LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One bankruptcy was recorded in the New Plymouth district during March, the amount involved being £llOO.

Mr. Massey yesterday turned the first sod of the Hikurangi swamp drainage works, affecting 50,000 acres of land.

Ten dwelling houses were represented in the building permits issued in New Plymouth during March. The total value of building work for which permits were issued was £7800.'

A tender lias been let for the erection of a two-storeyed building in concrete, to be used as a produce store by Messrs. L. A. Nolan and Co., New Plymouth, The building will be situated in Liardet Street, opposite the Sash and Door Factory.

A man aged 27 years, formerly of the crew of one of the overseas vessels visiting i\ew Plymouth, appeared before Mr. H. R. Cattley, J.P., yesterday morning, having been arrested for drunkenness by Constable Butler on Thursday afternoon. Being a first offender, he was convicted and discharged.

Twenty-one borough councils, seventeen county councils a,nd nine town boards have expressed agreement with the proposals of the Napier Borough Council that overdrafts on one account should be set off by crefts on other accounts when interest charges are being made. At a meeting of the suppliers of the Moa Dairy Company, Ltd., in the Inglewood Parish Hall on Saturday, March 25. Mr. Sutton (chairman of directors) presiding, the directors were authorised to obtain the necessary capital to instal a cheese-making plant when conditions warranted the expenditure* and satisfactory inducements offered.

Writing to a friend from a country district in Victoria, an ex-Taranaki man says:—“l asked the local storekeeper for a cattle drench the other day, and he promptly handed me a package of Sykes’ Red Drerfch, prepared in New Plymouth. An example of push, enterprise, and good advertising. Good on New Plymouth!”

The apiary division of the Department of Agriculture has received information of rather more serious outbreak than usual of paralysis amongst bees in the Taranaki district. This is not regarded as a serious malady, but the present outbreak appears to be of a more virulent type than has occurred elsewhere, and prompt measures have been taken to deal with it.

What can be done on a small farm ia shown by the results attained by a New RJymouth suburban resident, who, on a place only 9.1 acres in extent took for milk supplied to a New Plymouth firm for the twelve months just ended no less than £193. With poultry and other lines he is able to make quite a good living, but the settler is a grafter and knows how to farm.

Speaking at Whangarei last night, Mr. Massey said he and Mr. Guthrie had agreed’ to the request of the Producers’ Meat Board for a reduction of the railway freights on cattle to the freezing works and beef works to the ship by 274 per cent., if the shipping companies reduced freights. The Premier also stated his intention of going on the London market for a loan, which he expected to get at 5 per cent., or at most, with all charges in, at 54.

For many years the Taranaki and Stratford Chambers of Commerce have been battling to have the telephone line linked up between Tahora and Tatu, so as to give the settlers there an opportunity of getting into direct touch with Taranaki firms instead of having to take the circumlocutory route through Te Kuiti, Marton and Wanganui. The Taranaki Chamber is again taking up the matter with the department, which has now the necessary material, the absence of which was given as the reason for not proceeding with the work before.

A correspondent notifies that a house at Korn, owned and occupied by Mr. E. J. Baker, was destroyed by fire early in the week. While attending to his herd between eight and nine o’clock in the morning, Mt .Baker noticed smoke issuing from the kitchen, and endeavored to extinguish the flames with buckets of water. The fire had gained too big a hold, however, and the dwelling was totally destroyed. Mrs. Baker and two children were absent in New Plymouth. The house was insured with the Standard office for £l5O and the furniture was also covered by a policy for £l5O in tlio same office.

There was a good muster of stock, specially of weanera, for Wednesday’s sale in‘the Farmers’ Co-op. yards, when a very fair proportion of the lines offered found purchasers, although prices in most cases were by no means inflated (reports our Inglewood correspondent. Weaner steers sold for 16/- to 19s 6d, Holstein heifers 28/- and Jersey strain up to £2 ss; heifers in calf, mixed breed, went from £2 12b 6d to £3 17s fid; store cows, plain, from 15s to 30s; forward, fresh conditioned stores up to £3 15s; two fat maiden heifers sold at £5 and £5 5s respectively; 18months steers made 25s to 355; 2>J-year ditto up to 455; 34-year bullocks sold for £3; bulls up to £-2 ss; and a line of f.f.m. ewes, small, sold for Ils 6d.

From the Union Steap Ship Co. we are in ♦receipt of several filluistrated pamphlets, distributed by the Hawaiian Tourist Bureau, and setting out in attractive style the beauties of “the paradise of the Pacific” as a year-round resort and vacation centre. Mark Twain immortalised these islands as “the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean,” and the pamphlets, by means' of well written articles, supplemented bv copious illustrations and diagrams, certainly do much to create a favorable impression of these islands, set down in the middle of the ocean ■ within easy sailing distance of all coun[tries bordering on the Pacific.

Madam Roeevear, milliner, notifies I that she has resumed business in premises, No. 173 Gill Street. A new and up-to-date stock of millinery, jumpers, •scarves, etc., for the winter season has been secured, and will be offered at reasonable prices.

A bargain sale that offers great reductions is now on at the Household Stores, Liardet Street, New Plymouth. Customers will find that in linoleums, sideboards, bedsteads, duchess chests, kitchen dressers, crockery, glassware, etc., the Household Stores are offering value seldom met with.

The Melbourne, Ltd., have a fine showing of men’s heavy all wool colonial tweed overcoats for the present season’s resuirements. Dark greys and browns requirements. Dark greys and browns breasted with deep collar. Last season s price was £6 19s fid. These new nobby '«oate will cost you only £4 &s fid.