LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Joll Dairy Company will pay out l/3f per lb of butter-fat for the past season, and pay 5 per cent on share capital. The sales of butter and cheese for the season realised £238,859.

An up-to-date dairy factory in concrete has been erected at Aria, King Country, at a cost of over £3OOO, to replace the present wooden building. The new factory is to be officially opened on Wednesday and Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., leaves to-morrow to perform the ceremony.

The sixth korero of the New Plymouth Savage Club was held on Saturday night, when there was a large attendance and an enjoyable evening was spent. Mr. A. Goldwater was installed as chief for the evening, and he carried out his duties splendidly. An excellent programme of songs and other musical items was presented, while the orchestra played several enjoyable pieces. Amongst the guests was Mr. Justice Chapman. When giving evidence at the inquest held in connection with the death of K. H. Williams, the Wanganui Collegiate School boy, who died as the outcome of an accident while playing in a football match, Dr. A. Wilson described the injuries to the deceased’s spine, and said that he only knew of two similar accidents. One occurred at Wellington; the other was the case of Armit, the Otago player, who received fatal injuries in a match against Taranaki in 1899. The coroner, Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., said that he knew of a similar accident on the football field at Auckland many years ago. That was the case of Mr. Fred Pelling, in a club match, when the circumstances were almost identical with those of the recent fatality. It needs a memory stretching back nearly fifty years to recollect that occurrence.

Two young fellows got the durprise of their lives the other evening in an Auckland suburb. A Salvation Army officer started to preach at a street corner, which was also a tram terminus. He had then no audience, but two young men came along, and, after some words, started to handle the preacher roughly. The tramcar was just starting, when a Jack Tar aboard requested the motorman to delay a moment. This request being complied with, the man of the sea walked straight over to the young fellows, landed first one and then the other a skilful blow on the jaw, sending them sprawling in the roadway. He then briskly regained the tramcar, calmly took his seat, lighted a cigarette, and proceeded on his way to the city as unconcernedly as though nothing had eventuated to disturb his placid and serene composure.

The Whiteley Club social will not be held to-night.—Advt.

Men and youths who prefer to be well dressed will find the suits at Hookham’s well-tailored, correct-fitting and made of specially selected materials. These famed suits are specially built for Taranaki men and a very wide selection of fashionable colors is offering. A final reminder is given of the sale of good and modem furniture to be held by'Webster Bros, in the Workers’ Social Tfall on Wednesday. The list comprises many new and modern pieces of furniture and also a first-class piano. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., draw attention to their Te Wera Sale, on Friday, August 25, at I p.m. Full particular'are advertised on page 8. To those mothers who are having endless worry in connection with the buying of their boys’ clothing, Messrs. Howell and Howell’s timely offer will be more than welcome. This firm is now offering a full stock of boys’ suits at a special discount of 5s in the £1 —an offer which will hold good for ten days only. This great money-saving opportunity should appeal to all those who are in quest of good, reliable colthing at reduced prices. You are, therefore, well advised to select your boy’s suit early and so avoid disappointment. Get your boy’s suit now at Howell’s.

Inspect the new corset styles at Morey’s. The leading brands at specially reduced prices, and in great variety. Call in to-day.

Our readers are asked to be on the look-out for the Melbourne’s, Ltd., Sensational Sale, which is scheduled to commence on Tuesday morning. All-round reductions have been made on a large scale, and patrons of the firm are promised many genuine bargains. The list of bargains will be forwarded on appli©f the firm’s branches.

‘ If an American syndicate got hold of Rotorua it would make enough money out of it in a few years to wipe off the whole of the New Zealand war debt, declared Mr. F. N. Bartram (Grey Lynn) in the House of Representatives.

Important developments in the dye industry are likely to result from the work of Mrs. Eady Hart, of Ballarat, Victoria. Mrs. Hart, who is 73 years of age, has been experimenting lor 30 years, and has succeeded now in perfecting a wonderful range of beautiful colours extracted from vegetable matters. From eucalyptus trees alone she can produce more than 100 different shades and she says she has barely tapped the possibilites of Australian vegetation. “At the present rate of cutting timber supplies along the Main Trunk will,” remarked an officer oi tne Forestry Service to a. Standard representative, “be exhausted in about 12 years—that is with the exception of supplies in inaccessible areas. Where five years or sb ago , the mills were cutting alongside railway sidings, they are now operating 10 miles back nd hauling uy traction engine. There are nearly 100 sawmills in the district embracing the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki provinces. Quite a number of them are cutting out, and obviously if they have to go another 10 miles back for their supplies, timber cannot remain at the present prices. By dint of careful and selective cutting, the Foresttv Service hopes to secure a limited supply of timber in perpetuity, but certain areas more suitable for farming purposes are being cut right out.’’ Speaking to a meeting of wireless enthusiast.. at Dunedin, Dr. Jack gave an illustration of what could be done in the way of transmitting by wireless telephone with low power. He stated that an English amateur had succeeded in transmitting human speech for a distance of 84 miles with a power of i K.W., compared with the 100 K.W. that were required for an average lamp. Another had transmitted for five miles with 20 volts. An illustration of the extraordinary sensitivness of modern scientific measurement was also given by Dr. Jack to show members some of the scientific uses to which they could put their appliances. If they had an iron bar two or three inches thick and a fly alighted on it, he said, they could measure the distance that the bar sank down.

An unfortunate farmer, residing at Awahuri, who met with disaster, has just filed a schedule in bankruptcy owing io an extraordinary run ot bad luck. His assets were £5, and his net deficiency £2940 2/6. In his statement he showed that he took up a soldier’s section of 36 x / 2 acres on the Kopane estate, hear Awahuri, and subsequently he purchased 26 cows, which cost £BOO. In August of 1 1919 his son was taken to Palmerston North hospital, and died there. Nine of his cows died and four were sold. Again, in 1920, 11 of his best cows died, and three went out with bad quarters. His wife arranged with a party to build a house out of her own means, and he was to help her. The house was just about completed, and he went to Wellington at the request ot the Commissioner of Crown Lands in connection with a further advance, when fire completely destroyed his home. He attributed his failure to the loss of his cows, to the fire, and to the slump in the prices of dairy produce. A Rangitikei lady, visiting the Maori school near Maungapowhatu, the home of the “prophet” Rua, says Rua’s seventh wife paid her a visit seeking information as to the making of infantile garments. The young woman is described as intelligent and attractive, free from any appearance of worrying about dividing the affections of the follower of King Solomon with six others.

The correspondent of the Sydney Sun at a seaport town states that an extraordinary spectacle was seen there one day recently. At one side of the jetty was seen a steamer landing telegraph arms for the Railway Department, and on the other side a steamer was being loaded up with telegraph arms for shipment to Sydney.

Enough oil is obtainable in Alberta (Canada) to supply the worldV requirements for over 600 years, according to Mr. Thomas S. Howson, of Vancouver, an expert in oil production and refining. He referred to the oil contained in the vast fields of bituminous sand in the district of M‘Murray, on the Athabasca River and on the Slave River.

Th* Rev. A. Don, who has recently returned to the Dominion from a visit to China, in speaking of the social conditions there, says: “Another thing that is making for the renaissance in China is the emancipation of woman, who is now coming into her own. The women of Chinrf have never been degraded to the extent that their sisters in India have been. They have always had a certain amount of liberty, especially when they rose to the eminence of mothers of sons. This release from the bondage of centuries is bound to have an enormous effect on the future of China.” Further interesting statements are as follow: — ‘*A feature of the factory-operations was the large proportion of women and children employed. Of every 1000 workers 720 were women, 100 children, and the balance (ISO) men. The children were as young as six to nine years, and they had to put in their twelve-hour day just as their elders did. There are nq Government regulations in respect of child labour, and, though several of the large factories are willing to fix a minimum age for these tiny workers, others will not consent, so that the position remains. There is, however, a hope that the minority will yet fall into line, and that very young children will not be allowed to work.” Jurors summoned for attendance at the Supreme Court this (Monday) morning are notified that they will not be required to attend until to-morrow (Tuesday), at 10 a.m. As showing the high esteem in which “Fairy Wonder” dry soap is held, a packet of this wonderful washing powder was given as portion of a wedding gift. Fact! The donor evidently was determined that the young housewife should “start in right.”

This is the last week of C. C. Ward’s Great Winter Sale, which has been a record one owing to the splendid values given. Ladies should avail themselves of the opportunity of buying drapery at greatly reduced prices before it is too late.

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