LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of Taranaki wool-growers were passengers for Wanganui by the mail train yesterday morning to attend the wool sales there.

The pay-out in the Stratford district on Saturday was in the most eases laid. Most of the larger factories paid that figure and some smaller ones Is One large company paid out lid.

Applicants for employment at the New Plymouth office of the Labour Department during the week ending last Saturday totalled 18. They included twelve labourers, one farm hand, one engine driver, one motor driver, one grocer, one fitter (engineer) and one eheesemaker.

“The Californian Exclusion Act was looked upon as a direct slap in the face by the Japanese,” said Dr. Watt, Assistant Director-,General of Health, during the course of an address in the Council Chamber at Auckland. "The Japanese are very sore over the matter and have little to say in favour of the American.”

The New Plymouth Borough Council took delivery on Sunday evening of the new petrol ’bus which is to be put into commission immediately. The ’bus, which was driven through from Auckland where the body was built, will, for the time being, be engaged on the Vogeltown service during the overhaul of the 'bus at present running on that service.

Dr... Valentine (Director-General of Health) who was recently in Auckland, .made the astounding statement that over 20,060 operations had been performed in the Dominion during the past 12 iqouths, or one to every 80 of the population. . Mr. Wallace, chairman of the Hospital Board, in commenting on the matter, said that, comparatively speaking some of the smaller hospitals had a larger percentage of operations than some of the larger ones. The test of operations was whether they tended to improve the health amongst the people. Some institutions were quite exceptional for the number of operations performed in them.

An audacious assault and robbery was perpetrated at Grey Lynn on Saturday night, the victim being Alfred Bryan, a storekeeper of Dryden Street. Bryan bad closed his shop and shortly afterwards was walking along Allan Street carrying his day’s cash takings in a brief bag when a stranger suddenly sprang upon him, knocked him down, and deeamped with the bag. The attack was so swift that Bryan could not identify his assailant, but it is thought that it was someone conversant with his movements, and who knew that at that hour on Friday night he would lie on his way to Iris home in Richmond Avenue, where Bryan also has a store, taking with him tile cash from the Dryden Street shop. The robber got away with money estimated to be between £lO and £l2.

“Girls everywhere are 100 per cent, more attractive than they were before th war,” said Sir Charts Bigham in an address to the hairdressing profession at Caxton Hall recently. Much of the credit for this improvement was <lno to the hairdresser, he continued. The shingle had made women take a new interest in their hair and take greater care of their persons. They wore better shoes and simpler clothes, and it was all due to the hairdresser. Every woman and every, man should improve upon nature if they could. A shiny nose was not attractive, so why not powder it? Husbands grumbled about the amount that their wives and daughters spent at hairdressers, but he doubted if they really resented it, because they liked to see attractive people about the house, or anywhere else fbr that matter.