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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The coat of running the large tractor owned .by the Piako County Council is causing that body some concern. For the past six months the cost of benzine and repairs has been in the vicinity of £5OO.

Just as the Main Trunk express was about to leave Auckland the other day a gas lamp in the guard’s van blazed up and set fire to some of the woodwork. The fire was promptly extinguished .before any serious damage was done. The luggage in the van was unharmed. It is not generally known that many of qur native New Zealand trees have their counterpart in parte of the Australian bush. One Palmerston grower has imported specimens of Australian ngaio, titoki, and manuka. In the last-named only, the flower and foliage is somewhat finer than ours.

According to the official statistics published by the Government for the first seven months of the present year, the number of mortgages registered in Taranaki was 1131, the amount being £769,310, while there were 623 mortgages discharged, representing a value of £733,174.

“It is much to the credit of the young people that, as soon as they find that their attraction for each other is waning, they mutually agree to dissolve the contract existing between them,” said Mr. Justice Chapman at the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday during a breach of promise action, when referring to the behaviour of engaged couples.

A striking advertisement of the qual. ity of the land in the Pio Pio district was afforded at the railway yards, Te Kuiti, says the Te Kuiti Chronicle, when some stock to the order of Messrs. Fetch Bros"., Pio Pio, was forwarded to Hamilton prior to being entered at the Waikato Agricultural Show. The stock, which consisted of three Hereford bullocks, one cow, and a yearling bull, was in splendid order. The outstanding feature was the giant proportions of a four-year-old bullock estimated to possess a live weight of approximately 20001 b. Stewart Island is to have a record number of tourists during the coming holiday season (says the Southland Times'). The accommodation houses have been bespoken for rooms for months ahead, whilst houses, cribs, tents, and dug-outs have also been hired to prospective tenants. Stewart Island will be looking at its best during the Christmas and New Year holidays, as the scar-let-hued rata is blooming earlier this .season, and in consequence the tui and bell bird, with their melodious songs, appear to be more numerous than ever.

inspired, no doubt, by the example of their brethren at 'Wellington, who recently showed their disapproval of the new watersiders’ award by burning a copy of it, the New Plymouth watersiders yesterday morning held a stopwork meeting, as an outcome of which it was resolved to have a ’ funeral with a. copy of the award as “corpse.” ThuS it was that those in the vicinity of the wharf were treated to the sight of able-bodied watersiders, with a stretcher as an improvised bier, marching in solemn .procession to the end of the wharf, where, just as solemnly, a copy of the award, with weight attached, was committed to the deep.

A comparison of the retail prices of food in New Zealand in October, 1922, with those of July, 1914, shows they have increased 39 per cent., the same percentage as is shown by the United States. The increase in Germany was 9646 per cent., and in Finland 1005 per cent., the smallest increase being shown by South Africa, 16 per cent., Canada coming next with 38 per cent. For the ten months of the current year there were 106 estates of £20,000 and over certified for stamp duty, the aggregate value being £4,998,166. The total value of certified estates for that period was £12,977,426. The shortage of paper in Russia has lend to a newspaper famine, writes a correspondent of the Birmingham Post. The farther the town is from Moscow the more difficult it is to get supplies of papers. The experience of Archangel is typical of what is going on in most provincial towns in Russia. In January 5900 copies of the various Moscow papers were sent to th-e Archangel Government. In February the number was reduced to 2400, in March 983, m April 554, in May 504, and in June 402. Univ 452 papers for a province that is one of the most important in Russia, and has a population of 5,000,000. The newspaper famine is so great that there lias arisen in Russia a new profiteer. A man with a little capital will go to the central office of a newspaper and buy several bundles of papers. He will then take them into the provinces, and retail them at 800,000 to 1,000,000 roubles 1 . The proprietors of papers declare that tliev are unable to stop this form of profiteering. They cannot ask a newsagent what he intends to do with his papers. In the province of Kharkov the peasants exchange bread for papers. The expenses of newspaper production in Russia go up by leaps and bounds, and the eiibsvriptiona and advertisements oi the Moscow papers barely cover the cost of production. It is .stated that not one Moscow paper is showing a profit.

The illustrations in this week’s issue of the N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review mark another epoch in the pictorial history of this popular publication. A glance at the centre pages» with their artistically-designed series of cosmopolitan photographs, sets a. high standard for attractive display. The jumping competitions at the Hamilton Agricultural and Pastoral Show are given a page of striking snapshote, while the Auckland A. and P. Show occupies a considerable portion of space. The Foilding Jockey Club’s gathering is covered in a generous selection of snapshots, and two pages devoted to English and Continental racing add materially to the strength of this section. The opening of the Campbell Park Tennis Cr.-o (One Tree Hill) is the subject of an attractive grouping, and included in an abundant supply of assorted photographs are a flashlight of the Auckland Operatic Society’s production “Our Miss Gibbs”; Miss Cieily Tabor’s pupils at Palmerston North; opening of Hamilton East Bowling Club’s green; Morrinsville Lone Scout troop. Wellington Girls’ College sports, City Rovers’ Football Club, etc. Distinctive fashions from abroad make an exceptionally alluring showing, while a charming portrait of Miss Rosina Buckman and Miss Nellie Bramley enchance the pictorial value, not to mention a selection of stage, screen anu social portraits. The £lOO skill competition coupon appears in this issue, and will also appear finally in next week’s paper.

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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 4

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