LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The poll on the; Wpstown tramway extension proposal will ibe held on Thursday. September 28. The polling places will be the same as used in the recent by-election.

Baines Terrace was favored with calm sunny weather last Saturday. Thus working conditions were very pleasant. Six men and a bqy turned up. The path at the southern end of the terrace was cleared up, and put into excellent order to the extreme end near the gravel-pit. Mrs. Chilton Hughes kindly supplied afternoon tea.

The express which left Timaru for Dunedin last Thursday had a full complement of Rugby football teams. The Christchurch Boys’ High School representatives were on the train en route to the High Schools tournament at Invercargill and they were joined by the members of the Timaru Boys’ High School team (says the Post). One end of the station was simply swarming with footballers and hakas and choruses heralded the departure of the Taranaki representative team for Dunedin. The Taranaki footballers have made a very good impression during their stay here and there was a good number of friends and local enthusiasts to see them off.

Recently the residents of Whakatane witnessed dense clouds of yellow-colored steam issuing from White Island. The wind was blowing in the direction of the island towards Whakatane, and sulphurous fumes were strongly in evidence.

Grocers and storekeepers will be consulting their own interests as well as the interests of their clients if they recommend “Fairy Wonder” dry soap to their customers. There is nothing like selling a good article at a moderate price to build up a business. Handling “Fairy Wonder,” both buyer and seller are mutually satisfied. “Fairy” performs all that is claimed for it, and more.

Owing to the favorable weather, spring flowers are coming into bloom very fast, and given another week should be at their best. St. Mary’s Bulb Show, Which is always first in the field, is to be held on September 7 and 8, and promises to be quite up to the usual high standard of quality. Lovers of flowers will do well to keep these dates in mind.

It is stated that a Palmerston North financial syndicate has offered to lend the Power Board all the money required for its half million loan at 5J per cent. When submitting a pedigree Friesian cow at the Kaponga sale last Thursday, the auctioneer said: “Here is a proper dairy factory on four legs, and you don’t know it!”

The Sydney police have arrested an officer of the New Zealand Education Department, who left for Australia without first obtaining leave, on a charge of embezzlement of moneys totalling some £2OO. He is to be brought to Wellington for trial.

Suburban residents served by the electric ’bus will be without the services of this conveyance for a couple of days, as a gearing-wheel of the ’bus was fractured whilst on the Westown run yesterday morning. It is hoped to have the ’bus ready for the road again on Friday. At a conference held at New Plymouth yesterday between the New Plymouth Borough Council and the Taranaki Electric Power Board the question of the board entering into a contract with the council for the supply of hydro-electric power was considered. As an outcome, the council will send a delegation to Eltham on Monday to put forward tentative terms for a contract.

That the general depression is lifting was the opinion expressed recently by a well-known commercial man who travels throughout Taranaki. He said the value of business he had done this week was the heaviest for the year. Dealers were buying forward much more freely and their sales warranted their action. Whereas a few months ago they would not buy forward for more than a fortnight they were now booking for delivery up to December and January. Fancy lines were quiet, but in all general lines business was decidedly good.

Pitt Street, Wanganui, was the scene of an interesting nocturnal drama on Friday night. A resident in that respectable thoroughfare heard a disturb ance in his back garden, and on making an investigation was just in time to see a dark figure leaving the garden with a. loaded sack. The marauder audaci • ously asked: “I suppose you think I am stealing your fowls?” to which the householder replied: “I don’t think, I’m sure you are.” Then the chickenstealer dropped his bag and bolted. Upon opening the receptacle the owner recovered six of his own choice fowls and three belonging to someone else, all alive and well.

A very common cause of complaint at the annual meetings of dairy companies this year has been the largely increased cost and quantity of the fuel consumed at the factories. Many attempts have been made to locate the cause of the increase, but mostly without success, the stokers, in some cases, being blamed. The matter was discussed at the meeting at Cardiff on Monday night and no solution was found. In going through the statistics of the various factories it will be noticed that the output last year increased in nearly every case—in some cases up to nearly 50 per cent —and it is suggested the manufacture of this increased yield would incur a greater consumption of fuel.

Two important sales of Devon Street property are announced. Messrs. Eberlet and’ Morgan have sold the property which was until recently under offer as a site for a theatre. The purchaser was Mr. D. Barry, and the price runs into over £5OOO. The property has a frontage to Dfevon Street of 83ft., and a depth of 135 ft. It includes the vacant section to the west of the New Zealand Insurance Company’s buildings, and land and premises occupied by Messrs. Fairbrother and Pickering and Wing Lee. Messrs. L. A. Nolan and Co. have sold the premises owned and occupied, by Messrs. Jackson and Paul, hardware merchants, to Mr. T. Petty, the price for this property exceeding £4OOO. A little variety into the run of evidence concerning marram grass, carrying capacity, and. representations alleged and otherwise, was introduced at the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, yesterday when, at the conclusion of evidence for the plaintiff, Mr. F. C. Spratt, counsel for the defence, applied for a nonsuit. The case was the claim for damages by Edward Thomas for £2837 against William Home McDonald over the sale of a farm on the Ball Road, and counsel contended that no proof had been adduced that plaintiff had been misled and no proof of damages, which was the essence of the case, had been made. His Honor, however, considered that it would be better to let the case go to the jury, but gave Mr. Spratt leave to move later in the matter. This morn ing the Court will resume at 10 o’clock to hear the remaining evidence for the defence.

Waiting jurors ordered to appear at the Supreme Court this morning are further excused until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. The Wharehuia 'Social Club has provided a very handsome cup for the competitor gaining most points in the cookery section. There are also many special and points prizes in other classes. Everyone is sure of a good time if he visits this prosperous part of Taranaki. A football match. Wharehuia v. Midhirst, will be a feature of to-morrow’s arrangements. The Farmers’ Co-op. will hold a clearing sale at Tarata to-morrow, on account of Messrs. Greenwood and Burgess. Full particulars are advertised on page 8. 1 Men’s Boz. grey denims 7/6 pair; men’s famous hardwear trousers, 9/6 pair; men’s pyjamas, 11/6 pair; men’s knitted socks’ 1/6 pair; men’s Petone and Kaiapoi flannels, 6/6; boys’ all wool tweed sport suits, sizes 7 to 12, 35/-, sizes 13 to 16 39/6; men’s Fuji silk shirts, 23/6; men’s famous “(Enzedar” (N.Z.R.) tweed trousers, 24/6; and scores of other wonderful bargains at the Melbourne’s Sensational Sale.

Special values in household goods at C. C. Ward’s: 36in. pure longcloth, Is yard; colored roller towelling* 7d yard; all-wool Doctor flannel. Shetland and light grey, 2/11 yard; 40in. apron checks (fast colors) 1/9 yard; a splendid range of cretonnes from 1/6 yard.

It was proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Melbourne, that,, (1) SANDER’S EXTRACT is much more powerfully healing and antiseptic tha;j ordinary " eucalyptus preparations; (2) SANDER’S EXTRACT does not depress the heart like the se-ealled “extracts” and crude ails; (3) SANDER’S EXTRACT is highly commended by effective household remedy. Get the

The appreciative smokers—those who like a proper blending of aroma and flavor coupled with a cool smokeI—are 1 —are always interested in high-grade goods. Manufacturers are fully alive to the demands of ladies and gentlemen who require a superior cigarette, and the many choice, fragrant kinds now offering will be found at Preece’s, tobacconist, Devon Street Central, New Plymouth. The stocks are entirely new and fresh. Preece’s well laid out window shows an exhibit that is sure to find favor amongst good judges of tobacco.

Visitors to Eltham speak in glowing terms of the sure and steady progress the town has been making of late (says the Patea Press). Buildings are going up in all directions, and what is more, they are buildings of a substantial nature of which any town could be proud, a totally different class from those erected twenty yet.rs ago. The streets are wide and well-cared for, with good footpaths, the latter having concrete kerbs, a wise and economical provision, for they are practically everlasting. Eltham, if we mistake not, was the first town in Taranaki to put down a tarred street, an example that has since been followed by every other town in Taranaki. Eltham strikes one as being essentially a solid town as every house has a well-cared for appearance, the sections being surrounded by fine hedges, which are kept beautifully trimmed. If Eltham has felt the pinch of hard times it certainly does not show.

“C.5.M.,” in Quick March, has been touring Rangitikei district and has viewed the Promised Land of Tarfinaki from the far-off hills of that locality. Re says: “I turned to look for Egmont. There he stood, a sentinel, as he guarded the shadows as they came to rest in the valleys. As I looked at Egmont, I thought of him as the original of Taranaki’s badge. I thought of the little brass image of him worn by New Zealanders into all corners of the globe. I thought of the countless thousands who had seen the badge, and so my mind wandered. The beauty on which I had been feasting my eyes was New Zealand, my New Zealand, our country! My mind went back to scenes and incidents now mere memories as are some of the actors in those scenes. Once more I heard the sergeant-major bark and the blinking whistle blow, and, grumbling, we wondered what was coming next — but now I think it was worth it. And, musing thus, I rode down the gully into Hunterville.”

A Wellington visitor to Taranaki experienced somewhat of a surprise in coming through the province by motor last Saturday. He had been informed that Taranaki was hard hit by the slump, that the farmers were using their traps instead of their motors, and that business generally was dead. His first disillusionment occurred at Hawera, where he found the main street agog with business excitement, the town full of people, and cars everywhere. In Eltham there was similar activity, all the shops being busy, and the main street lined with cars. Stratford, too, was not less active; in fact, he had never on the occasion of former visits seen the town so obviously prosperous. Inglewood afforded another surprise packet, the town being full of life. It was late in the afternoon when he arrived in New Plymouth, but after spending a couple of days in the town he was satisfied there was little or no sign of slump, either in! the town or the district. “I have come to the conclusion,” he said to a News’ representative, “that you in Taranaki have come out of the depression better than any other part of New Zealand, and that you really have nothing to complain of. Taranaki is like Auckland, mostly dependent upon the dairy industry, and though there was a set-back in prices last year the wonderful producing season you had made up largely for the fall in prices, whilst good prices for the coming season are assured. You people here,” he said in conclusion, '“ought to be grateful for living in such a highly-favored part of the Dominion. I believe you are today the best off of any people in a world so full of trouble.”