LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advice has been received by the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Work® cancelling space allotments for tho Ruahine. The Turakina, now in port, will load all available butter and cheese, approximately 10,000 boxes of butter and 7000 crates of cheese.

A statutory first offender was con victed for drunkenness in Vivian Street by Messrs. 8. G. Smith and J. R. Hill. J.P.B, in New Plymouth on Saturday morning. As he did not appear his bail of 10s was forfeited. He belonged to a ship in port and the offence occurred the previous evening, it was explained. It is reported that as the northbound Limited express was passing through Koputaroa the other evening, says the Levin Chronicle, a window in one of the carriages suddenly crashed in, the splintered glass falling into the compartment. It is belived the damage was cuased by a riflo bullet, although no trace of the missile could be found.

Last year 45 per cent, of the passengers carried by London’s transportation system patronised ’buses; 28 per eent. were railroads; and 27 per cent, were handled by the tramways. The totals were as follow: ’Buses, 1,671,000,000; railroads, 1.049.000,000; street railways, 979,000,000. A correspondent in the Sydney Bulletin gives what he claims to bo a simple and inexpensive cure for curleyleaf in peach tree. The remedy is to bury a cupful or two of ordinary washing soda close to the root of the tree. The Taranaki Regimental Band gave a, concert at tho Breakwater yesterday afternoon in ideal weather. Amongst the items most appreciated were: Rachmaninoff’s Prelude (played by request) and a new Scotch patrol “Wee MacGregor/' in which good effects were produced by muting the cornet section. The collection amounted to about £9.

Mrs. 0. W. Earle, of Wellington, who has just returned from a visit to Vancouver, said that the courtesy and consideration shown by men to women in the United States of America was a joy to see. She mentioned it to one man, who replied: “Well, I guess, ma’am, we’re so busy making money for them that we haven’t time to see their faults.”

“If the coal strike in Britain Is settled immediately it will take more than six months for us to catch up in the matter of steel supplies, and there is no chance of prices returning to normal for a much longer time, if at all,” remarked a leading Christchurch hardware merchant the other day when asked how the coal mining dispute was affecting trade in New Zealand. Avery interesting exhibit at the Fitzroy Flower Show on Saturday was a bottle of preserved peaches exhibited by Mrs. T. Hawkings,of Smart Road, New Plymouth. The peaehes, which appear to be in splendid condition, were bottled in 1914, and bear ample evidence of the care and skill exhibited in their bottling.

There are now six positive case of typhoid fever in the hospital at Masterton and two suspects are under observation. Two others, who had been admitted as suspects, have been discharged. Mr. Barry, the district superintendent of the Live Stock Division of tho Department of Agriculture, after two days’ inspection stated that the standards of the local -dairy farms compared favourably with those seen anywhere.

One of the sides of the coal strike not appreciated in New Zealand is the effect on the consumption of cheese, stated Mr. F. Grainger, of Paten, who has been in England in connection with the Dairy Board’s freight contract. The miners 'are among the largest eaters of cheese in the United Kingdom. It is one of the few things they can take down a shaft without soiuuig. With the strike that market has been lost, for on the surface they do not mind what they eat. Mr. Grainger will remain in New Zealand on the control board staff.

Our Mafapti correspondent writes:— “We are all pleased in this district to find that the Daily News continues to arrive earlier and earlier, the paper man reaching here now well before breakfast time. Being so far from New Plymouth subscribers appreciate very much what apparently must be a speeding up delivery on the part of the management.*' Our Manaia correspondent also refers to the advantage of getting The News before 7 a.m. each morning and the ap preciation felt by tho settlers of the Plains of the enterprise displayed by the paper. The Melbourne, Ltd., are showing some beautiful new designs in men’s neglige shirts in tricoline, tobralco, and mercerised repp. All shirts are made with reinforced fronts, and have collar to match in vertical stripes. Prices range from 10/6 to 13/6, including collar to match.