winter sale of pedigree Jerseys on behalf of members of the New Plymouth Jersey Breeders’ Club has been fixed for Tuesday, June 27, the day .prior to the annua l general meeting N.Z. Jersey Breeders’ Association, which will this year be held at Stratford.

Special lines at C‘. C. Ward’s three stores:—Extra quality all wool cashmere hose, 3/6 pair; all -wool broad ribbed hose, in all new shades, 4/11 pair; ladies’ cotton vests, 1/11, 2/6 each; extra large size 2/11 each; 30in. white flannelette, 1/- ‘yard, 36in. 1/6 yard; good quality pure calico, 36in., 1/3 yard.