LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A little over a quarter of an acre section in Devon Street West, with a six-roomed house, was sold by auction on account of the mortgagee -by Messrs. Newton King. Ltd., yesterday afternoon. The price realised was £9lO. It is understood that although electric power for Wanganui was promised for Christmas time, there is little hope of it being available before February or March, and perhaps April. A suggestion that the tennis courts be opened for play on Sundays was lost on a show of hands at the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Lawn Tennis Club last night.

An accident, involving a fracture of the left leg, 'befel a young man named Leonard Smith, a railway employee, at Bell Block, at about 5.15 yesterday afternoon. The motor-cycle Smith was riding slipped and threw him heavily to the ground. The injured man was brought into New Plymouth, where he was attended to by Dr. Milroy, who ordered his removal to the hospital. An enquiry at that institution elicited the information that Mr. Smith was seriously, though not dangerously, injured, and was as comfortable as could be expected. (Entries for the Awakino and Okau sales are advertised. See auction columns.

In the Patea electorate no less than 1234 persons, and in the Egmont 1057, have been put on the roll by the organiser of the -Licensed Victuallers’ Association. He has a very complete system, and enfols all he finds not on the roll.

“I quite sympathise with anyone who is looking for a house in Wellington,” remarked Mr. Justice Frazer, president of the Arbitration Court, last week. His Honor said he had had his own experiences, and had been told that in all the large tov is the problem was serious, except perhaps in Dunedin.

During September the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company (Waikato) manufactured 4,444,000 "b of butter iapproximately 2000 tons), representing an increase of 45 per cent., as compared with September of last year. The advance payment for butter-fas during September has been fixed at Is 6fd per lb for superfine direct supply. In consequence, the payment on October 20 will approximate £283,588. Further, the directors have decided to make a further bonus distribution of l|d for butter-fat covering supplies from October 1 to the end of April. This payment would approximate £140,000 altogether. The total cash distribution on October 20, and at the end of this month, will amount to £423,588.

A registrar of electors with some years of experience in that arduous capacity complained, in the course of conversation with an Otago Daily Times reporter, regarding the unreasonable attitude taken by a considerable section of the public, who will not put them, selves to the least trouble to see that their names are enrolled. “We send them application forms and envelopes with prepaid postage, but, he said, they will not even go to the trouble of filling in the form, placing it in the envelope, and dropping the package in a letter box. Yet those are the people who, on the day of the election, make the loud, est noise, because they are not on the roll.”

At Port Chalmers, before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., John Laird was prosecuted for disturbing a public meeting in the Town Hall. It was Mr. “Pussyfoot” Johnson’s meeting. The accused pleaded not guilty After hearing the evidence of three constables, and of the Mayor, who -was chairman and ordered the accused’s removal from the meeting, the Magistrate commented on the fact that there were not many interruptions and that the accused left the building quietly when told to do so by the police. A criminal intention to disturb had not been shown. The magistrate was afraid that if interjectors at political meetings were prosecuted, the courts would be kept busy. The charge was dismissed.

A . cycling tour of several hundred miles was recently undertaken by two young men of New Plymouth in preparation for to-day’s round-the-moun-tain race. After cycling down to Wellington in 2| days (as reported in the Daily News at the time) the two cyclists headed for Napier, managing to negotiate the seven-mile hill ascending the Rimutaka ranges without dismounting, and reaching Featherston in 54 hours. They then doubled back to Cross Creek, a settlement hidden away in the Rimutaka ranges, where the week-end was spent with friends. On the following Tuesday the 102-mile journey to Dannevirke took from 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. owing to a number of minor mishaps. The journey to Na-pier next day was rendered unpleasant on account of ■rain and bad roads, and the 87 miles took the greater part of the day to accomplish. Progress next day was very slow, owing to the great number of hills, and the 54 miles to Tarawera took 11 hours to accomplish, the cyclists having to walk thirty miles, and arriving at their day’s destination by moonlight. Next day Wairakei, in the heart of geyserland, was reached, and after a short stop there the pair turned their heads towards home, coming via Mokau. One cycle broke down at Uruti and its rider had to make the journey into town by motor, but the other cyclist finished the circuit under his own power,” both thus bringing to an end last week a strenuous holiday, which should stand them in good stead today.

At a Rotary Club function in Wellington on Tuesday, Mr. Justice Chapman said, referring to his early days in Tasmania, that he could remember the yellow-coated Imperial prisoners—gangs of sad, depressed men—some of whom had 'been hired out to do the garden. His father had lost the position of Colonial Secretary through his lack of sympathy with the system of transportation, and a want of community of ideas with the then Governor. They then went to Australia. (in 1854) to live at Toorak, a place which was well out in the country from Melbourne. There were no railways then—yes, there was one- of two miles. It was probably the only railway at that time south of the equator, with the possible exception of New South Wales. Fancy that in these pampered times, when everybody growled about the sleeping cars! On thing that always came back to his memory was the state of the country. Australia was an unknown land. Even in their school books it figured as New Holland, and these told them that there were a few people on the outer fringe of the country, but the interior was a desert. Victoria then had no interests bayond the Murray, but it was the Victorian Government which fitted out the first expedition to see whether or not the interior was a sandy desert. “I was on the ground,” said Mr. Chapman, “when in 1860 the first expedition started. There were four or five of us boys there. I can remember seeing the 26 camels, groaning and munching, as they sat with their loaded packs on their backs, and the wagon-loads of case goods, and the fine figure of Burke, the leader, on his horse —a man who was no more fitted to lead than the first stock-drover on the road. He was neither a scientist nor a bushman And two and a half

years later I saw the funeral of the ill fated men ”

In this issue Messrs. L. A. Nolan Co. advertise for sale by auction on the 20th inst., two valuable building sites adjoining the Terminus Hotel. The situation is particularly good, and this land must rapidly increase in value.

The Melbourne, Ltd., have still a quantity of men’s grey and blue denims at 7/6 pair. These denims are made of the very best cloth in the trade, the grey being fully Bozs. to the yard, whilst the blue is the famous Nelson denim, and weighs fully 9ozs. to the yard. Workers! Buy the best. It pays. At the Waiwakaiho saleyards on the 2Gth inst., Newton King, Ltd., are selling a line og pedigree Jerseys on behalf of Mr. Claude H. Weston and other vendors. See advt. in auction columns.

Farmers! Don’t procrastinate. Lay in a stock of “Sinus,” the champion milking machine cleanser, right away. Don t wait until the factory manager rejects* your milk. Your machines may be kept 'scrupulously clean with the use of “Sinus.” Ask for it. Wholesale only from the Purity ProducU Go,, Hawera.