LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The roll for the Taranaki electorate for the forthcoming election will contain 0663 names, about 300 applications for enrolment having been received for the second supplementary roll, which was closed at 6 p.m. on Thursday. Since the printing of the main roll, which contains 7584 names, some 475 changes of address have been notified. A number of transfers have been effected and others may be made up to six days after the issue of the writ, or up to Thursday next.

In concluding his speech, at Rahotu, a Taranaki candidate for Parliament, stated he had no trouble to get grants for repairing roads in his district, and owing to the large amounts he had got the roads were better now than before the flood. An elector immediately asked the candidate if he would tell the audience what the roads were like before the flood.

The first public auction sale of fish in New Plymouth took place yesterday afternoon. The fish arrived “on ths ice” by the afternoon train from Napier and as soon as it was received it was sold by Messrs. Webster Bros. About 150 bundles, mostly sole, were submitted and all were disposed of at a price which gave cheap fish for many households. The next sale will be held next

Taranaki effected a saving of a minimum of 35s a ton on the 1200 tons of merchandise just unloaded by the Port Denison, now in port. This shows what direct shipping means to a distret.. On benzine the saving is 3s 6d a case, which, seeing Taranaki consumes about 200.000 cases annually, represents an enormous saving to consumers. Besides the saving, the goods arrive in far better condition; there is no trouble with the packages and boxes, and no holds-up, as often happens when goods are transhipped at a busy port. Incarceration in .gaol in New Plymouth in the “good old days” was an experience far from unpleasant, judging from an incident related by a speaker at the Veterans’ function at Kawaroa Park on Thursday. The lockup was of stone, two and three feet thick, hewn from the rocks on the seashore, the doors were massive, and the keys ponderous. The gaolers would go abroad at night, leaving the keys at a convenient spot, and a friend of the prisoners would happen along, open the door of the prison, and the inmates and their liberator -would adjourn to a neighboring place where beverage of a potent nature was to be bought, and they would all have a real good evening. Then they would return to the lock-up, the key would be turned and placed in the old place, and the gaoler would come along to find that his prisoners were sleeping the sleep of the just. They were really good old days’. The notice “Polling booth for seamen,” placarded outside the New Plymouth Customs office yesterday led a Daily News reporter to make an inquiry. It appears that, as far as seamen are concerned, the writs for the general election were issued on Thursday, and from now on til] 7 o’clock on the day of the flection (December 7), seamen may record their votes by presnting their elector’s right to the collector of Customs (Mr. R. Eyre), who has been appointed deputy returning officer. An application for a ballot paper is then made, signatures are compared, and, if everything is in order, the man is allowed to record his vote. The voting papers are then sent to the district returning officer. The idea of extending this privilege to seamen is in order to enable them to exercise their vote while they are in port. Thus men entitled to vote may be obliged to sail for Australia and, in the ordinary course of events, they would thus miss their voting privileges. Usually about 20 men record their vote at New Plymouth in this manner.

Impure milk, the bane of scrupulous factory managers, can be wholly avoided by the use of “Sinus,” the scientific compound specially manufactured for cleansing milking machines and separators. A small quantity of “Sinus” dissolved in hot water and passed through the raachiiv* o ensures absolute cleanliness.