LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Taranaki Daily News will not be published on Monday or Tuesday (Christmas Day and Boxing Day) rei spectively. i The reduced postal and telegraph j rates, announced in yesterday’s issue, i come into force on February Ist next. I The office of the Daily News will be open this (Saturday) afternoon until 5 p.m. I The balance of the water mains for I the Borough Council will be shipped direct for New Plymouth by theOpawa, which leaves London about the end of .la nu ary. The leases of two Harbor Board secions in Ariki Street were offered by auction by Messrs. L. A. Nolan and Co. yesterday. Dot IS next to Brougham Street with a frontage of 51ft. Ilin, to Ariki Street (upset 22s (id) was not . sold. Lot £0 with 51ft. Ilin, frontage 1 to Ariki Street was purchased by Mr. J. Watson at the upset value of 25s > a foot.

While engaged in his occupation as a slaughterman al the New Plymouth

abattoirs yesterday morning, a wan named Ivor Beard cut the fingers of one, hand severely. He was removed to the public hospital for treatment. A start has been made with the preliminary arrangements in connection with tiie erection of the new building for the Government fire office in Egmont Street. The section has been boarded up prior to the laying of the foundations, work on which will be commenced after Christmas.

An approximate price of £ 100 per foot has been paid by Mr. G. C. Ki-Wby, bootmaker, for a section in Devon Street, adjoining the New Zealand Insurance Company’s new building and flanked on the other side by the site for the proposed new theatre. There is a frontage of 18 feet, and Mr. Ki'bby intends to build there in the future.

On the slopes of Mount Egmont and also in the Tongariro National Park seed berries of the whortleberry and the blueberry from Canada are to be planted. The blueberry, it is reported, is already growing prolifically in the Oropi Valley, between Rotorua and Tauranga. The seeds for Mount Egmont and the National Park are a portion of a valuable consignment which Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., handed on Wednesday to the council of the plant branch of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society for distribution.

Two pigs have been the apple of the collective eye of the Patea Hospital Board for some time past, and their progress has been a subject for report from time to time to that local body. Fed on wholesome fare at the Patea Hospital they reached the condition known as prime, and for that reason they figured prominently in a discussion at the Hospital Board meeting. One suggestion was to sell them, but a country member of the board pointed out that there was no sense in selling pork at 4Ad a lb. and paying Is 2d per lb. for bacon. The final decision was to reprieve one pig and to execute the other.

The question of the suppression of names of accused persons came up in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Counsel for a man who had been remanded to answer a charge as to an indictable ofl’ence, asked for the suppression of the accused’s name on account of the suffering that would be caused his wife. “Part of, the penalty of a crime is the publicity given to the name of the offender, ’ <said Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M. “In all cases in which crime is alleged innocent people are always made to suffer. A man ought to think of the effect of his conduct upon his relatives, and I do not think it is for the court to do what an accused person is not thoughtful enough to do.” There were cases in which, on conviction for an offence, Mr. Mowlem added, a sufficient punishment was the recording of the. conviction on the records- of the court, but that was toot always the case. The mere fact of entering- a conviction was not of itself a punishment, but that, plus the publicity, often was a sufficient punishment. In view, however, of the fact that counsel asked merely for the suppression of the name for 48 hours, so that he could get to the wife and acquaint her of her husband’s misfortune before the papers conveyed the news, Mr. Mowlem, in tye exercise of the discretion, granted the request for the period stated.

A visitor to Wanganui states that he had a most enjoyable holiday in that town. He stayed at BrUeburn, which, he declares, is the best residential hotel he has yet come across. His only regret is that New Plymouth has not a similar place for the accommodation of visitors. He is sure New Plymouth loses a lot of money through not having a private hotel like Braeburn to entice country residents into the town. This visitor to Wanganui describes Braeburn as being on an ideal, healthy and elevated situation overlooking the river and town. It has plenty of balconies and lies in the fresh air and sunshine for every minute of the day. Though seemingly on the fringe of ‘the town ('being just across the river from the railway station) it is closer to the business centre than are some of the other hotels. The visitor in question says that everyone remarks on the way Braeburn is conducted, cleanliness and good cooking being like a religion with the management. The tariff is very reasonable. The place is recommended to anyone wanting a holiday or to recuperate.

Of = iper-excellence is this week’s issue of the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review, and no one should miss securing a copy. Those interested in racing should find it of inestimable help, as two pages are devoted to candidates for Auckland Cup honours on Boxing Day. M.C.C. team is the subject of a specially interesting set of photographs. and the Waipa and Rotorua Racing Clubs are represented in snapshots "of their recent meeting. The centre pages are occupied with an artistically arrangeil series of photographs of performers in “A Night Out, the J. C Williamson Christmas attraction. Latest fashions from London form a feature of feminine note and there is a splendid selection of other stage, screen and social pictures that help towards a striking publication. Visiting Australian Lio'ht Harness horses occupy a. prominent pictorial position, and among others are photographs of the New Zealand Railways Staff at Marton Junction farewelling Mr. Hampton: Wanganui Post and Telegraph Miniature Rifle Club Team ■Motor Car record between Melbourne and Svdnev: topical happenings in France-’Trotting at Greenford, London; Races in Sydney Harbour; Raratongan Boxers in Wellington; American Hootbail and Baseball players and numerous other up to the moment illustrations that place the “Review” m the fmefront of pictorial publications. The paper is on sale at all newsagents.

Special services in keeping with the Christmas season will be held on Sunday, at 'Whiteley Church. A feature will be the singing of old Christmas hymns and carols by choir and congregation. There will also be anthems and solos Mr. A. B. Macdonald will sing Gounod's -Nazareth,” with ehora! refrain and orchestral accompaniment. The Rev W. J. Elliott will be the preacher at both services.

Suits, suits, and, above all, good suits in m-eat numbers and in endless variety are in stock at the Melbourne, Ltd. Never before Ims the firm sold so many during the week prior to the holiday, and Christmas Eve sales w.l probably double the number already sold. There is no secret about it. It « e.mply a matter of values. Melbourne suits aie “out on their own.

Particulars of train arrangements in connection with picnics tatNe '’ J L mouth on January 1, and Races on January 1 and 2, are adtertis e<A in this issue.