LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual examinations for police officers for promotion to higher rank are being held, in New Plymouth this week for men stationed in the Taranaki district. Six candidates are sitting for examination, one for the commissioned rank of sub-inspector, one for the rank of senior-sergeant, and four for the rank of sergeant. The examinations are being supervised by Inspector E. Murray, of the Taranaki district office.

Speaking at the meeting of ratepayers last night called to discuss the proposed poll for the Westown tramway extensions, the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) said it was rather a remarkable thing that there was very much more wear and tear on the cars on the side facing the sea, which was also the more sunny side. It was necessary to alter this by turning the cars, and this could be done by utilising the triangular points at Liardet Street, in connection with the proposed tramway to Vogel town.

Ballasting operations on the TahoraKohuratahi line are being pushed ahead. The first gravel is being laid between the two tunnels. Two loads a day, consisting of about 100 tons each, are brought from Te Wera, as ballasting is of first importance. Since it commenced, the passenger service has been slightly altered. The train is now dignified with a real guard’s van, and we are to have a carriage soon. Till now we have been served by a sort of a hut on a truck. The presence of the carriage will be a foretaste of what things will be like when the railway is officially opened to Tahora.—Stratford Post. Lafayette, and members of the International Stars Co. arrived at New Plymouth from Auckland yesterday morning. Entries for the musical and elocutionary items, to commence at St. Andrew’s Hall. New Plymouth on Monday, October 23, close on October 9. Particulars are advertised in to-day’s issue Members of the Caledonian Society are reminded that the annual gneral meting of the society will be held at the Soldiers’ Club this evening. Important business will be discussed and a large attendance is desired. Residents of the Newall Road district are reminded of the dance to be held Friday next, 29th inst.

The average person does not know what he can get in the way of trees from the State Forest Department, and at a tenth of the cost from anywhere else, remarked a councillor at a meeting of the Waitotara County Council. The Department raises between five and six million trees annually for poles and timber purposes. A number of the local bodies have taken advantage of the Department’s offer, particularly in regard to the planting of eucalyptus.

A chemist, who has been in the business in Christchurch for eighteen years, informed a Lyttelton Times reporter that so far this year the residents had been remarkably free irom the usual seasonable complaints. The slight wave of illness prevalent was mostly gastric influenza. Minor complaints, such as coughs and colds, were affecting the community, but these are what can be expected at this time of the year. It was stated that the dryness of the winter, with the absence of any severe changes in weather conditions, had kept the amount of illness down.

“Shackleton was a great believer in discipline and loyalty. He used to say that if a man could not be loyal to his nation, he doubted whether he could be loyal to anyone,” said Mr. L. O. H. Tripp in a lecture at the Wellington Community Club on Wednesday evening. “He knew that unless there was discipline on his boat and in his camp, ana his men were loyal to him, that he could not save their lives. His men also knew this, and we find in his book and from his men outstanding evidence of loyalty on the part of the men to Shackleton, and their implicit confidence in their leader, and we also find much evidence of Shackleton’s loyalty, on his part, to his men.” Mr. T. Shailer Weston, who has just returned from a visit to Australia, is firmly convinced that New Zealand has wonderful potentialities as a tourist resort, and that these are not being made enough of outside the Dominion. “Let me give you an instance,” said Mr. Weston to a Dominion reporter. “Travelling with us from Wellington to Sydney on the Ulimaroa were a party of American lady teachers from Honolulu, young women who were out to see all there was to be seen. After being in Sydney for a few days, we met some of them, and one and all regretted very much that they had not put in all their time in New Zealand. The artificiality of life in Sydney did not appeal to them at all —they could get all that kind of thing back home in the States. If there was to be a ‘next time,’ they said, it would be New Zealand only. Other Americans on board coming back also expressed their preference for the freshness and charm of New Zealand ,as compared with Australia.”

On Friday, October 6, Messrs. Newton King, Ltd., are selling by auction the leases of several of the xaranaxi Hospital Board reserves. They comprise seven sections situated in Fulford Street and also close to the Dawson Street hospital gates, all of which are splendid building sites. The buildings at present on some of the Fulford Street sections are to be sold for removal. See advt.

The Rahotu Girls’ Friendly Society are giving a concert and dance on Friday next, 29th inst., in the Rahotu Hall. There will be Japanese songs with chorus, a short play, “Wanted, a Governess,” and altogether an excellent programme has been arranged, and a large attendance is hoped for.

The 4th Battalion (Wellington Regiment) Band will give a recital in the Fitzroy school grounds to-morrow evening, at 7.45 p.m. A concert and dance will be given by the Puniho G.F.S. at the Warea Hall on October 6.

Judging by the amount of interest taken in school matters at Fitzroy, the meeting called for Thursday is likely to be the biggest ever held in Fitzroy. Although there is very strong feeling regarding accommodation at the school it is anticipated that there will be no trouble in keeping the meeting in order. “Fairy Wonder” Dry Soap washes white as driven snow. Clothes that have become a bad color through accident or faulty washing respond immediately and will retain their pristine purity so long as “Fairy” is used in the laundering. Give it a trial. All grocers stock it.