LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ngaire Dairy Co. is making butter up to the end of October, after which cheese will be made and The output of butter up to the end of October has been sold.

The provision of public conveniences, for which there is pressing need in New Plymouth, will shortly become an accomplished fact, as the plans and specifications are almost readj 7 and tenders will be invited during the next few days.

■Some good advice was given by Mr. John Wylie, of the Sheldon Institute, at a luncheon given by the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce at New Plymouth yesterday. “Encourage to the greatest extent possible the increasing of business in your town,” he said. “It is going to create an independence that belongs to few towns in New Zealand. You nave every facility here. You are handicapped in certain things, but these will only strengthen you.”

The encouragement of the idea of “service” was strongly advocated by Mr. John Wylie when speaking at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday.

“Advertisers should devote their usual space in the newspapers to their ideas of what public service means; the churches should devote a Sunday to discussions on the matter, while on every lorry and motor vehicle, and in every shop window, I would have posters setting out in big letters ‘We live to serve,’ and ‘The essence of receiving is giving,’ etc.”

About thirty amateur gardeners met at New Plymouth last night to hear the Government’s horticulturist, Mr. W. H. Taylor, deliver an address of great interest and instruction to all who own, or contemplate owning, a productive vegetable garden. Mr. W. B. Grant presided, and there were also present Mr. J. A. Campbell, Director of the Horticulture Division, and Mr. A. K. Cockayne, Biologist for the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Taylor’s talk took the lines of a discourse upon fertilizing soils, mainly for vegetable growing. A full report is crowded out of this issue.

An address on the Chattels Transfer Act, 1908, was given to the New Plymouth Commerce Students’ Society at May and Arrowsmith’s tea-rooms last evening, the lecturer being Mr. J. C. Nicholson, who continued an address he had delivered on a previous occasion. There was a good attendance, who listened attentively to the lecturer, and at the conclusion the president (Mr. C. H. Burgess) expressed appreciation of the value of the lecture. On the motion of Mr. G. Duncan, seconded by Mr. H. Baily, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Nicholson.

At a sitting of the Manaia Court on Mondav, Andrew Leslie Young was charged that on the 16th day of September he broke into and entered by night the warehouse of Messrs. Newton King, Ltd., and attempted to commit a crime therein; also that on or about September 3 he stole a case of benzine, the propetry of Newton King, Ltd. Accused pleaded not guilty and was remanded till Monday next. Bail was allowed in accused’s recognisance of £2OO and two sureties of £lOO each. Counsel asked the Court to make an order that the name of the accused be not published. The presiding Justices (Messrs. A. H. Christie and T. McPhillips) said that whilst fully sympathising with the friends of the accused, they could not see their way to make such an 'order.

The attention of town property seekers is directed to an auction sale of Devon Street property, belonging to Mr. J. Pasalich, right opposite the Criterion Hotel. Situated, as it is, right in the heart of the town, with frontages to both Devon and King Streets, this property must become a very valuable one. See eale advt. ia this issue.