LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is reported that the Joll Dairy Company have sold their August output of butter at Is 9d per lb. The body of the old man who was killed at the Patea station on Tuesday night has been identified as that of Mr. McGuire, father of Mrs. Boyd, of Huinga inland from Stratford). This information was received from the police at Batea last night. The Education Department has authorised the New Plymouth High School Board to proceed with the erection of two additional classrooms at the Boys’ High School. These rooms, with others that have since been reinstated, at considerable extra expense, were cut out of the -original plans on the score of economy. It has proved false economy in the greatest degree. An alarm of fire was given at the! Central Fire Station, New Plymouth, al couple of minutes before noon yesterday,* the scene of the outbreak being - the Taranaki Club building in Egmont Street, ft appeared the contents of an ashpan lad been emptied on an asphalt path near file rear of the building and the wind had fanned the ashes, causing a fire to break out in the floor, but fortunately it did not gain a very big hold and the brigade, who were promptly on the scene, soc’' had the outbreak extinguished. The Pohangina record weights of carrots (two weighing 19 lb with tops) is eclipsed by Mr. AV. J. Daker’s exhibit to be seen at the Kaupokonui store, Manaia. The two grown by Mr. Dakers weigh aOVi lb without tops. Mr. Dakers, who is the winner of the Sutton Challenge Cup for the best root crops, lias at the same place samples of mangolds 91 tons to the acre. The carrots went 62 tons to the acre.

The annual winter sale at “The New Zealand Clothing Factory” is now in full swing. The “H. 8. brand of clothing, mercery and boots is so well and favorably known by the public that a sale organised by this firm is fully taken advantage of. Parents can make solid savings on all purchases of clothing, mercery and boots, for both man and boy, during the sale period. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

At the Australasian Institute of Secretaries exam., held last December, the top place for all Australasia was gained by Mr. Leonard Knight, an Auckland student of Hemingway and Robertson’s. Notice has been given in the House by Mr. S. G. Smith (Taranaki) to ask the Minister of Railways -whether, in view of the Government’s oft-repeated statement that there has been a marked reduction in the wages of members of the railway service, it is proposed to reduce the present high charges imposed at railway dining and refreshmentrooms ? The tragic absurdity of the stories which have been put in circulation concerning the shocks in the Taupo district in illustrated (eays the Rotorua Chronicle) in a communication from a passenger on the s.-s. Ventura, who stated that on arriving at San Francisco <he found a statement published that 60 persons had been -killed in Rotorua through earthquakes. “You can walk down the street and you will find that the ladies don’t know what the weather is,” remarked the Government Meteorologist (Mr. D. C. Bates) in the course of his address before the New Zealand Council of Agri-’ culture. “You will find one in a thin dress and another with heavy furs, but both seem happy.” The reported rise of £2 a ton in the price of flour in New Plymouth, though correct, hardly .epr sents the position accurately'. Last week a mild flour “war” took place, resulting in quotations of from 25s to 50s per ton below the Government prices. This has now stopped, and millers have reverted to Government rates again. The quantity sold at the cheap rates is not considered to be sufficient to cause any alteration in retail prices.

The New Plymuutft Unemployment Committee met last night, there being present the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson), Messrs. F. J. Hill, J. Brown, G. E. lloper, J. S. Connett, and the borough engineer (Mr W. H. Cook). It was made a recommendation to Mr. Cook, that married men be omptbyed next week, and that, in filling vacancies, preference should also be given to married men. The trees at Western Park will be removed and the wood disposed of to best advantage. This will enable the bank in Morley Street, near Barrett Street, to be cut back ar.d Hi-' footpath widened. The committee .--.’ill meet again next Friday evening.

In the House on Wednesday, Mr. S. G. Smith (Taranaki) -complained of the conditions upon which the Government proposed to provide, the services of dental nurses at schools. He feared that they were such that the wealthy districts only would be able to take adva-n- - the services offered. It had been laid down that a -surgery must :be provided, that arrangements must be made for the transport of nursing equipment, and that board and lodging should be provided for the nurse. This seemed to him an infringement of the principle that the education system should be a national one, with equal advantages for all districts. He hoped that the department would undertake to bear all the expense of the scheme.

Donations to the Pierrots included: *O. E. Flyger £5, T. H. Bates £2 2s, Mr. Barthrop £2 2s, H. Lunn 2/6.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their Stratford sale, i which they are holding at their Stratford yards on Tuesday, August 1. Full particulars -on page S. The unreserved tickets for Miss Rosina Buckman’s concert to-night will be sold at the theatre door. Mr. L. A. Nolan was granted a renewal of a land agent’s license at yesterday’s sitting of the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court. Coastal residents are promised a treat on Wednesday evening, when a plain and fancy dress ball for both children and adults is to be held in the vv z area Hall. The proceeds are in aid of the Warea school football team, and it is very appropriate that a football is to be presented to the boy wearing the most original costume. On Monday, at 10 a.m., at the Farmers’ Co-op. Building, New Plymouth. L. A. Nolan and Co. will sell a Hupmobile motor car. The Melbourne, Limited, are showing a fine range of men’s suits and trousers. Here are some of the particulars. Kaiapoi and! Roslyn suits 85/- and 87/6; I Oamaru tweed suits, 95/-; men’s worsted suits 75/-, 95/- and £6 19e 6d; splendid quality indigo serge suits, fine grade, £6 19s 6d; grand trousers, 19/6, 25/6, 29/6 to 32/6. ” Why nqt for safety’s sake try “Fairy Wonder” Dry Soap? You pay pounds for household drapery, but only a few pence for washing powder. To save a penny or two in soap you risk the pounds you pay for drapery. And then you call that economy. Now “Fairy Wonder” has proved -itself the safest and best as well as the cheapest in the end. Use it end see for yourself.