LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Enlistments at Hawera already total 462. At Newton King, Ltd.’s sale at Ohura on Thursday there was a good sale of cattle. Only a few sheep were yarded, prices on the whole were excellent. The Cuthbert Shield, awarded for excellence in agricultural instruction in primary schools, has been won this year by Ngaere School, and was handed over on Friday afternoon by Mr. A. Lees, chairman of the Taranaki Education Board. The Tangarakau Gorge Road is reported to be in fair order at present. One stretch of about a mile is. bad, and a party of Stratford business men who returned from a trip to the Ohura on Friday afternoon were stuck up in that locality for a time, having to dig the car out of the mud.—Post. A wireless club has been established at Hawera with Dr. Buist as president, and Mr. L. Rowson chairman, and Mr. J. E. Blake secretary. Mr. Ward, of Stratford, addressed the inaugural meeting on Thursday, and furnished a good deal of useful information. The Taranaki Oil Development Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., has been registered at Wellington as a private company with a capital of £40,000 divided into 160 shares of £250 each, of which Mr. P. A. Hadley and Mr. A., W. Donald hold 80 each. The office is in Auckland. The Taranaki deputation to wait upon the Prime Minister and the Minister for Public Works on Thursday morning to press for the carrying out and expediting of important provincial works will leave to-morrow and on Wednesday, and be one of the most representative that will have ever left Taranaki, practically every district being represented. The proposed legislation for the control of dairy produce was the subject of a conference on Saturday between Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., and his country committees. There was a representative attendance, and Mr. Smith explained the Bill in detail. It was unanimously decided that before any further action was taken the Bill should be submitted to a Parliamentary Commitand that full details should also be placed before all dairy companies. The biennial election of the Opunake Town Board took place on Wednesday. Messrs C.A. Trotter, Arnold Richards and. Dr. Watt, members of the old Board, were returned, the new members being Messrs. Geoff. Feaver and H. Holmes. The voting was as follows: H. Holmes 125, C. A. Trotter 113, G. Feaver 109, Dr Watt 88, A. Richards 85, F. Hammond 81. G. E. Simister 60, J. 0. Stewart 58, N. Reardon 44, W. Gunson 36. The fiendish cruelty of the Turks during the war was instanced by Dr. E. M. L. Morgan, of the British Red Cross Society, when speaking to a New Plymouth audience on Saturday night. He told of how photographic negatives found on fallen Turks on the battlefield had been developed and have shown rows of Armenians hanging by the neck, whilst in another case a gruesome picture of pyramids of heads was revealed. The Red Cross Society had done splendid work, he said, in succouring Armenians who had suffered at the hands of the Turks. The Hydro-electric Power Board has purchased twelve acres of land adjoining the domain at Bunnythorpe. Upon this will be erected fine extensive buildings in. which will be situated the caster switching station of the North Island, where the Government 110.000 volt longdistance lines will converge from Waikaremoana, Arapuni, Mangahao and Horahora, with lower voltage lines to the centres in our own vicinity (says the Manawatu Times). This will entail the employment of quite a number of men in three shifts of eight hours. Some county councils x building quite a number of comfortable concrete cottages with tiled roofs for their maintenance men at various in each county, comments the Manawatu Times. This is a wise provision, but the principle generally being followed,is to make the floor of concrete. In the case of one employer who built six such , cottages for his workers, he found that he had to put in new wooden .floors throughout. The concrete retained the damp, ruined all the floor coverings, and was uncomfortable. “Fairy Wonder” is easily the most economical soap powder on the market, as it requires no additional soap to complete the washing. Apart from its facility in washing clothes clean without rubbing, it saves fuel as well as time, both very important factors. Learn the merits of “Fairy” from your friends. All growers stoek it.

To-day is Dominion Day. A general holiday will not be observed, but the banks and some offices will close. An interesting address on the peacetime activities of the Red Gross was given at New Plymouth on Saturday night by Dr. E. M. L. Morgan, the organiser of the peace-time work in connection with the British Red Cross Society. A full report will appear in tomorrow’s issue. From all quarters come reports of a splendid lambing season, many farms putting up records in the percentage of lambs born (states a Napier newspaper). Owing to the recent warm weather the mortality has been low and farmers are in for a good season, provided the feed question does not trouble them for a few months. A rumor that war between Britain and Turkey had been declared was freely circulated in New Plymouth yesterday, and a fair crowd had gathered outside the Daily News office when the staff arrived in the evening, seeking confirmation. Telephone messages from •Eltham, Stratford and other parts of the province showed the rumor was there, but there was no news which gave the slightest grounds for such a suggestion. The public should hot accept these rumors, because a little thought will show them to be groundless. If there is any grave development in the Near East situation the newspapers will be advised by urgent messages and the information will immediately be issued to the public. One way by which it was hoped to make for better feeling between children of different countries, especially those countries which had been recently opposed on the field of battle, was explained by Dr. E. M. L. Morgan, of the British Red Gross Society, on Saturday evening. This was by means of encouraging members of the Junior Red Cross to correspond with junior members in other countries. Letters could be written and sent to Genoa, where they would be translated and then forwarded to the addressee. Thus it was hoped to make for better feeling, so that the possibility of war during the next generation would in some degree be lessened. “We have passed pious resolutions, on various occasions, regarding the desirableness of reducing the number of counties in the Dominion,” remarked Mr. A. E. Jull, president of the New Zealand Counties’ Association Conference at Christchurch on the question of main highways legislation, “but we have gone further on this occasion, and have suggested the grouping of counties for the purpose of the construction and maintenance of main trunk roads. After working in co-operation in the matter of roads the grouping counties will very likely appreciate the advantages of amalgamation, thus reducing the number of local bodies and the cost of their administration.” Recently it was announced that the Launceston City Council had decided to terminate the city manager scheme of administration in that city. Tasmania files now to hand show that for some time past there has been considerable friction between the general manager and a number of the councillors, the general manager accusing the council of obstructing him in every way, and the councillors accusing the manager of want of tact, and a desire for autocratic powers. It is not denied that the city manager lias been able to effect very large savings and has improved the organisation of the various departments, and a very large proportion of the ratepayers are satisfied that the ■city manager scheme is the correct one. The notice given to the city manager has been so timed tlqvt an election of councillors takes place before the notice expired. A campaign has already been organised by ratepayers for the elections in December of candidates who are definitely prepared to support: (1) The retention of the city manager plan; (2) to give the present occupant twelve months’ trial. The majority of the councillors who voted for the termination of the city manager’s engagement sent a joint letter to the Press as follows: “In correction of a prevalent wrong impression we wish to state that we are not opposed to the principle of a city manager for the municipal affairs; on the contrary, we hope to see it given a further trial with another manager.” The impression to be gathered from the newspaper files we have .seen is that a council in favor of the city manager ■plan of administration will be elected and the scheme given another trial. Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (Third and Fourth Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be due and payable today, Monday, Sept. 25, at the Secretary’s Office, Currie Street from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. —Advt. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., wish to draw clients’ attention to their Stratford sale, which they are holding in their Stratford yards on Tuesday, Sept. 26 1922, at 12.30 p.m. ' Full particulars will be found on page 8 of this issue. A 50-acre “going concern” dairy farm is advertised for exchange for town proby Messrs. W. H. and A. McGarry, Litham. Don’t omit to see the splendid range of the ever-popular ginghams in stripes and checks at Morey’s. ‘Prices, too, are bound to appeal to those who desire still to follow economy without sacrificing smartness.